Berni Searle

Exhibitions

2011

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Interlaced. De Hallen, the Belfry Tower, Bruges, Belgium. 18 April - June. Travelling to Frac Lorraine, Metz, France. 21 May - 18 September. Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (MMKA), The Netherlands. 9 July - 16 October
  • Michael Stevenson, Cape Town. 14 April - 21 May

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Figures and Fictions. V&A Museum, London. 12 April - 17 July
  • Space, Ritual, Absence: Liminality in South African visual art. FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg. 10 March - 1 April
  • Mine - A selection of films by SA artists. Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany. 10 February - 6 March
  • Variations. Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canada. 21 January - 3 April

2010

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Dissolve. SITE Santa Fe, 8th International Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Opening 18 June 2010
  • Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity. Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Southern Germany. 17 June -
  • SPace: Currencies in Contemporary African Art. Museum Africa, Johannesburg. 11 May - 11 July
  • Pictures by Women: A history of modern photography. Museum of Modern Art, New York City. 7 May - 21 March 2011
  • Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art. Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales. 30 April - 12 June
  • 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective. Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town. 15 April to mid-September

2009

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Summer 2009/10: Projects. Michael Stevenson, Cape Town. 26 November 2009 - 16 January 2010
  • An Imagined State. Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos. October/November
  • Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities. Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA. 10 September - 5 December
  • La modernité dans l'art Africain d'aujourd'hui, part of the Panafrican Cultural Festival of Algiers. 5 July - September
  • Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969-2009. Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands. 30 May - 23 August
  • 10th Havana Biennial. Havana, Cuba. 27 March - 30 April
  • Continental Rifts: Contemporary time-based works of Africa. Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. 22 February - 14 June
  • Self/Not-self. Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg. 19 February - 21 March
  • Beauty and Pleasure in South African Contemporary Art. The Stenersen Museum, Oslo. 5 February - 10 May
  • Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. 31 January - 26 April
  • Test Patterns: Recent Video Work from South Africa, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. 8 January - 25 March

2008

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Day for Night. On the Edge, Stavanger 2008 EU project, Obrestad lighthouse, Norway. Opening 11 October
  • Across Oceans. Transit Art Space, Stavanger, Norway. 10 October - 23 November
  • Recent work. Michael Stevenson, Cape Town. 4 September - 11 October

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Transnational Convergences in African Art. Dunlop Art Gallery, Canada. 15 November - 11 January 2009
  • Alternating Beats, Rhode Island School of Design Museum's new Spalter Media Gallery. 17 October 2008 - 15 February 2009
  • Traversiá. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Opening 17 October
  • The Messenger, 19th century Opera house (Stadsschouwburg, 1855), City of Brugge, Cultuurcentrum, Belgium. Opening on 10 October
  • On Reflection: Women artists selected from the collections of Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales. 5 July - 14 September
  • Home Lands - Land Marks. Haunch of Venison, London, UK. 29 May - 5 July
  • Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention. Michael Stevenson, Cape Town. 15 May - 5 July
  • Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. 1 April - 7 September. Davis Museum, Wellesley College. 10 September - 10 December
  • Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation. Harn Museum, Florida. Summer 2008
  • Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa 1950 – Present. Travelling exhibition. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, USA. 2008–2009
  • Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Part II. Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, USA. 24 January - 24 May

2007

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • On Either Side. Mary H Dana Women Artists Series, Douglass Library Galleries, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. 1 October - 14 December
  • Approach. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois. 31 August - 29 December 2007

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. 17 November 2007 - 13 April 2008
  • New Photography. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 30 September 2007 - 1 January 2008
  • Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Part I. Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, USA. 14 September - 8 December
  • RePrint. Philagrafika, Philadelphia. September - November 2007
  • South African Art: Modern art and cultural development in a changing society. Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia. 8 September - 18 November
  • Bare Life. Museum on the Seam, Israel. September 2007
  • Apartheid: The South African Mirror. Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona. 26 September 2007 - 10 February 2008
  • Eccentric Bodies. Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. 14 June - 3 August 2007
  • Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa 1950 - Present. Travelling exhibition. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, USA. 2007-2009
  • Figuratively Speaking: The Figure in Contemporary Video Art. QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane. 22 May - 9 June 2007
  • Cape '07. Cape Town. 24 March - 2 May 2007
  • The Eye Screen or The New Image. Casino Luxembourg - Forum for Contemporary Art. 23 March - 17 June 2007
  • Global Feminisms. Elizabeth A Sackler Centre, Brooklyn Museum, New York. 23 March - 1 July 2007

2006

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg. 19 November 2006 - 28 February 2007
  • Approach, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida. 27 October - 20 December 2006
  • Crush, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town. 21 September - 21 October 2006

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Photography, Video, Mixed Media III. DaimlerChrysler, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. 27 September 2006 - January 2007
  • Venice-Istanbul. Istanbul Modern. 14 September - 26 November 2006
  • Second to None, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, SA. 24 June - 3 September 2006
  • Personal Affects: Power and poetics in contemporary South African art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii. 23 February - 7 May 2006
  • 2006 Contemporary Commonwealth, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). 23 February - 21 May 2006
  • Cross Currents, Tufts University Art Gallery, Massachusetts, US. 9 February - 2 April 2006
  • Black, Brown and White, Kunsthalle Vienna. 23 February - 18 June 2006

2005

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • To love, to fear, to leave, Performa05, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York. 14 November 2005 (one night screening)
  • Berni Searle: Three video works, BildMuseet, Umeå, Sweden. September 2005
  • About to forget, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town. 4 May - 4 June 2005
  • Presence, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky. January 2005

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • A Kind of Magic - The art of transforming, Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland. 6 August - 27 November
  • Always a little further, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice. 12 June - 30 November
  • TEXTures: Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. 11 February - 4 September 2005

2004

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Vapour, invited artist, Aardklop Festival, Potchefstroom. 28 September - 2 October 2004
  • Invited artist, City of London Festival, Royal Exchange Building, Museum of London, Docklands Museum, London. 21 June - 9 July
  • Dis/Colour, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky. 29 March - 26 April
  • Vapour, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town. 18 February - 27 March
  • Float, Standard Bank Young Artist for 2003 exhibition. South African National Gallery, Cape Town. 3 - 29 February. Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg. 18 May - 26 June

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Negotiated Identities, Black Bodies, Johannesburg Art Gallery. 24 October 2004 - 2 January 2005
  • "Dwellan" - Lingering Images, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark. 5 November - 12 December
  • 5th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, China. 28 September - 28 November 2004
  • Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art, Cathedral Church of St John the Divine and Museum for African Art, New York. September - December
  • Hang In There, My Dear Geum-Sun, Busan Biennale 2004, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Seoul, Korea. 21 August - 31 October
  • Min(e)dfields, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel. 7 August
  • New Identities - Current South African Art, Museum Bochum, Germany. 31 July - 7 November
  • Through the Looking Glass, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown. July
  • Artes Mundi Shortlisted Artists exhibition, National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff, Wales. 7 February - 18 April

2003

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Residency and solo exhibition, Kunst:Raum Sylt-Quelle, Rantum, Sylt, Germany. July - October
  • Float, Standard Bank Young Artist award exhibition. Monument Gallery, Grahamstown. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Museum, Port Elizabeth. Durban Art Gallery, Durban. South African National Gallery, Cape Town. 4 - 29 February 2004. Johannes Stegmann Gallery, Bloemfontein. 24 March - 23 April 2004. Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg. 18 May - 26 June 2004 (Cat)
  • A Matter of Time, commissioned by UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA. February 2 - March 23 (Cat)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Opzij van het Kijken, Watou Art and Literature Festival, Watou, Germany. 6 July - 7 September
  • 2003 NMAC Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo, Vejer de la Frontera, Spain. July 2003 (Cat)
  • More than a 1000 words, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Anandale-on-Hudson, NY. 11 - 25 May
  • Contact Zones: Colonial and Contemporary, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town. 7 May - 14 June
  • The Space Between, Davis Museum and Cultural Centre, Boston, Mass. 18 March - 8 June
  • De ce côté du ciel - UNESCO salue les femmes dans l'art, Salle des Pas Perdus. 6 - 24 March

2002

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Berni Searle, Peres Projects, San Francisco
  • Berni Searle, Seippel Gallery, Cologne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • The Spice Route, IFA, Stuttgart, Germany. 7 November - 29 December (Cat)
  • Intersections: South African Art from the BHP Billiton Collection, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (Cat)
  • The Field's Edge: Africa, Diaspora, Lens, curated by Rory Bester and Amanda Carlson, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida (Cat)
  • Watching Ocean and Sky Together, outdoor film projection, Liverpool Biennale. 9 - 13 October
  • Familieverhalen uit Zuid Afrika, Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 3 October 2002 - August 2003 (book)
  • ID/OLOGY, Axis Gallery, New York. 10 September - 12 October
  • Tracing the Rainbow, travelling exhibition of South African art in Germany. Kunst:Raum Sylt-Quelle, Rantum. 7 June - 31 August. Kulturverein Zehntscheuer, Rottenburg/Neckar Rottenburg. 29 September - November (Cat)
  • Fronteras, Espacio C, Santander, Spain. 19 April - 22 June (Cat)
  • Dislocación. Sala Rekalde, Bilbao. 21 March - 28 April. Centro Cultural De Maia, O'Porto. October

2001

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Still, Axis Gallery, New York. September
  • Colour Matters, Kunsthalle Stadgallerie, Osnabrück, Germany. June

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa in and out of Africa, curated by Salah Hassan and Olu Oguibe, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. 6 June - 4 November (Cat)
  • Encounters with the Contemporary, curated by Elizabeth Harney, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. 7 January 2001 - 6 January 2002 (Cat)
  • Dislocación, PhotoEspaña2001, Madrid, Spain. 13 June - 15 July (Cat)
  • Juncture. The Granary, Cape Town. 7 February 2001. London. 15 April - 15 May (Cat)

2000

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • A.r.e.a. 2000, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland. 17 November, 2000 - 7 January 2001
  • L'Afrique a Jour, Lille, France. 29 September - 20 October (Cat)
  • Returning the Gaze, billboard for Cape Town's One City Festival. September (Cat)
  • L'art dans le Monde, Paris, France. 8 September - 8 November (Cat)
  • FNB Vita 2000, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg. 18 July - 2 September (Cat)
  • Artworks for Aids, auction of commissioned work, Durban, Washington DC, Brussels, Boston. 30 November (Cat)
  • DAK'ART 2000, Musee D'Art Africain, Dakar, Senegal. 5 May - 5 June (Cat)
  • Insertion, curated by Salah Hassan, Apex Gallery, New York. 18 April - 20 May
  • Fresh, South African National Gallery, Cape Town (Cat)
  • Kwere Kwere: Journeys into Strangeness, travelling exhibition curated by Rory Bester, The Castle, Cape Town. Gertrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg. NSA Gallery, Durban
  • Distinguished Identities: Contemporary African Portraiture, curated by Barbara Frank, Staller Centre for the Arts, SUNY at Stoney Brook, New York. 5 February - 4 March (Cat)
  • Open Studio, work produced in two-month residency at Gasworks, London. February - March
  • Afrika Portrat, House of World Cultures, Berlin. 13 January - 31 March (Cat)
  • Work produced in residency, Inova (Institute of the Visual Arts) at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. 10 December 1999 - 27 February 2000

1999

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Colour Me, Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town. 7 - 30 April (Cat)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Staking Claims, curated by Emma Bedford, The Granary, Cape Town. 23 September - 16 October (Cat)
  • Towards-Transit: New Visual Languages in South Africa, De Blaue Saal, Zurich, Switzerland. 28 August - 25 September (Cat)
  • Postcards from South Africa, Axis Gallery, New York. 9 August - 2 October
  • Lines of Sight. Perspectives on South African Photography, South African National Gallery, Cape Town. 13 July - 31 October (Cat)
  • Truth Veils, commissioned work for the conference organised by the History Workshop, Wits University and the Centre for Violence and Reconciliation titled 'The TRC: Commissioning the Past', Gertude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg. 11 June - 9 July
  • Isintu: Ceremony, Identity and Community, six South African artists and selected Australian artists, curated by Tumelo Mosaka, South African National Gallery, Cape Town. 21 March - 26 June
  • Bloodlines/Bloedlyn, Klein Karoo Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. 26 - 31 March (Cat)

1998

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 7th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt (Cat)
  • Emergence (25th anniversary of the Standard Bank National Arts Festival), various SA venues. 29 June 1998 - 6 April 1999

1997

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Life's Little Necessities, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, The Castle, Cape Town (Cat)

1995

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Illusions of Identity - Notions of Nationhood, MFA graduate exhibition, Good Hope Gallery, The Castle, Cape Town
  • International Exhibition of Art Colleges, Hiroshima, Japan

1992

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Passing Through, work completed in residency, Canberra Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia