Notes
Botha was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1991. She graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Art from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 2017. In 2018 she received the Cassirer Welz Award in Johannesburg which accumulated to a solo show at SMAC Gallery. She then received the 2020 Visas pour la Création award from the Institut Français and completed her residency in Montesquieu-Volvestre with a solo exhibition. Thereafter, she moved to Berlin to attend her year-long fellowship at the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin programme (2021 – 2022). Botha still lives and works in Berlin.
As a multi-disciplinary artist, she works in various mediums namely painting, installation, video, printmaking, poetry and drawing. Her interests lie in unearthing how personal narratives, concepts of identity, and how the physical as well as imagined environments affect the present. Language and how we employ it is also fundamental in her practice.
Her work has shown internationally at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Slovenia; The Africa Center; Google Arts & Culture New York, USA;
Accademia Tadini, Italy; and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare.
Locally, Botha’s work has been part of notable exhibitions at the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees; David Krut Projects, Latitudes Art Fair, RMB Turbine Art Fair, and the Absa Art Gallery.
Her solo exhibitions include Wilting Flowers, Berlin 2022, Seeing Blue, Montesquieu-Volvestre 2021, Caught at David Krut Projects, Johannesburg 2021; Things Left Unsaid at SMAC Gallery, Johannesburg 2019; and Insig: Insight / Uitsig: Outsight at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo 2018.
In 2021 Botha’s poem When words fail was published in Yesterdays and Imagining Realities, An Anthology of South African Poetry under the French Institute of South Africa and impepho press publishing house.