shana de villiers.
(born, Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles)

Holder of South African passport & culture.

Currently living the 

bIg BaD sExY eUrOpEaN dReAm

the Hague, the Netherlands. 



COMING UP


In Medias Res, Omstand, Arnhem, NL
(18 November-24 December 2023) 


Photographer: Lene Marquardt
PUBLICATIONS

2023 Bachelor Thesis: Splitting Mammalian Weeds: monster for a memory

2023 Publication of Impossible Stories Symposium: Linking Colonial Collections and Climate Change through Critical Fabulation, Het Nieuwe Instituut & Maastricht University 

2021 Publication of archive/text in the Studium Generale Wxtch Craft Zine, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague 

2020 Commissioned works/interview for an article in VICE NL


EDUCATION

2019-2023 BA in Fine Art at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/
PROJECTS

2023 Royal Academy of Art The Hague Graduation Show 

2023
Three Birds, No Stone, Verheeskade 321, The Hague

2022 An Evening with the Shadow (Performative Dinner) Organised & Curated by Shana de Villiers, Gabriel Kolesar, Silke Riis, Barth Kapel, The Hague

2022 To Give a Dog a Name, Billy Town, The Hague

2022 Master Artistic Research Graduation Project (Performing for Noor Johanna Remmen), Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

2022 Impossible Stories Symposium: Linking Colonial Collections and Climate Change through Critical Fabulation, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam



2022 Artistic Research Symposium: Body as Proxy, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

2021 Performing in ‘A candle is burning’ Ep.7 ESSENZA CLUB

2021 The Tiny Art Gallery, The Hague

2021 Far Closer, Page Not Found, The Hague

2020 Essentials Shop, No Man's Art Gallery, Amsterdam


GRANTS/
FUNDING


2023 MC de Visser Fonds (Funding for Graduation Project)

2022 Tesselschade Stichting

2022 Stichting Schuurman Schimmel Van Outeren


2020 Self-organised Live Fantasy-Fundraiser Drawing Event; a fundraiser project for tuition fees, The Hague. 

 


WORK/
INTERNSHIP

2020 - present Part-time Cobbler, The Hague

2020-present Volunteer at Page Not Found, The Hague

2020-present Volunteer at 1646, The Hague

2020 Internship with Afra Eisma, 1646, The Hague