South African sculptor
Wim Botha (born 1974) is a South African contemporary artist.
Biography
Botha was born in Pretoria in 1974 and currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He grew up in a suburban town on the eastern side of Pretoria.[1] In 1996, Botha graduated from the University of Pretoria with a Bachelors in Visual Art. He has received the Helgaard Steyn Prize for sculpture in 2013, Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2005, and the Tollman Award 2003.[2]
Works
Botha has found inspiration for his work in government texts and religious icons, objects that show belief, faith, observation, transgression and forgiveness.[3] Among the mediums he uses are treated wood, books, acrylic enamel paint, oil paint, steel, Indian ink, bronze, paper, and marble.[4]
The artist explains; “My works are a process of distillations...They attempt to reduce all-encompassing ideas and universal factors down to their core idea.” Exploring along the way “intercepting variables” and “patterns”[5]
Exhibitions
2014
Linear Perspectives - Stevenson, Cape Town
2013
PREDICATES - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
2012
Wim Botha - Stevenson, Johannesburg
2011
All Around - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
Wim Botha - Stevenson, Cape Town
2009
Wim Botha: Joburg Altarpiece & Amazing Things from Other Places - Stevenson, Cape Town
2008
Wim Botha - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
Wim Botha - Stevenson, Johannesburg
2007
Wim Botha: Apocalagnosia - Stevenson, Cape Town
2006
Wim Botha: Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2005 - Standard Bank Gallery,Johannesburg
2005
- A Premonition of War - Durban Art Gallery, Durban
- A Premonition of War. Standard Bank Young - The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
- Cold Fusion. Gods, Heroes and Martyrs - Stevenson, Cape Town
- Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2005 - South African National Art Gallery,Cape Town
2003
Speculum - Stevenson, Cape Town
Group shows
2014
- Artists Engaged? Maybe - Gulbenkian. Próximo Futuro, Lisbon
- Alptraum - Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor
- Alptraum - Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor
- The Divine Comedy. Heaven, hell, purgatory from the perspective of African contemporary artists - -Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main
2013
A Sculptural Premise - Stevenson, Cape Town
Pophits & Alptraum - Artspace RheinMain, Offenbach
The Loom of the Land - Stevenson, Johannesburg
2012
- Alptraum - The Nightmare Never Ends - X project space, Berlin
- Alptraum - Green Papaya Art Project - - Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila
- Alptraum - Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City
- Alptraum - Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, Johannesburg
2011
- Conrad Botes With Berni Searle, Wim Botha, Nandipha Mntambo, Penny Siopis, Serge Alain Nitegeka + Sabelo Mlangeni - Turner Gallery, Perth, WA
- mémoires du futur - la collection Olbricht - La Maison Rouge, Paris
- Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2011 - Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg
- iALPTRAUM! - Blank Projects, Cape Town
- New Acquisitions - The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
- Alptraum! - Anat Egbi, Los Angeles, CA
- ¡ALPTRAUM! - Washington D.C., London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Kapstadt - Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
2010
- Index 40: Leading Works from the Sanlam Art Collection - Smac Art Gallery, Stellenbosch
- PEEKABOO - Current South Africa - Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
- Triennale Kleinplastik - Larger Than Life - Stranger Than Fiction - Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach
2009
Self/Not-self - Stevenson, Johannesburg
2008
Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention - Stevenson, Cape Town
2007
* Politische Ikonografie - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
* Summer 2007/8 - Stevenson, Cape Town
* Africa Remix - Contemporary art of a continent - Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg
* TRANS CAPE - contemporary African art on the move - Trans Cape Africa, Cape Town
* Afterlife - Stevenson, Cape Town
2006
- South African Art Now - Stevenson, Cape Town
- Africa Remix - Moderna Museet, Stockholm
- What lies beneath - New Art from South Africa - Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
- Africa Remix - Contemporary Art of a Continent - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
- 7ème Biennale de l´Art Africain contemporain - Dak'Art Biennale de l’art africain contemporain,Dakar
- Personal Affects - Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
- Olvida quien soy - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2005
- South African art 1848 - now - Stevenson, Cape Town
- African Remix - l'art contemporain d'un continent - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
- Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent - Hayward Gallery, London
2004
- Personal Affects - Power and Poetics in Contemporary - Museum for African Art, New York City, NY
- Afrika Remix - Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents - Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2003
- The Ampersand Foundation - Warren Siebrits Gallery, Johannesburg
- Contact Zones - Colonial & Contemporary - Stevenson, Cape Town
