Guests of the Bayreuth Academy in the last five years

Our Guests

Miss/es Ruth Sacks

Inviting institution:	Iwalewa Haus
Stay:	08. November 2015
Home university:	Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) in Johannesburg (Südafrika)
Fields of research:	Bildende Kunst/ Installationskunst und Schriftstellerei visual arts and writing
Personal information:	Ruth Sacks is a South African visual artist who lives and works in Johannesburg. Her 3rd artist book, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Seas, was produced with Iwalewahaus and launched in 2013. It was part of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies exhibition FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time in 2015/16.   Ruth Sacks Group exhibitions include: The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989 at ZKM |Centre for Art and Media (Germany, 2011), Performa 09, facilitated by the Museum for African ArtNew York (USA, 2009) and Luanda_Pop Checklist at the 52nd Venice Biennale (Italy, 2007). In 2013 and 2014, she was one of the organizers of Regions A-G, a program of artist interventions at the Johannesburg City Library. Recent solo shows have been: Open Endings at TTTT in Ghent (Belgium, 2015), 2,000 Meters Above the Sea at the Center for Historical Reenactments in Johannesburg (SA, 2012) and Double-sided Accumulated at Extraspazio in Rome (Italy, 2010).   Sacks was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 1977. She is currently based at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), where she is a doctoral fellow. Together with Simon Gush, she facilitates the collaborative arts platform, the Parking Gallery, which was hosted by the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) in 2012 and 2013. She is a laureate of the Higher Institute for Fine Art (HISK) in Ghent, Belgium.