 Artist's arttributes:
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Female |
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Photography, Video, Installation |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 31 |
| South Africa | 19 |
| Germany | 8 |
| United Kingdom | 6 |
| Italy | 6 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Stevenson, South Africa |
10 |
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South African National Art Gallery, South Africa |
3 |
Biography: 
7.7.1964 Born in Capetown (ZA)
Lives and works Cape Town and New York
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 105
until 31.7.
Solo shows 17
2011
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| Berni Searle. Interlaced - Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - MMKA, Arnhem |
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| Shimmer - Stevenson, Johannesburg |
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| Berni Searle - Shimmer - Stevenson, Cape Town |
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| Berni Searle. Un Être au monde - 49 NORD 6 EST – Frac Lorraine, Metz |
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| Interlaced - Cultuurcentrum Brugge, Bruges |
2008
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| Berni Searle- Recent Work - Stevenson, Cape Town |
2007
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| Berni Searle: Approach - Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL |
2006
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| Berni Searle - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL |
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| Crush - Stevenson, Cape Town |
2005
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| Berni Searle - Bildmuseet, Umeå |
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| Berni Searle: About to forget - Stevenson, Cape Town |
2004
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| Berni Searle - Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Arts 2003 - Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg |
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| Berni Searle: Vapour - Stevenson, Cape Town |
2003
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| Berni Searle - kunst:raum sylt quelle, Rantum / Sylt |
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| Berni Searle/Matrix 202 - A Matter Of Time - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
2001
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| Berni Searle - Still - Axis Gallery Inc., New York City, NY |
1999
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| Bernadette Searle - INOVA - Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI |
Group shows 87
2012
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| Bullet Wound Boulevard - RONMANDOS - Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
2011
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| Conrad Botes With Berni Searle, Wim Botha, Nandipha Mntambo, Penny Siopis, Serge Alain Nitegeka + Sabelo Mlangeni - Turner Gallery, Perth, WA |
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| Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography - Victoria & Albert Museum - V&A, London (England) |
2010
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| Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950 - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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| Site Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial The Dissolve - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2010 - The Dissolve - SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Contemporary Artists from South Africa - Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen |
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| This is Our Time - Stevenson, Cape Town |
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| Life Less Ordinary - Ffotogallery @ Turner House, Penarth (Wales) |
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| Insight - The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth |
2009
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| Summer 2009/10: Projects - Stevenson, Cape Town |
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| Identity: An Imagined State - Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA,Lagos), Lagos |
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| Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities - Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA |
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| A Life Less Ordinary - Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham (England) |
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| Rebelle - Kunst & Feminisme 1969 - 2009 - Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - MMKA, Arnhem |
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| 10. Bienal de La Habana - La Bienal de La Habana, Havana |
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| Self/Not-self - Stevenson, Johannesburg |
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| Continental Rifts: Contemporary Time-Based Works of Africa - Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Beauty and Pleasure South African Contemporary Art - Stenersenmuseet, Oslo |
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| Test Patterns: Recent Video Work From South Africa - SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA |
2008
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| is it tomorrow yet? - Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
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| Helga De Alvear im Dialog mit Harald Falckenberg - Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg |
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| INPUT - Colecção Sindika Dokolo - Museu Nacional de História Natural, Luanda |
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| Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Alternating Beats - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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| Travesía - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
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| Travesía - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
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| The Messenger - Cultuurcentrum Brugge, Bruges |
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| On Reflection - Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (Wales) |
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| Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation: Water as Metaphor for Identity - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| Home Lands-Land Marks: Contemporary Art from South America - Haunch of Venison - London, London (England) |
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| Obscurum per Obscurius - Tallinna Kunstihoone / Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn |
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| Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention - Stevenson, Cape Town |
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| za giovane arte dal sudafrica - SMS Contemporanea, ex Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena |
2007
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| Summer 2007/8 - Stevenson, Cape Town |
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| Bare Life - Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem |
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| Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art - Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| New Photography 2007 - Tanyth Berkeley, Scott McFarland, Berni Searle - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Cinema Remixed and Reloaded (Part I) - Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA |
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| (Re)print - Temple Gallery - Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Da Bauhaus (Agora!) - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, São Paulo |
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| Global Feminisms Remix - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| ISCP Open Studios - International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York City, NY |
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| From the Vault - Galleria Pack, Milan |
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| Harlem Postcards - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| L'oeil-Écran Ou La Nouvelle Image - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg |
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| TRANS CAPE - contemporary African art on the move - Trans Cape Africa, Cape Town |
2006
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| Trienal de Luanda 2007 - Trienal de Luanda, Luanda |
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| Venice - Istanbul - Istanbul Modern, Istanbul |
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| Second to none: Celebrating 50 years of women's struggles - South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town |
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| SD Observatorio - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| 7ème Biennale de l´Art Africain contemporain - Dak'Art Biennale de l’art africain contemporain, Dakar |
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| Black, Brown, White - Fotografie aus Südafrika - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Personal Affects - Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
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| Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation - Water as Metaphor for Identity - Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA |
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| Conversation with Art, on Art. bauhaus to Contemporary Art - Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo |
2005
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| PERFORMA 05 - Performa, New York City, NY |
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| A kind of magic - The art of transforming - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne |
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| 51st International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - Always a little further - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Mbongeni Buthelezi, Berni Searle and Andreas Kaiser, Werner Mally, Robert Schad - Galerie Conny Dietzschold, Cologne |
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| Mbongeni Buthelezi, Berni Searle and Andreas Kaiser, Werner Mally, Robert Schad - Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Textures - Word & Symbol in Contemporary African Art - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC |
2004
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| Dwellan - Exhibition of contemporary video art - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen |
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| The DaimlerChrysler Collection - South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town |
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| 5th Shanghai Biennale - Techniques of the visible - Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai |
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| Personal Affects - Power and Poetics in Contemporary - Museum for African Art, New York City, NY |
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| New Identities Contemporary South African Art - Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum |
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| Busan Biennale 2004 - The Busan Biennale, Busan |
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| DaimlerChrysler Collection for South Africa - Museum Africa, Johannesburg |
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| The Daimler Art Collection - Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria |
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| Presence - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| Artes Mundi 1 - National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff (Wales) |
2003
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| The African Exile Museum - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
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| Contact Zones - Colonial & Contemporary - Stevenson, Cape Town |
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| Corpo Sociale - Galleria Pack, Milan |
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| The Space Between: Artists Engaging Race and Syncretism - Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
2002
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| The Spice Road - ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
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| The Field's Edge - Africa, Diaspora, Lens - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL |
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| I.D.OLOGY - Axis Gallery Inc., New York City, NY |
2001
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| 49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Head North. Views from the South African National Gallery Permanent Collection - South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town |
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| Head North - Bildmuseet, Umeå |
2000
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| 4ème Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain - Dak'Art Biennale de l’art africain contemporain, Dakar |
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| Insertion: Self and Other - Apexart, New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 1 |
South Africa
Collections 4
Germany
Spain
| | Fundación NMAC - Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz
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USA
| | Bates College Museum of Arts, Lewiston, ME
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| | National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
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