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Wim Botha

8 May 2019
Document Journal

Artist Wim Botha exposes the bad faith of Encyclopedia Britannica: Botha discusses systems of belief, form and lived experience with Monique Long on the occasion of Still Life with Discontent at 21c Museum Hotel and the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Revolts in Cultural Critique, 2020

Rosemarie Buikema offers a close reading of Wim Botha's busts in New Leaders and Old Texts: Recycling the Archive, observing, 'the icons of colonial history are thus adequately dethroned and urge us to problematise white male power and Afrikaner heroism'.

ArtThrob, June 2021

Keely Shinners contemplates stillness, despair and the makings of death in Wim Botha's ongoing installation, The River.

Heliostat, 2018

Owen Martin reviews Wim Botha's mastery – through the continuous transformations and re-interpretations of Western and South African iconography in his 2018 exhibition, Heliostat: Wim Botha

Adjective, November 2016

'Darkness Visible'
Wim Botha’s art is never materialistic. Rather it is the product of a metaphysician, someone whose yearning has returned him repeatedly to that which is as ‘intangible’ as it is ‘visceral’, writes Ashraf Jamal

Hyperallergic, July 2016

'A Sculptor Conjures the Fall (or Rise) of the Rebel Angels': Review by Benjamin Sutton

PIETÀ, 2015

Michael P Steinberg looks at Botha's 'unique engagement of both form and meaning' in his Pietà and previous Laocoön sculptures, and explores how his juxtaposition of materials, of sketches and sculptures, suggests 'a complex engagement with the modern, including the modern's retrieval of ancient icons'.