6 February 2012

NEWS: YINKA SHONIBARE, MBE, JOINS BLAIN|SOUTHERN BERLIN

Blain|Southern is delighted to announce that it will be representing Yinka Shonibare, MBE, in Germany, and will stage his first exhibition with the Berlin gallery in 2014.

Shonibare, 49, was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2004, and his work, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, was the latest commission for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. His practice incorporates a range of media, including sculpture, painting, photography and installation art, through which he explores issues of race and class.

He was notably commissioned by Okwui Enwezor at Documenta 10 in 2002 to create his most recognised work, Gallantry and Criminal Conversation, which launched him onto an international stage. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennial and at leading museums worldwide. In 2008, he had a major mid-career survey at the MCA Sydney, which toured to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, in 2009.

Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s forthcoming exhibitions include Addio del Passato, James Cohan Gallery, New York, (February 2012); Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, (June 2012) and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, (Spring 2013).

Photo:
Charlotte Player, 2009