Frieze London 2024: Esther Mahlangu's Mural at Serpentine
© Esther MahlanguAlmine Rech congratulates Dr. Esther Mahlangu for being honored by BMW on the occasion of Frieze London 2024
As one of Frieze’s long-term global partners since 2004, BMW will this year centre around presenting the artistic oeuvre of Ndebele artist Esther Mahlangu.
From October 9 to 13, 2024, Frieze London and Frieze Masters will return to London’s Regent’s Park.
As one of Frieze’s long-term global partners since 2004, BMW will honor the artistic oeuvre of Ndebele artist Esther Mahlangu, who was the first woman to create a BMW Art Car in 1991. Together with BMW, Serpentine will reveal Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu (I am because you are), a new site-specific mural by Mahlangu in the garden at Serpentine North.
In celebration of cultural exchange and responding to Mahlangu’s work, renowned actor, collector and Talk Art host Russell Tovey will curate a selection of artworks from his private collection that will be displayed at Frieze London in the BMW Lounge. He chose pieces by female, queer and artists of colour in response to works by Mahlangu.
The first interview publication with Esther Mahlangu, titled Esther Mahlangu: To Paint is in My Heart, published by Thames & Hudson, will be launched during Frieze week with co-editors Azu Nwagbogu and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
