Helen Teede
Biography
Born 1988 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Lives and works between Venice, Italy and Harare, Zimbabwe.
Teede is a visual artist from Zimbabwe, working primarily in painting since 2013. Before embarking on her BFA at Michaelis in Cape town, Teede first studied painting at Florence University of the Arts. She chose to return to Italy for her Masters in Visual Art at IUAV University of Venice, which she completed in 2020 with 110/110 Honours with a thesis and exhibition exploring, “Phenomenology of Painting as an Intersectional Medium”. Her thesis, “Phenomenology of Painting as an Intersectional Medium” reflects on storytelling through painting as a medium that comprises ongoing formations, relying on situated knowledge and material thinking as ways of knowing that rejects ideas of total, objective knowledge, and embraces the importance
of process, curiosity, failure and the acceptance of paradox. Finishing her MFA during lockdown in Venice has catalysed the need to articulate and situate the complicity of humans in the ecological. Introducing the drawn figure and text, created a shift from the gestural and emotive lushness of earlier work towards greater precision and clarity.
Teede has participated in numerous international exhibition, including in 2018 Five Bobh, the survey of Zimbabwean art at Zeitz MoCAA in Cape Town. Her work is in numerous noted private collections internationally. She is the finalist in the 2022 Sovereign Art Prize, being hosted by Norval Foundation in Cape Town.
Education
Exhibitions
2022: Sovereign Art Prize finalist exhibition, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
2021: Ubuntu, collective exhibition, (Africanah Art Foundation Curator) WTO biannual meeting, Geneva, Switzerland
2021: Running – The New Contemporary (Will Wang Curator) Qingdao Art Museum, Shanghai, PRC
2021: Artemisia Nova, Paris Internationale, Paris, France
2021: I Draw Therefore I Think, South South online. First Floor Gallery Harare
2021: House Parté (Carlye Packer curator), Palm Springs, USA
2021: Mundopa, Makaza, Rizhi, Teede (Brandy Carstens, Tong Advisory curators), Tong Advisory Soho Salon, New York, USA
2021: Allegory & Intent (Butler Bowdon, Nyaude, Teede), Nomad Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2021: Artemisia - Solo Exhibition, First Floor Gallery Victoria Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2021: Mirror Mirror! - South South Veza, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2020: Level | Mosi-oa-tunya, First Floor Gallery Vic Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2019: Bare Limbs - Solo Exhibition, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2019: Harare Fauves (Mundopa, Nyaude, Teed), Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019: Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2018: Next Level, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2018: Cape Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, cape Town, South Africa
2017: FNB Joburg Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2017: AKAA Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Paris, France
2017: Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2017: “Tomorrow’s Today” Cape Town Art Fair special project, First Floor Gallery Harare/Showcase Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016: “Harare: Mwandiambira+Tauzeni+Teede” Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016: FNB Joburg Art Fair 2016, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016: I am because you are - Group Show, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2016: “It is without.” Solo Show, First Floor Gallery: Harare, Zimbabwe
2016: "Excerpts", Solo Show, Showcase: Dubai, U.A.E.
2015: "The Material Presence of the Past", Solo Show, Showcase: Dubai, U.A.E
2015: "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark", Solo Show,. Amanzi: Harare, Zimbabwe
2015: "Waste no Waste, Trash is Treasure", Group Show, Italian Ambassador's Residence: Harare, Zimbabwe
2015: "Chimuti, Pepa, Dombo" (Wood, Paper, Rock) . Group Show. Showcase: Dubai, U.A.E
2014: "IndustrArt", Group Show. Nigel Joscelyne: Harare, Zimbabwe
2014: "Modern Painting", Group Show, Kalk Bay Modern: Cape Town, South Africa
2014: "Scripts of Our Unspoken Words", Group Show, Showcase: Dubai, U.A.E
2013: "Greatest Hits of 2012", Group Show, AVA Gallery: Cape Town, South Africa
2012: "Mistakes", Group Show, 50 Canterbury Street: Cape Town, South Africa
2012: "GRAD", Group Show, Michaelis School of Fine Art: Cape Town, South Africa
2008: FUA Graduate Show, Florence University of the Arts: Florence, Italy.
2008: "Dialoghi Muti", Group Show, Florence University of the Arts: Florence, Italy.
2008: “We Still have the Sun”, Solo Show, Richard Rennie: Harare, Zimbabwe
Publications and Solo Exhibition Catalogues
Born 1988 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Lives and works between Venice, Italy and Harare, Zimbabwe.
Teede is a visual artist from Zimbabwe, working primarily in painting since 2013. Before embarking on her BFA at Michaelis in Cape town, Teede first studied painting at Florence University of the Arts. She chose to return to Italy for her Masters in Visual Art at IUAV University of Venice, which she completed in 2020 with 110/110 Honours with a thesis and exhibition exploring, “Phenomenology of Painting as an Intersectional Medium”. Her thesis, “Phenomenology of Painting as an Intersectional Medium” reflects on storytelling through painting as a medium that comprises ongoing formations, relying on situated knowledge and material thinking as ways of knowing that rejects ideas of total, objective knowledge, and embraces the importance
of process, curiosity, failure and the acceptance of paradox. Finishing her MFA during lockdown in Venice has catalysed the need to articulate and situate the complicity of humans in the ecological. Introducing the drawn figure and text, created a shift from the gestural and emotive lushness of earlier work towards greater precision and clarity.
Teede has participated in numerous international exhibition, including in 2018 Five Bobh, the survey of Zimbabwean art at Zeitz MoCAA in Cape Town. Her work is in numerous noted private collections internationally. She is the finalist in the 2022 Sovereign Art Prize, being hosted by Norval Foundation in Cape Town.
Education
- 2020: Laurea Magistrale in Arti Visive (Masters in Visual Art), University IUAV, Venice, Italy. with 110/110 and Honours.
- 2013: Bachelor of Arts Honours in English Studies, with First Class at University of Cape Town, South Africa.
- 2012: Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Exhibitions
2022: Sovereign Art Prize finalist exhibition, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
2021: Ubuntu, collective exhibition, (Africanah Art Foundation Curator) WTO biannual meeting, Geneva, Switzerland
2021: Running – The New Contemporary (Will Wang Curator) Qingdao Art Museum, Shanghai, PRC
2021: Artemisia Nova, Paris Internationale, Paris, France
2021: I Draw Therefore I Think, South South online. First Floor Gallery Harare
2021: House Parté (Carlye Packer curator), Palm Springs, USA
2021: Mundopa, Makaza, Rizhi, Teede (Brandy Carstens, Tong Advisory curators), Tong Advisory Soho Salon, New York, USA
2021: Allegory & Intent (Butler Bowdon, Nyaude, Teede), Nomad Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2021: Artemisia - Solo Exhibition, First Floor Gallery Victoria Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2021: Mirror Mirror! - South South Veza, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2020: Level | Mosi-oa-tunya, First Floor Gallery Vic Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2019: Bare Limbs - Solo Exhibition, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2019: Harare Fauves (Mundopa, Nyaude, Teed), Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019: Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2018: Next Level, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2018: Cape Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, cape Town, South Africa
2017: FNB Joburg Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2017: AKAA Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Paris, France
2017: Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2017: “Tomorrow’s Today” Cape Town Art Fair special project, First Floor Gallery Harare/Showcase Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016: “Harare: Mwandiambira+Tauzeni+Teede” Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016: FNB Joburg Art Fair 2016, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016: I am because you are - Group Show, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2016: “It is without.” Solo Show, First Floor Gallery: Harare, Zimbabwe
2016: "Excerpts", Solo Show, Showcase: Dubai, U.A.E.
2015: "The Material Presence of the Past", Solo Show, Showcase: Dubai, U.A.E
2015: "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark", Solo Show,. Amanzi: Harare, Zimbabwe
2015: "Waste no Waste, Trash is Treasure", Group Show, Italian Ambassador's Residence: Harare, Zimbabwe
2015: "Chimuti, Pepa, Dombo" (Wood, Paper, Rock) . Group Show. Showcase: Dubai, U.A.E
2014: "IndustrArt", Group Show. Nigel Joscelyne: Harare, Zimbabwe
2014: "Modern Painting", Group Show, Kalk Bay Modern: Cape Town, South Africa
2014: "Scripts of Our Unspoken Words", Group Show, Showcase: Dubai, U.A.E
2013: "Greatest Hits of 2012", Group Show, AVA Gallery: Cape Town, South Africa
2012: "Mistakes", Group Show, 50 Canterbury Street: Cape Town, South Africa
2012: "GRAD", Group Show, Michaelis School of Fine Art: Cape Town, South Africa
2008: FUA Graduate Show, Florence University of the Arts: Florence, Italy.
2008: "Dialoghi Muti", Group Show, Florence University of the Arts: Florence, Italy.
2008: “We Still have the Sun”, Solo Show, Richard Rennie: Harare, Zimbabwe
Publications and Solo Exhibition Catalogues
- Teede, H., Kabov, V. (ed). 2019. “Bare Limbs.” First Floor Gallery Harare, [online] https://www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com/uploads/8/4/1/2/8412558/bare_limbs_-_helen_teede.pdf-
- Teede, H. 2019. “Between Banality and Terror: Artistic Discourse, Collective Anxiety and Climate Crisis. The Lithuanian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.” The Art Section: An Online Journal of Art and Cultural Commentary, [online] https://www.theartsection.com/lithuanian-pavilion-venice-biennale
- Teede, H. 2019. “Image as Testimony and Working Through Trauma in the paintings of Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Wycliffe Mundopa.” Something We Africans Got, January 2019, Issue no. 7: Paris, France.
- Teede, H. 2017. “The Advantages and Pitfalls of Revisiting History: ICAC Zimbabwe.” Art Africa Magazine, December 2017, Issue no. 10: Cape Town, South Africa.
- Teede, H. 2017. “Unhomed,” Showcase Gallery. Dubai, U.A.E.
- Teede, H., Kabov, V. (ed). 2016. “It is the Without,” First Floor Gallery Harare, [online] https://www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com/uploads/8/4/1/2/8412558/helen_teede-it_is_the_without.pdf
- Teede, H. 2015. “The Material Presence of the Past,” Showcase Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E.
