…Opening Borders/Opening Objects facilitates a break with the standardized form of engagement with the artist, conceived of and valued primarily as producers and typically represented by their artistic output. Through their relationship with objects circulating in different, yet connected, cultural networks and markets, the exhibition invokes and complicates perceived binaries such as producer/consumer, high/low, real/imagined and local/global, as well of notions of truth, authenticity, and value.
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OPENING BORDERS / OPENING OBJECTS
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- 2003: Bind/Ontbind Series
- 2004-6: Outpost Series
- 2005: Crawling (The City of Gold)
- 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
- 2010: ProSpecter
- 2011: Container
- 2011: Licked Colony
- 2011: Thank you
- 2013: For Linnaeus
- 2024: nomansland
- 2024: Will you still be mine? (Del Mar) #1
- 2024: ‘when my feet fall asleep (they dream of having gills)’
- Fountain (Date Withheld)
- …other performances
- VIDEO/INSTALLATIONS
- 2002: The pencil test series
- 2002: 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
- 2023: ‘Movement in three parts (Isandlwana)’ Johan Thom (featuring Fellay, Manganye & Binda)
- 2023: Autoportrait
- 2023: Hoop/Heap (featuring Sudeep Sen)
- 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
- 2023: Time after Time
- 2024: Dwell
- 2024: LH+RH+LHRH (Grasp)
- 2024: RH#1 (right heel – the weight of my body in clay)
- 2024: The ‘Grasp’ Sculpture Kit
- 2025: LH#1 (left heel – the weight of my body in porcelain)
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- 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
- 2023: The Question of ‘Africanness’ and the Expanded Field of Sculpture (part one), Johan Thom (SA) , Olu Oguibe (US) & moderated by Carolyn Jean Martin (US)
- 2024: Flowers, sex, labour and loss: Transcript of the keynote conversation between Willem Boshoff and Olu Oguibe & chaired by Johan Thom
- Authored
- 2024: Artistic research as an act of self-representation (Or why I choose to view my work as ‘research’)
- 2025: Beauty and survival in a changing climate | Johan Thom | TEDxJohannesburg
- 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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