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)