- Landscape and Film, South African Film, Art History, Film Studies, Cinema, Photography, and 20 morePhotography Theory, Fine Art Photography, Visual Studies, African cinema, History of photography, Documentary Photography, Architecture And Photography, Philosophy of Photography, Landscape Photography, Apartheid, History and Theory of Photography, Photography (Visual Studies), Contemporary Art, Contemporary African art, Contemporary South African Art, African Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Cultural Theory, Art and Apartheid, and Afrikaner identityedit
- Vincent Bezuidenhout is a South African born artist whose work spans image-making, sculptural installation and invest... moreVincent Bezuidenhout is a South African born artist whose work spans image-making, sculptural installation and investigative documentary practises. His research intensive process is concerned with identity in relation to the psychology of power, and the validity of memory relative to history.
He has been awarded grants and fellowships from The National Arts Council of South Africa, The Goethe Institut, The Tierney Fellowship, Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, School of Visual Arts - NYC and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Residencies include the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and Photoglobal at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Bezuidenhout holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, is a published writer, and have lectured widely.
Solo exhibitions include Separate Amenities at Whatiftheworld, Cape Town (2012) and Fail Deadly at Goethe On Main, Johannesburg (2016). Recent group exhibitions include the Biennale Boda Boda Lounge Intercontinental Video Project (2014/16), Another Antipodes - Emerging Contemporary Art from Southern Africa, Australia (2017), Imagined Communities, Nationalism & Violence, Rubber Factory, NYC (2017) and RE 21: This is Not Here, New York City, U.S.A. (2018).
Permanent collections include Stellenbosch University Museum, Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art and the South African National Association for the Visual Arts. He currently lives and works between Cape Town and New York City.edit
A dissertation for the award of the degree of Master of Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Cape Town. The body of photographs discussed in this document examine the way in which the... more
A dissertation for the award of the degree of Master of Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Cape Town.
The body of photographs discussed in this document examine the way in which the landscape was constructed to enforce separation, in the form of separate amenities, during the time of apartheid in South Africa.
The body of photographs discussed in this document examine the way in which the landscape was constructed to enforce separation, in the form of separate amenities, during the time of apartheid in South Africa.
Research Interests: Photography, Cultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Apartheid, Photography Theory, and 15 moreSouth Africa (History), Architecture And Photography, Documentary Photography, Contemporary South African Art, Fine Art Photography, African Photography, Race and identity in post-apartheid South Africa, Contemporary African art, David Goldblatt, Stephen Shore, South African Art and Photography, Group Areas Act, Contemporary Landscape Photography, South African Contemporary Photography, and vincent bezuidenhout
In 2014 I participated in the Boda Boda cross-continental Video Art Festival. Taking place in over 15 spaces throughout the African continent (including Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, South Africa, Egypt, Mali, Nigeria,... more
In 2014 I participated in the Boda Boda cross-continental Video Art Festival. Taking place in over 15 spaces throughout the African continent (including Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, South Africa, Egypt, Mali, Nigeria, Angola, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde and Uganda) the festival included a video extract from my current project entitled Banned, which uses video footage appropriated from films censored during apartheid. In two of the participating countries namely Uganda and Zimbabwe, both of which have stringent anti homosexual laws, there were issues around some of the content of the work. This led to the work being censored outright in Zimbabwe and eventually shown in Uganda despite tensions around this decision.
As part of the Boda Boda Lounge project publication I wrote a response to this incident in a section called On Censorship, accompanied by essays from Alex Lyons and Mthabisi Phili. The publication also features contributions by Portia Malatjie, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Euridice Kala, Jude Anogwih, Ezra Hube, Erick Musimanje, Molemo Moiloa, Shehab Awad, Elizabeth Giorgis and Patrick Mudekereza.
As part of the Boda Boda Lounge project publication I wrote a response to this incident in a section called On Censorship, accompanied by essays from Alex Lyons and Mthabisi Phili. The publication also features contributions by Portia Malatjie, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Euridice Kala, Jude Anogwih, Ezra Hube, Erick Musimanje, Molemo Moiloa, Shehab Awad, Elizabeth Giorgis and Patrick Mudekereza.
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Censorship, Film Studies, Contemporary Art, Video Art, and 15 moreFilm History, Film and Video Art, Film Censorship, Contemporary South African Art, African Film, Visual Arts, Queer Art History, South African Film, Cine Africano, Cine de África, Vídeos nigeriano, Banned literature, African Queer Arts and Culture, South African Video Art, vincent bezuidenhout, dineo seshee bopape, and Portia Malatjie
Review of the South African Pavilion at Performa 17 for Arthrob.co.za
Research Interests: Contemporary Art, Performance Art, Performativity, African theatre and performance, South Africa, and 15 moreWilliam Kentridge, African Art, Nicholas Hlobo, South African contemporary art, Zanele Muholi, Performa, Tracey Rose, South African performance art, Kendell Geers, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Kemang wa Lehulere, Roselee Goldberg, vincent bezuidenhout, Whatiftheworld Gallery, and Mohau Modisakeng
A review of South African performance artist Athi-Patra Ruga’s ‘Over the Rainbow' - Performa NYC, for Artthrob, South Africa, November 2016
Research Interests: Performing Arts, Contemporary South African Art, Southern African History, Race and identity in post-apartheid South Africa, Contemporary African art, and 14 moreSouth African Art, Art History, Contemporary South African Art, Response to violencee in art, Performa, South African Art and Photography, South African performance art, African Queer Studies, Post Apartheid Masculinity, Rainbow Nation, Art and Apartheid, African Queer Arts and Culture, Roselee Goldberg, vincent bezuidenhout, Whatiftheworld Gallery, and Athi-Patra Ruga
An interview with South African Artist Monique Pelser on the occasion of her exhibition Conversations with my Father, Grahamstown National Arts Festival. Published in Artthrob, South Africa.
Research Interests: Art History, Photography, Video Art, Apartheid, Contemporary South African Art, and 9 moreFine Art Photography, Modern South African History; Whiteness And Racial States; Historiography, Photography (Visual Studies), Race and identity in post-apartheid South Africa, South African contemporary art, Art History, Contemporary South African Art, Response to violencee in art, South African Contemporary Photography, vincent bezuidenhout, and Monique Pelser
A review of an exhibition entitled History Will Break Your Heart by Kemang Wa Lehulere, 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Arts, Grahamstown National Arts Festival. Published in Artthrob, South Africa.
Research Interests: Art History, Contemporary Art, Apartheid, Contemporary South African Art, CoBrA, and 15 moreRace and identity in post-apartheid South Africa, Art History, Contemporary South African Art, Response to violencee in art, APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA, South African Art Music, Change in Post‐apartheid South Africa for born frees, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Ernest Mancoba, Gladys Mgudlandlu, Standard Bank Young Artist, Kemang wa Lehulere, South African painting, vincent bezuidenhout, Gugulective, South Africa censorship, and South African exiled artists
Exhibition Catalogue for the solo exhibition Fail Deadly by Vincent Bezuidenhout at Goethe on Main, Johannesburg, 2016. Essay by Chad Rossouw.
Research Interests: Photography, Contemporary Art, South African Politics and Society, Photography Theory, Contemporary South African Art, and 15 moreConceptual Art, Fine Art Photography, Visual Arts, African Photography, African Art, Contemporary African art, Art History, Contemporary South African Art, Response to violencee in art, The Changing Dynamics of South African Cities Since the End of Apartheid, South African Art and Photography, South African Contemporary Photography, vincent bezuidenhout, South Africa's nuclear history, South Africa's nuclear weapons, South Africa's nuclear weapons programme , and Chad Rossouw
Exhibition Catalogue: She Watches Over, a collaborative project between Vincent Bezuidenhout and Chad Rossouw. Exhibited at the Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town, 2016