Adelheid Frackiewicz (von Maltitz)

Title of presentation: Rooted/Uprooted

 

My research questions emerge intimately from my own life experiences which include my Polish grandfather’s escape from Poland to South Africa during World War II. Through drawings, land art and sculptures my research attempts to engage with the problematics and complexities of forced immigration. I explore the complexities of site, ritual and materiality in terms of how these areas may contribute to healing or constructive engagement with difficult and otherwise traumatic experiences of loss and erasure.

 

 

Adelheid Frackiewicz (von Maltitz)
Short Biography

 

Dr Adelheid Frackiewicz is a South African artist and practices under her grandfather’s surname Frackiewicz. Adelheid is a senior lecturer at the University of the Free State and presents mainly drawing and sculpture and supervises both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Adelheid holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Faculty of the Humanities, Departments of Fine Arts and Art History and Image Studies at the University of the Free State. Her thesis for her doctoral degree was titled:  Art, Place, Death: The Transformative Power of Dynamic Thresholds. In 2021 Adelheid won one of the three Absa L’ Atelier Ambassador awards which is arguable the most prestigious art award in Africa. She has further exhibited extensively on a national and international level. Notably in 2023, Adelheid has been invited to Nirox sculpture park for an artist residency and her three-person group show titled Refuge: and uncommon home, was exhibited at the Institute Museum of Ghana-Noldor Artist Residency in Accra, Ghana.

 

Author of graphic identification

Dr. Michalina Szurgot

Date

18/10/2023, 18:30

Place

Academic Design Center

Księży Młyn 13/15, Łódź

(entrance from ul. Księży Młyn)

Conference room, 1st floor