Press Features on Zanele Muholi’s Hlanganani

Explore the media coverage, reviews, and features surrounding Hlanganani, the landmark solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed visual activist and photographer Zanele Muholi at Galerie Ron Mandos. Marking twenty years of Muholi’s foundational Faces and Phases series, this exhibition brings powerful self-portraits together with a new body of work created in collaboration with Amsterdam’s Black queer community. Discover how local and international press are responding to this celebration of visibility, resilience, and collective memory.

Press Feature: Winq (Kunstenaar Zanele Muholi portretteert Zwarte queer-gemeenschap Amsterdam: te zien bij Galerie Ron Mandos)

Leading Dutch LGBTQIA+ magazine Winq recently featured the upcoming solo exhibition Hlanganani in an article. Winq highlights that the exhibition features striking self-portraits alongside a brand-new body of portraits created specifically in collaboration with Amsterdam’s Black queer community. They state that the exhibition offers a powerful testament to visibility, resilience, and collective memory.

Read the full feature on Winq’s website.

Press Feature: Het Parool (Zanele Muholi strijdt tegen de vergetelheid met expositie over de zwarte queer gemeenschap)

Amsterdam daily newspaper Het Parool has published an in-depth feature highlighting Hlanganani. In the article, Het Parool explores Muholi’s career-long mission to fight against historical erasure and oblivion by documenting and uplifting Black LGBTQIA+ individuals. The piece focuses on how Hlanganani expands this visual record into the Netherlands through a brand-new series of portraits created in close collaboration with members of Amsterdam’s Black queer community. Het Parool reflects on Muholi’s work as both an act of defiance and an enduring sanctuary of collective memory, self-determination, and radical visibility.

Read the full feature on Het Parool’s website.

Press Feature: Control Magazine (Zanele Muholi: Hlanganani – Unite, Amsterdam)

Contemporary visual arts and culture publication Control Magazine (Control) spotlighted Zanele Muholi’s solo exhibition Hlanganani (“Unite”). Known for bridging radical artistic practice with social critique, systems theory, and community networks, Control provides a vital platform for art that actively intervenes in the public sphere and challenges traditional institutional boundaries.

In their coverage, Control focuses on how Muholi’s practice shifts away from standard portraiture and isolated gallery objects toward an active, relational encounter. The publication underscores the collaborative nature of the exhibition, which pairs Muholi’s acclaimed self-portraits with newly created portraits of Amsterdam’s Black queer community, framing Hlanganani not merely as a celebration of personal identity, but as a living system of collective solidarity, resistance, and reciprocal visibility.

Read the full feature on Control Magazine’s website.

Press Feature: GalleryViewer (The power of visibility: Zanele Muholi in Galerie Ron Mandos)

An article by Flor Linckens for GalleryViewer explores the power of visibility in the work of Prof. Sir Zanele Muholi, with a closer look at their exhibition Hlanganani (“Unite”) at Galerie Ron Mandos.

The article looks at how Muholi uses photography to challenge representation, preserve visual histories and celebrate Black LGBTQIA+ communities.

Read the full feature on GalleryViewer website.