Biography
Artist Molemo Moiloa (b. 1987, Johannesburg) has worked at the intersection of creative practice and community organising in various capacities. She examines notions of ungovernability, social infrastructures of cultural organising and relationships to nature. She co-founded the Johannesburg-based interdisciplinary artist collaborative MADEYOULOOK with Nare Mokgotho. The collective explores popular everyday imaginaries and their modalities for knowledge production. Molemo co-leads the Open Restitution Africa project—a research platform for restitution of African heritage under the auspices of Andani.Africa—and ungovernable, a collective engaged in communitary practice. She was a Soros Arts Fellow (2023), Chevening Clore Fellow (2016–2017) and winner of Vita Basadi Award (2017). Mokgotho and Moiloa were DAAD Artists-in-Berlin fellows for visual arts (2022) and Lumbung artists at documenta fifteen (2022). They were nominated for the VLC Prize for Art and Politics at the New School, New York (2016–2017).