Born in South Africa, Ruan Hoffmann currently lives and works in The Netherlands. Using ceramic earthenware as his preferred medium, Hoffmann moulds familiar objects such as plates, containers and tiles into wilful, irregular and misshapen forms. Adorning the plates with a vast array of images and text that can be unapologetically political and confrontational, the work expresses the artist’s unedited observations on life’s experiences. Ruan Hoffmann always creates a dialogue between form and content, combining messages that question our times with a destructuring or deformation of his objects. The artist thus plunges us into a world of dark humour, decadence and nonconformism.
Widely exhibited, Hoffmann’s works are also in a number of international collections including the South African National Gallery, The Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium and the Museo de Arte Moderno, Dominican Republic, Apple and more.
“Millions of people can be wrong”
– Ruan Hoffmann
