Born in Windhoek, Namibia, and now living in Cape Town, van der Merwe’s work has dealt with aspects such as the body, violence, power and the archive. He attended the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Belgium (where Zhané Warren had met him). He continued to live in Antwerp for six years before returning permanently to South Africa in February 2007. He has had solo exhibitions at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, the Tim van Laere Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium and Galerie Gabriele Rivet in Cologne, Germany, among others. He has participated in group exhibitions in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; New York, USA; Cologne and Munich, Germany; Geneva, Switzerland; Gent, Belgium; Rome, Italy; Madrid, Spain; Stockholm, Sweden; and Santiago, Chile, among others.
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