Anton Kannemeyer

NEWS: Conrad Botes and Anton Kannemeyer's Bitterkomix publications are included on Philagrafika 2010, the first iteration of a new international festival celebrating print in contemporary art. Their work is on the exhibition The Graphic Unconscious, at The Print Center, Philadelphia, from 29 January to 11 April. Kannemeyer and Botes/Bitterkomix took part in the Cyclone BD international comics festival in Reunion in December 2009.

RECENT EXHIBITION

• Works on Paper at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (12 November - 15 December 2009)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

• Congo Parody and other large-scale works on paper  at Art Brussels and Art Forum Berlin (2009)
• Collage self-portraits  on Self/Not-self  at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (19 February - 21 March 2009)
• Fear of a Black Planet  (16 October - 22 November 2008)
• White Nightmare: Black Dicks and White Nightmare: Monument  on Summer 2007/8  (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
• Alphabet of Democracy  on South African Art Now  (29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
• Bitterkomix (with Conrad Botes)  (24 October - 25 November 2006)
• Prints  

PUBLICATIONS

• Fear of a Black Planet
• The Big Bad Bitterkomix Handbook

BIOGRAPHY
Kannemeyer completed an MFA at the University of Stellenbosch in 1997 and lectured there periodically until recently. Together with Conrad Botes, he has been at the forefront of introducing a comic and satirical aesthetic to South African art. He and Botes were the co-founders and are the ongoing co-editors of the Bitterkomix series, which started in 1992 and has become revered for its subversive stance and dark humour. He held his first New York solo exhibition, The Haunt of Fears, at Jack Shainman Gallery in April-May 2008. Full CV

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