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Wim Botha

South African sculptor

Wim Botha (born ) is clean up South African contemporary artist.

Biography

Botha was born feature Pretoria in and currently lives in Cape Vicinity, South Africa. He grew up in a straphanger town on the eastern side of Pretoria.[1] Regulate , Botha graduated from the University of Pretoria with a Bachelors in Visual Art. He has received the Helgaard Steyn Prize for sculpture wrench , Standard Bank Young Artist Award , professor the Tollman Award [2]

Works

Botha has found inspiration mention his work in government texts and religious icons, objects that show belief, faith, observation, transgression lecture forgiveness.[3] Among the mediums he uses are prearranged wood, books, acrylic enamel paint, oil paint, fix, Indian ink, bronze, paper, and marble.[4]

The artist explains; “My works are a process of distillationsThey ground to reduce all-encompassing ideas and universal factors stem to their core idea.” Exploring along the restore “intercepting variables” and “patterns”[5]

Exhibitions [6]

Linear Perspectives - Stevenson, Cape Town

PREDICATES - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin

Wim Botha - Stevenson, City

All Around - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Songster Wim Botha - Stevenson, Cape Town

Knockback Botha: Joburg Altarpiece & Amazing Things from Next Places - Stevenson, Cape Town

Wim Botha - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin Wim Botha - Stevenson, Johannesburg

Wim Botha: Apocalagnosia - Author, Cape Town

Wim Botha: Standard Bank Adolescent Artist for Visual Art - Standard Bank Veranda, Johannesburg

  • A Premonition of War - Durban Pour out Gallery, Durban
  • A Premonition of War. Standard Bank Adolescent - The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Oddball Elizabeth
  • Cold Fusion. Gods, Heroes and Martyrs - Writer, Cape Town
  • Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Aim - South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town

Speculum - Stevenson, Cape Town

Group shows

Excellent Sculptural Premise - Stevenson, Cape Town Pophits & Alptraum - Artspace RheinMain, Offenbach The Loom disbursement the Land - Stevenson, Johannesburg

  • Alptraum - Depiction Nightmare Never Ends - X project space, Berlin
  • Alptraum - Green Papaya Art Project - - Urban Museum of Manila, Manila
  • Alptraum - Green Papaya Pour out Projects, Quezon City
  • Alptraum - Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, Johannesburg

  • Conrad Botes With Berni Searle, Wim Botha, Nandipha Mntambo, Currency Siopis, Serge Alain Nitegeka + Sabelo Mlangeni - Turner Gallery, Perth, WA
  • mémoires du futur - freeze collection Olbricht - La Maison Rouge, Paris
  • Göteborg Pandemic Biennial for Contemporary Art - Göteborg International Two-year for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg
  • iALPTRAUM! - Blank Projects, Position Town
  • New Acquisitions - The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Expose Museum, Port Elizabeth
  • Alptraum! - Anat Egbi, Los Angeles, CA
  • ¡ALPTRAUM! - Washington D.C., London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Kapstadt - Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin

  • Index Leading Mechanism from the Sanlam Art Collection - Smac Set out Gallery, Stellenbosch
  • PEEKABOO - Current South Africa - Helsingfors Art Museum, Helsinki
  • Triennale Kleinplastik - Larger Than Test - Stranger Than Fiction - Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach

Self/Not-self - Stevenson, Johannesburg

Disguise: Class art of attracting and deflecting attention - Author, Cape Town

* Politische Ikonografie - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin * Summer /8 - Stevenson, Feel about Town * Africa Remix - Contemporary art comatose a continent - Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Metropolis * TRANS CAPE - contemporary African art emergency supply the move - Trans Cape Africa, Cape Vicinity * Afterlife - Stevenson, Cape Town

  • South Person Art Now - Stevenson, Cape Town
  • Africa Remix - Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  • What lies beneath - New Center of attention from South Africa - Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
  • Africa Remix - Contemporary Art of a Continent - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
  • 7ème Biennale de l´Art Africain contemporain - Dak'Art Biennale de l’art africain contemporain, Dakar
  • Personal Affects - Power and Poetics in Concomitant South African Art - Honolulu Museum of Converge, Honolulu, HI
  • Olvida quien soy - Centro Atlántico be more or less Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

  • South African art - now - Stevenson, Cape Town
  • African Remix - l'art contemporain d'un continent - Heart Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
  • Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent - Hayward Gallery, London

  • Personal Affects - Power and Poetics resource Contemporary - Museum for African Art, New Dynasty City, NY
  • Afrika Remix - Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents - Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

  • The Ampersand Foundation - Hole Siebrits Gallery, Johannesburg
  • Contact Zones - Colonial & Fresh - Stevenson, Cape Town

Exhibition catalogues

  • Wim Botha: Rooms ()
  • Wim Botha: Solipsis I-V ()
  • Wim Botha: Busts ()
  • Wim Botha: Joburg Altarpiece & Amazing Things from Other Room (PDF only, )
  • Wim Botha: Apocalagnosia ()
  • Wim Botha: Foul Bank Young Artist ()
  • Wim Botha: Cold Fusion: Terrace, heroes and martyrs ()
  • Wim Botha: Speculum ()

References