Kendell Geers

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Kendell Geers (2013)

Kendell Geers (born May 1968 in Johannesburg ) is a South African- Belgian conceptual artist . He has lived and worked in Brussels since 2000 .

life and work

Geers grew up in South Africa as a child of a white working class family belonging to Jehovah's Witnesses . At the age of 15 he left his parents' home and joined the militant anti- apartheid movement. In 1988 he graduated from Witwatersrand University .

“Kendell Geers has worked on combining conceptual and political art practice since the late 1980s. Tight interventions in institutional framework conditions, procedural performances that often take years, large-scale public actions and space-filling installations can be understood both as gestures of direct political resistance and as attempts at appropriating conceptual traditions of modernity. "

- Documenta11 short guide

For the work ANC , AVF , AWB, CP, DP , IFP , NP , PAC , SACP (1993/1994) , Geers became a member of all political, partly in 1993, in the transition phase from the end of the end of apartheid to the legal equality of all South Africans warring parties in South Africa. The campaign ended in 1994 when the AWB issued a membership card in his name. Geers documented the action by collecting and issuing various party cards.

Geers, who started his “art biography” with the landing of the Dutchman Jan van Riebeeck on the Cape in 1652, is a Bure born in 1967 . In 1993, Kendell Geers officially “moved” his date of birth to May 1968 at the Biennale di Venezia , the starting point of the South African civil rights movement.

Kendell Geers, who is often called “South African Anarchist” or “Aesthetic Terrorist” because of his provocative works, works in his installations with materials such as broken glass, explosives, warning lights, barbed wire, perforated tape and barrier tape . He uses words, "lost objects" , neon lights and symbols.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kendell Geers 1988-2012 , accessed January 19, 2019.
  2. ↑ Haus der Kunst Tour of the exhibition "Kendell Geers 1988 - 2012" with Clive Kellner and Kendell Geers, accessed on January 19, 2019
  3. ↑ Documenta11_Plattform5: Exhibition / Exhibition. Short guide; Page 86, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002 ISBN 3-7757-9087-X
  4. ↑ Kunstbulletin, Roberta, De Righi Kendell Geers, accessed January 19, 2019
  5. ↑ Ketterer Kunst Kendell Geers, accessed on January 19, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Geers, Kendell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg