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May 5, 2023 The Centre for Asian Studies in Africa and the Visual Arts Division at the University of Pretoria present ‘Unhoused Memories’ at the Javett-UP – a creative collaboration between acclaimed poet Sudeep Sen (India) and visual artist Prof Johan Thom (South Africa)
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November 12, 2020 Showing with Kalashnikovv Gallery – FNB Art Joburg 05-18 Nov 2020
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August 25, 2020 New World Order A special project curated by Johan Thom for the RMB Turbine Art Fair 2020
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April 11, 2020 Some new works 2019 –
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October 27, 2018 UP Visual Arts lecturers and artists feature large at Aardklop, the Potchefstroom National Arts Festival 1- 7 October 2018
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March 17, 2017 ‘(Don’t) look back’ at Gallery Momo Cape Town in collaboration with the Nirox Foundation
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October 9, 2016 Group show: ‘Critical Discharge’@ Priest Expressobar in Johannesburg
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October 8, 2016 Foundations and Futures: The Bag Factory Artists’ Studios is thrilled to announce its 25th Anniversary Exhibition
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April 28, 2016 Promises, promises… (2016), Polyurethane foam, found object, mixed media
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December 11, 2015 Artistic intervention at Art of Wagnis conference, Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany, 2015
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- PERFORMANCE
- 2003: Bind/Ontbind Series
- 2004-6: Outpost Series
- 2006: The Theory of Gravity
- 2008/9: Vox Populis/ Vox Dei
- 2008: Come in peace/ Go to pieces (2008)
- 2008: Traffic
- 2008: Twilight
- 2010-12: Incantation Series
- 2010/11: Recital
- 2010: Biblioclast (Action with Afrikaans/Dutch Dictionary)
- 2010: Figurehead
- 2010: Host 1
- 2011: Container
- 2011: Licked Colony
- 2011: Thank you
- 2013: For Linnaeus
- Fountain (Date Withheld)
- …other performances
- VIDEO/INSTALLATIONS
- 2002: The pencil test series
- 2003: Violence and Happiness
- 2004: The Labyrinth
- 2005: The Minotaur Series 12
- 2006: The Theory of Evolution
- 2006: The Theory of Flight
- 2007: Ascension
- 2007: Birth of a Tyrant (2007)
- 2007: Terms of endearment
- 2008: Challenging Mud (After Kazuo Shiraga)
- 2008: Outpost 4
- 2008: The Theory of Displacement
- 2009: Panopticon
- 2010: blood rites/ eat your words
- 2010: Host II
- 2010: Illumination
- 2010: Shellshock
- 2011: Flow
- 2019: Recital: Decoy
- OBJECTS
- 2007: Looking for Lucy
- 2007: Molotovmammas
- 2007: Philistine rules/ Did you know?
- 2007: The OK Revolution
- 2009: Vessel – Perfect Lovers
- 2010: Gold works
- 2010: Knobkierie
- 2010: Recital (Lend me your ears)
- 2010: Songbirds
- 2011: Workhorse (with Guy Du Toit)
- 2012: Fallen – monument for throwing…
- 2013: The Animal Series
- 2014-15: Faust the African Series
- 2016: Promises, promises…
- 2016: Selfportrait as an ass
- 2016: Selfportrait with skull
- 2017: The Hanging Garden
- 2019: Houseboat
- 2020: Houseboat #2
- ABOUT
- Artist statement
- Press
- Shortened CV
- Interviews
- 2003: Interview with Carine Zaayman
- 2006: Interview with Willem Boshoff
- 2007: Interview with David Koloane (2007)
- 2008: Interview with Peter Machen
- 2008: Radio Papesse Interview as part of ‘.za: Young Art From South Africa’
- 2009: Johan Thom interviewed by Sarah Claire Picton
- 2010: The ghosts wish to remember: Interview with Petra Zemljič
- 2018: The Aestheticized Interview with Johan Thom (South Africa) – Kisito Assangni for ArtDependence
- Authored
- David Koloane (1938–2019) – Artforum International
- Kendell Geers at the Steven Friedman, London
- Life intimidating art, The Diplomat, Sept/Oct 2007
- Roger Ballen at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, 2007
- The sleeping monster produces reasons : Diane Victor
- Santu Mofokeng (2010)
- The sense of fresh air (2010)
- Taming the Trojan Horse: Disarming the Politics of Otherness in a Postcolonial (African) Context
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