Professor and former Director of the Michaelis School of
Fine Art, University of Cape Town
Tel: +27 (0)21 480-7118
email: gavin.younge@uct.ac.za
website: www.gavinyounge.com
Solo exhibitions- 2009 (Re)-connaître l’Afrique exhibition in Paris.
- 2008 Olduvai - a nine metre high welded steel sculpture on the Cape Town foreshore. Follow the following YouTube link to view video of Olduvai Sculpture unveiling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3VNRK4de0s
- 2008 Cape Town Slave Memorial (with Wilma Cruise).
- 2007 Prosthesis - art works by Gavin Younge – the decade 1997 –2007. Presented by La Noire Galerie at Le Cloître des Billettes, 24, rue des Archives, Paris, 6 May - 3 June 2007. Catalogue available from the Clarke's Bookshop, Long Street Cape Town. Read press review here (save before opening file)
- 2005 (in preparation) Prosthesis, La Noire Galerie, Paris.
- 2003 Curating the Waves. Göpingen Museum, Göpingen, Germany.
- 2002 Salt River Soliloquies, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
- 1999 Collection Privé, Galerie N.O.M.A.D.E. Patras, Paris
- 1999 Gilets du Sauvetage, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Nïmes, France
- 1997 Memórias Intimas Marcas, Centro Cultural Portugués, Luanda; Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
- 1997 Giving the Drum Back to Europe, Galerie N.O.M.A.D.E. Patras, Paris
- 1986/7 Koperberg, University of Stellenbosch; Irma Stern Museum, UCT; University of Natal; UNISA: WITS; Grahamstown Festival of the Arts.
- 1981 Crossing the Cunene, Market Gallery, Johannesburg.
Group exhibitions- 2006 Cinétrain Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. Lille, Paris, Marseille. Jan-Feb
- 2005 Highlights from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipal Art Gallery, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, September.
- 2005 ArtMédia/firstRun : Rencontres, Cinéma d’Ivry – Le Luxy, April.
- 2004 Les Afriques – 36 Artists Contemporains. Musée des Arts des Derniers, Paris.
- 2004 Sodobna Afriska Umetnost. Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 2004 Identity. Fortis Circus Theatre, Schweningen, The Netherlands.
- 2004 Democracy X. Cape Town Castle.
- 2003 Re-Collections. South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
- 2003 Veterans of KZN. Durban art Gallery, Durban.
- 2001 Land, UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria.
- 2000 !Xoe2 site specific, ibis Art Centre, Nieu Bethesda; Rhodes University Gallery.
- 1999 Les Champs de la Sculpture 2000, Champs Elysées, Paris.
- 1998 7 Triennale der Kleinplastik, SüdwesLB Forum, Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1998 Memórias Íntimas Marcas, Pavilhãoa Branco, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon.
- 1998 Memórias Íntimas Marcas, African Windows Museum, Pretoria.
- 1998 Vielfaches/Echo, Galerie Meuller-Roth, Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1998 Memórias Íntimas Marcas, Electric Workshop, Johannesburg.
- 1997 Lifetimes, Acktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich.
- 1997 Köln 97, Köln Messe, Köln.
- 1996 FIAC Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris (through Galerie Patras)
- 1996 Don’t Mess with Mr In-between, Caturgest, Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1996 Container 96–Art Across Oceans. Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 1994 Images of Metal. Grahamstown Festival, King George V Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Tatham Art Gallery, Durban Art Gallery, South African National Gallery
- 1994 Un art contemporain de l’Afrique du Sud. Galerie d’Esplanade, Paris
- 1992 Art from South Africa. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; Contemporary Art Centre, Musee Moderne, Stockholm. South African National Gallery.
- 1991 Cape Town Triennial. South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Johannesburg Art Gallery; King George VI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth; Durban Art Museum; Pretoria Art Museum; Oliewenhuis, Bloemfontein.
- 1990/1 Art from South Africa. The Royal Festival Hall, London; Bolton Art Gallery; City Museum, Stoke-on-Trent; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick; Aberdeen City Art Gallery.
Public Commissions- 2004 Century’s Prytaneum. Stainless steel; glass; mosaic. Rhodes University, Grahamstown.
- 2003 Reservoir. Stainless steel, African hard woods, zinc strapping, gas-plasma displays. Video installation. Cape Town International Convention Centre.
- 1995 Manuscript. Steel, granite. Longkloof Studios, Cape Town.
- 1992 Still-life with ice cream cone and blue cheese. Red wood, cast bronze. V & A Waterfront.
- 1986 Talion. Cast bronze. Johannesburg Art Gallery.
- 1984 From Hoerikwagga. Welded steel, University of Cape Town.
- 1983 Deep Continent. Cast bronze, Standard Bank Investment Corporation, Johannesburg.
Publications- 2002 Salt River Soliloquies, Bell- Roberts Publishing Cape Town (exhibition catalogue)
- 2000 A.R.E.A. Art Region end of Africa. Listasafn Reykjavíkur, Kjarvalsstadir, Iceland (exhibition catalogue)
- 2000 Picture perfect: limits to visual imagination. Inaugural Lecture Series, University of Cape Town.
- 1999 Celsius –[neue] Kunst aus dem [neuen] Südafrika (with B. Eckstein & S Kampmann), Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Bonn (exhibition catalogue)
- 1996 Picture Cape Town: Landmarks of a New Generation, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles.
- 1994 (Eds.) Patricia Pierce-Atkinson: Selected works 1972 1993. Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
- 1992 (Ed.) New Directions: proceedings of the 1st National Sculpture Symposium, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT
- 1988 Art of the South African Townships, Thames and Hudson: London, Rizzoli International: New York
- 1976 Rioter’s Digest. Calendar, SRC Press: UCT1.
Articles and essays published in several specialist art publications- Contemporary African Art, Abrams: New York, Thames & Hudson; Displacements, Block Gallery, University of Chicago (in press); Artworks in Progress, Michaelis School of Fine Art; Des Artistes contemporains d’Afrique du Sud, Artists for Peace Association, Geneva; Cutting at the Edge, Africus—Johannesburg Biennale; Borders of Lace and Barbed Wire, Het Parool, Amsterdam; The Creative Uproar, IBIS: Copenhagen; Mother holds the knife on the sharper side - Murals as metaphor, Haus der Kulteren der Welt, Berlin; Raw Vision # 4, London; Spring is Rebellious - Arguments about Culture and Freedom, Ingrid de Kok, Karen Press (Eds), Buchu Books, Cape Town; Inventing South Africa art. In David Elliott, (Ed), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Rorke’s Drift and After, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town; Transitions - National Arts Festival Winter School, 1820 Foundation, Grahamstown; ADA Magazine, Sorrell: Cape Town.
Link to the Legacy Project - a series of virtual exhibitionsThe Legacy Project is an unprecedented cultural event, that - through works of creative art and scholarship - seeks a collective, retrospective reflection on the losses that constitute the legacy of the last century. As a gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century, the Legacy Project is dedicated to exploring issues of remembrance in different cultures, in order to better understand the contemporary significance of historical tragedy.
www.legacy-project.org
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| Images by: Gavin Younge |