Art Exhibitions

Opening: 1 February 2026 at 11:00 - 22 February 2026

This exhibition features a 40 works. Entry is free and everyone is welcome.
Clare Menck, born in Durban in 1969 – lives and works in Piketberg (Western Cape) – obtained a BA in Fine Arts (Cum Laude) from the University of Stellenbosch in 1990; an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art (painting) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, at the University of Cape Town in 1991; a MA in Fine Arts (painting) from the University of Stellenbosch and Post-graduate studies in 1998 at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Dresden, Germany.
She is one of South Africa’s finest mid career painters and one of few who made self-portraiture her specialisation. Her delicate paintings hint at the intimate moments that we all experience. These moments are closely related to the artist, her family and friends, and have developed into a documentation of her public and private life. Michael Godby writes that Menck’s art is critically engaged with the materials of its own making. It is a meditative art. It engages with reality at some distance, either through the mediation of some form of image or through overtly constructed performance in the studio. In a very real way, this contemplative withdrawal to the studio reproduces the sense of alienation that is her invariable subject.

JOHANN VAN HEERDEN`S ART AND GALLERY

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