Everlyn Nicodemus
Curriculum Vitae
Artists, writer, poet
Born 1954, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Move to Europe 1973. Studied social anthropology at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Turned to art and held her first exhibition in 1980 at the National Museum in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Guest student at the Hochschule der Künste, West Berlin in 1988. In Belgium since 1989. Lives and works currently in Brussels, Belgium.
Lectures and Symposia
Invited to a lecture at Leuven University, Belgium, 1993-95, at the Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid and at the Universities of Alicante and Murica, Spain, in 1996, and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 1998, introducing studies in transculturalism.
She has participated in international conferences and symposia in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1993; Tate Gallery, London (inIVA), 1994; The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, 1994; New York University, New York, 1995; Birmingham University, Britain, 1998, and Gent University, Belgium, 1999.
In 2001 she delivered a paper "Representing African Art" about focusing on African modern pioneer artists, at symposia in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, where it gave the basis for discussions on Japanese cultural exchange with African countries organized by Japan Foundation and the Japanese Foreign Ministry. She also presented a paper on education at the Art Academy in Malmoe, Sweden, and in 2002 a paper at the Pan-African Conference on the Status, Role and Working Conditions of the Artists in Africa held in Enugu, Nigeria. Paper on Ethnics at Arco, Madrid 2003.
Published texts
She has been publishing short stories and poems in Scandinavia. In the 1990s she took up writing critical and theoretical essays on art, philosophy, transculturalism and postmodernity. She has been member of the advisory board of Third Text, London.
Among published texts: Art from South of Saharah, Konstperspektiv 3/1992, Sweden, also published in Yang 1993/3, Belgium. Co-author: Kristian Romare. When All My Reasoning Came to an End. (About Animism in Africa and Zen Buddism in Japan.) Third Text 19, 1992, London. Meeting Carl Einstein. (On the German critic who 1915 wrote the first book on African art as art.) Third Text 23, Africa Special Issue, 1993. The Centre of the Otherness. inIVA conference paper published in Global Visions: towards a new internationalism in visual arts, Kala Press, London, 1994. A Painter's Progress. Published in International Forum of Contemporary Art Theory, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1994. Carrying the Sun on Our Backs. (On German colonialism in Africa). The Kanaal Art Foundation catalogue, Kortijk, Belgium 1994. Bourdieu out of Europe? (On Pierre Bourdieu's field theory applied on African art) Third Text 30, 1995. Also published in the anthology Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, inIVA, London, 1999. Art and Art from Africa: two sides of the gap. (Reviewing Africa: The Art of a Continent and Seven Stories about modern art in Africa) Third Text 33, 1995. Also published in item 5, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2002. Inside-Outside. (A history of modern art in Africa). In: Whitechapel Art Gallery catalogue Seven Stories about modern art in Africa, London, 1995. Dr. Livingstone, I presume? In: Curatorial Strategies for the Future, Banff Centre Press, Alberta, Canada, 1996. Shanglie Zhou - beyond 'Landscape' and 'Face'. In: Third Text 37, 1996/97. Africa, Art Criticism and the Big Commentary. In: Third Text 41, 1997/98. Co-author: Kristian Romare. Collage of Collages. In the anthology Beyond Ethnics and Aesthetics, Sun Publishers, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 1997. Field Wanderings. In the catalogue Trapped Reality, Barcelona, 1997. Through the Stenope (on photography). In the catalogue Fascinating Faces of Flandres, Lisbon 1998, Antwerp 1999. Routes of Independence. In the catalogue Routes, London, 1999. Stipo Pranyko - Artist Nomad. In exhibition catalogue in Lanzarote, Spain, 1999 and in Third Text 49, 2000. Out of invisibility. Problems of writing on contemporary African art. Africa e Mediterraneo, 2-3/1999, Bologna, Italy 2000. From Independence to Independence. In Independent Practices, Representation, Location and History in Contemporary Visual Art. Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, 2001. Modernity as a mad dog. To be published in an anthology by the New York Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003.
Exhibitions
1980
National Museum, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. One woman exhibition.
1983
Swedish Broadcasting Center, Stockholm, Sweden. One woman exhibition.
Africa Center, Stockholm, Sweden. One woman exhibition.
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden. One woman exhibition.
1984
Woman in the World I, Skive Gallery, Skive, Denmark. One woman exhibition.
1985
Woman in the World II, National Museum, Dar es Salam, Tanzania, One woman exhibition
1986
Aker Brygge, Oslo, Norway, One woman exhibition.
Woman in the World II, Sisirmanch, Calcutta, India, One woman exhibition
1988
Hochschule der Künste, West Berlin.
1990
First International Triennial of Painting, Osaka, Japan
1992
Foundation Kanaal / Beneden Gallery, Kortrijk, Belgium, One woman exhibition
1993
Second International Triennal of Painting, Osaka, Japan
Présence Africaine - l'art contemporain en Afrique Noire, at Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France (withdrew her works)
1996
Carte Blance Gallery, hasselt Gallery, Belgium, One woman exhibition
1997
Sala de exposiciones, university of Alicante, Spain, One woman exhibition
Trapped Reality. Young Flemish Art. Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
1998
The Fascinating Faces of Flandres. Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal.
1999
The Fascinating Faces of Flandres. Kon. Museum voor Schoone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium.
Trafrique. S.M.A.K. extra muros, Gent, Belgium
2000
Continental Shift. Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Brussels, City at the Crossroads of Culture. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
Galerie even-aarde, Gent, One woman exhibition.
Text on her art
Jean Fisher: Everlyn Nicodemus - between silence and laughter. In the Alicante catalogue 1997, in: Third Text 40 (1997) and in: Jean Fisher: Vampire in the Text, London: inIVA, 2003.
Kevin Power: Everlyn Nicodemus. In the Alicante catalogue 1997 and in Microfisuras 1 (1997).
Luk Lambrecht: Everlyn Nicodemus. In: Flash Art 194 (1997).
Jon Thompson: Everlyn Nicodemus - in the monitor of eye. In the Gent catalogue 2000.