About
I work with time-based media and my practice is rooted in photographic processes. Moving across the analogue and digital, my work ranges from experimental analogue photography to photogrammetry, experimental animation, and 3D.
I am concerned with spatiality as both a phenomenological and a cultural condition. The perception and experience of space are increasingly shaped by how physical and digital realms continually shape and reshape each other. As these domains become inseparable, my practice moves between them, using processes of capture, translation, and reconstruction that are simultaneously material and computational.
Contact
info@christelliebenberg.co.za
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2017 Bachelors in Visual Arts (BVA) University of South Africa (UNISA).
2024 Master’s in Visual Arts (MVA) with distinction, University of South Africa (UNISA).
Career in art
2015 – 2018 Student worker, Department of Art and Music, UNISA.
2019 – 2024 Contract lecturer Cape Town, Department of Art and Music, UNISA.
2024 – date Independant artist and designer
2026 External moderator Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts in Visual Communication STADIO
Exhibitions
2024 Fragments of familiarity. A Master’s Solo Exhibition. 6 Spin Street Gallery, Cape Town.
Proximity. An exhibition of lecturing artists and associates of Unisa’s Department of Art and Music curated by Dr. Gwen Miller. Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria.
Baking Stories in the Sun. A Collaboration with Stasa Hlava. Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2023 Surface. An artist-led exhibition, 6 Spin Street Gallery, Cape Town.
Sasol New Signatures Finalist Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.
2022 Inescapable. The Trine art collective. AVA Gallery, Cape Town.
2020 Nano Film Festival, The Project Space, Johannesburg.
2019 Art in process: An interdisciplinary staff exhibition, Department of Art and Music, UNISA. Pretoria.
2018 Art as Destination: Co-creation of culture, Curated by Gwen Miller. ITSA conference, Pretoria.
FORWARD, Forward? Forward … The future(s) of higher education in Africa. Stellenbosch University Museum, Stellenbosch.
Replay.gif, Playtopia, Cape Town.
VideoArt!, Joburg Fringe, Johannesburg.
2017 toomuchinformation.gif, Upstairs at Bree, Cape Town.
2016 Animation Bash, Pretoria art museum, Pretoria.
2014 Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.
Western Cape finalists Sasol New Signatures, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
Torrent in a sandpit, curated by Emma Willemse, OutOfTheCube.
De aqua a lima, Pantocrator Gallery, Barcelona.
Unisa 4th year Graduation Exhibition, District Six Museum, Homecoming Centre, Cape Town.
2013 3rd year Visual Arts and Multimedia Student Exhibition, ArtB gallery, Bellville.
Collaborations
2024 Baking Stories in the Sun. A Collaboration with Stasa Hlava. Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2022 Journey into the Styx. Animation. Collaboration with Elske Henderson for group exhibition, Ebb at DAOR contemporary Cape Town.
2021 Journey into the Styx. Animation. Collaboration with Elske Henderson for her solo exhibition Lost Expectancies at AVA Cape Town.
2020 Staan Op. Animated music video. Collaboration with Morne Smit and Maresa May for KyknetNou.
2019 Praat met my. Animated music video. Collaboration with Morne Smit and Maresa May for KyknetNou.
2018 Humachine. Collaboration with Elske Henderson for FORWARD, Forward? Forward … The future(s) of higher education in Africa, Stellenbosch University Museum, Stellenbosch.
AWARDS
2023 – Sasol New signatures finalist.
2019 – 3rd place Vuleka art competition.
2014 – Sasol New Signatures finalist.