Minnette Vári (b. 1968, Pretoria, South Africa) works in diverse media, from ink drawing to video installations, often incorporating performance elements into reworked media and historical documentary footage. Her work has been thematically linked to exhibitions and symposia exploring themes of identity, mythology, transition, politics, trauma and history. Publications featuring her work include Art Cities of the Future, 21st Century Avant-Gardes (Phaidon 2013), Sue Williamson’s South African Art Now (Harper Collins 2009) and 10 years 100 Artists, Art in a Democratic South Africa, Sophie Perryer (ED) (Bell-Roberts 2004).

Vári has exhibited her work since the early nineties, participating in such group exhibitions as the Second Johannesburg Biennale (1997), the Venice Biennale (2001 and 2007), and the 10th Biennale of Havana (2009). Her solo exhibitions include a monographic solo exhibition at the Art Museum Lucerne, Switzerland (2004), Vigil at Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York (2007), Chimera at Basel Art Unlimited (2003) and most recently, Songs of Excavation at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg (2013). She will present a mid-career retrospective at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg in early 2016. Vári holds a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Pretoria in 1997 and lives and works in Johannesburg. More about Minnette Vári at www.minnettevari.com

Minnette Vári's residency is made possible with the support of Sylt Foundation.