Francois Knoetze

Francois Knoetze est un artiste performeur, sculpteur et cinéaste basé à Cape Town (Afrique du Sud). Il est diplômé des Beaux-arts de l’Université de Rhodes et d’un master en Art à la Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. Mêlant la vidéo, la performance et la sculpture, son travail retrace le cycle de vie des objets obsolètes. Il a été diffusé dans de nombreux festival et a récemment fait l’objet d’une étude dans le magazine sud africain “Bright Young Things”.

Francois Knoetze is a performance artist, sculptor and filmmaker based in Cape Town, South Africa. He has a bachelor in Fine Art from Rhodes University and a Master of Fine Art degree at Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. Incorporating video, performance and sculpture, his work retraces the lifecycles of discarded objects. His work has been shown at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival (2015), Artvideo Koeln: Audiovisual Experiences in Cologne (2015), Infecting The City Public Art Festival in Cape Town (2015), ProxyAct International Film Festival in London (2015) and OK.Video Film Festival in Indonesia (2015). In 2012 he was featured as Art South Africa magazine’s ‘Bright Young Things’ and was recently named one of Mail & Guardian’s ‘Top 200 Young South Africans’ of 2015.