Research Fellowship · 2020

Katja Gentric: Günther Uecker: Perspective “South”

Cover of the exhibition catalogue Art Contre/Against Apartheid, 1983.

Katja Gentric analyzes Günther Uecker’s 1983 work Wounded Field, which was shown during the exhibition Art contre/against Apartheid. In her investigation, Uecker’s piece—precisely because it was one of the understated works that were under-recognized during the exhibition’s international tour—occupies the position of a key work from which the complex historical constellation of political positions against apartheid becomes tangible. Gentric contextualizes Wounded Field and reexamines the work in dialogue with works by South African artists Willem Boshoff and Mbali Khoza.

Participants

Katja Gentric

Katja Gentric, born 1973 in Groß-Umstadt, Germany, holds a PhD in art history and is an artist. She studied art history at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France, where she received her doctorate in contemporary art history. Since 2013, she has been an Associate Researcher at the Centre Georges Chevrier, University of Burgundy and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein in South Africa. She lives and works in Paris, France.

Publications

Violated Field

How does one deal with the unspeakable? And what about the responsibility to not conceal injustice and suffering, and to face the task of articulating it?