Anthea Buys
b, 1984 Johannesburg Based in South Africa
Anthea is a curator and writer interested in fabulation and philosophy. Her PhD (2021) looked at Constant’s extended art-urbanism project New Babylon and current research focuses on the work of South African, France-based performance artist Steven Cohen. She has lived and worked in Bergen (Norway), New York City, Cape Town and Johannesburg and is an infrequent guest lecturer in various cities, mostly around Europe.
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b, 1984 Johannesburg Based in South Africa
Anthea is a curator and writer interested in fabulation and philosophy. Her PhD (2021) looked at Constant’s extended art-urbanism project New Babylon and current research focuses on the work of South African, France-based performance artist Steven Cohen. She has lived and worked in Bergen (Norway), New York City, Cape Town and Johannesburg and is an infrequent guest lecturer in various cities, mostly around Europe.
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TEXTS: A sample, in changing order of enjoyability
2023
Shooting from the hip, or, on being strategically unstrategic
2022
Category Error
2022
‘Yes to who or what arrives’: Hospitality and Property in Contemporary Art
(Excerpt)
2019
We Asked For It
2017
Image Drain
2015
Painting in Flat Time (on the occasion of Carl Johan Högberg’s exhibition Shuttlecock, feat. Bob’s Your Uncle Sports Bar)
2023
Shooting from the hip, or, on being strategically unstrategic
2022
Category Error
2022
‘Yes to who or what arrives’: Hospitality and Property in Contemporary Art
(Excerpt)
2019
We Asked For It
2017
Image Drain
2015
Painting in Flat Time (on the occasion of Carl Johan Högberg’s exhibition Shuttlecock, feat. Bob’s Your Uncle Sports Bar)
EXHIBITIONS and makings
2020-2023
FORMS
2021
Hedwig Barry: Here is Where We Meet
Download catalogue
2017
Image Drain
download the beautiful poster-catalogue
2014-2017
Hordaland Kunstsenter (Director)
Carl Johan Högberg: Shuttlecock, feat. Bob’s Your Uncle Sports Bar
James Webb: Xenagogue
Dineo Seshee Bopape: We need the memories if all our members
Toril Johannesen: Oppfinnelsen og avviklingen av øyet
The Land
After the Exhibition
2020-2023
FORMS
2021
Hedwig Barry: Here is Where We Meet
Download catalogue
2017
Image Drain
download the beautiful poster-catalogue
2014-2017
Hordaland Kunstsenter (Director)
Carl Johan Högberg: Shuttlecock, feat. Bob’s Your Uncle Sports Bar
James Webb: Xenagogue
Dineo Seshee Bopape: We need the memories if all our members
Toril Johannesen: Oppfinnelsen og avviklingen av øyet
The Land
After the Exhibition