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Ta a-b kobab ada kāxu-da, ti khoe-du’e
Visual Art / Monument Gallery

The retrieval of lost language through material process is central to Bronwyn Katz’s exhibition, Ta a-b kobab ada kāxu-da, ti khoe-du’e! 

 

Language here is not fixed or lexical; it is relational, a system of contact, conduction, and response. Katz begins with the body. She traces subtle shifts across her own skin: impressions, irritations, fleeting marks that appear and dissolve over time. 


These intimate cartographies are translated into metal scaffolds that hold resonant forms, horns and cavities filled with healing herbs, beeswax, and conductive wire circuits.

Artist Biography

Bronwyn Katz works through sculpture and installation to develop a speculative language that draws on land, memory, and embodied forms of knowledge. Her practice considers how histories that resist traditional archives might be carried through material, gesture, and sound, proposing alternative ways of recording and transmitting communal memory.

 

Recent solo exhibitions include stone's embrace, a love spiral of erosion and renewal, Stevenson, Johannesburg (2024); Tus tsĩ ǀxurub, Rain and drought, MASSIMODECARLO, Paris (2023); Kaeen-de-haree, Lively sunshine, Andrew Kreps, New York (2023); I turn myself into a star and visit my loved ones in the sky, White Cube, London (2021) and A Silent Line, Lives Here, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018).

 

Katz has featured in group exhibitions including Stockholm Cosmologies, Liljevalchs, Stockholm, Sweden (2025); Arte Povera - A New Chapter, Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Espoo, Finland (2025); We, The People: 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa (2025); A Living Collection, The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom (2024); Translations: Afro-Asian Poetics, The Institutum Singapore, Singapore (2024); Eco Spheres, Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa (2024); SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa, Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York (2023); The Milk of Dreams, the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2022); Soft Water, Hard Stone, the New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); The Future Generation Art Prize exhibition, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv (2021); NIRIN, 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020); Là où les eaux se mêlent, the 15th Biennale de Lyon (2019) and Material Insanity, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech (2019).

 

Katz is a founding member of iQhiya, an 11-women artist collective which has performed across various spaces, including Documenta 14 (in Kassel and Athens).

 

Katz was born in 1993 in Kimberley, South Africa. She lives and works in Cape Town.

  • Daily entry to the exhibitions is free. The scheduled walkabouts have a minimal cost and booking is essential.