Ruth Sacks
Dr Ruth Sacks is an academic and visual artist whose practice is based in the medium of artist books. Her first academic book, Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence will be published by Michigan University Press later this year. Research interests include Africa in the Anthropocene and the post-independence aesthetics of the African City. She is currently one of the co-directors of the large-scale group project Response-Ability, taking place at the Joubert Park Greenhouse Project. Sacks has exhibited widely locally and internationally, including at: M KHA Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp), ZKM | Centre for Arts and Media (Karlsruhe), Performa09 (New York), the African Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, the National Museums of Kenya (Nairobi), the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Kunstverein (Amsterdam) and Extraspazio (Rome).
Recent publications (books): Sacks, R. 2021 (forthcoming). ‘Congo Style: From Art Nouveau to African Independence’. Michigan University Press and Wits University Press
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