Anton Kannemeyer
News
Anton Kannemeyer was included on Taboo, an exhibition raising issues of censorship with 'daring' or 'disrespectful' devices, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, in Sydney, from 19 December 2012 to 24 February 2013.
Exhibitions / Works
- The Loom of the Land (Johannesburg, 24 January - 22 February 2013)
- Paintings and Prints for Doctors and Dentists (Johannesburg, 31 May - 29 June 2012)
- Works on paper on What we talk about when we talk about love (Cape Town, 1 December 2011 - 14 January 2012)
- Alphabet of Democracy (Cape Town, 2 December 2010 - 15 January 2011)
- Works on paper on This is Our Time (Cape Town, 3 June - 24 July 2010)
- A Dreadful Thing Is About to Occur (Cape Town, 22 April - 29 May 2010)
- Works on Paper (Johannesburg, 12 November - 15 December 2009)
- Congo Parody and other works on paper (Art Brussels and Art Forum Berlin, 2009)
- Collage self-portraits on Self/Not-self (Johannesburg, 19 February - 21 March 2009)
- Fear of a Black Planet (Cape Town, 16 October - 22 November 2008)
- Alphabet of Democracy on South African Art Now (Cape Town, 29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
- Bitterkomix (with Conrad Botes) (Cape Town, 24 October - 25 November 2006)
Available prints
- Lithographs and etchings, 2006-2012 (PDF, 2MB)
- Silkscreens, 1994-2006 (PDF, 1.4MB)
Publications
- Alphabet of Democracy (2010)
- Pappa in Afrika (2010)
- Fear of a Black Planet (2008)
- Bitterkomix 15 (2008)
- The Big Bad Bitterkomix Handbook (2006)
Articles, Interviews
- 'Without Mercy: The Bitter Comix of Anton Kannemeyer' by Jillian Steinhauer (Hyperallergic.com, 4 August 2012)
- Interview by Douglas Haddow (ION Magazine, March 2011)
- 'White on black on white' by Danie Marais (2007)
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 Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); Les Afriques de Papa at l'Espace du Collectif Sadi, Kinshasa, DR Congo (2010); ... 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).