Since the early 2000s, Zanele Muholi (*1972) has been working with the LGBTQIA+ community in South Africa, Muholi's home country. Members of the community continue to be targets of violence and prejudice. Although equal rights are enshrined in the country's constitution, which was adopted in 1996, there is little evidence of this in practice. The non-binary artist Muholi, who use the pronouns they and them and sees themselves as a visual activist rather than an artist, captures the personal stories of those affected in photographs, videos and installations. Today, Muholi is considered one of the most important contemporary voices in photography. The Tate Modern is honoring the artist with an exhibition comprising over 260 works: Zanele Muholi runs from 6 June 2024 to 26 January 2025 in London.
The exhibition is an expanded version of the 2020/2021 show at Tate Modern, which was Muholi's largest solo exhibition to date. In particular, the latest works from the last three years have been added. Other recent major solo shows have taken place at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Kunstmuseum Luzern and the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik. Muholi has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Spectrum – International Prize for Photography in 2020, which is awarded in cooperation with the Sprengel Museum Hannover.
