Anico Mostert is a multi-disciplinary artist and printmaker from Cape Town. She graduated from Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2017, where she majored in printmaking.

Anico’s 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.

Anico uses reference images from social media to imagine still lifes of ordinary scenes, observing the elements of the medium for the artwork to determine itself. Each piece’s name occurs as Anico imagines what it would say if it could speak. The works upend familiarity, reminiscent of home spaces, yet offering a surreal swing of imagery, where rooms are unpeopled and 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. Anico’s work depicts still lifes, interactions and scenes that feel familiar and comforting but are also somewhat inverted and distorted to feel fresh and unexpected.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
‘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, 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, South Africa

2022
‘Looking Inwards From the Outside’, JO-S, CDMX, México, North America
Also Known As Africa (AKAA), 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, Simondium Paarl, Cape
Town, South Africa
AAGA annual African Galleries Now online edition powered by Artsy, Africa
‘Domesticada’, JO-HS, Mexico City, Mexico
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, South Africa
‘A Very Loop Street Summer’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2021
FNB Art Joburg, Online Fair, representation with EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town,
South Africa
‘8X8’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair Digital Event, EBONY/CURATED,
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
‘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
‘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 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