Cinga

My pilgrimage to New York was seeing Cinga Samson’s exhibition “Ukuphuthelwa”, (the title is in isiXhosa and means “unable to sleep”). The energetic realm of Cinga Samson’s art is hard to translate into image, the works are so huge in spirit and the contrasts between light and darkness, details and full realm are fully mind-blowing. It is like visions and being in a body shatter and become one. Thank you @cinga_samson and @whitecube for inviting me and especially Yomna Osman for showing me around. Cinga Samson’s earlier works can be seen in ”When We See Us” presently @liljevalchs curated by @madamekoyo and @tandazani produced by @zeitzmocaa

A Mystery Like You Have Never Seen CINGA SAMSON’S EMBOLDENED NEW WORKS AT WHITE CUBE IN NYC “Between darkness and revelation, “Ukuphuthelwa” is a presentation of South African painter Cinga Samson’s suite of new paintings at New York’s White Cube Gallery. Tuning into the liminality of language as well as light, the exhibition’s title, an isiXhosa word translating loosely to “unable to sleep”, frames the works as moments of heightened awareness. Within Samson’s brooding palette of near-blacks, deep blues, and carbon hues, the nocturnal world becomes a site of spiritual and psychological sensitivity…”— Charles Moore /daily-brows/a-mystery-like-you-have-never-seen

📚 Spring reading: ‘Cinga Samson’ (2023)⁠ ⁠ On the occasion of Cinga Samson’s (@cinga_samson ) exhibition ‘Ukuphuthelwa’ at White Cube New York, discover our monograph designed by Ard.works (@studio.ardworks ) and edited by Honey Luard (@honeyluard ), which features:⁠ ⁠ ✨ An essay by award-winning arts journalist Lwandile Fikeni, examining the spiritual and philosophical systems of amaXhosa that inform Cinga’s approach.⁠ ⁠ ✨A text by scholar Tamar Garb, exploring the art historical tenets underpinning the paintings.⁠ ⁠ ✨Full-bleed details that reveal the complex painterly gestures within Cinga’s large-scale compositions.⁠ ⁠ ✨A sequence of studio photographs printed with inverse colouration, offering a glimpse into the artist’s meticulous process.⁠ ⁠ 📍 ‘Cinga Samson: ‘Ukuphuthelwa’ is on view at White Cube New York until 18 April 2026.⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link in our bio to shop online.⁠ ⁠ Video © White Cube ⁠

Thank You New York for your Warm embrace. The Opening Night Of UKUPHUTHELWA was a spectacle, Truly beautiful!! I wanna give a special Thank You to White Cube New York gallery for such loving reception, HxH Expanse’s enlightening Performance and to All my friends who came to celebrate with me. I look forward to Another One… The Show will be open until 18 April 2026. .. … .🐉

My friends, please join me as I celebrate my new solo exhibition titled “UKUPHUTHELWA” which will be opening at White Cube Gallery in New York this Thursday 5th of March from 6 - 8pm. The show briefly highlights the magic and mystery of surrounding our daily lives. . . . .…🐉 The show will run from 6th of March until 18 April 2026.

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We are excited to announce that Cinga Samson (@cinga_samson ) will be a Visiting Lecturer at Apollo Painting School. Cinga Samson was born in 1986 in Cape Town, South Africa, where he lives and works. Solo exhibitions include Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2023) White Cube , London (2023) ; FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2021); Perrotin Gallery, New York (2020); and blank projects, (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019). Group exhibitions include Femmes, Perrotin Gallery, Paris (2025) , 50 paintings, Milwaukee Art Museum (2023); Mapping Black Identities, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis (2020); Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Øvre Eiker (2019); and Hacer Noche, Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oaxaca de Juarez (2018). #cingasamson #apollopaintingschool #lecture #painting #contemporarypainting #painters

Cape Town - Studio Visits During our trip to Cape Town, we had the privilege of visiting several Cape Town artists based studios, where we engaged with exceptional artists and gained valuable insight into their creative processes. These visits consistently stand out as a highlight of our journey, and we are sincerely appreciative of the artists who took the time, offering us a deeper understanding of their practices. The second studio visit was with @cinga_samson , as his upcoming exhibition at @whitecube approaches. While we are unable to share details of some of his works, we were fortunate to visit him just before. It was a great experience and was a great opportunity to experience his work in person ahead of his upcoming exhibition. „Cinga Samson’s works inhabit and extend a painterly tradition, asserting their place within the long trajectory of figuration in art. This commitment to his metier facilitates an exploration of ideas around desire, power, mortality and transience. Weaving together the classical and the contemporary, Samson creates images with symbolic, spiritual and social inferences, drawn together by subjective narrative.“ #cingasamson #capetownartfair #contemporaryafricanart #contemporaryart #delarcocollection #cuperiorcollection #collectorforlife

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Intsunguzi 150cm x 120cm (2022)