Works
  • Kendell Geers, ALL EYES / ALLIES / ALL LIES, 2025
    ALL EYES / ALLIES / ALL LIES, 2025
  • Kendell Geers, The Sleep of Treason Produces Monsters (After Francisco Goya), 2025
    The Sleep of Treason Produces Monsters (After Francisco Goya), 2025
  • Kendell Geers, Preparatory Study 9493, 2024
    Preparatory Study 9493, 2024
  • Kendell Geers, Preparatory Study 9558, 2024
    Preparatory Study 9558, 2024
  • Kendell Geers, Preparatory Study 0316, 2024
    Preparatory Study 0316, 2024
  • Kendell Geers, The Word Made Flesh, 2024
    The Word Made Flesh, 2024
  • Kendell Geers, Preparatory Study 1894 , 2024
    Preparatory Study 1894 , 2024
  • Kendell Geers, Live in your Head 8975 , 2022
    Live in your Head 8975 , 2022
  • Kendell Geers, Live in your Head 7795, 2022
    Live in your Head 7795, 2022
  • Kendell Geers, La Bête Humaine 556 , 2022
    La Bête Humaine 556 , 2022
  • Kendell Geers, Lost in Translation (Bufar i fer ampolles), 2022
    Lost in Translation (Bufar i fer ampolles), 2022
  • Kendell Geers, Lost in Translation (Si no nos dejan soñar, no les dejaremos dormir), 2022
    Lost in Translation (Si no nos dejan soñar, no les dejaremos dormir), 2022
  • Kendell Geers, Mano a Mano 641 / 541, 2022
    Mano a Mano 641 / 541, 2022
  • Kendell Geers, Garden of Forking Paths 8642, 2020
    Garden of Forking Paths 8642, 2020
  • Kendell Geers, Holy Unmercenaries I, 2019
    Holy Unmercenaries I, 2019
  • Kendell Geers, Holy Unmercenaries II, 2019
    Holy Unmercenaries II, 2019
  • Kendell Geers, Poetic Justice (Blind Faith No More) 3474, 2019
    Poetic Justice (Blind Faith No More) 3474, 2019
  • Kendell Geers, Losing my Religion 9875, 2019
    Losing my Religion 9875, 2019
  • Kendell Geers, Circular Ruins 7276 , 2019
    Circular Ruins 7276 , 2019
  • Kendell Geers, Wonderland IX, 2014
    Wonderland IX, 2014
  • Kendell Geers, Vajra XVI, 2012
    Vajra XVI, 2012
  • Kendell Geers, Vajra XVIII, 2012
    Vajra XVIII, 2012
  • Kendell Geers, PlayPreyPayPray, 2011
    PlayPreyPayPray, 2011
  • Kendell Geers, The tears of Eros, 2009
    The tears of Eros, 2009
  • Kendell Geers, Manifest, 2007
    Manifest, 2007
  • Kendell Geers, Ecce Homo 7864, 1993
    Ecce Homo 7864, 1993
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Biography

Describing himself as an 'AniMystikAKtivist', Kendell Geers takes a syncretic approach to art that weaves together diverse Afro-European traditions, including animism, alchemy, mysticism, ritual and a socio-political activism, and it is laced with black humor, irony and cultural contradiction. Spiritually charged, politically poignant and socially engaged, the work of Kendell Geers cannot be categorized as either European or African, but is rather a prolonged metaphysical dialogue between cultures, archetypal signs and sacred symbols.

 

Kendell Geers appeared on the international art scene at the end of the 1980s and since then his work has been presented at biennials and institutions from around the world. He was one of the artists who represented South Africa at the Venice Biennial in 1993, the first multiracial and multicultural international exhibition to mark the end of the Apartheid era. He presented his work in both Okwui Enwzeor's Documenta 11 as well as the most recent Documenta 14. He has presented work on the Taipei, Havana, Venice, Johannesburg, Kwang Ju, Sao Paolo, Shanghai, Istanbul and many other Biennials around the world.

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