Pebofatso Mokoena

Pebofatso Mokoena (b. 1993) is a contemporary South African artist. Mokoena’s interest lies in the entangled organisations of how organic and man-made geographies shape multiple environments. He uses his own personal narratives and a consistent application of experimental enquiry as tools to make sense of the chaotic integratedness of the current world he lives in. Mokoena’s work orbits in between critical discourses across the spheres of visual art architecture, global culture, and aesthetics.

Pebofatso Mokoena was born in Alberton in August 1993, 8 months before South Africa’s first democratic elections. He completed his high school career at Bracken High School in 2011, acquiring both a distinction in Visual Art and the Design School Art Trophy. In 2014 he completed his NDip (Visual Art) at the University of Johannesburg. Mokoena has participated in a number of competitions and curated exhibitions including Thami Mnyele Fine Art Awards, Diptych, That Art Fair 2015, Fresh Produce in 2014, Inner Nature in Cape Town, Fortunes Remixed, and South African Voices: A New Generation of Printmakers in Washington DC. In 2020 Mokoena received the merit award for the Wits Young Artist Award for his artwork Kea hoNkgono leNtatemoholo (I’m Taking a Walk to the Grandparents), in which he returns to what he has termed the “height of ethno-tribal, sociopolitical and geo-transportational violence in Thokoza in 1993." Read more about the work in the Mail & Guardian article Working alone, together: presenting the Wits Young Artist Award 2020 winners.Mokoena’s interest lies in the entangled organisations of how organic and man-made geographies shape multiple environments. Through interdisciplinary practices which include, primarily, painting and printmaking – but also drawing and film and the use of online platforms, Pebofatso uses his own personal narratives and a consistent application of experimental enquiry as tools to make sense of the chaotic integratedness of the current world he lives in.Mokoena’s work orbits in between critical discourses across the spheres of visual art architecture, global culture, and aesthetics. These interests both open and bridge gaps in his own understanding of the importance of being alive in a world that, in theory, in becoming smaller and smaller.His work exists in the Springs Art Library Collection, the South African Embassy Art Collection (Washington, D.C.), the Smithsonian Museum of African Art in Washington DC, and other private collections. Pebofatso Mokoena first collaborated with the team at David Krut Workshop (DKW) in the production of a hard-ground etching in 2018. It was titled Statistical Weakness and later shown at the 2019 iterations of Fine Art Print Fair (hosted at Parktown Girls), Turbine Art Fair and LATITUDES Art Fair. The collaboration built on the relationship Mokoena established as an intern at David Krut Projects (DKP) in 2016. In 2019, he was commissioned among four other artists to do a multi-colour silkscreen print for LATITUDES Art Fair as part of their VIP Package. The resulting print ¾ Progress on the Edge of Play was completed in collaboration with silkscreen expert printer Roxy Kaczmarek from DKW and displayed prominently at LATITUDES. Over 2019-2020 Mokoena worked at DKW towards his first solo show at DKP – Internal Probes – which opened in February 2020.

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DKW and The Creative Skills Factory
Jun. 9, 2022

David Krut Workshop Printer Roxy Kaczmarek spent the past Monday with Regina Broenner in Stanford learning about the early childhood...

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A look back at new editions, projects & collaborations from 2020
Jan. 15, 2021

The year 2020 was a productive year as we saw new editions and projects by a variety of artists in...

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Prints of the Month | December 2020 | Pebofatso Mokoena – Rainbow Tunnels and An Unfamiliar Heartbreak
Dec. 16, 2020

A story by Master Printer Jillian Ross: Rainbow Tunnels and An Unfamiliar Heartbreak Pebofatso Mokoena’s first solo exhibition with David...

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Launch of LATITUDES Online 2020 | Discover, Collect & Learn
Jul. 28, 2020

We are thrilled to be a part of the new Latitudes Online Platform as David Krut Projects (Gallery) and as...

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DO-IT-AT-HOME ACTIVITIES
May. 19, 2020

Click Here INTAGLIO PRINT SERIES RELIEF PRINT SERIES

Tags: Chad Cordeiro, David Krut Print Workshop, Deborah Bell, Heidi Fourie, intaglio print series, Kim-Lee Loggenberg, Linocut, live zoom demos, Lynda Ballen, Maja Maljević, Monotype, Olivia Botha, Pebofatso Mokoena, pochior, relief print series, Roxy Kaczmarek, Sarah Judge, Sbongiseni Khulu, zhi zulu
Pebofatso Mokoena | Anatomy Of An Artwork
Apr. 16, 2020

Image: Rainbow Tunnels, 2020, 59.8 x 50 inches, Unique, Click here for full artwork details. Pebofatso Mokoena's body of work for Internal Probes consists of...

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David Krut Workshop Weekly Children’s Activity with Pebofatso Mokoena, Jillian Ross and Sarah Judge
Apr. 15, 2020

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Promotional Film: Internal Probes by Pebofatso Mokoena
Mar. 30, 2020

In 2020, David Krut Projects opened Internal Probes, a solo exhibition by Pebofatso Mokoena, comprising new unique mixed media works...

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Pebofatso Mokoena | Collaboration with David Krut Workshop | 2019-2020
Mar. 4, 2020

Left to right: Printer Chad Cordeiro, Artist Pebofatso Mokoena, Gallery Director Ame Bell, Printer Roxy Kaczmarek and Master Printer and...

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The Print Club launched in collaboration with Mesh Club at the Keyes art Mile
Nov. 29, 2018

MESH CLUB is extremely proud to partner with David Krut Projects to bring together a collection dedicated exclusively to printed works of art...

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Pebofatso Mokoena – Statistical Weaknesses, 2018
Sep. 19, 2018

[caption id="attachment_49119" align="aligncenter" width="505"] Pebofatso Mokoena, Statistical Weaknesses, 2018, hardground etching with hand painting, edition of 10[/caption] Text by Sbongiseni...

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Introducing our new DKW intern: Pebofatso Mokoena 2016-09
Sep. 20, 2016

20.09.16 Blogger: Jessie Cohen This week, artist Pebofatso Mokoena joined the DKW team on a part-time basis and to help with carving...

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