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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. 

CV

EXHIBITIONS and makings

2020-2023
FORMS

2021
Hedwig Barry: Here is Where We Meet
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2017
Image Drain 
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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
OTHER lives

Ongoing 
Consulting: Plan A

2013-2021
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Anthea Buys (b.1984, Johannesburg) is a writer and curator based in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Anthea has published essays on art and literature in a variety of academic journals, essay collections, monographs and in the media. She has also curated exhibitions at institutions including Hordaland Kunstsenter (where she worked as director, 2014-2017), Tallinn Art Hall, Palais de Tokyo, WIELS project space, and the Iziko South African National Gallery.  From 2021-2022 she founded and ran FORMS, a gallery without a space based in South Africa and on the internet. 


Contact me: antheabuys@gmail.com
                        
               
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