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Artist: Terry Kurgan ( South Africa ) -
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Main Category: Photography
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Genres: Conceptual Art
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Biography:
biography
Terry Kurgan is a South African artist, photographer and curator.
She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally.
Trained in drawing and printmaking, Kurgan, who always worked from her own photographs as source, became more interested in the photographic document and its meanings than the drawings and prints that she was making from them. Her work of the last few years reflects her interest in the complex relationship of photography to personal and cultural identity and memory.
She was awarded the prestigious FNB Vita Art Prize for the year 2000 for the ground-breaking installation “Lost and Found” dealing with these themes. This work travelled internationally and was exhibited courtesy of the Goodman Gallery at the Grahamstown Festival in July 2002.
In addition to her gallery and museum based exhibitions she has worked on many public realm art projects and commissions.
In 1999 Kurgan produced "Maternal Exposures"; a series of permanent, site specific installations for Groote Schuur and Mowbray Maternity Hospitals in Cape Town.
In 2000 Kurgan photographed and designed the imaging for Telkom’s “Disability with Dignity” campaign, and designed a site-specific installation of photographs and text for the international conference “Beyond Racism” held in Cape Town, May 2000.
In 2001 Kurgan participated in the Joubert Park Public Art Project by collaborating with the park’s association of freelance photographers in the design and production of a portable photographic studio with backdrops for the Joubert Park precinct.
In 2002, working for Ochre Media in Johannesburg, she designed and produced a multi media installation of film, photographs and sound which was part of the exhibition component of the international conference Barcelona World Aids 2002, and was then exhibited at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development later in the same year.
Current projects include:
Kurgan is part of a multi-disciplinary team who have been awarded a prestigious contract by the Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA). The brief is to develop a feasibility study, business and implementation plans for the Heritage, Education and Tourism components of a brand new mixed use development on Constitution Hill in central Johannesburg. This development will share the site with the new Constitutional Court due to open in March 2004. Currently there are several site specific installations to be seen that provide the visitor with an introduction to and orientation within a ‘work-in-progress’.
Curating a temporary exhibition at the Jewish museum in Cape Town entitled Silence in my Fathers house.
In May 2003 Kurgan is exhibiting new work – a photo/video/sound installation – at the Bell Roberts Gallery in Cape Town.
She lives and works in Johannesburg.
higher education
1992
Master of Fine Arts Degree,
Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, SA.
1981
BA Fine Arts Degree,
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, USA.
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Exhibition History:
solo exhibitions
2003
“Lost and Found” Durban Art Gallery, Durban
“SKIP” Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town.
(catalogue available)
2002
“Lost and Found” Goodman Gallery, Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
2000
“Family Affairs”. Gertrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg.
1999
“Family Affairs”. Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town.
“Maternal Exposures”. A series of permanent installations designed for
Groote Schuur & Mowbray Maternity Hospitals, Cape Town.
1997
“Home Truths”. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.
(catalogue available)
“Home Truths”. Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town.
(catalogue available)
1995
“Picture of a Man?” Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
1994
“Bodyparts”. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.
1992
“Portraits”. Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town.
selected group exhibitions
2002
3 Exhibitions: Three Women, The Rampart Walk, The Memory Room, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg.
(catalogue available)
Moving Pictures, Moving People. World Aids Conference XIV,Barcelona, Spain 2002.
(catalogue available)
2001
Millenium 11 Inaugural exhibition, Millenium Gallery, Johannesburg.
Sasol 1991-2000: a selection from the Sasol Collection, Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch.
(catalogue available)
The Joubert Park Public Art Project, Johannesburg Art gallery and Joubert Park Precinct, Johannesburg.
(catalogue available)
First Story – Women builiding /new narratives for the 21st Century: A project curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Porto 2001 – European Capital of Culture, Portugal.
(catalogue available)
2000
“A.R.E.A. 2000 - Art Region End of Africa”,
Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland.
(catalogue available)
“Can you write me a letter?”, MuSeu d’Art, Girona, Spain.
(catalogue available)
“FNB Vita Art Prize exhibition”, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg.
(catalogue available)
“Emotions and Relations”, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, and Klein Karoo Festival, Oudtshoorn.
“Self”, Klein Karoo Festival, Oudtshoorn.
1999
“Unplugged IV”, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
“Emergence”, Standard Bank National Arts Festival- Grahamstown, Durban Art Gallery, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg.
“100 x C: Photography in South Africa”, Mark Coetzee Fine Art cabinet,
Cape Town. (catalogue available)
1998
“Bliss”, Contemporary South African Photographers, Area Gallery, Cape Town.
“Bringing Up Baby: Artists survey the Reproductive Body”, Standard Bank
National Arts Festival -Grahamstown, Castle Good Hope - Cape Town, and
Standard Bank Gallery - Johannesburg.
(catalogue available)
“Unplugged III”, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery, Johannesburg
“eyeAfrica: African Photography 1840 – 1998”, South African National Gallery & Castle Good Hope, Cape Town.
1997
“Lifetimes: An exhibition of South African Art”, Out of Africa Festival,
Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany.
(catalogue available)
“Purity and Danger”, Gertrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg.
(video publication available)
“Photo/Synthesis: Contemporary South African Photography”, Standard Bank National Arts Festival - Grahamstown, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg.
(catalogue available)
“Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa”, Standard Bank National Arts
Festival - Grahamstown, South African National Gallery - Cape Town, Standard Bank Gallery - Johannesburg.
(catalogue available)
1996
“Don't mess with Mister Inbetween: 15 Artistas da Africa do Sul, Culturgest,Lisbon, Portugal.
(catalogue available)
“Artworks in Progress“, Staff exhibition,Michaelis School of Fine Art, CapeTown.
1995
“Pressing Issues”, print exhibition - Johannesburg Art Gallery.
“Contemporary Prints”. University of Stellenbosch Gallery.
“Tip of the Iceberg”, NSA Gallery, Durban.
1994
“Displacements: South African Works on Paper 1984-1994”, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Chicago, USA.
(catalogue available)
“CAS Art Collection”, Centre for African Studies, UCT.
1993
“Volkskas Atelier”. Johannesburg and Pretoria.
“Contemporary Prints”. University of Stellenbosch Art gallery.
“Picturing our World:Contemporary images of the Western Cape”. Standard Bank
National Arts Festival - Grahamstown, South African National Gallery –
Cape Town.
(catalogue available)
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Collections:
public collections
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Durban Art Gallery
MTN Corporate Collection
Sasol Corporate Collection
Katrine Harries Print Cabinet - University of Cape Town
Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town
Centre for African Studies - University of Cape Town.
Industrial Development Corporation, Johannesburg
Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago.
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Bibliography:
selected bibliography and publications
Antonio, T. (1997) "Purity and Danger" Exhibition video publication.
Atkinson, B. (Ed) (1999) “Wash 5 – Family” Chalkham Hill Press, Johannesburg.
Atkinson, B. (1997) "Purity and Danger". De Artes Journal, Issue # 56,
University of South Africa Publishers , September 1997.
Bester, R. (2000) “Terry Kurgan”Catalogue Essay FNB Vita Art Prize exhibition.
Cilliers, Pieter (2000) “Kunskafee” No’s. 19 and 22 – Video profile by Pieter Cilliers Production for the arts magazine programme Kunskafee on DSTV.
Chandra G.S & Mc Kinley, J (1998) “Writing from the New South Africa” New Letters Journal, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Volume 65, Number 1.
Cole, Herbert M. (2002) “Perpetuating the Culture: African Images of Mother and Child” Catalogue accompanying exhibition at Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, New York.
Grundlingh, K. (editor) (1997) "Photosynthesis-Contemporary South African
Photography". Catalogue accompanying travelling SANG exhibition.
Hobbs, P & Rankin, E. (1997) "Printmaking in a transforming South Africa",
Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip Publishers.
Kurgan, T. (1999) “Family Affairs”. A portfolio of 16 photographs and 4 pages of text published by the artist. (edition of 5)
Kurgan, T. (1998) "Mothers and Others" Catalogue Essay, Bringing Up Baby: Artist's survey the Reproductive Body, published by the Bringing Up Baby project, Cape Town
Kurgan,T. Bodyparts. “Artworks in progress”. Vol. 4: 1994/5. Michaelis
School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
Kurgan, T. (1994). "Bodyparts". A portfolio of 7 lithographs, published by
the artist, with text by Professor Martin Hall. (edition of 5)
Kurgan, T. Whistler's Nose. “Artworks in Progress”. Vol. 3: 1992/3.
Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
Kurgan, T. (1992). "Portraits." Fourteen lithographs accompanied by
drawings and bound dissertation. Presented as MFA degree,
University of Cape Town.
Langerman, F., Skotnes, P., & Sauls, R. (eds.) (1996) "On the surface: Art
and Technique of Relief printmaking", Katrine Harries Print Cabinet: UCT.
Rosengarten, R. (1996). "Don't mess with Mister Inbetween: 15 Artistas da
Africa Do Sul". Exhibition Catalogue Essay. Culturgest: Lisbon.
Rosengarten, R. (1997). "To Have and To Hold: Recent Drawings by Terry
Kurgan". Exhibition Catalogue essay, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.
Sack, R. (1997). "Lifetimes: Kunst aus dem sudlichen Afrika". Exhibition
catalogue, Aktionsforum Praterinsel: Munich 1997.
Siopis, P. (1997) "Domestic Affairs". De Artes Journal, Issue # 55,
Unversity of South Africa Publishers April 1997.
Siopis, P. (1997) "Purity and Danger". De Artes Journal, Issue # 56,
Unversity of South Africa Publishers, September 1997.
Taylor, J. (1997) "Purity and Danger". De Artes Journal, Issue # 56,
Unversity of South Africa Publishers, September 1997.
selected reviews
Alexander, R. (1998) “The notion of a birth”, Mail and Guardian, June 5 to 11.
Atkinson, B. (1998) “Fertile Ground”. Mail and Guardian December 11 to 17, .
Atkinson, B. (1997) "The display of taboos". Mail and Guardian May 16 to 22.
Atkinson, B. (1997) " Taboo or not taboo". Mail and Guardian May 23 to 29.
Atkinson, B. (1997) " Love, Loss & Longing". Mail and Guardian July 25 to 31.
Dodd, A. (2000) “A tunnel to the voices and images of the distant past”. The Sunday Independent, July 30.
Geers, K. (1997) "Taking a risk with her children's bodies" . The Star Aug.12.
Higgins, J. (1999) “Focus on family” Mail & Guardian, October 1 to 7.
Krouse, M. (2002) “Hillbrow’s haunted heritage” Mail & Guardian Sept 6 to 12.
Machen, P. (2003) “A walk-through tour of loss, innocence and longing” Sunday Independent, February 16.
Murinik, T. (1998) “ With or without child”. Mail & Guardian,
August 28 to September 3.
Paul, D. (1998) " South African photographers find their bliss".
Cape Times Jan. 30.
Pople, L. (2000) “ Kurgan wen ENB Vita Kunsprys”. Beeld, 19 July.
Roper, C. (1997) "Private parts". Mail and Guardian, October 10 to 16.
Smith, K. (2000) ”Shooting From The Hip”. Style Magazine October 2000.
Smith, K. (2000) ”Q & A”. An interview with the artist, Mail & Guardian,
August 18 to 24.
Van Bosch, C. (1997) "Seksuele taboes rondom kindwees subtiel aangeraak". Die Burger, 8 October.
Van Bosch, C. (1998) “Politiek van liggamm openbarend beskou”.
Die Burger, 7 Julie.
Van Bosch, C. (1998) “Feminisme getooi in moederskap” Die Burger,
10 September.
Van Bosch, C. (1999) “Grense van die kyker hier deur foto’s verken”.
Die Burger, 6 Oktober.
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