CV

Solo Graduate Exhibition       
2017    wear | we’re, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town

Duo Exhibition
2022    Work in Progress with Chrisel Attewel, Berman Contemporary, curated by Els van Mourik, Johannesburg

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022    Materiality Matters, Berman Contemporary, curated by Els van Mourik, Johannesburg
2021      Sasol New Signatures Art Competition Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
2021      Do You See What I See? group show, Berman Contemporary, curated by Els van Mourik, Johannesburg
2021      Interlude, 196 Victoria, curated by Dominique Edwards, Cape Town
2021      The Liminal Space, Berman contemporary, curated by Morgan Kunhardt, Johannesburg
2020      Home is where the Heart is, Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town
2020    Labyrinthine group show, Berman Contemporary, curated by Els van Mourik, Johannesburg          
2018    N.U.D.E #5, Gravitron, Cape Town
2018    Unstable, Stable Design Shop, Cape Town (in collaboration with Our Workshop)
2017    Phinda Kwakhona, Guga S’thebe, Cape Town (in collaboration with Our Workshop)
2017    Johannesburg Design Indaba, Lisof School of Fashion Design, Johannesburg

Art Fairs
2023    Investec Cape Town Art Fair with Berman Contemporary, Cape Town
2022    Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul
2020    RMB Turbine Art Fair, virtual fair
2018    Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town

Competitions
2021      29th Ube International Sculpture Biennale, sculpture featured as part of group exhibition, Ube, Japan
2021      Finalist for the SASOL New Signatures Competition, Pretoria

Awards
2019    Elizabeth Clough Bursary (to spend 3 months in Japan)
2018    Inter-departmental Arnold Wynne Essay Prize for the best Honours project on a subject in the
field of social and/or political relations in the South African context (for thesis Making the Spiritual: Materiality of the Anthill Pilgrimage and Ritual in South Africa)
2017      Simon Gerson Prize for an outstanding body of work (Michaelis School of Fine Art)

Residencies
2023    Tankwa Artscape Residency, Stonehenge Nature Reserve, The Karoo, South Africa (collaboration with Jette Mellgren)
2022    OPEN FIELDS Residency/Competition, Styria, Austria, Institute for Art in Public Space Styria
2022    Work in Progress collaborative residency with Chrisel Attewel, Berman Contemporary, Johannesburg
2022    Tankwa Artscape Residency, Stonehenge Nature Reserve, The Karoo, South Africa

Curation and Workshops
2019    Our Forefathers Built this Church. Vertel! Vertel! (permanent exhibition Montagu Museum, Montagu); round table interview sessions (with Siona O’Connell)
2019    Retitled: Slavery and Freedom (permanent exhibition Stellenbosch Museum, Stellenbosch); Bittergrapes film screening and round table discussion (with Siona O’Connell)

Media
2022    Press release for Weaving Layers: Knowing Where to Begin, Styria, Austria. https://www.museum-joanneum.at/newsletter-mail/presse-umj/2022/am-loderhof-in-weiz-zeigt-die-kuenstlerin-gina-van-der-ploeg-ihre-arbeit-gewebte-schichten/
2022    Artist Gina van der Ploeg merges touch and textiles with tending to the land, by Stella Hertantyo, twyg. https://twyg.co.za/artist-gina-van-der-ploeg-merges-touch-and-textiles-with-tending-to-the-land/
2021    Silvergrain Classics, interview by Amy van Veen, Winter 2021, Issue #13, print
2021    Seeing what I saw on exhibition this week, Edward Tsumele https://citylifearts.co.za/seeing-what-i-saw-on-exhibition-this-week/
2021    Femmroom, https://www.femmroom.com/gina-van-der-ploeg-visual-artist/
2020    New Vanguard artists steaming ahead at RMB Turbine Art Fair, Edward Tsumele https://citylifearts.co.za/new-vanguard-of-artists-steaming-ahead-at-rmb-turbine-art-fair/
2019     The photographer capturing the beauty of the natural world, Marcia Elizabeth, https://bubblegumclub.co.za/photography/the-photographer-capturing-the-beauty-of-the-natural-world/
2018    Interview, Gina van der Ploeg, DeadTown, https://deadtownzine.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/gina-van-der-ploeg/

Catalogues
2021    Interlude Exhibition catalogue, https://issuu.com/sessions2021/docs/sessions-cat-draft-1_
2017    Michaelis Graduate Exhibition catalogue, https://issuu.com/benjohnson52/docs/fordigitalsingles

Education
2022    Completed course Delicate Ecologies: Art, Environment, and Climate Calamity, Berlin Art Institute
2021    Completed 8-month Sessions programme facilitated by Dominique Edwards
2018    Honours degree in Religious Studies (with distinction from the University of Cape Town)
2017    Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (graduate Cum Laude from Michaelis School of Fine Art)