Kendell Geers

Kendell Geers

Description

Born: Johannesburg, South Africa, 1968 Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Biography

CV

Solo Exhibitions (selected)


2017

  • AfroPunk, Rodolphe Janssen and Galerie Didier Claes (diptych exhibition), Brussels, Belgium


2016

  • ProPaganDaDa, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain


2015

  • Kendell Geers: SeaSonSinHell, ACB Gallery, Budapest, Hungary


2014

  • Solve et Coagula, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Crossing the Line, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
  • Ani/Mystik/AKtivist, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
  • The Intoxication of Being Kendell Geers, UnTubo, Siena, Italy


2013

  • Endgame, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France

  • AlphaBête, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
  • Stealing Fire From Heaven, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Kendell Geers 1988-2012, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany


2012

  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Chateau Blandy-les-Tours, Melun, Paris, France


2011

  • Hellraiser, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
  • Fin de Partie, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
  • No Government, No Cry, CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium


2010

  • Handgrenades from my heart, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
  • Idoles, Boissy-le Chatel, Paris, France National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Third World Disorder, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa


2009-2010

  • GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England


2009

  • Irrespektiv, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Turin, Italy
  • The Wasteland, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
  • REAM, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
  • Not Something Else, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan Galerie Bernard Ceysson Beaubourg, Paris, France


2008

  • Irrespektiv, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France

  • Irrespektiv, Da2 Salamanca, Spain Oficina Para de Arte A.C., Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
  • PostPunkPaganPop, dePury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Monsters and Stuff, Gagosian Gallery, London, England
  • PRAYPLAYPREY, Oficina Para de Arte A.C., Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico


2007

  • Kannibale, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
  • Auto-da-fe, B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation, Charleroi, Belgium
  • Irrespektiv, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Gent, Belgium; touring to BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead


2006

  • The word made flesh, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England


2005

  • Satyr:Ikon, Galleria Continua, San Gimigano, Italy
  • The Fall, Sorry we’re closed, Brussels, Belgium
  • Hung, Drawn and Quartered, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA; toured to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA (catalogue)
  • The Fall, Sorry, We’re Closed, Brussels, Belgium


2004

  • The Forest of Suicides, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Roma, Italy (monograph)
  • In the Flesh, Salon 94, New York, USA Sexus, Cimaise et Portique, Albi, France Hung, Drawn and Quartered, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA


2003

  • NOITUR(LOVE), Castello di Ama per l’arte conyemporanea Lecchi in Chianti Inferno, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan (artist’s book)
  • TerroRealismus, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland

  • Prototype, Red sniper (with Patrick Condeyns), Grand salle, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Rogue States, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
  • The Prodigal Son, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa


2002

  • Grenzgänger, Galerie Luis Campana, Koln, Germany
  • Mondo Kane, Galleria Continua, San Gimigano, Italy
  • A Spy in the House of Love, Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium
  • Sympathy for the Devil, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France


2001

  • Where Angels Fear to Tread, Delfina Project Space, London, England
  • Televisionaries, Württembergischer Kunstverein and Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany


2000

  • Timbuktu, MAK, Vienna, Austria
  • ¡Ya Basta!, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
  • Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
  • Arte all’Arte V edizione, Volterra, Italy Inova, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA Art
  • Unlimited, Basel ArtFair, Basel, Switzerland


1999

  • States of Emergency, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
  • Heart of Darkness, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England Project Rooms, Arco, Madrid, Spain


1998

  • Guilty, Fort Klapperkop, Pretoria, South Africa
  • 98.3, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, USA (brochure)
  • Heart of Darkness, Gallery in the Round, Grahamstown, South Africa (brochure)


1997

  • Memento Mori, de Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands


1996

  • Black on the Inside (with Neil Goedhals), Galerie Metroplex, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 16 June 1976 (with Willie Bester), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa


1995

  • Work on Paper, Chalkham Hill Press Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • W.C., Villa Arson, Nice, France


1994

  • Air de Paris, Everard Read Contemporary & ICA & Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • We are Johannesburg Artists and Nothing More, Michaelis Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa


1993

  • The New Patron, Everard Read Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Threshold: The Exhibition, Everard Read Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Objects, Natal Technikon Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa


1991

  • Mediations, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa


1988

  • Box Theatre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa


Two-Person Exhibitions


2013

  • Heart of Darkness, dialogue with Maro Michalakakos, NEON, Greece


Group Exhibitions (selected)


2017

  • Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flanerie, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
  • BXL UNIVERSEL, Centrale For Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
  • AFRIQUES CAPITALES, Lille 300, Lille, France Documenta, Kassel, Germany
  • Time for Outrage, Great Eastern Wall Gallery, London, UK
  • A/political, Rua Red Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland
  • MOCAA Zeitz Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Superdemocracy, BOZAR Brussels, BPS22 Charleroi, M HKA Antwerp, Belgium
  • iennale9, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, France


2016

  • Football, à la limite du hors-jeu, Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France

  • Foot Foraine, Gare Saint-Sauveur, Lille, France
  • Les Possédés
  • , La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
  • GlassFever,
  • Dordrechts Museum, Dordrechts, Netherlands
  • Something Old, Something New, Rodolphe Janssen Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
  • Everybody is Crazy But Me, La Maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium
  • TRIBAL (in collaboration with Galerie Bernard Dulon), Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France
  • A History. Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
  • New Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Show, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Bric-à- Brac
  • , The Jumble of Grow, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • The 11th edition of the Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China BXL Universel, La Centrale Electrique, Brussels, Belgium
  • LA TRAVERSEE DES INQUIETUDES, curated by Lea Bismuth, Le Lab-Labanque de Béthune, France

  • Portrait de l’artiste en Alter, FRAC Normandie Rouen, France
  • Hacking Habitat, Art of Control, Internationale Kunstmanifestatie, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Punk. Its Traces in Contemporary Art, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
  • The Importance of Being: A Panorama on Belgian Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • The Importance of Being: A Panorama on Belgian Contemporary Art, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Les Mondes Inversés

  • , PBS22, Charleroi, Belgium
  • Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion, Curator’s Office, Washington, USA Lines of Passage, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey


2015

  • Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England The Importance of Being: A Panorama on Belgian Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Contemporary Art in Dokolo Collection Sindika – You Love Me, You Love Me Not, Almeida Garrett Municipal Library, Porto, Portugal The Worlds Turned Upside Down, BPS22, Musée d’art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium


2014-2015

  • The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Frankfurt MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; travels to SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, USA; Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England


2014

  • Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England INSERT 2014: a cultural exploration of Delhi as a landscape for creativity and transformation, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India Ruffneck Constructivists, ICA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • The Drawing Room, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Surfacing, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Slow Future, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek, Poland

  • Michelangelo e il Novecento, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy
  • The Disappearance of Fireflies, Prison Sainte Anne, Avignon, France
  • And the Trees Set Forth to Seek for a King, Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Pace Gems: Selections from the Linda Pace Foundation Permanent Collection, San Antonio, Texas, USA
  • As I Run and Run, Happiness Comes Closer, Hotel Beauburn, Paris, France
  • Paradigm Store, Howick Place, London, England
  • What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me, The Fine Art Society Contemporary, London, England
  • Odd Volumes, Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças,
  • CRAC, Switzerland
  • One Shot! Football and Contemporary Art, Museo Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo, Brazil

  • ICONICA, Centennial of the founding of CONI, Art Walk, Rome, Italy
  • La Disparition des Lucioles, Prison Sainte Anne, Avignon, France
  • Other People’s Problems: Conflicts and Paradoxes, Herzeliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzeliya, Israel
  • Selected Artist’s Jewels from London, Galerie MINIMASTERPIECE, Paris Ruffneck Constructivists, ICA, Philadelphia, USA


2013

  • My Joburg, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
  • Artificial Amsterdam, de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Carpenters Workshop, Paris, France
  • Sex, Money and Power, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium

  • Transformator, Zwevegem, Belgium
  • Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, The BAAS Museum, Miami, FL, USA
  • Beyond Liaisons, World Jewellery Museum, Seoul, Korea
  • Monkey Business, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France Post Mortem Forde, Geneva, Switzerland Endgame, Galleria Continua Le Moulin, France
  • Blago Bung 8, Performance Action Sound Poetry Video, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, USA


2012-2013

  • The Progress of Love, The Menil Collection, Texas, USA


2012

  • Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Mechelen, The Netherlands; touring to various cultural institutions in Mechelen
  • Big Brother, l’artiste face aux tyrans, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, Brittany, France
  • Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, Katzen Arts Centre, Washington D.C., USA
  • The Rainbow Nation, Contemporary South African sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, El Den Haag- Scheveningen, The Netherlands
  • Struggle(s), Maison Pariculiere, Brussels, Belgium
  • Néon, Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue?
  • La Maison Rouge, Paris, France


2011

  • No Government No cry, a project by Kendell Geers, CIAP Actuele Kunst, Hasselt, Belgium
  • The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, Museum of Latin American Art, California, USA; and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California, USA All that Glisters, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
  • Terrible Beauty – Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland (catalogue)
  • The Luminous Interval, The Daskalopoulos Collection, The Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain (catalogue)
  • Celluloid Brushes, Film Posters by artists, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels, Belgium
  • It won’t happen again, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
  • Eat me, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Anonymously Yours, Maison Gregoire, Brussels, Belgium
  • Mémoires du Futur, La Collection Olbricht
  • , La Maison Rouge, Paris, France Spheres 4, Galleria Continua Le Moulin, Paris, France Super-Organism, CAF Art Museum Biennale, Beijing, China
  • How to Philosophize with a Hammer, White Box, New York, USA
  • Big Brother, L’Artiste Face aux Tyrans, The Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France
  • Glasstress, Eventi collaterali di La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
  • Sympathy for the Devil, VanhaerentsArtCollection, Brussels, Belgium


2010

  • Dominó Caníbal, Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo Murcia, Murcia, Spain
  • SCRATCH, AND Galleria, Barcelona, Spain Bern Biennale, The Museum of Fine Art in Bern, Switzerland
  • The 29th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

  • New Monuments, Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Lebenslust und Totentanz, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
  • UltraMegaLore-Fashion Icon, Het Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium
  • One Shot! Football and contemporary art, BPS22 espace de création contemporaine, Charleroi, Belgium

  • Dada South? Iziko Museums Of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
  • The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam: Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum in Jerusalem, Israel
  • UltraMegaLore – Fashion Icon Testimony, Modemuseum Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
  • Strengths and Convictions, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Sweden
  • Lust and Vice: The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman
  • , Bern, Switzerland
  • México – esperado/inesperado
  • , Espace de création contemporaine, Charleroi, Belgium
  • Viaggio in Italia
  • , Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy


2009

  • Dark Summer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium Time of the Signs, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland SCRATCH! , ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
  • Visions of paradise: utopias | dystopias | heterotopias, Berezdivin Collection, Espacio 1414, Puerto Rico Art Foundation Mallorca, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
  • Fonction Critique, quelques apparitions diversement manifestees, sur une proposition de M.Fadat, Aperto, Montpellier, France (Catalogue)
  • Spheres 2009, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Paris, France
  • Locus Solus, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
  • Re:Print, n.a.v. een grafisch werktraject in het Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium (catalogue)
  • Hellwach Gegenwartig, Ausblicke auf die Sammlung Marta, Marta Herford, Germany
  • Dark Summer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
  • Une collezione trasversale, Da Duchamp a Nino Calos, da Cattelan a Entang Wiharso, ALT Arte Contemporanea, Arte Lavoro Territorio, Spazio Fausto Radici, Alzano Lombardo
  • A House is Not a Home, La Calmeleterie, Amboise, France SONS Shoes Or not Shoes?, Kruishoutem, Belgium
  • Time of the Signs, de Pury & Luxembourg Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland

  • Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland, UK


2008

  • Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
  • Betwixt, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Germany pendre la crémaillère
  • , Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
  • Artist-Citizen / Contextual artistic practices

, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia Chambre à part II

  • , La Réserve, Paris, France
  • 7
  • +1Project Rooms, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporànea de Vigo, Spain
  • My Favorite Object’, Artists and Architects present their favourite object in the MAK, The Viennaartweek, MAK, Vienna
  • Collection Agustin et Isabel Coppel, Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
  • NEON, group show curated by Tania Doropoulos, Gallery Anna Schwartz, Sydney, Australia
  • Bare Life, Jerusalem’s Museum on the Seam, Israel Neon Bible, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France
  • Neighbourhood Secrets, Kvadrat, Stavanger 2008 European Capital of Culture, Norway
  • Person of the Crowd: The contemporary Art of Flânerie
  • , Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA
  • Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Blackwood Gallery, Curated by Séamus Kealy, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada


2007

  • African Pavilion, 52nd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
  • Global Cities, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, England
  • J’embrasse Pas, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France
  • Passage du Temps, Collection François Pinault Foundation, Lille, France

  • My Sweet Sixteen Party, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium Werchter Rock Festival, Amuseevous project, Werchter, Belgium
  • Hidden Cities, Third International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  • L’emprise du lieu, curated by Daniel Buren, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France (catalogue) One Colour, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
  • The Freak Show, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France (catalogue)

  • Stock Zero, Or The Icy Water Of Egoistical Calculation, Nicolas Bourriaud, 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (catalogue) 1 Biennal of the Canaries islands, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (catalogue)
  • Emerging Wor(l)ds, The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague
  • Il faut rendre à Cézanne…,
  • Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France (catalogue)



2006

  • A Fiction of Authenticity-Contemporary Africa Abroad, Blaffer Gallery-The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Being, In Brussels, ARGOS Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium One Star Stop, Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels, Belgium

  • SD Observatory, IVAM, Valencia, Spain (catalogue)
  • HUMAN GAME, Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy (curated by Francesco Bonami, catalogue)
  • Take A Walk On The Wild Side, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich, Switzerland (curated by Jerome Sans and Olivier Vrankenne)

  • Images Publiques, 1ère Triennale d’art public,
  • Liège, Belgium
  • Ballkünstler
  • , Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany (catalogue)
  • The Flip Book Show,
  • Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Taste. In Viaggio Con Le Diversità Del Gusto
  • , Stazione Leopolda, Firenze, Italy
  • Metropolitanscape, Il paesaggio urbano nell’arte contemporanea, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy (catalogue)
  • DON JUAN alias Don Giovanni or “Two plus two equals four or “Lust is the only swindle I wish permanence”, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (catalogue)
  • Exces, Nr.12 Beelden en lichamen in buitensporige tijden, Z33, Zuivelmarkt, Hasselt, Belgium Looking both ways, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, USA (catalogue)
  • George Condo, Wim Delvoye, Kendell Geers, MRZYK & Moriceau, Thomas Palme, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium


2005

  • Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England Dionysiac, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue)
  • War is over 1945-2005 la libertà dell’arte da Picasso a Warhol a Cattelan, GAMeC–Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy (catalogue)
  • ADAM, International exhibition of contemporary art, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (catalogue)
  • Expérience de la durée, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2005, Lyon, France (catalogue)
  • Leaps of Faith, Nicosia, Cyprus (catalogue) Daumenkino, The Flip Book Show, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany (catalogue)
  • CCA Kitakyushu Artist’s Books, Galerie Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France
  • Brussels South Airport, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
  • Manmano, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
  • Looking both ways, Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (touring show, curated by L.A. Farell, catalogue)
  • Looking both ways, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK (touring show, curated by L.A. Farell, catalogue)


2004

  • Wall Drawings, MMSU, 16th International Drawings Exhibition, Rijeka, Croatia (curated by Branko Franceschi) (catalogue)
  • Terminal 5, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, USA (curated by Rachel K. Ward) (catalogue)
  • Stock Zero-Opera, MNAC, Bucharest, Romania (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud) (catalogue)
  • Art in the Age of Terrorism, Millais Gallery, Southampton, UK
  • Channel Zero, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (curated by Katerina Gregos)
  • Democracy is fun, White box, New York, USA
  • Transcultures, The cultural Olympiad and The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Greece
  • Tijdelijk verblijf/Séjour Ephemère/temporary residence, Stedelijk Musea Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium
  • Ipeg bild.ton.maschine, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (Liquid Architecture)
  • The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
  • OK, America! APEX Art, New York, USA
  • Le Opere e i Giorni, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, Italy (catalogue)
  • Not Done, Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue)
  • Art Unlimited, Galeria Continua, Basel ArtFair, Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
  • Visions of Paradise, João Ferreira Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa (catalogue)
  • Looking both ways, curated by L.A. Farell, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, USA; toured, (catalogue)
  • Looking both ways, curated by L.A. Farell, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA (touring show) (catalogue)
  • Cremers Heap Everyday Life, Process, Actions: Art of the 60’s and Today, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
  • Les Afriques, Tri Postal, Lille, France


2003

  • TerroRealismus, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Looking Both Ways, The Museum for African Art, New York, USA (catalogue, touring show)
  • Synopsis 3-Testimonies: between fiction and reality, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Greece (catalogue)
  • Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum, New York, USA
  • A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  • Observatório # 5, Costa Reis Compilação de Arte Africana Actual, Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium
  • Sted//Place Sydafrika//Denmark, Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • M_ARS – Art and War, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (catalogue)
  • HardCore, Vers un Nouvel Activisme, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (catalogue)
  • Handlungsanweisungen, Kunsthalle Wien project space, Vienna, Austria
  • Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennale, Haghia Sophia Museum, Turkey (catalogue)
  • Opening Gallery Beaulieu, Oudenaarde, Belgium
  • Poëzie Zomer, Opzij van het kijken, Watou, Belgium
  • African Exile Museum, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
  • A Prove d’Ascolto, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento (catalogue)
  • Time, art and architecture, Biennale of Valencia, Spain (catalogue)
  • Coollustre, Collection Lambert en Avignon, France, (curated by Eric Troncy, catalogue)
  • Goteborgs Internationella Konstbiennal, Goteborg, Sweden (catalogue)
  • Next Flag, Hans Bogatzke Collection, B.P.S.22, Charleroi, Belgium
  • Thatcher, The Blue Gallery, London, England Salon des Refusés, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
  • Sted//Place Galerie Asbæk & Kastrupgardsamlingen, Copenhagen (catalogue) Observatorio #5 Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium
  • Next Flag, B.P.S.22, Charleroi, Belgium (catalogue)
  • Video-Zone@LX, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal


2002

  • Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (catalogue) Trauma, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK (catalogue)
  • Tutto Normale, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (catalogue) The Short Century, PS1, New York, USA (catalogue)
  • Editionen Part One/2002, Galerie & Edition Artelier, Graz, Austria Tutto Casino, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (catalogue)
  • To Actuality, Bolzano, Italy Video-Zone, 1st International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalogue)
  • Refuge Tilflukt, Henie Onstad, Oslo (catalogue)
  • Handlungsanweisungen – Instructions for Actions, (with Anri Sala) Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
  • …privat, CHARIM GALERIE; Vienna, Austria
  • zeichen > <sprache, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
  • Enactments of the Self, Steirischiser Herbst, Graz, Austria
  • Surviving Apartheid, Maison Europenne de la Photographie, Paris, France


2001

  • ARS 01, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)
  • Marking the Territory, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (catalogue)
  • Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California, USA
  • The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; (toured to House of World Cultures and Martin- Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, P.S.1 and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, catalogue)
  • Locus Focus, Sonsbeek, Arnheim, The Netherlands (catalogue)
  • Skulptur–Biennale im Münsterland, Kloster Gravenhorst, Horstel, Germany (catalogue)
  • Casino 2001, 1st Quadriennial of Contemporary Art, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (catalogue)
  • Trauma, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland; (toured to Firstsite, Colchester, UK and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK, catalogue)
  • Konverzacija, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Belgrade, Serbia (catalogue)
  • In cold blood, State University of New York and New Palz, USA Short Stories, Fabbrica del Vaporeo, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
  • Berlin Biennale, Jannowitzbrücke, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)


2000

  • Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival 2000, Pusan, Korea (catalogue)
  • Arte all’Arte V edizione, Volterra, Italy (catalogue)
  • The Sky is the Limit, Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan (catalogue)
  • 3 Räume–3 Flüsse, Hann.Münden, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)
  • The Invisible Touch, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan (catalogue)
  • VideoBrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil (catalogue)
  • Acts of Resistance, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain (catalogue)
  • Untitled (Sculpture), Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
  • Inverse Perspectives, Edsvik konst och kultur, Sweden
  • Positions Attitudes Actions, Foto Biennale Rotterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue) Atmosfere Metropolitane, Openspace, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
  • Memórias íntimas Marcas, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Continental Shift/For R.EAL, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (catalogue)
  • Home, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (catalogue)
  • Micropolitiques, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France (catalogue)
  • South Meets West, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (catalogue)
  • HB First View, Camouflage, Johannesburg, South Africa


1999

  • Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (catalogue)
  • Bodies of Resistance, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (catalogue)
  • South Meets West, National Museum, Accra, Ghana (catalogue) Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (catalogue)
  • Five Continents and One City, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico (catalogue)
  • Patentia, NIFCA Stockholm, Sweden
  • A3HB, Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium
  • Extra and Ordinaire, Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France (catalogue)
  • Following and to be Followed, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
  • High Red Centre, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
  • Power, Galerie für Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (catalogue)
  • Traffique, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (catalogue)
  • Global Conceptualism: points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA (catalogue)


1998

  • Memórias Íntimas Marcas, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Europa Afrika, 7 Triennale der Kleinen Plastik Südwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany (catalogue)
  • Dark Continent; Klein Karoo Arts Festival, Outshoorn, South
  • AfricaOdradek, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale on Hudson, New York, USA
  • City Canibal, Paço Das Artes, São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue)
  • Cross/ing, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, USA (catalogue)
  • Medialization, Edsvik konst kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden


1997

  • Alternating Currents, Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (catalogue)
  • Cross/ing, University of South Florida Art Gallery, Tampa, Florida, USA (catalogue)
  • Unplugged II, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery, Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • October, Norwich School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Norwich, UK
  • Purple and Green, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa


1996

  • Inclusion Exclusion, Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria (catalogue)
  • Simunye (We Are One), Adelson Galleries, New York, USA
  • Colours, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
  • Egoists at Work, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
  • Crapshoot, de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)
  • Unplugged, Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa The Young and the Restless, Sandton Art Gallery, Sandton, South Africa


1995

  • On the Road, Africa95, Delfina Studios, London, England (catalogue)
  • Mayibuye iAfrika, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
  • Outside/Inside, Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa (catalogue)
  • Vita Art Now, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa (catalogue)


1994

  • Vita Art Now, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa (catalogue)
  • Quinta Bienal de la Habana, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba (catalogue)
  • Un Art Contemporain d’Afrique du Sud, Galerie de l’Esplanade, La Defence, Paris, France (catalogue)
  • VI Biennale d’Arte Sacra, San Gabriele, Teramo, Italy (catalogue)
  • Identita e Rappresentazioni Cartografiche, Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini, Rome, Italy (catalogue)
  • The Netherlands Against Apartheid, Amsterdam’s Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)
  • Zuiderkruis, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)


Curated Exhibitions


2015

  • Eureka, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey


Performances (selected)


2014

  • The Intoxication of Being Kendell Geers, UnTubo, Siena, Italy (Lecture)


2013

  • The FucKINGFUCKS aka S-338 (aka Suite 338 aka Red Sniper)


2011

  • Red Sniper, Body Farm, Magasin 4, Brussels, Belgium


2009

  • CODEX GIGAS, Starr Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • A House is Not a Home, La Calmeleterie, Amboise, France


2008

  • PostPunkPaganPop, MOCA, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France
  • LostLustLast, Perfrormance and Installation, Royal Monceau Hotel, Paris, France (Destruction Party)
  • PostPunkPaganPop, Gallery de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich, Switzerland


2007

  • Festival 10 days off, the fucKINGFUCKS, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
  • Biennale Charleroi danse, Performance Kendell Geers and the fucKINGFUCKS, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium


2005

  • ultuurcentrum Evergem, Belgium
  • Les Grands Spectacles-120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Mönchsberg, Austria
  • Elektra Festival, Montréal, Canada
  • Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten, Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels
  • Dans le Collimateur, Dieppe Scene Nationale, Dieppe, France


2004

  • Criminal Brides, Buda, Kortijk, Belgium
  • Videozone, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  • Opera Video, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy


2003

  • Rhythm and Chaos, Transart 03, Bolzano, Italy
  • Rhythm and Chaos, Beaulieu Art Gallery, Oudenaarde, Belgium
  • Guests, Handelsbeursgebouw, Ghent, Belgium (curated by Luk van Acker)
  • Guided by Heroes, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium (curated by Raf Simons)
  • Prototype, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France


Writings by the artist (selected)


2004

  • Kendell Geers, Macro Sexus
  • Kendell Geers, Semaine, No. 15
  • Beyond Good and Evil, published by Centre for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan


2003

  • Point Blank, published by Imschoot Uitgevers, Ghent, Belgium
  • Guest Editor, Documents Sur l’Art, Dijon, France


2002

  • My Tongue In Your Cheek, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  • Scenario, The Queel, Metronome 8B, London, England p. 71
  • Intersections, RMIT Gallery, BHP Billiton, Melbourne, Australia The Affluence and the Effluence/Affluenza ed effluenza, Racconti d’identita, La Generazione della Immagini 7, Comune di Milano, Milan, Italy pp. 88-107


2001

  • The Affluence and the Effluence, The Bastard, Metronome, No. 7, pp. 193-199
  • What is the Artist’s Role Today?, Jerome Sans and Marc Sanchez, Palais de Tokyo , Paris, France, p. 66


1999-2000

  • South Meets West, Kunsthalle Bern, NÁWÁO


1999

  • Kendell Geers, Secession, Vienna, Austria
  • Statement en beeldbijdrage, Metropolis M, No. 2, Amsterdam, April–May, pp. 29-32
  • Cover, Project Pages, Atlantica, No. 22, cover, pp. 56-65


1998-2000

  • 3 Räume-3 Flüsse Ihr wart ins Wasser eingeschrieben (II), Hann Münden, Germany (catalogue)


1998

  • Title Withheld (portfolio) The Horror, The Horror, Stopping The Process? Contemporary views on art and exhibitions, NIFCA, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 163-173
  • The Horror, The Horror, The CAPC Bordeaux, France, May


1997

  • Contemporary South African Art-The Gencor Collection, Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa


1995

  • For or Against, South African Association of Art Historians National Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, July
  • Argot, Published by Chalkham Hill Press (monograph)
  • First Johannesburg Biennial, ArtPress, May, pp. IV-V
  • Fuck Art: The Prose of a Con-Artist, National Sculpture Symposium, Pretoria Technikon, South Africa, July


1994

  • Third World Bites Back, Art Ventilator, Johannesburg, South Africa, September, pp. 12-15


1990

  • Art as Propaganda Inevitably Self-Destructs, Art From South Africa, MOMA, Oxford, pp. 23-24


Publications and Catalogues (selected)


2015

  • 20 Years, essays by Stephen Friedman and Sarah Thornton, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue)


2013

  • Kendell Geers 1988-2012, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (exhibition catalogue)


2011

  • The Luminous Interval. The D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Guggenheim Museum Publications, pp. 81-83 (exhibition catalogue)


2010

  • Gregos, Katerina, Out of Africa, Phillips de Pury


2008

  • PostPunkPaganPop, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Wall Rockets, Published by The FLAG Art Foudation, Curated by Lisa Dennison, p.135, New York, USA


2007

  • Irrespektiv, SMAK, BPS22, Baltic, MAC Lyon, Mart, BOM Pub.


2006

  • Richer, Francesca and Rosenzweig, Matthew, eds.
  • First Works by 362 Artists, p. 143, Thames and Hudson, London, England


2005

  • Dionysiac, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • Fingered, edited by Kurt Vanbelleghem, Tikiriki Publications, Brussels, Belgium
  • Kendell Geers, MACRO Museu d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Mondadori Electra Spa
  • Kendell Geers; The Forest of Suicides, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Roma, May
  • Between Good and Evil, Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
  • Point Blank, Imschoot Uitgevers, Ghent, Belgium


2004

  • Artists Salute Artpace, Artpace San Antonio, Benefit Auction at Christie’s, New York, USA (catalogue)


2003

  • The Plague is me, Onestar Press, Paris, France, December


2002

  • My Tongue in Your Cheek, Les presses du Réel, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France, January


1995

  • Argot, Chalkham Hill Press


Bibliography (selected)


2015

  • Nage, Andrea, Change Geers: Q and A with Kendell Geers on design that defies the mould, Times Live, 24 February


2014

  • Frank, Priscilla, 40 Contemporary African Artists Take On Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’, Huffington Post, 20 October


2013

  • Exhibition traces the shift and the development of Kendell Geers’ aesthetic language, Art Daily, 1 February Bradley, Kimberly, Kendell Geers, Art Review, Issue 68, May, pp. 124-125
  • Kendell Geers Joins Protestors in Istanbul and Postpones Exhibition opening, Artkurio, 3 June
  • Villanueva, Jean Fabian, Haus der Kunst mit Kendell Geers, Base Now, 22 January Haus der Kunst in Munich opens major exhibition by the South African artist Kendell Geers, Blouin ArtInfo, 5 February
  • Kendell Geers at Haus der Kunst, The Collector Tribune, January


2012

  • Tay, Nastasya, ‘I am not a politician’, iAfrica, 20 July Shaw, Amy, The Art Newspaper, 23 April


2011

  • Duff, Stacey, The Alchemist: An Interview with Kendell Geers, Leap Magazine, 20 July


2010

  • Coombs, Marcella, Art, Meet Wit, Notion Magazine, No. 043
  • Kendell Geers Presents an In Situ Production-Action in Murcia, Spain, Art Daily, 10 July
  • Rutter, Karen, Still Edgy After All These Years, Times Live, 6 June
  • Guggenheim in Bilbao Presents The Luminous Interval: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Art Daily, 19 April
  • Capasso, Angelo, Il doppio binario di Kendell Geers, Liberal, 27 January


2009

  • Sumpter, Helen, Review, Time Out London, London, England 22 December Ravini, Sinziana, Critics Picks, ArtForum, December 2008
  • Agenda: Kendell Geers, Irrespektiv, Climaise, Dec 2008-Feb 2009
  • Four Exhibitions: Kendell Geers – Lori Hersberger – Rendez-Vous – Christian Lhopital, Undo.net, 6 October
  • Lyon – MAC – Kendell Geers: Irrespektiv, Institut voor Beeidende Audiovisuele en Mediakunst, 10 September
  • LYON: Kendell Geers, ou l’art d’etre irrespectueux, Tetu, September
  • France: Myriad Issues, Asian Art News, Spring Lust For Life, BC Magazine, N.04, pp.68-69, Paris


2007

  • Gebetsroither, Ines, On the encoded strategies of revolution, Spike 12, cover, pp. 62-70
  • Fenwick, Andrew, Art Review, Kendell Geers: Irrespektiv, Metro, 5 October Thom, Johan, Kendell Geers, Art in South Africa, 1 March


2006

  • Coomer, Martin, Kendell Geers: Stephen Friedman West End, Time Out London, 25 October-1 November
  • Jesus Christ superstar? The Art Newspaper/Frieze Art Fair Daily, 14-15 October p. 2
  • Exertier, Nicolas, Kendell Geers. La Violence Innommable, Parachute, No. 124, pp. 58-77
  • Artner, Alan G. Art: Reviews, Chicago Tribune, 21 July
  • Schijn-Heilig, Blend Magazine, The Netherlands, April, pp. 18-19
  • Adams, Brooks, Time after time, Art in America, New York, USA, February, p. 61


2005

  • Recipe for Making Plastic Explosives from Bleach, Artistaste, Toohcsmi, uitgevers, Belgium, pp. 80-83
  • La sainte Vierge, No. 3, Belgium, pp. 136-137
  • Cut the Krap, an interview with Kendell Geers by Jérome Sans, no. 10, 00 People, Uovo Magazines, Italy, pp. 146-167
  • N. Drawings, People, Uovo Magazines, Italy, pp. 22-39 30
  • Individual Exhibitions, Contemporary Art in Belgium 2006, Bart De Baere & Henrz Bounameaux, Best of Publishing, Belgium, pp. 150-153
  • Doris van Drathen, La limite et la dynamique de son pouvoir, Les vanités dans l’art contemporain, sous la direction d’Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, Flammarion, Paris, France, pp. 182-183
  • Bae, James, Ethics and Aesthetics, Art and Terror, Artlies, no. 45, Texas, USA, Winter, p.16
  • Filipovic, Elena, Dionysiac: Art in Flux, Frieze, September, p. 140 Il Détournement dal Sudafrica, Il Manifesto, Italy, No. 207, 27
  • August Pouncey, Edwin, Outer Limits, review, Wire, London, England, Issue 254, April
  • Chiara, Federico, Philosophy, Vogue Italia, No. 656, April, p. 80
  • Jacobson, Celean, SA Art ‘Lacks passion, pride’, Sunday Times, Johannesburg, South Africa, 8 May
  • Senaldi, Marco, Il Cavaliere Azzuro per una critica dell’estetica Berlusconiana, Flash Art, Italy, No. 251, April- May, pp. 106-109
  • Gauville, Hervé ,Dionysiac sans plaisir, Liberation, Paris, France, 26-27 February
  • Oksenhorn, Stewart, Art Mixed with Double Meanings, Dark Humor, The Aspen Times, Aspen, USA
  • Pierce, Vanessa, Utopian Hell, Aspen Daily News Time Out, 17-23 Feb, pp. 4-5 Biro, Matthew, Bloomfield Hills Michigan, Art Papers, Atlanta, Jan/Feb, pp. 51-52
  • Dalton, Gordon, Curating Now, a-n Magazine, January, pp. 30-33
  • Gregos, Katerina, Dangerous Liaisons, Contemporary Art Magazine, London, England, No. 70, pp. 22-25 and cover
  • Redpornographicmisery, Belio, Summary 016, Madrid, pp. 26-30 and pp. 109-110


2004

  • Interview in Time Out, Athens, Greece, June, p. 67
  • Exertier, Nicolas, Le Terrorisme de Kendell Geers, Art Presence, Paris, France, No. 52, pp. 12-19
  • Verdier, Evence, Albi, Art Press, Paris, France, No. 305, pp. 77-78
  • Blinded by the light, I-D Magazine, London, England, Issue 247, p. 84
  • Cumulus, Aus Europa, Parkett, No. 70, Zürich, p. 176
  • Dawes, Nick, Visions of Paradise, Art Southafrica, Vol. 2, Issue 4, Winter, p. 75
  • McCoy, Tabari, Art Attack, CiN Weekly, 18 August Seasonal Unruliness, a dialogue between Kendell Geers and Walter Van Bierendonck, JANUS Magazine, Antwerp, Belgium, 16 April, pp. 34-38
  • Levin, Kim, A Provocateur and Insider’s Outsider from South Africa, The Village Voice, New York, 26 April Very New Art, BT, Japan, vol. 56, No. 847, April, pp. 81-82
  • Temin, Christine, Africa now, The Boston Globe, 9 April Pollack, Barbara, Reviews New York, Art News, April Kunstvermittlung im System Kunst, Pierangelo Maset, The Educational Complex, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, pp. 30-33
  • Stech, Fabian, Synopsis 3, Kunstforum International, Germany, Bd. 169, pp. 318-319


2003

  • Bedford, Emma, Istanbul and elsewhere, Art South Africa Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 2, South Africa, November– December, p. 11
  • Bader, Joerg, Istanbul Biennale, Kunstforum International, Ruppichteroth, Germany, Bd. 167, November– December, pp. 335-357
  • Pace, Linda and Russell, Jan Jarboe, Dreaming Red, Creating Artpace, pp. 174
  • Illes, Chrissie, ArtPace, San Antonio, November-December
  • Redefining the African Diaspora, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, New York, USA, 21 November
  • Kendell Geers interviewed by Jérome Sans, A TerroRealist in the house of Love, Looking Both Ways, Museum for African Art/Snoeck, November
  • Héritages, L’exposition du grand Palais Gauguin (Tahiti), Beaux Arts Magazine Hors-Série, Paris, France, No. 7, October, pp. 70-71, p. 79
  • Ultravista, Arte, la VIII Biennale di Istanbul, Alias, Italy, No. 37, 20 September, p. 6
  • Coollustre, Weather Everything Dramatically Different, 3 expositions d’Eric Troncy, Les presses du réel, Collection Lambert en Avignon, France, September
  • Richards, Colin, Kendell Geers, Art South Africa magazine, South Africa, pp. 64-65, Vol. 2, Issue 1, September
  • Bedford, Emma, Reviews/Books, Art South Africa, South Africa, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer, p. 63
  • Pinto, Roberto, Salon de Refusés, Public art projects never realized, Venice XXD11, 28 March – 25 May Uber Kunst und Kunstler der Gegenwart, Ein Nach Lesebuch zur Documenta 11, Die Note beim Nation building – Sudafrika im Fokus von Kendell Geers, David Goldblatt, Santu Mofokeng, Alfredo Jaar und Steve McQueen, pp. 32-35 and Tot oder lebendig Die Entdeckung einer Arbeit auf der Documenta 11, Germany, pp. 104-107 Barker, Godfrey, Look back in anger, ArtReview, London, England, Vol. LIV, May, pp. 33-34
  • Lebovici, Elizabeth, Hackers Vaillants, Liberation, Paris, France, 25 April, p. 30
  • Willkommen im Wunderland, Die Utopie des Zuhause, Reporter ohne grenzen, Fotos fur die Pressefreiheit 2003, Berlin, April, pp. 30-37
  • Suburbia I, Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme no. 237, Barcelona, April, pp. 48-51
  • Lequeux, Emmanuelle, Hardcore, Desir de Politique, Beaux Arts Magazine, Paris, France, No. 226, March, pp. 48-49
  • Lingaard, Jade, and Colard, Jean-Max, Action Directe?, Les Inrockuptibles, Paris, France, No. 380, March, pp. 36-40
  • Coomer, Martin, Art:Preview, Time Out, London, England, No. 1697, February-March, p. 45
  • Healy, Jim, S is for…, What’s On in London, 12-19 February, p. 23
  • Sans, Jerome, Sand in the Vaseline, Art South Africa, Vol. 1, Issue 3, Autumn, pp. 28-34, cover
  • Deliss, Clementine, Between Fiction and Reality, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, pp. 41-49
  • Krouse, Matthew and Shaun de Waai, Shifting Geers, The Guardian, 23 May Il Buddha dei Cantieri, Torino, Italy, p. 27
  • Coomer, Martin, Review, Time Out, London, England, 26 Feb- 3 March, p. 45


2002

  • Bourriaud, Nicolas, Post Production, Lukas and Sternberg, New York, USA, p. 9
  • Macri, Teresa, Postculture, Meltemi, Rome, Italy, pp. 142-145
  • Waiting for the Barbarians, Der Hund ist fur die Hyane eine Kolanuss: Zeitgenossische Kunst und Kultur aus Afrika, Jahresring 49, Oktagon, Koln, Project Pages 106-111
  • Krell, Alan, The Devil’s Rope, A Cultural History of Barbed Wire, Reaktion Books, London, England, pp. 113-114, pp. 172-3, p. 175
  • Whitt, Joseph, The Passenger; Kendell Geers’ art of terror, Art Papers 26.6, Atlanta, USA, pp. 22 27, cover
  • McLeod, Scott, Seven from Documenta, Prefix Photo 6, Toronto, Canada, pp. 26-43
  • 20 Artworks, Crash 23, Paris, France, p. 61
  • Pasini, Francesca, Kendell Geers, Artforum XLI, no. 1, New York, USA, September, p. 211
  • Die Dokumenta 11, Kunstforum 161, Ruppichteroth, Germany, p. 268, 384, August–October
  • Sans, Jerome, Kendell Geers, Tema Celeste 92, Milan, Italy, July/August, pp. 44-47, cover
  • Kendell Geers, What is Art Today; Qu’est-ce que l’art aujourd’hui, Beaux Arts Special Edition, Paris, France, June, pp. 124-127
  • Collard, Jean-Max, Afrikan Psycho, Les Inrockuptibles 340, Paris, France, pp. 76-77, 29 May – 4June
  • Tebbs, Paul, Trauma, Contemporary, London, England, January, pp. 94-95


2001-2002

  • Troncy, Eric, Infinite Justice, Les Editions du Reel, Dijon, Winter, pp. 32-43


2001

  • Francblin, Catherine, Paradoxes de la Mondialisation, ARTPRESS Special No. 22, January, p. 165
  • Hassanand Olu Oguibe, Salah M. Authentic/Ex-Centric, Conceptualism in African Art, la Biennale de Venezia, Forum for African Art, New York, USA, January Parfait, Francoise, Video: Un Art Contemporain, Editions du Regard, Paris, France, January, p. 166, pp. 226-227, p. 242, 246
  • Putnam, James, Art and Artifact, The Museum as Medium, Thames and Hudson, London, England, Autumn, p. 108
  • Troncy, Eric, Infinite Justice, Les Editions du Reel, Dijon, pp. 32-43
  • Van der Watt, Liese, Making whiteness strange, Third Text, London, England, No. 56, Autumn, pp. 44- 89
  • Herstatt, Claudia, kulptur-Biennale 2001 im Kreis Steinfurt, Kunstforum 157 Ruppichteroth, Germany, p. 421, November-December
  • Laubard, Ch. and Ramade, B. GI-Joe Attitude, Technikart No. 54, Paris, France, July, pp. 60-64
  • Kent, Sarah, Review, Time Out London, 4-11 July 2
  • Berlin Biennale Kunstforum no. 155, Ruppichteroth, Germany, June-July, p. 300
  • Where Angels Fear To Tread, The Guardian Guide, 16-22 June
  • Liebs, Holger, Monster sehen dich an, Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 94, 24 April
  • Pollack, Barbara,The Newest Avant-Garde, Artnews Vol. 100, No. 4, New York, USA, April, pp. 124-129
  • Kratzen, wo es nicht juckt, interview with Otto Neumaier, Frame No. 6, Vienna, March-April, pp. 94-99
  • Handler, Ruth, Durch den Tunnel der Gewalt, Art das Kunstmagazin, March Forstbauer, Nikolai B. Der melancholische Schrecken, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, February
  • Braun, Adrienne, Von Schluzern verfolgt Buchart, Dieter, Kendell Geers: Timbuktu, Kunstforum 153, Ruppichteroth, Germany, January–March, p. 396


2000

  • Landmines in the Gallery, interview with Jerome Sans, Trans>arts.cultures.media, No. 8, New York, USA, October–December, pp. 268-274
  • Enwezor, Okwui and Oguibe, Olu, Reading the Contemporary-African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, MIT press, Cambridge, Massachussetts, USA, October – December
  • 3 Räume–3 Flüsse, Kunstforum No. 152, Ruppichteroth Germany, p. 336, October-December
  • Kerkham, Ruth, There’s a Bomb in This Exhibition: Kendell Geers charged, Parachute 99, Montréal, Canada, July–September, pp. 30-40
  • Fouquet, Ludovic, Ex Africa semper aliquid novi, Etc Montreal, Montreal, Canada, pp. 59-61
  • The Art of the Phoenix, interview with Christine Macel, Art Press 257, Paris, France, May, pp. 28-33
  • Micro Politiques, Parpaings, No. 10, Grenoble, France, 10 February, pp. 20-23
  • Lindgaard, Jade, Ghetto Blaster, Les Inrockuptibles, Paris, France, No. 228, 1-7 February, pp. 56-57
  • Nuridsany, Michel, Video Impressionante, Figaro, 1 February Francblin, Catherine, Artiste du Mois, Beaux Arts, Paris, France, p. 27, February
  • Dagan, Philipp, Scenes de la destruction et autres images de la souffrance, Le Monde, Paris, France, 23 January, p. 23


1999

  • Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield, Contemporary African Art, Thames and Hudson, London, England, p. 165
  • Review, Flash Art, Vol. 32, No. 209, November–December, Milan, Italy, p. 118
  • Gregos, Katerina, Kendell Geers, Contemporary Visual Arts, London, England, Issue 25, October, p. 56
  • Firstenberg, Larie, Cityscape Johannesburg, Flashart Milan, Italy, No. 208, October, pp. 69-70
  • Jouanno, Evelyne, Extra et Ordinaire, Flashart, Milan, Italy, October Gregos, Katerina, Review 99, Noticias ARCO, Madrid, Spain, No. 15, September, p. 8
  • Zoo 2, London, England, p. 204
  • Puvogel, Renate, Trafique, Kunstforum 146, Ruppichteroth, Germany, July– August, p. 430
  • Review, The Art Newspaper, No. 94, July–August, p. 66
  • Kent, Sarah, Review, Time Out London, 30 June – 7 July, p. 55
  • Video et photographie scellent leurs noces au Printemps de Cahors, Guerrin, Michel, Le Monde, Paris, France, 23 June Neumeier, Otto, Portrait des Künstlers als Voyer und Exhibitionist, Noema , No. 51, May-June, pp. 46-51
  • Birrel, Ross, Geordende revolte in Glasgow, Metropolis M, No. 2, Amsterdam, April–May, pp. 32-33
  • Firstenberg, Laurie, Performative Recollections: An interview with Artists Olu Oguibe and Kendell Geers, Chicago Art Journal, Spring, pp. 102-108
  • Feeser, Sigrid, 7 Triennale de Kleinplastik Europa-Afrika, Kunstforum, No. 143, Ruppichteroth, Germany, January–February, p. 398
  • Mahoney, Elisabeth, High Red Center, Art Monthly, No. 224, March, pp. 27-29


1998

  • Walker, Hamza, South Africa, Cumulus, Parkett, No. 52, p. 177
  • Hanru, Hou, et al, CREAM, Phaidon Press, London, England, pp. 136-139
  • Kellner, Clive, Art of Darkness: Darkness of Art, NKA, Cornell University, New York, USA, No. 9, Fall/Winter, pp. 68–69
  • DeBord, Matthew, Cross/ing: Time, Space, Movement, Flash Art, March/April, p. 80
  • Hobbs, Philippa and Rankin, Elizabeth, Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa, David Philip Publishers, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, March-April, p. 111, 120, pp. 123-4
  • Enwezor, Okwui, Altered States: Die Kunst des Kendell Geers, Inklusion-Exklusion, DuMont, Koln, March–April, pp. 202-205


1997

  • Peffer-Engels, John, Review, African Arts, Winter, pp. 75-77
  • Lampert, Pascal, Review, Metropolis M, No. 4, August–September, p. 61
  • Williamson, Sue and Jamal, Ashraf, Art in South Africa, The Future Present, David Philip Publishers, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, p. 9, 15, pp. 58-61, 64


1996

  • Koloane, David, Africus, The Johannesburg Biennial, A Perspective, African Arts, Winter, pp. 50-56
  • Schmidt, Dierk, Review, Springer, October–November, p. 68
  • Review, Baumgärtel, Tilman, Springer, October–November, pp. 68-69
  • Ferguson, Lorna and Mulclaire, Thomas,Aperto, Flash Art, Summer, pp. 89-91
  • Cotter, Holland, Art in Review, New York Times, June 21 Morgan, Stuart, Crapshoot, Frieze, Issue 29, June–August, pp.64-65
  • Enwezor, Okwui and Zaya, Octavio, Moving In, Flash Art, Milan, Italy, January– February, pp. 84- 89
  • Breitz, Candice, Why Have There Been No Avant-Garde African Artists? Atlantica, No. 11, pp. 52-64, 145-157
  • Richards, Colin, Retaining This Fire, Atlantica, No. 11, pp. 31-44, 132-144
  • Enwezor, Okwui, Occupied Territories: Power, Access and African Art Frieze, January, pp. 37-41


1995

  • Gilman, Sander L, Picturing Health and Illness, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 182-3
  • McEvilley, Thomas, Report from Johannesburg Towards a World-Class City?, Art in America, September, pp. 45- 49
  • Rosengarten, Ruth, Inside Out, Frieze, Summer, pp. 43-49
  • Rosengarten, Ruth, Biennial, Artnews, May, p. 168
  • Weil, Benjamin, South African Art-Out of Time, Flash Art, January–February, pp. 74-76


1994

  • Macri, Teresa, Motho Ke Motho Ka Batha Babang, Virus, Cape Town, South Africa, November, pp. 34-35
  • de Vries, Fred, Het Oproer Van De White Boy, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 22 October, pp. 104-107
  • Weil, Benjamin, Crossing The Boundaries: Two Examples in South African Art, Atlantica, Autumn, No. 8, pp. 19- 27, 130-134
  • Green, Michael, Con-Artist at the Loovre, You Magazine, 1 September, pp. 139-140
  • Bristowe, Anthea, Getting into Geers despite static, Business Day, 23 August, p. 14, (Reprinted in Art Ventilator, Johannesburg, September, p. 51)
  • Friedman, Hazel, Two Artists who are Legends in their minds…, The Star Tonight, 22 August, p. 3 (reprinted in Art Ventilator, Johannesburg, September, p. 52)
  • Jounnais, Jean-Yves, The Hottentot Venus, Art Press, Paris, France, May, pp. 33-40
  • Solomon, Andrew, Separate and Equal, The New York Times Magazine, New York, USA, 27 March, pp. 44-89
  • Vinassa, Andrea, Exposure, The Sunday Times Magazine, London, England, 27 March, p. 18
  • Laufer, Stephen, The 9 Cards of Chameleon Geers, Weekly Mail, Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 February, p. 11 1993
  • Vinassa, Andrea, Art For Africa?, House and Leisure, Milan, Italy, December, pp. 34-35
  • Richards, Colin, About Face Aspects of Art History and Identity in South African Visual Culture, Third Text, London, England, Autumn/Winter, pp. 101-133
  • Herwitz, Daniel, Different and Alike, Modern Painters, London, England, Autumn, pp. 76-79
  • The Ten Most Intriguing South Africans, Femina, Cape Town, South Africa, October, pp. 64-71


1988

  • Williamson, Sue and Philip, David, Resistance Art in South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, p. 69


Public Collections

  • ArtPace, Texas, USA
  • Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA
  • FNAC, Paris, France
  • Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden


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