Trasi Henen
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
“My work is concerned with spaces that are both real and imaginary, that one could say are simultaneously building up and falling apart. I have a deep interest in dichotomies and the liminal spaces that exist in between and on the periphery of these oppositions. I feel that these broad underlying concerns in my work connect to fictions, truths, desire, potentiality and play.”
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Never Falling Together, Blank Projects, Cape Town
2007
Delicate Life Pursuer, Stellenbosch Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery, Stellenbosch
2005
Passer Bye, David Krut Art Resource, Johannesburg
2003
Suburbia Fantastical, Gertrude Posel Gallery, Wits University, Johannesburg
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
iALPTRAUM!, artist curated travelling group show, Ausstellungsraum des Deutscher Kuenstlerbund, Berlin; The Company, Los Angeles, and blank projects, Cape Town
2010
The Endless Boogie, curated by Emil Holmer, Forgotten Bar, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Berlin
Mooimarkshow, curated by Spunk Spiel and Christian Nerf, Serial Works, Cape Town
Inverting The Pyramid, curated by Jonathan Garnham, Blank Projects, Cape Town
Out of (South) Africa, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, U.S.A
Not all is Black and White, Curated by Roger Van Wyk and Lerato Bleng for ‘The World For All Foundation’, Cape Town, South Africa
Divisions, Stellenbosch Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery, Stellenbosch
2009
No|Thing, curated by Veronica Blane, UCA Gallery, Cape Town
2008
Fresh Meat, curated by Robert Sloon. What If The World Gallery, Cape Town
Johannesburg Art Fair, David Krut booth Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg
Johannesburg Art Fair, SMAC, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg
2006
Grahamstown National Arts Festival, David Krut, Grahamstown
2005
Surface, curated by Lara Riviera, Franchise Gallery, Johannesburg
2004
Democracy and Change Exhibition, at the Klein Karoo Nasianale Kunstefees.
Show Us What You’re Made Of ; Part I, curated by Stephen Hobbs The Premises Gallery, Johannesburg
2003
Knoppi Digital Art Festival, Oppi Koppi Music Festival, Pretoria, South Africa
Art as Usual, curated by Christian Nerf, Johannesburg Art Gallery
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2009
Sometimes I Forget That You Exist. Collaborative research project at blank projects, Cape Town.
2004
ArtintheDark. Initiator and Curator, Faan Smit Park, Melville, Johannesburg.
Women’s Day at Constitution Hill. Project Manager and co-curator for the exhibition, Ties That Bind
from Durban Art Gallery (curated by Carol Brown) and The Keiskamma Collective, Constitution Hill, Old
Fort, Johannesburg.
PROJECTS
2007
One Million and Forty-Four Years (and Sixty Three Days). Contributor. An anthology of responses to questions concerning the state of the avant-garde. Edited by Kathryn Smith, Published by SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch
AWARDS
2006
The Absa L’Atelier competition, Finalist
2005
The Brett Kebble Art awards, Finalist
2004
The Brett Kebble Art awards, Finalist
2003
The Herbert Evans Painter Prize, awarded by Witwaterstrand University
The Ashley and Radmor Painter Prize, awarded by Witwaterstrand University
Certificate of First Class in painting, Awarded by Witwaterstrand University
2002
The Ashley and Radmor Painter Prize, awarded by Witwaterstrand University
Certificate of First Class in painting, awarded by Witwaterstrand University
