18 Jan - 02 Mar 2024
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Excavations places work by South African artists Clive van den Berg and the late David Goldblatt in conversation to encourage a deeper understanding of the intricate connections between the land and its structures as well as the emotional resonance of ideologies embedded within the South African terrain.
Clive van den Berg and David Goldblatt - Excavations

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Clive van den Berg (b. 1956, Zambia) is an artist, curator and designer, who works on his own and in collaboration with colleagues in a collective called trace, whose primary activities are the development of public projects. He has had several solo exhibitions in South Africa, and his work is regularly
exhibited abroad.

His public projects have included the artworks for landmark Northern Cape Legislature and, since he has joined the trace team, museum projects for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Constitution Hill, freedom Park, the Workers Museum, The Holocaust and Genocide Centre and many other projects.

Clive van den Berg and David Goldblatt - Excavations
Clive van den Berg and David Goldblatt - Excavations
Clive van den Berg and David Goldblatt - Excavations

Van den Berg has much experience working on largescale institutional projects with teams representing diverse constituencies: urban planners and policy makers, architects, landscape designers, museum curators, historians, community liaison officials and representatives of local and national governments. In the Northern Cape, for example, where he worked with the Luis Ferreira da Silva architects, he pioneered a new strategy for integrating forms of the local
landscape and indigenous aesthetics into the overall building design, while also training local artisans as part of a skills transference project aimed at long-term sustainability. The result is a world-renowned and uniquely South African state edifice: a monument to the people of the Northern Cape.

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