Artists

Karel Nel
Curation

Curation

2024

Walter Oltmann: Metamorphosis, Norval Foundation

2023

Maggie Laubser: Portraits and the Landscape 1886-1973, Norval Foundation

2019-2020

William Kentridge, Why Should I Hesitate?, Sculpture

2018-2019

Serge Aloin Netegeka, Structural Response III

David Goldblatt, On the Mines

2012

Consultant: African Cosmos – Stellar Arts, Smithsoniam Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.

Consultant: WAM! Seeing Stars, opening exhibition, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg

Curator: Between rock: grinding stones from southern Africa, Circa, Johannesburg

2011

Co-curator (with Joni Brenner and Gerhard Marx), Design and Installation: Life of Bone: art meets science, Origins Centre, Wits University, Johannesburg

Consultant: The Art of Daily Life: Portable Objects from Southeast Africa, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA

2010

Consultant: Alan Crump, A fearless Vision, Johannesburg Art Gallery

2009

Curator: Alexis Preller – Africa, the sun and shadows, Standard Bank Gallery

2008

Co-Curator (with Mary-Jane Darroll): Edoardo Villa – Changing Worlds, Nirox Sculpture Park, The Cradle of Humankind

2007

Consultant: Dungamanzi, Stirring waters, curated by Nessa Leibhammer, national touring exhibition

Curator: Oceanic Values: currencies of the Pacific, Standard Bank Gallery

2006

Consultant: Picasso and Africa, Standard Bank Gallery

2004

Consultant: Democracy X, The Castle, Cape Town

Curator: Glimpses from the South: traditional Zulu, Tsonga/Shangaan objects, Museum for African Art, New York.

Consultant: Voice-Overs: Wits Writings exploring African Artworks, Gertrude Posel Gallery, Wits University

2002

Curator: early traditional Zulu, Sotho, Tsonga, Shangaan and Xhosa artifacts, library in South Africa House, London

Consultant: African Currency exhibition in Rotterdam to coincide with the launch of the Euro

Curator: Ashanti weights at the Gold Museum, Cape Town. (exhibition withdrawn)

2001-2

Consultant: selection and presentation of Southern African artworks in the permanent installation of African art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

2001

Consultant and Installation: 15th century Nigerian Sculpture, Meneghelli Foundation at Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg

2000

Consultant: Ubuntu, Southern African material, Musee de l’homme, Paris.

1999

Curator: Bridewealth, Currency and Other Assets, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg

1997-8

Co-Curator (with Nessa Leibhammer): Evocations of the Child: Fertility Figures of the Southern African Region, national touring exhibition

Co-ordinator, designer, contributing author: Evocations of the Child: Fertility Figures of the Southern African Region, book published by Human and Rousseau and Johannesburg Art Gallery

1995

Consultant: Isigasa-Zulu Earplugs, exhibition, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown

Curator: Johannes Segogela – Guest Artist, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown

1994

Curator: African Architectural Elements and Traditional Furniture, Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand

1990

Consultant and Installation: Art and Ambiguity: Perspectives on the Brenthurst Collection of Southern African Art, Johannesburg Art Gallery

1989

Consultant: Transformed Fibres, national touring exhibition curated by Nessa Leibhammer

1988

Curator: Cyprian Shilakoe – Guest Artist, Grahamstown Festival of the Arts

1987

Consultant: African Art Alternative Approaches, Museums Conference Exhibition, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, Natal

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