Anico Mostert is a South African multi-disciplinary artist and printmaker, whose work speaks to the quiet moments of the everyday. Her approach to making is versatile, seeing her producing across ceramics, textile design, animation, and painting. She allows her practice to be intuitive and exist as a process of learning and discovery, creating the space for vivid colours and coltish figures to find their place in paintings and prints.

Mostert uses reference images from social media to imagine still life’s of ordinary scenes, observing the elements of the medium for the artwork to determine itself. Each piece’s name occurs as Mostert imagines what it would say if it could speak. The works upend familiarity, reminiscent of home spaces, while offering a surreal swing of imagery, where rooms are unpeopled yet full of life, and pictures of people are empty of objects.

Her works exude a calm quietness, illustrating unexpected details and unassuming scenarios that verge on the mundane, but are illuminated through her attention and careful colour choices. Mostert’s work depicts interactions and scenes that feel familiar and comforting but are also somewhat inverted and distorted to feel fresh and unexpected. Since graduating from Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2017, where she majored in printmaking, Mostert has exhibited in art fairs and exhibitions across the African diaspora and beyond. She currently lives and works in her home city of Cape Town.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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

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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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
'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, 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