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Candice Breitz (Johannesburg, 1972) is a Cape Town and Berlin-based artist whose moving image installations have been shown internationally. Throughout her career, she has explored the dynamics by means of which an individual becomes him or herself in relation to a larger community, be that community the immediate community that one encounters in family, or the real and imagined communities that are shaped not only by questions of national belonging, race, gender and religion, but also by the increasingly undeniable influence of mainstream media such as television, cinema and popular culture. Most recently, Breitz\u2019s work has focused on the conditions under which empathy is produced, reflecting on a media-saturated global culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real world adversity.<\/p>\n

Breitz holds degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), the University of Chicago and Columbia University (NYC). She has participated in the Whitney Museum\u2019s Independent Studio Program and led the Palais de Tokyo\u2019s Le Pavillon residency asa visiting artist during the year 2005-2006. She has been a tenured professor at the Hochschulef\u00fcr Bildende K\u00fcnste in Braunschweig since 2007.<\/p>\n

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Candice Breitz, Extra #8, 2011, Chromogenic Print, 56 x 84cm
\nCourtesy: Goodman Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto + KOW Berlin<\/h5>\n

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Solo exhibitions of Breitz\u2019s work have been hosted by the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Palaisde Tokyo (Paris),The Power Plant (Toronto), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humleb\u00e6k), Modern Art Oxford, De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead), MUDAM \/ Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne Grand-DucJean (Luxembourg), Moderna Museet Stockholm), Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv), Centre d\u2019Art Contemporain Gen\u00e8ve, Bawag Foundation (Vienna), Tempor\u00e4re Kunsthalle Berlin, White Cube (London), MUSAC \/ Museo de Arte Contempor\u00e1neode Castilla y Le\u00f3n (Spain), Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio), O.K Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria(Linz), ACMI \/ The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne), Collection Lambert en Avignon, FACT \/ Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool), Blaffer ArtMuseum (Houston)and the South African National Gallery (Cape Town).<\/p>\n

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Selected group exhibitions include South Africa: the art of a nation (British Museum, London, 2016), Laughing in a Foreign Language (The Hayward, London, 2008), The Cinema Effect (Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 2008), Made in Germany (Kunstverein Hannover, 2007), Superstars (Kunsthalle Wien, 2005), CUT: Film as Found Object (Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, 2004), Continuity + Transgression (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2002), Thank You for the Music (Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, 2012), Rollenbilder \u2013Rollenspiele (Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2011), Performa (New York, 2009), Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009), Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop(Tate Liverpool, 2002) and Looking at You (Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, 2001).<\/p>\n

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Candice Breitz, Working Class Hero (A Portrait of John Lennon), 2006, Shot at the Culture Lab, Newcastle
\nUniversity, United Kingdom,August 2006, 25-Channel Installation: 25 Hard Drives Duration: 39 minutes,
\n55 seconds Installation View: Go\u0308teborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art
\nCourtesy: Goodman Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto + KOW Berlin Photograph: Hendrik Zeitler<\/h5>\n

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Breitz has participated in biennales in Johannesburg (1997), S\u00e3o Paulo (1998), Istanbul (1999), Taipei (2000), Kwangju (2000), Tirana (2001), Venice (2005), New Orleans (2008), G\u00f6teborg (2003 + 2009), Singapore (2011) and Dakar (2014). Her work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival (New Frontier, 2009) and the Toronto International Film Festival (David Cronenberg: Transformation, 2013).<\/p>\n

Her work has been acquired by museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (both in New York), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humleb\u00e6k), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), St\u00e4dtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), FNAC \/ Fonds national d\u2019art contempora in (France), Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), M+ \/ Museum of Visual Culture (Hong Kong), Milwaukee Art Museum, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, MUDAM \/ Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg), MUSAC \/ Museo de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo de Castilla y Le\u00f3n (Le\u00f3n, Spain), Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Vaduz), MONA \/ Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania), QAG GOMA \/ Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and MAXXI \/ Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome).<\/p>\n

 
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Candice Breitz, Stills from Treatment, 2013, Dual-Channel Installation: 2 Hard Drives,
\nDuration: 9 minutes, 11 seconds Commissioned by Toronto International Film Festival 2013
\nCourtesy: Goodman Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto + KOW Berlin<\/h5>\n

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Candice Breitz
Factum, 2010
Left to Right: Factum Tang, Factum Misericordia, Factum Tremblay, Factum McNamara<\/em> and Factum Kang<\/em>
Commissioned by The Power Plant, Toronto
Installation View: Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
Courtesy: Goodman Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto +KOW Berlin
Photograph: Markus Tretter<\/h5>\n

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Candice Breitz
Stills from The Interview<\/em>, 2012
From the trilogy The Woods<\/em>
Shot at Wheatbaker Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria: June 2012
Dual-Channel Installation
Duration: 76 minutes, 7 seconds
Commissioned by ACMI (Melbourne) + PEM (Salem)
Installation View: Blaffer Art Museum, Houston
Courtesy: Goodman Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto + KOW Berlin
Photograph: Alex Fahl<\/h5>\n

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Candice Breitz
Him<\/em>, 1968-2008
7-Channel Installation: 7 Hard Drives
Duration: 28 minutes, 50 seconds
Commissioned by Outset Contemporary Art Fund, London
Installation View: Tempor\u00e4re Kunsthalle Berlin
Courtesy: Goodman Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto + KOW Berlin
Photograph: Jens Ziehe<\/h5>\n

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Candice Breitz
Legend (A Portrait of Bob Marley)<\/em>, 2005
Shot at Gee Jam Studios, Port Antonio, Jamaica, March 2005
30-Channel Installation: 30 Hard Drives
Duration: 62 minutes, 40 seconds
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Installation View: Akademie der K\u00fcnste, Berlin
Courtesy: Goodman Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto + KOW Berlin
Photograph: J\u00f6rg von Bruchhausen<\/h5>\n

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Candice Breitz
Mother + Father<\/em>, 2005
Consisting of 2 Six-Channel Installations
Duration of Mother: 13 minutes,15 seconds
Duration of Father: 11 minutes
Installation Views: Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Courtesy: Goodman Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto + KOW Berlin
Photographs: Paolo Pellion<\/h5>\n

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Candice Breitz
Ghost Series #9<\/em>, 1994-6
Chromogenic Print
68,5cm x 101,5cm
Courtesy: Goodman Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto + KOW Berlin<\/h5>\n

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