Biographie

1974 geboren in Pretoria, lebt und arbeitet in Johannesburg
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

Ausstellungen/ Exhibitions (selection)

2011
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)

Installationsansicht "All Around", Galerie Jette Rudolph, 2011

Installationsdetail Solipsis I, 2011
Polystyrol, Holz, Neon, Dimensions variable

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

Joburg Altarpiece, 2009
397 x 527cm, Edition of 3

Amazing things from other Places, 2009
Installationsansicht Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

Detail: Amazing things from other Places, 2009

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

untitled (after Bernini), 2009
Linoprint on tea-stained Hahnemühle paper
193 x 78cm (unframed), Edition of 12

Generic Self-portrait as an Heretic, 2008 (Detail)
geschnittene Bibeln in verschiedenen südafrikanischen Sprachen
53 x 37 x 23 cm

Installationsansicht Vanitas Toilette, 2008
Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin

Installationsansicht Chorus, 2008
Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin

Rorschach (after Velazquez), 2007
Linolprint on tea-stained Hahnemühle paper
179 x 190 cm, Ed. 12+2

Time Maschine, 2008
Installationsansicht Brodie Stevenson, Johannesburg

Double God Vitrine, 2007
2 Glassäulen, 1 Portraitbüste, 4 Zeichnungen
mixed media, Größe variabel

Detail Double God Vitrine, 2007
Büste, Carved Afrikaans-English dictionary paper

Phyllocrania Paradoxa (Gottesanbeterin), 2006
Bleistift auf Papier
41,5 x 48 cm

Calamity, 2006
glasierte Keramik, Teakholparkett
140 x 140 x 30 cm

Memento Mori, 2005
artificial marble, imbuia, neon
size variable

untitled, 2003
Bleiglas, 210 x 242 cm