WILLEM BOSHOFF – CURRICULUM VITAE

WILLEM BOSHOFF (full name WLLLEM HENDRIK ADRIAAN BOSHOFF), artist from Gauteng (previously Transvaal), South Africa. Married (Anél), 4 children (Karen, Martin, Willem, Emma). Nationality: South African. Born 1951, Vereeniging, South Africa.

Artwork

Media: Creates primarily language/text-related art prepared over long periods and referring to a social context in the form of large installations, visual poetry, concrete poetry, sculpture. Uses wood, stone, objet trouve, mixed media and various graphic media.

Main Areas of Exploration: Dictionaries, botanical gardens and nature, medieval and early music, avant garde music, ethnic music, philosophy. Language systems that stonewall or subvert the institution of the traditional gallery to empower disenfranchised social groups or raise ecological issues. Boshoff is generally classified as a conceptual artist.

Chronology: 1976–82 Interlocking wooden structures 1979–80 MICROSCOPIC PROJECTS, KYKAFRIKAANS visual poetry 1982–83 370-DAY PROJECT 1980–86 BANGBOEK and projects in cryptic writing 1986–94 seeds and soils – collections from different locations 1988–97 BLIND WALLS, a post-modern dictionary for the 11 official languages of South Africa, consisting of 10 000 arcane words on 10 obstacle walls – work in progress 1991–96 BLIND ALPHABET ABC, a dictionary of essays on morphology sculpted in palpable forms and controlled by the blind 1996 BAD FAITH CHRONICLES 1997–99 GARDEN OF WORDS I & II, relief printing of Gardens of Eden as installations of thousands of plant names – work in progress 1997 THE WRITING THAT FELL OFF THE WALL, an installation that disqualifies failed colonial promises 2000 INDEX OF (B)REACHINGS, an installation of 85 works that bridges the divination practices of Europe and Africa 2001 large installations that force linguistic interaction between different interest groups: PANIFICE, KRING VAN KENNIS and WINDFALL, made of granite, and WRITING IN THE SAND, made of sand 2004 Objecting to ‘good’ things being hijacked by ‘bad’ people: SERIAL KILLER, WHAT IS OUR OIL DOING UNDER THEIR SAND?, WAR & PEACE and NOTHING IS OBVIOUS 2006 GARDEN OF WORDS III 2007 BLIND ALPHABET D & E 2008-09 CHILDREN OF THE STARS granite sculptures 2009 BIG DRUID IN HIS CUBICLE Installation/performance showing druid walks, dictionaries and divination

Academic Profile

Devotes most of his time to research in preparation for artworks and talks. This includes the drawing up of botanical checklists at major botanical gardens of the world, and the writing of dictionaries.

Studies: 1970–74 Johannesburg College of Art (now University of Johannesburg, FADA), National Art Teacher’s Diploma; 1980 Technikon Witwatersrand (now University of Johannesburg, FADA), National Higher Diploma in Fine Art – Printmaking; 1984 Technikon Witwatersrand, Masters Diploma in Technology in Fine Art – Sculpture. Study visits to Austria, Germany in 1982 , and again in 1993 , to England, Wales and Scotland. 2008 Honorary Doctorate, University of Johannesburg

Dictionaries and botanical research: 1977 Writes Dictionary of Colour. Other dictionaries include: Dictionary of Manias and Phobias, Dictionary of Morphology, Dictionary of – ologies and – isms and Dictionary of Beasts and Demons, Dictionary of Winds, Dictionary of Obscure Financial Terms; PlacesMother Might not Approve of; Unmentionabilia; Red Names; 2004 Completes the Oh No! Dictionary. 1982 – 85 Secretary of the Dendrological Society, Gauteng, leads many groups on ecological excursions; 1999 Completes a dictionary of perplexing English after more than ten years, using research from 200 dictionaries including the 25 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary ; 2000 compiles Beyond the Epiglottis, a dictionary of extraordinary terms in rhetoric. 2007What Every Druid Should Know (in progress)

Teaching career: In a teaching career spanning 23 years he taught various art-related subjects to students at all levels of development: 1975–77 teacher, Parktown Boys’ High School – Afrikaans, Religious Instruction and Fine Art; 1977–80 lecturer at Technikon Witwatersrand; 1980–82 senior lecturer; 1983–91 Associate Director at the same institution and Head of Department; 1991–96 Associate Director

Guest Lecturer/Speaker: Regularly presents slide shows at numerous institutions in South Africa and abroad. Frequent guest speaker at exhibition openings and events; lecture tours: 1996 United States of America – University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana; University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale; University of Iowa, Iowa City; University of Chicago; since 1981 Performances of KYKAFRIKAANS and lectures on language, concrete and visual poetry, especially at the White Box Gallery, New York in 2000 and at the International Language Congress 2003 ; 2005 guest lecturer for the Smithsonian Institution at Washington universities and schools

Judge of art competitions, advisor to art institutions: Since the mid 80s has been a judge on the Vita Art Now panels that select the most promising artists in the Johannesburg region. Frequent judge of ABSA Atelier (previously Volkskas Atelier), New Signatures and Rembrandt Triennale competitions. Advisor to the Standard Bank Visual Arts Committee and currently art advisor to the Sanlam Collection. Trustee and advisor to the Ampersand Foundation, an organisation that awards fellowships to artists for cultural enrichment in New York. Member of the Fine Art Advisory Committee, University of Johannesburg.

Examiner: External examiner for a number of tertiary institutions in South Africa; examiner for many post graduate students; 1995-2009 External examiner for students in their third and fourth year as well as Masters students at the fine art departments of various universities and colleges including Michaelis School of Art of the University of Cape Town; Johannesburg College of Education; Pretoria University, Rhodes University in Grahamstown; Natal Institute of Technology, Pretoria Technikon; Durban Institute of Technology; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Johannesburg University; Stellenbosch University; University of the Free State.

Exhibitions

1981 Guest artist, Johannesburg Art Gallery.

1982 Natalie Knight Gallery, Johannesburg, with Joe Tilson.

1984 South African Association of Arts, Pretoria, with Hans Potgieter.

1985 Work selected for Tributaries, an exhibition of South African art touring South Africa and West Germany, curated by Ricky Burnett.

1994 Selected for State of the Art, an exhibition curated by Trent Read for the Everard Read Contemporary Gallery, Johannesburg.

1995 BLIND ALPHABET ABC shown at the Johannesburg Art Gallery as part of Outside Inside, an exhibition curated by Julia Charlton for the Africus Biennale 1995; also selected for the FNB VITA Art Now exhibition, Johannesburg Art Gallery; BOTTLED HOPE, selected for Right to Hope, an exhibition of international art touring various countries and commissioned by the United Nations; BLIND ALPHABET B: 90 sculptures exhibited at Siyawela, an exhibition of South African Art at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England.

1996 45 Sculptures from BLIND ALPHABET B shown at FNB Vita Art Now, Johannesburg Art Gallery; BLIND ALPHABET C: 77 sculptures exhibited in Atlanta, USA as part of an exhibition of South African Art; BAD FAITH CHRONICLES, an assemblage of labeled dolls and Bibles on 11 panels, Mermaid Theatre Gallery, London; 45 sculptures of BLIND ALPHABET B shown at an exhibition of South African art entitled Don’t Mess with Mister In-between, held at Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal; BLIND ALPHABET C: 77 sculptures exhibited as the South African work at the 23rd International Biennale of Sao Paulo.

1997 SHREDDED EVIDENCE exhibited at the Unplugged show, Rembrandt Gallery, Johannesburg; a series of three works entitled TREE OF KNOWLEDGE exhibited at the Alliance Fran ç aise, Johannesburg; Johannesburg Biennale; THE WRITING THAT FELL OFF THE WALL, an installation shown at the Johannesburg Art Gallery as part of an exhibition of international artists named Important and Exportant, curated by Gerardo Mosquera; an installation, GARDEN OF WORDS, for the FNB Vita Award for Art at the Sandton Municipal Gallery; ABAMFUSA LAWULA, a work for the Purple and Green exhibition of international art at the Pretoria Art Museum.

1998 Sanlam Centre, Cape Town BLIND ALPHABET C: 20 sculptures with Worcester School for the Blind; pieces concerning historical language made between 1977–1981 as part of Dark Continent, showing the work of four artists and curated by Clive Kellner; BLIND ALPHABET C: 77 sculptures placed on permanent exhibition at the National Library for the Blind, Birmingham, England; BANGBOEK (1977-­1980) at an exhibition of South African/Angolan war memories organised by Intimas Memorias Marcas and shown at the Museu da Cidade, Pavilhao Branco, Lisbon, Portugal, and thereafter in Brussels, Belgium; Dreamsand Clouds, two works from the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE series shown at an exhibition of 14 South African artists at Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, thereafter in G ö teborg, Sweden; BLIND ALPHABET D shown at Triennale der Kleinplastik, an exhibition of international artists in Stuttgart, Germany. This work was purchased for the collection of the Stadtischen Galerie G ö ppingen.

1999 Conceptual work shown on an exhibition entitled Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York and in 2000 at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, which featured leading international artists in the conceptualist idiom and toured the United States; an installation, GARDEN OF WORDS II, shown at the 8th Floralies Internationales, Nantes, France; Group Exhibition; Johannesburg Art Foundation; Manuscript Exhibition, Carfax Gallery, Johannesburg; Emergence, an exhibition of South African Art, curated by the University of the Witwatersrand and touring the major centres in South Africa.

2000 Large installation of BANGBOEK as part of an exhibition of war memories of African artists, held at MuKHA (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen) in Antwerp, Belgium; KYKAFRIKAANS at the White Box Gallery, Chelsea, New York, exhibited with the work of other South African artists Translation/Seduction/Displacement; the first granite pieces of an ongoing conceptual work entitled PANIFICE, shown as part of After New York, an exhibition by members of the Ampersand Foundation at the Johannesburg Civic Gallery; an outdoor installation entitled BREAD AND PEBBLES for the exhibition Mnemosyne curated by Leanne Engelberg at the University of the Witwatersrand; INDEX OF (B)REACHINGS, a large installation dealing with divination in Europe and Africa, shown as part of Urban Futures 2000 at MuseuMAfricA, Johannesburg; and also exhibited as the main artwork at Aardklop art festival, Potchefstroom; an installation, THE WRITING IN THE SAND, shown in Cuba at the Havana Biennale; BLIND ALPHABET C, shown in Umea, Northern Sweden; SHREDDED EVIDENCE and ABAMFUSA LAWULA exhibited in gallery Via Cesare Correnti, Milan, in an exhibition called Johannesburg, Johannesburg as part of the project mostra d’arte contemporanea atmosphere metropolitan; THE WRITING THAT FELL OFF THE WALL (1997) and GARDEN OF WORDS I (1997), exhibited at the Museo Nacional, Centro deArte, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain as part of the exhibition Visiones del Sur: No es sólo lo que ves: pervirtiendo minimalismo, curated by Gerardo Mosquera.

2001 WRITING IN THE SAND, exhibited with works by the group Decembristerne by Den Frie Udstillings, Copenhagen, Denmark; selection of work exhibited on Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, Munich, Germany, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; PANIFICE, an installation of granite breads on breadboards in 60 languages at the 49 thVenice Biennale as part of the exhibition Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa In and Out Africa curated by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor; Pretoria Art Museum the BLIND ALPHABET (B1-B40) was shown as part of an exhibition entitled Seeing Blind; Millennium II, Johannesburg: Cracked-up to be, joint exhibition with Andrew Munnik; Rand Afrikaans University, WRITING IN THE SAND, a solo exhibition with workshop on concrete poetry; PANIFICE, exhibited in Unpacking Europe at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

2002 GARDEN OF WORDS II, exhibited at Vandskel Kunstcentret, Silkeborg Bad, Denmark; MAZE, a 40m x 15m, walk-through installation of scrap materials for Mission Antarctica at the 2002 World Summit on sustainable development, Johannesburg; BLIND ALPHABET (C78-C154), IZIKO SA National Gallery, Cape Town.

2003 GARDEN OF WORDS II, shown at Camouflage, Observatorio, Brussels and in Switzerland; ABAMFUSA LAWULA on exhibition and the front cover of the accompanying catalogue of Co-existence: Contemporary Cultural Production in S.A. at Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, and later at the IZIKO SA National Gallery, Cape Town; NEGOTIATING THE ENGLISH LABYRINTH, exhibited on Sted/Place, two collaborative exhibitions between South Africa and Denmark at Galerie Asb æ k, Copenhagen; 32000 DARLING LITTLE NUISANCES at Kastrupgard-samlingen museum; Licked, a solo exhibition of new works on voting, prison sentences and anti-war subjects at Michael Stevenson Fine Art, Cape Town; KYKAFRIKAANS 12 new silk-screen prints from the original collection, at SA National Gallery, Cape Town; WRITING IN THE SAND, exhibited as part of Dechirures de l’histoire, an exhibition of international artists at Musee departemental de la Haute-Saone Albert Demard, Champlitte, France.

2004 Nonplussed, a solo exhibition, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg; participant in group exhibitions at Rand Afrikaans University, Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein and Johannesburg Art Gallery; God Save The Queen, solo exhibition, Constitutional Court Gallery, Johannesburg.

2005 Guest artist TEXTures exhibition, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; participant in group exhibition at Fried Contemporary, Pretoria.

2007 Fried Contemporary, Pretoria, part of a group exhibition of three artists; Aardklop arts festival, Potchefstroom: participant in a group exhibition featuring the 10 festival artists for the last 10 years; Willem Boshoff Word Forms and Language Shapes, a solo, retrospective exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg curated by Warren Siebrits; Épat, a solo exhibition at Michael Stevenson Fine Art, Cape Town.

2008 Part of a group exhibition of 30 international artists curated by Anna Tilroe for Stichting Sonsbeek in Arnhem, Netherlands – WINDWOORDE, comprising of six banners made in collaboration with Mogalakwena Art Centre was used in the grand procession in Arnhem city and installed in Sonsbeek forest – an exhibition opened by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

2009 Goodman Gallery at NIROX CHILDREN OF THE STARS, large granite sculptures and other works on group exhibition; BIG DRUID IN HIS CUBICLE a performance/installation at Art Unlimited of the Basel Art Fair.

Collections

Unisa Art Gallery; BHP Billiton Art Collection, Johannesburg; Technikon Witwatersrand (now University of Johannesburg); IZIKO SA National Gallery, Cape Town; Johannesburg Art Gallery; University of the Witwatersrand; King George VI Gallery, Port Elizabeth; Durban Art Gallery; Sandton Municipal Collection, Johannesburg; Pretoria Art Museum; Jack Ginsberg Collection of Book Arts, Johannesburg; Pierre Lombart Collection of Contemporary South African Art; David Krut Collection of Fine Art, Johannesburg; Gordon Schachat Collection, Johannesburg; Sackner Archives of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami, Florida, USA; Robert Loder Collection of International Art, London; collection of ARTSENSE, a group that promotes art among the Blind, Birmingham UK; Sammlung der Stadtishe Galerie, G ö ppingen, Germany; MTN Art Collection, Johannesburg; Sanlam Corporate Collection, Cape Town; Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (now University of Johannesburg); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Dimension Data, Johannesburg; Constitutional Court of South Africa; Reserve Bank of South Africa; Ferguson Collection, Boston.

Commissions

1989 GAIA I, a triptych of sand and soil collected on a 10 000 kilometre journey allover South Africa, made for the reception area of Rand Merchant Bank; 1994–95 PSEPHOS, nine panels with 18 pebble types, collected from the nine provinces of South Africa for the Billiton headquarters; 1996 Telkom’s Art and the Internet project – a work entitled DISCUS; 2000 KRING VAN KENNIS – Circle of Knowledge, a 33 ton circle of stones installed at the main entrance to the Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg) and consisting of 11 massive stones with texts engraved in the 11 languages of South Africa; 2001 WINDFALL, an installation of 168 granite tiles depicting financial terms and the names of the winds of the world for the atrium of the new NEDCOR head office in Sandton; UMHLABATHI, a work consisting of 200 handfuls of sand collected from the nine provinces of South Africa and installed at the main entrance of the Mpumalanga Legislature Building; 2002 CHIASMUS, an installation of large glass floor panels with text at the new MTN headquarters, Roodepoort; 2003 PHILOSOPHERS’ AVENUE, a large walkway of ‘prehistoric’ stones in the courtyard, new Dimension Data headquarters, Bryanston; the permanent installation WRITING IN THE SAND, ABSA Bank, Johannesburg; 2004 PRISON SENTENCES, granite plaques commemorating the prison sentences of the eight accused at the Rivonia Trial, installed at the Constitutional Court of South Africa; 2006 SIGNS OF PEOPLE, a ‘language work’ installed in the central light shaft of the Origins Museum, University of the Witwatersrand; GARDEN OF WORDS III, a memorial garden for 15 000 plants, installed in Cape Town on the main lawn of Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden for the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) to coincide with the third assembly of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF); CLAVIS SCRIPTORIUM, a large installation in the foyer of the Standard Bank Global Leadership Centre; WOOD CONCERTO IN FOUR PARTS, installed at Black residence, Bantry Bay; 2007 LONG SHADOWS seven granite shadows laid in the floor at the entrance to the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Awards/Grants

Art Awards: 1971 Prize-winner, Sculpture, New Signatures; 1974 Prize-winner, Graphic Art and Drawing, New Signatures; 1974 Best Student Teacher Award in art graduate course; 1995 Recipient of a grant from Anglo American Chairman’s Fund to facilitate exhibition costs for BLIND ALPHABET ABC at Johannesburg Biennale; recipient of a research grant from the Foundation for the Creative Arts to continue work on BLIND ALPHABET PROJECT; nominated for the Alumnus of the Year Award by Technikon Witwatersrand; 1996 South African representative at the Sao Paulo Biennale; 1997 Winner of the FNB Vita Award for Art; 1998 winner of the Ludwig Giess Preis fur Kleinplastik by the LETTER Stiftung, Cologne, Germany; 1999 Winner of Gauteng Arts Culture and Heritage Award for Visual Art; 2000 Winner of the Aardvark prize as top artist at the Aardklop arts festival, Potchefstroom; 2001 Recipient of an honorary medal for Visual Arts, Sculpture from the SA Academy for Science and Art; Winner of the Helgard Steyn Award for Sculpture; 2005 With Ogilvy SA, winner of the Golden Loerie Award as well as the D&AD Global Award. 2008 Honorary Doctorate, University of Johannesburg

Other achievements: 1983 Silver medal, Comrades Marathon – Durban to Pietermaritzburg; 1984 Silver medal, Korkie Marathon – Pretoria to Germiston.

Publications and Papers by Boshoff

Visual/Concrete Poetry: 1981 KykAfrikaans, the only anthology of visual poetry in Afrikaans, Uitgewery Pannevis; 1995 Blind Alphabet ABC in Braille, Braille Services, Johannesburg.

Papers, Publications: 1984 ‘Die Ontwikkeling en Toepassing van Visuele Letterkundige Verskynsels in die Samestelling van Kunswerke’ – Verhandeling vir Nasionale Diploma in Tegnologie 1984; 1991 First National Sculpture Symposium, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town: ‘Judging Art Competitions in South Africa’ – Published in symposium record; 1992 Second National Sculpture Symposium, Technikon Natal, Durban: ‘Change of Mind in South African Art Education’; 1995 Third National Sculpture Symposium Technikon Pretoria ‘Aesthetics of the Skin’; 1997 ‘Aesthetics of Touch – ­notes towards a blind aesthetic’ – Published by University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts and Art History; 2000 Huet, Wilfried (ed.) Gagarin – The Artists in Their Own Words GAGARIN, Waasmunster, Belgium; 2001 A publication of the writings of international artists, Waasmunster, Belgium – the original text of Bangboek (1977–1980), with notes and key for decipherment; 2003 Licked – exhibition catalogue, Michael Stevenson; 2004 Nonplussed – exhibition catalogue, Goodman Gallery; 2007 Épat – exhibition catalogue, Michael Stevenson; ‘Language Works’, an article in Inscribing Meaning, Writing and Graphic Sysytems in African Art, a book published by the Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art

Studies on the work of Willem Boshoff

Students have included the work of Willem Boshoff in full or as part of their studies. These studies range from many high school projects to more sophisticated research projects of university students to masters and doctorate students. Some of these completed or in progress are:

Gentric, Katja: Doctorate on the work of Willem Boshoff at Dijon University, France

Dantas, Nancy: Masters degree, Lisbon University, curatorship of the work of Willem Boshoff

Paton, David: Masters degree, University of the Witwatersrand on KYKAFRIKAANS

Erasmus, Stefan: Masters degree, University of the Witwatersrand on KYKAFRIKAANS

Souchon, Natalie: Dissertation at University of South Africa on GARDENS OF WORDS

Roolvink, Joanne: Masters degree at the University of the Witwatersrand on the work of Willem Boshoff

Swanepoel, Rita; Doctorate on the work of Willem Boshoff at Potchefstroom University

Bibliography

Books :

Allara, Pamela, Martin, Marilyn COEXISTENCE Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Boston 2003

Anonymous JOHANNESBURG BIENNALE (Catalogue) “Inside Outside” Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council 1995

Bedford, Emma (ed.) A DECADE OF DEMOCRACY South African Art 1994-2004 from the Permanent Collection of Iziko: South African National Gallery Iziko Museums of Cape Town 2004

Berman, Esmé ART AND ARTISTS OF SOUTH AFRICA Balkema, Cape Town 1983

Camnitzer, Luis, Farver, Jane, Weiss Rachel GLOBAL CONCEPTUALISM: POINTS OF ORIGIN 1950s – 190s Queens Museum of Art New York 1999

Casper, R N & Hawkey C JUBILAT five Robert N Casper, University of Massechusetts 2002

Enwezor, Okwui TRADE ROUTES History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997 Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council 1977, text by Mosquera, Gerardo

Enwezor, Okwui THE SHORT CENTURY Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945 – 1994 Prestel Munich, London, New York 2001

Ferreira, Sid (President) 23. BIENAL INTERNACIONAL SÃO PAULO Fundação Bienal de São Paulo 1996

Firstenberg, Lauri & Peffer, John (ed.’s) TRANSLATION/ SEDUCTION/DISPLACEMENT Post-Conceptual and Photographic Work by Artists from South Africa Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art 1999

From, Iben VANDSKEL Kunstcentret Silkeborg Bad 2002

Geers, Kendell (ed.) CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN ART The Gencor Collection Johnathan Ball, Johannesburg 1997.

Hassan, Salah M. and Oguibe, Olu AUTHENTIC/EX-CENTRIC – CONCEPTUALISM IN CONTEMPORARY AFICAN ART La Biennale di Venezia 2001

Hassan, Salah M. and Iftikar Dadi UNPACKING EUROPE Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 2001

Hobbs, Philippa (ed.) RESISTANCE RECONCILIATION RECONSTRUCTION – an MTN Exhibition Celebrationg 10 Years of Democracy MTN Foundation Johannesburg 2004

Komrij, Gerrit DE AFRIKAANSE POËZIE IN 1000 EN ENIGE GEDICHTEN Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, Amsterdam

Meyer, Werner TRIENNALE DER KLEINPLASTIK 1998 – Zeitgenössische Skultur Europe Afrika Cantz,Stuttgart

Mosquera Gerardo VISIONES DEL SUR: NO ES SÓLO LO QUE VES: PERVIRTIENDO MINIMALISMO (catalogue) Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid 2000

Mullen Kraemer, Christine (ed) INSCRIBING MEANING, WRITING AND GRAPHIC SYSTEMS IN AFRICASmithsonian National Museum of African Art 2007

Ogilvie, Grania DICTIONARY OF S.A. PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS Balkema, Cape Town 1989

Oguibe, Olu & Enwezor, Okwui READING THE CONTEMPORARY (African Art from Theory to the Marketplace) Iniva, Arts Council of Britain 1999

Perryer, Sophie (ed.) 10 Years 100 Artists – Art in a Democratic South Africa Bell Roberts Cape Town 2004

Stevenson, Micael MOVING IN TIME AND SPACE (Shifts Between Abstraction and Representation in Post-war South African Art Dimension Data 2003

Vladislavic, Ivan WILLEM BOSHOFF Taxibooks, David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg 2005

Williamson, Sue ART IN SOUTH AFRICA the future present David Philip, Cape Town 1996

Ysla, Nelson Herrera SÉPTIMA BIENAL DE LA HABANA Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam 2000

Magazine Articles, Dissertations, Brochures, Catalogues :

Artsense Association ARTSENSE AND BLIND ALPHABET B (Promotion brochure) Birmingham, England, January 1996

Boshoff, Willem NONPLUSSED Exhibition Catalogue, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 2004

Boshoff, Willem LICKED Exhibition Catalogue, Michael Stevenson Fine Art Exhibition, Cape Town 2003

Boshoff, Willem ÉPAT Exhibition Catalogue, Michael Stevenson Fine Art Exhibition, Cape Town 2007

Jamal, Ashraf WILLEM BOSHOFF Blind Alphabet 23rd São Paulo Biennale 1996 (Brochure). Published by Africus Institute for Contemporary Art

Burger, Lucia DE ARTE 65 (UNISA Magazine) “Panifice and Writing in the Sand” 2002

Bester, Martie DE KAT “Harthout – Noli turbare circulos meos” November 2007

Burger, Lucia INSIG (Magazine) “Obsessies by hom ‘n lewenswyse” May 1994

Burger, Lucia DE KAT (Magazine) “Laat die klippe praat” January 2001

Carman, Jillian INFAMA (Journal of South African National Council for the Blind) “Willem Boshoff’s alternative art” April 1995

Classic Feel Team CLASSIC FEEL magazine “Willem Boshoff – The Forms of Words and the Shape of Language” October 2007

Decembristerne DEN FRIE UDSTILLINGS BYGNING (Copenhagen catalogue) 2001

Dubow, Neville WEEKLY MAIL & GUARDIAN (newspaper article) “Cutting edge falls between art and life” 5.5.95

Fuller, Natasha (curator) FNB VITA ART NOW Catalogue Sandton Civic Gallery 1997

Heartley Eleanor ART IN AMERICA (Magazine) “Mapping the Postcolonial – Report From Johannesburg ” June 1999

Hobbs, Philippa HELLO THE FUTURE - MTN (Magazine) “Chinese, Chiasmus and the Sculpture Commission” May 2003

Jacobson, Dan MODERN PAINTERS (Magazine) “The Johannesburg Art Gallery” London Autumn 1995.

Kellner, Clive NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art “The 23 rd São Paulo Biennale” African Studies and Research Centre, Cornell University, USA Summer/Fall 1997

Kellner, Clive MARCAS NEWS 3rd Edition Sussuta Boé Johannesburg 1998

Kyander, Pontus SYDSVANSKA(Sweden) “Afrikansk dialog och jakt efter identitet” (newspaper article) 24.4.95

Lamprecht, Andrew ART SOUTH AFRICA “Willem Boshoff – Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town” 2004

Langerman, Fritha LEXICONS AND LABYRINTHS Iconography of the Genome (Exhibition Catalogue) Human Sciences Research Council, Africa Genome Initiative 2003

Orliange Anthony NEWTOWN ZEBRA “A Garden of Words” (Magazine of the French Institute) May-August 1999

O’Toole, Sean FRIEZE (Magazine) Willem Boshoff – Standard Bank Gallery September 2007

Read, Trent STATE OF THE ART Exhibition Catalogue, Everard Read Contemporary 1994

Rankin, Elizabeth IMAGES OF WOOD – Aspects of the History of Sculpture in 20 C South Africa Hans Merensky Foundation 1989

Rosengarten, Ruth DON’T MESS WITH MISTER IN-BETWEEN 1 Artistas da África do Sul Jornal de Exposição Culturgest Lisboa, Portugal 1996

Rosengarten, Ruth FRIEZE(Art Magazine) “Inside Outside” London Summer 1995

Shapiro, Leonard WILLEM BOSHOFF’S 370-DAY PROJECT South African Art News, January 2002

Snyman Johan NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art “WILLEM BOSHOFF’S PANIFICE – Between Africa and Europe”: The Language(s) of Civilization(s), Cornell University, USA Fall/Winter 2002

Souchon, Natalie REPOSITIONING MARRIANNE NORTH AND BOTANICAL ART (Dissertation submitted at University of South Africa) “The Fine Artist and Botanical Subject Matter” October 1999

Vetrocq, Marcia E ART IN AMERICA (Magazine) “Conceptualism: an Expanded View” July 1999

Video :

WILLEM BOSHOFF Blind Alphabet 23rd São Paulo Biennale 1996 Commissioned by Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, directed by Peni Flascas.

Compact Disk

2000/1INDEX OF (B)REACHINGS – the exhibition and text on compact disk, compiled in collaboration with professor Rory Doepel, University of the Witwatersrand

Television and Radio Programmes :

DIE KRAAINES SABC TV “Willem Boshoff Kunstenaar” 20.5.82

COLLAGE SABC TV “Blind Alphabet Project” April 1995

RISE UP AND READ SABC TV “Sculpture for the Blind” July 1995

SIPHIWE “Blind Alphabet” June 1997

FNB VITA AWARD FOR ART October 1997

BETWEEN THE LINES “Death of the Book” E-TV August 1999

KUNSKAFEE “Index of (B)reachings” KYKNET August 2000

CURIOUS CULTURE SABC Interview 2007

AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS Interview SABC 2007

RADIO 702 Interview with Jenny Crwys Williams, November 2007

Website and Internet

Personal website: www.willemboshoff.com

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