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guy tillim
Born in Johannesburg in 1962. Lives and works in Cape Town | È nato a Johannesburg nel
1962. Vive e lavora a Città del Capo
selected solo exhibitions | mostre personali selezionate
2013
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Rubin Center, University of Texas, El Paso
2012
Second Nature, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Second Nature, Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam
Second Nature I, James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2011
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Lannan Foundation Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico
| Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio | Contact Photography Festival, Toronto
| Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
2010
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Kunsthalle Oldenburg, Germany | Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Jo'burg, Centre du Patrimoine Arménien, Valence, France
2009
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, e x t r a s p a z i o, Rome | Fundãçao Serralves, Porto
| Extracity, Antwerp | FOAM, Amsterdam | Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Roma, città di mezzo (cur. M. Delogu), FotoGrafia – festival internazionale di Roma,
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Jo'burg and Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
2008
Guy Tillim, Haunch of Venison, Zurich
Guy Tillim, Haus Für Kunst, Altdorf, Switzerland
2007
Congo Democratic, e x t r a s p a z i o, Rome | Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
2006
Petros Village, Museo di Roma, Trastevere, Italy
2005
Jo'burg, Johannesburg Art Gallery (June); Durban Art Gallery |Festival Artist, PhotoEspana,
Madrid
Leopold and Mobutu, Photographer's Gallery, London
Jo'burg, Rencontres Photographiques de Bamako, Mali
2004
Jo'burg, South African National Gallery, Cape Town | DaimlerChysler Award exhibition
|Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart | DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin |Leopold and
Mobutu | Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Kunhinga Portraits, Sala Uno, Rome
2003
Kunhinga Portraits, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Congo, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town | Fotofiesta Medellin, Colombia
Departure, Higashikawa Photo Festival, Hokkaido, Japan | Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape
Town | NSA Galley, Durban | PhotoZA, Johannesburg
2002
Kuito, Angola, Societe des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris
2001
Kuito, Angola, South African Museum, Cape Town | Angola, Gallery Dupon, Paris
1996
Kabul, Afghanistan, Durban Centre for Photography, Durban
selected group exhibitions | mostre collettive selezionate
2013
The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, Haus
der Kunst, Munich
2012
The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, ICP,
New York The Great South, 1st Montevideo Biennial, Uruguay Prix Pictet Power, Saatchi
Gallery, London, and other venues
Viewpoint, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Lost Places - Orte der Photographie, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
La Triennale 2012 - Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2011
Motherland, Roma Fotografia Festival, Italy
The Eye is a Lonely Hunter: Images of Humankind, 4th Mannheim Fotofestival,
Germany Photography: New documentary forms, Tate Modern, London
Appropriated Landscapes, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany XXI:
Conflicts in a New Century, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography, V&A Museum, London
Possible Cities: Africa in Photography and Video, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford
College, Pennsylvania
Beguiling: The Self and the Subject, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town
Prix Pictet Growth, Passage de Retz, Paris
2010
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Breaking News: Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa, Fondazione
Cassa di Risparmio Provincia di Modena, Italy
Africa: Objects and Subjects, Palacio de Revillagigedo, Gijon; Canal de Isabel II, Madrid
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to today, Museum of Modern Art, New
York
Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen,
Southern Germany
1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2009
Welt - Bilder 3, Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland Great Expectations: Contemporary
photography looks at today's Bitter Years, Casino Luxembourg - Forum of Contemporary
Art, Luxembourg ImageSingulières festival, Sète, France
The Tropics: Views from the middle of the globe, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape
Town
Face of Our Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, London
2008
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano
Short Stories in Contemporary Photography, Museum of Design, Zurich
Home Lands – Land Marks: Contemporary Art from South Africa (cur. T. Garb), Haunch of
Venison, London
South Africa in Two Parts: Contemporary Photography from South Africa - Part 2, Hereford
Photography Festival, Hereford
2007|08
Reality Check: Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa (cur. P. Warne),
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and other venues in Germany 2007
Documenta XII (cur. R. Noack), Kassel, Germany
South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
Global Cities (cur. R. Burdett, S. Wagstaff), Tate Modern, London, UK
Photography, Video, Mixed Media III, DaimlerChrysler Gallery, Berlin
2004|07
Africa Remix (cur. S. Njami), Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf | Hayward Gallery, London |
Centre Pompidou, Paris | Mori Art Museum, Tokyo | Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
2006
27th São Paulo Biennal (cur. L. Lagnado), Brasil
SLUM: Art and life in the here and now of the civil age(cur. P. Weibel, C. Steinle, G. HollerSchuster), Neue Galerie, Graz
Thy Brother's Keeper, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography (cur. O. Enwezor),
International Center of Photography, New York
2005
Lasting Foundations (cur. E. Schildkrout), Museum for African Art, New York
Unsettled (cur. M. Damsbo), National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen
A Decade of Democracy: South African art from the permanent collection, South African
National Gallery, Cape Town
FotoGrafia - Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome
2003
Unveiled, OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art, Düsseldorf
1998 eyeAfrica: African Photography 1840-1998 (cur. P. Sanner), Castle of Good Hope,
Cape Town 1996 Colors: Art from South Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
awards | premi
2007 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, USA
2005 Leica Oskar Barnack Award (for the Jo'burg series)
2004 DaimlerChrysler Award for Photography, South Africa
2003 Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award, Japan
2002 Prix SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia) Roger Pic, France (for the Kuito,
Angola series)
2001 Finalist, Prix Care for Humanitarian Reportage, France
1999 Mondi Award for photojournalism, South Africa (report on the Himba people of
Northern Namibia)
1998 Mondi Award for photojournalism, South Africa (Congo River: journey from Kisangani
to Kinshasa)
publications | pubblicazioni
2006 Congo Democratic (e x t r a s p a z i o, Rome, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town,
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart) Petros Village (Punctum, Rome)
2005 Jo'burg (Filigranes Editions, Trézélan, and STE Publishers,
Johannesburg) 2004 Leopold and Mobutu (Filigranes Editions, Trézélan) Guy
Tillim (DaimlerChrysler, Berlin) Kunhinga Portraits (Michael Stevenson, Cape Town)
2003 Departure (Michael Stevenson and Bell-Roberts, Cape Town)
2002 A Day in the Life of Africa (Tides Foundation, San Francisco) Amulets and Dreams:
War Youth and Changing Africa(cur. O. Badsha, SAHO/ISS/Unisa, Pretoria)