Dineo Seshee Bopape

Dineo Seshee Bopape is a South African multimedia artist.[1] Using experimental video montages, sound, found objects, photographs and dense sculptural installations, her artwork "engages with powerful socio-political notions of memory, narration and representation." [2][3][4]

Dineo Seshee Bopape
Born1981
Polokwane, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
OccupationContemporary visual artist
Years active2003 -- present
Websiteseshee.blogspot.com

Life

Bopape was born in Polokwane, South Africa, in 1981. She studied painting and sculpture at the Durban Institute of Technology, and graduated from De Ateliers in Amsterdam in 2007. In 2010 she completed an MFA at Columbia University in New York.[5][6][7]

Among other venues, Bopape's work has been shown at the New Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the 12th Biennale de Lyon. Solo exhibitions of her work have been mounted at Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam; Kwazulu Natal Society of Arts, Durban; and Palais de Tokyo.[8][9] Bopape was the winner of the 2008 MTN New Contemporaries Award, the recipient of a 2010 Columbia University Toby Fund Awards, the 2017 Sharjah Biennial Prize, and the winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2017.[7][10][11]

In 2018 she was part of the 10th Berlin Biennale, curated by Gabi Ngcobo and a curatorial team that includes Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Serubiri Moses, Thiago de Paula Souza and Yvette Mutumba.[12] Her installation, entitled Untitled (Of Occult Instability) [Feelings], 2016–18 was located in the lower level of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Set among debris, and made specially for the biennale, the work was bathed in orange light and includes among its videos a film about a white man raping a black woman and clips of legendary artist Nina Simone’s mental breakdown on stage.[13]

References
  1. Phaidon Editors (2019). Great women artists. Phaidon Press. p. 68. ISBN 0714878774.
  2. Massara, Kathleen (April 6, 2009). "Detritus and Drawings: The Art of Dineo Seshee Bopape". Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  3. "DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE". Suspicious Minds. August 1, 2013. Archived from the original on 18 December 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  4. Africa, Art South (23 September 2015). "In Conversation with Dineo Seshee Bopape". Art Africa Magazine. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
  5. "Dineo Seshee Bopape". One Art. January 1, 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  6. Barnes, Friere (August 1, 2015). "Dineo Seshee Bopape: slow -co- ruption". Time Out.
  7. Hegert, Natalie (November 1, 2009). "RackRoom Interview with Dineo Seshee Bopape". Art Slant. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  8. Van Dyke, Kristina (2012). The Progress of Love. Houston and St. Louis: Menil Collection and Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. p. 177.
  9. "Dineo Seshee Bopape UNTITLED (OF OCCULT INSTABILITY) [FEELINGS]". Palais de Tokyo. 2016-06-08. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
  10. "Dineo Seshee Bopape Wins Future Generation Art Prize | artnet News". artnet News. 2017-03-17. Retrieved 2018-06-03.
  11. "Dineo Seshee Bopape (South Africa) receives the Future Generation Art Prize 2017 / PinchukArtCentre". PinchukArtCentre.org. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  12. "About 10th Berlin Biennale". 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  13. "Meet Gabi Ngcobo, one of the most powerful curators in the world right now". W24. Retrieved 2019-03-16.

Further reading
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.