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Steve Bandoma
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Steve Bandoma is an artist, born in Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of the Congo, who lives and works in Cape Town in South Africa. In his works, Bandoma mainly reflects on the questions about post-colonial polotics in Africa. Life Born in Kinshasa (DRC) on September 27, 1981, Steve Bandoma started studying fine arts at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa in the year 2000 and gratuated with a Bachelor of Arts four years later, in 2004. In 2005, Bandoma moved to Cape Town in South Africa where he attended courses at the City Varsity School of Media & Creative Arts and graduated in Multimediation in 2006. Since then, Bandoma has been participating in various national and international exhibitions and won several awards. In 2010 he also co-curated the AMANI Art Festival in Cape Town and in 2011 he founded and still directs "Quoi de Neuf!", a Contemporary Arts Center in Kinshasa. Bandoma today lives and works in Cape Town. Work philosophy In his works, Steve Bandoma mainly uses found objects, selects images from high gloss fashion magazines and makes sometimes paper out of the rest in order to breathe new life into them. By this he transforms the inherent excess of these objects, images and materials into artworks, which in turn also questions and challenges the validity of their existence. The resulting works are a visual and dynamic reincarnation of our sometimes meaningless world of images and objects of excessive desire and affluence. He states: "My work interrogates humanity, violence, global warming, politics, religion, fashion and race in a provocative, humorous manner. With installations, performance, photography, and clippings from contemporary glossy publications I question globalization and materiality with a refined aesthetic." Exhibitions Solo (selected) * 2009 Féminisme, Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris, Paris, France * 2009 AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa * 2008 “Contempocalypse” Alliance Française of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Group (selected) * 2010 The Menippean Uprising, an exhibition of fantastical, imaginary work, Blank Project, Cape Town, South Africa * 2010 Focus10, Contemporary African Arts Exhibition as fringe to Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland * 2010 Space, Currencies in Contemporary African Art, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa * 2008 The Best of Artreach, at AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa * 2008 Intervention, Unisa Arts Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa * 2008 Abazobie, Nelson Mandela Museum, Cape Town, South Africa * 2007 Human Trafficking, IZIKO Slave Lodge National Museum, Cape Town, South Africa * 2007 Cape Biennale, Blank project, Cape Town, South Africa * 2006 Iziko National Museum, Cape Town, South Africa * 2002 Academie des beaux - arts de kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC * 2002 Cultural center Boboto, Kinshasa, DRC * 2000 Academie des beaux - arts de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC Awards *2009 Visas pour la Création 2009, Afrique et Caraïbes en créations “Culturesfrance”, Paris, France *2009 Prohelvetia, Swiss Arts Council, Zurich, Switzerland *2009 The Art Buzz Book 2009 Collection, Honourable Mention Awards, USA *2008 Greatmore Studio, Cape Town, South Africa *2008 The Best of Artreach, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa *2008 Design Indaba Expo, The most Creative Stand Awards, Cape Town, South Africa *2007 Award winner of the Table Mountain Competition, Cape Town, South Africa 
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