Curriculum Vitae

Wim Botha

Born 1974 in Pretoria. Lives in Cape Town.

Solo Exhibitions


2013

Solipsis V, US Wordfest Artist 2013, Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch

2012

A Thousand Things, Stevenson, Johannesburg

2011

All Around, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
All This, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town

2009

Joburg Altarpiece & Amazing Things from Other Places, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town

2008

Wim Botha, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
New Works, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg

2007

Apocalagnosia, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

2005-6

A Premonition of War, Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2005 exhibition. National Arts Festival, Grahamstown; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Durban Art Gallery, Durban; Oliewenhuis Art Gallery, Bloemfontein; South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg

2005

Cold Fusion: Gods, heroes and martyrs, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town

2003

Speculum, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Commune: onomatopoeia, Festival Artist, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn

2001

Commune: suspension of disbelief, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn

Selected Group Exhibitions


2013

The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg

2012

The Rainbow Nation, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands
Coming of Age: 21 Years of the Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg

2011

What we talk about when we talk about love, Stevenson, Cape Town
Memories of the Future: The Olbricht Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Pandemonium - Art in a Time of Creativity Fever, Göteborg Biennial, Sweden
Contemporary South African Artists, Turner Galleries, Perth, Australia
Alptraum, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin; The Company, Los Angeles

2010

11th Triennale für Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany
PEEKABOO - Current South Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki

2009

Self/Not-self, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg

2008

Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town

2007

Summer 2007/8, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Political Iconography, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
Family Relation, Warren Siebrits Gallery, Johannesburg
Afterlife, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Cape '07, Cape Town

2006

South African art now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Dak'Art, 7th Dakar Biennale, Senegal
Olvida Quien Soy - Erase me from who I am, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands

2005

South African art 1848 - now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town

2004-7

Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa

2004-6

Personal Affects: Power and poetics in contemporary South African art, Museum for African Art and Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

2003 Contact Zones: Colonial and contemporary, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town

2002

Sasol Public Sculpture Commission, exhibition of maquettes, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn
Grime, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town

2001

Clean, Millennium Gallery, Johannesburg

1999

Transmigrations, Civic Gallery, Johannesburg
Transmigrations: Rituals and Items, Artshare Warehouse, Los Angeles USA, Tijuana Cultural Centre, Tijuana, Mexico
Renaicide/Mortenaissance, Millennium Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pretoria
The Paper Show, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
New Signatures Revisited, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn

1998

Tamed, three-person exhibition, Civic Gallery, Johannesburg

1997

Five-ism, The Open Window Contemporary Art Gallery, Pretoria
No 4, Project for the Old Fort, Hillbrow, Johannesburg
2nd Johannesburg Biennale Fringe, Carfax, Johannesburg
XQCS, Campus Gallery, University of Pretoria

1996

Volkskas Atelier Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum
Final Year Students' Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum

1995

Sasol New Signatures Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum
Kempton Park / Tembisa Art Competition

Awards & Residencies


2005

Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art 2005

2003

Tollman Award, joint winner (with Churchill Madikida)

2002

Ampersand Foundation Fellowship for two-month residency, New York City and Washington DC

2001

Kanna Prize for Visual Art, Best Artwork or Exhibition, Klein Karoo National Arts festival, Oudtshoorn

1998

First Prize, Kempton Park / Tembisa Art Competition

1996

Volkskas Atelier Merit Award
Emil Schweickerdt Award for Most Promising Art Student, University of Pretoria

1995

Judges' prize, Sasol New Signatures Competition

Collections


Absa Bank, South Africa
BHP Billiton, Australia
Gordon Schachat Collection
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Nedbank, Johannesburg
Rand Afrikaans University
Spier Collection, South Africa
Sasol Art Collection, South Africa
South African Broadcasting Corporation
South African Reserve Bank
Standard Bank, South Africa
University of Pretoria