James Webb

James Webb (South Africa, 1975; lives in Sweden) is an artist known for his site-specific interventions and installations. His practice often involves sound, found objects, and text, invoking references to literature, cinema, and the conceptualist traditions. By shifting objects, techniques, and forms beyond their original contexts and introducing them to different environments, Webb creates new spaces of tension. These spaces bind Webb’s academic background in religion, theatre, and advertising, offering poetic inquiries into the economies of belief and dynamics of communication in our contemporary world.

As Brandon LaBelle writes, “The works of James Webb circulate around a complex mixture of emotional and affective states; of longing and despair, of the ecstatic and of hopefulness, states of bodies and minds that move throughout his practice to raise questions of individuality and community, belonging and displacement, fragmentation and recuperation.” (Xenagogue, edited by Anthea Buys, published by HKS, 2015.)

Webb has had solo exhibitions at, amongst others, the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, 2018; SPACES, Cleveland, USA, 2018; Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden, 2018; Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, France, 2016 and 2019; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom, 2016; Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway, 2015; blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014, 2016, and 2020; CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain, 2013; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2012; and mac, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2010.

Major group exhibitions include 3rd Monheim Triennale (2023), 1st Islamic Arts Biennale (2023), 14th MONA FOMA, Tasmania, (2023), the 8th and 16th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (2007 & 2022), 13th Biennial of Dakar (2018), 4th Prospect Triennial of New Orleans (2017), Documenta 14 (2017), 13th Biennial of Sharjah (2017), 12th Bienal de la Habana (2015), and the 55th Biennale di Venezia (2013). Other notable group shows include those at spaces such as Wanås Konst and Historiska, Sweden; MAXXI Roma, Italy; Darat al Funun, Jordan; Théâtre Graslin, France; and the Tate Modern, London.

Webb’s work has been acquired for numerous public and private collections, and his projects have been the subject of the two monographs, “. . .” (blank projects, 2020), and “Xenagogue” (Hordaland Kunstsenter, 2015). Born 1975, Kimberley, South Africa.

Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. James Webb is represented by blank projects, Cape Town, and Galerie Imane Farès, Paris.

Selected links

Website: www.theotherjameswebb.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theotherjameswebb
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/theotherjameswebb
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/theotherjameswebb
Download link for monographs: https://we.tl/t-d3PjMV0oLS

Gallery representation

blank projects, Cape Town https://blankprojects.com/James-Webb
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris https://imanefares.com/artistes/james-webb/

Studio contact

James Webb
Sjöbjörnsvägen 24
117 67 Stockholm Sweden
email: theotherjameswebb@gmail.com
telephone: +46 (0)738942881