Exhibitions

Exhibitions

A record of Celia de Villiers’ exhibitions, solo and group. Two — LiveWire and The Fire and After — open into the works shown and her catalogue texts.

Solo & online exhibitions

2017–presentThe Fire and After, online · Ponte da Mucela, Portugal.
2006LiveWire, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria (glass, resin, vinyl, video installations).
2003Fragile, MACS Gallery, Pietermaritzburg (drawings).
1981Textile Collages and Batiks, Raiffeisen Bank Galerie, Marktoberdorf, Germany.
1980Textile Collages, Landesbank Galerie, Munich, Germany.

Group exhibitions

2025Vice-Versa, Snowflake Art Gallery, South Africa (curated by Gwenneth Miller).
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.
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.
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.
2004Six Continents of Quilts (international touring).
2003World Council for Art & Culture, San Francisco, USA.
1991Selected among the 70 Best Art Quilts in the World, Paducah, Kentucky, USA.
 
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