Dineo Seshee Bopape (Raisibe) (born 1981, Polokwane, South Africa; lives in Johannesburg, South Africa) engages with the issue of self-sovereignty, at times against the backdrop of colonialism, imperialism, and slavery. Bopape explores, as she says, “the metaphysics of ‘self-presence’ (the sense of being present to one’s self) and matter (in the literal, alchemical, and symbolic sense), often surveying the wounds of the personal and collective body.” Informed by Afro-diasporic spiritual aesthetics, she interweaves these themes through her large-scale immersive installations that often encompass storytelling, sculpture, drawing, video, and sound. Recent solo exhibitions include Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2024); blank projects, Cape Town (2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023); Secession Vienna (2022); and Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond (2021). Recent group exhibitions include those at Kunsthalle Mainz (2025); Toronto Biennial of Art (2024); Kunstverein Hamburg (2024); Pinault Collection Palazzo Grassi, Venice, and Bourse de Commerce, Paris (2023); Helsinki Biennial (2023); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2022); K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (2021); 58th Venice Biennale (2019); 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2018); and Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj (2017).
