JEANNE HOFFMAN

(b. 1978 Cape Town, South Africa)

Exploring the emotional and socio-cultural dimensions of place, Jeanne Hoffman revels in the spaces between, in the liminal tension between language and the ineffable, between the mediated and the primordial, between movement and stasis. She draws on fragmented (re)collections and multiple viewpoints from her everyday environment, assembling referential forms in relation with one another, creating movement, dialogue and meaning on the fringes of delineation. The artworks open up imaginary spaces where multiple encounters and confl icts create fertile juxtapositions, where paradoxes can, and do, co-exist. Hoffman’s paintings function thus as dwelling points, as “temporary shelters for thoughts, devices for contemplation” that permit both artist and viewer to enter into a poetic landscape to engage with what words cannot say, being transformed by the gestures at play, making room for recognition, surprise and even refuge.

Hoffman has held numerous solo and group exhibitions, both locally and abroad, and has participated in residencies in Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and South Africa.

EDUCATION

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

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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2026

Temporary Shelters, solo booth, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, SA

2025

And then the world shifts, Everard Read, Cape Town, SA
Stirring up Certainties, Everard Read, London, UK

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

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with 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