1969	Born in Pretoria, South Africa. Lives and work in Berlin, Germany

SELECTED AWARDS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES
2007	Africa Center Spier Contemporary Award, Cape Town, South Africa
2006	Artist-in-Residence, CRIC/ ecav, Sierre/ Siders, Switzerland
2005	National Arts Council Grant, Johannesburg, South Africa
	Artist-in-Residence, Khoj International Photography Residency, New Dehli, India
	Artist-in-Residence, Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belguim
2004	Artist-in-Residence, ArtOmi International Artist Residency. Ghent, New York, USA
2003	Brett Kebble Award for Photography, Cape Town, South Africa
	Artist-in-Residence, CRIC/ ecav, Sierre/ Siders, Switzerland
2002	Johannesburg Art City Awards, South Africa
	Artist-in-Residence, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
	Artist-in-Residence, CAMOUFLAGE, EUROPEAN SATELLITE of the centre of contemporary art of Africa,
	Brussels, Belgium
2002	First National Bank VITA Awards Nominee, Johannesburg, South Africa
2001	National Arts Council Grant, Johannesburg, South Africa
	Kempton Park/ Tembisa Fine Arts Award, Johannesburg, South Africa
2000	Artist-in-Residence, HOLLAND SOUTH AFRICA LINE and Thami Mnyele Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999	National Arts Council Grant, Johannesburg, South Africa
	Artist-in-Residence, Ampersand Foundation Fellowship, New York, United States
1998	Curator visiting program, Swedish Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
	Curator visiting program, Danish Arts Council, Copenhagen, Denmark
1996	Curator visiting program, French Institute South Africa, Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
1995	Artist-in-Residence, Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
1994	Curator visiting program, Danish Ministry of Culture, Copenhagen, Denmark

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ PROJECTS
2009	Oblique Black & White, Outlet, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
	Oblique, Vladimiro Izzo Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2006	where-we-r.com, Forum d’art contemporian FAC, Sierre, Switzerland
2005	End of the World, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
2004	End of the World, Museum for African Art, New York, USA
2003	Whatever, Wherever, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
	observatório # 4 Whatever, Wherever , Abrie Fourie, CAMOUFLAGE, Brussels, Belgium
2001	Philippians 4.8, New Media Exhibition, MTN Art Institute, MTN Sciencenter, Cape Town, South Africa
2000	Memorial(Upside Down Bikes), Museum of Temporary Art, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
1998	Does not the ear test words like the tongue taste food, The Market Theater Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
	Ilayibri ekufutshane indawoni imuziyem/ iartgallery?, C.P. Nel Museum, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
1997	Imagine No Petrol Stations Inside, Inside this House, Michael House, Pretoria, South Africa
1996	Inside this House, 1993-1996, Verwoerdburg Art Gallery, Centurion, Pretoria, South Africa

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010	Ampersand, curated by Christian Ganzenberg, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
	1910 - 2010 From Pierneef to Gugulective: A Fresh Look at a Century of South African Art, curated by Riason
	Naidoo, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
	Mooimarkshow III, curated by Spunk Seipel, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin, Germany
2009	Vision Building: Architecture in Contemporary Photography, curated by Melissa Mesina, SCAD, Savannah, GA, USA
	SEE3, Collaboration with Ella Ziegler, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany
	Art Moves, The Festival of Art on Billboards, Toruń, Poland
	The Heart of the African City, curated by Shane de Lange, University of Pretoria, South Africa
	Unisa Art Gallery New Acquisitions Exhibition, UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa
	Construct (touring exhibition), curated by Heidi Erdmann and Jacob Lebeko, Goethe Institute Johannesburg,
	Johannes Stegmann University Art Gallery,Bloemfontein, Nelson Mandela Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
2008	Thami Mnyele + Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective, curated by Clive Kellner, Johannesburg Art Gallery,
	Billboard Text Art - EMERGING WOR(L)DS, TINA B, Prague, Czech Republic
	Construct (touring exhibition), curated by Heidi Erdmann and Jacob Lebeko, Durban Art Gallery,
	University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
	Home is my Castle, The Photographers Gallery ZA, Cape Town, South Africa
	Departure, The Photographers Gallery ZA, Cape Town, South Africa
	Spier Contemporary (touring exhibition), Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2007	SEE2, Collaboration with Ella Ziegler, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
	Spier Contemporary, African Centre, Stellenbosch, South Africa
	Cosmos Mundo Forever, curated by Fernando Alvim, Trienal De Luanda, Angola
	Messages and Meaning (touring exhibition), curated by Philippa Hobbs, Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
2006	SEE, Collaboration with Ella Ziegler, Parking Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
	Take Me To The River, Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Texas, USA
	Messages and Meaning, curated by Philippa Hobbs, Oliewenhuis, National Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa
	visions d’artistes, Commissaire de L’expo: Omar Diack Biennale Dak’Art 2006, Senegal
	Nederland 1, curated by Tiong Ang, museumgoudA, Gouda, Netherlands
2005	Open Studio, Khoj Studios, New Delhi, India
	KOVIDEO, 1st Durban Video Festival, Durban, South Africa
	Reflections: African Art Is…, curated by Laurie Ann Farrell, Museum for African Art, New York, USA
	Mooimarkshow-Wien-Johannesburg, curated by Spunk Seipel, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, Austria
	Real Presence – Floating Sites, 51st International Biennial Of Contemporary Art Venice, Italy
2004	Resistance Reconciliation Reconstruction, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa
	Negotiate, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
	making waves a selection of works from the SABC, art collection, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
	Brett Kebble Awards, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
	Recollection #1, objectnotfound, Monterrey, Mexico
	POST, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan
	Lomo group exhibition, The PhotoZA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
	Local, curated Jena Mcarthy, Franchise, Johannesburg, South Africa
	Sugar in the petrol, The British School at Rome Gallery, FotoGrafia 2004 Festival internazionale di Roma, Italy
	Democracy and change, Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
	One Night Show, 291 Gallery, London, England
2003	Stop and go, curated by Spunk Seipel, Neue Galerie Landshut, Germany
	The Ampersand Foundation 1997-2003, Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, South Africa
	Brett Kebble Awards, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
	FOTOFIESTA, curated by Koulla Xinistiteris, Medellin, Columbia
	on the road again, curated by Spunk Seipel, Berlin, Germany
	ABSA Atelier Award, ABSA Towers, Johannesburg, South Africa
	NEXT FLAG Reexistencia cultural generalizada, curated by Fernando Alvim, Charleroi, Belgium
	observatório # 5 Costa Reis Compilação de Arte Africana Actual, curated by Fernando Alvim, CAMOUFLAGE,
	Brussels, Belguim
	The Mooimark Show, curated by Spunk Seipel, 78 Mooi Street, Johannesburg, South Africa
2002	FNB VITA Awards, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
	ABSA Atelier Award, ABSA Towers, Johannesburg, South Africa
	ENEMIES/ VYANDE, with Santu Mofokeng, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
2001	JOUBERT PARK PUBLIC ART PROJECT, Johannesburg Art Gallery and Joubert Park Precinct, South Africa
	ABSA Atelier, ABSA Towers, Johannesburg, South Africa
	switch on/off, curated by Marcus Neustetter, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
2000	Memorias Intimas Marcas, curated by Fernando Alvim, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen,
	Antwerp, Belgium.
	Translation/ Seduction/Displacement, curated by Lauri Firstenberg and John Peffer, White Box Gallery, New York
	Holland South Africa Line, Castle of Good Hope, Collaboration with Tiong Ang, Cape Town, South Africa
	Killing Time, curated by Marc Edwards, Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
	DECONSTRUTION Popular Culture Exhibition, curated by Clive Kellner, Camouflage, Johannesburg, South Africa
	Interchange-Moving images, curated by autopsia, Camouflage, Brussels, Belguim
	Holland South Africa Line, Bagagehal Loods 6, Amsterdam, Netherlands
	Translation/Seduction/Displacement, curated by Lauri Firstenberg and John Peffer, ICA at Maine College of Art,
	United States of America
	urban futures, curated by Marcus Neustetter, Gertrude Posel Gallery Wits, Johannesburg
	ABSA Atelier Award, ABSA Towers, Johannesburg, South Africa
1999	Present Continuous, The Open Window Contemporary Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
	ABSA Atelier Award, African Window, Pretoria, South Africa
1998	Memorias Intimas Marcas, curated by Fernando Alvim, Lisbon, Portugal
	Stuffit, Gallery Ynglingagatan1, Stockholm, Sweden
	A day in the life THE CRIMEAN PROJECT/ PART 1, curated by Marta Kuzma SCCA Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
1997	Purple and Green, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
	Lifetimes: An exhibition of South African Art, Curated by Ruth Sack, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany
1996	Hitch-Hiker, Generator Art Space/AICA, curated by Clive Kellner, Johannesburg, South Africa
	Volkskas Atelier Award, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
1995	Spring Time in Chile, Museum for Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
	Brown and Green, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
	The Laager, curated by Wayne Barker, Newtown, 1st Johannesburg, South Africa (Fringe)
	Between the Posts, Arcadia Center, Pretoria, South Africa
	Artworks- the presence of the curator, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa
1994	Volkskas Atelier Award, ABSA Towers, Johannesburg, South Africa
	Absolute Ensemble, Arcadia Center, Pretoria, South Africa
1993	Momentum Art, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
1992	Volkskas Atelier Award, Durban Technikon, Durban, South Africa

BILLBOARD / WALL PROJECTS
2009	we have eyes to see, but do not see , Toruń, Poland
	we have eyes to see, but do not see, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany
2008 - 2009	we have eyes to see, but do not see , Prague, Czech Republic
2002 - 2003	Loverockects, Art City, Johannesburg, South Africa
1997 - 1999	Wanton, Arcadia Park, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa
1995 - 1997	Giant Protea, Arcadia Park, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa

ARTIST PUBLICATIONS / BOOKS / VIDEOS
2006	End of the World, Johannesburg, South Africa
2005	Only Delhi, in collaboration with Iranian artist Arash Hanaei , Old Delhi, India
2003	more/cry, mpeg on DVD, based on Bas Jan Ader’s “I’m Too Sad to Tell You”, 1971, Pretoria, South Africa
2001	Philippians 4.8, MTN Art Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
2000	Suit, in collaboration with Dutch artist Tiong Ang, DVD, Pretoria, South Africa
	Ten May Nineteen Ninety-four and Ten May Nineteen Ninety-nine, Pretoria, South Africa
1995	Giant Protea, Pretoria, South Africa
1993	And How They Lived, Pretoria, South Africa
1992	Daar is ‘n Pes, Pretoria, South Africa

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010	Milena Nikolova, Abrie Fourie, Fair, pg.22-24, No. 11 / IV-2010, fairarts OG, Berlin, Vienna, 2010
	Christian Ganzenberg, Abrie Fourie, Daimler Art Collection, pg. 58,59, Hirmer Verlag, München, 2010
	Georg Diez and Christopher Roth, The 80*81 Book Collection, Volume 8, insert between pg. 48,49, Edition Patrick
	Frey, Zürich, Switzerland
2009	Bettina Steinbrügge, Abrie Fourie, Art/ South Africa, pg. 87, vol 07 issue 04, winter
	Thami Mnyele + Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective, Clive Kellner and Sergio-Albio González, pg.208-211, Jacana,
	Johannesburg Art Gallery, 2009
	Joanna Górska, Abrie Fourie, Art Moves, pg. 44,45, Toruń, Poland, October/ November 2009
2008	Patrick Burnett, SASOL runs for cover from controversial photograph, Art Times, 2008-09-01
	Peter Machen, Construct: Beyond the Documentary Photograph at the Durban Art Gallery, Artthrob, Nov 2008
	Liza Grobler, Hoogstaande werk kan dien as model vir fotografiese kuns, dieburger, 17 Julie 2008
	Mary Corrigall, Spier goes in search of an identity, The Sunday Independent, March 30, 2008 Edition 1
2007	Adrienne Van Eeden, Agter eenvoud skuil baie wat tot nadenke stem, dieburger, 3 November 2007
2006	David Paton, Artists’ Books as Intersection of Codex and Digital Environment
	Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Peter McKenzie & Abrie Fourie, Art/ South Africa, pg. 83, vol 04 issue 03, autumn
2005	Miranthe Staden-Garbett, Discovering meaning in the commonplace, The Star, Thursday 15 December 2005
	Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Webtuiste word kuns, Die Wêreld, pg.32, Sondag 24 April, 2005
2004	Rory Bester, “Focus Gallery, Museum for African Art/ New York”, Art/ South Africa, pg. 61, vol 03 issue 02,summer
	Leoni Benghitat, “Die lewe deur ‘n lens”, LIG, pg. 24,25, Deel 69 no 11, November 2004
	Ruth Sacks, “Abrie Fourie at the Museum for African Art, New York”, Atthrob, no. 85, 4 September 2004
2003	Chris Roper, “Into the deep end” Mail and Guardian, Friday October 10 to 16, 2003
	Carine Zaayman, reviews, Art/ South Africa, pg. 68, vol 01 issue 04, winter 2003
	Melvyn Minnaar, “Seeing the good in the bad” Cape Times, Tuesday, 29 April, 2003
	Paul Edmunds, Abrie Fourie at Joáo Ferreira, Artthrob, no.69 , 1 May 2003
2002	John Eggesboe, Meditate on these things, pg. 101, free 13, Copenhagen, Denmark, Summer 2002
	Kathryn Smith, Tough choices, Mail& Guardian, Johannesburg, 26 July 2002
	John Peffer, Fragmentary Moments Mistaken For Something Meaningfull, FNB VITA ART PRIZE, JHB,13 July 2002
	Clive Kellner, Enemies/ Vyande” Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, pg. 18, 19, 20, Oudtshoorn, March 2002
	My Tongue in your Cheek, Kendell Geers, France, 2002
2001	Ashraf Jamal, TANDEM, HOLLAND SOUTH AFRICA LINE, 002, pg.3,4
	Philippa Hobbs, “Santu Mofokeng Educational Supplement”, Taxi Art Books, pg. 9, 10
	Johanna van Eeden, “ ‘n Wegneem-ete vir geestelike honger” Gauteng-Rapport, 14 Oktober 2001
	Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, “switch on/off “, pg. 9,10, Oudtshoorn, April 2001
	Philippa Hobbs, “A debate of Monumental Proportions” pg. 4, MTN Art Institute: Issue 2 April 2001
	Michelle Matthews, “Rubbernecking in Africa”, Mail and Guardian, 16 January 2001
	Sue Williamson, “Travel dairies: HSAL at the Cape Town Castle, Artthrob, no.41, 9 January 2001
2000	Edo Dijksterhuis, “Artistieke preoccupaties met Apartheid”, NRC Handsblad, 26 August 2000
	Ruth Kerkham, “There is a bomb in the exhibition: Kendell Geers” Parachute, September 2000
	John Peffer, “Return to sender” Translation/Seduction/Displacement, pg.34, Maine, Portland, USA, August 2000
	Cotter H., “Displacement”, The New York Times, Friday, March 24, 2000
	Brockington H. Translation/Seduction/Displacement, NY ARTS, Vol.5 n° 1,December 1999 - January 2000
	Fourie A. MARCUS NEWS EUROPE NO 4, Brussels, January 2000
1999	co@rtnews, first issue, pg 4, 12, Johannesburg,1999
	HORSE , Guy du Toit, Pretoria, 1999
1998	Atkinson B., “Home Sweet Home” Mail and Guardian, July 17-23, 1998
	Twiggs L., “Deported”, SL magazine, December 1997/ January 1998
	Roteiros 24 Bienal Internacional, São Paulo catalogue, pg. 207, 215, 220, 228, São Paulo, 1998
1997	Stevens M., “Show manipulates viewer in a clever, original way”, Pretoria News, Tuesday November 25, 1997
	Atkinson B.,”A new aesthetic?”, Mail and Guardian, November 21- 27, 1997
	Van Niekerk L.,”SA en oorsese ‘pers’ en groen kuns”, Die Beeld, Wednesday November 12, 1997
	Berry O., “Purple and green”, Pretoria News, Wednesday October 8, 1997
	Atkinson B., “Of love loss and longing” July 25- 31, 1997
	Du Preez A., “City Scenes”, Pretoria News”, Tuesday June 24, 1997
1996	Friedman H., “Techno -mercenaries for hire”, Mail and Guardian, December 6-12, 1996
	Stevens M., “As varied as women them selves”, Pretoria News, Tuesday March 12, 1996
	Art in South Africa the Future Present, Williamson Jamal, Cape Town, Johannesburg, 1996
	Universales 23. Bienal Internacional São Paulo catalogue,1996
	Switch, catalogue, pg. 5,6,12, 14, 20, Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, 1996
	Snakes and Ladders, catalogue, DCA Gallery, New York, 1996
1995	Stevens M.,”A challenging experience”, The Pretoria News, September 1995
	Berry O., “Drawing on the environment”, The Pretoria News, Wednesday August 2, 1995
	Berry O., “On the cutting edge”, The Pretoria News, Tuesday January 9, 1995
	Projected Artists Obietlivo: Roma” catalogue, 2RC Edizioni D’ Arte, 1995
	Memory and Geography, catalogue for Doris Bloom and William Kentridge, Johannesburg, 1995
	Africus Johannesburg Biennale, catalogue, Johannesburg, 1995

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

ArtOmi, New York, United States of America

Billiton, Johannesburg, South Africa

Clive Kellner, Cape Town, South Africa

Costa Reis Compilação de Arte Africana Actual, Angola

Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany

Danish Ministry of Culture, Denmark

ECAV/ CRIC, Sierre, Switzerland

Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium

Hanz Bogatzke Collection of Contemporary African Art, Germany

Harrie Siertsema, South Africa

Hollard Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa

Jack Ginsberg Book Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa

Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa

Museum for African Art, New York, United States of America

objectnotfound, Monterrey, Mexico

Oliewenhuis, National Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Pierre Lombart, Johannesburg, South Africa

Polokwane Art Museum, Polokwane, South Africa

Pondside Press, Rhinebeck, New York, United States of America

Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa

Rand Merchant Bank, Johannesburg, South Africa

Royal Museum of Fine Art in Antwerp, Belgium

SASOL, Johannesburg, South Africa

SCAD, Savannah, Georgia, United States of America

Sindika Dokolo African collection of contemporary art, Luanda, Angola

South African Broadcasting Corporation, Johannesburg, South Africa

The Graskop Hotel, Graskop, South Africa

THE MTN ART INSTITUTE, Johannesburg, South Africa

Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa

University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

Vodacom, Johannesburg, South Africa

Willem Boshoff, Johannesburg, South Africa

SELECTED CURATORIAL PRACTISE
2005 – present	Exhibition facilitator and advising curator, Map - South Africa
2003 – 2007	Founder and curator, Outlet Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
2006 – 2007	Curatorial service for The Art In Embassy Program, American Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa
2005	Invited Young Curator – OUTLET/ UIT LAAT Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom, South Africa
2002	Installation of Garden of Words for Willem Boshoff, Watershed exhibition, Silkeborg, Denmark
1997	Curator, Purple and Green, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
1996	Assistant for curator Jean-Hubert Martin and artist Francina Ndmandi, Universales, 23. Bienal São Paulo, Brazil
	Co-curator with Tumelo Mosaka, Nicole Kurz, Ruphus Matibe, Switch, Africus Institute for Contemporary Art,
	Johannesburg, South Africa
1995	Co-curator with Wayne Barker, Nicole Kurz, Marlaine Tosoni, Brown & Green, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa
	Assistant curator and coordinator, Geography & Memory, William Kentridge and Doris Bloom, 1st Johannesburg
	Biennale, South Africa

EDUCATION
1995	Certificate in Curatorship, AFRICUS Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
1993	National Diploma Fine Arts, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa