Adelheid Frackiewicz
Exhibition: Drawing The Line (Solo Show) | 07.08.25 - 25.09.25
Professor Adelheid Frackiewicz is a South African artist who practises under her Polish grandfather’s surname, Frackiewicz. She is an Associate Professor at the University of the Free State. She teaches mainly drawing and sculpture, supervising both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Adelheid holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Departments of Fine Arts and Art History and Image Studies (Faculty of the Humanities) at the University of the Free State. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Art, place, death: The transformative power of dynamic thresholds. In 2021 Adelheid won the Absa L’Atelier Ambassador Award.
She has exhibited extensively on a national and international level. Notably, in 2023, Adelheid exhibited in a three-person group show entitled Refuge: An uncommon home at the Institute Museum of Ghana-Noldor Artist Residency in Accra, Ghana, after it first opened at the Absa Gallery, Johannesburg, in 2022. In 2024 Adelheid installed a large land art installation entitled Rooted at NIROX Sculpture Park.
Instagram: @adelheidfrackiewicz
