BIOGRAPHY

Manuela Holzer matriculated from the Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2008 and then decided to pursue her passion for art. She initially studied at the University of Witwatersrand, where she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2012. In 2013 she obtained a Post Graduate Certificate in Education cum laude at the University of Johannesburg. Then, Manuela moved to the Western Cape to study further and received a Master’s degree in Visual Art from the University of Stellenbosch in 2016. She currently resides in Cape Town and furthers her artistic practice by creating sculptures of female figures in various media, exploring the notion of extreme psychological and emotional states. Manuela is also currently a PhD candidate in Fine Arts creative production at the University of Pretoria.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 The Shadow of Nude Existence, Gallery of the University of Stellenbosch

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023-2024 Group Exhibition, Blaauwklippen Wine Estate in Stellenbosch

2023-2024 Femme: A Group Exhibition of Sculpture, Tokara Wine Estate in Stellenbosch

2023 Autumn ‘23 Group Exhibition, Daor Contemporary Gallery in the Port of Cape Town

2022 Good Neighbours, Nirox Sculpture Park in Johannesburg

2022 Ebb: A Group Exhibition, Daor Contemporary Gallery in the Port of Cape Town

2022 Girls Girls Girls!, Daor Contemporary Gallery in the Port of Cape Town

2022 Meraki, Daor Contemporary Gallery in the Port of Cape Town

2021 (Un)Infecting the City Festival, Cape Town

2021 Thread(ed): Interlacing Womxn of the 21st Century, Association of Arts in Pretoria 

2020 Dyman Gallery in Stellenbosch

2020 Phantasmagoria, Online Art Exhibition, Lizamore & Associates Gallery

2019 Jan Celliers Art Exhibition in Johannesburg

2019 Ebony Gallery in Franschhoek

2019 The Boutique Gallery in Sint-Martens Latem, Belgium

2017 Turbine Art Fair, Candice Berman Gallery in Newtown, Johannesburg,

2017 Cape Town Art Fair (CTAF2017), Candice Berman Gallery, Cape Town

2015 Introspection, Gallery of the University of Stellenbosch

2014 The Distance to Here, Gallery of the University of Stellenbosch

2012 Fourth year Art Auction, Afronova Gallery Space, Johannesburg

2012 Fourth year Graduation Show, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg

COMMISSIONS

2017- 2021 Indian Runner Duck (1.6m high bronze), Vergenoegd Löw Wine Estate, Stellenbosch

EDUCATION

2020 until present: PhD candidate in Creative Fine Arts Production at the University of Pretoria

2016 Masters in Visual Art, University of Stellenbosch

2013 Post Graduate Certificate of Education, University of Johannesburg

2012 Bachelor in Fine Art, University of Witwatersrand

2008 Matriculated from the Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg