Miné Kleynhans

Miné Kleynhans resides in Bloemfontein where she is employed at the University of the Fee State’s Art Gallery. In 2024 she was announced as the overall winner of the Sasol New Signatures Art Competition for her work Meditations on Resentment. She has received various other acknowledgements for her work including being selected as a finalist for the Emerging Artists’ Development Programme The Blind Alphabet Letter B: Babery to Bigeminate, UJ and being a Merit Award Winner in the New Breed Art Competition.
As an artist, curator and art project coordinator, she has participated in various experimental, developmental and often large-scale international creative projects. Most notably as a lead artist in collaboration with Alex Rinsler in the It's My City project (www.itsmycity.co.za) during the Vrystaat Art Festival 2016.  She graduated with a Master in Fine Art (Cum Laude) from the University of the Free State in 2017 and was an artist in residence at Brashnar Creative Project, Macedonia, Eastern Europe in 2018.​