Collection: Sisonke Gallery
Madeleine van Manen
Behind the built world: FAÇADE examines the emotional architecture of city life.
In FAÇADE, a new solo exhibition by Madeleine van Manen, the city where she lives, Cape Town, becomes a living organism; shifting, breathing and accumulating the imprint of the life contained within it. Through paintings, printmaking, fabric works and intimate miniature studies, the artist invites viewers to consider the ways in which the built environment shapes us just as much as we shape it.
Her show is presented by House Union Block (HUB) and runs at Sisonke Gallery at the Cape Heritage Hotel on Bree Street, Cape Town from 10 December 2025 to 8 February 2026.
