Lineages at October Gallery, London: Five Minutes with Bev Butkow
Selvedge Magazine,
January 2026
"Working with weaving as both a literal and metaphorical process, Butkow explores how care, repetition and ritual operate as transformative forces. Using foraged textiles and hand-worked materials, she is attentive to how things fray, hold together and are remade through acts of repair."
Tuli Mekondjo Makes History at Bundestag
The Namibian,
August 2025
"Namibian visual artist Tuli Mekondjo has made history as the first Namibian to join the Bundestag’s permanent art collection in Berlin. Her powerful mixed-media work ‘Kwariri Nyoko Kevako: Echoes of the Matriarchs’ was commissioned to represent article 1 of Germany’s Basic Law – the guarantee of human dignity – and now stands inside the German parliament".
CYSK #12: Letso Leipego with Kim Chakanetsa
Africa Unbound,
August 2025
"Today's edition is a double header. I’m starting with an interview with Letso, our CYSK, and after that, I have a short Q&A with Julie of Guns and Rain to discuss the Southern African art scene, how to collect art and which artists we should be keeping our eyes on."
Views in the Interior of Guiana: Ann Gollifer’s Dialogue Across Time
ARTAFRICA,
July 2025
"Paintings and lithographs by the Botswana-based artist Ann Gollifer will be exhibited in the Director’s Gallery at the Royal Geographical Society in London. ‘Views in the Interior of Guiana 1841’, in dialogue with Robert Schomburgk, is a collection of watercolour views brought together in a spellbinding book of memories and places, textures and panoramas that result from a nine-year project."
Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland’s history
THE ART NEWSPAPER,
June 2025
"Mekondjo’s research delved into the erasure of ancestral cultural practices in Africa—another kind of extraction wrought by European colonialism. Her new installation, created in dialogue with the Museum of Ethnography in the nearby Swiss town of Neuchâtel, references ritual objects known as “crafted children” that Western missionaries, ethnographers and travellers removed from Namibia during the colonial era. Family members would fashion such dolls for young girls to augur the birth of their own children"
A uterus for Nadula
BKa Berner Kulturagenda,
June 2025
"It is unknown whether a child was ever baptized Nadula. The doll, like so many other Namibian cultural artifacts, ended up in a European museum, in this case the Ethnographic Museum in Neuchâtel. There, it was kept in a box for decades. At the end of May, Tuli Mekondjo visited the Ethnographic Museum in Neuchâtel and viewed the collection items from Namibia. Now, Nadula will inhabit the hut as part of the installation. "The idea is to give her a home. I want to give her the opportunity to be reborn through this womb, so to speak."
Wireless in old Prussia: Exhibition on radio communication during the colonial era
Märkische Allgemeine,
May 2025
"The exhibition "Signals of Power" incorporates not only its timeline but also cinematic elements. In her video installation, Namibian artist Tuli Mekondjo explores the historical and current power relations between Germany and Namibia through ritual performances at the sites of former and current radio stations in Windhoek and Nauen."
“Signals of Power” at the Brandenburg Museum
TAGESSPIEGEL,
May 2025
"When the German Empire dreamed of a "place in the sun", the Nauen radio station was built. The Bradenburg Museum is now initiating a long-overdue dialogue about the colonial legacy of the Mark"