Berry Bickle
Zimbabwean artist (born 1959)
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Berry Bickle (born 1959) is a Zimbabwean artist who resides in Maputo. Born in Bulawayo, Bickle attended the Chisipite Senior School in Harare. Later, she attended the Durban Institute of Technology, where she obtained a national diploma in fine arts,[1] and South Africa's Rhodes University, where she obtained a master's degree in fine arts.[1][2] Bickle was a founding member of Bulawayo's Visual Artists' Association.[3]
Berry Bickle | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) |
| Education | Durban Institute of Technology, Rhodes University |
| Known for | installation art, Conceptual art, sculpture |
| Awards | Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Fellow, 2010 |
She divides her time between Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and her work explores the region's history of colonialism.[4] In 1988, she and Tapfuma Gutsa organised the Pachipamwe workshop, the first Triangle Art Trust workshop organised in Africa.[5] In 2010 she became a Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Fellow[6] and she works at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center on the series Suite Europa.
Work
Berry Bickle is a multimedia artist who works in installation, video, photography, and ceramics.[7] Her works are generally installations, and are mixed media works which incorporate script; some include video and photography. Bickle has collaborated closely with the Zimbabwean ceramicist, Marjorie Wallace.[7] She has collaborated with the Peruvian artist Adrian Velasquez. The exhibition and the publication Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art[8] highlight the presence of texts in Bickle's work and the importance of the act of writing and of collecting words; in this frame, the artist labels her work "Re-Writes".[9]
- "Maputo Utopias" series.[10]
- Suite Europa, 2010. The series was produced during a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.
- Sleeping beauty, 2008
- Cyrene
- Inheritance lost library
- Wandering
- Sarungano
- Pessoa bowls series
Exhibitions
Berry Bickle's work is exhibited internationally. In 2011, Bickle represented Zimbabwe at the Venice Biennale, at the time a rare appearance for an African nation.[11] The Zimbabwean Pavilion, which was curated by Raphael Chikukwa, was titled "Seeing Ourselves".[11]
- 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.[12]
- 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.[10]
- 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.[11]
- The Divine Comedy. Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, 2014 Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main.[13]