The Grahamstown National Arts Festival
Grahamstown Grahamstown27 June - 7 July 2019 The National Arts Festival is an important event on the South African cultural calendar, and the biggest annual celebration of the arts on the African continent. Starting at the end of June/beginning of July, it runs for 11 days and is held in the small university city of Makhanda […]
Constellation | Group Exhibition at Deepest Darkest Contemporary Gallery
Deepest Darkest Art Gallery 20 Dixon Street, Cape Town29 June - 23 August 2019 Deepest Darkest Contemporary Gallery opens it’s winter Group Show, ‘Constellation’ on Saturday 29 June. The show features a line-up of 12 established and emerging South African artists presenting painting, drawing, sculpture, illustration, photography and mixed media works. Participating Artists: AD-Reflex Shany Van Den Berg Sarlee Van Den Berg] Bastiaan […]
Should Contemporary Art Last: A Panel Discussion | Friends of Iziko South African National Gallery
Iziko South African National Gallery Iziko South African National Gallery, Government Avenue, Company's Garden, Cape TownShould Contemporary Art Last: A Panel Discussion WHEN & WHERE: 16th July @ 1pm. Room 8, Iziko South African National Gallery Panel: Mawande Ka Zenzile, Artist, (represented by Stevenson, Cape Town & Johannesuburg.) Julia Kabat, Interium Registrar, Zeitz Mocaa Same Mduli, Manager and Curator of Standard Bank Gallery Brett Scott, Manager, Sheryn Art Collection Contemporary art […]
Star Sailors | Group Exhibition | The Viewing Room Art Gallery
The Viewing Room @ St Lorient Fashion and Art Gallery 2nd Floor of St. Lorient 492 Fehrsen Street, Brooklyn, PretoriaSTAR SAILORS UNTIL 7 September 2019 To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, Art.co.za and The Viewing Room Art Gallery present a curated group exhibition featuring over 60 artists who have created artworks exploring man's infatuation with the moon and the stars. Participating Artists: Andre Naude, Carl Jeppe, Gordon Froud, Rogerio de Andrade, […]
Breastfeeding 101 | Photographic Collection by Leah Hawker | Book Launch at The Book Lounge
The Book Lounge The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland StreetBook Launch 1 August 2019 17:30 - 19:45 A project three years in the making: 101 portraits, 101 interviews and stories. Leah Hawker brings together 101 women to tell their stories about the realities of breastfeeding, a subject often hidden from the public eye. They explore personal truths, myths and attitudes towards the practice, inevitably […]
LA CUCARACHA | Pieter Hugo | Solo Exhibition at Stevenson Cape Town
Stevenson Cape Town Ground, Buchanan Building, 160 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925, Cape Town27 August - 5 October 2019 STEVENSON is pleased to present La Cucaracha by Pieter Hugo, the photographer’s seventh exhibition with the gallery. This latest body of work is the result of four trips to Mexico over the last two years, each spanning close to a month, with Hugo travelling from the industrialised zone of Mexico City to […]
Liminality | Kevin Collins | Graham Modern & Contemporary JHB
Graham Modern & Contemporary Diver Road, Sandton, Johannesburg‘LIMINALITY : a series of biographic illustrations’ Artist Statement Liminality refers to the state between conscious (supraliminal) and unconscious (subliminal) which recalls so much of my working process. Dream, thought and ‘real life’ often intersect in my universe. Accused of not being able to focus at school, my world has never been one of dogged […]
Ancient Codes | Tanya Poole | Solo Exhibition at Everard Read Cape Town
Everard Read CIRCA Cape Town 3 Portswood Road, Cape Town'...thumping breathing organs Fingerprint all my genes awake, Ancient codes in each and every cell...' Nomzi Kumalo, A Human Encounter, 2014 This solo show by painter Tanya Poole examines how the act of art-making weaves together reason and instinct as it draws from rational consideration and instinctive urge, inspired by varied elements of nature, like the nest […]
Further Prototypes | Dale Lawrence | SMITH Cape Town
SMITH 56 Church Street, Cape TownFurther Prototypes, Lawrence's third solo show at SMITH, is the latest stanza in his wry inquiry into the ambitions of art and its practitioners. “Finished is dead,” says Lawrence, who chooses instead to work with the vitality of experimentation. Doing so brings action, change, motion and surprise into another distinctively considered collection of mixed media […]
Objects of Desire, Addendum | Meleko Mokgosi | Solo Exhibition at Stevenson JHB
Steveson Johannesburg 46 7th Avenue, Parktown North, JohannesburgSTEVENSON is proud to present Objects of Desire, Addendum, Meleko Mokgosi’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in Johannesburg. Objects of Desire, Addendum exists as a postscript to Mokgosi’s acclaimed, long-standing visual essay, Democratic Intuition, of which Comrades, exhibited at Stevenson, Cape Town, in 2016, was the second of eight chapters. Comprising painting and sculpture, Democratic Intuition questioned how one […]
FNB Art Joburg
Sandton Convention Centre 161 Maude St, Sandown, Sandton, JohannesburgJohannesburg is the cultural and economic capital of Africa, and FNB Art Joburg is its leading art fair. We believe there is no better place than Johannesburg to show all of our best artists under one roof. Because artists are best served by strong galleries - with long-term representation, physical exhibition spaces and free entry for the […]
This Song Is For… | Gabrielle Goliath | Solo Exhibition at Iziko South African National Gallery CPT
Iziko South African National Gallery Iziko South African National Gallery, Government Avenue, Company's Garden, Cape TownGabrielle Goliath solo exhibition Gabrielle Goliath’s powerful, transcendent and hauntingly immersive, sonic installation, This song is for…, created in collaboration with survivors of abuse and musical ensembles, is on view at Cape Town’s Iziko South African National Gallery from 24 October, provides an opportunity for listeners to, in Goliath’s words, "effectively inhabit a contested space […]