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Mikhael Subotzky Shortlisted for Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award

Mikhael Subotzky’s book Retinal Shift (published by Steidl on the occasion of his Standard Bank Young Artist Award) is one of the 30 photobooks shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award. The names of the laureates will be revealed at Paris Photo on 14 November 2012, in the presence of the two juries composed of Phillip Block, Chris Boot, Julien Frydman, Lesley A. Martin, James Wellford, Els Barents, Roxana Marcoci, Edward Robinson, Timothy Pruss and Thomas Seelig.

Various artists at Prince Albert Art Festival

To mark the town’s 250th birthday celebration and the Prince Albert Gallery’s tenth anniversary, the Prince Albert Art Festival will feature work by various artists including David Goldblatt, William Kentridge & Mikhael Subotzky.

Carefully selected specifically for the festival, David Goldblatt will present 25 colour landscapes, some of which have never been printed or exhibited. The photographs – which have been produced in a smaller than usual, custom A2 format – include rarely seen Karoo landscapes such an arid onion farm in Viskuil and the expanse of Kapgat se Berge. The selection also includes a range of photographs of the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and the Free State.

The festival is scheduled for the weekend of the 28th of September 2012 and interrogates the theme of “The Vulnerable Landscape”. Exhibiting artists have been invited to explore all aspects of landscape: interiors, the mind, urban renewal and destruction, the veld and closer to home, the beautiful and vast landscapes of the Karoo.

Jodi Bieber and Mikhael Subotzky on the World in London

Jodi Bieber and Mikhael Subotzky are participating in The World in London , organised by The Photographers’ Gallery and forming part of the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad. The project presents portraits of Londoners by British and international photographers taken from 2009 to 2012. Each portrait shows a person or people from one of the 204 nations taking part in the London 2012 Games, accompanied by individual stories.The World in London is a celebration of Londoners and demonstrates photography’s ability to capture the human form in interesting and distinct ways. This summer you can see the exhibition in Central and East London. Victoria Park, London E3, Victoria Park, London E3. The exhibition runs from 27 July to 12 August 2012.

Mikhael Subotzky and Broomberg & Chanarin at the Saatchi Gallery

Photographs from Mikhael Subotzky’s ‘Beaufort West’ series and Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin’s ‘People in trouble’ series feature on Out of Focus at the Saatchi Gallery in London. This is the first major photography exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery since the highly acclaimed and controversial 2001 show I Am a Camera, and presents work by 38 artists who offeinnovativer an international perspective on current trends in photography, working with the medium in diverse, and arresting ways.

The exhibition runs from the 25 April – 22 July 2012

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Press for Mikhael Subotzky

Mikhael Subotzky / Art Magazin / June 2010

Schwartz, Weiß, und alle Farben by Camilla Péus (1.8 MB)

Visions of South Africa / GQ Japan / July 2010

Visions of South Africa by Kei Wakabayashi (6.5 MB)

In Context / Mail & Guardian / 28 May 2010

Sprawling tales of home by Anthea Buys (2.5 MB)

In Context / The Star / May 2010

A nose and a box to draw art lovers by Ufrieda Ho (3.3 MB)
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    Mikhael Subotzky with Patrick Waterhouse / Recent Works

    Mikhael Subotzky / Two Projects: Arts on Main

    Mikhael Subotzky / Two Projects: Jan Smuts

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    Structures

    Structures

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    Advance/...Notice

    Winter Show

    In Context

    Sphères 2009 / Le Moulin

    'US' / Curated by Simon Njami & Bettina Malcomess

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    Teaching, Lectureships and Workshop

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