Thelma van Rensburg
POWER AND BECOMING
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
Uneasy Bodies: Femininity and Death. St Lorient Fashion and Art gallery, Pretoria.
Shut up and be still: MFA final exhibition, Van Wouw House, University of Pretoria, Pretoria.
'Poetic Death' - Exhibition of paintings: Art Lovers gallery, Pretoria.
'Fragments of unbecoming' - Exhibition of paintings, Art Lovers, Pretoria.
'Pin-ups' - Exhibition of paintings: Rust-en-Vrede gallery, Cape Town.
“Seductress in distress”, Kunsthouse, Cape Town.
“Masquerade”, Exhibition of digital works: Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town.
Layers of Illusion. Exhibition of digital works and paintings: MAP (Modern Art Projects) Gallery in Graskop, Mpumulanga, South-Africa.
Group Exhibitions
SOIL(ED), Masters exchange exhibition, Van Wouw House, Pretoria.
The ABC of life, Art Lovers, Pretoria. Curator: Idiko Pohl; Blind collaboration. Art Lovers, Pretoria; Art Lovers Competition Finalist, Art Lovers, Pretoria; Transart Summer residency at Uferstudios, Group exhibition, Berlin, Germany.
Map of the new art, Imago Mundi- Luciano Benetton collection, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia.
Jan Cilliers group exhibition in collaboration with Art Space Gallery, Johannesburg. Curator: Teresa Lizamore; Finalist in the For the love of arts competition, Art Lovers gallery, Pretoria.
Transforming the negative into positive through art, Trent gallery, Pretoria. Curator: Anna Liebenberg; Art Alive annual exhibition, Waterkloof House Preparatory School, Pretoria. Curator: Karen Marais.
Erotica Exhibition, Art Lovers gallery, Pretoria; Salon 1, Melville, Johannesburg. Curated by Andrea Rolfes and Ann-Marie Tully; Thami Mnjele Fine Art Awards exhibition, Kempton Park.
Jan Cilliers School in collaboration with Art Space Gallery, Johannesburg. Curator: Tereza Lizamore; Fried Contemporary Gallery, Affordable Art fair, Pretoria. Curator: Elfrieda Dreyer.
Invited to participate in the Benetton Art project, Small Canvas Project to be accessioned into the Luciano Benetton Collection, which will be shown nationally, and internationally at three venues, including the Venice Biennale of 2015.
Modern Miniatures exhibition through Art Events, at Art Gallery, Nelson Mandela bay There after to the National Arts Festival in Trinity Hall 2013; Turbine Art Fair, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg.
Fashion and Surrealism - St Lorient Fashion and Art gallery, Pretoria; Grotesque femininities, Final year Ba. Fine Arts exhibition titled Collective spaces, University of Pretoria, 2013.
Fient lifestyle Gallery Opening exhibition; St Lorient Fashion and Art gallery, 5 Artists, Pretoria.
MAP (Modern Art Projects) Retrospective, U.J gallery, Johannesburg University.
Fried Contemporary Gallery, Pretoria: Bodies in Transition; “Skin” Art Space Warehouse, Johannesburg, Curator Teresa Lizamore. Danelle Janse Van Rensburg, Adelle Oldfield, Thelma Van Rensburg.
Art Space Warehouse, Johannesburg-Oppitafel Group Exhibition; St Lorient Fashion and Art Gallery, Pretoria - Perfume bottle exhibition.
Aardklop Arts Festival, Group Exhibition, Potchsefstroom, South Africa.
Us + I at the Fried Contemporary Gallery in Pretoria.
3rd and 4th Year Tshwane University of Technology Students exhibition at the University of South-Africa, Pretoria.