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Kendell Geers
Artist's Name: Kendell Geers
Preferred medium: installation
birth year: 1968
Nationality: ZA
City: London

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The South African artist Kendell Geers (b. 1968) does not have a great respect for the art establishment. For the Crap Shoot exhibition he had the curator Rudi Fuchs shadowed by a private detective for a week. In Glasgow he blew up one of the museum walls. Somewhere else he masturbated over a Hustler, framed the result, and hung the 'painting' in a museum. In the Palazzo Grassi he urinated in Duchamps' urinal. He is consequently constantly involved in depicting evil in highly individual art forms that explore the boundaries of what is permissible. As far as Geers is concerned it is not the work of art itself that is important but the message behind it. The main reason he creates 'art' is to undermine the establishment. Kendell Geers does not consider himself an artist or an activist. He is not an artist because he doesn't give a damn about art, and is not an activist because in his view an activist does not fit into today's world. Geers does not believe in a Utopia, but is more interested in a 'dystopia'. He sees freedom as the ability to speak for oneself, to define oneself and to be able to represent oneself in a way that meets one's own needs and experiences rather than those of others, namely those of the media and consumer society. (S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent )

important exhibitions from Kendell Geers

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Kendell Geers Irrespektiv MART - Museo Trento e Rovereto Rovereto IT 15.10.2009
Manifesta 9 International Foundation Manifesta Amsterdam NL 01.06.2012
Kendell Geers - Irrespektiv Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK) Gent BE 21.04.2007
29th Bienal de São Paulo Biennale São Paulo São Paulo BR 25.09.2010
Kendell Geers The Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon FR 19.09.2008
Kendell Geers: IRRESPEKTIV DA2 - Domus Artium 2002 Salamanca ES 27.06.2008
Kendell Geers BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead GB 21.09.2007
Kendell Geers - Hung, Drawn and Quartered Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati US 27.08.2004
Politics of Art National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST Athen GR 13.10.2010

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Galleries representing
Kendell Geers:

Galleria Continua
Galleria Continua Beijng
Luis Campaña Köln, closed
Marian Goodman Gallery
Rodolphe Janssen Galerie
Salon 94
Stephen Friedman Gallery
The Goodman Gallery
Yvon Lambert
Yvon Lambert - New York
Yvon Lambert Paris

Collections representing
Kendell Geers

CCA Andratx
Collection Lambert en Avignon
Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art
FRAC - Haute-Normandie
MARTa Herford Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST
South African National Gallery
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK)
The Model