Artist Talk with Igshaan Adams

Moderated by: Florence Ostende

Framework: Igshaan Adams: Between Then and Now

Language: EN

Access: Free admission

Booking: No booking required

To mark the opening of Igshaan Adams: Between Then and Now, Mudam hosts an artist talk with Igshaan Adams. Working across textile, sculpture and performance, Adams transforms everydayand overlooked materials into works that speak to ideas of collective belonging, resilience and care.

The exhibition brings together more than sixty pieces from the past decade, including monumental woven tapestries, suspended sculptural forms and a new large-scale installation of his dance prints. These works draw on personal memories shaped by apartheid-era South Africa and explore how movement, community and lived experience leave physical and emotional traces.

This artist talk offers the chance to listen t Adams on the opening day and gain a closer sense of the world behind the exhibition. It is an opportunity to hear directly from the artist and dive into the atmosphere of Between Then and Now.

Biography:

Igshaan Adams (1982, Cape Town) has held solo exhibitions internationally, including at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (2025); The Hepworth Wakefield; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (2024); The Art Institute of Chicago; Kunsthalle Zürich (2022); Hayward Gallery, London (2021); Akershus Kunstsenter, Oslo (2019) and The Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2018). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions and biennials, including at Barbican Centre, London (2024); the 35th Bienal de São Paulo; the Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah (2023); the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2022); the 23rd Triennale Milano; Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2021) and Perez Art Museum, Miami (2020), among many others. His work is held in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Speed Art Museum, Louisville; Tate, London; The Hepworth Wakefield; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; StedelijkMuseum, Amsterdam; Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art; The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston; InhotimMuseum, Brumadinho, Brazil; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Minneapolis Institute of Art and the University of Cape Town. Igshaan Adams lives and works in Cape Town.