Skhumbuzo Makandula

Sikhumbuzo Makandula is a Cape Town based visual and performance artist, he graduated with a Fine Art degree from Rhodes University. He holds a Master of Arts in Public Spheres and Performance studies from University Cape Town. His first solo exhibition was titled In Search of A Nation in 2016 was at Njelele Art Station, Harare, Zimbabwe.

In 2017 he had a second solo exhibition titled Ubuzwe at Room gallery, Johannesburg. Group exhibitions Makandula participated in includes, Art and Cosmology at Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg,Analogue Eye Video Art at the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna, My Collection at Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, New York, 1:54 Art Fair, New York, !Kauru: Towards Intersections at UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria and Museum Africa Johannesburg, Looking After Freedom at Michaelis Galleries, Harbored at Cape Art Fair, Joburg Art Fair, That Art Fair, Infecting the City Festival and Live Art Festival, Cape Town.

Featured below are images from the still performance of Zizimase (2019) at the District 6 Museum as part of the Institute of Creative Arts' Infecting the City festival.