Auction started | 1 August 2024 8:00 am |
LOT 91: Bongi Bengu
Mixed media 65.5cm x 95.5cm
Estimate: R2500 – R3500
From: | To: | Increment: |
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ZAR 0 | ZAR 1900 | ZAR 100 |
ZAR 2000 | ZAR 4800 | ZAR 200 |
ZAR 5000 | ZAR 9500 | ZAR 500 |
ZAR 10000 | ZAR 19000 | ZAR 1000 |
ZAR 20000 | ZAR 48000 | ZAR 2000 |
ZAR 50000 | ZAR 95000 | ZAR 5000 |
ZAR 100000 | ZAR 490000 | ZAR 10000 |
ZAR 500000 | ZAR 980000 | ZAR 20000 |
ZAR 1000000+ | ZAR 50000 |
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bongi Bengu was born in Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, grew up in exile, in Geneva, Switzerland and studied in High School in Switzerland and later Waterford Kamhlaba in Swaziland. Bengu later enrolled and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree at Mount Vernon College, in Washington DC, and a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from The University of Cape Town and has since participated in numerous international residencies and workshops. She has received awards and scholarships from Mount Vernon College, Washington DC, USA; Standard Bank, South Africa; University of Cape Town; The National Museum of African Art Washington DC.
In 2015 she exhibited at the Durban Art Gallery in “SA Art 21 Years after Democracy”; “Identity-Cohension” Grahamstown Festival. Previous to that she has exhibited at the Harlem Arts Festival Chicago; Friends Stuttgart, Germany. In 2007 she participated in Possibilities, Mumbai ; India. Other exhibition include ‘A decade of Democracy :Witnessing South African Art, Boston Massachusetts USA; “Ten Years of Freedom Contemporary Sourth African Art” Georgia USA. Other exhibitions have been In Berlin, Germany; Switzerland; University of Illinois, USA; London and throughout South Africa.
She has been granted residencies in Kenya; Ghana; Switzerland; USA; UK; Kenya and Zambia all at prestigious institutions. She is included, among others in the following Collections,