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Kendell Geers

Born : May 1968
Selected Solo Exhibitions

2000 "Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi" Marian Goodman, Paris
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 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
"W.C." Villa Arson, Nice, France

1995 "Work on Paper, " Chalkham Hill Press Gallery, Johannesburg
"W.C." Villa Arson, Nice, France

1994 "Air de Paris," Everard Read Contemporary & ICA & Mardet Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg
"We are Johannesburg Artists and Nothing More," Michaelis Art Gallerym 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
Selected Group Exhibitions

2000 Lugring Augustine Gallery, New York
"Memorias Intimas Marcas" Muhka, Aantwerp (Catalogue)
"Micro-Politics" Magasin de Grenoble (Catalogue)
"Home" Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (Catalogue)
"The Invisible Touch" Kunstraum Innsbruck

1999 Carnegie International, Pittsurgh (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" Tea; 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 Fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig (catalogue0
Traffique," S.M.A.K.,Ghent (Catalogue)
"Global Conceptualism: points of Origin 1950s," Queens Museum of Art, New York(Catalogue)
"Following and to be Followed", Le Consortium, Dijon

1998 "Memorias Intimas Marcas" Instituto de Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon
"Europa Afrika" 7 Triennale der Kleineplastik;Sudwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany (Catalogue)
"Dark Continent" Klein Karoo Arts Festival;Outshoorn
"Odradek" Bard Center For Curatorial Studies, Annandale on Hudson, New York
"City Canibal" Paco 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;Seweden (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," Benard, Jocobson Gallery, London
"Outside/Inside," Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg(Catalogue)
"Vita Art Now," Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesbrug (Catalogue)
"Aperto," Corderoie Dell'Arsenale, XLVI Biennale Di Benezia, Venice, Italy.

1994 "vita Art Now, Johannesburg Art Galletry,Johannesburg(catalogue)
"Quinta Bienal de la Habana," Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana,Cuba
(Catalogue)
Un Art Contemporain d'Afrique du Sud,"curated by Jean-Yves Jounnals,
Galerie de L'Esplanade, La Defence, Paris, France(Catalogue)
"Vl Biennale d'Arte Sacra,"San Gabriele,Teramo,Italy(Catalogue)
"Identita 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," Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(catalogue)
"State of The Art,"Everard Read Contemporary,Johannesburg
(catalogue)
"Volkskas Ateller," ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg(catalogue)
1993 "II 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 Exihibtion,"ICA, Johannesburg and Natal Technikon Art
Gallery, Durban(catalogue)

1990 "Christmas Exhibition," Published in vrye Weekablad newspaper on 14
December 1989

Selected Bibliography

University of South Africa; Johannesburg Art Gallery; South African
National Gallery; University of the Witwatersrand; Sandton Art Gallery;
Museum Africa;
"Resistance Art in south Africa," Sue Williamson, David Philip, Cape
Town ,1989 ,Page 69
"About Face Aspects of Art History and Identity in South African Visual
Culture," Colin Richards, Third Text, London, Autumn/Winter, 1993, pages
101-133
"Different and Alike," Daniel Herwitz, Modern Painters, London Autumn,
1993, Pages76-79
"The Ten Most Intriguing South Africans," Femina, Cape Town, October
1993,pages 64-71
"Art For Africa?" Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Magazines, New
York,27 March 1994, pages 44-89
"Exposure," Andrea Vinassa, The London Sunday Times Magazine, London,27
March 1994, page 18
"The Hottentot Venus," Jean-Yves Jounnals, Art Press, Paris, May 1994,
pages 33-40
"The 9 Cards of Chameleon Geers," Stephen Laufer, Weekly Mail,
Johannesburg,25 February 1994, page11
" Getting into Geers despite static," Anthea Bristowe, Business Day,23
August 1994,page 14,(Reprinted in Art Ventilator, Johannesburg,
September 1994, page 51)
"Two Artists who are Legends in their minds…" Hazel Friedman, The Star
Tonight,22 August 1994,page 3, (Reprinted in Art Ventilator,
Johannesburg, September 1994, page 52)
"Con - Artist at the Loovre," Michael Green, You Magazine, 1 September
1994, pages 139-140

Kendell Geers work
Kendell Geers
Shooting Gallery (still)
Slides projection installation, 2000
Kendell Geers work
Kendell Geers
Shooting Gallery (still)
Slides projection installation, 2000
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