Wim Botha
   


Biographie

*1974 in Pretoria, lives and works in Cape Town
1995 Judges' prize, Sasol New Signatures Competition
1996 BA (Visual Art), University of Pretoria
1996 Volkskas Atelier Merit Award, Emil Schweickerdt Award for Most Promising Art Student, University of Pretoria
1998 First Prize, Kempton Park/ Tembisa Art Competition
2001 Kanna Prize for Visual Art, Best Artwork or Exhibition, Klein Karoo National Arts festival, Oudtshoorn
2002 Ampersand Foundation Fellowship for two-month residency, New York City and Washington DC
2003 Tollman Award, joint winner (with Churchill Madikida)
2005 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for 2005
2010 Nedcor Sculpture Commission, Nedbank headquarters, Johannesburg

Wim Botha, Solipsis 5, 2013

Exhibitions (selection)

2015
Thinking, Feeling, Head, Heart at The New Church Museum, Cape Town (S)
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, next at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC (G)
2014
Chroma, Stevenson, Cape Town (G)
The Epic Mundane, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
Artists engaged? Maybe., Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal (G)
LINEAR PERSPECTIVES, Stevenson, Cape Town (S)
2013
Predicates, Kunstraum Innsbruck (S)
Predicates, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (S)
Imaginary Fact, South African Pavillion, 55th Biennale di Venezia (G)
Wordfees Festival, Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch ZA (G)
The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg (G)
2012
The Rainbow Nation, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague (G)
Coming of Age: 21 Years of the Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
2011
What we talk about when we talk about love, Stevenson, Cape Town (G)
conrad botes, Turner Galleries, Northbridge, Australia (G)
Göteborg International Biennal for Contemporary Art, Göteborg (G)
Alptraum, touring exhibition: Washington, Berlin, Los Angeles, Kapstadt (G)
All Around, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (S)
Wim Botha, Galerie Jette Rudolph zu Gast, Frühjahrsrundgang, Spinnerei Leipzig (S)

All this, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (S)
2010
PEEKABOO – Current South Africa at Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (G)
11. Triennale für Kleinplastik, Fellbach (G)
The Last Kingdom, project & presentation, Berlin (G)
Nedcor Sculpture Commission, Sandton, Johannesburg (G)
2009
Joburg Altarpiece & Amazing Things from Other Places, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (S)
Self/Not-self, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (G)
2008
Soloshow, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (S)

Solo-Presentation, Freestyle - Art Froum Berlin, Galerie Jette Rudolph (S)
Soloshow, Art Extra Johannesburg (S)
2007
Politische Ikonographie, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (G)
Impossible Monsters, Art Extra, Johannesburg (G)
Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
Apocalagnosia, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town (S)
Family Relation, Warren Siebrits Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
2006
Olvida Quien Soy - Erase me from who I am, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, LasPalmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (G)
Cold Fusion: gods, heroes and martyrs, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (S)
2005
A Premonition of War, Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2005 exhibition.National Arts Festival, Grahamstown; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Durban Art Gallery, Durban; Oliewenhuis Art Gallery, Bloemfontein; South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg (S)
Dak’Art, 7th Dakar Biennale, Senegal (G)
2004
Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Hayward Gallery, London, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Johannesburg Art Gallery (touring through 2006) (G)
Personal Affects: Power and poetics in contemporary South African art, Museum for African Art and Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York (traveling to Contemporary Museum, Honolulu) (G)
2003
Contact Zones, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (G)
2002
Sasol Public Sculpture Commission, exhibition of maquettes, Klein Karoo National (G)
Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn (G)
Grime, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town (G)
2001
Speculum, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (S)
commune: onomatopoeia, Festival Artist Exhibition, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn (P)
Clean, Millennium Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
1999
Transmigrations, Civic Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
Transmigrations: Rituals and Items, Artshare Warehouse, Los Angeles USA, Tijuana Cultural Centre, Tijuana, Mexico (G)
Renaicide/Mortenaissance, Millennium Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pretoria (G)
The Paper Show, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
New Signatures Revisited, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn (G)

Wim Botha Witness series paper bust 2014 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin
Untitled (Witness Series 24), 2014
carved encyclopedia, steel

 

Wim Botha Witness Series Untitled 2014 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin
Untitled (Witness Series 25), 2014
carved encyclopedia, steel

 

Wim Botha A Thousand Things 179 Galerie Jette Rudolph 2014
A Thousand Things part 179, 2014
Indian ink on Paper

 

Wim Botha A Thousand Things 181 Galerie Jette Rudolph 2014
A Thousand Things part 181, 2014
Indian ink on Paper

Wim Botha Witness Series Paper Bust Untitled Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin 2014

Wim Botha Untitled Witness Series 2014 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin
Untitled (Witness Series 26), 2014
carved encyclopedia, steel

 

Wim Botha Untitled Bywoner 2014 paper bust Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin
Untitled (Bywoner), 2013
carved encyclopedia, steel, 72 x 65 x 32 cm, height incl. pedestal 176 cm

 

Wim Botha CLOUDS I 2013 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin
Clouds I, 2013
oil on wood panel, 27 x 33 cm

 

Wim Botha Gravity Machine 2013 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin
Gravity Machine, 2013

wood, fluorescent light equipment, 350 x 195 cm variable in height

 

Wim Botha Study For Self Portrait 2013 paper bust Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin
Study for composite self-portrai8t, 2013
carved books (Statutes), 89 x 25 x 29 cm

 

Wim Botha A Thousand Things part 48 wooden bust 2013 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlinb
Thousand Things part 47, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel paint, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm

 

Wim Botha A Thousand Things part 48 wooden bust 2013 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin
Thousand Things part 48, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel paint, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm

 

Wim Botha A Thousand Things part 49 wooden bust 2013 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin
Thousand Things part 49, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel paint, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm

 

Wim Botha A Thousand Thing part 80 wooden bust 2013 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin
Thousand Things part 50, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel paint, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm

 

Wim Botha A Thousand Things 2013 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin Soloshow
Thousand Things part 51, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel paint, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm

 

Wim Botha Solipsis 6 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin 2013
Solipsis VI, 2013

wood, polysterene, fluorescent light equipment, dimensions variable

 

Wim Botha PRISM V 2013 Bronze Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin
Prism V, 2013

bronze, stainless steel, wooden pedestal

 

Wim Botha A thousand Things 46 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin 2013
A Thousand Things part 46, 2013

treated pine, acrylic enamel paint, 70 x 50 x 46 cm, hight incl. pedestal 174 cm

 

Wim Botha A Thousand Things Part 81 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin 2013
A Thousand Things part 81, 2013
Indian Ink on paper

 

Wim Botha A Thousand Things part 72 Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin 2013
A Thousand Things part 72, 2013
Indian Ink on paper

 

Wim Bothe Untitled Bywoner 2013 paper bust Galerie Jette Rudolph Berlin
Untitled (Bywoner), 2013
carved vintage medical textbooks, steel, 94 x 36 x 26 cm

 

Wim Botha, untitled, 2011, Jette Rudolph, Berlin
ALL AROUND, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin 2011 (installationview)

 

WIm Botha, Solipsi II, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin 2011
Solipsis 2, 2011 (installationview)
Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin

 

Wim Botha 2011
Solipsis I, 2011 (detail)
Polystyrol, Holz, Neon, Dimensions variable

 

Wim Botha, bust, 2010
Portrait Bust (Daughter), 2010
carved Afrikaans bibles, 56 x 53 x 38 cm

 

Wim Botha, Joburg Altarpiec, 2009e
Joburg Altarpiece, 2009 (installationview)
397 x 527cm, Ed. of 3


Wim Botha, amazing thinks from other places, 2009
Amazing things from other Places, 2009 (installationview)
Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

 

Wim Botha,  2009
Amazing things from other Places, 2009 (detail)

 

Wim Botha, after Rubens, 2009
Untitled (after Rubens), 2009
Linoprint on tea-stained Hahnemühle paper
150 x 185cm (unframed), Edition of 12

 

Wim Botha, after Bernini, 2009
Untitled (after Bernini), 2009

 

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Generic Self-portrait as an Heretic, 2008 (detail)

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Vanitas Toilette, 2008 (installationview)
Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin

 

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Chorus, 2008 (installationview)
Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin


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Rorschach (after Velazquez), 2007
Linolprint on tea-stained Hahnemühle paper

 

Wim Botha, Time Maschine
Time Maschine, 2008 (installationview)
Stevenson, Johannesburg

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Double God Vitrine, 2007 (installationview)

 

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Phyllocrania Paradoxa (Gottesanbeterin), 2006

 

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Calamity, 2006

 

Wim Botha, Memento Mori / Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
Memento Mori, 2005
artificial marble, imbuia, neon
size variable

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Untitled, 2003