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Kendell Geers

Selected Artworks

Ink, resin and paint on Found object (Twilight of the Idols)
24 X 7 X 7,5 cm
Unavailable
Plexiglass mirror and charred wood
110.5 x 77cm
Brick, cement, glass, neon ,aliminium
300 x 800 x 800 cm
Rust on paper
200 x 130 cm
Bronze and custom made plinth
Work: 40 x 19 x 9 cm
Unavailable
Acrylic on canvas
Work: 100 x 70 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Work: 100 x 70 cm
Unavailable
Acrylic on canvas
Work: 100 x 70 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Work: 195 x 125 cm
Unavailable
Acrylic on canvas
Work: 115 x 95 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Work: 200 x 100 cm

About

Kendell Geers image

South African-born, Belgian artist Kendell Geers changed his date of birth to May 1968 in order to give birth to himself as a work of art. Describing himself as an ‘AniMystikAKtivist’, Geers takes a syncretic approach to art that weaves together diverse Afro-European traditions, including animism, alchemy, mysticism, ritual and a socio-political activism laced with black humour, irony and cultural contradiction.

Geers’s work has been shown in numerous international group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2007) and Documenta (2002). Major solo shows include Heart of Darkness at Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town (1993), Third World Disorder at Goodman Gallery Cape Town (2010) and more recently Songs of Innocence and of Experience at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg (2012). His exhibition Irrespektiv travelled to Newcastle, Ghent, Salamanca and Lyon between 2007 and 2009. Geers was included on Art Unlimited at Art 42 Basel in 2011. Work by Geers was included on Manifesta 9 in Genk, Limburg, Belgium and a major survey show of his work was exhibited at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany in 2013. Earlier this year Geers held a solo exhibition, The Second Coming (Do What Thou Wilt), at Rua Red in Dublin.

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Exhibitions

New York Gallery
01 November - 06 January 2024
Miami Pop-up
05 January - 30 January 2022

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