HANNEKE BENADE

Hanneke Benade completed her BA (Fine Arts) degree in 1993 at the University of Pretoria and worked as a part-time lecturer in drawing between 1994 and 1998.

She exhibited extensively in Gauteng from 1993, taking part in group shows locally and abroad. She participated at the Joburg Biennale and was represented at the London Art Fair. 

Her first solo show, 'Local Girls', was in 1996 at Gallery on Tyrone, Johannesburg, and after relocating to Cape Town she showed 'Passage' at the Chelsea gallery in Darling, followed by 'The Gift' at the US Gallery in Stellenbosch and ' Once More, Wants more' at the Scukan Gallery in Pretoria the same year.She exhibits at the Everard Reads and 'Stage' was her most recent solo exhibition at the Read Gallery in Cape Town.

Hanneke received several awards, among them Merit Awards at the ABSA Atelier (1995/6) and a Brett Kebble Award (2003). In 2008 she received two Kanna-Awards at the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees in Oudtshoorn.

Some of her work is housed in collections of the Universities of Stellenbosch, Pretoria, Free State and Johannesburg; as well as Spier Holdings, Rand Merchant Bank, SAB, Hollard House, Pretoria Art Museum, Gauteng Provincial Government, British American Tobacco Company, Sanlam, Sasol, Telkom and ABSA.

1993: B.A in Fine Art (Honours) Majoring in Printmaking,University of Pretoria.

1989: Matriculate from Pro Arte High School,Pretoria


RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

1994-Currently: Full-time practicing artist

1994-2001: Part-time lecturer in drawing at the University of Pretoria,Department Visual Arts

1997-2000: Guest lecturer in drawing,The Open Window School of Visual Communication



WORK AS CURATOR

2010:-heems,curated exhibition of Botanically inspired artworks by 30 South African Artists,Boesmanskop,Kruisriver farm,Klein Karoo Klassique Festival.

2009: Landskappe,curated exhibition of works by Walter Meyer and Albert Redelinghuys,Boesmanskop,Kruisriver Farm,KKNK,Oudshoorn:.

1995: Squared, curated exhibition of 30x30cm Artworks by 80 Artists,Café Palette,Pretoria Art Museum


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012: Reservoir,William Humpfreys Gallery,Kimberley.

2012: Reservoir,North West University Campus Gallery,Potchefstroom.

2011: Reservoir,Oliewenhuis Art museum,Bloemfontein,University of the Orange Free State.

2011:Onuitgesproke versugtinge,Rosendal,Eastern Free State

2010: Stage,Everard Read Gallery,Rosebank,Johanesburg

2010: Portrait of a Garden,Kruisriver Farm,Calitzdorp,Klein Karoo

2009: Solo,Baardskeerdersbos Guest Artist,Baardskeerdersbos,Overberg

2008: In Time,Everard Read Gallery,Cape Town

2008: Kruispad,Kruisriver Farm,KKNK,Oudtshoorn,Little Karoo

2005: The Gift/Die Geskenk ,University Gallery,University of Stellenbosch

Once More ,Wants More,Tina Skukan Gallery ,Pretoria

2004:Passage,Chelsea Gallery, Darling,Western Cape.

1996: Local Girls,Gallery on Tyrone,Parkview,Johannesburg.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013: Dialogues 2013,Orangerie Exhibition Çenter of the French Senate,Paris France

Celebrating The Soul of our Ecosystem,Oude Libertas Gallery, Stellenbosch.

Die Her-verbeelding van die Anglo-Boereoorlog,Johannes Stegmann- Gallery ,Bloemfontein.

2012: Johannesburg – Ussel

Lithographies d’artistes sud-africains,A la galerie du Musée du pays d’Ussel,France

Make Make,White River Gallery,Castor Bridge Whiteriver.

Murmur/Murmel.Aardklop,NWU,Potchefstroom.

2011: Self portrait,Rust-en -Vrede Gallery,Durbanville,Western Cape

Bloom,Casa Labia,Muizenberg,Western Cape.

2010: A View from the South,work selected from Guy du Toit,Simon Stone,dylan Lewis and others,Everard Read Gallery,Cape Town

L'Origine du monde-This is Not a Porn Song,Curated by Paul Boulitreau,Aardklop Art Festival,Potchefstroom.

ATKV,Skilder met Woorde 2,collaboration between Visual artists and Poets.I worked in collaboration with poet Danie Marias

Rendezvous,Lithography Exhibition,Sasol Art Museum,Stellenbosch

Rendez vous Art Project,L'Association des Créateurs Lithography,Piston Pélican,Paris,France

Labia in Bloom,Casa Labia,Muisenberg,Cape Town

2009: Keepsakes,with Tamlin Blake and Marlise Keith at the AVA,Cape Town

Art and Violence,work selected from Conrad Bothes,Gonḉalo Mabunda,Pieter Hugo,

Judith Mason,Diane Victor.

2008: Muse,Portrait Exhibition,IART Gallery,Cape Town

2005: Finding You,a collaborative exhibition in Clay at the AVA curated by Jeanetta Blignaut

Absa l'Atelier Competition,National Exhibition,Johannesburg

Group Exhibition,Woman Artists,Everard Read,Johannesburg

Serendipity,Dorp Sreet Gallery,Stellenbosch

More Art,Parktown North,Johannesburg

MAD,with IART,St.George Hill Golf Estate,London

2004: Pretoria,Everard Read Gallery,Cape Town

Dawid's Choice,Castel of Good Hope ,Cape Town

100% Pure Pleasure,Exhibition commissioned by Appletizer,Bell Roberts Gallery,Cape Town

Spring Exhibition,Jannewales on Kloof,Welgemeend Herehuis,Cape Town

Group Exhibition,The Dolphen room,Castle of Good Hope,Cape Town

2003: Group Exhibition,Strydom Gallery,George

Serenity,Chesea Gallery,George

Group Exhibition,Camps Bay Art Salon ,curated byRose Korber,The Bay Hotel,Cape Town

Exhibit with The Everard Read ,London Art Fair,Chelsea London

Dream for our Daughters,curated by Jaco Sieberhagen,with Lien Botha and others,KKNK,Oudtshoorn

Clean/Grime,KKNK ,Oudtshoorn,Klein Karoo

Selfportrait,Rust and Vrede Gallery,Durbanville,Cape Town

2002: Clean with Wim Botha,Catherine Smith,Marcus Neustetter,Retha Erasmus,Frederic Eksteen and Berco Wilsenach,Millennium Gallery,Rosebank, Johannesburg

Grime,Bell Roberts Gallery,Cape Town

Opening Exhibition,Mind's iGallery,Pretoria

Drawing Conclusions,Association of Art,Pretoria

Group Exhibition ,Dorp Street GalleryStellenbosch

Group Exhibition ,Strydom Gallery,George

Mind's İ,Chelsea Gallery,Cape Town

Matriarch,Mind's iGallery,Pretoria

2001:Group Exhibition,The Art Space,Fairview,Johannesburg

Four by Four,with Michele Nigrini,Henk Serfontein and Ruan Hoffmann, Association of Art,Pretoria

Framed,Open Window Gallery,Pretoria

Group Exhibition,curated by Carol Lee,Bamboo,Melville, Johannesburg

2000: Art and the Body,UNISA Gallery,Pretoria

Flush,The Open Window Gallery,Pretoria

Turning Heads,The Gallery Soan Studio,London

1999: Contemporary Art in South Africa,Leverkusen-Bayer AG Foyer,

Erholungshaus/Dormagen,Germany

Knoei,Voss Gallery,Pretoria

For Life,with Albert Redelinghuys,Tina skukan Gallery,Pretoria

1998: Sasol Art Collection Exhibition,KKNK.Oudtshoorn,Klein Karoo

1997: Five-ism,with Wim Botha,Luan Nel,M.J.Lourens,Henk Serfontein.Open Window Gallery,Pretoria

Group Exhibition,Elizabeth Gordon Gallery,Durban

1996: From the feather duster to the sublime,Open Window Gallery,Pretoria

Something Borrowed,with Gordon Froud,Civic Gallery,Johannesburg

A look at South African Art,El Gezirah Sheraton Hotel Cairo ,Egypt

1995: North of the Jukskei,A Survey of Art from the Greater Pretoria Region,Johannesburg Biennale Fringe Group Exhibition,Absa Gallery.Johannesburg

1995: Masters and Protogé,with Carl Jeppe and Diane Victor,Pretoria Art Museum

1994: Prints from The Artists's ,Rembrandt Gallery,Newtown,Johannesburg

1993: Final Year Exhibition,Association of Arts Pretoria


AWARDS

2008: Kanna Award at the KKNK for best Visual Art prestation

Sarie Kanna Award,at the KKNK for best Inspirational Female Artists

2003: Winner Catogary,Painting and Mixed Media,Brett kebble Awards,Cape Town.

1999: Third Prize,Kempton Park/Themisa Fine Art Award,Thembisa

1998: Merit Award,Volkskas Bank L'Atelier Award

1996: Merit Award,Volkskas Bank L'Atelier Award

1995: Third Prize,Kempton Park/Themisa Fine Art Award,Thembisa

1993: Sasol New Signatures,Judges Award presented by Christopher Till


CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Spier Holdings Contemporary Art Collection

The Contemporary Collection for The New Hollard House at Villa Arcadia

SAB Miller

British American Tabacco Company

University of Pretoria

University of Stellenbosch, Sasol Museum

Johannes Stegmann Gallery Bloemfontein,Freestate

Sanlam Art Collection

Engen Art Collection

ABSA Bank Art Collection

Sasol Art Collection

Gauteng Provincial Government Art Collection

Telkom South Africa

Pretoria Art Museum

University of the North West

Rand Merchant Bank

Oliewenhuis Art Museum,U.O.F.S,Bloemfontein


RECIDENCIES

2010: Rendesvouz Art Project,selected to work at l'Atelier Jean Pons in Paris,France

1999-2000: Three month stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts,Paris,France