Berry Bickle

**Berry Bickle** (born 1959) be a Zimbabwean artist wey dey reside insyd Maputo. Na dem born am insyd Bulawayo, Bickle attend de Chisipite Senior School insyd Harare. Later, she attend de Durban Institute of Technology, wer na she obtain a national diploma insyd fine arts, den South Africa ein Rhodes University, wer na she obtain a master's degree insyd fine arts. Na Bickle be a founding member of Bulawayo ein Visual Artists' Association.

She dey divide ein time between Zimbabwe den Mozambique, wey ein work dey explore de region ein history of colonialism. Insyd 1988, she den Tapfuma Gutsa organise de Pachipamwe workshop, de first Triangle Art Trust workshop dem organise insyd Africa. Insyd 2010 she cam turn a Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Fellow wey she dey work for de Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center for de series *Suite Europa* top.
## Work
Berry Bickle be a multimedia artist wey dey work insyd installation, video, photography, den ceramics. Ein works be generally installations, wey dem be mixed media work wich dey incorporate script; sam dey include video den photography. Bickle collaborate closely plus de Zimbabwean ceramicist, Marjorie Wallace. She collaborate plus de Peruvian artist Adrian Velasquez. De exhibition den de publication *Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art* dey highlight de presence of texts insyd Bickle ein work den de importance of de act of writing den of collecting words; insyd dis frame, de artist dey label ein work "Re-Writes".

* "Maputo Utopias" series.
* *Suite Europa*, 2010. Na dem produce de series during a residency for de Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.
* *Sleeping beauty*, 2008
* *Cyrene*
* *Inheritance lost library*
* *Wandering*
* *Sarungano*
* *Pessoa bowls series*

## Exhibitions
Na dem exhibit Berry Bickle ein work internationally. Insyd 2011, Bickle represent Zimbabwe for de Venice Biennale, for de time a rare appearance give an African nation. De Zimbabwean Pavilion, wich na dem curate by Raphael Chikukwa, na he title am "Seeing Ourselves".

* Zimbabwe/Tanzania: contemporary artists, Helsinki, 1993.
* 5th Havana Biennalle, Cuba, 1994.
* First Johannesburg Africus Biennale, 1995.
* *On the Road*, Africa95, 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.

## References



## Bibliography

* Gaël Teicher, *Berry Bickle: plasticienne*, Editions de l'Oeil, Paris, 2008.
* "A carta de Gaspar Vezoso I : TZR studies a painting by Berry Bickle", *Zimbabwean Review* 3 (2), April–June 1997: 1–2.
* A. J. Chennells, "Empire's offspring" in *Gallery*: the art magazine from Gallery Delta (7 March 1996): 3–6
* Peter S. Garlake, "Memory, mischief and magic in the country of my heart" in *Gallery*: the art magazine from Gallery Delta (17 September 1998): 22–25.
* Helen Lieros, "Earthãwaterãfire, recent works by Berry Bickle" in *Gallery*: the art magazine from Gallery Delta (11 March 1997): 20–21.
* Pierre-Laurent Sanner, "Berry Bickle" in *Revue Noire* 28 (March–April–May), 1998: 224–227.

## External links

* Berry Bickle's website
* Galleries of Berry Bickle's works