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Embassy Programme', the American Embassy, Pretoria, South Africa. Since 2005 he has been curator for Map (South Africa Modern Art Projects). In 2011 he curated 'Mine, A Selection of Films by South African Artists' at Iwalewa-Haus, the Africa Centre of the University of Bayreuth in Germany. The exhibition has subsequently traveled to the United Arab Emirates, Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre and to South Africa, at the
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in Denmark. From 2003 – 2007 he was the founder and curator of Outlet Project Room at the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa. In 2005 he was the Invited Young Curator at Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom, South Africa and from 2006 – 2007 he curated for the 'Art in
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His work has been seen in international exhibitions, including the 'Fotofiesta – International Photography Biennale', curated by Koulla Xinisteris, Medellin, Colombia, 2003; 'FotoGrafia 2004 Festival internazionale di Roma', Italy; the 51st Venice Biennale, as part of a project called: 'Real
164:. Fourie's first one-person exhibition was held in Pretoria, at the Verwoerdburg Art Gallery in 1996, titled: 'Inside this house, 1993-1996' and his first international solo exhibition, 'observatório # 4 – Whatever, Wherever' was held at Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium in 2003. 171:, New York, USA in 2004; 'where-we-r.com', at the Forum d’art contemporian FAC, in Sierre, Switzerland, 2006; 'Oblique', Vladimiro Izzo Gallery, Berlin, Germany in 2009 and 'Labor Berlin 11: Oblique', curated by Storm Jansen van Rensburg, 255:
African Collection of Contemporary Art in Angola; the Daimler Art Collection, and Hanz Bogatzke Collection of Contemporary African Art, Germany; the Danish Ministry of Culture, Denmark; ECAV/ CRIC, Switzerland; the
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and Pondside Press in New York; SCAD in Georgia and ObjectNotFound Project Space in Mexico. Other collections include: Costa Reis Compilação de Arte Africana Actual Collection and the
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Fourie is also known for his curatorial work, in 1995 he was assistant curator to the first Johannesburg Biennale, for the exhibition 'Memory and Geography' by artists
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Fourie first exhibited his work in South Africa in 1992, and internationally in 1995, as part of a group exhibition: 'Spring Time in Chile' at the
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Georg Diez and Christopher Roth, The 80*81 Book Collection, Volume 8, insert between pg. 48,49, Edition Patrick Frey, Zürich, Switzerland
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in Texas, USA; 'Reflections: African Art is...’ at the Museum for African Art in New York, USA and 'Nederland 1' at
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Christian Ganzenberg, Abrie Fourie, Daimler Art Collection, pg. 58,59, Hirmer Verlag, München, 2010
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Milena Nikolova, Abrie Fourie, Fair, pg.22-24, No. 11 / IV-2010, fairarts OG, Berlin, Vienna, 2010
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Bettina Steinbrügge, Abrie Fourie, Art/ South Africa, pg. 87, vol 07 issue 04,2009, winter
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Museum in Tokyo, Japan; 'Take me to the river' at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at
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Presence, Floating Sites', curated by Biljana Tomic and Dobrilla Denegri, 2005.
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Abrie Fourie at the Museum for Africa Art, New York 2004, review by Ruth Sacks
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and Doris Bloom. In the same year, he co-curated 'Brown and Green' at the
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His work is widely collected in South Africa, including by
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Other solo exhibitions include: 'End of the World', at the
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Fourie's works are part of worldwide collections such as
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