Dr Adelheid Frackiewicz Biography
Dr Adelheid Frackiewicz (von Maltitz) holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of the Free State, where she is currently a senior lecturer. Adelheid’s research explores constructive means of
engaging with intergenerational trauma and loss through site, materiality and ritual in her sculptures, drawings, installations and land artworks. Adelheid is an Absa L’Atelier winner in 2021
and has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. Notably in 2024 Adelheid received the
Ampersand award which she took up in June and during 2024 she had a large land art installation installed at Nirox sculpture park. Adelheid is currently working towards a solo exhibition at the Absa Gallery in March 2025.