About the Artist
Daandrey Steyn
By questioning the concept of experience through his medium of choice; video art, South African artist Daandrey Steyn finds that the morphing which has become the hallmark of his work, reveals an inherent awkwardness, a macabre fascination that echoes our own vulnerabilities.
His works isolate the instants between moments of human experience, mostly representational thorough the movement and transformations of the human figure. By doing so, new enthrallingly grotesque sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between experience and identity. His morphs never show the complete structure.
He creates with hauntingly recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and has to reconsider his biased position.
Again and again, the artist leaves us orphaned with a mix of conflicting feelings and thoughts. He attempts to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
His works are often classified as part of the new Romantic Movement because of the desire for the sublime in the unfolding globalized world where he uses historical artworks as points of departure in order to achieve new allegorical interpretations.
EXHIBITIONS
2022
Group exhibition, augmented reality, video and printed work, Secret, Curated by Will Roux & Zelda Stroud. Exhibited at Artbox Gallery.
2021
Two person show by Daandrey Steyn and Lezane Esterhuizen, Drawing. Draw to life. Curated by Gordon Froud. Exhibited at Gallery 27.
Group exhibition, video work. Emotion (Emosie), compiled by
ABSA with Dr Paul Bayliss as curator. Exhibited at The Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) Virtual
Art Gallery.
2017
Group exhibition video and print work, Kakotopia, Curated by Derek Zietsman. Exhibited at UJ Art Gallery.
Group exhibition, video work, See art, Curated by Derek Zietsman. Exhibited at Gallery 2.
Group exhibition, The Confessional,
Curated by Libby Battson, Exhibited
at the Klein Karoo National Kunste
fees (KKNK), Oudtshoorn.
2016
Group exhibition DESIRE, Curated by
Johan Conradie, Exhibited at the
Association of Arts Pretoria.
Group exhibition Cūriōsitās, Curated
by Carole Desbois, Exhibited at
AGOG, Johannesburg.
Group exhibition Performing
Wo/Man, Curated by Derek
Zietsman. Exhibited at North
West University (NWU),
Potchefstroom & Oliewenhuis
Museum, Bloemfontein, South
Africa.
Group exhibition FIX, Curated by
Found Collective, Exhibited at
Prinschurch Building, Pretoria,
South Africa.
2015
Group exhibition, video work,
Altered Realities. Curated by Johan
Conradie exhibited at the
Association of Arts Pretoria.
Group exhibition, video work, 2015
Absa L’Atelier Art Award exhibition.
Group exhibition, video work, Fetish:
Traversing the Occupied Body.
Curated by Wayne Matthews,
exhibited at artEC gallery, Port
Elizabeth and Grahamstown Arts
Festival, White Cube Gallery, Albany
Museum.
Group exhibition, Video work,
Capital present. Exhibited at Fried
Contemporary.
2014
Group exhibition, video work,
Nomad Bodies. Curated by Prof.
Elfriede Dreyer,exhibited at the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts,
University College of Artesis in
Antwerp, Belgium.
Group exhibition, video work,
NSFW. Exhibited at Studio 41 is in
Cape Town.
Group exhibition, Video work,
Wo/man. Curated by Derek
Zietsman. Exhibited at UJ gallery.
2013
Group exhibition, digital
printed work, For Play.
Underculture Contemporary launch
exhibition.
Group exhibition, video work,
Trans-Africa: Africa curating Africa.
Curated by Jayne Kelly Crawshayhall,
exhibited at ABSA gallery
Group exhibition, video work, Digi
re-engineering, Curated by Jan de
Rooster and Koos van der Watt,
exhibited at UNISA gallery.
Group exhibition, video work,
Animal/Advance. Exhibited at
The Ron Belling Art Gallery.
Group exhibition, video work,
Thom Waits for no Man. Curated
by Gordon Fraud, exhibited at
Klein Karoo Nationale Kunste fees
(KKNK), as well as University
of Johannesburg gallery (UJ).
Group exhibition, video work,
Me.Ek. Curated by Prof. Elfride
Dreyer, exhibited at Klein Karoo
Nationale Kunste fees(KKNK).
Group exhibition, video work,
World Art Day exhibition at
Association of Arts Pretoria.
Group exhibition, video work, ABSA
Design Indaba exhibition.
Participation on the Turbine Art
Fair at the Fried Contemporary
stall.
Group exhibition, video work, 2013
Absa L’Atelier Art Award exhibition.
2012
Group exhibition, graphic digital
work, Me, Myself and I at The ART
Business Contemporary Gallery in
Piketberg.
2011
Group exhibition, video work, 2011
Absa L’Atelier Art Award exhibition.
Group exhibition, video work,
Impac film festival 2011 at Open
window, curated by Prof. Elfriede Dreyer.
Solo Exhibition. Ambivalence
Threshold Masters Exhibition at
Fried Contemporary.
2010
Group exhibition, graphic digital
work, Collateral at Fried Contemporary.
Group exhibition, video work,
Absa L’Atelier Art Award exhibition.
Group exhibition, video work,
Sasol New Signatures Art Award
exhibition.
Group exhibition, graphic digital work, This is not a Porn song at the Aardklop National
Arts Festival, curated by Paul Boulitreau.
Group exhibition, graphic digital
work, Passage at Fried Contemporary.
Group exhibition, video work,
University of Pretoria Visual Arts
Staff exhibition at Fried Contemporary.
2009
Group exhibition printed works
Zeitgeist at Magpie Gallery.
Group exhibition Justified
Jotterings at Magpie Gallery.
Group exhibition Affordable Art
Fair’09 at Fried Contemporary.
2008
Group exhibition, video work, Us
+ I at Fried Contemporary.
Group exhibition, drawings,
Justified Jotterings at Magpie gallery.
Group exhibition, graphic digital
work, Digital Dichotomies at
Magpie gallery.
Group exhibition, video work,
2008 Absa L’Atelier Art Award exhibition.
Group exhibition, graphic digital
work, Ekhuhuleni fine arts award exhibition.
2007
Group exhibition, video work,
Ekhurhuleni Fine Arts Awards.
Group exhibition, video work, at
Karoo Art House.
2006
Group exhibition, video and mixed media work, Ekhurhuleni Fine Arts Awards.
AWARDS
Barclays L'Atelier
Top 10
2015
Sasol New Signatures Fine Arts
Runner up
2010
Ekurhuleni Fine Arts Awards
Top 15
2007
CONTACt
Tel: +27 74 370 4884
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