Exhibitions

Exhibitions

A record of Celia de Villiers’ exhibitions, solo and group — solo shows marked (solo). Several — LiveWire, The Fire and After and the early series Regeneration — open into the works shown and her texts.

2026Mantos Entrelaçados: Manto Alloro, Galeria Cañizares, Salvador, Brazil.
2025Vice Versa, SNOWflake, Momentum Aardklop Festival, Potchefstroom (curated by Gwenneth Miller; in association with UNISA).
2024Textile Odyssey, Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria.
2023Woordfees, CraftArt Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2020Micro Macro Fibreworks, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
2020Places of Memory, Contextile Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal (with the Intuthuko collective).
2019Edge, KZNSA Gallery, Durban.
2018Rooftop IX: Sticky Time, St Lorient Gallery, Pretoria.
2017–presentThe Fire and After, online · Ponte da Mucela, Portugal (solo).
2017Ubuntutu: Tributes to Desmond & Leah Tutu, Robben Island & V&A Waterfront, Cape Town.
2016Conscience of the Human Spirit: The Life of Nelson Mandela (touring, South Africa & USA).
2015Terra, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein.
2015The Three Graces 2.0, University of Johannesburg Gallery.
2014Mogalakwena Gallery, Cape Town.
2013Neo Baroque, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria.
2012Terra Incognita, Fried Contemporary & Oliewenhuis Art Museum.
2012Pointure, University of Johannesburg Art Gallery.
2011Designs of Self, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria.
2010Bodies in Transition, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria.
2009–2010Dystopia, UNISA & Museum Africa (South Africa); Ghent (Belgium).
2008Innovative Threads, Cape Town & France.
2007Bondage / Fibreworks 10, Johannesburg / Durban & Cape Town.
2006LiveWire, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria (glass, resin, vinyl, video installations) (solo).
2004Six Continents of Quilts (international touring).
2003Fragile, MACS Gallery, Pietermaritzburg (drawings) (solo).
2003World Council for Art & Culture, San Francisco, USA.
1991Selected among the 70 Best Art Quilts in the World, Paducah, Kentucky, USA.
1987Textile Collages, Bayerische Landesbank, Munich, Germany (solo).
1980Textile Collages and Batiks, Raiffeisenbank, Marktoberdorf, Germany (solo).
 
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