Invisible Motifs | Mia Thom Solo Exhibition Performance

Orms Cape Town School of Photography 4th Floor, 62 Roeland street, Gardens, Cape Town, Cape Town

An exhibition engaging with the philosophy of music, photography and the body’s role in the performance of experience. Join one of the three performances, please note only 60 seats per performance are available: 31 January 2019: Show Opening, Performance at 19h00 7 February 2019: First Thursday’s Performance at 19h00 16 February 2019: Final Performance at […]

Free

Culture Club | Krisjan Rossouw Solo Exhibition

The Gallery at Grande Provence Main Road, Franschoek, Franschoek

The Gallery at Grande Provence presents a solo exhibition of contemporary photography by Krisjan Rossouw entitled Culture Club.

Invisible Motifs | Mia Thom Solo Exhibition

Orms Cape Town School of Photography 4th Floor, 62 Roeland street, Gardens, Cape Town, Cape Town

An exhibition engaging with the philosophy of music, photography and the body’s role in the performance of experience.

Free

Self-Esteem | Ramadhan Hamis | Solo Exhibition at KnexT Art Gallery

KnexT Art Gallery 115 Harrington Street, Gardens, Cape Town

07.02.2019 18h00 - 23h00 SELF-ESTEEM is the first solo exhibition of works by Ramadhan Hamis, a spectacularly talented artist from Tanzania who is known for his hyper-realistic drawings of people. Join KnexT Space and Eastside Cartel for the KnexT Art Gallery’s first exhibition of the year on February 7, as part of First Thursdays Cape Town. […]

Invisible Motifs | Mia Thom Solo Exhibition Performance

Orms Cape Town School of Photography 4th Floor, 62 Roeland street, Gardens, Cape Town, Cape Town

An exhibition engaging with the philosophy of music, photography and the body’s role in the performance of experience. Join one of the three performances, please note only 60 seats per performance are available: 31 January 2019: Show Opening, Performance at 19h00 7 February 2019: First Thursday’s Performance at 19h00 16 February 2019: Final Performance at […]

Free

Night and Day | Sarah Pratt | Solo Exhibition at Studio91

Salon91 91 Kloof Street, Cape Town

23.01.2019 - 23.02.2019 A solo exhibition by Sarah Pratt. Sarah Pratt’s latest solo exhibition continues to explore themes that were introduced in Migration last year. In Night and Day, nocturnal animals hang out with diurnal animals in unlikely friendships. Her titles hint at the possible gossiping that might ensue between the animal characters in Autumnor […]

Dan Perjovschi | Solo Exhibition at A4 Arts Foundation

A4 Arts Foundation 23 Buitenkant Street, District 6, Cape Town

13.02.2019 - 09.05.2019  Dan Perjovschi's work raises questions about politics, religion, the role of the individual in the collective, and the relationship of the global and the local. He takes an unsparing stance toward the popular clichés circulating in the news media. For his show in February, Perjovschi will spend two weeks in residence at […]

Something We Africans Got | Discussion With Anna-Alix Koffi & Tandazani Dhlakama at Zeitz MOCAA

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa Silo District, S Arm Road, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town

13.02.2019 11h30 - 13h30 Join us for a conversation between Anna- Alix Koffi founder and editor of something we Africans got and Tandazani Dhlakama, Curator of the Five Bhobh: Painting at the End of an Era exhibition. The discussion will be around women from Africa and the African Diaspora in the arts. Special focus on […]

Press || Pause | Berni Searle | Artist In Residence | The Maitland Institute

The Maitland Institute Vortrekker Road, Maitland, Cape Town

15.02.2019 - 17.02.2019 The Maitland Institute is pleased to welcome Berni Searle as artist in residence. Searle came to international prominence at the turn of the millennium, alongside artists like Shirin Neshat and Tania Bruguera – a moment best captured by the Brooklyn Museum show Global Feminisms (2007). A whole generation of South African artists, […]

Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2019 | CTICC

CTICC Convention Square, 1 Lower Long Street, Cape Town

15.02.2019 - 17.02.2019 Investec Cape Town Art Fair showcases a diversity of work that represents the forefront of contemporary art from Africa to the world, and the world to Cape Town. The city boasts a vibrant arts scene, driven by the top galleries on the African continent and beyond. Thanks to its diverse cultural heritage and […]

Invisible Motifs | Mia Thom | Solo Exhibition Performance at Orms Cape Town School of Photography

Orms Cape Town School of Photography 4th Floor, 62 Roeland street, Gardens, Cape Town, Cape Town

An exhibition engaging with the philosophy of music, photography and the body’s role in the performance of experience. Join one of the three performances, please note only 60 seats per performance are available: 31 January 2019: Show Opening, Performance at 19h00 7 February 2019: First Thursday’s Performance at 19h00 16 February 2019: Final Performance at […]

Free

ANON. Pop Up Art Show | Curated by Sarah Jayne Fell

Pop Up Place 42 Trill Road, Good Hope Buildings, Observatory, Cape Town

21.02.2019 - 25.02.2019 Introducing ANON. a pop up gallery by Sarah Jayne Fell launching with a debut group show of art around female artistic expression and gender identity. Showcasing art by a variety of artists, including prominent South African artists, photojournalists and emerging artists, across mediums - including painting, drawing, illustration, photography, ceramics, embroidery, poetry […]

Culture Club | Krisjan Rossouw | Solo Exhibition at Gallery at Grande Provence

The Gallery at Grande Provence Main Road, Franschoek, Franschoek

01.03.2019 - 31.03.2019 The Gallery at Grande Provence presents a solo exhibition of contemporary photography by Krisjan Rossouw entitled Culture Club. Culture Club uses the medium of photography to explore the use of traditional tribal markings and clay in contemporary pop culture, using colour and light to explore identity. The artist, Krisjan Rossouw is a self-taught […]

Some Are More Equal Than Others | Wilma Cruise | Solo Exhibition at RK Contemporary

RK Contemporary 1 Plein Street, Riebeeck Kasteel

03.03.2019 - 20.03.2019 "Some are More Equal than Others continues my exploration of the impenetrable space between human and other animals.  I attempt to find a language that crosses the Cartesian divide.  In my exhibition at RK Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel, dialogues are set up in installations that highlight this conundrum.  We know that the animals […]

Post Paris: Rediscovering Africa | Maureen Quinn | Solo Exhibition at Art@Africa

Art@Africa Portswood Road, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town

06.03.2019 - 30.04.2019 The exhibition seeks to explore the ways in which Maureen Quin’s trip to Paris inspired  her to rediscover her African roots and thereby benefiting her future work. The exhibition will showcase two of Quin’s series, Post-Paris 1988 and Interaction 2003. These series will be exhibited alongside one another to create an incredible […]

Enthroned | Deborah Bell | Everard Read/CIRCA Cape Town

Everard Read Circa Gallery Johannesburg 9 Jellicoe Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg

06.03.2019 - 30.03.2019                                     We shall not cease from exploration                                     And the end of all our exploring                                     Will be to arrive at where we started                                     And know the place for the first time   - […]

In/Dependence | Robert Slingsby | Exhibition at Everard Read Circa Gallery

Everard Read Circa Gallery Johannesburg 9 Jellicoe Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg

07.03.2019 - 31.03.2019 Many of the images being exhibited were proudly printed on metal by Orms Print Room & Framing. Text by Hazel Friedman To the outsider, the slo-mo serenity of the Omo River Valley, in Southern Ethiopia, is rendered all the more acute by its contrast to the cacophony of a nation hurtling along […]

In Praise of Shadows | Amber Moir | Solo Exhibition at Salon91

Salon91 91 Kloof Street, Cape Town

27.02.2019 - 30.03.2019 Working exclusively with watercolour monotypes, Moir’s unconventional approach to printmaking explores and reconstitutes the limitations of traditional monotype techniques. Moir’s large works are the result of the intensely physical and unpredictable process of printing with a manual pitch roller. She says of her method: “The challenges within my process create space for […]

There Must Be Some Mistake | Ben Stanwix | Solo Exhibition at Ebony/Curated

Ebony/Curated 67 Loop Street, Cape Town

06.02.2019 – 30.03.2019 Combining aspects of drawing, photography, collage, tapestry and text, Benjamin Stanwix’s practice pieces together works from a variety of sources in an effort to reflect on the ways in which we make sense of the past, with a particular interest in contradictions and distortions as spaces for productive engagement. In this exhibition […]

Bodie In Alliance | Marinella Senatore | Solo Exhibition at SMAC Gallery CPT

SMAC 1st Floor, The Palms, 145 Sir Lowry Road Woodstock, Cape Town

SMAC Gallery is proud to present, Bodies in Alliance / Politics of the Street, a solo exhibition by Marinella Senatore. Please save the date for the opening at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town on Friday, 15 February 2019, at 18h00, followed by a gallery night braai from 20h00 until late. Bodies in Alliance / Politics in the Street will be showing at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town until 23 March 2019. SMAC Gallery […]

SPACE Open Exhibition | An Open Exhibition On Energy at Orms Cape Town School Of Photography

Orms Cape Town School of Photography 4th Floor, 62 Roeland street, Gardens, Cape Town, Cape Town

28.03.2019 - 18.04.2019 We are extremely excited to launch our first SPACE Open Exhibition for 2019! We’re starting our exhibition off with a bang and a new theme for you to really sink your teeth into! So once again we are offering you, our lovely photographic community the opportunity to submit your work! The show […]

True By Nature | Andre Serfontein | Solo Exhibition at Gallery @ Glen Carlou

The Gallery at Glen Carlou Simondium Road, Klapmuts, Paarl

03.03.2019 - 08.04.2019  The solo exhibition by André Serfontein features a collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures inspired by the human form – a celebration of the natural and often imperfect beauty thereof. (Words taken from Glen Carlou website)

Acetone Veil | Sue Greeff | Solo Exhibition at Eclectica Contemporary

Eclectica Contemporary Cape Town 69 Burg Street, Cape Town

04.04.2019 - 30.04.2019 Bodies are used and loved, admired and exploited, pressured and cherished. Bodies are political, imbued with power and presence – challenging and vulnerable. Over recent years, bodies have regained attention, across media platforms and political debates. The conversation is universal because everybody has a body and every body deserves recognition and respect. […]

Poolside | Mila Posthumus | Solo Exhibition at StateoftheART Gallery Cape Town

StateoftheART Gallery Cape Town 50 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town

04.04.2019 - 20.04.2019 StateoftheART Gallery invites you to POOLSIDE : a solo exhibition by Mila Posthumus. As the title suggests, the works in this collection have water as a central theme. 'I wanted these paintings to have a joyful slant, and it is difficult not to be happy around a swimming pool. Something happens to […]

Izwe: Plant Praxis | Madeyoulook | Goethe Institut Gallery Space

Goethe-Institut 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg

20.03.2019 - 03.02.2020 Izwe: plant praxis is a multipart exhibition series curated by MADEYOULOOK for the Goethe Institut Gallery space, which will be realised from March 2019 to February 2020. MADEYOULOOK has been considering some of the broader questions of landedness; our relationships to natural life as a trigger or spark for undoing our assumed […]

Light Conversations | Curated Collection at Oliewenhuis Art Museum

Oliewenhuis Art Museum 36 Aliwal Street, Bloemfontein

07.03.2019 - 07.04.2019 Oliewenhuis Art Museum cordially invites the public to attend an evening walkabout of the exhibition, Light Conversations, curated by the Art Museum Guides at 19:00 on 7 March 2019 at Oliewenhuis Art Museum. By exploring the Permanent Collection, these bright minds creatively assembled an exhibition that is unconventional in its approach in […]

Everything In Its Right Place | Anke Loots | Solo Exhibition at THK Gallery

THK Gallery 52 Waterkant Street, Cape Town

07.03.2019 - 03.05.2019 'A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity' so much for the future. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they're fade. I lived my life on these moments. They pull back to the present, and I realize that everything is […]

Gentlemen I Just Don’t Belong Here | Carla Busuttil | Solo Exhibition at Goodman Gallery Cape Town

Goodman Gallery Cape Town 176 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, Cape Town

16.03.2019 - 11.04.2019 For her fourth exhibition with Goodman gallery, Carla Busuttil presents a series of expressive drawings and densely layered oil paintings. The body of work expands on her long-term interest in depicting power and privilege, and were created during the three-year lead up to Brexit. The exhibition’s title pays homage to award-winning author […]

The Goliath Protocol | Conrad Botes | Solo Exhibition at Everard Read CIRCA JHB

Everard Read Circa Gallery Johannesburg 9 Jellicoe Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg

The Goliath Protocol, will be Conrad Botes’ first major solo exhibition in five years. The work will include four large-scale canvasses, including a 2 x 7 metre painting in oils that would be the artist's most ambitious work to date. A large selection of vignettes from the artist’s drawing books will shed light on various […]

Holding Still: Psychology & Portraiture | Group Exhibition at SMAC Gallery JHB

Exhibition running from 14.03.2019 - 19.04.2019 SMAC Gallery is pleased to present HOLDING STILL: Psychology and Portraiture, a group exhibition of artworks by various artists. Participating artists include: Albert Adams Peter Clarke Christo Coetzee Gareth Nyandoro Kate Gottgens Georgina Gratrix Braam Kruger Johann Louw Mostaff Muchawaya John Murray Alexis Preller Gerard Sekoto Marlene Steyn Simon Stone By focusing on South […]

GreySCALE. | A Group Exhibition at The Viewing Room Art Gallery

The Viewing Room @ St Lorient Fashion and Art Gallery 2nd Floor of St. Lorient 492 Fehrsen Street, Brooklyn, Pretoria

Today we are bombarded by colourful images. Greyscale is a group exhibition where artists create artworks that denounce colour.

Studio Show Exhibition Guided Walkabout | Andre Kayser & Jake Michael Singer | August House

August House August House, 5th Floor 76 End Street, Johannesburg

“STUDIO SHOW”: EXHIBITION AND GUIDED WALKABOUT   Joburg-based artists, Andrew Kayser and Jake Michael Singer, invite you into their creative spaces. After exhibiting at the recent Cape Town Art Fair, Andrew Kayser and Jake Michael Singer will be turning their expansive adjacent studios on the third floor of August House into exhibition spaces, inviting visitors to […]

My Hart Is So Leeg Soos ‘n Spieël | Gian Maria Tosatti | Solo Exhibition

1 Roeland Terrace 1 Roeland Terrace, Cape Town

27 April 2019 - 1 May 2019 My Hart is so Leeg Soos 'n Spieël (My Heart is a Void, the Void is a Mirror) is an ongoing project by Gian Maria Tosatti that explores the dissolution of democracy.   Tosatti's projects often involve detailed interventions in derelict urban sites - be it a museum, […]

Post Present Future Walkabout | A Personal Response To History Narratives at Apartheid Museum Johannesburg

Apartheid Museum Cnr Northern Parkway & Gold Reef Roads, Johannesburg

18 May - 15 July 2019 The Post Present Future exhibition juxtaposes the ephemeral representations of personal experiences and history against a backdrop of a fixed museum discourse. In an attempt to disrupt a space limited within its own elusive boundaries, Post Present Future inserts quotidian narratives alongside a metanarrative – infusing the vexed exhibits with a potentially […]

Collected Environment | Ndabuko Ntuli | Solo Exhibition at Art@Africa

Art@Africa Portswood Road, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town

09.05.19 - 05.06.19 Ntuli’s collection of work is one not to be missed, he focuses on African themes and fuses these with contemporary subject matter to create powerful combinations of traditional and contemporary imagery. Having grown up in the Alexandra township and witnessing the effects apartheid had on struggling artists in this position, Ntuli brings […]

The Black and White Cape Town Report | Dan Perjovschi | Wrap Up Paint Over | A4 Arts Foundation

A4 Arts Foundation 23 Buitenkant Street, District 6, Cape Town

10 May - 11 May 2019 Join A4 Arts Foundation as they wrap up The Black And White Cape Town Report by Dan Perjovschi and invite you to make your mark. Dan Perjovschi's most recent exhibition features a constellation of drawings which he worked with thick black markers directly onto the gallery walls. Now's the […]

Quest of the heART | Stephi Joubert Solo Exhibition at Association of Arts Pretoria

Association of Arts Pretoria 173 Mackie Street, Pretoria, Pretoria

3 May - 22 May 2019 Pretoria artist, Stephi Joubert has spent most of her life in the quest for beauty and art. In her long career she has experimented with various mediums: pencil, graphite, pastel, acrylic paints, airbrushing, oils, digital media, sculpting, scratchboard and lately claybord. She prefers the latter even though she has […]

Trade Winds: Yinka Shonibare CBE | Norval Foundation

The Norval Foundation 4 Steenberg road, Steenberg Estate, Cape Town

13 February – 26 August 2019 The exhibition Trade Winds: Yinka Shonibare CBE at Norval Foundation, brings together a series of artworks, including sculptures, photographs and a major installation, created between 2008 and 2018, which are connected through their use of Dutch Wax fabric. Trade Winds: Yinka Shonibare CBE takes as its starting point an […]

e wá wo mi (*come look at me) | Lakin Ogunbanwo | Solo Show at WHATIFTHEWORLD

WHATIFTHEWORLD 16 Buiten Street, Cape Town

10 April - 8 June 2019 WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to present e wá wo mi (*come look at me) – a new photographic series by Nigerian artist Lakin Ogunbanwo. Central to Ogunbanwo’s latest exploration, is the culture surrounding Nigerian brides and marriage ceremonies. He uses veiled portraiture to document the complexity of his culture, and counteract the […]