JEANNE HOFFMAN

(b. 1978 Cape Town, South Africa)

Working across diverse mediums and far-flung geographies, artist Jeanne Hoffman revels in the spaces between things. Paintings, drawings and ceramic objects function as dwelling points – “temporary shelters for thoughts” – as she explores the emotional and socio-cultural dimensions of place. Hoffman states: “There is a direct correlation between travelling across a landscape and the path of a graphic mark that transforms a blank page into an imaginary space.” “Drawing” translates then not only to three-dimensional artistic mediums and physical space, but also to a larger “stage”: Referential forms are assembled in relation with one another, creating movement, dialogue and meaning on the fringes of delineation.

Hoffman has held numerous solo and group shows, both locally and abroad, and has participated in residencies in Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and South Africa. She is featured in the first edition of Clay Formes, a survey of contemporary clay from South Africa, pushed to its highest form of sculptural expression.

EDUCATION

2008 MA(FA), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

2000 BA (Fine Arts), University of Stellenbosch (cum laude), South Africa

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2024 Raft, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2022 Borrowed scenery, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2021 Dream window, solo exhibition, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa

2020 To make a landscape fit in doors, solo exhibition, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa

2018 Drift, 99 Loop, Cape Town, South Africa

2017 Mixed Metaphors, 99 Loop, Cape Town, South Africa

2008 Strange things travel with you, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa

2007 Long words on a hot afternoon, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Winter Collection, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2024 Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

        Southern Light, Everard Read, London, South Africa      

        Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2023 Social Objects, curated by Kombi NYC, Tiwa Select, New York, USA

        What I Feel When I Think About The Cosmos, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

        Remedy, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

        Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

        Good Vibrations, Knysna Fine Art, Knysna, South Africa

2022 Open Plot, curated by Reservoir Projects, THK Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

        A pebble in the mouth, curated by Maja Marx, Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa

        Painter Painter!, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

        Spring Awakening, Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa

        The Phoenix Runway, curated by Reservoir Projects, Whatiftheworld Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2021 Falling Awake, curated by Reservoir Projects, The Fourth, Cape Town, South Africa

2020 Shaping things, SMAC, Stellenbosch, South Africa

        Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Salon 91, South Africa

        A hazy shade of winter, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa

2019 Wildflowers, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa

        Entropy, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa

        Strange stuttering shapes, curated by Liza Grobler for Woordfees, Stellenbosch, South Africa

2018 Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with 99 Loop, South Africa

        Back to the future III, SMAC, Cape Town, South Africa

2017 Field, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa

        You Leave Me With This, No End, Johannesburg, South Africa

        Out of nowhere, SMITH Studio, Cape Town , South Africa

        Folly, SMITH Studio, Cape Town, South Africa

2016 Clay/Ground, Cavalli Estate, Stellenbosch , South Africa

        From Whence They Came, SMITH and Kalashnikovv, Cape Town, South Africa

2015 Thinking Ultramarine, UCT Centre for Curating the Archive, South Africa

        Décor-Z, Spier Wine Estate, Yellowwoods Art, Stellenbosch, South Africa

2013 Les oeuvres du Frans Masereel centrum (9th International Biennial Liege), l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Liege, Belgium

2009 Constellations, Stichtung WEP, Groningen, Netherlands

2008 Collage City/Kollaasikaupunki, Vuojoki, Finland

2007 Room-travel, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa

        Common Ground, Lönnstrom Art Museum, Finland

        Paper and me, AVA, Cape Town, South Africa

2006 Choice Assorted, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa

         Illustration Nation, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa

2004 Battersea Art Fair, London, UK

        ABSA L’Atelier Award Show, Cape & Johannesburg, South Africa

        YDEsire, collaboration with Liza Grobler, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa

        Gifted, curated by Andrew da Conceicao, art-b, Bellville, South Africa

2001 Micro/Macro, Canadian Printmaking Exchange, Toronto, Canada & Cape Town, South Africa

        Vuleka Award Show, Bellville Arts Association, Bellville, South Africa

1999 SASOL New Signatures Award Show, Bellville Arts Association, Bellville, South Africa

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2023 ‘Clay Formes: Contemporary Clay from South Africa’ by Olivia Barrell -  Art Formes

2023 ‘Painting now: Mia Chaplin, Jeanne Hoffman and Maja Marx’ by Sean O’toole (Artthrob)

2022 ‘All artworks are vessels: ‘Falling awake’ by Reservoir’ by Isabella Kuijers (Artthrob)

RESIDENCIES

2023 Everard Read Leeu Estate, South Africa

2012 European Ceramic Work Centre – sundaymorning@EKWC, Netherlands  

2011 European Ceramic Work Centre – sundaymorning@EKWC, Netherlands

2009 Koneen Saatio, Saari Mansion AIR, Finland

2008 Raumars AIR, Finland

        Frans Masereel Centre AIR, Belgium

2007 Raumars AIR, Finland

        Frans Masereel Centre AIR, Belgium

2006 Frans Masereel Centre AIR, Belgium