RESERVOIR Projects was founded by Heinrich Groenewald and Shona van der Merwe, as an independent partnership specialising in collaborative curation. In 2023, RESERVOIR opened a space for ambitious solo exhibitions by independent artists on Bree Street in Cape Town.

Since 2023, RESERVOIR has received multiple awards for their art fair presentations, including: The Fundación Banco Sabadell Young Talent Award for Jeanne Gaigher at ARCO Madrid (2025); The Investec Emerging Artist Award for Ben Stanwix & Xhanti Zwelendaba at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair (2025); The Lexus Best Stand Award at RMB Latitudes (2024); and the New Entries Fund at Artissima (2023). Also in 2025, the directors were invited as Honorary Board Members to Spark Art Fair Vienna, and included on CULTURED’s inaugural Young Dealers List.

In addition to the above, their art fair participation further includes ARCO Madrid, The Armory Show, Art Brussels and FNB Art Joburg.

In addition to their Bree Street project space, RESERVOIR regularly curates off-site exhibitions. Selected exhibitions include SONSTRAAL (2025), a solo exhibition by Ben Stanwix and Xhanti Zwelendaba at the SU Museum in Stellenbosch; Disrupting the Dream: Surreal Narratives from the Norval Foundation Collection (2025), a curated group exhibition at the Mount Nelson, a Belmond Hotel in Cape Town; Spaced Out (2024) at Wilhelm Hallen during Berlin Art Week in Germany, in collaboration with PSM, Berlin; Fallow Ground (2024) at Spaced Out Foundation in the Uckermark, Germany.