Wessel Vanhuyssteen

Wessel started his career as an art teacher in 1986 at the Bloemfontein Technical College. In 1988 he moved to Johannesburg and freelanced as an illustrator for Frontline magazine, Maskew Miller Longman Publishers and De Kat magazine. In 1991 he was appointed as the education officer at the Katlehong Art Centre. While at the centre he was instrumental in establishing the Visual Arts and Crafts Academy (VACA) in 1992. In 1997 he moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he worked at Kulturhuset (The House of Culture) In early 1999 he moved back to South Africa and joined the television production company Tin Rage. He produced numerous documentaries for local and international TV. He was nominated and won several SAFTA awards. In 2016 he moved to Rosendal in the Free State where he now practices as a full time artist. Since 2016 he has participated in several group exhibitions and his work has, amongst other, been collected by The South African National Art Bank. Glo'Art International collection in Lanaken, Belgium, Big Fish School of Digital Film Making collection in Cape Town and Philippe and Kinga de Chandelar Petro Collection in Hungary. He has held two solo exhibitions and participated in several group exhibitions in South Africa and in...

Wessel matriculated in 1980 at Voortrekker High School, Bethelehem, Free State. In 1985 he acquired a BA Fine Arts (Cum Laude for Painting & Drawing) from the Free State University. In 1990 he acquired his BA Honours in Art History at Johannesburg University. In 2017 he received his Master of Arts in Fine Arts with distinction from Wits University.

2019. 1-31 August 2019 - Invited artist to attend international residency programme at Budapest Art Factory.

2019. 11-14 July 2019 - RMB Turbine Art Fair. Represented on fair by Free State Art Collective and Gallery 2.

2019. 1-6 July 2019 and 8 August - 4 September 2019 - Betwixt and Between - An exhibition by the Free State Art Collective curated by Karen Brusch for the Free State Arts Festival.

2018. 6 December - 7 February 2019 . See Art: Contemporary Drawing. Curated by Derek Zietsman.

2018 - 8 - 30 March. Bank 001: Emerging Contemporaries. In Toto Gallery, Birdhaven, Johannesburg

2017 - 2018, 12 December - 28 January - Oliewenhuis Art Museum - Bloemfontein. Emerging Visions: Telling the South African Story. The launch exhibition of the South African National Art Bank.

2017, June - Gallery 2 - Johannesburg - Winter Exhibition.

2018. 2 - 28 August 2018 - Under a cobalt sky at Gallery 2 in Johannesburg

2017, April - May - How to Paint a Highway? MFA Exhibition at Point of Order, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2014 – Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa

2014 – Showcase 2 at Bayliss Gallery. Curated by Gordon Froud.

1995-96 - Co-Curated of, and participating arti...