Nontokozo Tshabalala

Nontokozo Tshabalala is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, Afrofuturist, speaker and designer currently based in Malmö. Born and raised in South Africa, she uses her work as an avenue for posing questions about her identity and the black experience wherever she goes. Inspired by her nephew, Siyamthanda (Ncufi), she writes and creates from a place of curiosity and instinct, often using colour, collage, and poetry to express her thoughts. Tshabalala is the co-founder of Mam’Gobozi Design Factory, a design studio celebrating the Afrikan identity through creativity.

Within her practice, she also co-curated her first exhibition called Neither Here Nor There (2020), showed at Konsthallen Blå Stället and has contributed to Facebook Africa and The Africa Centre (London). Her work has been shown at 3:e Våningen (GIBCA Extended), Malmö Konsthall, and the Museum of World Culture (Gothenburg).

Prize for Nontokozo Tshabalala

We are proud to announce that Nontokozo Tshabalala, participant at The Summer Exhibition at Röda Sten Konsthall, has been assigned Mail & Guardians award 200 young South Africans.The price goes to young South African visionaries in categories such as art, entertainment, health, technology and innovation.

Read about the prize

Tshabalala is awarded in the arts and entertainment category as a multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of Mam’Gobozi Design Factory. 

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Maja Gunn

Maja Gunn lives and works in Stockholm. In her art, she portrays and explores fashion and textiles in relation to norms, politics and performative practices – with gender and sexuality as key elements. Firmly based in critical theory of culture, Maja Gunn examines her own visual, written, physical and/or textile materials and her own actions, in order to give them political dimensions and meanings. Maja Gunn’s works have been shown at several museums, including Fresno Art Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Museum of Pop Culture, Nationalmuseum, Röhsska Museet, Textilmuseet, Norrbottens Museum, ArkDes and Museum Anna Nordlander. In 2017–2022, she was a professor at HDK-Valand Campus Steneby. Since April 2022, Maja Gunn is a professor at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design.

Josefin Lindskog

Josefin Lindskog graduated from the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design and Stockholm University of the Arts. Lindskog works introspectively with drawings in large formats and sculptural objects. Her pieces reflect situations and events that take place in the inner and outer world. In her practice, she processes experiences of frustration, powerlessness and living in a female body. Lindskog´s approach is profoundly personal and political. Her previous exhibitions include the Museum of Drawing in Laholm, Härnösands Konsthall, Katrineholms Konsthall and Länsmuseet Gävleborg. She is based in Stockholm and works as a set designer and art educator

Mona Namér

Mona Naméris a Moroccan-Swedish dancer, choreographer, and creative director from Gothenburg, based in Stockholm. She has built a strong foundation in Hip Hop and House dance, gleaning inspiration, education, and a physical vocabulary from around the world. Namér spent a year and a half honing her practice at Broadway Dance Center in New York, followed by several years of travelling between Paris, Johannesburg, London, and New York.

Through movement, Namér explores identity, human behaviour, surrealism and rituals. She is active in different artistic fields such as contemporary dance and film productions, theatre, directing, teaching, and commercial work. This includes collaborations with IKEA, VOLVO, Bonniers Konsthall, Afropunk Festival, La Villette in Paris, and Gothenburg Opera, among others.