Anton Kannemeyer

NEWS: Anton Kannemeyer is included on PEEKABOO - Current South Africa at the Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (20 August - 16 January 2011). His latest book, Pappa in Afrika, has been published by Jacana.

RECENT EXHIBITION

Works on paper on This is Our Time (3 June - 24 July 2010)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

A Dreadful Thing Is About to Occur (22 April - 29 May 2010)
Works on Paper at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (12 November - 15 December 2009)
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

Pappa in Afrika (2010)
Fear of a Black Planet (2008)
The Big Bad Bitterkomix Handbook (2006)

BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1967, Anton Kannemeyer completed an MFA at the University of Stellenbosch in 1997; he lives in Cape Town. 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 2008. Recent group exhibitions include ... for those who live in it: Pop culture, politics and strong voices at MU Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2010); Halakasha! at the Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg (2010) and The Graphic Unconscious, Philagrafika 2010, The Print Center, Philadelphia (2010). Full CV

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