Figure in Orange Headscarf

Provenance

Stephen Welz & Co, Johannesburg, 17 November 2015, lot 656.

Private Collection.

Notes

Marion Boehm was a mixed-media artist whose work explores cross-cultural exchange, African and Western histories, and the dignity of African women. After earning a Diploma in Interior Design from the University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt in 1997, she worked as an interior architect in Frankfurt, Cannes, and Milan before relocating to South Africa in 2010. While involved in a community project in Kliptown, Johannesburg, she began creating her distinctive collages – layered compositions of fabric, archival paper, and found objects – that reflect the textures and narratives of township life. Influenced by South African artist Kay Hassan (1956-), Boehm’s work avoids ethnographic tropes in favour of portraying strength, authenticity, and individuality in series such as Silent Beauty (2014). Her art has been widely exhibited and is held in major public and private collections including the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, and the Yinka Shonibare Foundation, London, with exhibitions across South Africa, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the United States of America, Morocco, Portugal, Luxembourg, and beyond.