Born 11. 2.1951 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Died 4. 3. 2021 ibid.
Lived and worked in Bulawayo, partly in Shurugwi on the farm (Art Centre) of Tapfuma Gutsa, Zimbabwe
Rashid Jogee became known for his expressive abstract paintings
Participation in the annual exhibitions of the National Gallery in Harare since 1986
2013 Participation in the Venice Biennale
1973 - 1976 Study of textil design at Mzilikazi Art and Craft Centre in Bulawayo
1976 - 1978 Study of applied arts and design at Bulawayo Technical Collage
Diplom F. A. at Durban Technicon
Rashid Jogee was one of Zimbabwe’s few abstract painters. European modernism and the explosion of forms he encountered in Abstract Expressionism are among the formative influences on the style of this artist, who is of ethnic Indian origin. He describes himself as an ‘action painter’ who, in exhausting both the body (hatha) and the mind (raja) in painting, achieves a more perfect balance between them. His more recent paintings are distinguished by bold colours, often painted wet-on-wet, and of an astonishing lightness. Before turning to painting, Rashid Jogee was one of the few sculptors in Zimbabwe to produce abstract sculptures from porous sandstone.
2021 - National Arts Merit Award Legends, National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ), Harare, to his family
2006 – First Award „TSF Intwasa Festival Award“, Tamagidi Studio Foundation, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
1992 - First Award der Zimbabwe Heritage Annual Exhibition der National Gallery of Zimbabwe
1990 - Presidential Excellence Award
Solo oder Two persons Exhibitions (Selection)
2012 - „Retrospective Exhibition of Rashid Jogee`s Work“, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
2001 - „Rashid Jogee“, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
1992 - "Colour Fields & Inner Landscapes“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
1990 - „Rashid Jogee and Richard Jack“, Gallery Delta, Harare,Zimbabwe
1986 - Rashid Jogee and Berry Bickle, Avenue Nine Gallery, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
1978 - Rashid Jogee and Stephen Williams, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2024 - Zimbabwe today, Galerie Art-Z, Paris (22.2. – 29.3.2024)
2021/22 - Africa Urbis, Galerie Art-Z, Paris (8.12. - 22.1.2022)
2021 - SchlossGalerie Haape, Caputh bei Potsdam (20.03.21 bis 20.06.21)
2018
- Five Bhobh: Painting at the End of Era, Zeitz
Museum of Contemporary African Art, Kapstadt, Südafrika
2013 - „A Vision Of Religious
Belief: Zimbabwe At The Venice Biennale“, 55th International Art Exhibition in
Venice - La Biennale di Venezia
2011 - "Colour Africa 2011" - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Simbabwe, Kulturallmende, München, Deutschland, 6. 7. - 6. 8. 2011
2009 - „A Select Collection“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „34 Years Plus: The Gallery Delta“, Benefit Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe. 19. 6. – 31. 7. 2009
- „Structures“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2006 - „Frame Within A frame“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Small Works“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „TSF Intwasa Festival Award“ Tamagidi Studio Foundation, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
2005 - „30 Years of Gallery Delta“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Black and White“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Small Works“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Transitions. Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe“. Collection of Robert Loder of the Triangle Trust, The Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental an African Studies, London, England
2004 - „The Collectors Exhibition“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Old and Modern“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Harare Biennale“, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
2003 - „Small Works – Insight“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „4th International Artists Residency at the Godown Art Centre“, Nairobi, Kenia
2002 - „The Zimbabwean Landscape“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2001 - „Eclectic“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- The Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Kunst aus Zimbabwe. Kunst in Zimbabwe“, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Deutschland
2000 - „Gallery Delta – 25 Years“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Post Election Selection“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
1999 - „Festival Exhibition“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Wood, Sculpture and Mixed Media“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Eve of the New Millenium“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Bata Pata“ International Artists Workshop, Mutare, Zimbabwe
- „Hedendaagse Africaanse Kunst“, Galerie 23, Amsterdam, Niederlande
1997 - „Prominent Artists“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
1996 - „Contemporary Art in Zimbabwe“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
1995 - „Gallery Delta ‘Twenty Years’ Exhibition“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „1 + 1 = 1“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Afrikanische Gegenwartskunst. Skulpturen und Gemälde aus Zimbabwe und Uganda“, Kunst Transit, Berlin, Deutschland
1994 - „The Land“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Prominent Artist“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „States of Mind“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
1993 - Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
1992 - „Small Works“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Zimbabwe Heritage 1992“, Annual exhibition of contemporary visual arts, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, Oktober 1991 - Oktober 1992
1991 - Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
1990 - „Pachipamwe“ in Thaipon, Botswana
- „Contemporary Art from Southern Africa: Art from the Frontline“, Glasgow Art Gallery, London, England
1988 - „Sculptures and Paintings“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
1987 - „Paintings and Sculptures“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
1986 - „Annual Exhibiton“, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Performances in Pachipamwe, Zimbabwe
1984 - „Black and White“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
1978 - „Matebeleland. Select Exhibition“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Mabasa, Ignatius Tirivangani / EUNIC (Hg.), "Insights on art in Zimbabwe: Mawonero/umbono",Kerber-Verlag, Bielefeld, 2015
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- Dudziro, "Interrogating the visions of religious beliefs", Hg. Zimbabwe of Ministry of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture / Biennale di Venecia, Verlag: Charta, Milano, 2013
- Murray, Barbara, „Transitions. Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe 1960 – 2004, The Africa Centre/The Brunei Gallery, London 2005. 128 S. und Farbtafeln. Includes the essays "Frustrated Visionaries" by John Picton, "Notes on my Involvement in Art Making in Southern Africa over Two Decades" by Robert Loder, Also includes "Explorations", notes from an exchange between Barbara Murray and Berry Bickle, by Veryan Edwards, "Changing Seasons", notes from a meeting with Rashid Jogee by Voti Thebe...
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- Wright, Gillian, "In praise of artists", in: Gallery, the art magazine from Gallery Delta, Harare, 1998
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- Gutsa, Tapfuma, "Arts plastiques = Fine arts", Revue Noire Nr. 28, Paris 1998
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- "All Abstract",
Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1993
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contemporary visual arts“, Harare 1991. 56 S. Farbabbildungen
- „Contemporary Art from Southern Africa: Art from the Frontline“, Glasgow Art Gallery, London 1990
Artikel digital
Gwaze, Alex, Abstract Art + Rashid Jogee = Peoples Champion, National Gallery of Zimbabe in Buawayo, 2020
http://www.nationalgallerybyo.com/2020/08/28/bulawayo-conversations-do-arists-ever-retire/
Video:
In loving
memory: Rashid M. Jogee 1951-2021, Centre for Innovation and Technology, 2021
(45 Min.)
https://www.facebook.com/CITEZW/videos/rashid-jogee-memorialservice/448879109760732/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos&locale=ms_MY&_rdr
A portrait of Rashid Jogee, abstract artist, interviewed, produziert und geschnitten von Alex Gwaze, MUD Journal, 2019 (4 Min. 45) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghvc5s1xpYo
Rashid Jogee, zusammengestellt von Christopher Mlalazi, medium.m4v, 2014 (2 Min.16) https://youtube.com/watch?v=4Rj7odo5kH0