Berry Bickle

Berry Bickle (alizaliwa Bulawayo, 1959) ni msanii wa Zimbabwe anayeishi Maputo, Msumbiji.

Maisha
Bickle alisoma Chisipite Senior School iliyopo Harare. Baadaye, alisoma kwenye chuo Durban Institute of Technology, ambapo alipata stashahada katika sanaa ya uchoraji. na katika chuo kikuu cha Rhodes kilichopo Afrika Kusini alipata shahada ya uzamili katika sanaa Bickle ni mmoja wa waanzilishi wa Bulawayo's Visual Artists' Association.

Aligawa muda wake kati ya Zimbabwe na Msumbiji, kazi yake ilichunguza historia ya ukoloni. Mnamo mwaka 1988, yeye na Tapfuma Gutsa waliandaa warsha wa Pachipamwe, ambao ni warsha wa kwanza wa Triangle Art Trust kwa Africa. Mnamo mwaka 2010 alikuwa mmoja wa wafuasi wa sanaa ya uchoraji ya Rockefeller Foundation na anafanya kazi Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.

Kazi 
Berry Bickle ni msanii mashuhuri aliyefanya kazi mbali mbali zikiwemo ufugaji, video, upigaji picha, na ufinyanzi. Kazi zake kwa ujumla zilikuwa za ufugaji, nyingine zilihusisha video na upigaji picha. Bickle alishirikiana kwa karibu sana na mwanakeramik wa Zimbabwe, Marjorie Wallace. Alishirikiana na msanii wa Peruvian Adrian Velasquez.
Kwenye maonyesho na uchapishaji wa kazi za Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art Zilionyesha uwepo wa maandishi ya Bickle na kazi na umuhimu wa tendo la uandishi na ukusanyaji wa maneno; kwenye sura za kazi zake watu waliweka alama na kiziita   "Re-Writes".

 "Maputo Utopias" series.
 Suite Europa, 2010. The series was produced during a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.
 Sleeping beauty, 2008
 Cyrene
 Inheritance lost library
 Wandering
 Sarungano
 Pessoa bowls series

Maonyesho 
Kazi za zilionyeshwa kimataifa. Mnamo mwaka 2011, Bickle aliiwakilisha Zimbabwe  kwenye Venice Biennale, ikiwa ni nafsi adimu kwa nchi ya kiafrika wakati huo Pavilion ya Zimbabwe, ambayo iliandaliwa na  Raphael Chikukwa, ilipewa jina la "Seeing Ourselves."  
 Zimbabwe/Tanzania: contemporary artists, Helsinki, 1993.
 5th Havana Biennalle, Cuba, 1994.
 First Johannesburg Africus Biennale, 1995.
 On the Road, Africa'95, London, England, 1995.
 MBCA-Decade of Award Winners, National Gallery, Harare, 1996.
 Artists against landmines, Franco/Mozambique Cultural Centre, Maputo, 1999.
 World Video Festival, Gates Foundation, Amsterdam, 1999.
 Artistes contemporains du Zimbabwe, Pierre Gallery, Paris, 1999.
 Women in African Art, Vienna, 1999.
 2001 El tiempo de Africa, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria "Siyaphambili-2000," National Gallery, Harare, 2001.
 Art dans le Monde, Paris, 2001.
 Africas: The Artist and the City: A Journey and an Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain, 2002.
 Afrika Remix – Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents – Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, 2004.
 Visions of Zimbabwe – Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (England), 2004.
 Africa Remix, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2005.
 Textures – Word & Symbol in Contemporary African Art – National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, 2005.
 Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent – Hayward Gallery, London (England), 2005.
 Body of Evidence (Selections from the Contemporary African Art Collection) – National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, 2006.
 Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent – Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2006.
 7ème Biennale de l'Art Africain contemporain – Dak'Art Biennale de l'art africain contemporain, exhibition curated by N'Goné Fall in the frame of the individual exhibitions, Dakar, 2006.
 Annual MUSART – Museu Nacional de Artes (MUSART), Maputo, 2007.
 Exit11, Limited edition Part 1 – Exit11, Grand-Leez, 2007.
 Africa Remix – Contemporary art of a continent – Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, 2007.
 L'oeil-Écran Ou La Nouvelle Image – Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, 2007.
 Exit11, Exhibition 02 – Collective exhibition – Exit11, Grand-Leez, 2007.
 Videozone 4 – Videozone – International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, 2008.
 ifa-Galerie Berlin, Berlin, 2008.
 chance encounters – Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2008.
 Animais: Caracterização e Representação – Museu Nacional de Artes (MUSART), Maputo, 2008.
 Chance Encounters – Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa – Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos), Lagos, 2009.
 Maputo: A Tale of One City – Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, 2009.
 Biennale di Venezia – 54th International Art Exhibition, Pavilion of Zimbabwe, exhibition Seeing Ourselves curated by Raphael Chikukwa, Venice, 2011.
 The Divine Comedy. Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists'', 2014 Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main

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