HEINRICH NIEUMAN

BA Fine Art majoring in sculpture; MA Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (UCT), Cape Town, South Africa.

Born in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa, Nieuman (who exhibited under the name of Heinrich Minnie in the past) is an artist whose practice involves the exploration of urbanisation and digitisation through video art and video installation. Nieuman currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, where he is also director of Nieuman Video that offers professional video editing, motion design, sound editing and colour grading to a wide range of clients. Nieuman believes that video has the ability to tell compelling stories and convey information in an engaging, multi-sensory way that is unique to the medium.

In his own creative output, Nieuman references cyborg urbanism in which human and non-human elements constitute hybridised notions of urbanisation. Within these frameworks, digital screens often serve as prosthetics that act as gateways to the more hidden networks of human cities.

Notable group exhibitions include Suspension of Disbelief at Brundyn+Gonsalves, Cape Town, South Africa (2015); Main Complaint at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA), Cape Town, South Africa (2018-2019); The Nonrepresentational at Stevenson (Cape Town, Johannesburg & Amsterdam), a virtual group exhibition of 12 artists curated by Lemeeze Davids and Dineo Diphofa (2020); Premise at The Box, Cape Town, South Africa (2021) and A Good Time at Aspire Art Auctions, Cape Town, South Africa (2022).

Heinrich Nieuman joined VIAD in 2024.