Goodman Gallery

As a designer, van den Berg has worked both alone and with some of the nation’s top architects to create public spaces - from museums to state buildings - in which new communities can form.
Among his major recent projects are the Northern Cape Legislature, the museums of Constitution Hill, two major Mandela Foundation exhibitions, and the outdoor sculpture for the District Six Project in Cape Town. Combining museum design, curatorial practice and environmental art, Van den Berg has worked to produce a distinctly South African aesthetic for public space which is both sensitive to local traditions and creative of new possibilities.
The same philosophy guides his curatorial work, including, most recently, the Brett Kebble Art Awards shows, and the Klein Karoo National Kuntsfest. For both of these shows, as for the Constitution Hill project, he has designed major books.
Since winning the Volkskas Atelier Young Artists award in 1987, Clive van den Berg has been acquiring a growing reputation as a visual artist who is a master of both formal beauty and conceptual depth. His works range in size and format, and include paintings, prints, multimedia sculpture, landscape installation, and videography.
Variously addressed to questions of the body, eros, memory, land and light, his art has been shown around the world - in South Africa, Berlin, Charleroi, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paolo, and Stockholm. It has also earned him several major prizes, including, internationally, a Civitella Ranieri fellowship and the Michelin International Art Competition.
His work has been collected by the South African National Gallery and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, among public institutions, and is included in numerous corporate and private collections in South Africa and abroad. He is represented in South Africa by the Goodman Gallery.
©Rosalind Morris, 2005

BACKGROUND
2000 -	Independent Curator and Designer
1989 - 2000	Lecturer & Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand - Johannesburg
1982 - 1989	Lecturer, Technikon Natal - Durban, South Africa
1974 - 1979	B.A.F.A. University of Natal
RECENT APPOINTMENTS & ACTIVITIES
Collaboration with Urban Solutions Architects, for artworks integral to the new Baragwanath Taxi and Bus ranks. Curator/Designer, permanent exhibition Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg. Curator/Designer, Old Fort, permanent exhibition, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg. Curator/Designer Section 4, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg. Curator/Designer “Izipho: Madiba’s Gifts” Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg. ‘A Prisoner in the Garden’ design of a book based on the exhibition of the same title designed by Clive van den Berg. Constitution Hill design of a book on the history of the Hill from 1900 to the present, including Section 4 designed by Clive van den Berg. Curator: Brett Kebble Art Awards 2004 - 2005
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2003	Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
2000	Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
1998	Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town
1993	Johannes Stegmann Gallery, University of the Orange Free State
1991	Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
1987	Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg
1986	Loft Theatre Gallery, Durban
1984	Gallery International, Cape Town
1982	N.S.A Gallery, Durban
1980	N.S.A Gallery, Durban
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004	“Personal Affects” Museum for African, Art New York “Tremor”, Palais des Beaux-Artes, Charleroi, Belgium “Ties That Bind”, Durban Art Gallery, Durban “Voice – Overs: Wits Writings Exploring African Artwork” Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg and South African National Gallery,Cape Town
2003	Red Eye, Durban Art Gallery, Durban Group Exhibition, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg Artists Against AIDS, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2002	Video Formes International Video Festival, Clermont Ferrand France
2001	“Artists Against AIDS”, curated by Marilyn Martin and Kyle Kauffmann, Boston, USA
2000	Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil FNB Vita Finalists exhibition, NSA Gallery Durban Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg "1 Jan Smuts Ave" Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg "Contemporary South African Landscape", UNISA Gallery, Pretoria
1999	“The New Republics” Canada House Gallery, London “Truth Veils” Gertrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg “Atelier Winners” ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg “Canvas” Bellville Association of Art Gallery, Bellville “Wedge” NSA Gallery, Durban (Wits, Fine Arts Staff Show) “A Group of Past Graduates” Jack Heath Gallery, Univ of Natal, Pietermaritzburg '"Microwave", Hong Kong "Urban Futures", Johannesburg “Emotions and Relations” Sandton Civic Gallery, curated by Hentie van der Merwe
1998	!Xoe; Site Specific, Nieu Bethesda. “Cyst” Sandton Civic Gallery, Sandton “Refiguring the Archive” University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School, Johannesburg curated by Jane Taylor. “Bringing Up Baby” Standard Bank Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown, Castle, Cape Town, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, curated by Terry Kurgan “Dreams and Clouds” Kulturhuset, Stockholm “A Common Wealth of Art” National Gallery of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (video installation)
1997	“Unplugged”: Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg South Africa “Purity and Danger” Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa, (Installation), curated by Penny Siopis Art First Gallery, London, England (four artists) “Collecting Ourselves” Gertrude Posel Gallery, Wits University “The Lost Wax Show” Dept of Fine Arts, Wits University “ A Little Big Thing” The Thompson Gallery, Johannesburg “Cyst” Cape Town Castle “District Six Sculpture Festival” Cape Town, (Installation) Johannesburg Biennale, opening performance, Cape Town.
1996	Gay Rights Rites Re-writes, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg “Colours”: Contemporary Art from South Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt GmbH, Berlin “Fault Lines”, Cape Town Castle, Cape Town, curated by Jane Taylor “Local Colour”: A Shoppers Guide to Johannesburg, Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
1995	“Sometimes: Histories of Time” Africus, Johannesburg Biennale, Museum Africa, Johannesburg (exhibition), curated by Sunil Gupta “Minedump”, site installation with fire, stones and pigment. Geldenhuys Interchange and Crown Mines, Johannesburg, curated by Sunil Gupta Transitions; Contemporary Art from South Africa, Bath Festival, Holbath Gallery and Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, curated by Sunil Gupta
ESSAYS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2004	"Personal Affects: Power & Poetics in Contemporary South African Art ", Museum for African Art/ Spier, New York/ Cape Town 2004 “Lumps On Legs”, “Voice Overs: Wits Writings Exploring African Artworks” University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries. 2004 The Brett Kebble Art Awards, curators essay, BKAA, Cape Town
2003	"Building an African Icon: The Northern Cape Provincial Government Complex", eds; Malan and McInerney, MPTS Architectural Library, Johannesburg "Video Formes", catalogue essay, Video Formes, Clermont Ferrand
2002	"Refiguring the Archive" design editor, David Phillip, Cape Town “KKNK 2002” editor, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn “Once Were Painters”, KKNK 2002, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn “Self”, KKNK 2002, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn
2001	KKNK catalogue Visual Art exhibitions, Editor, KKNK, Oudtshoorn
1998	"Memorials Without Facts” chapter essay, A Common Wealth Of Art; traditions, imaginations and independent nations.National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
1997	“Battle Sites, Mine Dumps and Other Spaces of Perversity”, chapter essay, Eight Technologies of Otherness ed: Sue Golding, Routledge, London
1995	"Sometimes: Histories of Time”, catalogue essay Africus Johannesburg Biennale, OVA, London1995"Panoramas of Passage: changing landscape of South Africa", Editor, Meridian International Center, Washington DC and Wits University Art Galleries, Johannesburg
AWARDS
Civitella Raniera Foundation Fellowship FNB Vita Awards Finalist 1998-2002 Part of the team that won the competition to design the New Legislature Buildings for the Northern Cape, with Luis Ferreira da Silva Architects 1998 Finalist and award winner Michelin International Art Competition, Paris 1987 Volkskas Atelier Young Artist Award, overall winner 1985 “Paperworks”, N.S.A. Gallery, Durban, overall winner 1985 Natal Arts Trust, Natal museums, overall winner 1979 New Signatures Exhibition, N.S.A. Gallery, Durban 1979 Emma Smith Scholarship for Overseas Study
COMMISSIONS
2005 “Madiba’s Gifts”, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg. 2004 “A Prisoner in the Garden”, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg. 1998-2002 Artworks New Legislature Buildings, Northern Cape Province with Ferreira da Silva Architects 2000 WISER, spatial design, Wits University. 1999 Sculptures and mosaics for Cabanga Conference Center, Johannesburg 1997 Outdoor Fire Sculpture for Die Ses project, District Six, Cape Town 1995 “X” Bath International Festival, Installlation Performance, Green Park Station, Bath England. “Head”, Installation Fire Performance, Crown Mines Mine Dump, Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg Untitled mosaic sculpture, Banco Popular de Disenvolvimento, Ave Julius Nyerere, Maputo Untitled mosaic sculpture, Banco Popular de Disenvolvimento, Rue da Imprensa, Maputo, Mozambique
SELECTED REFERENCES
Perrier Sophie ed “Personal Affects” Museum for African Art, New York, Spier, Cape Town, 2004 Morris Rosalind, “Apparitions of Desire: Clive van den Berg and the Art of Historical Unknowability” Gender and History v 16, no 3 Nov 2004, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford Dawes Nic, Dumont Fabienne, Bedford Emma and Martin Marilyn, “Tremor: contemporary South African art” Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels, Belgium, 2004 Carol Brown, ed."Ties That Bind", Durban Art Gallery, Durban, 2004. Stevenson, Michael “South African Art 1800-Now” Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town Stevenson, Michael and Rosholt, Annabel “Moving in Time and Space”, Didata Collection Catalogue, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town 2000 Morris, Rosalind Carmel “Memorials Without Facts: Ghosts” CONNECT, fall 2000, Art International, New York 1999 Littlefield Kasfir, Sidney “ Contemporary African Art” Thames and Hudson, London, New York, 1999. 1998 Arnessen Ingemar, “Dreams and Clouds: contemporary art from the new South Africa” Kulturhuset, Stockholm (catalogue) Michelin International Art Competition, (catalogue) 1997 Antonio Theo “What is Art” Television documentary for the SABC Antonio Theo “Purity and Danger” Video Publication, Wits University, Johannesburg, 1997. Menck. A. C and Louw. J, “Cyst; works in paint” (catalogue) 1996 Taylor, Jane: “Contemporary Art from South Africa”: Hans der Kulturen der Welt Gmbh, Berlin, 1996 Jamal, Ashraf and Williamson, Sue: “Art in South Africa; the future present” David Philip, Cape Town, 1996 1995 Gupta, Sunil: Africus: Johannesburg Biennale, Transitional Metropolitan Council, Johannesburg, 1995 Gupta, Sunil and van den Berg, Clive: Sometimes - Brief Histories of Time: OVA London, 1995
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Durban Art Museum South African National Gallery, Cape Town Johannesburg Art Gallery King George VI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth Pretoria Art Gallery Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley Local History Museum, Durban Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein Natal Provincial Administration Margate Municipality University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries University of Natal University of South Africa University of the Orange Free State Technikon Natal Mobil Oil Volkskas Bank Mangosuthu Technikon Telkom Trust Bank Everite Sasol Anglo American Corporation BHP Billiton MTN South African Broadcasting Corporation Didata