ICTAF 2026 with Berman Contemporary

Up next: Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026

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I am delighted to announce that my work will be represented by Berman Contemporary at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair from 20 – 22 February 2026.

My work will be in great company at the Berman Contemporary Main Booth C14, where, as the gallery notes: “the viewers are invited into a layered, multi-sensory space where listening is not passive but attentive, tactile, and embodied. Here, listening is understood as a form of translation, a way of making sense of internal and external worlds through material, memory, gesture, and care. Rather than prioritizing the auditory, this exhibition looks at how we listen through process, presence, and perception.”

You will become a real boy if you deserve it 2022_2023 Photographic print, thread and rubber 857x 122 cm
“You will become a real boy if you deserve it” Archival print, thread and rubber

On Saturday the 21st of February at 15h00 I will be doing a live performance titled: “I’M FINE”.

The performance extends the concerns of my exhibition Mother. Monster. Stitch. into live time.

Focused on a single, overused phrase, “I’m fine,” the work treats reassurance not as truth, but as a social reflex used to manage discomfort, deflect concern, and smooth over situations that remain visibly unresolved and the pressure to appear “okay” even when the body suggests otherwise. The performance centers feminine labour: grooming, maintenance, emotional regulation – unpaid, invisible, infinite. It is not about collapse or protest. It is about how much work is required to simply manage what is expected. It is a quiet, durational piece that allows audiences to observe at their own pace.

Hannalie Taute Call of the Monster for Mother.Monster.Stitch.   performance piece.

I look forward meeting you there!

Raison d' etre

To all the ‘girls’ I’ve loved before

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In celebration of Labour day – Workers day (South Africa) to day:

“I do, I undo, I redo” Louise Bourgeois (quote of the day):

Through the years, this is what I did and undid with some of my works over the years, for example these works featured below. They no longer exist except in my memory, in all the hours I spent with them and luckily in images I found on my computer.

I kind of miss them, but I have an appetite for destruction (which is also the name of the album of on of my favourite band G’nR- by the way), but instead I dedicate this song (which popped into my head while I was thinking about this on Labour day/Workers day:

“To all the girls I’ve loved before, who traveled into and out of my door, I’m glad they came along, I dedicate this song to all the girls I’ve loved before”…. (from a song by Julio Iglesias

Mooi Nooi…installation images

Studio news

Due to popular demand, the exhibition has been extended. You can catch my work ‘Size Matters” graciously on loan from the collector (Mike Spittal) in the exhibition: Mooi Nooi – Sculpting Identity curated by Karolien van Zyl. The exhibition is currently on view at the Origins Centre Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa until the 1st of March 2025. Herewith some installation images courtesy of the curator and the museum:

Mooi Nooi installation view

EUCATATSTROPHE – the opening

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Saturday the 17th of April 2021 was my solo exhibition opening at the Deepest Darkest Art Gallery in Cape Town.

Words are powerless to describe the gratitude I feel, but let me try:

Thank you so much to each and everyone for taking the time to attend the opening of an Eucatastrophe at Deepest Darkest Art Gallery.

Thank you to Deon Redman for being an incredible host:

Thanks to Miche for making sure we had fabulous wedding-cakes…one to display and one to eat at the opening!

Thanks to DJ Auto for the music….

Big thanks to Sidwell Diamond, who made sure we all had something to drink….

and keeping our glasses filled with refreshing Prosecco by Bottega_Africa

I want to thank Saskia Buxton, who turned me into a ‘princess’ using her make-up just like a fairy-godmother would:

I would also like to thank Stephania Morland for enhancing my attire with her bespoke creation:

Last but not least I would like to thank my own Prince Charming (Hendrik Carsten) who couldn’t be there, but who always support my creative projects with love and understanding.

size-matters

From a Monumental moment to Size Matters…

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A visual journey……

Monumental Moment 2015
A Monumental moment for Stink Afrikaners show 2016
A monumental moment 2018 Photographer Kleinjan Groenewald as exhibited at the Pretoria Art Museum
from a Monumental moment to Size matters (work in progress()
Studio view 2020
Size Matters 2020 photographed by Kleinjan Groenewald
Hannalie Taute with Size Matters photographed by Kleinjan Groenewald
Hannalie Taute photographed by Kleinjan Groenewald. Thanks for being witness….