Wim Botha
Wim Botha is a contemporary artist working mainly in the mediums of sculpture and installation. He was born in Pretoria in and grew up in a suburban town on the eastern side of Pretoria. In he graduated from the University of Pretoria with a BA (Visual Art) in Currently he lives in Cape Town and is represented by the Stevenson Gallery, South Africa where he has in his seventh solo exhibition.
Botha throughout his career has received a number of prestigious awards, including the Helgaard Steyn Prize for sculpture in , the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in , and the first Tollman Award in Recent solo exhibitions have taken place atGalerie Jette Rudolph in Berlin in , the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown (); Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (), and the Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch, as the Stellenbosch University Wordfest Artist for
He has exhibited globally and notable group exhibitions include The Divine Comedy: Heaven, purgatory and hell revisited by contemporary African artists at the MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst), Frankfurt, Germany, travelling to other venues ();Lichtspiele at Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen, Germany (); Imaginary Fact: South Afri
Wim Botha
Wim Botha (b) is a leading South African contemporary artist best-known for his sculptural works. He graduated with a degree in visual art from the University of Pretoria in A defining feature of Botha’s practice is the diverse and often unconventional media he employs – from carved books, marble, bronze, and wood, to oil paint and ink. Famously, in , Botha created a replica of Michelangelo’s Pietà out of maize meal.
The mediums Botha uses are very much intertwined with his objective to explore history, religion, status, and power through an art historical lens. Botha’s reinterpretations of baroque and renaissance figures in his unique armoury of materials sees them transformed, blurred, and reconstructed, subverting their original meaning.
Botha has been recognised with a number of honours and awards including, in the Helgaard Steyn Prize for sculpture, in the Standard Bank Young Artist Award, and in he was the first recipient of the prestigious Tollman Award. In his work was included in the South African pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, and in a major solo exhibition of the artist’s work, Heliostat, was shown at Norval Foundation, Cape Town. His work is inc
Botha was born in Pretoria in He graduated from the University of Pretoria with a BA (Visual Art) in He lives in Cape Town.
He has received a number of prestigious awards, including the Helgaard Steyn Prize for sculpture in , the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in , and the first Tollman Award in Solo exhibitions have taken place at the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville (); North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, and the 21c Museum Hotel in Durham (); the Norval Foundation (); Galerie Hans Mayer (); Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph (, , ); Fondation Blachère in Apt, France (); Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (); the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown (); Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (), and the Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch, as the Stellenbosch University Wordfest Artist for , in addition to exhibitions at Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg ( - 24).
Notable group exhibitions include Otherscapes, Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation, South Africa (); Healing, WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (); Sculpture at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean (); The Divine Comedy: Heaven, purgatory and hell revisited by contemporary African artists at MMK (Museum für M
Wim Botha (b) is a leading South African contemporary artist best-known for his sculptural works. He graduated with a degree in visual art from the University of Pretoria in
A defining feature of Botha’s practice is the diverse and often unconventional media he employs – from carved books, marble, bronze and wood, to oil paint and ink. Famously, in , Botha created a replica of Michelangelo’s Pietà out of maize meal.
The mediums Botha uses are very much intertwined with his objective to explore history, religion, status and power through an art historical lens. Botha’s reinterpretations of baroque and renaissance figures in his unique armoury of materials sees them transformed, blurred and reconstructed, subverting their original meaning.
Botha has been recognised with a number of honours and awards including, in the Helgaard Steyn Prize for sculpture, in the Standard Bank Young Artist Award, and in he was the first recipient of the prestigious Tollman Award. In his work was included in the South African pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, and in a major solo exhibition of the artist’s work, Heliostat, was shown at Norval Foundation, Cape Town. His work is included in
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