Günther Herbst

 Education and Training

​2005-2006       PGCE Art & Design                     Institute of Education, London

2000-2002         MA Fine Art                                  Goldsmiths, University of London

1985-1986          Diploma in Fine Art                    Johannesburg University

Solo Exhibitions

​2023               The Absence of Myth                      Morley Gallery, London

2015                   The Absence of Myth                      Gallery AOP, Johannesburg

2012                   The Man Who Wasn’t There           Gallery AOP, Johannesburg

2009                  Solo Exhibition                                 Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge           

2009                  Solo Exhibition                                One in the Other, London

2007                  Solo Exhibition                                  One in the Other, London

Group Exhibitions

​2024       A Pull or a Push                                           Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London

2023       Transports of Delight                                  Danielle Arnaud, London

2022       Signi-fiance: Painting Beyond Borders   Coleman Projects Space, London

2022       Signi-fiance: Painting Beyond Borders    Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University

2021       Small and Wild                                              Loushy / Art and Projects, Tel Aviv

2019       Creekside Open                                            APT Gallery, London

2019       The Inhuman / difficult transition /          Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London

2017       Make_Shift                                                     Collyer Bristow, London

2016       Cape Town Art Fair                                      CTICC, Cape Town

2015       FNB Johannesburg Art Fair                         Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg 

2015       The Places We Go                                         APT Gallery, London

2015       Turps Summer Mix                                        Turps Gallery, London

2014       FNB Johannesburg Art Fair                          Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg

2014       Into and out of Abstraction                        Lubomirov Easton, London

2012       Luna Park                                                       Lion and Lamb, London

2012       I’ll Be Your Mirror                                          Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles

2011       I’ll Be Your Mirror                                            Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery, St Louis, Missouri

2011       FNB Johannesburg Art Fair                        Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg

2009       Volta 5 Art Fair                                            Basel

2009       Home Truths                                                Harewood House, Leeds

2008       Fresh Out Of The Box                               New Art Gallery, Walsall

2008       Pulse                                                              Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, New York

2008       Contemporary Painters Award             Jerwood Space, London

2007       Zoo Art Fair                                                   Royal Academy of Arts, London

2007       Artfutures 2007                                           Bloomberg Space, London

2006       John Moore’s 24 Exhibition                     Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Awards

2008       Jerwood Contemporary Painters Award     London

2006       Celeste Art Prize Finalist                                 London                 

2002       Observer New British Artists Award            London

1993       IGI Life Vita Art Now Merit Award                 Johannesburg

Publications

Artforum (October issue 2009) 250-251 - https://www.artforum.com/events/gunther-herbst-197921/

Art World Issue 5 (June/July 2008) 80-83

Art Review Issue 20 (March 2008) 106-107

Jerwood Contemporary Painters Catalogue (2008) Jerwood Space

John Moores 24 Catalogue (2006) National Museums Liverpool

Celeste Art Prize Catalogue (2006) Sarah Pearce (ed) Italy Stampa Baldesi 

Gewalt Exhibition Catalogue (2004) Loushy Art & Editions Tel Aviv Kal Press Ltd.

Reframing the Black Subject, Okwui Enwezor: Kimberley N. Pinder (ed) Race-ing Art History, Critical Readings in Race and Art History, Routledge, New York (2002)

Royal Academy Illustrated Summer Exhibition Catalogue Cuming F (ed) (2003) Dawkins Colour, Italy

The Royal Academy of Arts Magazine no.79/Summer 2003 50-51 Smee S (2003) Summer Exhibition

The Observer Magazine Work in Progress 22-27 O’Connel D (8 September 2002)

Male Order Catalogue Durban Art Gallery Brown C (ed) (2002)

Un art contemporain d ‘Afrique du Sud Jouannnais J-Y Martin M (eds) (1994) Editions Plume 

Collections

William Kentridge, Private Collection

The New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands: Permanent Collection

Cambridge University

Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design

Anglo American, South Africa

Gencor, South Africa

Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town

Durban Art Gallery, South Africa

Johannesburg National Art Gallery, South Africa

Various international private collections