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Wim Botha

South African 1974- 


Wim Botha grew up near Pretoria and studied at the University of Pretoria and his works sometimes draws on his experience of the capital city’s particular character although he now lives in the Cape province. He works with associations between familiar, everyday objects and supposedly universal ideas, transforming material in ways that reflect its origins, but make other transgressive statements. Paper, an ordinary inexpensive substance, can communicate powerful ideas in Botha’s carved stacks of compressed found texts, such as government gazettes or other official documents, that he transforms into wildlife hunting trophies or religious figures, for example. The monumental Christ-like figure carved from stacked bibles in his Commune: Suspension of Disbelief installation, first displayed at the KKNK festival in 2001 and now in the Johannesburg Art Gallery, is regarded as one of his most iconic works.

For his sixth solo exhibition at Stevenson, Linear Perspectives (2014), Botha created three installations, in three different rooms, using a mix of traditional long-lasting art materials as well as fragile consumer products, including oil paint, bronze, marble, polystyrene and cardboard. Other solo exhibitions have been Predictions, at the Kunstraum in Innsbruck, Austria (2013) and Solipsis V, at the Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch, as part of the artist’s role as Stellenbosch University’s Woordfees Artist for the year 2013. Botha’s work has also featured on international group exhibitions including The Rainbow Nation, in the Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague (2012), and Imaginary Fact: South African Art and the Archive in the South African Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.

Botha won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for visual art in 2005, and the Helgaard Steyn Prize for sculpture in 2013 for his artwork Blastwave, displayed in public at Nedbank’s Johannesburg headquarters.


33 lots offered      63.64% sold      ZAR 3 813 791
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Wim Botha; Cloud Study 04
19 Sep 2023
ZAR 60 000 - 80 000
 
Wim Botha; A Thousand Things Part 97
10 Jul 2023
Sold for ZAR 18 760
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Wim Botha; Prism 24 [Ecstatic], with glass installation
25 Apr 2022
Sold for ZAR 227 600
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Wim Botha; Prism III
5 Apr 2022
Sold for ZAR 195 000
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Wim Botha; Chain of Command
30 Nov 2021
Sold for ZAR 1 876
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Wim Botha; Head
7 Nov 2021
Sold for ZAR 227 600
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Wim Botha; Prism 24 [Ecstatic], with glass installation
11 Oct 2021
ZAR 350 000 - 550 000
 
Wim Botha; Chain of Command
27 Sep 2021
ZAR 3 000 - 5 000
 
Wim Botha; Smutsdrift, diptych
26 Jul 2020
Sold for ZAR 170 700
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Wim Botha; Buffalo Heads; two
15 Feb 2020
Sold for ZAR 341 400
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Wim Botha; A Thousand Things, Part 50
7 Oct 2019
ZAR 180 000 - 240 000
 
Wim Botha; Coat of Arms I
20 May 2019
Sold for ZAR 9 380
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT

Results in green indicate post sales.