Wim Botha

**Wim Botha** (a mụrụ n'afọ 1974) bụ onye South Africa na-ese ihe n'oge ọhụrụ a.

## Akụkọ ndụ
A mụrụ Botha na Pretoria n'afọ 1974 ma bi ugbu a na Cape Town, South Africa. O tolitere n'obodo dị n'akụkụ ọwụwa anyanwụ nke Pretoria. N'afọ 1996, Botha gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Mahadum nke Pretoria na Bachelors na Visual Art. Ọ natara Helgaard Steyn Prize maka ihe banyere ọkpụkpụ n'afọ 2013, Standard Bank Young Artist Award nkè afọ 2005, na Tollman Award nkè afọ 2003.

## Ọrụ
Botha achọtala mkpalite n'ihe gbasara ọrụ ya na ederede gọọmentị na ihe oyiyi okpukpe, ihe ndị na-egosi nkwenkwe, okwukwe, nlele, mmebi iwu na mgbaghara. Otu n'ime ihe ndị ọ na-eji eme ihe bụ osisi a gwọrọ, akwụkwọ, acrylic enamel paint, oil paint, steel, Indian ink, bronze, paper, na marble.

Onye na-ese ihe na-akọwa; “Ọrụ m bụ usoro distillations...Ha na-anwa ibelata echiche niile na ihe ndị zuru ụwa ọnụ ruo n'echiche ha bụ isi. Inyocha n'ụzọ “intercepting variables’ and “patterns’”

## Ihe ngosi
**2014** Linear Perspectives - Stevenson, Cape Town

**2013** PREDICATES - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin

**2012** Wim Botha - Stevenson, Johannesburg

**2011** All Around - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin Wim Botha - Stevenson, Cape Town

**2009** Wim Botha: Joburg Altarpiece & Amazing Things from Other Places - Stevenson, Cape Town

**2008** Wim Botha - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin Wim Botha - Stevenson, Johannesburg

**2007** Wim Botha: Apocalagnosia - Stevenson, Cape Town

2006 Wim Botha: Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art **2005** - Standard Bank Gallery,Johannesburg

**2005**

* A Premonition of War - Durban Art Gallery, Durban
* A Premonition of War. Standard Bank Young - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
* Cold Fusion. Gods, Heroes and Martyrs - Stevenson, Cape Town
* Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2005 - South African National Art Gallery,Cape Town
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**2003** Speculum - Stevenson, Cape Town

**Ihe ngosi otu**

**2014**

* Ndị na-ese ihe na-arụ ọrụ? Ikekwe - Gulbenkian. Próximo Futuro, Lisbon
* Alptraum - Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor
* Alptraum - Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor
* The Divine Comedy. Eluigwe, hel, pọgatrị site n'echiche nke ndị na-ese ihe n'oge a n'Afrịka -Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main

**2013** A Sculptural Premise - Stevenson, Cape Town Pophits & Alptraum - Artspace RheinMain, Offenbach The Loom of the Land - Stevenson, Johannesburg

**2012**

* Alptraum - The Nightmare Never Ends - X project space, Berlin
* Alptraum - Green Papaya Art Project - - Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila
* Alptraum - Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City
* Alptraum - Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, Johannesburg

**2011**

* Conrad Botes Na Berni Searle, Wim Botha, Nandipha Mntambo, Penny Siopis, Serge Alain Nitegeka + Sabelo Mlangeni - Turner Gallery, Perth, WA
* mémoires du futur - la collection Olbricht - La Maison Rouge, Paris
* Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2011 - Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg
* iALPTRAUM! - Blank Projects, Cape Town
* Nnweta Ọhụrụ - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
* Alptraum! - Anat Egbi, Los Angeles, CA
* ¡ALPTRAUM! - Washington DC, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Kapstadt - Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin

**2010**

* Index 40: Ọrụ ndị isi site na Sanlam Art Collection - Smac Art Gallery, Stellenbosch
* PEEKABOO - South Africa ugbu a - Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
* Triennale Kleinplastik - Larger Than Life - Stranger Than Fiction - Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach

**2009** Self/Not-self - Stevenson, Johannesburg

**2008** Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention - Stevenson, Cape Town

**2007**
 * Politische Ikonografie - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin * Summer 2007/8 - Stevenson, Cape Town * Africa Remix - Contemporary art of a continent - Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg * TRANS CAPE - contemporary African art on the move - Trans Cape Africa, Cape Town * Afterlife - Stevenson, Cape Town
**2006**

* South African Art Now - Stevenson, Cape Town
* Africa Remix - Moderna Museet, Stockholm
* Ihe dị n'okpuru - New Art from South Africa - Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
* Africa Remix - Contemporary Art of a Continent - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
* 7ème Biennale de l ́Art Africain contemporain - Dak'Art Biennale de l’art africain contemporain,Dakar
* Mmetụta Onwe Onye - Ike na Poetics na Contemporary South African Art - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
* Olvida quien soy - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

**2005**

* South African art 1848 - ugbu a - Stevenson, Cape Town
* African Remix - l'art contemporain d'un continent - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d ́Art Moderne, Paris
* Africa Remix - Contemporary Art of a Continent - Hayward Gallery, London

**2004**

* Mmetụta Onwe Onye - Ike na Poetics na Contemporary - Museum for African Art, New York City, NY
* Afrika Remix - Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents - Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

**2003**

* The Ampersand Foundation - Warren Siebrits Gallery, Johannesburg
* Contact Zones - Colonial & Contemporary - Stevenson, Cape Town

## Ndepụta ihe ngosi

* Wim Botha: Ụlọ 2001-2014 (2014)
* Wim Botha: Solipsis I-V (2013)
* Wim Botha: Busts 2003–2012 (2012)
* Wim Botha: Joburg Altarpiece & Amazing Things from Other Places (PDF only, 2009)
* Wim Botha: Apocalagnosia (2007)
* Wim Botha: Standard Bank Young Artist (2005)
* Wim Botha: Cold Fusion: Gods, heroes and martyrs (2005)
* Wim Botha: Speculum (2003)

## Edensibia

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