Frances Schandera-Duarte

The German artist Frances Schandera-Duarte was born in 1975 in Mittweida. She studied fashion design in Schneeberg from 1993-1997 and spent several creative years in Kazakhstan and Switzerland. From 2004-2006 she studied art at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden. Today the artist lives and works between South Africa and Germany.

Flair and creativity
Through her studies of fashion designe, Frances Schandera-Duarte achieves her perfect sense for colors and shapes as well as for textures and materials. She loves to experiment and to combine different materials while painting. She often works in on several works at the time, compares and perfects them again and again.

Floral worlds
With ink, oil and acrylic paint, Frances Schandera-Duarte creates organic shadows and textures in her paintings. Floral, colorful motifves stand out from often white backgrounds and enter into a dialogue with the viewer.

exhibitions
Frances Schandera-Duarte has exhibited her works in numerous exhibitions, among others in Dresden, Bonn, Bremen, Potsdam, Berlin (Germany), Innsbruck (Austria), Basel (Switzerland), Durban, Southbroom, Cape Town (South Africa).

1993 - 1997 studies at the Technical College of Applied Arts in Schneeberg
1998 - 2002 freelance designer and artist
2002 - 2003 lecturer at the Kazakh-Turkish Jassawi University in Shymkent / Kazakhstan
2004 - 2006 postgraduate studies at the College of Fine Arts in Dresden with Prof. Doris Tietze

2017 Durban (Südafrika). Decorex
2016 Mittweida. Laserinstitut
2016 Zürich (Schweiz) Contemporary Art Fair Zurich
2016 Durban (Südafrika). Decorex
2015 Dresden. Künstlermesse
2015 Magdeburg. KUNSTMITTE
2015 Ballito (Südafrika). Imbizo Gallery "Into thin Air"
2014 Dresden. Künstlermesse
2014 Innsbruck (Österreich). ART INNSBRUCK
2014 Bad Elster. Galerie im Königlichen Kurhaus
2013 Ballito (Südafrika). „In Touch“, Imbizo Gallery
2013 Kattowitz (Polen). „Crash”, Galerie Szyb Wilson
2013 Rochsburg. Museum Schloss Rochsburg
2013 Caputh. Kunsttour Caputh
2013 Meerane. Galerie ART IN
2013 Basel (Schweiz). Arte...