BORN IN MAY 1968
Lives and works in Brussels
www.kendellgeers.com
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
ProPaganDaDa, AND Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
2015
SeaSonSinHell, Gallery ACB, Budapest, Hungary (Show and Lecture)
2014
Ani/Mystik/AKtivist, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
The Intoxication of Being Kendell Geers, UnTubo, Siena, Italy (Show and Lecture)
Crossing the Line, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Solve et Coagula, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
2013
AlphaBête, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Stealing fire from Heaven, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
Kendell Geers, 1988-2012, Haus der Kunst, Munich (catalogue)
2012
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (catalogue)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Chateau Blandy-Les-Tours, France (catalogue)
2011
Hellraiser, ADN Galeria, Barcelona
No Gouvernement, No Cry, CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium
Fin de Partie, Galleria Continua, Beijing (catalogue)
2010
Lady/God/Gift, Kendell Geers participation in the project: Domino Canibal, Contemporary Art Project Murcia, Spain (catalogue)
Third World Disorder, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Handgrenades from my Heart, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2009
A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Irrespektiv, MART, Trento, Italy (catalogue)
The Wasteland, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
2008
Oficina Para de Arte A.C., Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Irrespektiv, MOCA, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France (catalogue)
Irrespektiv, DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain (catalogue)
PostPunkPaganPop, de Pury & Luxembourg Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland (catalogue)
2007
Kannibale, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Irrespektiv, BALTIC, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom (catalogue)
Irrespektiv, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Gent, Belgium (catalogue)
Auto da fé, BPS22, Charleroi (catalogue)
2006
The word made flesh, Gallery Stephen Friedman, London
2005
Satyr:Ikon, Galleria Continua, San Gimigano, Italy
The Fall, Sorry we’re closed, Bruxelles
Hung, Drawn and Quartered, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, United States (catalogue)
2004
Hung, Drawn and Quartered, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinatti, United States (catalogue)
Sexus, Cimaise et Portique, Albi, France (catalogue)
The forest of suicides, MACRO Museum, Roma, Italy (monography)
In the flesh, Salon 94, New York
2003
NOITU(LOVE)R, Castello di Ama per l’arte contemporanea Lecchi in Chianti
Inferno, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan (artists book)
Terrorealismus, Migros Museum, Zurich
The Prodigal son, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Rogue States, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2002
Grenzgänger, Gallery Luis Campana, Köln, Germany
Mondo Kane, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
A Spy in the House of Love, Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium
Sympathy for the Devil , Palais de Tokyo, Paris (catalogue)
2001
Where Angels Fear to Tread, Delfina Project Space, London
Televisionaries, Würtembergischer Kunstverein and Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2000
Timbuktu, MAK, Vienna, Austria
¡Ya Basta!, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Arte all’Arte V edizione, Volterra, Italy
Inova, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA
Art Unlimited, Basel ArtFair, Basel, Switzerland
1999
States of Emergency, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
Heart of Darkness, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Project Rooms, Arco, Madrid, Spain
1998
Guilty, Fort Klapperkop, Pretoria, South Africa
98.3, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, USA (brochure)
Heart of Darkness, Gallery in the Round, Grahamstown, South Africa (brochure)
1997
Memento Mori, de Vleeshal, Middelburg, Holland
1996
Black on the Inside (with Neil Goedhals), Galerie Metroplex, Johannesburg, South Africa
16 June 1976 (with Willie Bester), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1995
Work on Paper, Chalkham Hill Press Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
W.C., Villa Arson, Nice, France
1994
Air de Paris, Everard Read Contemporary & ICA & Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg,South Africa
We are Johannesburg Artists and Nothing More, Michaelis Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1993
The New Patron, Everard Read Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
Threshold: The Exhibition, Everard Read Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
Objects, Natal Technikon Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1991
Mediations, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1988
Box Theatre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
Ritual/Resist
2015
OFF-Biennale Budapest, Hungary
2014
Ritual/Resist, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Ritual/Resist, Johannesburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012
Ritual/Resist, La Maison Particuliere, Bruxelles
Red Snyper aka The FucKINGFUCKS aka S-338 (aka Suite 338 aka Red Sniper )
2013
Transformator, Festival van Metamorfose, Zwevegem, Belgium (with Patrick Codenys)
Schlagstrom Festival, Berlin, August (with Patrick Codenys)
2012
‘A Memorable Fancy’ , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Chateau Blandy-les-Tours, France (with Ilse Ghekiere)
2011
‘Red Sniper’, Body Farm, Magasin 4, Brussels
2009
“CODEX GIGAS”, Starr Space, Brooklyn, New York
A House is Not a Home, La Calmeleterie, Amboise, France
2008
November
Oficina Para de Arte A.C., Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
October
PostPunkPaganPop, MOCA, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France
June
LostLustLast, Perfrormance and Installation, Royal Monceau Hotel, Paris (Destruction Party)
May
PostPunkPaganPop, Gallery de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich
2007
November
CIMATIC/07AV/FestivalBrussels International Festival for Live Audiovisual Art&VJing, Beursschouwburg,Brussels
50 Jaar Vrienden V/H Smak, Ghent, Belgium
July
Festival 10 days off, the fucKINGFUCKS, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
April
Biennale Charleroi danse, Performance Kendell Geers and the fucKINGFUCKS, BPS22,Charleroi
2005
December
Cultuurcentrum Evergem, Belgium
May
Les Grands Spectacles – 120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Austria
Elektra Festival, Montréal, Canada
April
Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten, Galerie Erna Hécey, Bruxelles
March
Dans le Collimateur, Dieppe Scene Nationale, Dieppe, France
2004
November
Criminal Brides, Buda, Kortijk, Belgium
Videozone, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
March 16-18
Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
February 1-30
Opera Video, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2003
September
Rhythm and Chaos,Transart 03, Bolzano, Italy
August
Rhythm and Chaos, Beaulieu Art Gallery, Oudenaarde (group show)
July
Guests, curated by Luk van Acker, Handelsbeursgebouw,Ghent
Guided by Heroes, curated by Raf Simons, Z33, Hasselt
April
Prototype, Centre Pompidou, Paris
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Bric-à- Brac, The Jumble of Grow, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
The 11th edition of the Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
BXL Universel, La Centrale Electrique, Brussels
LA TRAVERSEE DES INQUIETUDES, Une trilogie librement inspirée de la pensée de Georges Bataille, curated by Lea Bismuth, Le Lab-Labanque de Béthune., France
Tribal, In collaboration with Galerie Bernard Dulon, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris
Something Old Something New, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium,
Footbaal: A la Limite du Hors Jeu, Le Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
Foot Foraine, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
New Revolutions, Gallery Goodman at 50, Gallery Goodman, Johannesburg, South Africa
Portrait de l’artiste en Alter, FRAC Normandie Rouen, France
Les Possédés, Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
GlassFever, Dordrechts Museum, The Netherlands
A History. Contemporary Art from Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Hacking Habitat, Art of Control, Internationale Kunstmanifestatie, Utrecht
Punk. Its Traces in Contemporary Art, MACBA, Barcelona (Touring show- catalogue)
The Importance of Being: A Panorama on Belgian Contemporary ArtMuseo de Arte Moderna,
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (catalogue)
The Importance of Being: A Panorama on Belgian Contemporary Art Museu de Arte Contemporânea
da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil (catalogue)
Les Mondes Inversés, PBS22, Charleroi, Belgium
Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion: 3 Venues, 3 Months, 3 Opening Receptions, Curator’s Office, Washington
2015
Follia Continua! Les 25 ans de la Galleria Continua, CentQuatre, Paris (catalogue)
The Importance of Being: A Panorama on Belgian Contemporary Art Museo de Arte Contemporáneo,
Buenos Aires, Argentina (catalogue)
THEOREM. You Simply Destroy the Image I Always Had of Myself, curated by Octavio Zaya, MANA Contemporary, New Jersey
“Give me a mask and he will tell you the truth” Oscar Wilde, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Punk. Its Traces in Contemporary Art, CA2M, Madrid
Guild International Design Fair, Cape Town, South Africa
The Poetry In Between: South-South / 2015, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
The Importance of Being: A Panorama on Belgian Contemporary Art
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba (catalogue)
Ground Floor up (RED), BANK, MABSociety, Shanghai, China
Selected Artist’s Jewels from London, Galerie MINIMASTERPIECE, Paris
The Drawing Room, Magasin3, Stockholm
Ruffneck Constructivists, ICA, Philadelphia
INSERT 2014, New Delhi, India (catalogue)
2013
My Joburg, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Germany
Post Mortem, Forde, Geneve, Switzerland
Transformator, Festival van Metamorfose, Zwevegem, Belgium
Endgame, Galleria Continua Le Moulin, France
Beyond Liaisons, World Jewellery Museum, Seoul, Korea (Catalogue)
Artificial Amsterdam, a show curated by G.Mosquera, De Appel, Amsterdam
My Joburg, La Maison Rouge, Paris (catalogue)
Monkey Business, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris
Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, the BAAS museum, Miami
Blago Bung 8, Performance Action Sound Poetry Video, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
2012
Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir, La Maison Particuliere, Brussels
Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, IVAM, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia
The Progress of Love, The Menil Collection, Houston, United States (catalogue)
Dark Garnaal, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Summer project Villa Knokke, Belgium
The Rainbow Nation. Hedendaagse beeldhouwkunst uit Zuid-Afrika | Contemporary South African sculpture, Sculptuurinstituut | Museum Beelden aan Zee, El Den Haag-Scheveningen, NL (catalogue)
Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, exhibition for the City of Mechelen, Belgium (catalogue)
Manifesta 9, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Genk, Limburg, Belgium (catalogue)
Struggle(s), 4 Private collections, Maison Particuliere, Brussels
Néon, Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue ? La Maison Rouge, Paris (catalogue)
2011
Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, MAD, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
CON AMORE- Leif Djurhuus Samling, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (catalogue
NUNC, ET IN HORA MORTIS NOSTRAE, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussel
Anonymously Yours, Maison Gregoire, Brussels (catalogue)
Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht, La maison Rouge, Paris (catalogue)
Spheres 4, Galleria Continua Le Moulin, Paris
It Won’t Happen Again, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
Super-Organism, CAF Art Museum Biennale, Beijing, China
Terrible Beauty—Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Ireland
How to Philosophize with a Hammer, White Box, New York, United States
Big Brother, L’artiste face aux Tyrans, The Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France (catalogue
Glasstress, Eventi collaterali di La Biennale di Venizia, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Sympathy for the Devil, VanhaerentsArtCollection, Brussels, Belgium (catalogue)
Eat Me, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
The Luminous Interval, The Daskalopoulos Collection, The Guggenheim, Bilbao (catalogue)
Celluloid Brushes, Film Posters by artists, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels
2010
Mexico Expected/Unexpected, MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, CA, United States
Je crois aux Miracles, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon
Idoles, Le Moulin, Galleria Continua, Boissy-le Chatel, Paris,France
The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Israel
Bare Life, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Israel
Wish List of a Young Collector, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Lust and Vice: The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern , Switzerland (catalogue)
Winter Show, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
México – esperado/inesperado, B.P.S.22 – Espace de création contemporaine, Belgium
Spazio, Dalle collezioni di arte e architettura del MAXXI, MAXXI, Roma, Italy
Bern Biennale, The Museum of Fine Art in Bern, Switzerland
The 29th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue)
Nieuwe Monumenten, Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp (catalogue)
Strengths and Convictions, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Sweden (catalogue)
UltraMegaLore-Fashion Icon, Het Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium (catalogue)
One Shot ! Football and contemporary art, BPS22 espace de création contemporaine, Charleroi, Belgium (catalogue)
Dada South? Iziko Museums Of Cape Town, South Africa (catalogue)
Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
2009
SCRATCH! , ADN Galeria, Barcelona
Visions of paradise: utopias | dystopias | heterotopias, Berezdivin Collection, Espacio 1414, Puerto Rico
Art Foundation Mallorca , CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Fonction Critique, quelques apparitions diversement manifestees, sur une proposition de M.Fadat, Aperto, Montpellier, France (Catalogue)
Spheres 2009, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Paris
Locus Solus, Galerie Yvon Lambert , Paris
Re:Print, n.a.v. een grafisch werktraject in het Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium (catalogue)
Hellwach Gegenwartig, Ausblicke auf die Sammlung Marta, Marta Herford, Germany
Dark Summer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Une collezione trasversale, Da Duchamp a Nino Calos, da Cattelan a Entang Wiharso, ALT Arte Contemporanea,
Arte Lavoro Territorio, Spazio Fausto Radici, Alzano Lombardo
A House is Not a Home, La Calmeleterie, Amboise, France (catalogue)
SONS Shoes Or not Shoes?, Kruishoutem, Belgium
Time of the Signs, de Pury & Luxembourg Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
2008
Artist-Citizen / Contextual artistic practices, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia
Chambre à part II, La Réserve, Paris
7+1Project Rooms,MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporànea de Vigo, Spain (catalogue)
‘My Favorite Object’, Artists and Architects present their favourite object in the MAK, The Viennaartweek, MAK, Vienna (catalogue)
WALL ROCKETS, New Flag Art Foundation Show, Contemporary Artist and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, New York (catalogue)
Collection Agustin et Isabel Coppel, Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, La Maison Rouge, Paris (catalogue)
Betwixt – Sofia Hultén curated by Richard Julin, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden
NEON, group show curated by Tania Doropoulos, Gallery Anna Schwartz, Sydney, Australia
Bare Life, Jerusalem’s Museum on the Seam, Israel
Neon Bible, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon
Neighbourhood Secrets, Kvadrat, Stavanger 2008 European Capital of Culture, Norway (catalogue)
Person of the Crowd: The contemporary Art of Flânerie, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Blackwood Gallery, Curated by Séamus Kealy,
University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada (catalogue)
2007
J’embrasse Pas, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon
Passage du Temps, Collection François Pinault Foundation, Lille (catalogue)
My Sweet Sixteen Party, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Werchter Rock Festival, Amuseevous project, Werchter, Belgium
Hidden Cities, Third International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam (catalogue)
African Pavilion, 52nd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Global Cities, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
L’emprise du lieu, curated by Daniel Buren , Domaine Pommery, Reims, France (catalogue)
One Colour, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
The Freak Show, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France (catalogue)
Stock Zero, Or The Icy Water Of Egoistical Calculation, Nicolas Bourriaud, 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (catalogue)
1 Biennal of the Canaries islands, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (catalogue)
Emerging Wor(l)ds, The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague
Il faut rendre à Cézanne…, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon (catalogue)
2006
Only the Paranoid Survive, HVCCA – Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, USA
Being,In Brussels, Argos, Brussels (catalogue)
SD Observatory, IVAM, Valencia, Spain (catalogue)
HUMAN GAME, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Stazione Leopolda, Florence,Italy (catalogue)
A Fiction of Authenticity-Contemporary Africa Abroad, Blaffer Gallery-The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
One Star Stop, Galerie Erna HÈcey, Brussels, Belgium
Take a Walk on the Wild Side, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich (catalogue)
Images Publiques, 1ère Triennale d’art public, Liège, Belgium
Ballkünstler, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany (catalogue)
The Flip Book Show, Fotomuseum, Antwerp
Taste. In Viaggio Con Le Diversità Del Gusto, Stazione Leopolda, Firenze
Metropolitanscape, Il paesaggio urbano nell’arte contemporanea, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy (catalogue)
DON JUAN alias Don Giovanni¹ or “Two plus two equals four” or “Lust is the only swindle I wish permanence” ,
Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (catalogue)
Exces, Nr.12 Beelden en lichamen in buitensporige tijden , Z33, Zuivelmarkt , Hasselt, Belgium(catalogue)
Looking both ways, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco (catalogue)
George Condo, Wim Delvoye, Kendell Geers, MRZYK & Moriceau, Thomas Palme, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2005
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue)
War is over 1945-2005 la libertà dell’arte da Picasso a Warhol a Cattelan, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte
Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy (catalogue)
ADAM, International exhibition of contemporary art, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (catalogue)
Expérience de la durée, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2005, Lyon (catalogue)
Leaps of Faith, Nicosia, Cyprus (catalogue)
Daumenkino, The Flip Book Show, KunstHalle Dusseldorf, Germany (catalogue)
CCA Kitakyushu Artist’s Books, Galerie Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris
Brussels South Airport, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (catalogue)
Manmano, Galleria Continua, Beijing (China)
10th year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Dionysiac, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (catalogue)
Looking both ways, curated by L.A.Farell, Gulbenkian, Lisbon (touring show) (catalogue)
Looking both ways, curated by L.A.Farell, City Art Centre, Edinburgh (touring show) (catalogue)
2004
Wall Drawings, MMSU,16th International Drawings Exhibition curated by Branko Franceschi, Rijeka, Croetia (catalogue)
Terminal 5, curated by Rachel K.Ward, John F.Kennedy International Airport, New York City (catalogue)
Stock Zero-Opera, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, MNAC, Bucharest, Romania (catalogue)
Art in the Age of Terrorism, Millais Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom
Channel Zero, Curated by Katerina Gregos, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Democracy is fun, White box, New York
Transcultures, The cultural Olympiad and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (catalogue)
Tijdelijk verblijf/ Séjour Ephemère/temporary residence, Stedelijk Musea Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium
Ipeg bild.ton.maschine, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Liquid Architecture)
Looking both ways, curated by L.A.Farell, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA (touring show) (catalogue)
Cremers haufen.alltag,prozesse, handlungen: kunst der 60er jahre und heute,
Westfälisches Landesmuseum für kunst und kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany (catalogue)
The Ten Commandments; Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Germany
OK, America ! APEX Art, New York
Le Opere e i Giorni, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, Italy (catalogue)
Not Done, Muhka, Antwerp (catalogue)
Art Unlimited, Galeria Continua, Basel art fair, Switzerland (catalogue)
Visions of Paradise, João Ferreira Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa (catalogue)
Looking both ways, curated by L.A.Farell, Cranbrook Art Museum (touring show) (catalogue)
Looking both ways, curated by L.A.Farell, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (touring show) (catalogue)
Les Afriques, Tri Postal, Lille, France
2003
Synopsis III -Testimonies: between fiction and reality, EMET, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens(catalogue)
Looking both ways, curated by L.A.Farell, Museum for African Art, New York, USA (catalogue)
Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennal, Haghia Sophia Museum,Turkey (catalogue)
Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum, New York (catalogue)
A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, Missouri (catalogue)
Opening Gallery Beaulieu, Oudenaarde, Belgium
Poëzie Zomer, Opzij van het kijken, Watou, Belgium
African Exile Museum, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
A Prove d’Ascolto, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento (catalogue)
Time, art and architecture, Biennal of Valencia, Spain (catalogue)
Coollustre, curated by Eric Troncy, Collection Lambert en Avignon, France (catalogue)
Göteborgs Internationella Konstbiennal, Göteborg, Sweden (catalogue)
Next Flag, Hans Bogatzke Collection, B.P.S.22, Charleroi, Belgium
Thatcher, The Blue Gallery, London
HardCore, Vers un Nouvel Activisme, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (catalogue)
M_ARS – Art and War, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (catalogue)
Salon des Refusées, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (Catalogue)
Sted//Place Galerie Asbæk & Kastrupgardsamlingen, Copenhagen, (Catalogue)
Observatorio #5 Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium
Next Flag, B.P.S.22, Charleroi, Belgium (Catalogue)
Video-Zone@LX, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
2002
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)
Trauma, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (catalogue)
The Short Century, PS1, New York, USA (catalogue)
Editionen Part One / 2002, Galerie & Edition Artelier, Graz, Austria
Tutto Casino, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (Catalogue)
To Actuality, Bolzano, Italy
Video-Zone, 1st International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel (Catalogue)
Refuge Tilflukt, Henie Onstad, Oslo (Catalogue)
Handlungsanweisungen – Instructions for Actions, (with Anri Sala) Kunsthalle, Wien (Catalogue)
…privat, CHARIM GALERIE; Wien
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Kendell Geers s’engage, 1000 Expos de L’été, Beaux Arts Magazine, p.80, Juillet-Août, Paris
Biennale de Venise, La pluie et le beau temps; Le Journal des Arts, p.12, N°263, Paris
De Bom onder het artistieke establishment, Gonzo, pp.18-21, #81, July-August, Belgium
52nd Venice Biennial, Katerina Gregos, FlashArt, pp.63-64 and 81, N°255, July-September
Gentse Feesten, Kunst op 10 days Off met The FucKingFucks, Veel Gefuck, Weinig Seks, De Morgen, 20 july, p.44, Belgium
La descente aux enfers, par Charles Gohy, L’Art Même, N°34, pp.34-35; Belgium
Ici et maintenant, Joeri De Bruyn, A+ Magazine, n°206, juin/juillet, Belgium
Die Frage nach der richtigen Subversion, IZ3W, pp.30-31, July/August, Germany
Printed Project, ‘Unconditional Love’, Curator/Editor Kim Levin, Postpopfuck, pp.59-64, published by Visual Artists Ireland, Ireland
Het Alfabet Der Grenzen, Gerrit Vermeiren,
Pourquoi ils sont nietzschéens, Philosophie magazine, p.69, n°6, Paris, France
2006
I, Terrorealist, by Kendell Geers,Uovo, pp.334-367, Issue/12, Italy
La Violence Innommable, Nicolas Exertier, pp.58-77, Parachute 124, Violence Unlimited, Québec
First Works by 362 Artists, edited by Francesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig, p.143,Thames and Hudson, London
Schijn-Heilig, Blend Magazine, pp.18-19, April, The Netherland
Time after time, Brooks Adams, Art in America, p.61, February, New York
Les Vanités dans l’art contemporain, sous la direction d’Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, pp.182-183, Flammarion, France
The Flip Book Show, FotoMuseum Magazine, pp.26-27+cover, Antwerpen, Belgium
Entangled, Approaching Contemporary African Artists, pp.137-139, published Marjorie Jongbloead (Hg./Ed.) VolksvagenStiftung, pp.30-35, Hannover
2005
I, TerroRealist, by Kendell Geers, Art in the Age of Terrorism, pp.114-129, Edited by Graham Coulter-Smith and Maurice Owen, PHP, London
Recipe for Making Plastic Explosives from Bleach, Artistaste,pp.80-83, Published by Toohcsmi, uitgevers, Belgium
La sainte Vierge, A Magazine curated by Haider Ackermann, #3, pp.136-137, Belgium
Cut the Krap, an interview with Kendell Geers by Jérôme Sans, pp.146-167, N.10, 00 People Uovo Magazines, Italy
N.Drawings, pp.22-39, 00 People, Uovo Magazines, Italy
30 Individual Exhibitions, Contemporary Art in Belgium 2006, Bart De Baere & Henrz Bounameaux,pp.150-153, Best of Publishing, Belgium
La limite et la dynamique de son pouvoir, Doris van Drathen; Les vanités dans l’art contemporain,sous la direction d’Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, pp.182-183, Flammarion, Paris
Ethics and Aesthetics, Art and Terror, Artlies, #45,Winter 2005, Texas, United States
Il Détournement dal Sudafrica, Il Manifesto, n°207, Sabato 27 agosto, Italy
Outer Limits, reviewed by Edwin Pouncey, Wire, Issue 254, April, London, United Kingdom
Philosophy, Federico Chiara, Vogue Italia, N°656, p.80, April , Italy
SA Art ‘Lacks passion, pride’ by Celean Jacobson, Sunday Times, 8 May, Johannesburg, South Africa
Il Cavaliere Azzuro per una critica dell’estetica Berlusconiana, Marco Senaldi, Flash Art, n°251, pp.106-109, April-May, Italy
“Dionysiac” sans plaisir, Liberation, by Hervé Gauville, 26 and 27 February, Paris, France
Art Mixed with double meanings, dark humor, The Aspen Times, by Stewart Oksenhorn, Aspen, United States
Utopian Hell, Aspen Daily News Time Out, by Vanessa Pierce, pp.4-5, Febr. 17-23, United States
Bloomfield Hills Michigan, Matthew Biro, Art Papers, pp.51-52, Jan/Feb, Atlanta
Dangerous Liaisons, Katerina Gregos, Contemporary Art Magazine, pp.22-25 +cover, n°70, London
Redpornographicmisery, Belio, pp.026-030 and pp.109-110, Summary 016, Madrid
2004
Interview in Time Out, Athens, p.67, June
Le Terrorisme de Kendell Geers, Nicolas Exertier, Art Presence, pp.12-19, n°52, Paris
Albi, Art Press, Evence Verdier, pp. 77-78, no 305, Paris
Blinded by the light, I-D Magazine, p.84, Issue No 247, London
Cumulus, Aus Europa, Parkett, p.176, N°70, Zürich
Visions of Paradise, Nick Dawes, Art Southafrica, p.75, Vol02 issue04, Winter 2004
Seasonal Unrulines, a dialogue between Kendell Geers and Walter Van Bierendonck,
JANUS Magazine, 16/04, pp.34-38, Antwerpen, Belgium
A Provocateur and Insider’s Outsider from South Africa, Kim Levin, The Village Voice, 26th April, New York
Kunstvermittlung im System Kunst, Pierangelo Maset, The educational complex, pp.30-33,Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Very New Art, pp.81-82, BT, April, Vol.56, N°847, Japan
Synopsis 3, Fabian Stech, Kunstforum International, Bd.169, pp. 318-319, Germany
Conversation between Kendell Geers, Daniel Buren and Nicolas Bourriaud, Catalogue Kendell Geers, Rome : MACRO, Milan : Mondadori Electa Spa, p. 44-66 : italien, p. 70-95 : anglais
Kendell Geers en conversation avec Daniel Buren et Nicolas Bourriaud, With The Effectiveness of a Tank, in cat. Next Flag, p. 151
2003
December-November
Istanbul and elsewhere, Emma Bedfordn, Art Southafrica magazine, p.11, Vol02, Issue02, South Africa
Istambul Biennale, Joerg Bader, Kunstforum International, Bd.167, pp.335-357, Ruppichteroth, Germany
Dreaming Red, Creating Artpace, Linda Pace and Jan Jarboe Russell, pp.174, Chrissie Iles, ArtPace, San Antonio
21 November
Redefining the African Diaspora, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, New York
October
Héritages, L’exposition du grand Palais Gauguin (Tahiti), Beaux Arts Magazine Hors-Série n°7, pp.70-71 and p.79, Paris
20 September
Ultravista, Arte, la VIII Biennale di Istanbul, Alias #37, p.6, Italy
September
Coollustre,Weather Everything Dramatically Different, 3 expositions d’Eric Troncy,
Les presses du réel, Collection Lambert en Avignon, France
Kendell Geers, Colin Richards, Art Southafrica magazine, pp.64-65, Vol02, Issue01, South Africa
28 March- 25 May
Salon de refusés, Public art projects never realized, Roberto Pinto, Venice
XXD11, Uber Kunst und Kunstler der Gegenwart, Ein NachLesebuch zur Documenta 11,
Die Note beim Nation building”- Sudafrika im Fokus von Kendell Geers, David Goldblatt, Santu Mofokeng, Alfredo Jaar und Steve McQueen, pp.32-35 and Tot oder lebendig Die Entdeckung einer Arbeit auf der Documenta 11, pp.104-107, Germany
Autumn (SA)
Sand in the Vaseline, Art Southafrica, interview with Jerome Sans, pp.28-34, Vol.1 #3, South Africa (Cover)
May
Look back in anger, ArtReview, Godfrey Barker, Vol.LIV, pp.33-34, London
25 Avril
Hackers Vaillants, Liberation, Elizabeth Lebovici, p.30, Paris
April
Willkommen im Wunderland, Die Utopie des Zuhause, Reporter ohne grenzen,
Fotos fur die Pressefreiheit 2003, pp.30-37, Berlin
Suburbia I, Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme n#237, pp.48-51, Barcelona
Mars
Hardcore, Desir de Politique, Emmanuelle Lequeux, Beaux Arts Magazine, #226, pp. 48-49, Paris
Mars
Action Directe?, Les Inrockuptibles, Jade Lingaard et Jean-Max Colard, #380, pp. 36-40, March, Paris,
February 26–March 5
Art:Preview, Time Out, Martin Coomer, #1697, p.45, Febr-March, London
February 12-19
S is for… , What’s On in London, Jim Healy, p.23, London
Summer 2002
Reviews/Books, Art Southafrica, Emma Bedford, p.63, Vol.1 #2, South Africa
Post Production, Nicolas Bourriaud, Lukas and Sternberg, p. 9, New York
Postculture, Teresa Macri, Meltemi, pp. 142-145, Rome, Italy
Waiting for the Barbarians, Der Hund ist fur die Hyane eine Kolanuss: Zeitgenossische Kunst und Kultur aus Afrika, Jahresring #49, Project pp. 106-111, Oktagon, Koln
The Devil’s Rope, A Cultural History of Barbed Wire, Alan Krell, Reaktion Books, pp. 113, 114, 172-3, 175, London
Autumn 2002
20 Artworks, Crash ,#23, p. 61, Paris,
2002 Nov/December
The Passenger; Kendell Geers’ art of terror, Joseph Whitt, Art Papers #26.6,pp. 22-27, Atlanta (Cover)
2002 6 November
Seven from Documenta, Scott McLeod, Prefix Photo, pp. 26-43
2002 September
Kendell Geers, Francesca Pasini, Artforum XLI No.1 p. 211, New York
2002 August–October
Die Dokumenta 11, Kunstforum #161, Ruppichteroth Germany, pp. 268, 384
2002 July/August
Kendell Geers, Jerome Sans, Tema Celeste #92, pp. 44-47 (Cover) , Milan
2002 June
Kendell Geers, What is Art (Today); qu’est-ce que l’art (aujourd’hui) Beaux Arts Special
Edition 2002, pp. 124 – 127, Paris
29 mai – 4 juin 2002
Afrikan Psycho, Jean-Max Collard, les Inrockuptibles #340, pp. 76 – 77, Paris
2002 January
Trauma, Paul Tebbs, Contemporary, pp. 94-95, London
Paradoxes de la Mondialisation, Catherine Francblin, Artpress Special Numero # 22, p. 165
Authentic/Ex-Centric, Conceptualism in African Art, Salah M. Hassanand Olu Oguibe,
Biennale de Venezia, Forum for African Art, New York
Video: Un Art Contemporain, Francoise Parfait, Editions du Regard, pp. 166, 226, 227, 242, 246, Paris
Autumn
Art and Artifact, The Museum as Medium, James Putnam, Thames and Hudson,p. 108, London
Making whiteness strange, Liese van der Watt, Third Text 56, pp. 44-89, London
2001/2002 Winter
Infinite Justice, Eric Troncy, Les Editions du Reel, pp. 32-43, Dijon
2001 Nov – Dec
Skultur-Biennale 2001 im Kreis Steinfurt, Claudia Herstatt, Kunstforum#157,p. 421, Ruppichteroth Germany
2001 July
GI-Joe Attitude, Ch. Laubard & B. Ramade, Technikart #54, pp. 60 – 64, Paris
2001 16-22 June
Where Angels Fear To Tread, The Guardian Guide
2001 4-11 July
Review, Sarah Kent, Time Out London
2001 June – July
2 Berlin Biennale, Kunstforum #155, p. 300, Ruppichteroth, Germany
2001 24 April
Monster sehen dich an, Holger Liebs, Süddeutsche Zeitung # 94
2001 March-April
Kratzen, wo es nicht juckt, Interview with Otto Neumaier, Frame #06,pp. 94-99, Vienna
2001 April
The Newest Avant-Garde, Barbara Pollack, Artnews Vol 100/#4,pp. 124 – 129, New York
2001 March
Durch den Tunnel der Gewalt, Ruth Handler, Art das Kunstmagazin
2001 Jan – March
Kendell Geers: Timbuktu, Dieter Buchart, Kunstforum #153, p. 396,Ruppichteroth, Germany
2001 February
Der melancholische Schrecken, Nikolai B. Forstbauer, Stuttgarter Nachrichten
2000 Oct – Dec
3 Raume – 3 Flusse, Kunstforum #152, p. 336, Ruppichteroth Germany
Landmines in the Gallery, Interview with Jerome Sans, Trans>arts.cultures.media# 8, pp. 268-274, New York
Reading the Contemporary- African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, Okwui Enwezor and Olu Oguibe, MIT press, Cambridge, Massachussetts
2000 July – September
There’s a Bomb in This Exhibition: Kendell Geers charged, Ruth Kerkham, Parachute #99, pp. 30-40, Montreal
2000 May
The Art of the Phoenix, Interview, Christine Macel, Art Press #257, Paris, pp. 28-33
2000 June – August
Ex Africa semper aliquid novi, Ludovic Fouquet, Etc Montreal, p. 59 – 61 Montreal
2000 February
Artiste du Mois, Catherine Francblin, Beaux Arts Magazine, p. 27, Paris
2000 10 February
Micro Politiques, Parpaings #10, pp. 20-23, Grenoble
2000 1-7 February
Ghetto Blaster, Jade Lindgaard, Les Inrockuptibles, #228, pp.56-57, Paris
2000 1 February
Video Impressionante, Michel Nuridsany, Figaro
2000 23 January
Scenes de la destruction et autres images de la souffrance, Philipp Dagan, Le Monde, p.23, Paris
1999
Contemporary African Art, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, Thames and Hudson, p.165, London
1999 Nov-Dec
Review, Flash Art, Vol 32 # 209, p.118, Milano
1999 October
Kendell Geers, Katerina Gregos, Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 25, p. 56, London
Cityscape Johannesburg, Larie Firstenberg, Flashart #208, pp. 69-70, Milano
Extra et Ordinaire, Evelyne Jouanno, Flashart, Milano
1999 September
Review 99, Katerina Gregos, Noticias ARCO #15, p. 8, Madrid
1999 July – August
Trafique, Renate Puvogel, Kunstforum #146, p. 430, Ruppichteroth Germany
1999 July-August
Review, The Art Newspaper #94, pp. 66
1999 30 June-7 July
Review, Sarah Kent, Time Out London, p. 55
1999 June 23
Video et photographie scellent leurs noces au Printems de Cahors, Michel Guerrin, Le Monde, Paris
1999 May-June
Portrait des Künstlers als Voyer und Exhibitionist, Otto Neumeier, Noema #51, pp. 46-51
1999 April – May
Geordende revolte in Glasgow, Ross Birrel, Metropolis M #2, pp. 32-33, Amsterdam
1999 Jan – Feb
7 Triennale de Kleinplastik Europa – Afrika, Sigrid Feeser, Kunstforum #143, p. 398, Ruppichteroth, Germany
1999 Spring
Performative Recollections: An interview with Artists Olu Oguibe and Kendell Geers, Laurie Firstenberg, Chicago Art Journal, pp.
102-108
1999 March
High Red Center, Elisabeth Mahoney, Art Monthly # 224, pp. 27-29
1998
South Africa, Cumulus, Hamza Walker, Parkett #52, p. 177
CREAM, Hou Hanru et al, Phaidon Press, pp 136-139, London
1998 Fall/Winter
Art of Darkness: Darkness of Art, Clive Kellner, NKA, #9, Cornell University,pp. 68–69, New York
1998 March/April
Cross/ing: Time, Space, Movement, Matthew DeBord, Flash Art, p. 80
Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa, Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin, David Philip Publishers, pp 111, 120, 123-4, Cape Town and Johannesburg
Altered States: Die Kunst des Kendell Geers, Okwui Enwezor, Iklusion-Exclusion, DuMont, pp. 202-205, Köln
1997 Winter
Review, John Peffer-Engels, African Arts, pp. 75-77
1997 August/Sept
Review, Pascal Lampert, Metropolis M, # 4, p. 61
The Perversity of my Birth, the Birth of my Perversity” published in Art in South Africa, The Future Present, Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal, David Philip Publishers, , pp. 9, 15, 58-61, 64, Cape Town and Johannesburg
1996 Winter
Africus, The Johannesburg Biennial, A Perspective David Koloane, African Arts, pp. 50 -56
1996 October/Nov
Review, Dierk Schmidt, Springer, p. 68
1996 October/Nov
Review, Tilman Baumgärtel, Springer, pp. 68-69
1996 Summer
Aperto, Lorna Ferguson and Thomas Mulclaire, FlashArt, pp. 89 – 91, Milano
1996 June/July/Aug
Crapshoot, Stuart Morgan, Frieze, # 29, pp. 64-65
1996 21 June
Art in Review, Holland Cotter, New York Times
1996 January – Feb
Moving In, Okwui Enwezor & Octavio Zaya, FlashArt, pp. 84-89, Milano
1996
Why Have There Been No Avant-Garde African Artists?, Candice Breitz, Atlantica, #11, pp. 52-64/145-157
Retaining This Fire, Colin Richards, Atlantica, #11, pp. 31-44 / 132-144
1996 January
Occupied Territories: Power, Access and African Art, Okwui Enwezor, Frieze, pp. 37-41
1995
Picturing Health and Illness, Sander L Gilman, John Hopkins University Press, pp. 182-3, Baltimore
1995 September
Report from Johannesburg Towards a World-Class City?,Thomas McEvilley, Art in America, pp. 45-49
1995 Summer
Inside Out, Ruth Rosengarten, Frieze, pp. 43-49
1995 May
Biennial, Ruth Rosengarten, Artnews, p. 168
1995 January–Feb
South African Art – Out of Time, Benjamin Weil, Flash Art, pp. 74-76
1994 November
Motho Ke Motho Ka Batha Babang, Teresa Macri, Virus, pp. 34-35, Cape Town, South Africa
1994 22 October
Het Oproer Van De White Boys, Fred de Vries, Elsevier, pp.104-107, Amsterdam
1994 Autumn
Crossing The Boundaries: Two Examples in South African Art, Benjamin Weil, Atlantica, Number 8, pp. 19-27, 130-134
1994 1 September
Con – Artist at the Louvre, Michael Green, You Magazine, pp. 139-140
1994 23 August
Getting into Geers despite static, Anthea Bristowe, Business Day, p.14(Reprinted in Art Ventilator, p.51, Johannesburg, September 1994)
1994 22 August
Two Artists who are Legends in their minds…, Hazel Friedman, The Star Tonight, p. 3
(reprinted in Art Ventilator, Johannesburg, p. 52, 1994 September
1994 May
The Hottentot Venus, Jean-Yves Jounnais, Art Press, pp. 33-40, Paris
1994 27 March
Separate and Equal, Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Magazine, pp. 44-89, New York
Sesta Biennale d’Art Sacra, La Passione di Cristo e la Guerra, pp.116-119, editoriale Eco srl, San Gabriele, Italy, 1994
1994 27 March
Exposure, Andrea Vinassa, The London Sunday Times Magazine, p. 18, London
1994 25 February
The 9 Cards of Chameleon Geers, Stephen Laufer, Weekly Mail, p.11, Johannesburg
1993 December
Art For Africa?, Andrea Vinassa, House and Leisure, pp. 34-35, Milan
1993 Autumn/Winter
About Face Aspects of Art History and Identity in South African Visual Culture, Colin Richards, Third Text,pp.101-133, London
1993 Autumn
Different and Alike, Daniel Herwitz, Modern Painters, London, pp. 76-79
1993 October
The Ten Most Intriguing South Africans, Femina, pp. 64-71, Cape Town
1989
Resistance Art in South Africa, Sue Williamson, David Philip, p. 69, Cape Town
SELECTED WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST
The Penis Might Ier Than Thes Word (2009), by Kendell Geers, pp.123-134, The Fenris Wolf, Issue no.4, Edited by Carl Abrahamsson, 2011
The Divine Body, part two,Column by Kendell Geers, p.30, ArtSouthAfrica Magazine, winter 2010, South Africa
Apropos South Africa, Kendell Geers, .ZA Gionane Arte dal Sudafrica, an exhibition curated by Marlene Dumas, Lorenzo Fusi, Kendell Geers, Bernie Searle, Minnette Vàri, Sue Williamson, Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna (Catalogue)
I, Terrorealist, One Million and Forty-four years (and sixty three days), pp.130-143, published by SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2007
I, TerroRealist, Empire, Ruins+Networks, the transcultural agenda in art, edited by Scott McQuire and Nikos Papastergiadis, published by Melbourne University¨Press, pp.122-141, Australia, 2005
I, TerroRealist, Art in the Age of Terrorism, edited by Graham Coulter-Smith and Maurice Owen, published by Paul Holberton publishing, pp.114-129, London, 2005
The Work of Art in the State of Exile, Poetic Justice, 8th Istambul Biennial, pp.048-057, September, 2003
History, Fleshed Out, Minette Vari, Museum of Art Lucerne, pp.9-12/89-92, Switzerland
The Plague is me, Onestar press, Paris, France, December 2003
The Work of Art in the State of Exile, Milici Tomic, ‘National Pavilion’, pp.0-23, Venice Biennale 2003
Undiscovered at 82, Robert Hodgins, Tafelberg Publishers, pp.62-69, Cape Town, 2002
Guest Editor, Documents Sur l’Art, Dijon, France (Forthcoming)
Art as Propaganda Inevitably Self-Destructs, Art From South Africa, pp. 23-24,MOMA, Oxford, 199O
Third World Bites Back, Art Ventilator, pp. 12-15, Johannesburg, September 1994
First Johannesburg Biennial, ArtPress, pp. IV-V, May 1995
Fuck Art: The Prose of a Con-Artist, National Sculpture Symposium, Pretoria Technikon, 4 July 1995
For or Against, South African Association of Art Historians National Conference, Wits University, 7 July 1995
The Horror, The Horror, The CAPC Bordeaux, France May 1998
Contemporary South African Art – The Gencor Collection, Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg, 1997
The Horror, The Horror, Stopping The Process? Contemporary views on art and exhibitions, NIFCA, pp. 163-173, Helsinki, Finland, 1998
Cover – Atlantica, Number 22, 1998
Project Pages, Atlantica, Number 22, pp. 56-65, 1999
Statement en beeldbijdrage, Metropolis M Nummer 2, Amsterdam, 1999 April – May pp. 29-32
The Affluence and the Effluence, The Bastard, Metronome No 7, 2001, pp. 193-199
The Affluence and the Effluence / Affluenza ed effluenza, Racconti d’identita, La Generazione della Immagini 7, pp. 88-107, Comune di Milano, Milan, 2001
For or Against, South African Association of Art Historians National Conference, Wits University, 7 July 1995
What is the Artist’s Role Today?, Jerome Sans and Marc Sanchez, p. 66, Palais de Tokyo , Paris 2001
Scenario, The Queel, Metronome 8B, p. 71, London 2002
Intersections, RMIT Gallery, BHPBilliton, 2002
Artist’s Books
Guest editior of Be Contemporary Magazine, N.7, Summer 2009, 184 pages, France, June 2009
7+1 Project Room, The Terrorist’s Apprentice + T.W.(Rock), Marco Museo de Arte Contemoranea de Vigo, Vigo, 2009
PostPunkPaganPop, Published on the occasion of the show ‘PosPunkPaganPop’ at de Pury & Luxembourg in Zürich, 2 June-16 August 2008.
Between Good and Evil, published by Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, printed in an edition of 1000 copies, with 30 copies signed and numbered by the artist, 162 pages, ISBN-4-901387-25-1, Japan, 2004
Point Blank, published by Imschoot Uitgevers, printed in an edition of 1000 copies, with 30 copies signed and numbered by the artist, ISBN 90 7736 2126, Ghent, Belgium, 2004
The Plague is me, published by Onestar Press, First Edition limited to 25 numbered copies, 20 copies deluxe limited edition of the book accompanied by a signed and numbered multiple by the artist, 145 pages, Paris, France, Decembre 2003
Argot, Published by Chalkham Hill Press, 30 copies signed and numbered by the artist, 1995
Monographs
Kendell Geers 1988-2012, catalogue published during his solo show at Haus der kunst , 240 pages, Prestel Publishing, ISBN 978-3-7913-5300-5, Munich, 2013
Handgrenades from my heart, Kendell Geers edited by Jerome Sans, 383 pages, published by Blue Kingfisher Limited, Hong Kong, 2013
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blandy Art Tour(s), en collaboration avec Galleria Continua, San Gimignano/Beijing/Le Moulin, 2012
Fin de Partie, Published by Galleria Continua, Beijing 2011
Guest editior of Be Contemporary Magazine, N.7, Summer 2009, 184 pages, France, June 2009
Irrespektiv, designed by Base design and published by BOM Publishers in cooperation with SMAK (Ghent), B.P.S.22 (Charleroi), Baltic (Gateshead), MOCA (Lyon) and MART (Trento), 296 pages, ISBN 978-84-934879-5-9, Barcelona, August 2007
Fingered, published by Tikiriki Publications, Brussels, Belgium, edited by Kurt Vanbelleghem, 107 pages, ISBN 90 7736 233 9, Belgium, February 2005
Kendell Geers; The Forest of Suicides, published by MACRO, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, 103 pages, ISBN 8837030509, Roma, May 2004
My Tongue in Your Cheek, published by Les presses du Réel, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 240 pages, ISBN 2-7118-4374-2
France, January 2002
Argot, Published by Chalkham Hill Press, printed in an edition of 1000 copies, Johannesburg, 1995