Masters (38 min) by Shaun Motsi is a speculative short film that explores the production and dissemination of knowledge in online formats situated between education and entertainment. The film brings together multigenerational, Black diasporic characters navigating the institutionalization of Black perspectives within the cultural and media mainstream. It examines the emerging format of online edutainment and how established practices of knowledge production and dissemination often perpetuate racist hierarchies.

In his interdisciplinary practice spanning installation, sculpture, video, drawing, and painting, artist Shaun Motsi explores the historical connections and entanglements that shape how images circulate and how the gaze is trained and manipulated. In his new multipart series Spectacles (2025/2026), presented as a site-specific installation at n.b.k. in the group exhibition Memory Is a Strange Bell (March 14–May 3, 2026), Motsi draws on the historical practice of exhibiting racialized bodies and examines how this legacy might shape contemporary ways of seeing.

Shaun Motsi (b. 1989 in Harare, Zimbabwe; lives in Berlin) studied Fine Art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main, where he received the Sammlung Pohl Graduate Prize and the Colliers International Rundgang Award in 2020. His work has been shown at MMK Tower, Frankfurt/Main (2025); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2024); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2024); Elvira, Frankfurt/Main (2021); Shedhalle, Zurich (2020); Portikus, Frankfurt/Main (2020); and the Berlin Biennale (2016).

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