Jamal Nxedlana
Jamal Nxedlana (b. Durban, South Africa; lives in Geneva) is an artist and cultural worker. His practice explores how the Black figure is materially and symbolically embodied and embraced, while engaging with themes of subculture, consumerism and racialised expressions of identity within postcolonial contexts. Specifically, he is concerned with fashion as a domain of intellectual and cultural inquiry, explored through individual and collective cultural identities in the Johannesburg metropolis as they intersect with geopolitical practices, technologies and infrastructural logistics. He has exhibited internationally in galleries, institutions, and independent spaces. Recent exhibitions include Data Tapestries (2025), his third solo exhibition at No Man's Art Gallery in Amsterdam; Orlando (2022) curated by Tilda Swinton at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; and The New Black Vanguard (2019) curated by Antwaun Sargent at Aperture Gallery in New York.
As a cultural worker, Nxedlana has founded a number influential independent organisations in Johannesburg. Key among these is Bubblegum Club, a digital platform and culture agency showcasing innovative new work and creating opportunities for emerging cultural workers. He is also a founding member of CUSS Group, a Johannesburg-based collective that has been exploring the hybrid culture of post-colonial South Africa since 2011. CUSS has shown in major institutions including Kunsthall Trondheim Norway (2023), Moderna Museet Stockholm (2019); de Young Museum (2017) and Berlin Biennale (2016).