Dan HALTER
(Zimbabwe, 1977)
Dan Halter è nato in Zimbabwe nel 1977, vive e lavora in Sudafrica. Nel 2001 si è laureato all'Università di Cape Town. La sua ricerca artistica esplora i confini geografici, il fenomeno migratorio e altri temi politici e sociali, attraverso l'uso di tecniche artigianali, come l'intreccio, e l'inclusione nel suo lavoro di materiali poveri, come le borse cinesi in plastica intrecciata. Le sue mostre personali includono Take Me To Your Leader 2006 (João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town), Mafuta Farm 2017 (Dillon + Lee, New York), Zimbabwean Traffic 2017 (Skövde Konstmuseet, Skövde, Sweden) e Patience Can Cook a Stone 2018 (Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town). E' stato artista in residenza a Zurigo, Colonia, Torino, Rio de Janeiro e Dufftown in Scozia.
Il lavoro di Dan Halter è rappresentato in istituzioni come The South African National Gallery, UNISA (University of South Africa), University of Cape Town, Scheryn Collection, Artphilein Collection, Pigozzi Collection, SAFFCA Collection, Round About Collection, Rennie Collection e Reydan Weiss Collection.
"Il mio modo di intendere l'arte dipende dal fatto che sono Zimbabwiano, ma attualmente vivo in Sudafrica. Il mio lavoro si concentra sulla perdita del senso di appartenenza nazionale, sulla migrazione, e sull'humor nero che caratterizza la realtà dell'Africa meridionale. Questo è un contraccolpo dovuto alla storia di oppressione che ancora oggi si protrae. Uso materiali comuni, uniti a elementi dell'immaginario popolare, come una forma di espressione. Il mio lavoro spesso sfrutta gli usi e i costumi locali, in una cornice concettuale. Sperimento varie tecniche, e questo mi porta a collaborazioni frequenti. I materiali che scelgo sottendono significati dal portato narrativo. Creo un dialogo con la storia in una prospettiva contemporanea, anche attraverso la tecnologia.
Insieme a Bieko Ikete, un rifugiato della Repubblica Democratica del Congo, abbiamo messo a punto un metodo per creare le opere di carta intrecciata"
- Dan Halter
MOSTRE PERSONALI
2019
Plenty sits Still, Hunger is a Wanderer, Thisisnofantasy, Melbourne
Cross the River in a Crowd, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
2018
Please Call Me, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
Patience Can Cook a Stone, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
2017
Zimbabwean Traffic, Skövde Konstmuseet, Skövde, Sweden
Mafuta Farm, Dillon + Lee, New York
2015
The Original is Unfaithful to The Translation, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
2013
DanHalter – HeartlanD, Special Project, Joburg Art Fair
2012
The Truth Lies Here, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
2011
Dan Halter / Mappa Del Mondo, NKV (Nassauischer Kunstverein Weisbaden), Weisbaden, Germany
2010
Double Entry, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
Shifting The Goalposts, (in collaboration with Adam Davies) Son Gallery, London
Shifting The Goalposts, (in collaboration with Adam Davies) GoetheOnMain, Johannesburg
2008
Never say Never, Derbylius Gallery, Milan, Italy
2006
Take Me To Your Leader, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town
MOSTRE COLLETTIVE
2020
Anuário 2019, Palácio das Artes Porto, Portugal
Histories of Dance, Museu de Arte de Sāo Paulo, Brazil
2019
Mapping Worlds: Selected Works from the Scheryn Art Collection, Norval Foundation, Cape Town
LagosPhoto Festival, Lagos
No Photos on the Dance Floor! Berlin 1989 – Today, C/O Berlin Foundation
Rocks, The Gallery 44 Stanley, Johannesburg
Lost Lover, RAMPA, Porto, Portugal
Dance of Urgency, Q21 Museums Quartier, Vienna
Growbox Art Project, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
2018
Hacer Noché, Santo Domingo, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico
Forward? Forward! Forward… Stellenbosch University Museum
Baggage Claims, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
2017
You & 1, A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town
Everyday Anomaly, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
Baggage Claims, Orlando Museum of Art
PLAY/III Video and Performance Festival, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne
Two To Tango, Sperling Gallery, Münich
Chinafrika. under construction, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Low Res: Spatial Politics in the Cloud, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn
2016
HISTORICODE: Scarcity and Supply, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival
Negative Space, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
After the Thrill is Gone, Western Michigan University
100 Geographies, US Museum, Stellenbosch
Dear Europa.. Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
Energy Flash – The Rave Movement, M HKA (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen)
Mir ist das Leben lieber, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst
Artists’ Books and Africa, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Winter
2015
Collected Works, Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver
Nano, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
Brave New World… 20 Years of Democracy, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Foreign Bodies, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
Broken English, Tyburn Gallery, London
Johannesburg Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale fringe
Migrations, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, also travelling to Australia and America
Thinking, Feeling, Head, Heart, New Church Museum, Cape Town
2014
Unerasable Memories: A Historic Look at the Videobrasil Collection Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
No Fixed Abode, New Church Museum, Cape Town
Vegetation as a Political Agent, Parco Arte Vivente (PAV) Turin, Italy
Uncertain Terms, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
Ngezinyawo – Migrant Journeys, Wits Arts Museum, Johannesburg
Paperwork, SMAC Art Gallery, Stellenbosch
2013
Beitbridge Moonwalk, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Weather Report – Weerberig, Aardklop Festival, Potchefstroom
‘Who is afraid of the public?’ ICA (The Institute of Contemporary Arts), London
Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in Arts of Africa, Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC
Digi Re-engineering, UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria
Making Way, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg
2012
Positive Tension, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
Under Constant Threat, Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto Alegre, Brazil
4th Protest Arts International Festival (PAIF), Harare, Zimbabwe
Making Way, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown
Beyond Apartheid: sex, race, and politics in contemporary Africa, Galeria Lunara, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2011
17th VideoBrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
7th International Triennial of Contemporary Textile Arts, Tournai, Belgium
O2 VideoAct (International Video Art Biennial), Hotel Amister Barcelona, Spain
10 Years On, Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town
Propaganda by Monuments, Cairo, Egypt
2010
LADUMA! Rotterdam, Holland
Dak’art, 9th Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
US, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Harare International Art Fair (HIFA), Zimbabwe National Gallery
Spier Contemporary, City Hall, Cape Town
/ + \ = X, Serialworks, Cape Town
Mooimarkshow III, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin, Germany
2009
Project 35, NADA Miami Art Fair
Holiday, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
ECC25 (End Conscription Campaign 25 years), Spier Wine Estate Stellenbosch
US, Johannesburg Art Gallery
WORD! Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town
Encounters, South African International Documentary Festival
10th Havana Biennial, Cuba
Objects of a Revolution, Dominque Fiat Gallery, Paris, France
2008
Big Wednesday, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
Monologs, Rome, Italy and at the Gallería Animal in Santiago, Chile
MTN New Contemporaries, University of Johannesburg
Forty Years of Friendship: The Friends of The National Gallery: 1968-2008, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Power Play, Goodman Gallery Cape Town
Prints + Editions, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
Studio 2666: Ons Skrik vir Niks, Blank Projects, Cape Town
2007
Spier Contemporary, Spier Wine Estate Stellenbosch
16th VideoBrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
The Inchoate Idiosynchratic Descent into Nihlism, Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town
The 2nd Cape Town Biennale, Blank Projects, Cape Town
3C Committee and Critics Choice, Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town
Hell Yeah, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape Town
Zeitgenössiche Fotokunst aus Südafrika, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Berlin, Germany
2006
Second to None, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
The Cape Town Biennale, Blank Projects, Cape Town
The Last Braai 666, in collaboration with Christian Nerf and Ed Young, L/B’s Lounge, Cape Town
Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2005
Black and White Poster Project, Dirt Contemporary, Cape Town
2004
Contra Mundi, Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town
Exchange Views on…/ Echange vues sur… Espace Croix-Baragnon, France and Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town
2003
Picnic, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
2001
YDETAG, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Emergency, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town