About the part that art plays in a globalising society

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Buhlebezwe Siwani, het Parool (2022). Photo: © Koos Breukel. Buhlebezwe Siwani, het Parool (2022). Photo: © Koos Breukel.

Buhlebezwe Siwani

Buhlebezwe Siwani is a visual artist that lives and works between Cape Town and Amsterdam. She works with performance, photography, sculpture, and installation to touch social and political topics, such as the female body, Black communities, histories of colonisation and the paradoxes of our contemporary society. She is shortlisted for the Prix de Rome (2025), the pre-eminent incentive award for talented visual artists from the Netherlands.

Agenda


Cover of Slavery in the Cultural Imagination: Debates, Silences, and Dissent in the Neerlandophone Space (2025). Artwork on cover: Dion Rosina - Is it a Dream? (2023)

Symposium: Cultural Imagination and the Legacy of Colonialism

This event features creative and scholarly work that engages with the legacies of colonialism and push for social and cultural change