JOP KUNNEKE

(b. 1974, South Africa)

Jop Kunneke holds a National Higher Diploma (Fine Art) from the Technikon Pretoria, now Tshwane University of Technology. Kunneke explains that he uses tongue-in-cheek humour to take a satirical look at our collective narcissistic greed and the driving forces behind it. His main point of reference is contemporary popular culture, street and skin art. He is a fine sculptor in bronze, and also excels at charcoal sketching and oil painting. He delights in surprising elements like gilded glam veneers, stencils interacting with gold-leaf, reworked digital imagery, graphic novel-style canvasses and eye-catching aluminium-cast heads on psychedelic pop backgrounds. Kunneke’s work forms part of private collections in South Africa as well as  London, Amsterdam, Rome in Europe and New York City, USA.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012     

Of honey thieves and egg eaters, Gallery at Grande Provence, Franschhoek, South Africa.

2009     

Numbskulls, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015      

@Play, Everard Read Cape Town, South Africa.

Bronze, Steel and Stone (Summer of Sculpture IV), Everard Read Cape Town at the Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa.           

2014     

Winter Exhibition, Everard Read Cape Town, South Africa . 

2013      

Summer of Sculpture II, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town at the Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa.

2013     

Heavy Metal , Southern Guild at the Woodstock Foundry, Cape Town, South Africa.

Centenary ,  Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

The Editions Show, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa.

2011     

Outside, 34 Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa.