Atang Tshikare
3 November – 15 December 2025
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Atang Tshikare (b. 1980, Free State Province, South Africa) is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist based in Cape Town. Over a twenty-year period, his practice has evolved from street art and drawing to designing limited-edition collectible objects and sculptural furniture. However, he now primarily works as a visual artist, focusing mainly on sculpture, as well as drawing and performance. Atang Tshikare’s works have been widely exhibited both in South Africa and internationally. He has showcased his art at museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2021) and the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (2019), as well as at art and design fairs like Design Miami/Basel (most recently in 2021), PAD London (2019), Design Discourse in Austria (2016), and Design Days Dubai (2013). Tshikare was selected as a featured designer at 100% Design South Africa (2014) and Design Indaba Emerging Creatives (2012). Most recently, his sculptural works were featured in a solo exhibition at the renowned Everard Read Gallery in Cape Town (2024).
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Atang Tshikare is a Cape Town-based multidisciplinary artist. In 2024 the artist visited Wanås Konst, following the invitation of curator Milena Høgsberg – who met Tshikare while in residence at NIROX in 2023 – to create his first, largescale public sculpture, Puruma (2025). As described by Høgsberg, “Tshikare works sculpturally with materials such as bronze, ceramics and wood, and invites the viewer into a tactile and imaginative world. The stories that shape his art often draw from personal dreams and cultural myths, where flora, fauna, and fictional creatures are allowed to coexist.”
The sculpture created at Wanås took the form of a largescale lion with a protea for a head, floating on a nest on one of Wanås’s lakes. Returning now for a residency at the Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture, Tshikare spent his time in residency planning a second public work, this time for a site within one of the caves in the Cradle of Humankind, establishing a dialogue between these two sites. At the same time, Tshikare led a workshop with students from a nearby school and created a number of smaller styrofoam-based works, which he took back to his studio in Cape Town to prepare for exhibition.
