Kendell Geers news

Kendell Geers’s book ‘Duchamp’s Endgame’, and accompanying exhibition The Oculist Witness (at Wilde, Basel, 10 June – 17 August 2024) reveal the extensive research that Geers conducted during this crucial year in Duchamp’s career.

ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB is an exhibition of posters that call for universal nuclear disarmament. Each made by a different artist, the group comprises historical and newly commissioned works that detail a cultural history of disarmament movements and evidence the diversity of ways in which artists have expressed the need to ban the bomb.

Over the dark winter nights, the Southbank Centre site is illuminated by outdoor artworks that play with light and colour. Each featured artist uses light and colour in playful ways whilst exploring ideas of individual and collective identity, the environment and technology.

'Imago Iustitiae', latin for 'the image of justice', brings together historic and contemporary works exploring the rendering of justice in art.

'Home is where the art is' explores the concept of art collection; from how works are brought together to how they interact with their surroundings, and in turn what this can communicate about the collector and the viewer.

Coinciding with the 59th Venice Biennale, the seventh edition of 'Glasstress' features a group of leading contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Latin America and Africa in an ambitious exhibition which explores the creative possibilities of glass.

Group presentation ‘The Circus We Are’ explores the influence of the circus world on art. Situating imagery of clowns, merry-go-rounds, fairground games and tightrope walkers alongside contemporary artworks, the exhibition poses the question ‘Are we in the circus?’.

Setouchi Triennale takes place within the framework of Art Setouchi and is held on 12 islands and 2 ports in the Seto Inland Sea. Art Setouchi has forged lasting connections with local communities and generated unique initiatives which are contributing to restoration of the sea.

The first show from the new international curatorial cooperative Radicants, founded by Nicolas Bourriaud, explores how climate change influences today’s art – specifically through the lens of the sublime, as defined as “a delight tinged with terror” by the 18th-century philosopher Edmund Burke.

The D.Daskalopoulos Collection has announced the donation of more than 350 artworks to four leading institutions in Athens, Chicago, New York and the United Kingdom. Works by Tonico Lemos Auad, Tom Friedman, Kendell Geers and Rivane Neuenschwander have permanently entered the collections of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Guggenheim and MCA Chicago.

Group exhibition 'Welcome to the Desert of the Real' explores the representation of reality in mass media, advertising, film and digital platforms, inviting visitors to question images they encounter, and to deconstruct harmful or misleading narratives.

Solo exhibition ‘Voëlvry’ takes its name from the Afrikaans Anti-Apartheid music movement that Kendell Geers was part of in the late 1980s. Geers played keyboards and tape loops for the underground band KOOS that was featured on the original Voëlvry album, credited with launching a movement described as “Significant in every social, political, cultural and musical sense of the word”. With characteristically dark humour ‘Voëlvry’ challenges definitions of art in the 'post-truth' era, bringing together prints, neon sculptures and works on paper that invite the viewer to meditate on the question, what does freedom mean in 2021?

Coinciding with the contemporary art festival ‘ARTDATE’, The Blank presents ‘Statements’, an exhibition of new works created in response to the shared experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

At the third edition of the Setouchi Asia Forum, Setouchi Triennale and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale is 'Artists’ Breath Live', an online program focusing on the ways that artists are living, thinking, and creating during the global pandemic. The project consists of a digital booklet comprising over 100 artists’ texts and an online forum during which 30 artists will each deliver a three-minute report.

Group exhibition ‘FUCK YOU’ is a provocative show with a radical yet inclusive message. Curated by Klaus Verschile, the exhibition aims to open viewers minds to a non-conformist alternative to conventional and acceptable aesthetics. 

'Holy, Holy, Holy' presents a library of 20th and 21st century books with holes. An international collection of titles includes South African artist Kendell Geers’ 'Point Blank' (2004), an edition of 1,030 blank books with each copy shot at point blank range. This exhibition celebrates the launch of new journal 'Inscription: the Journal of Material Text', coinciding with Frieze and featuring Kendell Geers as artist in residence for ‘Inscription #2’.

The second Kortrijk Triennial, ‘Paradise Kortrijk 2021’ is a large-scale artistic and cultural event that transforms the urban environment of Kortrijk, Belgium presenting interactive installations at various indoor and outdoor locations across the city. 

This new group exhibition explores themes surrounding the restitution of African heritage in contemporary art. Co-produced by La Maison de l’Afrique à Nantes and L’association Les Anneaux de la Mémoire, the show is part of the Year of Africa in France.

On the occasion of the final week's run of Kendell Geers' Online Viewing Room ‘Stripped Bare’, Goodman Gallery presents a conversation between the artist; author and activist Candice Mama; and curator Gabi Ngcobo.

Triennial Bruges brings contemporary art and architecture to the historic core of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. For its third edition, ‘Triennial Bruges 2021: TraumA’ delves beneath the surface, in search of the hidden dimensions of the city.