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Lives and works in Alphaville |
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EXHIBITIONS (selection) |
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- 2000
"Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi" Marian Goodman,
Paris Inova, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
"ÁYa Basta !" Le Consortium, Dijon, France (Catalogue)
Art Unlimited, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Basel Art Fair
- 1999
Project Rooms, Arco, Madrid
"Heart of Darkness" South African National Gallery, Cape Town
"States of Emergency" Vienna Secession, Vienna, (Catalogue)
Stephen Friedman, London
- 1998
"98.3" ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas (Brochure )
"Guilty;" Fort Klapperkop, Pretoria
"Heart Of Darkness" Gallery in the Round, Grahamstown (Brochure)
- 1997
"Memento Mori," de Vleeshal, Middelburg, Holland
- 1996
"Black on the Inside," Galerie Metroplex, Johannesburg
"16 June 1976," Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
- 1995
"Work on Paper," Chalkham Hill Press Gallery, Johannesburg
"W.C." Villa Arson, Nice, France
- 1994
"Air de Paris," Everard Read Contemporary & ICA & Market Theatre Galleries,
Johannesburg
"We are Johannesburg Artists and Nothing More," Michaelis Art Gallery,
Cape Town
- 1993
"The New Patron," Everard Read Contemporary, Johannesburg
"Threshold: The Exhibition" Everard Read Contemporary, Johannesburg
"Objects," Natal Technikon Art Gallery, Durban
- 1991
"Mediations," Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
- 1988
Box Theatre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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EXHIBITIONS (selection) |
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- 2000
"Untitled (Sculpture)" Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
"Mem—rias êntimas Marcas" Muhka, Antwerp (Catalogue)
"Micropolitiques" Magasin de Grenoble (Catalogue)
"Home" Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (Catalogue)
"The Invisible Touch" Kunstraum Innsbruck
"South Meets West" Kunsthalle Bern (Catalogue)
"Positions Attitudes Actions" Foto Biennale Rotterdam (Catalogue)
"Continental Shift/For R>EAL" Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Holland
(Catalogue)
"Inverse Perspectives" Edsvik Konst Och Kultur, Sweden
"Atmosfere Metropolitane Openspace, Milan, Italy
"HB First View" Camouflage, Johannesburg
"3 Räume - 3 Flüsse" Hann. Münden, Germany (Catalogue)
"Acts of Resistance" Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre, Pays Basque
- 1999
Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (Catalogue)
"Zeitwenden" Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (Catalogue)
"A3HB," Camouflage, Brussels
"Five Continents and One City," Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
City (Catalogue)
"Patentia" NIFCA Stockholm
"Vita Art Now" Sandton Art Gallery (Catalogue)
"Bodies of Resistance" Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut (Catalogue)
"South Meets West" National Museum, Accra, Ghana (Catalogue)
"High Red Centre," Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
"Extra and Ordinaire" Printemp de Cahors, Cahors, France (Catalogue)
"Power," Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (catalogue)
"Traffique," S.M.A.K., Ghent (Catalogue)
"Global Conceptualism: points of Origin 1950s - 1980s," Queens Museum
of Art, New York (Catalogue)
"Following and to be Followed", Le Consortium, Dijon
- 1998
"Memórias Íntimas Marcas" Instituto de Arte Contemporânea,
Lisbon
"Europa Afrika" 7 Triennale der Kleineplastik; Südwest LB, Stuttgart,
Germany (Catalogue)
"Dark Continent;" Klein Karoo Arts Festival; Outshoorn
"Odradek" Bard Center For Curatorial Studies, Annandale on Hudson, New
York
"City Canibal" Paço Das Artes, Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo
(Catalogue)
"Cross/ing;"Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, USA; & University Galleries,
Florida Atlantic University, USA (Catalogue)
"Medialization;" Edsvik konst och kultur; Sweden (Catalogue)
- 1997
"Alternating Currents," Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg (Catalogue)
"Cross/ing," University of South Florida Art Gallery, Tampa, Florida,
USA (Catalogue)
"Unplugged II" Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery, Market Theatre, Johannesburg
"October," Norwich School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Norwich, UK
"Purple and Green," Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
- 1996
"Inclusion Exclusion," Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria (catalogue)
"Simunye (We Are One)" Adelson Galleries, New York
"Colours," Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (catalogue)
"Egoists at Work," Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
"Crapshoot," de Appel, Amsterdam (catalogue)
"Unplugged," Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery, Market Theatre, Johannesburg
"The Young and the Restless," Sandton Art Gallery, Sandton
- 1995
"On the Road," Delfina Studios, Africa95, London (catalogue)
"Mayibuye iAfrika," Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
"Outside/Inside," Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
(catalogue)
"Vita Art Now," Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (catalogue)
"Aperto," Corderie Dell'Arsenale, XLVI Biennale Di Venezia, Venice,
Italy
- 1994
"Vita Art Now, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (catalogue)
"Quinta Bienal de la Habana," Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba (catalogue)
"Un Art Contemporain d'Afrique du Sud," curated by Jean-Yves Jounnais,
Galerie de l'Esplanade, La Defence, Paris, France (catalogue)
"VI Biennale d'Arte Sacra," San Gabriele, Teramo, Italy (catalogue)
"Identità e Rappresentazioni Cartografiche," Curated by Teresa
Macri and Lucilla Meloni, Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Luigi
Pigorini, Rome, Italy (catalogue)
"The Netherlands Against Apartheid," Amsterdam's Historisch Museum,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)
"Zuiderkruis," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)
"State of The Art," Everard Read Contemporary, Johannesburg (catalogue)
"Volkskas Atelier," ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg (catalogue)
- 1993
"Il Croce Del Sud - Affinities," 45 Venice Biennale, Venice, and Sala
1, Rome, Italy (catalogue)
"Volkskas Atelier," University of Pretoria Art Gallery, Pretoria and
ICA, Johannesburg (catalogue)
"An-other Direction," Newtown Galleries, Johannesburg
- 1992
"Les Tables Artistiques," Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (catalogue)
"Vita Art Now," Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (catalogue)
"Looking At Art: Looking At Watercolour," Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
"Aids: The Exhibition," ICA, Johannesburg and Natal Technikon Art Gallery,
Durban (catalogue)
- 1990
"Christmas Exhibition," published in Vrye Weekblad newspaper on 14 December
199O
- 1989
"Exhibition:Slightly Obscure Art," published in Vrye Weekblad newspaper
on 15 December 1989
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COLLECTIONS |
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Art Institute, Chicago;
FNAC, Paris;
S.M.A.K., Ghent
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LITERATURE
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"Review,"
Tilman Baumgärtel, Springer, October/November 1996, Pages 68-69
"Art in Review," Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 June 1996
"Scenes de la destruction et autres images de la souffrance" Philippe
Dagan, Le Monde, 23 Janvier 2000, pg 23
"Cross/ing: Time, Space, Movement," Mathew DeBord, Flash Art, March
April 1998, Page 80
"Occupied Territories: Power, Access, and African Art," Okwui Enwezor,
Frieze, January 1996, pages 37 - 41
"Moving In," Okwui Enwezor & Octavio Zaya, FlashArt, January - February
1996, Pages 84 - 89
"Altered States: Die Kunst des Kendell Geers" Okwui Enwezor, Inklusion
Exklusion, Dumont, Koln 1997, pgs 202 - 205
"Reading the Contemporary - African Art from Theory to the Marketplace,
" Okwui Enwezor and Olu Oguibe, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
pg 380
"Performative Recollections: An Interview with Artists Olu Oguibe and
Kendell Geers" Laurie Firstenberg, Chcago Art Journal, Spring 1999,
pg 102 - 108
"Cityscape Johannesburg" Laurie Firstenburg, Flashart No. 208, October
1999, pg 69 - 70
"Artiste du Mois" Catherine Francblin, Beaux Arts, Fevrier 2000, pg
27
"Picturing Health and Illness," Sander L Gilman, John Hopkins University
Press, Baltimore,1995, Pages 182 - 3
"Kendell Geers" Katerina Gregos, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 25,
pg 56
"Elective Affinities" Katarina Gregos, Arco Magazine, 2000, pg 8
"Video et photographie scellent leurs noces au Printemps de Cahors"
Michel Guerrin, Le Monde, 23 Juin 1999"
"CREAM," Hou Hanru et al, Phaidon Press, London, 1998, Pages 136-139
"The Hottentot Venus," Jean-Yves Jounnais, Art Press, Paris, May 1994,
pages 33 - 4O
"Extra et Ordinaire" Evelyne Jouanno, Flashart, October 1999
"Contemporary African Art" Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, Thames and Hudson,
London, 1999 pg 165
"Art of Darkness: Darkness of Art," Clive Kellner, NKA, Number 9, Fall/Winter
1998, Cornell University, New York, pages 68 - 69
"Review," Pascal Lampert, Metropolis M, Nummer 4, August/September 1997,
Page 61
"The 9 Cards of Chameleon Geers," Stephen Laufer, Weekly Mail, Johannesburg,
25 February 1994, page 11
"Ghetto Blaster" Jade Lindgaard, Les Inrockuptibles, Paris, No 228 1
- 7 Fevrier 2000, pg 56 - 57
"Micro Politiques" Parpaings, #10 Fevrier 2000, Pg 20 -23
"Motho Ke Motho Ka Batha Babang," Teresa Macri, Virus, Milan, November
1994, pages 34 - 35
"Report from Johannesburg Towards a World-Class City?" Thomas McEvilley,
Art in America, September 1995, pages 45-49
"Crapshoot," Stuart Morgan, Frieze, Issue 29, June/July/August 1996,
Pages 64-65
"Portrat des Kunstlers als Voyeur und Exhibitionist" Otto Neumaier,
Noema, Nr 51 Mai - Jun 1999, pgs 46 - 51
"Video Impressionnante," Michel Nuridsany, Figaro, 1 Fevrier 2000
"Review," John Peffer-Engels, African Arts, Winter 1997, pages 75 -
77
"About Face Aspects of Art History and Identity in South African Visual
Culture," Colin Richards, Third Text, London, Autumn/Winter, 1993, pages
1O1 - 133
"Retaining This Fire," Colin Richards, Atlantica, Number 11, Pages 31
- 44 / 132 - 144
"Review," Dierk Schmidt, Springer, October/November 1996, Page 68
"Separate and Equal," Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Magazine, New
York, 27 March 1994, pages 44 - 89
"South Africa," Cumulus, Hamza Walker, Parkett 52 1998, page 177
"South African Art - Out of Time," Benjamin Weil, Flash Art, January
- February 1995, pages 74 - 76
"Crossing The Boundaries: Two examples in South African Art," Benjamin
Weil, Atlantica, Number 8, Autumn 1994, pages 19 - 27, 13O - 134
"Resistance Art in South Africa," Sue Williamson, David Philip, Cape
Town, 1989, Page 69
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BY THE ARTIST (selection) |
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"Argot,"
Kendell Geers, Published by Chalkham Hill Press, 1995
"Art as Propaganda Inevitably Self-Destructs," Kendell Geers, Art From
South Africa, MOMA, Oxford, 1990 pages 23 - 24
Cover - Atlantica, Number 22, 1999
Project Pages, Atlantica, Number 22, pages 56 - 65 1999
"Contemporary South African Art - The Gencor Collection" Jonathan Ball
Publishers, Johannesburg, 1997
"First Johannesburg Biennial," Kendell Geers, ArtPress, May 1995, pages
IV - V
"For or Against," Kendell Geers, South African Association of Art Historians
National Conference, Wits University, 7 July 1995
"Fuck Art: The Prose of a Con-Artist," Kendell Geers, National Sculpture
Symposium, Pretoria Technikon, 4 July 1995
"The Horror, The Horror," CAPC Bordeaux, France May 1998
"The Horror, The Horror," Kendell Geers, Stopping The Process? Contemporary
views on art and exhibitions, NIFCA, Helsinki, Finland, 1998, pages
163 - 173
"Third World Bites Back," Kendell Geers, Art Ventilator, Johannesburg,
September 1994, pages 12 - 15
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