Anico Mostert (b.1995, Cape Town) is a South African artist living and working in Cape Town, whose work explores the subtle moments of everyday life. Her approach to making is versatile, allowing her practice to remain intuitive and evolve as a continuous process of learning and discovery.

Through her distinctive and expressive style, Mostert invites viewers to reflect on how the spaces we inhabit shape—and are shaped by—our sense of self. She is particularly concerned with the experiential qualities of space and belonging, exploring how ‘lived spaces’ become vessels for memory, emotion, and identity. Her elongated figures, often set in open landscapes or spilling from empty rooms, reveal the inner tensions of existence: the stretching and moulding of the self as it responds to its surroundings.

These internal transformations—usually invisible to others—are made visible in her paintings. The figures seem to move with emotion, their forms shaped as much by feeling as by space. Through intuitive colour and bold, expressive brushwork, Mostert captures the ongoing dialogue between inner experience and environment, articulating a deeply human sense of being-in-the-world.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
'Interlude', Sister by Studio Ashby, London, United Kingdom

2024
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2021
‘A Gentle Reminder’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
RMB Latitudes Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, Johannesburg, South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2024
'A Very Loop Street Summer III', EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
RMB Latitudes Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, Johannesburg, South Africa

2023
'A Very Loop Street Summer II', EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Hiatus’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
'Atari', No Man's Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Latin America Galleries Now, JO-HS (online)
'An Endless Night', curated by Anelisa Mangcu, The Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa
Expo Chicago, EBONY/CURATED, Chicago, United States of America
'We Are a Way For The Cosmos to Know Itself', Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany
'Room With a View', curated by Karen Elkington, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2022
‘Looking Inwards From the Outside’, JO-S, Mexico City, Mexico
Also Known As Africa (AKAA), EBONY/CURATED, Paris, France
‘From The Magazine’, The Gallery – 44 Stanley, Johannesburg, South Africa
Turbine Art Fair, curated by Ashraf Jamal, Asisebenzi Art Atelier, Johannesburg, South Africa
‘Paint’, curated by JP Meyer, The Gallery at Glen Carlou, Cape Town, South Africa
Annual African Galleries Now (AAGA), (online edition) powered by Artsy, Africa
‘Domesticada’, JO-HS, Mexico City, Mexico
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
‘A Very Loop Street Summer’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2021
FNB Art Joburg, (online edition), EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
‘8X8’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair (online edition), EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Apartment x THE FOURTH’, THE FOURTH, Cape Town, South Africa
Collaboration with Sister X Studio Ashby, London, United Kingdom
‘Curators pick’, Art She Says (online edition)
‘House Party’, THE FOURTH, Cape Town, South Africa

2020
AAGA annual African Galleries Now (online edition), powered by Artsy, Africa
‘FEMINIST UTOPIA’, curated by Anelisa Mangcu, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Tones’, Eclectica Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
‘SHE’, Riebeek Kasteel Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel, South Africa
‘How did we get here,’ Subject Matter (Online edition)
‘Rest’, Eclectica Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
‘No holds barred’, Riebeek Kasteel Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel, South Africa

2019
‘Untitled 7.99’, 99 Loop, Cape Town, South Africa

2018
‘The Greatest Hits Exhibition’, Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Not Really’, Temporary Gallery on 136 Bree, Cape Town, South Africa
‘AFRAID SO’, Temporary Gallery on 136 Bree, Cape Town, South Africa