Christiaan Diedericks (1965 – 2025) was a full time contemporary artist, educator and curator with extensive experience in the specific areas of new media, printmaking, drawing, graphic design and creative process. He lived and worked full-time in his studio in Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa. Christiaan passed away peacefully in his bed on Saturday 5 July 2025.
Christiaan Diedericks graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Potchefstroom and completed his Master's in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria in 2000. Diedericks has exhibited extensively throughout Southern Africa, as well as in the USA, Japan, Germany, England, and Sweden. In 2006, he was the winner of the Kanna Award for Fine Arts at the ABSA KKNK festival in Oudtshoorn for his exhibition Secrets and Lies: Her Majesty's Ivory Tower. He worked as an artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris after receiving the prestigious Ampersand Foundation Fellowship in 2007 in New York, where his work was exhibited at the gallery 5+5 in Brooklyn to critical acclaim.
"In my work, time and space appear to dissolve, and an air of conflict erupts. This is often a direct result of a personal aim to calm and disturb at the same time - drawing parallels between the two extremes of utopia and dystopia”.
