Teresa Kutala Firmino

Teresa Kutala „The Owners Of The Earth VOL. 3: Owelema“ Exhibition view Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin 2023 Photo: Simon Vogel

Teresa Kutala Firmino „My mind denies it But I heard your footsteps outside my window“, 2023 Acrylic and collage on canvas 95 x 105 cm

Teresa Kutala Firmino „My subconscious cuddles you For your touch is familiar“, 2023 Acrylic and collage on canvas 96 x 106.50 cm

Teresa Kutala Firmino „Not out of love but fear“, 2023 Acrylic and collage on canvas 92 x 96 cm

Teresa Kutala Firmino „Owelema my dear friend To say that I longed for you would be a lie“, 2023 Acrylic and collage on canvas 80 x 94 cm

Teresa Kutala Firmino „Owelema! Can you hear me“, 2023 Acrylic and collage on canvas 60 x 45 cm

Teresa Kutala Firmino „Owelema! Loosen your grip a little… If I die your memory will be lost“, 2023 Acrylic and collage on canvas 95 x 80 cm

Teresa Kutala Firmino „Release your grip“, 2023 Acrylic and collage on canvas 59 x 44 cm

Teresa Kutala Firmino „Release your grip“, 2023 Acrylic and collage on canvas 60 x 44 cm

Teresa Kutala Firmino „Release your grip“, 2023 Acrylic and collage on canvas 60 x 45 cm

Teresa Kutala Firmino „Sometimes I wish you were twilight“, 2023 Acrylic and collage on canvas 92 x 102 cm

Teresa Kutala Firmino „That has turned into my grave But your embrace is all consuming“, 2023 Acrylic and collage on canvas 99 x 110 cm

Teresa Kutala Firmino „Will I survive this time around? You lay me down by the river bank“, 2023 Acrylic and collage on canvas 140 x 151 cm

Biography

TERESA KUTALA FIRMINO

geboren/ born 1993 Pomfret, South Africa

AUSBILDUNG / EDUCATION

2018
Masters in Fine Arts – University of the Witwatersrand

RESIDENCIES

2020
Fynbosch Residency, Franschhoek, South Africa

EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN (AUSWAHL) /
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2023
Owners of the Earth IV, Everard Read, London
The Owners of the Earth Vol. III: Owelema, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin.
Owners of the Earth II: Beyond Victims, Villains & Vixens, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2022
Owners of the Earth, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2021
Manifestation Oku Yongola | Manifestation of Wanting, Everard Read, London, UK

2020
Black Melancholy, solo booth, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2019
Pseudo Restitution, World Art, Cape Town, South Africa
The War at Home, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2018
Emergence, Mmarthouse, Johannesburg, South Africa
Masters solo show: Pomfret Community Stories, Mmarthouse, Johannesburg, South Africa
Thou Art Women, Mmarthouse, Johannesburg, South Africa
The People’s Exchange, IDC Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Now and Then, Trent Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
Protagonist: Artists in Response to Sexual Violence, Studio Fracture, Johannesburg, South Africa

2015
14/15 exhibition, The Point of Order, Johannesburg, South Africa

2014
The African Utopia Lecture Series, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN (AUSWAHL) /
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2023
Art Cologne, with Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, Germany
Artissima, with Galerie Nagel Draxler, Torino, Italy

2022
Spring, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa
FNB Art Joburg, with Everard Read, Johannesburg South Africa
ARCO, with Everard Read, Lisbon, Portugal
Giving Direction: Figuration Past and Present, Strauss & Co, Cape Town, South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2021
Self-Addressed, curated by Kehinde Wiley, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Territories Between Us, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
In Conversation, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Blessing Ngobeni and Teresa Kutala Firmino, Dual Exhibition, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2020
Staring Straight to the Future, digital group exhibition, Everard Read, South Africa
Summer, Everard Read, London
The Portrait Show, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
FNB ART Joburg (online), with Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2019
Taxidermy of the Future, Luanda Museum of Natural History, Angola
Turbine Art Fair, with World Art, Johannesburg , South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

CONFERENCES

2016
The History We Are Told Not to Speak (The History of the Pomfret Community), UNISA School of Arts Conference
The Untold Story of the Pomfret Community, Black Portraitures iii

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2018
Kutala Chopeto, The Point of Order, Johannesburg, South Africa

2017
Silences in Between, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Nirox Sculpture Winter Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
The Centre for the Less Good Idea Season 1, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa
[South-South] Let me begin again, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2016
Boda Boda Lounge Project, South Africa
Hybrid Culture, MB Studio, Pretoria, South Africa

Bibliography

E.N. Mirembe: "Teresa Kutala Firmino", Artforum, October 2023.
Zoë Hopkins: "Teresa Kutala Firmino: The Owners of the Earth (Vissaquelo)", Brooklyn Rail, September 2022.
Bob Chaundy: "Teresa Kutala Firmino, South African painter", Considering Art Podcast, April 2021.
Emma Crichton-Miller: "South Africa’s new art-world power couple are reshaping their country’s story", March 2021.
Kerri von Geusau: "Double Act - Teresa Kutala Firmino & Blessing Ngobeni", Nataal, July 2020.