Kyle Morland’s (b.1986, Johannesburg) practice engages sculpture and photography as a means of documenting and reimagining functional forms and structures. His continuously growing archive of photographs resonates in his sculptures, as he borrows and stretches industrial forms and materials. Morland often makes his own tools in order to realise his sculptures, creating functionless forms from his studio which is, at times, reminiscent of an industrial workshop. Morland realises his ideas within the context of self-imposed formal constraints —responding to challenges he sets for himself in creating the work.
Solo exhibitions:
2021: Variations on a lofted bend, blank projects. Cape
Town
2018: New Work, blank projects. Cape Town
2017: Now and Then: El Look and Kyle Morland, Zeitz
Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. Cape Town 2016: Assemble, blank projects. Cape Town
2016: Surplus: Special Projects for the Cape Town art
fair. Cape Town
2015: NODE, blank projects. Cape Town
2013: New Sculptures, blank projects. Cape Town
2011: FalseworkII, blank projects.CapeTown
2010: Elevator, In Collaboration with Claire van Blerk,
Michael Stevenson, CapeTown
2009: There Can Be No Disputing Over Matters of
Taste, Michealis Graduate Exhibition. Cape Town
Group exhibitions:
2023
IO. blank projects, Cape Town.
Toolbox. Under Projects, Cape Town.
2022
Model. A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town.
blank at No9 Cork street. London
Sculptures of Cars. Under Projects, Cape Town.
Parallel Play 2. A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town.
Seeds of the Fig. Whatiftheworld Twee Jonge Gezellen Farm, Tulbagh.
The Future is Behind Us. A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town.
2021
The thing itself exists everywhere: blank projects,
Cape Town,
2020
Apartment. The Fourth, Cape Town
Unfolding Questions, Codes, and Contours:
Tromsø Center for Contemporary Art, Tromsø
2019
Art Joburg: blank projects, Johannesburg
Armory, New York
Sounding the Void, Imagining the Orchestra V.1. A4
Arts Foundation. Cape Town
The Head The Hand, Blank projects. Cape Town
2018
blank, Galerie Guido W. Baudach. Berlin
Parallel Play, A4 Arts Foundation. Cape Town
Open Agenda. Blank projects. Cape Town
2017
17, a summer show. blank projects. Cape Town
Smart Principles. Atlantic House. Cape Town
More for Less, A4 Arts Foundation. Cape Town
Afterword. blank projects. Cape Town
2016
Figure. blank projects. Cape Town
Woman Work; Crafting Stories, Subverting Narratives. South African Museum. Cape Town
blank at the Trumpet. Keys Art Mile, Rosebank,
Off the Wall: An 80th Celebration with Linda Givon. Wits
Art Museum. Johannesburg
Bootleg Triennial, Atlantic House. Cape Town
Tomorrows/Today, Special Project at Cape Town Art Fair
2015
Furniture, blank projects. Cape Town
Open Printmaking Studio 2015. The Association of
Visual Arts. Cape Town
Winter Sculpture Fair, Nirox foundation. Johannesburg
2014
Shaaa, Atlantic House. Cape Town
Next thing you know. blank projects. Cape Town
Thinking, Feeling, Head, Heart. The New Church
Museum. Cape Town
The Collectors, Supermarket Art Fair. Stockholm
Bzaar III, Atlantic House. Cape Town
2013
This is the Thing, A Group Show of New Material, blank
projects. Cape Town
Terminal, Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative
Arts. Cape Town
Back to the Future: Abstract Art in South Africa Past and
Present, SMAC Gallery. Stellenbosch
Flag New York City, New York
blank projects in Johannesburg, Ithuba Art Trust,
Braamfontein
Bzaar II, Fairweather House. Cape Town
Housewarming, Atlantic House. Cape Town
An Experiment to Test the Destiny of the World, Ithuba
Arts Gallery. Braamfontein
Collective.1 Design Fair, New York
Heavy Metal, Southern Guild. Cape Town
2012
When Form Becomes Attitude, blank projects. Cape
Town
Bootleg, Evil Son. Cape Town
A Shot To The Arse , Michaelis Gallery. Cape Town
Overland Reverie, Entopic Group, Online
Working Title, Goodman Gallery. Cape Town
2011
Collection 15, SMAC Gallery. Cape Town
The Independent Publishing Project, Blank Projects.
Cape Town
Overland Reverie, R Stevenson Gallery. Cape Town
The Night Show, Goodman Gallery Cape. Cape Town
2010
SasoI New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum. Pretoria
Time On Our Hands, V&A Waterfront. Cape Town
Video Experiments I, Little Theatre. Cape Town
2009
Pillow Talk, Centre for African Studies,Cape Town.
Collections
University of South Africa
The New Church Museum
A4 Arts Foundation
Zietz Museum of Contemporary Arts Africa
Emile Stipp Collection
Protea group
Scheryn Collection
Private collections
Selected Press
Artthrob - Kyle Morland at blank projects - Megan McNamara
iPanama Writting - Kyle Morland
Artthrob - Review of Assemble - Josiah Mackey
Adjective - Avengers, Assemblage! - Roxy Kawitzky
Artthrob - Interview with Tim Leibbrandt
Business Days Wanted - Young African Artist - Alex Mathes