Conrad Botes

NEWS: Conrad Botes has an upcoming solo show at the KZNSA Gallery, Durban, from 12 to 31 October. Current and upcoming shows include PEEKABOO - Current South Africa at the Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (20 August - 16 January 2011); and Glanzlichter: Reverse glass paintings in contemporary art at Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany (24 October - 30 January 2011).

RECENT EXHIBITION

Crime and Punishment at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (13 August - 5 September 2009)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

Prophecy on Self/Not-self at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (26 March - 25 April 2009)
Cain and Abel (15 January - 21 February 2009)
Requiem on Summer 2007/8 (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
Satan's Choir at the Gates of Heaven (3 May - 2 June 2007)
Pietà on South African Art Now (29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
Bitterkomix (with Anton Kannemeyer) (24 October - 25 November 2006)
Underground series (2006)

PUBLICATIONS

Cain and Abel (2009)
Satan's Choir at the Gates of Heaven (2007)
The Big Bad Bitterkomix Handbook (2006)

BIOGRAPHY
Conrad Botes was born in 1969 in Ladismith in the 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 Botes was festival artist at Aardklop in Potchefstroom. Recent group exhibitions include 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. Full CV