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About usPress-releasesPinchukArtCentre Presents a Solo Exhibition by Dineo Seshee Bopape, the Main Prize Winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2017 February 24 - May 13, 2018
Open Tuesday through Sunday from 12:00 until 21:00
Admission is Free
The PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) presents the 1st solo exhibition in Eastern Europe by Dineo Seshee Bopape (South Africa), the Main Prize Winner of the 4th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. The show includes a major soil installation specially produced for the PinchukArtCentre.
The new monumental earth piece reminds, in form, of ancient spiritual places and draws upon traditional fertility iconography. Ukrainian soil is used in a systematic formal transformation. The earth moves from suggesting human architectural construction into the natural flow of a topographical landscape, evoking the lost presence of water, to finally glide into a quiet bed of soil. On top of that Bopape plays with herbs, crystals, clay, gold-leaf and special collected samples of earth coming from a dozen of spiritual places around the world. The Ukrainian Soil becomes a host for synergies of signs, beliefs, energies and materials for which our language lacks an essential vocabulary.
Soil is solid. It grounds and gives a sense of belonging. It is strongly political. It defines a sense of nationhood and identity. At the same time it remains seemingly still and neutral. However, in the work of Bopape, soil becomes a river. It expands from politics towards spirituality (or from spirituality through politics), reclaiming and re-discovering lost traditions and globally marginalized believe systems.
Bjorn Geldhof, curator of the exhibition and artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre: “We continue a beautiful tradition of presenting the winner of the Future Generation Art Prize with a solo exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre. Dineo Seshee Bopape has expanded the workgroup for which she was awarded the prize in Kyiv in 2017 with a new monumental earthwork. Her use of Ukrainian soil enables the viewers to experience soil in a completely different way. Not only is it a political narrative, but it also manifests as a source of energy and feeling.”
Dineo Seshee Bopape was awarded the Main Prize of the fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize for her earth sculpture made of rich black local Ukrainian soil that acts as a platform for objects, organic forms and geological fragments that represent actions and symbols. Her art works were presented as a part of “The Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice 2017” exhibition - an official Collateral Event of the 57th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia organised by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the PinchukArtCentre.
The exhibition will be open from February 24 until May 13, 2018 in the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine. Opening hours: from Tuesday through Sunday from 12 noon to 9 pm. Admission is free.
Future Generation Art Prize is a major international art prize for artists younger than 35. Established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation to discover and provide long-term support for a generation of emerging artists, wherever they may live and work, this unique artist-focused prize aims to make a major contribution toward the production of new work by young artists.
Dineo Seshee Bopape was born in 1981, on a Sunday. If she were ghanain, her name would be akosua/akos for short. During the same year of her birth, the Brixton riots took place; two people were injured when a bomb exploded in a Durban shopping center; bobby sands dies; 100 were killed during riots in Cassablanca; mtv is launched; the boeing 767 makes its first airflight; umkonto we sizwe performs numerous underground assaults against the apartheid state. princess Di’ of Britain marries charles; bob Marley dies; apartheid SA invades Angola; AIDS is identified/ created/named; salman rushdie releases his book “midnight’s children”; Winnie mandela’s banishment orders are renewed for another 5 years; in the region of her birth- her paternal grandmother dies affected by dementia; people cried and people laughed... The world’s population was at around 4.529 billion... today she(bopape) is 1 amongst 7 billion - occupying multiple intersecting adjectives.
The PinchukArtCentre, founded in September 2006 in Kyiv by the Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk, is the largest and most dynamic private contemporary art centre in Central and Eastern Europe. Over 2.7 million mostly young Ukrainians visited the PinchukArtCentre since 2006.
For more than a decade, the PinchukArtCentre has brought works of over 150 international artists to Ukraine providing free access to new ideas, perceptions and emotions. Its programs negotiate between national identity and international challenges.
At the same time the PinchukArtCentre invests in the next generation. In 2009, it established the PinchukArtCentre Prize for young Ukrainian contemporary artists up to the age of 35 and the Future Generation Art Prize, the first global art prize for young international artists. Through the biennial Prizes, the PinchukArtCentre has become a leading hub for the best emerging artists worldwide and in Ukraine.
The PinchukArtCentre has also represented Ukraine at the Venice Biennale in 2007, 2009, 2015 and organized collateral events at the Biennale in 2011, 2013 and 2017.
In 2016, the PinchukArtCentre launched Research platform – a pioneering project that aims to generate a living archive of Ukrainian Art from the early 1980s up to the present.
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