Conrad Botes is represented in this exhibition with this work.

Artists Engaged? Maybe.

Until 7 Sep 2014

Gulbenkian Foundation

Av. de Berna, 45A / 1067-001 Lisboa
PORTUGAL

Telephone: +351 217 823 000

E-mail: info@gulbenkian.pt

 

 

Origina, 2011.

 

Curator: António Pinto Ribeiro

Artists: Athi-Patra Ruga (South Africa) | Berna Reale (Brazil) | Bouchra Khalili (France/Morocco) | Bruno Boudjelal (France/ Argelia) | Celestino Mudaulane (Mozambique) | Conrad Botes (South Africa) | Demián Flores (Mexico) | Eduardo Basualdo (Argentina) | Eva Grubinger (Austria) with Werner Feiersinger (Austria) | Fredy Alzate (Colombia) | Johanna Calle (Colombia) | João Ferro Martins (Portugal) | Luiz Zerbini (Brazil) | Miguel Jara (Colombia) | Paul Edmunds (South Africa) | Pedro Barateiro (Portugal) | Raul Mourão (Brazil) | Sandra Monterroso (Guatemala) | Simon Gush (South Africa) | Solon Ribeiro (Brazil) | Wim Botha (South Africa)

 

2013.

 Conrad Botes was born in 1969 in Ladismith, Western Cape, and lives in Cape Town. He has an MA Fine Arts from the University of Stellensbosch (1997) and a Diploma in Second Phase Illustration from the Koninklijke Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag, Netherlands (1994). His biting satire, frequently directed at South African society, politics and religion, is channelled into both his painting and printmaking, and his comix which have been published in the Bitterkomix series, alongside those of his frequent collaborator Anton Kannemeyer, since the early 1990s. In 2004 Botes won the Absa l’Atelier award, and in 2009 he was festival artist at Aardklop in Potchefstroom. Important group exhibitions include Victims and Martyrs at the Gothenburg Kunsthalle, Sweden (2011); Peekaboo: Current South Africa at the Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (2010); the 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010); … for those who live in it: Pop culture, politics and strong voices at MU Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2010); the third Guangzhou Triennial, China (2008); Africa Comics at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2007); and the 2006 Havana Biennale.

Zombie Babylon, 2012.Zombie Babylon, 2012.

Courtesy: Stevenson Gallery Johannesburg.