Cobus van Bosch
Cobus van Bosch was born in 1962, and is a Cape Town based artist and arts writer. He works in a variety of media, including casts in metal, compositions of found objects, drawing and painting, as well as the odd performance and other conceptual projects. His art often incorporates aspects of geometry, pattern and topography to highlight a variety of socio political issues of our time, as well as the past. Previous bodies of work include designs of cast iron manhole covers, topographical maps of historic battle fields (constructed from bone fragments), studies of cloud formations (painting) and cityscapes (painting).
Academic
1983 - BA (Psychology, Philosophy) - University of Stellenbosch
1984 - BA Honours (Journalism) - University of Stellenbosch
1997 - BA Fine Art - University of South Africa
Writing
Arts writing for Die Burger newspaper since 1993, and since 1995 full-time visual arts writer for Die Burger and the Media24 group. Assistant arts editor of Die Burger from 2001 to 2004. Since 1998 contributing to various newspapers, national magazines and art periodicals in South Africa. Full time artist and freelance arts writer since 2004.
Art
Solo exhibitions
2011 – Forgotten Freedom Fighters (From the series The Captains, January, Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town)
2010 - Bastard (From the series The Captains, March, Word Festival, Stellenbosch)
2008 - City (March, 34Long, Cape Town)
2007 - March (March, 34Long, Cape Town)
2004 - Memorial (March, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town)
2002 - Monument (February, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town)
2000 - Slag (March, Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town)
1998 - Cover (September, Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town)
Group exhibitions
2012 - ‘-scape’- group exhibition at Johans Borman Fine Art, Cape Town.
2009 - Group exhibition at Dawid Ras Gallery, Johannesburg (January)
2009 - Group exhibition at Word Festival, Stellenbosch
2009 - Group exhibition at the Association for Visual Art, Cape Town (March)
2009 - Group exhibition at University of the North West (Potchefstroom, June)
2008 - Muse - Group exhibition at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (March)
2008 - Group exhibition at Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom
2007 - Heritage Cache - Art/Culture project with Arlene Amaler-Raviv as part of XCape and Cape 07 (March, Cape Town)
2007 - Love Story - Group exhibition at iArt, Cape Town (September)
2007 - Group exhibition at iArt, Cape Town (October)
2007 - Group exhibition at Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town (December)
2006 - The Seven Deadly Sins - Group exhibition at Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville (June)
2006 - Group Exhibition at Upstairs @ Bamboo, Johannesburg (September)
2006 - City paintings at iArt, Cape Town (December)
2005 - Stukkies - Exhibition with J.P. Meyer and Varenka Paschke at Artspace Gallery, Johannesburg (Feb)
2005 - Man - Group exhibition at the Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville.
2005 - Group exhibition at Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town (Nov).
2005 - Group exhibition at Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville (Nov)
2005 - Group exhibition at Artspace Gallery, Johannesburg (Nov)
2005 - Group Exhibition at Jean Welz Gallery, Worcester (Nov)
2004 - The art of drawing - Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville. (May)
2004 - Selected for finalist exhibition in the Brett Kebble Art Competition (Nov, CTICC, Cape Town)
2003 - War at 19:45 - group performance at YDEsire Softserve (Cape Town).
2003 - Artsupermarket - Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (Oudtshoorn)
2003 - Portraits - Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville.
2002 - Exhibition in Johannesburg (Monument works)
2002 - Berg - Group exhibition at Art.b (Bellville)
2001 - Artists from the Western Cape - (March, Pretoria Arts Association)
2001 - Brain Storm - Group exhibition, September, Artscape, Cape Town
2000 - Group exhibition at the Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet during the One City Festival (Cape Town)
1999 - Animated digital projection at 3rd i Gallery during the One City Festival (Cape Town)
1998 - Interpreting Land’Scape - (October, Bellville Art Gallery)
Residencies
2005 - Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (July, August)
Other
2000 Judge for Jakkals Prize (visual arts) at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK)
2000 Regional judge (Western Cape) for Absa Atelier Prize
2001 Judge for visual arts prize at the KKNK
2001 National judge for Absa Atelier Prize
2002 Judge for Aardklop National Arts Festival prizes
2003 - 2005 Judge for visual arts prize at the (KKNK)
2005 Regional judge (Western Cape) for Absa l’Atelier Prize
2006 - 2009 Member of selection panel (visual arts) for KKNK
2010 - Committee member, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
Collections
Didata Collection
Sanlam Collection
Sasol Collection
Rand Merchant Bank Collection
Nando’s UK
McMillan Insurance
University of the North West