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Dineo Bopape
Bopape is the winner of the 2008 MTN New Contemporaries Award, on view at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery until 13 August.

LATEST WORK

Dreamweaver on Disguise (15 May - 5 July 2008)

WORKS EXHIBITED

Growing everyday from the group exhibition In the making: materials and process (2005)
Click here to read Bopape's statement on making this work
Untitled (love letters) (2005)

BIOGRAPHY
Dineo Bopape was born in 1981 in Polokwane. She graduated with a B Tech from the Durban Institute of Technology in 2004, and went onto study at De Ateliers postgraduate art institute in Amsterdam. She is an obsessive collector and assembler of objects that are redolent with past histories and future possibilities: secondhand clothes, secrets and love letters, invoices, dust swept and gathered from her apartment, spoons, belt buckles and other items. These are processed and combined in installations such as Growing everyday, first produced for her B Tech graduate show and reworked into a major wall piece for In the making: materials and process at Michael Stevenson (2005). She exhibited an installation in the experimental Multimedia Room at the KZNSA Gallery in June 2005. Group exhibitions include Cape '07 in Cape Town (2007); New Painting at the KZNSA Gallery in Durban, the Unisa Gallery in Pretoria and Johannesburg Art Gallery (2006); Shared History/Decolonising the Image at Arti & Amicitiae in Amsterdam (2006); urban women two zero zero five at the African Art Centre (2005); Tangencya, a site-specific exhibition in Durban (2004); and Women’s Day – Imvubelo at the Durban Art Gallery (2004). She had a solo show at Mart House, Amsterdam, in September 2007.