Dineo Seshee Bopape
- Dineo Seshee Bopape
- Work
Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, 2018
Dineo Seshee Bopape (b. 1981, Polokwane, South Africa) lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dineo Seshee Bopape was born in 1981 on a Sunday. If she were Ghanaian, her name would be Akosua/Akos for short. In the year of her birth, the Brixton riots took place; two people were injured when a bomb exploded in a Durban shopping centre. Bobby Sands dies, MTV is launched, the Boeing 767 makes its first air flight, Umkhonto we Sizwe performs numerous underground assault operations against the apartheid state. There was an earthquake in China that killed maybe 50 people. Hosni Mubarak was elected president of Egypt, there was a coup d'etat in Ghana. Princess Diana of Britain married Charles. Bob Marley dies. Apartheid SA invaded Angola. AIDS is identified/created/named. Salman Rushdie releases Midnight's Children. In the region of her birth: Her paternal grandmother died. Julius Malema is born. Millions of people cried. Millions of people laughed! The world's population was apparently at around 4,529-billion.
Bopape spent her youth in Limpopo in varying social situations. At 12 years of age she began to follow a hunger for an elsewhere, beginning with Durban where she spent some years and studied painting and sculpture. She is a 2007 graduate of De Ateliers in Amsterdam and in 2010 completed an MFA at Columbia University, New York. She was the main prize winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2017 by PinchukArtCentre, the recipient of a 2010 Columbia University Toby Fund Award, and the winner of 2008 MTN New Contemporaries Award. She has shown her work in major and minor national and international exhibitions and is shortlisted for Artes Mundi 9 Prize by National Museum Cardiff, Wales.
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2019 | Dineo Seshee Bopape: Sedibeng, it comes with the rain, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK |
2018 | When Spirituality was a Baby, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Lerole: footnotes. (The struggle of memory against forgetting), Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany Solo Exhibition: Main Prize winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2017, PinchukArtCentre Kiev, Ukraine |
2017 | Lerole: footnotes (The struggle of memory against forgetting), Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands sa kosa ke lerole, The Gallery in the Round, National Arts Festival Grahamstown, Grahamstown, South Africa and- in. the light of this. _____, Darling Foundry, Montreal, Canada 222, PHURULLOGA, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Germany |
2016 | sa ______ ke lerole, (sa lerole ke ___ ), Art in General, New York, USA Untitled [of occult instability] (feelings) Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France |
2015 | Slow-co-ruption, Hayward Gallery Project space, London, UK we need the memories of all our members, Hordeland Kunst Sentrum, Bergen, Norway |
2014 | This is What You Will Look Like When You Die/After Ana Mandieta, August House, Johannesburg, South Africa |
2013 | Kgoro ya go tswa: even if you fall from a circle, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa |
2011 | lesobana!! lesobana! lesobana!! (le bulegile); lesobana! lesobana! lesobana!! (go phunyegile), Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa |
2010 | Long Live the Immaterial...Effect no.55, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands the eclipse will not be visible to the naked eye, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa I like to remember things my own way, Annarumma 404, Napoli, Italy ANTRHOPHOBIA installation at ABC art Fair in Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
2009 | You Horrible Horrible Bitch!, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Solo Project ARCO-Art Fair, represented by Mart House Gallery, Madrid, Spain, curated by Susanne Neubauer |
2008 | Love Strung, KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa It’s a Celebration Bitches!!!, Thami Mnyele Studio, Amsterdam, Netherlands Non in Mind (fictions unending) dream weaver and other stories, Rotterdam Art Fair – represented by Mart House Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
2007 | Non in Mind (fictions unending) dreamweaver and other stories, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2005 | Keep it to Yourself, KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
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2019 | SOFT POWER, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA Co-representing South Africa: The Stronger We Become, Arsenale, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Perilous Bodies, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, USA |
2018 | BELIEVE, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Canada 57th October Salon: The Marvellous Cacophony, Belgrade, Serbia We Don’t Need Another Hero, 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany |
2017 | Future Generation Art Prize, Venice, Italy Conundrum of Imagination, Exhibition as part of the Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria Sharjah Biennale 13: Tamawuj, Sharjah, UAE Exhibition of shortlisted artists: Future Generation Art Prize 17, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine Blind Date, Sfeir Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon |
2016 | Not New Now, Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco Incerteza Viva (Live Uncertainty), Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil Le Grand Balcon (The Grand Balcony), Montreal Biennale, Montreal, Canada Apeirophobia/Aporia, Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA Neriri Kiruru Harara, SEMA - Media City Seoul 2016, Seoul, South Korea What We Have Overlooked, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherlands Spirit Robot, Chale Wote 2016, Accra, Ghana, West Africa |
2015 | The Film Will Always Be With You: South African Artists On Screen, Tate Modern, London, UK Spatial Stories: Topographies of Change in Africa, The Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado, USA diagno: tocolo, M1, Hohenlockstedt, Germany Avant Noir, ICA, London, UK |
2014 | Spring/Break, Old School, New York, USA; Ruffneck Constructivists, ICA, Philadelphia, USA Lightning Speed of the Present, 808 gallery, Boston University, Boston, USA Soundscape/dispoem,Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Critically Queer, Africa Center for Humanities, University of Cape Town, South Africa Stalactica, Galerie de l‘Ancienne Quincaillerie Vander Eycken, Brussels, Belgium Nuit Blanche 2014, Toronto, Canada The Danjuma Collection: One Man’s Trash (Is Another Man’s Treasure), 33 Fitzroy Square, London, UK |