100 Geographies Exhibition
Duration: September - December 2016
A three month long exhibition at the Stellenbosch University Museum, featuring 44 artists, 100 artworks and 40 geographic themes.
Commissioned by the Society of South African Geographers, to celebrate a century of geography teaching and research at university level in South Africa. The academic curators for the exhibition were Professors Ronnie Donaldson and Gustav Visser.
Participating artists included: Zyma Amien, Dan Halter, Lionel Smit, Emma Willemse, Kai Losgott, Pauline Gutter, Vincent Bezuidenhout, Jaco van Schalkwyk, Strijdom van der Merwe, Vulindlela Nyoni, Ingrid Winterbach, Elizabeth Miller-Vermeulen, Stephen Rosin, Ashley Walters, Cobus van Bosch, Willie Bester and Henk Serfontein.
An exhibition catalogue, compiled by Elizabeth Miller-Vermeulen and Professor Ronnie Donaldson, was published to coincide with the exhibition. The publication featured exhibited artworks, extracts from geographic research (40 themes) and quotations from artist's statements.
“Art and Geography are interrelated fields that co-exist in a country rife with political and historical conflict, yielding art and artists to interact, driven to explore and dedicated to voicing their individual aims.” Curatorial statement (EMV)
US Museum (Stellenbosch University), 52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Commissioned by the Society of South African Geographers, to celebrate a century of geography teaching and research at university level in South Africa. The academic curators for the exhibition were Professors Ronnie Donaldson and Gustav Visser.
Participating artists included: Zyma Amien, Dan Halter, Lionel Smit, Emma Willemse, Kai Losgott, Pauline Gutter, Vincent Bezuidenhout, Jaco van Schalkwyk, Strijdom van der Merwe, Vulindlela Nyoni, Ingrid Winterbach, Elizabeth Miller-Vermeulen, Stephen Rosin, Ashley Walters, Cobus van Bosch, Willie Bester and Henk Serfontein.
An exhibition catalogue, compiled by Elizabeth Miller-Vermeulen and Professor Ronnie Donaldson, was published to coincide with the exhibition. The publication featured exhibited artworks, extracts from geographic research (40 themes) and quotations from artist's statements.
“Art and Geography are interrelated fields that co-exist in a country rife with political and historical conflict, yielding art and artists to interact, driven to explore and dedicated to voicing their individual aims.” Curatorial statement (EMV)
US Museum (Stellenbosch University), 52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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