Berry Bickle

Berry Bickle (born 1959) is a Zimbabwean artist who resides in Maputo. Born in Bulawayo, Bickle attended the Chisipite Senior School in Harare. Later, she attended the Durban Institute of Technology, where she obtained a national diploma in fine arts, and South Africa's Rhodes University, where she obtained a master's degree in fine arts. Bickle was a founding member of Bulawayo's Visual Artists' Association.

She divides her time between Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and her work explores the region's history of colonialism. In 1988, she and Tapfuma Gutsa organised the Pachipamwe workshop, the first Triangle Art Trust workshop organised in Africa. In 2010 she became a Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Fellow and she works at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center on the series Suite Europa.

Work Berry Bickle is a multimedia artist who works in installation, video, photography, and ceramics. Her works are generally installations, and are mixed media works which incorporate script; some include video and photography. Bickle has collaborated closely with the Zimbabwean ceramicist, Marjorie Wallace. highlight the presence of texts in Bickle's work and the importance of the act of writing and of collecting words; in this frame, the artist labels her work "Re-Writes".

"Maputo Utopias" series. Suite Europa, 2010. The series was produced during a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. Sleeping beauty, 2008 Cyrene Inheritance lost library Wandering Sarungano Pessoa bowls series

Exhibitions Berry Bickle's work is exhibited internationally. In 2011, Bickle represented Zimbabwe at the Venice Biennale, at the time a rare appearance for an African nation. The Zimbabwean Pavilion, which was curated by Raphael Chikukwa, was titled "Seeing Ourselves". Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent – Hayward Gallery, London (England), 2005. Body of Evidence (Selections from the Contemporary African Art Collection) – National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, 2006. Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent – Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2006. 7ème Biennale de l'Art Africain contemporain – Dak'Art Biennale de l'art africain contemporain, exhibition curated by N'Goné Fall in the frame of the individual exhibitions, Dakar, 2006. Annual MUSART – Museu Nacional de Artes (MUSART), Maputo, 2007. Africa Remix – Contemporary art of a continent – Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, 2007. L'oeil-Écran Ou La Nouvelle Image – Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, 2007. Videozone 4 – Videozone – International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, 2008. Ifa-Galerie Berlin, Berlin, 2008.