Curriculum Vitae
born 1 February 1939 in Germany
Lives and works in Munich, Germany and Observatory, Cape Town
Selected group exhibitions
1960 – 1962 Spring & Autumn Exhibition; Artists’ Union, Augsburg, Germany
1961 Junger Western; Recklinghausen, Germany
1962 – 1968 Member of Ulmer Künstler-Gilde (exhibition in Ulm, Lindau & Reutlingen),Germany
1964 Socialist Realism from West and East Germany; Augsburg, Germany
1965 Anti-Vietnam War; traveling exhibition, Germany, organized by Workers’ Union.
1980 Cape Town Triennial; South Africa
1982 Culture and Resistance Festival; Gaborone, Botswana
1983 Krieg und Frieden; Bremen, Germany
1984 South African Contemporary Art; South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1984 Paul Grendon & Manfred Zylla; South African Association of Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
1985 Art for Peace; Baxter Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa, organized by End Conscription Campaign
1986 120 Hours Action; Kunstakademie, Munich, Germany
1987 South African Conference on Literature; Evangelische Akademie, Bad Boll, Germany
1989 South African Anti-Apartheid Festival; Amsterdam, Netherlands
1993 Art against Racism; Dritte Welt Café, Munich, Germany
1997 – 2000 Exhibition with Handicap International, Munich, Berlin and Augsburg, Germany
2000 Exhibition with Sans Papiers, Munich, Germany
2002 Voices in Transit; Cape Town City Station, South Africa
2004 Gallery MOMO; Johannesburg, South Africa
2004 Resistance, Reconciliation, Reconstruction; curated by Bongi Dhlomo- Mautloa, organized by MTN Foundation, traveling exhibition, South Africa
2007 Artseasons; Franschhoek, South Africa
2007 Riempie Vasmaak; Erdmann Contemporary with Garth Erasmus & Roderick Sauls, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Art & Revolution; Tehran, Iran
2007 Scratching the surface of South African Art; Delhi & Mumbai, India
2008 Spier Contemporary; touring competition exhibition, South Africa
2008 Portraits Exhibition; Klein Karoo Nationale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
2008 Painful Earth; Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2008 Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009 Havana Biennale; Cuba
2009 Fernwarme Kapstad, BBK Ulm, Germany
2011 1970 – 1990: A Legacy; Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 Present History II; Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town South Africa
2011 Altered Landscape & the Narrative Portrait; Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
Murals
2002 EineWeltHaus, Munich, Germany (with Charles Bebe)
2009 Restoration and redesign; EineWeltHaus (with Garth Erasmus)
2011 Community House, Saltriver, Cape Town
2011 Artscape Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa (with Garth Erasmus)
Actions
1990 Puzzle; with Tina Schouw, South African Scholarship Fund, in Tübingen, Germany
1991 Ozone; billboard action, Munich, Germany
1992 Stand up for tolerance; billboard action, Munich Germany
Selected solo exhibitions
1965 Obere Stube, Ulm, Germany
1966 Ecke Stuben, Augsburg, Germany
1975 Exhibition on the passenger liner, Europa
1975 The Space Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa
1978 Kleine Schlossgalerie, Munich, Germany
1980 South African Association of Art, Cape Town, South Africa
1982 Inter-Action; Community Arts Project (CAP), Cape Town, South Africa
1986 Amnesty International; Munich, Germany
1990 South African Association of Arts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1991 Art des Foyer; Munich, Germany
1992 Glockenbachwerkstatt, Munich, Germany
1993 Ecke Galerie Kneipe, Augsburg, Germany
1993 Dritte Welt Café, Munich, Germany
1996 Hörbach Festival, Hörbach, Germany
1998 Dritte Welt Café, Munich, Germany
2002 EineWeltHaus, Munich, Germany
2003 Obz Café, Cape Town, South Africa
2003 Interim; Munich, Germany
2004 Unauthorized; Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2005 Work on paper: 1960 to 2005; Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
2006 Mixed Messages; Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2006 Faces of Saron; Artscape Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 New Paintings; Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 … and again and again; Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 Future Memories; Centro Luigi Di Sarro, Rome, Italy
2012 In Retrospect; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa (15 February – 7 April)
In Retrospect; William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberly, South Africa (16 April – 2 June)
In Retrospect; Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa (14 June – 9 July)
In Retrospect; Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa (29 October – 26 November)