Belele nje, Abathulanga/ They may be asleep, but they are not quiet/ Hulle slaap dalk, maar is nie stil nie, Hazendal Festival Soil Edition, curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa, Hazendal, Stellenbosch, 4 – 6 October 2024. Works by: Abri de Swardt, ASSITEJ, Athi-Patra Ruga, Atiyyah Khan, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Dr Christian Lueme, Congo Cowboys, DJ Daddy, DJ GHXST Bunny, DJ Phastoki, Dr Erick Gbodossou, Ernestine Deane, Faatimah Mohamed-Luke, Faye Kabali-Kagwa, Felipe Castelblanco, Inga Somdyala, Kafui Awoonor, Prof Kensese Mossanda, Kgosi Gift, Kujenga, Lady Skollie, Lebohang Kganye, Lerato Shadi, Li’Tsoanelo Zwane, Luke de Kock, Lungi Morrison, Majozi, CHIMURENGA, Queezy Babaz, Santiago Mostyn, Senzeni Marasela, Prof Sechaba Bareetseng, Sepideh Rahaa, Sethembile Msezane, Prof Simeon Materechera, Sisonke Papu, Stephané E. Conradie, Tapiwa Guzha, Tebogo Louw, Tessa Nandi, Thania Petersen, Tinyiko Makwakwa, Dr Uhuru Phalafala, Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu, Warren Maroon, and Zolani Mahola
Screening: Abri de Swardt, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Felipe Castelblanco, Lebohang Kganye, Lerato Shadi, Santiago Mostyn, and Sepideh Rahaa
Spier Light Art, curated by Jay Pather and Vaughn Sadie, Spier, Stellenbosch, 1 March - 1 April 2024. Works by: Abri de Swardt, Mthuthuzeli “Blaze” Zimba, Kenneth Shandu, Qondiswa James & Themba Stewart, Naadira Patel & Sarah De Villiers, Jenna Burchell, Mpho Jacobs, Stevie Thompson, Marco Chiandetti, Mhlonishwa Chiliza, Sophie Guyot, Berco Wilsenach, Hallie Haller, Goldendean and Shruthi Nair, Alan Alborough, D.D. Son, Charles Palm, Tiago Rodrigues, Kamil Adam Hassim, and Rhoda Davids Abel
Kammakamma, Gallery University Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, 8 - 30 March 2024. A solo exhibition by Abri de Swardt
Kammakamma, POOL x Field Station, Cape Town, 1 February - 3 March 2024. A solo exhibition by Abri de Swardt, curated by Sinethemba Twalo and Amy Watson as part of An Accumulation of Uncertainties, World Weather Network
Public Programme:
On Confluence and Recurrence Exhibition Walkabout with Abri de Swardt and Saarah Jappie
Saturday 17 February, 11:00
To See with the Ears and Speak with the Nose Reading Cycle II with Abri de Swardt and Sinethemba Twalo
Saturday 24 February and Sunday 3 March, 11:00
The river asks the same question at a different time Screening Programme
Saturday 2 March, 17:30 for 18:00
rooting, rubbing, pouring, dancing, treading, clenching: bodying libraries, curated by Jessa Mockridge, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, 7 January 2024. Works by: Abri de Swardt, Elizabeth Price, Jessa Mockridge, Katie Hare, Onyeka Igwe, Rosa-Johan Uddoh and D Mortimer & Prinx Silver
An Accumulation of Uncertainties, curated by Sinethemba Twalo and Amy Watson, NGO - Nothing Gets Organised & POOL, Johannesburg, as part of World Weather Network, June 2022 – June 2024 (ongoing). Works by: Neo Mahlasela, Black Earth Study Club, Bettina Malcomess, Nina Barnett and Jeremy Bolen, Sanele Ngubane, Thulile Gamedze, Abri de Swardt, Natalie Penang, Shane Cooper, Tabita Rezaire, and Donna Kukama
Social Impact Arts Prize 2022, Rupert Museum, Stellenbosch, 1 December 2022 - 28 February 2023. Works by: Mapula Embroidery Project, Io Makandal, Taryn Millar, Sarah Cairns and Aarti Shah with Hannelie Coetzee, SpaceSalad Studios, Mpumelelo Buthelezi, Bettina Malcomess, Nina Barnett, Sinethemba Twalo, Amy Watson and Dee Marco, Abri de Swardt, Doreen Gowans, Georgia Munnik, Larissa Johnson and Chanelle Adams
Occupation, curated by Gilles Furtwängler, Thulile Gamedze and Zen Marie, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, 13 November 2022 – 26 March 2023. Work by: Abri de Swardt, Andrei van Wyk, Bettina Malcomess, BLK JKS, donna Kukama, Gabi Motuba, Gilles Furtwängler, Henri Michel Yéré, Invade, Masello Motana, Memory Biwa, Mpumelelo Mcata, Naadira Patel, Nayansaku Mufwankolo, Nkgopoleng Moloi, Overnight Services, Pebofatso Mokoena, Robert Machiri, Shirin Yousefi, Stéphanie Rosianu, The Wretched, Thulile Gamedze, Tracey Rose, Tshepang Ramoba, Tumi Mogorosi, Vusumzi Nkomo, and Zen Marie
Almost Certainly Not, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, 5 August 2022. Screening Programme as artist in residence
Time is a Broken Umbrella, curated by Forms, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, 10 March - 21 April; KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts, Durban, 13 May - 26 June 2022. Works by: Abri de Swardt, Adrian Fortuin, Hedwig Barry, Jarrett Erasmus, Khotso Motsoeneng, Matty Monethi, Nyakallo Maleke, Robyn Penn, Tzung-Hui Lauren Lee, and writing by Chloë Reid
The Laboratory of Ideas, curated by Gabi Ngcobo and Sinethemba Twalo, the Public Programme of Handle with Care, The Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 25 - 30 October 2021. With: Thulile Gamedze as Overnight Services
Tentacularity, Knotting and World-Making, curated by Mika Conradie and Amy Watson, POOL, Online, 20 October - 10 November 2021. Works by: Zara Julius, Zayaan Khan, Andrei van Wyk, Abri de Swardt, and Nolan Oswald Dennis
Emergence, curated by Anthea Buys, Forms, Online, 24 March - 10 May 2021. Works by: Hedwig Barry, Jarrett Erasmus, Callan Grecia, Gavin Jantjes, Tzung Hui Lauren Lee, Nyakallo Maleke, Zen Marie, Sphephelo Mnguni, Matty Monethi, Khotso Motsoeneng, Richard Penn, Robyn Penn, and Abri de Swardt
PLANT, curated by Wolf Britz, Rupert Museum, Stellenbosch, 6 - 15 March 2020. Works by: Abri de Swardt, Zayaan Khan, and Neil le Roux
Words Beneath Bridges
Abri de Swardt, Writer, Director, Scenography, and Costumes
With: Hendrik Nieuwoudt, Quinton Manning
45'00 min performance
7, 8 and 10 March 19:30
Holding Water, POOL, Johannesburg, 25 October 2019 - 31 March 2020. Works by: Bianca Baldi, Jonathan Cane, Shane Cooper and Thandi Nthuli, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Zayaan Khan, Abri de Swardt and Sinethemba Twalo
Recontres Internationales, Louvre Auditorium, Forum des images, Centre Pompidou, Le Carreau du Temple, and Cité internationale des arts, Paris, 5-10 March; and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 20-25 August 2019.
Gender Prototypes Screening Programme. Works by: Dagmar Dachauer, Laure Prouvost, Abri de Swardt, Agathe Champsaur, and Doireann O'Malley
Still Here, curated by Yates Norton, Adomas Narkevičius, and Kotryna Markevičiūtė, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 17 April; and as part of Beyond the Perfect Image, Wellcome Collection, London, 15-16 June 2019. Works by: Avni Dauti & Rebecca Vaughan, Sophie Hoyle, Leah Clements, Milda Januševičiūtė, and Abri de Swardt
NO
2018
A2 pull-out poster featured in Rupert's 5-Year Anniversary Publication, 2019, edited by Yates Norton, with contributions from: Aapo Nikkanen; Abri de Swardt; Adomas Narkevičius; Alex Turgeon; Anastasia Sosunova; Anders Kreuger; Andrej Polukord; Anna Gritz and Lynn Hirshman Leeson; Audrius Pocius; Augustas Serapinas and Jonas Mekas and Justė Jonutytė; CAConrad; Core.Pan; Danai Giannoglou; David Ruebain and Maria Sarycheva; Dora Garcia; Eli Cortiñas; Elvia Wilk; Erik Martinson; Garrett Nelson; Gerda Paliušytė; GIRLISONFIRE; Giulia Civardi; Holly Childs; Indrė Šerpytytė; Jaakko Pallasvuo; Jacob Dwyer; Jacquelyn Davis; Jasmine Picôt Chapman; Johanna Kotlaris; Joshua Simon; Jude Crilly and Floris Schönfeld; Julie Béna; Julijonas Urbonas; Justinas Dūdėnas; Kaspars Groševs; Laure Prouvost; Laurie Kang; Leah Clements; Luca Vanello; Marije Gertenbach; Marjolein Van der Loo; Martin Kohout; Maurin Dietrich; Milda Januševičiūtė; Mirosław Bałka; Monika Kalinauskaitė; Monika Lipsic; Naglis Kristijonas Zakaras FT. Random Heroes; Nicolaus Schafhausen; Niklas Tafra; Nina Fránková; Nina Kuttler; Ona Juciūtė; Ona Lozuraitytė and Petras Išora; Rebecca Ackroyd; Renée Mboya; Rick Dolphijn; Robertas Narkus; Romuald Demidenko; Rytis Urbanskas; Sanna Marander; Santiago Taccetti; Sebastian Rozenberg; Suhail Malik; Valentinas Klimašauskas; Vytenis Burokas; and Žygimantas Kudirka
Sunday Service, curated by Heinrich Groenewald and Brett Charles Seiler, GUS, Stellenbosch, 9-21 December 2018. Works by: Kween Du Toit Albertze, Kate Arthur, Ruann Coleman, Caetano Costa, Pierre Fouche, Heinrich Groenewald, Quaid Heneke, Dean Hutton, M Thesen Law, Wes Leal, Dante Ludolf, Strauss Louw, Kopano Maroga, Manyaku Mashilo, Megan McNamara, Wandiswa Mesatywa, Luan Nel, Boni Mnisi, Asemahle Ntlonti, Luvuyo Nyawose, Nodiggity, Brooklyn J. Pakathi, Mikhalila Petersen, Brett Charles Seiler, Kween Shiraz, Heidi Sincuba, Matshidiso Skosana, Shakil Solanki, Abri de Swardt, Werner Ungerer, Kim Windvogel, and Eve Wong
Buffer Zones, curated by Juliana Irene Smith, Platform Vaasa + Filmverkstaden, Vaasa, 1 November and 6 December 2018. Works by: Bridget Baker, Basim Magdy, Dana Levy, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Ed Young, Anetta Mona Chisa + Lucia Tkacova, Liza Grobler, Bashar Alhroub, Nico Athene, Abri de Swardt, Nisrine Boukhari, Antonia Brown, Samah Hijawi, Francois Knoetze, Daria Tchapanova, and Purity Zinhle Mkhize
The Difficulty of Saying I, curated by Adomas Narkevičius, Rupert, Vilnius, 10-14 May 2018. Works by: Abri de Swardt and Yan Xing
Ridder Thirst, POOL, Johannesburg, 26 April - 17 June 2018. A solo exhibition by Abri de Swardt, and launch of the Ridder Thirst LP with new commissions by Stephané E. Conradie, Metode en Tegniek, Athi Mongezeleli Joja, Pierre Fouché, Khanyisile Mbongwa, Rachel Collet, Abri de Swardt and Alida Eloff
Public Programme:
29 May 18.30 | Screening of Carlos Motta’s Nefandus (2013) and Abri de Swardt’s Ridder Thirst (2015–2018), followed by a discussion between Bettina Malcomess and Dr Saarah Jappie
16 June 16.30 | Walkabout of the exhibition with Abri de Swardt, followed by a collective listening session of the Ridder Thirst LP (2016 – 2018), facilitated by Athi Mongezeleli Joja
17 June 17.45 | Performance of Words Beneath Bridges (2018) by Abri de Swardt, performed with Quinton Manning and Danie Putter
Coded Encounters, curated by Jaime Welsh, Gallery Graça Brandāo, Lisbon, 20 April - 2 June 2018. Works by: Kevin Brennan, Cabello/Carceller, David Lieske, Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Abri de Swardt and Jaime Welsh
writing for the ear, writing for the eye, curated by joining room and Nothing to Commit Records, The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, 11 - 14 April 2018. Works by: Lebohang Kganye, Andrei van Wyk aka Healer Oran with Dustin van Wyk, Ntsoana Contemporary Dance Theatre (Sello Pesa, Humphrey Maleka and Brian Mtembu), Anne Historical, Gretchen Blegen, Abri de Swardt, Dion Monti, Danger Gevaar Ingozi, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Malose Malahlela, and Gabrielle Goliath
SS17, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town, 7 December 2017 - 13 January 2018. Works by: Stephané E. Conradie, Abri de Swardt, Mbali Dhlamini, Modupeola Fadugba, Kenrick McFarlane, Bonolo Kavula, Priscilla Kennedy, Gabrielle Kruger, Kyu Sang Lee, Sepideh Mehraban, Amber Moir, Sethembile Msezane, Tiago Rodrigues, Jo Voysey, and Martin Wilson
These Rotten Words, Screening Programme, curated by George Vasey, Chapter, Cardiff, 1 April 2017. Works by: Abri de Swardt, Rob Crosse, Anna Bunting-Branch, Cara Tolmie and Steve Roggenbuck
Leak, Cosmos Carl, Online, 11-25 November 2016
Off to Mahagonny, curated by Canan Batur, Rye Lane, London, 4 - 9 October 2016. Works by: Mette Boel, Jack Brindley, Ting-Ting Cheng, Sung Eun Chin, Jemma Egan, Bob Eikelboom, Justin Fitzpatrick, Carl Gent, David Horvitz, Sophie Hoyle, Lito Kattou, Olu David Ogunnaike, Andy Nizinskyj, Abri de Swardt, Andrew Sunderland, Susannah Stark, Thomas Yeomans and Ittah Yoda
Blend the Acclaim of your Chant with the Timbrels, curated by George Vasey, Jerwood Staging Series, Jerwood Space, London, 12 July 2016. Works by: Beth Kettel, Anneke Kampman, Josh Wilson, Abri de Swardt, Quentin Lannes and Shona Macnaughton
I Never Read, Alma Martha, Kaserne Basel and Junges Theater Basel, Basel, 15-18 June 2016. Works by: Mitchell Messina, Lucienne Bestall, Julia Rosa Clark, Bonolo Kavula, Vactic + Jake Singer, Abri de Swardt, Bridget Baker + Bianca Baldi, Bronwyn Katz, Gitte Moller, Bert Pauw, Raees Saiet and Swain Hoogervorst
SPF Matthew Barney, White Cubicle Toilet Gallery, St George and the Dragon, London, 26 November 2015.
SPF Matthew Barney by Abri de Swardt is the tenth of 11 exhibitions at White Cubicle in 2015 to celebrate its 10th Anniversary. This anniversary schedule includes exhibitions and projects by Adriano Costa, Milovan Farronato, Celia Hempton, Joao Laia, Kiki Mazzucchelli, Lucy McKenzie & Josefine Reisch, Jacopo Miliani, Jacqui Potato, Charlotte Prodger & Flo Brooks, Irene Revell (Electra), Luiz Roque, Liliana Sanguino, Visual AIDS, John Walter, Steven Warwick (Heatsick) and Camilla Wills
DJ for the evening: @Gaybar
New Contemporaries, selected by Hurvin Anderson, Jessie Flood-Paddock and Simon Starling, Backlit, One Thoresby Street and Primary, Nottingham, 18 September - 31 October 2015; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 25 November 2015 - 25 January 2016. Works by Sïan Astley, Kevin Boyd, Lydia Brockless, U. Kanad Chakrabarti, James William Collins, Andrei Costache, Julia Curtin, Abri de Swardt, Melanie Eckersley, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Justin Fitzpatrick, Hannah Ford, Sophie Giller, Richard Hards, Juntae TJ Hwang, Jasmine Johnson, Tomomi Koseki, Hilde Krohn Huse, Pandora Lavender, Jin Han Lee, Hugo López Ayuso, Beatrice-Lily Lorigan, Scott Lyman, Hanqing Ma & Mona Yoo, Scott Mason, Oliver McConnie, Mandy Niewöhner, Hamish Pearch, Neal Rock, Conor Rogers, Katie Schwab, Tim Simmons, David Cyrus Smith, Francisco Sousa Lobo, Aaron Wells, Morgan Wills and Andrea Zucchini
Sightings, curated by Amy Watson, Kwazulu Natal Society of Arts, Durban, 18 August - 6 September 2015. Works by Bridget Baker, Bianca Baldi, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Abri de Swardt, Uriel Orlow and Kemang Wa Lehulere
Poetics of Relation, curated by Bettina Malcomess and Uriel Orlow, Point of Order, Johannesburg, 1–7 February; LiveInYourHead, Geneva, 13-30 May 2015. Works by Simon Acevedo, Denise Bertschi, Antonia Brown, Érik Bullot, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Leonard de Muralt, Abri de Swardt, Ravi Govender, Paul Guian, Ciel Grommen, Mbali Khoza, Murray Kruger, Bettina Malcomess, Nare Mokgotho, Michelle Monareng, Uriel Orlow, Philip Pilekjaer, Nathalie Rebholz, Julie Sas, Tali Serruya, Mounia Steimer, and Nicoline van Harskamp
Ridder Thirst and other readings one should ignore, ALMA MARTHA, Cape Town, 6 May 2015. Works by: Rachel Collet, Abri de Swardt, Alida Eloff, Open Arts (the Visual Arts cohort of Open Stellenbosch), Artappil Skilly, and Lize van Robbroeck
ECOCIDE, hosted and curated by @Gaybar in collaboration with Jennifer Chan and Leah Schrager, and Linda Stupart, Rye Lane Studios, London, 10 March 2015. Works by: Georges Jacotey, Sarah Schulman & Jim Hubbard, Jesse Darling, Hannah Black, Sam Kenswill, Jala Wahid, Claire Kurylowski, Sam Thottington, Natasha Lall, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Eli Leven, Athi-Patra Ruga, Steven Cohen, Caspar Jade Heinemann, and Abri de Swardt
Ridder Thirst and other readings + Thumbs-Up, Sober & Lonely Institute for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, 25 February 2015. Works by: Abri de Swardt, Alida Eloff, Pierre Fouché, Nathan Gates, Athi Mongezeleli Joja, Machteld Rullens, Hentie van der Merwe, and Ernst van der Wal
Men Gather, in Speech..., curated by Sophia Yadong Hao, Cooper Gallery, Duncan Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, 22 January - 21 February 2015. Works by: Emma Charles, Rose English and Abri de Swardt
Rose English Plato's Chair (1985) Courtesy of the artist and Locus+
Dear Luxembourg (yours, bucktoothed grl), curated by Alberto García del Castillo with the company of Sophie Jung, Nosbaum Reding Projects, Luxembourg, 15 January - 7 March 2015. Works by: Emma Hart, Germaine Hoffmann, Sophie Jung, Jenny Moore, Athena Papadopoulos, Abri de Swardt, and Alice Theobald
b-uh-leach (1.1.1.9.9.9.9.9.9.9.9.9.)
scan collage
f i n g e r o f g o d
2011 - 2014
Laserjet Print on Transparency made in conversation with Zoe Marden
1350 x 440 mm
Man Magnet Melancholy, curated by Elene Abashidze, Sarah Boulton, Jesse Darling, Sophie Jung, and Julia Marchand, Ffrigidaire, London, 10 November – 9 December 2014. Works by: Abri de Swardt and Zoe Marden
Fall Formal, curated by Shawn Taylor and Sb Fuller, Kappa Thetha Phi, Richmond, Virginia, 31 October - 30 November 2014. Works by: Tin Nguyen, Patrice Renee Washington, Oliver Lee Terry, Dan Schmahl, and Abri de Swardt, Performance by RIND (Lee Relvas)
Space of no exception, curated by Anna Zhurba, SOKOL CCA, Moscow, 8 October – 4 November 2014. Works by: Natalia Alexander, Olga Butenop, Maria Colina-Perez, Sarah Duffy, Carl Ghent, Maria Gorodeckaya, Julia Gorostidi, Ekaterina Isaeva, Jasmine Johnson, Daria Kalugina, Elena Kholkina, Irina Kravchina, Elena Martynenko, Dorine van Meel, Elena Minaeva, Daria Neretina, Mandy Niewöhner, Pavel Otdelnov, Sarah Pager, Vera Papadopoulou, Alia Pathan, Anton Permjakov, Ksenia Plisova, Elaine Reynolds, Shelby Seu, Abri de Swardt and Ian Tamkovich
Field Work, curated by Andrey Parshikov, Muzeon Park, IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, 2 August 2014. Works by: Abri de Swardt, Sarah Duffy, Carl Gent, Julia Gorostidi, Vera Iona, Ekaterina Isaeva, Jasmine Johnson, Daria Kalugina, Elena Martynenko, Daria Neretina, Mandy Niewöhner, Sarah Pager, Alia Pathan, Maria Colina Perez, Shelby Seu, and Dorine van Meel
Gesture, curated by Lucy Jane Turpin, GUS, Stellenbosch, 16 July – 2 August 2014. Works by: Gabrielle Alberts, Heléne van Aswegen, Bridget Baker, Vincent Bezuidenhout, Niall Bingham, Wolf Britz, Coexistent (Nina Barnett and Robyn Nesbit), Merel van ’t Hullenaar, Gina Kraft, Buyaphi Mdledle, Anthea Moys, Matteo Pitassi, Julia Raynham, Neil le Roux, Sober and Lonely (Robyn Cook and Lauren von Gogh), Danie Stander, Abri de Swardt, MJ Turpin, Lucy Jane Turpin, and Niels Vis
Goldsmiths MFA Show 2014, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, 10-14 July. Works by: Indrani Ashe, Alex Baggaley, David Bance, Simeon Barclay, Megan Broadmeadow, Jose Castiella, Jeannette Castioni, Io Chaviara, Ting-Ting Cheng, Nicholas Cheveldave, Junyong Cho, Youwon Cho, Yumi Chung, Cynthia Cruz, Abri de Swardt, Nelmarie du Preez, Tom Duggan, Gretchen Geraets, Anne Haaning, Inas Halabi, Rebeen Hama-Rafiq, Trasi Henen, Maya Inbar, Jasmine Johnson, Yunsun Jung, Xenofon Kavvadias, Sam Keogh, Stine Kvam, Sarah Lederman, Shannon Lewis, Stephanie Moran, Mandy Niewöhner, Joseph Noonan-Ganley, Sarah Pager, Matthew Parsons, Alia Pathan, Suzanne Posthumus, Elaine Reynolds, Gro Sarauw, Will Sheridan Jr., Heidi Sincuba, Daniel Oxholm Sørensen, Alan Stanners, Oliver Lee Terry, Sabina Tupan, Sara Umar, Dorine van Meel, Matthew Verdon, Alice May Williams, Puiyin Wong. Art Writing: Judith Browning, Daphne de Sonneville, Heather Welsh. Curating: Elene Abashidze, Bianca Baroni, Nohar Ben Asher, Heidi Brunschweiler, Sasha Burkhanova, Persilia Caton, Louise Chignac, Tom Clark, Oona Doyle, Iben Elmström, Azu González García, Katy Green, Mei Huang, Sung Woo Kim, Julia Marchand, Zoë Marden, Steph Neoh, Lucy Rollins, Wenjie Sun, Cat Turner, Katherine Waugh
B OT TOM OF T HE W ORL D
A0 blue back poster made in conversation with Elene Abashidze
Painting Show and Performances, curated by Mathis Gasser, Winter Projects, London, 5-6 October 2013. Performances by: Barbara Gamper, Abri de Swardt, Ben Newton, Heidi Smith, Julia Hayes, Rob Lye, Say Yes or Die (Anne Rochat, Gilles Furtwängler and Sarah Anthony). Paintings by: Phillip Allen, Frank Ammerlaan, Lucy Boyle, Benjamin Brett, Vittorio Brodmann, Cristina Cojanu, Charlotte Delvetter, Freya Douglas-Morris, Grant Foster, Simon Foxall, Sabrina Fritsch, Mathis Gasser, Nelly Haliti, Dido Hallett, Julia Hayes, Milli Jannides, Vivian Kasel, Frank Kent, Katrin Koskaru, Gabriel Lima, Daniel Lipp, George Little, Simon Mathers, Wendy McLean, Matthew Musgrave, France-Lise McGurn, Ben Newton, Nick Nowicki, Nicholas Pankhurst, Jon Pilkington, Glen Pudvine, Neil Raitt, Emanuel Rohss, Max Ruf, Sven Sachsalber, Lukas Schmenger, Joshua Sex, Zoé de Soumagnat, Tobias Teschner, Tyra Tingleff, Sanja Todorovic, Kate Warner, Freyja Wright, Thomas Yeomans, Urban Zellweger, Tim Zercie, and Lian Zhang
Unseen Photo Fair, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Amsterdam, 26-29 September. Works by: Pieter Hugo, Abri de Swardt, Elza Jo, and Jonas Lund
Catapult Screensaver, MOTInternational Projects, London, 13-16 September 2013
COPILOT, curated by Suzanne Posthumus and Philipp Dorl, 42 King Henry's Road, London, 12 May 2013. Works by: Abri de Swardt, Shengjie Gao, and Will Sheridan & Suzanne Posthumus
Digi Re-Engineering, curated by Koos van der Watt, Jan De Rooster, Jacob Lebeko and Bongani Mkhonza, UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria, 9 March – 5 April 2013. Works by: Abri de Swardt, Brendon Erasmus, Carmen Truter, Celia De Villiers, Colleen Alborough, Christiaan Hattingh, Daandrey Steyn, Daniel Halter, Diek Grobler , Eric Duplan , Gerrit van der Walt, Gordon Froud, Greg Miller, Griet van der Meulen, Ingrid Bolton, Jan De Rooster, Jenna Burchell, Kai Lossgott, Karl G Sevenster, Katya Venter, Keith Dietrich, Koos van der Watt, Marco Cianfanelli, Marcus Neustetter, Maurice Mbikayi, Mem Sevenster, Nathaniel Stern, Nellien Brewer, Nina Czegledy, Paula Louw, Rebecca Jones, Reinhard Sonntagg, Retha Buitendagh, and Rozan Cochrane
art now now: collect; discuss, curated by Anja de Klerk, US Museum, Stellenbosch, 1-31 March 2013. Works by: Francis Burger, Abri de Swardt, Lunga Khama, Tasneem Khan, and Chris Swart
An Experiment to Test the Destiny of the World, curated by Sober & Lonely Institute for Contemporary Art, Ithuba Arts Gallery, Johannesburg, 7-24 February 2013. Works by: Abri de Swardt, Annelies Propstra, Audrey Anderson, Audrey Cottin, Bas Schevers, Brian Briggs, Christian Nerf, Dave Sherry, Francis Burger, Genna Gardini, Georgia Munnik, Ginsburg, Morland & Ginsburg, Jon Bernad, Julian Redpath, Laura Copelin, Lester Adams, Machine Project, New Capital (Ben Foch & Chelsea Culp), Noor Nuyten, Phillip Johnson & Gareth Lloyd, Pieter Verwey, Pietmondriaan.com (Michiel Huijben & Simon Kentgens with Diana Duta), Pop Soda (Jimmy Fusil & Mike Wait), Sonya Masinovsky, and Victoria Wigzell
Dismotief, curated by Richardt Strydom, Potchefstroom Town Hall, Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom, 2–6 October 2012. Works by: Tertius Kapp, Loftus Marais, Alwyn Roux, Pieter Bezuidenhout, Braam du Toit, Franco Prinsloo, Steven Bosch, Richardt Strydom, and Abri de Swardt