Shany van den Berg: Nuwegroei
Size: 127cm x 92cm
Medium: Oil on board
Shany van den Berg's artwork is a monologue from within her life as a human… as a woman and mother… as an artist.
Renowned for her technical acumen, subtle symbolism, and agility in slipping between portraiture, figuration, and abstraction, her narratives sometimes are a calm reflective meditation, other times obsessive. Van den Berg investigates and interrogates the critical contemporary themes of being human, identity, family, and connectedness to nature and the world around us through multimedia expressions of drawings, paintings, collages, sculptural forms, performance, and video installation. There she reconstitutes her stream of consciousness - as both fable and history.
This all binds together a layered ‘map’ - both of her interior solitary landscapes and of more universal concerns – the passing of time as she journeys through life, adjusting through the transitions…staying receptive to the creative process from within.
COMPETITIONS
2019 Sanlam Portrait Award Finalist – Durbanville Clay Museum S A
2016 BP Award Portrait Finalist - Portrait Gallery London
2016 BP Travel Award Finalist Runner -up - Portrait Gallery London
2010 BP Award Portrait Finalists - Portrait Gallery London
2009 BP Award Portrait Finalist - Portrait Gallery London
2005 Sasol New Signatures Finalist - Pretoria S A
1990 Corobrick Ceramic Competition Finalist - Cape Town S A
SOLOS
2021 Working towards next solo opening April 2021 at CIRCA Everard Read Cape Town S A
2019 Everard Read London – ‘Dream Pond’- London UK opening 17 October
2018 Everard Read Gallery Franschoek – ‘Whispers from a Lily Pond”- Franschhoek South Africa
2017 Everard Read Gallery Cape Town – ‘(In)Filtration of Time’ - Cape Town South Africa
2015 The Gallery at Grande Provence - A L (L) E E N - Franschhoek South Africa
2013 Everard Read Gallery Johannesburg ‘Hinterland’ - Johannesburg South Africa
2011 Everard Read Gallery Cape Town ‘Siel van my vel’ - Cape Town South Africa
2010 IS Art at Le Quatier Francais ‘in gesprek met ll ‘ - Franschoek South Africa
2008 Smellick&Stokking Gallery ‘in gesprek met l ‘ - Den Haag Netherlands
2007 Everard Read Gallery Cape Town ‘(h)erken, ken, en...’ - Cape Town South Africa
2007 My Own Choice Gallery ‘gedagtes wat reis’ - Amsterdam Netherlands
2006 Grande Provence Gallery ‘dwaaltuin’ - Franschoek South Africa
2005 Cultivaria Fees at Vrede en Lust Wine Estate ‘die fees gees’ - Paarl South Africa
2003 Limeline Design ‘construction site’ - Cape Town South Africa
2001 Dorp Street Gallery ‘vlug in tyd’ - Stellenbosch South Africa
1999 Bang the Gallery ‘my shadow, my echo,me’ - Cape Town South Africa
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2013 Fellowship to The Ampersand Foundation for a month in New York USA
2007 Hubei Institute of Art for a month in Wuhang, Beijing and Xi’an in China – Everard Read Cape Town S A
2004 Community Arts Workshop residency at Castle of Good Hope where 10 artists worked together for 2 weeks in commemoration for 10 years of democracy in Everard Read Gallery Cape Town S A
1998 6 Artists from South Africa and 6 Artist from Germany working together for 3 weeks in Lauenburg Germany – Bang the Gallery Cape Town S A
2 ARTISTS EXHIBITIONS
2016 KKNK Outshoorn - Shany van den Berg and Colbert Mashile - Outshoorn South Africa
2009 Red , Black & White Gallery at Pier Rabe - 'halfmens / heelmens ' artworks by Shany van den Berg and featuring a 2m high recycled rubber tree made by Roche van den Berg - Stellenbosch South Africa
2008 Everard Read Gallery / Cape Town 'Confluence' - Shany van den Berg / Wang Quingly (China) Cape Town South Africa
2006 The Gallery at Grande Provence - Shany van den Berg / Strijdom van der Merwe - Franschhoek South Africa
2001, 2002, 2003 Bang the Gallery - Shany van den Berg & Alex Hamilton - Cape Town South Africa
PROJECTS
2019 Die Kind het n Reus geword –Collaboration with Luna page / Iluminar Productions on the love letters between Ingrid Jonker and André P Brink at GUS Stellenbosch S A
2016 Art Patron during 2016 of MAD Leadership Foundation / Collaboration with students in artist’s studio in Stellenbosch S A
2013 FEMININITY 8 Artists for Eva Maria Roer in Germany
2014 Fear&Loss – The Industrial Karoo with Katie Barnard du Toit at Oliewenhuis Art Museum Bloemfontein S A
2011 Light from Africa Foundation / Art project Everard Read Gallery Cape Town S A
2011 Rendezvous Focus Painting Project - South Africa
2010 Collaboration: Mogalakwena Art en Craft center in Limpopo and artist Shany van den Berg for Waterkloof Wine Estate in Somerset West S A
2008 Art Fair Utrecht -My Own Choice Gallery Netherlands
2000 Hewllett Packard Project and Auction Johannesburg in support of Nelson Mandela Children's Fund S A
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Staring straight to the Future Everard Read Gallery: A digital exhibition of artists and the South African Solidarity Fund open 3 to 18 April
2020 Portrait Show Everard Read Gallery Johannesburg opening 26 March
2020 KNOOP/KNOT with Louis Janse van Vuuren & Strauss&co at GUS/Gallery University Stellenbosch S A
2020 TOE EK 21 WAS Toyota Woordfees Stellenbosch S A
2019 WINTER & SUMMER Exhibition Everard Read Cape Town S A
2019 21st Celebration of Ampersand Fellowship at UJ Art gallery Johannesburg