Mikhael Subotzky Returns to Goodman Gallery with A Johannesburg Landscape After 20 Years
Two decades after his inaugural show there, Mikhael Subotzky presents A Johannesburg Landscape at Goodman Gallery. The exhibition assembles new and reconfigured imagery in paintings, photographs, and Sticky-tape Transfers, portraying Johannesburg as fragmented, contradictory, and perpetually reinvented. In 2005, Subotzky, then a recent fine arts graduate, was introduced to Goodman founder Linda Givon, who brought his photographs to Art Basel, where they sold out entirely. The following year, his uncompromising prison study Die Vier Hoeke and Umjiegwana debuted at the gallery's Johannesburg space, accompanied by a satellite exhibition at the Women's.
Key facts
- Mikhael Subotzky's exhibition A Johannesburg Landscape marks his 20-year partnership with Goodman Gallery.
- The exhibition presents new and reconfigured images in paintings, photographs, and Sticky-tape Transfers.
- Johannesburg serves as both subject and structural framework for the works.
- In 2005, Linda Givon introduced Subotzky's work at Art Basel, where it sold out.
- Subotzky's prison study Die Vier Hoeke and Umjiegwana was shown at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg a year later.
- The exhibition was held alongside a satellite show at the Women's.
- Subotzky was a recent fine art graduate when he first exhibited with Goodman Gallery.
- The city of Johannesburg is described as fragmented and continually reinventing itself.
Entities
Artists
- Mikhael Subotzky
- Linda Givon
Institutions
- Goodman Gallery
- Art Basel
Locations
- Johannesburg
- South Africa