Gavin Younge works internationally as an artist, writer and curator. His most recent group exhibitions include Pointure (at the UJ Art Gallery) and Bêtes Off (at the Conciergerie de Paris). Bêtes Off was curated by Claude d’Anthenaise, and featured work by Louise Bourgeois, Delphine Gigoux-Martin, Takebashi and Gonzenbach.

160 page catalogue authored by Claude d’Anthenaise, Director : Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris.

Recent Solo Exhibitions:

2011   Cheval de Bataille. Forteresse de Salses, Chateau le Salses, France. 24 June – 31 October.

2010   [Cradle Snatcher]. Circa on Jellicoe, Rosebank, Johannesburg. 2 September – 2 October. Catalogue.

2009   Deep Skin. Espace Cosmopolis/La Noire Galerie, Nantes. 6 June – 12 July, Catalogue.

2007   Prosthesis: art works by Gavin Younge – the decade 1997 – 2007. La Noire Galerie. Le Cloître des Billettes, Paris. 6 May – 3 June. Catalogue.

2003   Curating the Waves. Kunsthalle Göppingen im Kunstportal Baden-Württemberg, April – May.

2002   Salt River Soliloquies. Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town

1999   Collection Privé. Galerie N.O.M.A.D.E. Patras, Paris

1999   Gilets du Sauvetage. Ecole des Beaux Arts de Nïmes, France

1997   Memórias Intimas Marcas. Centro Cultural Portugués, Luanda

1997   Memórias Intimas Marcas. B Block Gallery, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town Multimedia intervention.

1997   Giving the Drum Back to Europe. Galerie N.O.M.A.D.E. Patras, Paris

Group exhibitions:

2012   Bêtes Off. La Conciergerie de Paris. Curated by Claude d’Anthenaise (see http://www.monuments-nationaux.fr/fr/actualites/a-la-une/bdd/actu/761/betes-off//). Catalogue: http://editions.monuments-nationaux.fr/en/le-catalogue/bdd/livre/787

2011   Cuito Heroes. Nofound Photofair, Paris. Curated by Nathalie Codjia-Miltat. 11 – 14 November 2011.

2011   Threshold. Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town. Curated by Virginia Mackenny. 24 September – 31 October 2011.

2011   Horse. Everard Read Gallery, Rosebank, Johannesburg. 8 September – 31 October 2011.

2010   Lie of the Land. Old Town House Museum, Cape Town. Curated by Michael Godby. 6 June – 13 September 2010.

2010   Twenty – Twenty years of South African Sculpture. Nirox Foundation, Cradle of Humankind. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht. 6 June – 20 August 2010.

2010   From Pierneef to Gugulectiv. iZiko National Art Gallery. Curated by Nadja Daenhke. May – August 2010.

2009   Dada South. South African National Gallery & Old Tuin Huis. Curated by Nadje Daehnke. 12 Dec 2009 – 14 Feb 2010.

2009   ECC 25 “Forward March”. Spier. Curated by Belisa Rodrigues, Josie Grindrod. October.

2009   Urban Animal. Absa Art Gallery, Johannesburg. Curated by Ann-Marie Tully and Sonja Britz. Catalogue. October.

2009   Historyⁿ. UCA Gallery, Cape Town. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht. September, October.

2008   A la clair fontaine. Salle Jean-Hélion – Centre Culturel Nicolas-Pomel, Issoire, France. Curated by Estienne Blécon. July – September 2008.

2008   SpierContemporary 2007. Johannesburg Art Gallery, Curated by Clive van den Bergh. April – May 2008.

2007   SpierContemporary 2007. Spier Estate, Curated by Clive van den Bergh. December – February 2008.

2007   X-Cape. ‘Doing it for Daddy’. Loop Street, Cape Town. April.

2006   Artworks in Progress. Michaelis Gallery. December. Curated by Stephen Inggs.

2006   Second to None. SA National Gallery. August-October. Curated by Virginia MacKenny.

2006   2008 Olympic Sculpture Exhibition. Beijing, Qingdao, Tianjin, Shanghai. June-July.

2006   Cinétrain Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. Lille, Paris, Marseille. Jan-Feb

2005   Highlights from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipal Art Gallery, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, September.

2005   ArtMédia/firstRun : Rencontres, Cinéma d’Ivry – Le Luxy, April.

2004   Les Afriques – 36 Artists Contemporains. Musée des Arts des Derniers, Paris. October-November.

2004   Sodobna Afriska Umetnost – Contemporary African art – L’art Contemporain Africain. Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia.  April-July.

2004   Identity. Stigting Art & Theatre, Schweningen, Curated by Sharlene Khan. The Netherlands. February 2004 – 2007.

2004   Democracy X. Cape Town Castle.

2004   Making Waves. Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg. Curated by Koulla Xinisteris. November 2004 – March 2005.

2003   Re-Collections. South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

2003   Veterans of KZN. Durban art Gallery, Durban, July – September. Curated by Jill Addleson.

2003   Working Proof. João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town. Art on Paper, Johannesburg. Curated by Stephen Inggs.

Public Commissions

2008   Olduvai. Nine-metre high welded steel construction, Convention Towers, Cape Town.

2008   Church Square Memorial to the Enslaved. 11 engraved granite elements commemorating the 1st Slave Rebellion at the Cape. Commissioned by the City of Cape Town after a national competition. Collaborative work with Wilma Cruise.

2006   Ancestor. 25 x 6 metre stainless steel and glass mural. Commissioned by the Department of Science & Technology after a national competition. Collaborative work with Wilma Cruise.

2004   Century’s Prytaneum. Three-part, site specific sculpture for Rhodes University, Grahamstown.

2003   Reservoir. Seven 5 metre long suspended sculptural elements with two large format plasma displays and associated video footage. Video installation. Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town.

Publications

2012	Listening to Distant Thunder: The art of Peter Clarke. de Arte no 86. University of South Africa Press, pp 84-87. ISSN 0004-3389.
2011	‘VB 54: A pavilion too far?’ Art South Africa. Bell-Roberts Publishers, Cape Town.
2009	Dumile Feni Retrospective. de Arte. Unisa Press, Pretoria. No. 78.
2010	Cradle Snatcher. Multi-author art catalogue for solo exhibition. Published by CIRCA, Johannesburg. 48 folios. ISBN 978-0-620-47352-1.
2009	Deep Skin. Multi-author art catalogue for solo exhibition. Published by La Noire Galerie, Paris. 52 folios. ISBN 978-0-620-44046-2.
2008	Feral Acts, Artworks in Progress, Vol. 9. Michaelis School of Fine Art. 52-59
2007	Prosthesis – art works by Gavin Younge – the decade 1997-2007. Essays by Jill Bennett, Mark Haywood, and David Bunn. Published by La Noire Galerie, Paris. 48 folios. ISBN 978-0-620-38224-3
2002	Salt River Soliloquies, Bell- Roberts Publishing Cape Town (exhibition catalogue)
2000	A.R.E.A. Art Region end of Africa. Listasafn Reykjavíkur, Kjarvalsstadir, Iceland (exhibition catalogue)
2000	Picture perfect: limits to visual imagination. Inaugural Lecture Series, University of Cape Town.
1999	Celsius –[neue] Kunst aus dem [neuen] Südafrika (with B. Eckstein & S Kampmann), Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Bonn (exhibition catalogue)
1997	Picture Cape Town: Landmarks of a New Generation, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles

Filmography:

2007	Alyscamps, DVD projection. Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid. Cinéma l’Entrepot, Paris (November 2007). Madrid, (March 2008), Haus der Welteren, Berlin (July 2008).
2003	Reservoir, DVD installation, 24 hour loop. Cape Town International Convention centre.
2002	Curating the Waves, DVD installation, 10 minutes DVCam.
1997	Forces Favourites. Video Installation, 12 minutes, Beta SP (Producer/Director/Camera).
1996	(Producer) Picture Cape Town: Landmarks of a New Generation, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 8 mn, Beta SP.
1990	Sixpence a Door, Les Films du Village, Paris, 54 min., Beta SP.
1984	Reserve 4, Second Carnegie Enquiry, 27 min., 16mm.
1983	Strikeback, NCRV TV Holland, 34 min., 16mm.
1981	Abaphuciwe/The Dispossessed, Southern African Documents, 50 min., 16mm, English, German and French.