Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2025

Alexis Schofield (b. 1982, Pretoria) currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Our Calves Demand a Wolf is his third exhibition, following Impressions (2023) and Feed (2023) at 99 Loop Gallery. His work has been included in a number of group exhibitions, including Sessions at 196 Victoria (2024) and Hot Spell (2023) at 99 Loop Gallery as well as art fairs such as RMB Latitudes (2024) and Investec Cape Town Art Fair (2022 - 2024).

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Dominic Pretorius (b. 1996, Howick, South Africa) currently lives and works in Cape Town. In 2023, A Room Full of Urns, his first solo exhibition, premiered at the artist’s personal studio and has since been shown at the GUS Gallery and Marvol Gallery. His second solo exhibition Urn Burial was presented at Vela Projects in 2024. His work has been shown at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair (2023) and RMB Latitudes Art Fair (2024), and has been included in various group exhibitions, including Persistence of Memory, Spier Wine Farm (2024), Full House, blank projects (2023), Ten of Cups, 66 Plein Street (2023), Slip Stream, Gallery De Move On (2022), HELLMOUTH, 51 Buitenkant Street (2022) and Bluet, KSSO (2021).

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Khanya Zibaya (b. 1994, Sikoto, South Africa) is a multidisciplinary storyteller, born in a small village in the Eastern Cape called Sikote in Tlokoeng. He now lives and practices in Johannesburg. Zibaya works with visual performance, experimental video work, experimental painting, sculptural, installation and photography. This also includes bodies and found objects to create juxtapositions of realities. His previous group exhibitions include, The Portrait Show, Through The Lens Collective,Johannesburg, 2023; Got Junk GoldFingers, The Fourth Gallery, Cape Town, 2023; Post FairBlues, The Fourth Gallery, Cape Town, 2023; The Wildest Most Beautiful Ugly, Too TiredProject, Digital, 2023 and Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2025, Vela Projects.

Khanyi Mawhayi (1998, Kagiso, South Africa) is an artist, writer and curator. Growing up in Johannesburg, she holds a BFA from the University of the Witwatersrand (2020). She is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa where she is a Curatorial Assistant at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. She has held three solo shows in Cape Town, namely Midas Touch at CHURCH Projects (2023), Stage at Stevenson Gallery (2021). She has also participated in multiple group shows, including What We Know, Keyes Art Mile, Johannesburg (2023); STAGE 4, Stevenson Gallery at The Vault, Cape Town (2023); Zozimo Bulbul Black Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro (2022); Afropolis, Johannesburg (2022); Repair, The Point of Order, Johannesburg (2022); Monotypes… A Monotype Babe Experience Curatorial, Bag Factory Studios, Johannesburg (2021); Watercolor… monotypes, August House, Johannesburg (2021); Bluet, KSSO Editions, Cape Town (2021); Get up! Stand up!, Kampala Biennale, Online Exhibition (2020); as well as, Institute For Creative Arts, Online Exhibition (2020).

Samson Mnisi ( b. 1971, Lesotho - 2022, Johannesburg) held his first solo exhibition in Market Theatre Gallery in 1996. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Mnisi’s work was featured in major shows in the USA, including a solo exhibition at the Chashama Theatre in Times Square, a collaborative exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts (MoCADA) in Fort Greene, and the seminal group exhibition Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa at the Museum for African Art in East Harlem. Throughout this time, Mnisi presented several exhibitions in collaboration with the American artist Cannon Hersey through the CrossPathCulture initiative. He also collaborated with the Johannesburg-based artists Clifford Charles and Wayne Barker as well as the Ethiopian artist Gera Mawi Mazgabu. Later in life, Mnisi held various solo exhibitions in Johannesburg, including White City (University of Johannesburg) and Man of the Hour (Asisebenze Art Atelier). It was the day after the opening of the latter exhibition, in 2022, that Mnisi suffered a heart attack in his studio. He passed away at the age of 51.

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Songezo Zantsi (b. 1991, Cape Town) is a painter. He grew up with his grandparents in Alice, a historically significant town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He currently lives and works in Cape Town. In 2022, Zantsi presented his first solo exhibition titled IInkumbulo and in 2024 is second Iyabulela Ilali at Vela Projects, Cape Town. He has been part of group exhibitions at the Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town (2021) and Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town (2022).

Thero Makepe (b. 1996, Botswana) is a photographer and visual artist based between Gaborone, Cape Town, and Johannesburg. A graduate with distinction from the University of Cape Town, he has exhibited at venues including Stevenson, Latitudes, and the Foam Museum. His recent projects have been shaped by residencies such as the 2023 MEP Residency in Paris and the 2022 Invisible Borders Trans-African Road Trip. Makepe is a recipient of the Prince Claus Seed Award, the Der Greif Guest Room Scholarship, and the Tierney Fellowship, and was shortlisted for the 2024 CAP Prize. His work has been featured in Foam Magazine, GIDA Journal, and Courrier International, and is held in the collections of the University of Cape Town and Javett-UP. In 2019, he co-founded The Botswana Pavilion, a collective committed to advancing Botswana’s artistic archive, which has exhibited internationally and was commissioned in 2021 for the Unfinished Camp project by Hans Ulrich Obrist and András Szántó.