The main focus this year will be on rare, endangered and
narrow endemic species indigenous to southern Africa. [more]
Composed is a series of photographic portraits of artists in
their studios and work environments [more]
In her latest body of work Keith explores the ways in which
we use and live with “nourishing” metaphors. [more]
In his new series Eastman has created a collection of
silhouetted shadow portraits that appear to the viewer simultaneously
strange and familiar [more]
Erica Elk presents a mixed media body of work of everyday
materials reconstituted into a contemporary visual language [more]
The Irma Stern Trust, in partnership with Greatmore Street
Studios in Woodstock, is showing a selection of work from local artists as
a winter 2010 exhibition [more]
This new body of work looks at the notorious barrier and the
passage Zimbabwean immigrants face in order to get into South Africa [more]
PlayNice has launched the second annual photographic exhibition
entitled Taking a Risk for Safer Sex [more]
The Artscape Theatre Centre is to host one of Cape Town’s
largest exhibitions of fine art installations, opening on 18 July. [more]
Own Goal, rather than referring to an own goal scored in
soccer, is a reflection upon goals in the personal and possessive sense [more]
Photographer Caroline Gibello returns with a new series of African images
for the first time in two years [more]
What if the Wolrd presents a solo presentation of new
large-scale colour drawings, sculpture, and video by artist Cameron
Platter [more]
Richard Mason presents Carbonage Light in the Main gallery, Arstrip and
New media room. [more]
This body of work on paper negotiates the beginning and the
end of everything [more]
Matters Conceptual explores the art form in which there is an
extraordinary emphasis on ideas. [more]
Super Boring draws on themes, techniques and strategies that Wayne
Barker has been utilizing and developing over his entire career [more]
This exhibition is a visceral response to the
commercialisation of gay culture in Cape Town [more]
Visitor (The Square) follows on from Visitor at the Irma Stern Museum
2009 [more]
Continuing her exploration of our relationship with Nature,
Paradise Apparatus explores the sensations and mysteries of chemistry,
perception and colour [more]
Gina Heyer, a Master of Fine Art student at Stellenbosch
University, will host her first solo exhibition at iArt Gallery [more]
This exhibition consists of a collection
of drawings inspired by the artist’s obsessive response to Sylvia Plath’s
poem, Poppies in October [more]
This is Webb’s second solo show at Blank Projects and takes
its starting point from Blank’s relocation to Woodstock. [more]
This major and long-overdue retrospective
exhibition, never seen before in the Cape, showcases the work of Alexis
Preller [more]
Resolution - is a photographic exhibition that focuses on the
suggestion, as opposed to the spectacle of violence. [more]
The annual exhibition features more than forty top established and new
South African artists [more]
The Art Salon aims to present a comprehensive and
varied overview of the current state of South African art. [more]
In this exhibition, South African
artworks from the 1960s to the present are exhibited alongside a
collection of artworks and publications by historical Dada artists. [more]
‘Not Alone – An international project of Make Art/Stop AIDS’
is a contemporary art exhibition featuring the work of artists from
Brazil, United States, India and South Africa. [more]
For its final show of 2009, Whatiftheworld / Gallery
presents a group exhibition featuring a selection of signature works from
emerging South African artists. [more]
No|thing links five innovative artists into a mergence that
explores those blank, empty and evaded spaces that exist in space, mind
and emotion. [more]
House Inc looks into Munnik’s quirkily invented voyeuristic
graphic worlds and their incorporation into 3D installation. [more]
Cape Town’s Iziko South African National Gallery is
pleased to host an exhibition of the work of one of South Africa’s most
celebrated architects. [more]
Juli Jana’s work is characterised by a fluidity of line and expression
whether in colour or monotones [more]
The inaugural exhibition will feature a solo presentation by Belgian-born
photographer Dominique Logan, which captures the spirit, beauty and energy
of Cape Town and its surrounds. [more]
Van Rensburg's work deals mostly with issues facing woman in
a patriarchal, Afrikaner and Calvinistic society. [more]
This group exhibition, the first to be curated by Andrew Lamprecht in
two years, includes new and original work created specifically for this
exhibition by artist Wayne Barker. [more]
As a follow up to his acclaimed debut solo exhibition The Gloaming,
Whatiftheworld / Gallery announces a new solo presentation by painter
Andrzej Nowicki. [more]
From the creators of the Constitutional Court approved
T-shirt, ‘Black Labour. White Guilt’, comes their most controversial
publication to date: Laugh it Off’s 2010 Corpowit Calendar. [more]
As a follow up to the critically acclaimed solo exhibition “…of
bugchasers and watussi faghags,” Ruga’s new exhibition expands on the
themes introduced by the Artist’s chief protagonist [more]
Voight-Kampff at UCA Gallery, curated by Catherine Ocholla, will
feature works by artists including Shani Nel, David Scadden, Justin Allart,
Niklas Wittenberg and Catherine Ocholla [more]
The AVA Members' exhibition offers Cape Town the opportunity to view
works from a cross spectrum of Art production in the Western Cape. [more]
Artists use traditional media for expression in inventive and innovative
ways, ‘exploring the unknown’ so to speak [more]
Far from the squalid India en vogue, the India of “Shantaram” and “Slumdog
Millionaire”, Caroline Gibello’s photographs are taken between Delhi and
Gangotri. [more]
In Saturnine, Connor Cullinan utilizes acrylic paintings and
screen prints to explore the victim/victimizer relationships. [more]
After two years in the making, Zander Blom’s latest solo exhibition and
publication arrives at the Whatiftheworld / Gallery [more]
Mia Feinstein - celebrity dog photographer in the UK - will be exhibiting
at Cafe Manhattan in Green Point and Sea Point. [more]
Tony Squance's first solo exhibition in Madrid was
based on observations of people as they travelled to work in the
underground system in the morning [more]
Strydom spends a lot of time in the rural areas of Natal and has
capture the love of soccer and passion for the game in these remote areas.
[more]
“What We See” offers a unique opportunity to hear
indigenous people’s reactions recorded directly after the event of their
early 20th Century casting. [more]
The Camissa Collective invites residents of Cape
Town to attend and exhibit at its 5th annual
Month of Peoples Photography [more]
‘Tales from the Mantelpiece’ is an exhibition of small-scale sculpture
by three contemporary artist jewellers [more]
Gers' pottery works are heavily influenced by Japanese designs and
glazes, especially the Hagi, Shino and Celadon glazes [more]
Sing Into My Mouth takes as its curatorial lead one established by
Tacita Dean in her exhibition, An Aside. [more]
Nuance contains work by four painters and a sculptor who speak to the
body as a site of social and emotional politics. [more]
The exhibition Out of Sight begins at the site of the infamous
Graaff's Pool, best known as a homosexual cruising spot [more]
Avant Car Guard are a Johannesburg-based three member visual art
collective, exhibiting and authoring as a singular artist. [more]
When one refers to a social pattern one is referring to the composite of
traits, features, tendencies, characteristics, that form a consistent
arrangement associated with an individual or group. [more]
In 2001, Christopher Slack began producing work
informed by the “War on Terror” media epidemic that ensued after the 9/11
attack. [more]
Aesthetically this exhibition references the visual vernacular of
popular youth culture, bringing to mind the work of artists such as Rita
Ackermann, Aya Takano and Yoshitomo Nara. [more]
Pigment on Paper presents work by five
local artists, the commonality being the paper on which the images appear.
[more]
The Dance Paintings by Polly Alakija capture in monumental
scale the human movement in dance. [more]
In his second solo exhibition at Bell-Roberts, Mxolisi continues with his
theme examining socio-political issues [more]
Running at Iziko South African National Gallery, Patriarch explores the
shifts that have occurred in the way that male identity is depicted in the
visual arts in the country. [more]
This is a photographic exploration of three Durban neighbourhoods which
form part of the city’s residential-industrial hinterland. [more]
This exhibition comprises a multi-channel projection installation of
eight film fragments, first presented to international
acclaim at the Sydney Biennale in June this year [more]
The artworks in this salon style summer show range
from traditional to more conceptual approaches to the genre across a range
of media. [more]
The Hout Street Gallery’s popular Summer Salon will showcase work by
some of South Africa’s top artists as well as a selection of emerging
names and new pieces. [more]
The Art Salon – considered one of the key events in Cape Town’s visual
arts calendar – aims to present a comprehensive and varied overview of the
current state of South African art [more]
This summer visitors to the various Iziko museums will be treated to a
host of exhibitions, from Rock Art of the San to works by the acclaimed
William Kentridge [more]
At the heart of Kate Gottgens’ latest body of work lies
a sense of entrapment; a quiet dissonance that emerges in the use of
evocative imagery, painted in ash [more]
Artist Cathy Abraham has produced a multidimensional
body of work over the past year, culminating in this multi-faceted
exhibition: naked [more]
Stow's paintings are interpretations of the art of the San, informed by
his own understanding of a particularly turbulent time in South African
history [more]
"The Bijou burns again" includes diverse styles representing the latest
works of established local artists [more]
The major themes of Tamlin’s work revolve around cross-cultural South
African symbols of wealth, status and belonging. [more]
This triennial festival will showcase a wide spectrum of South African
photographers, from conceptualist fine artists to photojournalists and
studio photographers. [more]
Iziko has a superb collection of musical instruments from Southern,
Eastern and Central Africa that are presented as sculptures. [more]
Clinton Wood is continually searching for new techniques in his art
and every painting is an experiment in some form - as a result he does not
have a particular style one would say is associated with being Clinton
Wood! [more]
An instinctive expressionist, Adams’ subject matter is evidence of a
deep social commitment and he can rightly be seen as an heir to Francisco
Goya. Often his subject matter is inspired by international events but he
always returned to South Africa for inspiration [more]
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