Kendell Geers

Kendell Geers
Tuma

Jacobus Hermanus Pieters Geers, bɛ ni lahi booni so Kendell Geers, nyɛla South Africa "conceptual artist". Geers bela Brussels, Belgium ka lahi tumdi ni.

Maŋmaŋa yɛltɔɣa

Kendell Geers nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Leondale,di bela East Rand zaŋ yi Johannesburg, South Africa.

Selected work in public collections

• "Brick" 1988, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Hanging Piece" 1993, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
• "T. W. Batons (Circle)" 1994, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
• "T.W. (I.N.R.I.)" 1994, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• "Tears for Eros" 1999, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
• "T.W. (Scream)" 1999, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
• "NOITULOVER" 2003, Castello di Ama, Chianti, Italy
• "Akropolis Redux (The Directors Cut)" 2004, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
• "Monument to the Unknown Anarchist" 2007, BPS22 Collection, Charleroi, Belgium
• "Mutus Liber 953" 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

Exhibitions

Kendell Geers tum tuma yaɣa pam ka di shɛŋa nyɛ Johannesburg Biennale (1995, 1997), Havana Biennale (1994), Istanbul Biennale (2003), Taipei Biennale (2000) Lyon Biennale (2005) Venice Biennale (1993, 2007, 2011, 2017, 2019) Dakar Biennial (2018) Shanghai Biennale (2016) Sao Paolo Biennial (2010) Carnegie International (1999) ni Documenta (2002 mini 2017). O tuuli "exhibition" yuli n daa booni “Irrespektiv” ka yuuni 2007 di daa yi BPS22 (Charleroi Belgium) chaŋ SMAK (Gent Belgium), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Newcastle), Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (Lyon France), DA2 Domus Artium (Salamanca, Spain) ni MART (Trento, Italy). Din daa doli buyi daa nyɛla Okwui Enwezor ni daa yina ni shɛli 2013 luɣ'shɛli din yuli booni Haus der Kunst (Munich Germany)

Maŋa Lahabali

• "Argot" Chalkham Hill Press, 1993. ISBN 0-620-19048-5.
• "Contemporary South African Art," Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1997. ISBN 978-1-86842-039-1.
• "My Tongue in Your Cheek," Dijon: les Presses du réel; Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002. ISBN 2-7118-4374-2.
• "The Plague is Me," Artist Book, One Star Press, France 2003, Limited Edition of 250 copies
• Kendell Geers. Mondadori Electa, 2004. ISBN 88-370-3050-9.
• "Kendell Geers; The Forest of Suicides." published by MACRO, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Roma, 2004. ISBN 883-7-03050-9.
• "Point Blank," Artist Book, Imschoot Uitgevers, Belgium, 2004 limited edition of 1000 copies ISBN 9077362126
• "Fingered" Imschoot Uitgevers, 2006. ISBN 90-77362-33-9.
• "Irrespektiv." BOM / Actar, 2007. ISBN 978-84-934879-5-9.
• "Be Contemporary #07" Edited by Kendell Geers, Be Contemporary Publishers, France, ISBN 978-2-91863-000-5
• "Kendell Geers 1988–2012." Edited by Clive Kellner, Prestel, 2012. ISBN 978-3791353005
• "Hand Grenades From My Heart". Edited by Jerome Sans, Blue Kingfisher, Hong Kong, 2012. ISBN 978-988-15064-7-4
• "Aluta Continua," Edited by Kendell Geers, ArtAfrica Magazine March 2017
• "AniMystikAKtivist: Between Traditional and the Contemporary in African Art" Essays by Jens Hoffmann and Z.S. Strother, Mercatorfonds and Yale University Press, 2018, ISBN 9780300233230
• "IncarNations: African Art as Philosophy," Edited by Kendell Geers, Silvana Editoriale Italy, 2019, ISBN 8836642993
• "OrnAmenTum'EtKriMen" Danillo Eccher, M77 Gallery, Milano, 2020

External links

• IMODARA