Corné Eksteen

Corné Eksteen

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

About Corné Eksteen

Eksteen (b. 1973, South Africa) is a figurative painter, renowned for his large scale confrontational portraits. His work relies on both figurative and abstract painting traditions in the creation of pieces that not only represent the physical appearance of his sitters, but also reflects on and explores their inner life and state of mind. Eksteen refers to the creation of these portraits as a quest for new archetypes. Works are created through a process that include several sessions with a sitter, followed by digital manipulation of reference materials before the actual painting is started. Paintings are created using several often experimental techniques and relies on finding a balance between the transparent and opaque, dark and light, the controlled and the expressive. The completed images are seemingly simplistic, but confronts on many levels with it’s raw emotional complexity.

Education:

BA Visual Arts

Events:

Otherness (solo exhibition) - April 2017
State of the Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Exhibitions:

2016
"Beneath the skin" - Group exhibition, State of the Art Gallery, Cape Town

2015
"Transformation, activation..."
KZNSA - Durban, South Africa
"Inspirations VI" artSPACE durban, Durban South Africa
Artspace Artist's Choice Awards Exhibition - Durban South Africa
Disintegration (solo exhibition) - August 31, 2015 to September 19, 2015
ArtSpace, Durban, South Africa

2014
"Transmutation" Karoo 1 Art Gallery, De Doorns, South Africa

artSPACE Durban Artists’ Choice Awards 2014
Artspace, 3 Miller Road, Durban
July 2014
Grassroots
KZNSA Gallery, Glenwood, Durban, South Africa
January 2014
2013
Rebirth
Living Life Shed Gallery, Ladybrand, South Africa
October 18 - 25, 2013 (with Laura Slegtenhorst)
2011
Contemporary Free State
Johannes Stegmann Gallery, UFS, Bloemfontein, South Africa
2010
Modern Free State
Temporary Festival Gallery, Vryfees, Bloemofntein, South Africa
2008
Art from the Eastern Free State
The Cabin, Clocolan, South Africa
Running exhibition
Mocca Chino’s, Ladybrand, South Africa
Naive
Uber, Berlin, Germany
Art of Africa
Temporary gallery, Maseru, Lesotho
2004
Seascapes
Gallery on the bay, Gordon’s bay, Cape Town, South Africa
2003
Vespertine
Ladybrand Library Hall, Ladybrand, South Africa
Travellog
Gallery on the bay, Gordon’s bay, Cape Town, South Africa
Travellog
CoJo’s, Muizenburg, Capte Town, South Africa
2000
ABSA L’ Atelier 2000
Johannes Stegmann Gallery, UFS, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Versus
The hat, Maseru, Lesotho
1999
ABSA L’Atelier 1999
African Window Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
ABSA L’Atelier 1999
Pretoria Arts Association Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
1998
Spiritualized
Ladybrand Library Hall, Ladybrand, South Africa
Volkskas Atelier 1998
Pietersburg Art Museum, Pietersburg, South Africa
Volkskas Atelier 1998
Johannes Stegmann Gallery, UFS, Bloemfontein, South Africa
1997
Volkskas Atelier 1997
Johannes Stegmann Gallery, UFS, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Bowie Outside
Precinct Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996
New South African Art
South African High Commission, Maseru, Lesotho
2002
Group 9
Art Bizarre, Somerset West, Cape Town
Solo exhibitions
2014
Identity withheld
Date & venue to be announced
2009
Inferno {solo}
Temporary gallery in warehouse, Bloemfontein, South Africa
2007
Skin {solo}
Temporary gallery in warehouse, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa