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Nolan Oswald Dennis
Born in 1988
Lives & works in Johannesburg, South Africa
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FNB Art prize - 2016
Gauteng Institute of Architects Award, Johannesburg - 2011
Presentation of the artist
Nolan Oswald Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist from Johannesburg, South Africa. His practice explores what he calls ‘a black consciousness of space’ : the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization.
His work questions the politics of space and time through a system-specific, rather than site-specific approach. He is concerned with the hidden structures that pre-determine the limits of our social and political imagination. Through a language of diagrams, drawings and models he explores a hidden landscape of systematic and structural conditions that organise our political sub-terrain. This sub-space is framed by systems which transverse multiple realms (technical, spiritual economic, psychological, etc) and therefore Dennis’ work can be seen as an attempt to stitch these, sometime opposed, sometimes complimentary, systems together. To read technological systems alongside spiritual systems, to combine political fictions with science fiction.
He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a Masters of Science in the Art, Culture and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Nationality : American Samoa
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Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg - South Africa
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Born in Lusaka, Zambia
Solo exhibitions & presentations
2019
Options, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
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2016
Furthermore, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Residencies
2017
MeetFactory, Studio Residency, Prague, Czech Republic
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2016
Atelier Mondial, Studio Residency Basel, Switzerland
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2016
Berlin Biennale (with NTU)
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2016
MIT Department of Architecture Graduate Fellowship
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Group exhibitions & fairs
2018
A Better Version of You, Goethe Institute, Beijing, China
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2018
African Mobilities, TUM, Munich, Germany
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2018
In the Open or in Stealth, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
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2018
Tell Freedom. 15 South African artists, Kunsthalle kAde, Amersfoort, Netherlands
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2017
Deep Memory, Kalmar Konsthal, Kalmar, Sweden
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2017
In No Time, MIT, Cambridge, USA
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2017
89plus: Americans 2017, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Press & media
Presse
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2017
Published Paper -‘Anxious South’ – University of Rochester Journal for Visual Culture (InVisible Culture)
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2017
Presentation Paper – Under Super Vision, symposium, University of British Columbia
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2017
Presentation Paper – Environments and the Ecological self, conference, University of Rochester
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2017
Published Paper – Solomon Mahlangu House’ – Centre des Laboratoires Associés pour la Recherche en Architecture (CLARA) No. 4
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