Kate Gottgens
B. South Africa, 1965
South African painter Kate Gottgens builds her compositions from multiple vernacular sources. Her practice explores the fraught environment of suburbia and the contemporary moment.
Highlights
Kate Gottgens: A String of Signs. Installation View
Kate Gottgens. Bare Bones (2023)
Kate Gottgens: A String of Signs. Installation View
The Works
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Kate Gottgens
Mise-en-Scène
2024
Oil on canvas
Kate Gottgens
Late Summer
2024
Oil on canvas
Kate Gottgens
Suburban Erotic
2023
Oil on canvas
Kate Gottgens
A Lost Summer
2023
Oil on canvas
Kate Gottgens
Little White Cat
2023
Oil on canvas
Kate Gottgens
Her Glittering Embrace
2023
Monotype
Kate Gottgens
Night Expanding
2023
Monotype
Kate Gottgens
Holding Back a Lake
2023
Monotype
Kate Gottgens
Figures at a Pool
2023
Monotype
B. South Africa1965
Biography
Built from multiple de-contextualised, vernacular sources, Kate Gottgens’ compositions reject specification in time and location. Gottgens’ artistic practice exorcises the malaise that stems from the superficiality of suburban life, understanding ‘entropy and collapse’ to be central to the contemporary experience.
Gottgens was born in Durban, South Africa in 1965. She graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 1987. She has exhibited her work internationally, in Europe, India, South Africa and the United States. Her work has been included in 100 Painters of Tomorrow (2014) and In the World : Essays on Contemporary South African Art (2017). In 2019 she won the Ampersand Fellowship Award. She lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
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