Berni Searle
Née en 1964. Vit et travaille à Cape Town, South Africa
EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES - depuis 1999
2013
La Galerie Particulière, Paris
2012
Black Smoke Rising, Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2011
Interlaced. De Hallen, the Belfry Tower, Bruges, Belgium.
Travelling to Frac Lorraine, Metz, France ;
Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (MMKA), The Netherlands.
Michael Stevenson, Cape Town.
2008
Day for Night. On the Edge, Stavanger 2008 EU project, Obrestad lighthouse, Norway.
Across Oceans. Transit Art Space, Stavanger, Norway.
Recent work. Michael Stevenson, Cape Town.
2007
On Either Side. Mary H Dana Women Artists Series, Douglass Library Galleries, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.
Approach. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois.
2006
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
Approach, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida.
Crush, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town.
2005
To love, to fear, to leave, Performa05, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York.
Berni Searle: Three video works, BildMuseet, Umeå, Sweden.
About to forget, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town.
Presence, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky.
2004
Vapour, invited artist, Aardklop Festival, Potchefstroom.
Invited artist, City of London Festival, Royal Exchange Building, Museum of London,
Docklands Museum, London.
Dis/Colour, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky.
Vapour, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town.
Float, Standard Bank Young Artist for 2003 exhibition. South African National Gallery, Cape Town. Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg.
2003
Residency and solo exhibition, Kunst:Raum Sylt-Quelle, Rantum, Sylt, Germany.
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.
Johannes Stegmann Gallery, Bloemfontein.
Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg. (Cat)
A Matter of Time, commissioned by UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA. (Cat)
2002
Berni Searle, Peres Projects, San Francisco
Berni Searle, Seippel Gallery, Cologne
2001
Still, Axis Gallery, New York.
Colour Matters, Kunsthalle Stadgallerie, Osnabru?ck, Germany.
1999
Colour Me, Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town. (Cat)
EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES - depuis 1992
2012
Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part II: Contemporary
Reconfigurations,Walther Collection Project Space, New York
Invited Artist, Galerie Nationale, 10th Dakar Biennale, Senegal
Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, 11th Havana Biennale, Cuba
Mine - A selection of films by SA artists, Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre, Dubai.
University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
2011
Figures and Fictions. V&A Museum, London.
Space, Ritual, Absence: Liminality in South African visual art. FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg.
Mine - A selection of films by SA artists. Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Variations. Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2010
Dissolve. SITE Santa Fe, 8th International Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity. Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Southern Germany.
SPace: Currencies in Contemporary African Art. Museum Africa, Johannesburg.
Pictures by Women: A history of modern photography. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art. Fotogallery, Cardiff, Wales.
1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective. Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
2009
Summer 2009/10: Projects. Michael Stevenson, Cape Town. 26 November 2009 - 16
An Imagined State. Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos.
Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities. Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA.
La modernité dans l?art Africain d?aujourd?hui, part of the Panafrican Cultural Festival of Algiers.
Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969-2009. Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands.
10th Havana Biennial. Havana, Cuba.
Continental Rifts: Contemporary time-based works of Africa. Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Self/Not-self. Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg.
Beauty and Pleasure in South African Contemporary Art. The Stenersen Museum, Oslo; Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA.
Test Patterns: Recent Video Work from South Africa, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA.
2008
Transnational Convergences in African Art. Dunlop Art Gallery, Canada.
Alternating Beats, Rhode Island School of Design Museum?s new Spalter Media Gallery.
Traversiá. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas, Canary Islands.
The Messenger, 19th century Opera house (Stadsschouwburg, 1855), City of Brugge, Culturcentrum, Belgium.
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 Home Lands - Land Marks. Haunch of Venison, London, UK.
Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention. Michael Stevenson, Cape Town.
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Davis Museum, Wellesley College.
Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation. Harn Museum, Florida.
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.
2007
Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
New Photography. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Part I. Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, USA.
RePrint. Philagrafika, Philadelphia
South African Art: Modern art and cultural development in a changing society. Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Bare Life. Museum on the Seam, Israel.
Apartheid: The South African Mirror. Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona.
Eccentric Bodies. Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
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.
Cape ?07. Cape Town. 2
The Eye Screen or The New Image. Casino Luxembourg - Forum for Contemporary Art.
Global Feminisms. Elizabeth A Sackler Centre, Brooklyn Museum, New York.
2006
Photography, Video, Mixed Media III. DaimlerChrysler, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin.
Venice-Istanbul. Istanbul Modern.
Second to None, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, SA.
Personal Affects: Power and poetics in contemporary South African art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii.
2006 Contemporary Commonwealth, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).
Cross Currents, Tufts University Art Gallery, Massachusetts, US.
Black, Brown and White, Kunsthalle Vienna.
2005
A Kind of Magic - The art of transforming, Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Always a little further, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice.
TEXTures: Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC.
2004
Negotiated Identities, Black Bodies, Johannesburg Art Gallery.
«Dwellan» - Lingering Images, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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.
Min(e)dfields, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel.
New Identities - Current South African Art, Museum Bochum, Germany.
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
Opzij van het Kijken, Watou Art and Literature Festival, Watou, Germany.
2003 NMAC Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo, Vejer de la Frontera, Spain. (Cat)
More than a 1000 words, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Anandale-on-Hudson,
Contact Zones: Colonial and Contemporary, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town.
The Space Between, Davis Museum and Cultural Centre, Boston, Mass.
De ce côté du ciel - UNESCO salue les femmes dans l?art, Salle des Pas Perdus.
2002
The Spice Route, IFA, Stuttgart, Germany. (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.
Familieverhalen uit Zuid Afrika, Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (book)
ID/OLOGY, Axis Gallery, New York.
Tracing the Rainbow, travelling exhibition of South African art in Germany. Kunst:Raum Sylt-
Quelle, Rantum.Kulturverein Zehntscheuer, Rottenburg/Neckar, Rottenburg. (Cat)
Fronteras, Espacio C, Santander, Spain. (Cat)
Dislocación. Sala Rekalde, Bilbao. Centro Cultural De Maia, O?Porto. October
2001
Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa in and out of Africa, curated by Salah Hassan and Olu Oguibe, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. (Cat)
Encounters with the Contemporary, curated by Elizabeth Harney, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. (Cat)
Dislocación, PhotoEspaña2001, Madrid, Spain. (Cat)
Juncture. The Granary, Cape Town. 7 February 2001. London. (Cat)
2000
A.r.e.a. 2000, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland.
L?Afrique a Jour, Lille, France. (Cat)
Returning the Gaze, billboard for Cape Town?s One City Festival. (Cat)
L?art dans le Monde, Paris, France. (Cat)
FNB Vita 2000, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg. (Cat)
Artworks for Aids, auction of commissioned work, Durban, Washington DC, Brussels, Boston.
DAK?ART 2000, Musee D?Art Africain, Dakar, Senegal. (Cat)
Insertion, curated by Salah Hassan, Apex Gallery, New York.
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. (Cat)
Open Studio, work produced in two-month residency at Gasworks, London. February - March
Afrika Portrat, House of World Cultures, Berlin. (Cat)
Work producied in residency, Inova (Institute of the Visual Arts) at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
1999
Staking Claims, curated by Emma Bedford, The Granary, Cape Town. (Cat)
Towards-Transit: New Visual Languages in South Africa, De Blaue Saal, Zurich, Switzerland.(Cat)
Postcards from South Africa, Axis Gallery, New York.
Lines of Sight. Perspectives on South African Photography, South African National Gallery, Cape Town. (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.
Isintu: Ceremony, Identity and Community, six South African artists and selected Australian artists, curated by Tumelo Mosaka, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
Bloodlines/Bloedlyn, Klein Karoo Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. (Cat)
1998
7th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt (Cat)
Emergence (25th anniversary of the Standard Bank National Arts Festival)
1997
Life?s Little Necessities, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, The Castle, Cape Town (Cat)
1995
Illusions of Identity - Notions of Nationhood, MFA graduate exhibition, Good Hope Gallery, The Castle, Cape Town
International Exhibition of Art Colleges, Hiroshima, Japan
1992
Passing Through, work completed in residency, Canberra Gallery, Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra, Australia
PRIX
2004
Artes Mundi Shortlisted Artist
2003
Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art
2001
Civitella Ranieri Fellow (2001)
2000
FNB Vita Award Finalist (2000)
DAK?ART 2000 Minister of Culture Prize. Dakar, Senegal
DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Contemporary Art Nominee
British Council Grant. Gasworks residency
1998
UNESCO in conjunction with the International Art Critics Association (AICA) Award,
7th International Cairo Biennale
1992-95
MacIver Centre for Science and Development scholarships
DAAD scholarships
1992
ASATT Grant. Four-month residency at the Canberra Institute of the Arts, Australian National University