Press

2023

A Journey Through an Artist’s Landscape of Emotion, Business Day Wanted,2023

Son[i]a #369 Sethembile Msezane, RadioWeb MACBA, 2023

2022

Bamako Encounters photography festival pulsates with revolutionary spirit, Financial Times, 2022

Sethembile Msezane- Day 2: Unlocking History and New Narratives, CIMAM, 2022

Welcome to Sethembile Msezane, artist-in-residence at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, 2022

2021

Rencontres Des Bamako 2022 | Here Is The List Of Participating Artists, Griot, 2021

Africa Writes 2021 Headlines, Africa Writes, Royal African Society, 2021

Look to your ancestral past at new Sainsbury Centre exhibition, Evening News 24, 2021

Sethembile Msezane: Dwala Lam’ + Text by Dr Portia Malatjie,Centre for Human Right and the Arts, Bard 2021

Dwala Lam': Digital Commission with Artist Sethembile Msezane , Open Society University Network, 2021

New short film ’Isimo’ propels people to self-reflect, Weekend Argus, 2021

ISIMO- A film by Sethembile Msezane, Nataal, 2021

In Conversation With Sethembile Msezane on Her Short Film ‘ISIMO’, Between 10 and 5, 2021

Multidisciplinary artist Sethembile Msezane on history, commemorative practice and making space for omitted stories of black women in history, News24, 2021

2020

Sethembile Msezane, Photoworks, 2020

Crossing over from spiritual world of ancestors to visual art, Sowetan, 2020

Stellenbosch Triennale, A Bold Experiment, The New York Times, 2020

Tear Down Colonial Monuments: A Conversation with Aleema Gray and Sethembile Msezane for Counter-narratives, Contranarrativas, 2020

No matter what you think of protesters, you have them to thank for society’s progress, The Correspondent, 2020

2019

Speaking Through Walls, Reuters, 2019

2018

Wonder Women, Elle Magazine 2018

OkayAfrica 100 Women Honoree, OkayAfrica, 2018

2017

Sethembile Msezane Speaks about Her Exhibition for Zeitz MOCAA, House and Leisure, 2017

TEDGlobal Conference Speaker- TED, 2017

Standing for Art and Truth: A Chat with Sethembile Msezane- TED Blog, 2017

Birds of a Revolutionary Feather- Mail & Guardian, 2017

The Poetics of Remembrance as Resistance: The Work of Sethembile Msezane- artthrob, 2017

Claiming Public Space: Artist Sethembile Msezane on History and Commemorative Practices- Bubblegum, 2017

Time of Many: The Power of Art Collectives- PETRIe Betrayal, 2017

Excerpts From the Past- Creative Feel, 2017

2016

Bad Education by M. Neelika Jayawardane- Even Magazine, 2016

The Art of Disruptions: Some Reflections: Thembinkosi Goniwe- adjective, 2016

Living Sculpture: On a Wing and a Prayer- Times Live, 2016

Speaking Truth to Statues- Times Live, 2016

Afro-Superheroes: Prepossessing the Future- Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2016

5 Young Artists Who Have us Excited about Politics- Livemag, 2016

2015

Sethembile Msezane performs at the fall of the Cecil Rhodes statue, 9 April 2015- The Guardian

The Global Face of Student Protest- The New York Times, 2015

City Press, 2015

Introspective Photographic Series Wins Sasol New Signatures Merit Award- Sasol New Signatures, 2015

Elle Meets Sethembile Msezane- Elle Magazine, 2015

Creative Women- Sethembile Msezane on Black Women and Colonialist Ideologies- Between 10 & 5, 2015

Breathing Statue Slams Afrophobia Notions- The Journalist, 2015

Portia Malatjie on the Open Stoep Residency at the AVA- Visi, 2015

The Art of Movement- City Press, 2015

2014

Bright Young Things- Art South Africa, 2014

Anywhere the Wind Blows- Brundyn+, 2014