About Mariëtte Momberg

Mariëtte Momberg (B.1978) is a Cape Town–based visual artist and printmaker whose multidisciplinary practice explores the complex interplay between humanity and nature. Working primarily in printmaking, Momberg’s work fuses traditional techniques with contemporary narratives. Her pieces often incorporate embroidery, recycled materials, and layered textures, resulting in distinctive, tactile works that are as emotionally resonant as they are visually striking.

Self-taught and deeply intuitive, Momberg left a career in social health and reproductive rights to pursue art full-time in 2018. Her background continues to inform her work, which is grounded in feminist thought, environmental awareness, and the personal as political.

She is a member of the women-led collective The Printing Girls and has exhibited both locally and internationally, including at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town (2024) and the International Original Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery in London (2023).

Her art features in private collections globally and was chosen as the cover for Karen Zoid’s 2023 album Humanoid.

She has exhibited in in a number of international and local group exhibitions since 2019 including:

2025

• Red, Hot Pink Spot, Solo studios, Riebeek Kasteel, October 2025
• Too, To, Two, Ink Box Gallery, Kalk Bay, November 2025
• Open Studios Kommetjie, Cape Town, 5-7 December 2025

2024 & beyond

• Open Studios Kommetjie, Nov-Dec 2024
• Pressing Matters, Noordhoek Art Point gallery, Nov-Dec 2024
• For Sea Change, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, November 2024
• North and South exchange, Gallery 48, Melbourne, Australia, June 2024
• Kaleidoscopic vision, White River Gallery, Mpumalanga, January 2024 
• CeraMix, Art B Bellville, Cape Town, October 2023
• International Original Print Exhibition organised by the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London, September 2023
• 25 Years / 25 Prints, Artvark Gallery, Kalk Bay, Cape Town, August 2023
• Birds of a feather, Artbox Gallery, Pretoria, July 2023
• Meraki, Stilbaai Galery, Stilbaai, June 2023
• Nature/Us, Gallery One11, Cape Town, December 2022
• Things that live and move, David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg, December 2022
• Kommetjie Open Studios, Cape Town, December 2022
• The Printing Girls, The Art Room Parkhurst, Johannesburg, September 2022
•  A sense of place, Latitudes Online, August 2022
• Miniatures in print, Gallery 2, Johannesburg, August 2022
• KKNK Fees Oudtshoorn, March 2022
• Kommetjie Open Studios, Cape Town, December 2021
• In print, SA Print Gallery, Cape Town, December 2021
• Mother nature in monotype, White River gallery, Mpumalanga, August 2021
• The Printing Girls, The Art Room Parkhurst, Johannesburg, August 2021
• At the table, 6 Spin Street Gallery, Cape Town, April 2021
• New girls on the block, Pretoria Arts Association, March 2021
• Kommetjie Open Studios Cape Town, December 2020
• Positive Escape, The Art Room Parkhurst, Johannesburg, October 2020 
• Rise by ANON., 44 on Long, Cape Town, December 2019–February 2020
• Tulbagh Arts festival, August 2019

Read more about Mariëtte’s printing process and her artist statement.