Adriaan Diedericks
Adriaan Diedericks is a South African sculptor based in Strand, Cape Town. After graduating with a BA degree in Fine Arts from Stellenbosch University in 2012, he completed an apprenticeship with Lionel Smit from 2013 until 2014.
Diedericks was a SASOL New Signatures Finalist in 2010 and again in 2014. He also participated and became a Finalist in PPC YCSA in 2013. His work features in prominent art collections such as Quoin Rock Wine Estate, Cavalli Wine & Stud Farm, Bartinney Wine Estate and NAC VIP Lounge, Lanseria Airport as well as other private collections around the world such as USA, UK, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Australia and South Africa. Diedericks has placed public sculptures in Hermanus, Franschhoek, Stellenbosch (South Africa), Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) and Sainte Radegonde (France).
In 2014 Diedericks was invited to take part at Art Fair Strasbourg and Cologne. In 2017 he attended the 4th International Artist Symposium along with 9 other individuals at Museum Villa Böhm in Germany where he was given the opportunity to work with sandstone for the first time. He has been featured in various media publications such as Effe O’ Arte in Milan, Top Billing and Visi’s ‘Artists to watch’ among others.
Diedericks presented his 7th solo exhibition, Continuum, in 2019. He continues to support several charities on a regular basis such as Art Angels, MAD Charity and IRIS House Children’s Hospice.
Solo exhibitions
Continuum, Art in the Yard Gallery, Franschhoek, 2019
Perceptive Resonance, Art in the Yard Gallery, Franschhoek, 2017
Christened Ships, Solo Exhibition, 99 LOOP Gallery, Cape Town, 2017
Traveling Bodies, Rust and Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, 2016
Seraph, Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town, 2015
Binne Buiteland, Gallery on Leviseur, Bloemfontein, 2015
as is, so was, Grande Provence, Franschhoek, 2015
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Woordfees (L’acte Final Scene one: Louis & Friends), GUS Gallery, Stellenbosch, 2019
Cape Town Art Fair, 99 LOOP Gallery, Cape Town, 2018
Best-of-4 Künstelersymposien, Villa Böhm, Germany, 2017
Hermanus FynArts Festival Artist, Hermanus, 2017
Beyond the Limit, St Lorient Rooftop Gallery, Pretoria, 2016
Ledeganck Advocatenkantoor, Antwerp, Belgium, 2016
Lords of Winter, Cavalli Gallery, Somerset West, 2016
CANSA Exhibition, Arts Association of Pretoria, 2016
KKNK (Huisgenoot Centenary Exhibition), 2016
Cape Town Art Fair, 99 LOOP Gallery, Cape Town, 2016
1.99 Group Exhibition, 99 LOOP Gallery, Cape Town, 2015
Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, 2015
Die Burger 100 Eeufees, Headoffice, [Selected works], 2015
BYOID, Knysna Fine Art, Knysna, 2015
Fear&Loss - The Industrial Karoo, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, 2015
Art Fair Cologne, L’Art Industriel Gallery, Germany, 2014
Art Fair Strasbourg, L’Art Industriel Gallery, France, 2014
Summer Season Exhibition, Everard Read Cape Town, Cape Town, 2014
Cape Town Art Fair, Represented at EBONY/CURATED, 2013
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
Internationales Künstlersymposium, Museum Villa Böhm, Germany, 2017
PUBLIC SCULPTURE EXHIBITIONS
The Man in the Stone, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 2017
Torso I (Large), Art Fair Franschhoek, 2017
Sculptures on the Cliffs, Hermanus, 2015
Echo of Derogation l Neerhalende Weerklank, REFLECTIONS: Public Sculptures in Stellenbosch III, 2015
I have to go see a man about a Horse, KOMSit: Stellenbosch Public Sculpture III, 2014
Atilla (Ascending), Metalwork: Public Sculptures II, Jan Marais Park, Stellenbosch, 2013