Education
Aggenbach graduated from the University of Stellenbosch in 1997 with a bachelor"s degree in Fine Arts.
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Sanell Aggenbach
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Using painting, printmaking, and sculpture, her work addresses the relationship between history and private narratives, with a sense of ambiguity. Her work also explores the processes of nostalgia and historical myth-making, often incorporating the playful, disarming, and absurd to draw the viewer into discussions of darker subjects. She has a unique style of combining traditional painting techniques with sculptural elements, as well as typically feminine crafts such as sewing and tapestry.
Although now a full-time artist, Aggenbach was a lecturer from June 2000- March 2004 at the Cape College in Graphic Processes, Two-Dimensional Design and Drawing.
Her work is represented in the Spier Collection, Anglo Gold South Africa, Sasol Art Museum, the Sasol Collection, and the Hollard Collection. Solo exhibitions
2013: "Familia Obscura", Brundyn +, Cape Town
2011: ‘Some Dance to Remember Some Dance to Forget’, Blank Projects, Cape Town
2009: ‘Graceland’, Gallery AOP, Johannesburg
2008: ‘ Sub Rosa’, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town
2007: ‘Perfectly Still’, Absa Gallery, Johannesburg
2006: ‘Blues and Greys’, Art On Paper Gallery, Johannesburg
2005: ‘Fool’s Gold’, Bell-Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town
2005: ‘Hoogwater/High Tide’, KKNK, Oudtshoorn
2003: ‘Blank’, AVA Gallery, Cape Town
2001: ‘From a Netherworld’, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
2000: ‘Northern Ladies’, Art Konsult, New Delhi, India
1998: ‘An Imitator’, AVA Metropolitan Gallery, Cape Town
Group Exhibitions
2011: ‘Alptraum’, Deutscher Kuenstlerbund, Berlin, Germany
2010: ‘Twenty’, contemporary public sculpture, Nirox, Johannesburg
2008: ‘Print ’08: Myth, Memory and Archive’, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
2007: ‘Arcadia’, AVA Gallery, Cape Town
2007: ‘Turbulence’, Hangar-7, Salzburg, Austria
2007: Spier Contemporary, Stellenbosch
2006: ’20 Artists 06’.
Contemporary printing, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
2005: ‘Sweet Nothings’, new photographic work, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
2004: ‘40 Years’, University of Stellenbosch, Sasol Art Museum
2004: ‘2nd Spier Outdoor Sculpture Biennial’, Stellenbosch
2003: ‘Picnic’, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
2003: Brett Kebble Art 2003: ‘ABSA L’Atelier’, Johannesburg
2003: ‘YDESIRE’, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
2002: ‘Autogeographie’, Millennium Gallery, Johannesburg
2002: ‘Spier Outdoor Sculpture Biennial’, January Marais Nature Reserve, Stellenbosch
2001: ‘Micro/Macro’, South African Printmakers at the Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia (Canada)
2001: ‘ABSA L’Atelier’, Johannesburg. 2001: ‘Aarsel/ Waver’, KKNK, Oudshoorn.
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South African