Olivié Keck

Olivié Keck was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1989. She received her BFA from The Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 2011. Her Tertiary education includes completing a printmaking internship with Warren Editions Print Studio in 2015 and David Krut Studios in 2016. Keck still lives and works in Cape Town. Since her first solo show False Priest in 2014 exhibited at Commune 1, Keck’s work has been shown in many galleries and institutions locally and internationally. Notable solo exhibitions include Selfie Fulfilling Prophecy shown at David Krut Projects in 2016, Drop Dead Gorgeous shown at CIRCA Johannesburg in 2019, In Bloom (2020) and Playing With Catastrophe (2021) shown at 131A Gallery, and ‘Merci Pour Les Roses’ shown at Quand Les Fleurs Nous Sauvent in Paris 2021. Museum exhibitions include works on view at The Irma Stern Museum (2016) and the Zeitz MOCAA (2019). Her two most recent artist books Driving Bad Ideas and Sunday Bed are featured in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) Library. Her work is featured extensively in the permanent collections of the Spier Arts Trust and The University of Cape Town. In 2020, she was invited to produce a work for CNN International for a feature focus on contemporary artists creating work in self-isolation. She attended an International Art Residency (AIR) at the Kala Art Institute, Berkley USA in 2016. In 2017 she was invited to attend a second International Art Residency (AIR) at Frans Masereel Centrum, Antwerp Belgium. In July of 2022, she attended Artist Residency Enschede (ARE) in Holland. “The colourful and patterned aesthetic of my work commemorates the theatre of human experience, whilst echoing my fascination with contemporary culture as explored through the lens of visual storytelling. My work extracts meaning by remixing a long history of artistic traditions with contemporary signifiers. There are a variety of different artistic mediums and methodologies present in my work, which speaks to my visual curiosity as an image-maker. I believe that embracing and utilizing the interdisciplinary possibilities of different materials, and innovative technologies allows artists to adapt and create meaningful contributions in a rapidly changing cultural environment.”

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