Wim Botha
News
Wim Botha is the Stellenbosch University Wordfest Artist, showing the fifth in his series of Solipsis polystyrene and neon installations at the Sasol Art Museum in Stellenbosch - see Current Exhibition below. A catalogue, featuring an interview with Botha by Lize van Robbroeck, accompanies the show - see Publications. Botha is included on the South African Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, a group exhibition titled Imaginary Fact: South African art and the archive (1 June - 24 November).
Current exhibition
SASOL ART MUSEUM, STELLENBOSCH
1 March - 20 July 2013
Solipsis V
Exhibitions / Works
- Maquettes for Blastwave on The Loom of the Land (Johannesburg, 24 January - 22 February 2013)
- A Thousand Things (Johannesburg, 27 September - 2 November 2012)
- Fuse on What we talk about when we talk about love (Cape Town, 1 December 2011 - 14 January 2012)
- New works at Joburg Art Fair (23-25 September 2011)
- All This (Cape Town, 20 January - 26 February 2011)
- Joburg Altarpiece & Amazing Things from Other Places (Cape Town, 6 August - 26 September 2009)
- New Works (Johannesburg, 6 November - 13 December 2008)
- Generic Self-portrait as an Exile and Generic Self-portrait as a Heretic on Disguise (Cape Town, 15 May - 5 July 2008)
- Small God Vitrine on Summer 2007/8 (Cape Town, 28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
- Rorschach (After Velázquez) on Afterlife (Cape Town, 22 March - 8 April 2007)
- Apocalagnosia (Cape Town, 11 January - 10 February 2007)
- Calamity and Tête d'un homme on South African Art Now (Cape Town, 29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
- A Premonition of War (touring exhibition, 30 June 2005 - 15 July 2006)
- Cold Fusion: Gods, heroes and martyrs (Cape Town, 17 March - 30 April 2005)
- Mnemonic Reconstruction (2004)
- Prints (2003)
- Speculum (Cape Town, 4-26 November 2003)
Publications
- Solipsis I-V (2013)
- Busts 2003-2012 (2012)
- Joburg Altarpiece & Amazing Things from Other Places (PDF only) - 5MB file | 9MB file (2009)
- Apocalagnosia (2007)
- Standard Bank Young Artist catalogue (2005)
- Cold Fusion: Gods, heroes and martyrs (2005)
- Speculum (2003)
Recent press
- Mary Corrigall reviews A Thousand Things (22 October 2012)
Biography
Wim Botha was born in 1974, graduated from the University of Pretoria in 1996, and 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 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 group shows include The Rainbow Nation, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague (2012); the Göteborg Biennial in Sweden (2011); the 11th Triennale für Kleinplastik in Fellbach, Germany (2010); 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).