OLIVIÉ KECK / IN BLOOM
“This show embodies a young fever dream. Themes in the work explore the seduction of youth, young romance and the passing of time. It’s a…
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DANIEL LEVI / ASYMMETRICAL IDENTITIES
“Painting is about finding essences. Human forms, faces, vessels of identity – my subjects – are the carriers of paint. Representing a human being is nebulous…
WHY SHOULD I HESITATE: PUTTING DRAWINGS TO WORK / WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
The largest ever survey exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist William Kentridge is heading into its last month in Cape Town. This major exhibition is hosted…
TOMORROW, THERE WILL BE MORE OF US
Stellenbosch Triennale aims to make Stellenbosch a primary destination of multi-disciplinary art in Africa. The Stellenbosch Triennale, brainchild of the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust, takes…
BHOY / ANTONI SENDRA
BHOY is a teenager forced to mature in a savage world ruled by a god whale. I love comic books. Since I was a teen….
HERO / KEVIN MACKINTOSH
HERO (2014 – 2019), the project is a series of ‘styled and controlled’ portraits and was created over a five year period in various locations…
OR/BITING AURABOROS
We were drawn to various mythologies spanning between alchemy and after lives, snake-headed gorgons and chakras. We wanted to create a collection that reorganized and…
GOLD
This work is an exploration of painting in the expanded field, which is the idea (and/or act) of taking the three main elements of a…
YUNG LENOX / LIVE FAST, DRAW YUNG
The story of Yung Lenox: Rap’s most prolific portraitist. Described by LA Weekly as the ‘Foremost Doodler of Rap’, this hilariously endearing film follows Seattle’s…
KRAS x L i L i † H / PHALLUS
KRAS is a music/art project formed by Brandon Reeff and partner Duncan Gosling. Our idea for the project is to create visual pieces, along with…
INTERLUDE / TERENCE GINJA-MARTINHO
Terence Ginja-Martinho is a freelance animator and designer from France based in Brazil working on projects worldwide. Interlude is A personal short film about an…
VOICE / BLESSING NGOBENI
Blessing Ngobeni was born in 1985 in a small rural town of Tzaneen in Limpopo. At the age of ten, he moved to Johannesburg where,…
CONSTRUCTIVE / FATIMAAH MOHAMED LUKE
Faatimah Mohamed-Luke is a visual artist and designer based in Cape Town. In 2003 she graduated from Cape Technikon with ND: Fashion and also did…
BALEKANE LEGOABE / STATE OF THE ART GALLERY AWARD WINNER 2019
The fact that humans can simultaneously experience an array of overlapping emotions is something that has always fascinated me. As people, we have the ability to occupy…
FRUIT OF THE LOOM / DAVE DE WITT
Dave De Witt’s objects bear residual traces of earlier times and actions. They represent a path marked by forms and footprints and of something consumed…
MATERIAL REPRESENTATION / DAN HALTER
If one were to pinpoint the defining qualities of artist Dan Halter’s practice, it would surely be the fusion of language and materiality. Zimbabwean-born Halter…
FRAMEWORK / BRONWYN KATZ
A sense of place is clear as quartz. We remember places as in a vivid dream: down on my haunches, maybe even prone; the earth…
NYASALAND ANALYSAND / SAMSON KAMBALU
The anagrammed title of Samson Kambalu’s second solo exhibition with Goodman Gallery is reflective of the work in both content and form. Draw- ing on…
COVERED / BURTON MILES
“Our eyes are open but we can’t see. The draped fabrics only fall down to the truth of our emptiness. We’re blinded by the bright…
GREY MATTERS / BONOLO KAVULA
Abstraction is me making work in print that goes against what I, as a black female artist, am expected to make.
ADAM BROOMBURG & OLIVER CHANARIN
In the 1930s, when photography was still quite young, the cultural critic Walter Benjamin voiced his concern about the colossal impact that the ability to mechanically reproduce works of art may have on what he called the “aura” of the artwork – its specialness, in other words.
AFTER DARK / ANDREW KAYSER
Sitting drinking tea in his August House studio, Andrew Kayser says that he finds “the idea of the rebel artist behaving badly is an out-dated…
HATA! / LUNGISWA GQUNTA
“The work always has the full story. But I am not always able to articulate it. Or sometimes I don’t want to, because it’s too…
ART OF BROTHER
Art of brother is a collective comprising of Karabo Makenna (b. 1985) and Cobus Engelbrecht (b. 1985) that focuses on multi-disciplinary ways of working. AOB…
VANS / Made for the Makers Classics Collection
Vans, the original action sports footwear and apparel brand, announces the global release of the Made for the Makers collection, celebrating everyday creatives and their…
CONUNDRUM / CENTRE FOR THE LESS GOOD IDEAS
In February this year the social media accounts of art and theatre lovers were suddenly flooded with references to something called The Centre for the…
DEEP BLUE / MIDDLE C
AN ODE TO THE WESKUS (West Coast) “I don’t have a tribal dance, there are no manhood rituals for me. Sitting round this fire with…
THE SKATEROOM / CHERI SAMBA
The artist Chéri Samba is joining The Skateroom family! Cutting edge contemporary art brand, is delighted to announce its new collaboration with the Congolese contemporary…
ADOM / MAMI WATA
Every morning when he paddled out Adom wished for the end. But every time the ocean sent him back and spat him out. Moyo, they…
SAMSON KAMBALU / GHOST DANCE
Samson Kambalu (born 1975) is a Malawi-born, London-based artist and author, who trained as a fine artist and ethnomusicologist at the University of Malawi’s Chancellor…