Wim Botha

NEWS: Wim Botha is included on the 11th Triennale für Kleinplastik in Fellbach, Germany, running from 12 June to 11 October, and on PEEKABOO - Current South Africa at the Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (20 August - 16 January 2011). A large-scale sculptural commission was recently installed at Nedbank headquarters in Johannesburg.

LATEST EXHIBITION

Joburg Altarpiece & Amazing Things from Other Places (6 August - 26 September 2009)
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PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

Relic for 'Portrait as a Masterpiece' on Self/Not-self at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (26 March - 25 April 2009)
New Works (Brodie/Stevenson, 6 November - 13 December 2008)
Generic Self-portrait as an Exile and Generic Self-portrait as a Heretic on Disguise (15 May - 5 July 2008)
Small God Vitrine on Summer 2007/8 (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
Rorschach (After Velázquez) on Afterlife (22 March - 8 April 2007)
Apocalagnosia (11 January - 10 February 2007)
Calamity and Tête d'un homme on South African Art Now (29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
A Premonition of War (30 June 2005 - 15 July 2006)
Memento Mori (2005) on South African art 1848 - now
Cold Fusion: Gods, heroes and martyrs (17 March - 30 April 2005)
Mnemonic Reconstruction (2004)
Prints (2003)
Speculum (4-26 November 2003)

PUBLICATIONS

Apocalagnosia (2007)
Standard Bank Young Artist catalogue (2005)
Cold Fusion: Gods, heroes and martyrs (2005)
Speculum (2003)

BIOGRAPHY
Wim Botha was born in 1974, graduated from the University of Pretoria in 1996, and currently lives in Cape Town. He has received a number of prestigious awards, winning the prize for best artwork at the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees in 2001; being named festival artist at the KKNK in 2003; sharing the first annual Tollman award with Churchill Madikida in 2003; and winning the Standard Bank Young Artist award in 2005. His work has featured on major international group exhibitions of the work of African and South African artists, including Africa Remix (2004-2007) and Personal Affects: Power and poetics in contemporary South African art (2004-2006). Other recent group shows include Cape '07 in Cape Town (2007); Olvida Quien Soy - Erase me from who I am at the Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2006); and the 7th edition of Dak'Art, the Dakar Biennale (2006). Full CV