Willie Bester

Willie Bester (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Silimiin goli February biɛɣ'pihita yini ka dali yuuni 1956)  nyɛla South African nuchee ni baŋda ŋun nyɛ pɛnta pɛnta. Niriba pam nyɛla ban mi o ka di nyɛla o nuchee ni baŋsim tuma ŋɔ zuɣu. Saha ŋɔ o nyɛla Kuilsrivier, South Africa ni o paɣa Evelyn  mini bihi ata.

 Tuma 
Bester nyɛla ŋun tumdi peenta tuma, anfooninima yaabu n-ti pahi binyɛra mɛbu. 

 Exhibitions 

 Solo exhibitions (selection) 

 1982 Forum, Cavendish Square, Cape Town. 
 1991 Gallery International, Cape Town 
 1992 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 
 1993 South African Association of Art, Cape Town 
 1994 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 
 1998 Emporain, Dakar 
 1999 Opere Recenti, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy 
 1999 Archivio Della Scuola Romana, Introdotto da Achille Bonito Oliva, Roma, Italy 
 2000 Arte Assortite, Torino
 2001 Centre D'Art Contemporain, Brussels, Belgium
 2002 SASOL Museum, Stellenbosch 
 2003 Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town 
 2005 34 LONG, Cape Town 
 2007 Montagu Museum 
 2008 Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town 
 2009 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

 Group exhibitions (selection) 

 1989 Baxter Gallery, Cape Town 
 1990 Gallery International, Cape Town 
 1991 Operation Hunger Exhibition, Cape Town 
 1991–92 ZABALAZA FESTIVAL, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
 1992 Primart Gallery, Cape Town 
 1993 Venice Biennale, INCROCI DEL SUD: An exhibition of works by 27 contemporary South African Artists 
 1993–94 INCROCI DEL SUD, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 
 1994 UN ART CONTEMPORIAN D'AFRIQUE DU SUD, Galerie De L'Esplanade, La Defence, Paris 
 1995 DIALOGUES OF PEACE, Exhibition for the UN's 50th Anniversary, Palaise Des Nations, Geneva 
 1996 Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland 
 1996 Contemporary Art from South Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 
 1997 Galleria d'Art Moderna e Contemporanea di San Marino, San Marino 
 1998 Biennale de l'Art Contemporian,  Dakar, Senegal 
 1999 Claiming Art Reclaiming Space, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. 
 2000 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 
 2001 Barcelona Contemporary Cultural Center, Spain 
 2002 Passport to South Africa, Centro Culturale "Trevi", Bolzano, Italy 
 2003 Suidoos Festival, Peninsula Technikon 'Coexistence- Contemporary Cultural Production in South African' Rose Art Museum, USA 
 2004 Africa Remix - Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast: 24 July–7 November 2004 
 2005 London, Hayward Gallery
 2006 Tokyo, Mori Art Museum
 2007 Rocca di Castagnoli, Biennale Internazionale d'Art, Italy
 2009 34 LONG FINE ART, Cape Town

 Literature 

 House, Gloria, Alison Kenzie,.und Art Gallery of Windsor. Willie Bester: apartheid laboratory : Art Gallery of Windsor, February 24-June 17, 2007. Art Gallery of Windsor, 2008.
 Lee, Donvé. Willie Bester: Art as a Weapon. Awareness Publishing, 2008...

Kundivihira

 External links 

 Dr Willie Bester: Biography at The Melrose Gallery 
 Willie Bester - CAAC Art - Jean Pigozzi Art Collection

Pubu:Lahabaya zaa
Category:1956 births
Category:Living people
Category:South African installation artists
Category:South African sculptors
Category:South African contemporary artists
Category:Contemporary sculptors
Category:Artists from Cape Town