Once upon a time, in a latter-day Babel, an artist created her own genesis story; offering an original response to the kōan-type riddle of how existence came into being. The Seven Sisters installation is Barbara Wildenboer’s version of Genesis…

SUPER/NATURAL by Barbara Wildenboer explores the boundaries of what is known and knowable about existence and reality by embracing not only art and science but also alternative phenomena which collude and collide under this…

Meet SUPER/NATURAL. Born on 12 November 2020 at 6pm, in Cape Town, South Africa, under a sky of momentous planetary convergences. This moment of birth makes SUPER/NATURAL a Scorpio with a Libra moon…

The word “excess” best describes our contemporary life; our consumerist information driven society. Whether you are rich or poor it seems existence and identity is defined by the products you buy, or aspire to own. The internet, digital technology…

Invisible, Intangible, Insensible: Barbara Wildenboer’s ‘The Invisible Gardener’ written for Artthrob by Amie Soudien for Artthrob on 1 June 2017. Barbara Wildenboer’s second exhibition with Everard Read/CIRCA Cape Town, is dedicated to the invisible hand that…

Essay written for the South African Center for photography by Jenny Altschuler Barbara Wildenboer’s exhibition, titled Vanitas, created for her Masters of Fine Art studies at the Michaelis School of fine art, UCT in December 2007 and subsequently held at…

Subverted text as transformed imagesTuesday, April 12, 2011   Artist Barbara Wildenboer wields the scalpels she uses to cut paper with the dexterity of a surgeon. Transforming books ranging from encyclopedias to scientific reference works she has revived...

Notes from the Coalface Barbara Wildenboer interviewed by Carsten Rasch for the Canaries in the Coalmine catalogue   Birds have long been recognized as the indicators of environmental change, and are effectively thecanaries in the coalmine when it comes to...

The Art of Spinning or the Spinning of Art: Alchemism and Other Survival Strategies   To practice seidhr, you need to be able to follow a thread—the thread that is a path through the worlds, winding ever-upward and then back down again along the Tree, spiraling...

The Warrior: Barbara Wildenboer Once upon a time there was a water nymph with long legs who loved making paper boats by the ponds edge. She could sit there for hours listening to the sounds around her as her hands worked away. She adored how the current would take the...