Kendell Geers

Born:
1967
Residence:
Brussels, Belgium
Nationality:
South African
Trust:
APT London
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  • Art Paris Art Fair returns for its 19th edition in 2017 from March 30 to April 2 at the Grand Palais with a lineup of 139 modern and contemporary galleries from 29 countries showcasing the work of around 2200 artists spanning the post-war years to the present day.

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  • In 2001, a year after dealer Christian Haye opened The Project in Harlem, he posed naked on a plinth for a photo choreographed by 26-year-old Tracey Rose, who, also naked, reclined like an odalisque on his lap.

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  • Kader Attia, Ghost, 2007, aluminum foil, dimensions variable, installation view, at Halle 14, Leipzig.

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  • “Lines of Passage (in medias res)” endeavours to demonstrate a variety of connections among narratives of memory and expressions of differing intensities and approaches through artworks selected from the permanent collection of the Elgiz Museum in Istanbul.

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  • “You Love Me, You Love Me Not” at the Galeria Municipal Almeida Garrett in Portugal is testament to Africa’s growing influence in the global art scene.

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  • “You Love Me, You Love Me Not” at the Galeria Municipal Almeida Garrett in Portugal is testament to Africa’s growing influence in the global art scene.

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  • It appears as if we are in the grip of an age of expositions. Well, at least this is the conclusion you might have drawn if you happened to be in Cape Town last week when the Cape Town Art Fair (CTAF), Design Indaba Expo, That Art Fair and the Guild Design Fair were all being staged simultaneously.

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • RoseLee Goldberg founded PERFORMA in 2004, and this fall the fourth edition of her critically acclaimed, inclusive biennial will open in New York.

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  • I won’t say “Conceptual Art.” It’s a lie, and not the good you-kinda-look-like-Idris-Elba lie, but more like the wretched no-such-thing-as-a-stupid-question kind of lie.

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  • The Goodman Gallery's 2011 auction, in conjunction with the anti-crime organisation SHOUT For a Safer South Africa, a beneficiary of funds

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  • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is capping the 50th birthday festivities for its Frank Lloyd Wright building with some navel gazing. Still, there are

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  • In a new show that celebrates the art of printmaking, Goodman Gallery Projects at Arts on Main presents editioned prints by numerous artists

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  • For the fourth phase of Cannibal Domino, the South-African artist Kendell Geers is creating an in situ production-action at Sala Verónicas

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  • The Progress of Love at the Menil Collection is an ambitious group exhibition that takes on the broad topics of love and African contemporary art with simultaneous exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis.

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  • Art gallery open weekends are a clever idea. All the galleries open their shows on the same night, everyone makes an effort with their shows

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  • In Murcia, Mexican curator Cuauhtémoc Medina directs an alternative to the dominant model for international art biennials.

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kendell Geers lives and works in Brussels. Informed by his conflicted position as an anti-Apartheid militant of colonial descent, Geers’ often provocative work investigates the social, political and economical ramifications of various power struggles, raising a series of urgent questions around ideology, oppression, elitism and violence. Working across a broad range of media, including performance, installation and photography, Geers’ sometimes confrontational pieces respond to contemporary society’s brutal policing mechanisms, challenging viewers to reflect upon their own involvement in current events. Indebted to Conceptual Art, Geers’ work also targets artistic institutions, often using profanity, irreverence and humor to criticize its hierarchical structures.

Kendell Geers has exhibited extensively around the world with a recent major retrospective of his work ‘Kendell Geers 1988-2012' taking place at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2013).
 
Other notable solo exhibitions include; Kendell Geers: SeaSonSinHell, ABC Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (2016) ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell', Chateau Blandy-les-Tours, Melun, Paris, France (2012); National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2010); ‘GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2010-2009); ‘Irrespektiv', Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France (2009); ‘REAM', Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA (2009); ‘Not Something Else', Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (2009); ‘Monsters and Stuff', Gagosian Gallery, London, England (2008) and ‘Hung, Drawn and Quartered', Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA; toured to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA (2005).
 
Notable group exhibitions include ‘The Importance of Being', Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Brazil (2015); ‘Contemporary Art in Dokolo Collection Sindika - You Love Me, You Love Me Not', Almeida Garrett Municipal Library, Porto, Portugal (2015); ‘The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists', Frankfurt MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; touring to SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, USA; Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England (2015-2014); ‘Slow Future', Centrum Sztuki WspoÌÅ‚czesnej Zamek, Poland (2014); ‘INSERT 2014: a cultural exploration of Delhi as a landscape for creativity and transformation', Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India (2014); ‘Ruffneck Constructivists', ICA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (2014); ‘The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists', curated by Simon Njami, Frankfurt MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; travels to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England (2014); ‘My Joburg', La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (2013); ‘Artificial Amsterdam', de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013); ‘Sex, Money and Power', Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium (2013); ‘The Progress of Love', The Menil Collection, Texas, USA (2013-2012); ‘Mexico: Expected/Unexpected', Katzen Arts Centre, Washington D.C., USA (2012); ‘No Government No Cry', a project by Kendell Geers, CIAP Actuele Kunst, Hasselt, Belgium (2011); ‘Contemplating the Void', Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2010) and ‘Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha', The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA (2008).

Kendell Geers is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Bejing and Le Moulin and Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.


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