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CV AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EXHIBITION

BORN AND EDUCATED IN PRETORIA, Booknesses (2017) have further cemented his criti- book, Radicalise Bahaus, addressing the meanings and
Alexander Opper (1972) completed an undergradu- cal spatial practice, spanning installation, text-based relevance of the Bauhaus in the global south (due out
ate degree in architecture at UCT in 1993. Using his work, and lens-based media. with the imprint iwalewabooks, 2021/2022).
approach of Undoing Architecture, work generated
since 2009 has been catalysed by the schizophrenic HIS WORK IS HELD IN THE COLLECTIONS OF OPPER WAS AWARDED THE PRESTIGIOUS
(im)possibilities of Johannesburg and other cities on The Johannesburg Art Gallery, the Smithsonian Ampersand Foundation fellowship and residency at the
the continent, but the significant themes of line, border, Institution and in numerous private collections. Since end of 2019. His planned 2020 New York sojourn has
territory, and ownership are universally relevant, in a 2007 Opper has been a full time member of faculty been postponed due to the global Covid-19 pandemic,
world paradoxically more connected, yet simultaneous- at UJ’s Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, where the focus of his two works on the current Interventions
ly divided, than ever. he established and ran (2010-2014) the university’s in Practice exhibition in the FADA Gallery.
first ever Master’s in Architecture programme. In his
KEY SOLO EXHIBITIONS HAVE BEEN capacity as an academic, he regularly presents and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Separ(n)ation (2013) and Uitval Unfolded (2015) (see publishes on the productive frictions between art and With thanks to Eugene Hön and his team for
https://youtu.be/11lfplrkM1c & https://youtu.be/xgwSivZ3BVQ ). architecture (see here for a selection of his writing: the curation and installation of the exhibition.
Opper’s contributions to the group exhibitions The Dou- https://johannesburg.academia.edu/AlexOpper?from_navbar=true ). Printing of works
ble Body: Being in Space (2009), Time’s Arrow (2010), He is in the process of completing his PhD at the Uni- Andreas Vlachakis (Lightfarm)
TWENTY: Contemporary Art from South Africa (USA, versity of Bayreuth’s International Graduate School of Framing of works
2014-15), Past Imperfect // Future Present (2015) and African Studies (BIGSAS) and is currently co-editing a Pauline Meyer (Framing at 151)

Figure/Ground. 2021.
Installation.

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