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  • Hoor Al Qasimi (left). ©Sebastian Böttcher; Okwui Enwezor (right). ©Chika Okeke-Agulu.
    Okwui Enwezor conceived the 15th edition of the Sharjah Biennale (SB15), entitled Thinking Historically in the Present, as a platform to reflect on the past fourteen editions of the Biennial and to consider the future of the biennale model. Hoor Al Qasimi (left). ©Sebastian Böttcher; Okwui Enwezor (right). ©Chika Okeke-Agulu. In accordance with Enwezor’s wishes, SB15 will be realized with the...
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    The Late Okwui Enwezor announced as Curator of Sharjah Biennale 15
  • Thelma Golden (no. 7) is the Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, USA. All images courtesy of ArtReview.
    Thelma Golden, Koyo Kouoh and Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi have been ranked as some of the most prominent individuals in the art world Thelma Golden (no. 7) is the Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, USA. © Julie Skarratt. Glenn D. Lowry is number 1 in the 18th edition of the ArtReview Power 100, the...
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    The most influential people in contemporary art
  • Katharien de Villiers, Bananas and Saints alike, 2019.
    'Bananas and Saints alike', a solo exhibition by Katharien de Villiers will be presented by SMITH in November The question is often asked and seldom resolved. What’s the work about? Katharien de Villiers’s 'Bananas and Saints alike', the artist’s second solo show at SMITH, is difficult to talk about because it avoids a navigable answer. Strange compositions suggest a narrative...
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    Bananas and Saints Alike
  • "Gardens", a site-specific installation, addresses the theme of identity and explores new models of transforming the exhibition space Installation view of "Gardens" at AKAA 2019. All images courtesy of the artist & TINAWC. ART AFRICA spoke to Pedro Pires, who is represented by This Is Not a White Cube, ahead of his solo exhibition at Also Known As Africa (AKAA) 2019 in...
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    Nature created by man
  • Fine Art winner. Hein Waschefort, Where the Moon and Tusks Collide.
    The winners of the inaugural Africa Photo Awards have been announced at a gala event held at the Keyes Art Mile, Johannesburg. Pretoria-based Hein Waschefort walked away with the title of Photographer of the Year for his fine-art image Where the Moon and Tusks Collide. This dreamscape composition blends together photographs of elephants, the moon, clouds and landscapes, taken...
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    The Inaugural Africa Photo Awards
  • Thebe Phetogo, Conspicuous Fraud in Otjikaiva, 2019. Shoe polish collage and acrylic on canvas, 35,8 x 40,5cm.
    Joburg Fringe, a fair that seeks to encourage a diverse art audience, will return to The Art Room with an exhibition of fresh, dynamic and original work by eight South African artists Charity Vilakazi, Shut Eye, 2014. All images courtesy of the artists & Joburg Fringe. The fair is led by an artist-run organisation and this artist-centric model means that more...
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    South Africa's longest running Independent Art Fair returns for its 12th edition
  • The 2020 Standard Bank Young Artists L-R Jefferson Tshabalala (Theatre), Sisonke Xonti (Jazz), Lulu Mlangeni (Dance), Blessing Ngobeni (Visual Art) and Nthatho Mokgata (Music)
    Blessing Ngobeni, Nthato Mokgata, Lulu Mlangeni, Jefferson Tshabalala, and Sisonke Xonti join the ranks of the Standard Bank Young Artists The 2020 Standard Bank Young Artists (left to right) Jefferson Tshabalala (Theatre), Sisonke Xonti (Jazz), Lulu Mlangeni (Dance), Blessing Ngobeni (Visual Art) and Nthatho Mokgata (Music). Five of South Africa's most innovative and talented artistic individuals have been awarded one of...
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    The five artists changing the face of the creative industry
  • The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA) and KADIST, Paris  have announced the presentation of 'Diaspora at Home' a group exhibition curated by Iheanyi Onwuegbucha (CCA, Lagos) and Sophie Potelon (KADIST, Paris) – provides an opportunity to engage in a variety of conversations on the issue of mobility within Africa Diaspora at Home – November 2019 until January 2020. The exhibition...
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    Diaspora at Home
  • Amira Hanafi, Vocabulary Box, 2014. Mixed media. Courtesy the artist
    The International Biennale of Casablanca is pleased to announce the first list of artists selected for its 5th edition Amira Hanafi, Vocabulary Box, 2014. Mixed media. All images courtesy of the artists & The International Biennale of Casablanca. These artists have been selected out of more than 500 applications received from around the world following an open call that ran from...
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    Casablanca Biennale announces first list of artists
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COLLECTOR. magazine

  • Ben Enwonwu's earliest masterpiece soars to £1.1M after thirteen-minute bidding battle – more than seven times above its pre-sale estimate Ben Enwonwu, Christine, 1971. Oil on canvas, 76,3 x 61cm. All images courtesy of the artists & Sotheby's. Sotheby’s fifth sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art, on the 15th of October 2019, surpassed pre-sale expectations to realise £4 million (pre-sale...
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    £4 million: The highest total ever achieved for a sale of modern and contemporary African art
  • Marlene Dumas, The Benefit of the Doubt: Triptych, 2000. Fibre
    The Constitutional Court Trust has been selected as a 2019 Bank of America Art Conservation Project grant recipient that will enable the trust to restore Marlene Dumas's signature 28-metre art work, The Benefit of the Doubt and re-install it in the Court building  by the end of the year Marlene Dumas, The Benefit of the Doubt: Triptych, 2000. Fibre. Courtesy...
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    Constitutional Court Trust to receive Art Conservation Project Grant
  • Gert Kruger, Chief Risk Officer and Executive Custodian of RMB’s Art Collection, & Karel Nel, trustee of the Claire and Edoardo Villa Trust. ©The Promise Group
    A recent restoration and re-siting project undertaken by Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) will see the preservation of Villa’s monumental sculpture Confrontation. In 1978, two years after the Soweto Uprising, the artist and master sculptor Edoardo Villa produced a steel sculpture to engage with and reflect on that confrontational time in South Africa’s history. Now, more than 40 years later,...
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    Rand merchant bank restores and relocates iconic Edoardo Villa work
  • The Unisa Art Gallery was established in 1961 in conjunction with the Department of History of Art and Fine Art, and has developed over the years to become a significant space in the South African art industry. Unisa Art Gallery is a university art gallery under one of the oldest universities in South Africa and one of the largest...
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    Changing with the times: Transforming the acquisition policy of the Unisa art collection
  • Single Gold Coin’ SA25 commemorative coin sets. Limited Edition of 125 sets. Includes: 1 x R500 24ct Gold Proof Coin. ‘9-Coin set’ SA25 commemorative coin set. Limited Edition of 225 sets. Includes: 1 x R500 24ct Gold Proof Coin, 1 x R50 Sterling-Silver Proof Coin, 1 x R50 Bronze Alloy Proof Coin, 1 x R5 Circulation Proof-Quality Coin, 5 x R2 Circulation Proof-quality Coin. ‘8-Coin set’ SA25 commemorative coin sets. Limited Edition of 2250 sets. Includes: 1 x R50 Sterling-Silver Proof Coin, 1 x R50 Bronze Alloy Proof Coin, 1 x R5 Circulation Proof-Quality Coin, 5 x R2 Circulation Proof-quality Coin.
    To celebrate twenty-five years of constitutional democracy, the South African Mint unveiled a new series of collectable coins. SA25 – Celebrating South Africa, introduces into circulation five new R2 coins and a new R5 coin that commemorate the rights and freedoms enshrined in the South African Constitution The artists with the coins they designed at the media launch of the...
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    Artists create commemorative currency
  • Streets of My Youth, 2017. Mixed medium on canvas laid down on board, 24 x 55cm.
    The most extensive collection of paintings by South African Impressionist Adriaan Boshoff is on permanent display in a museum wing named in his honour. The Adriaan Boshoff Museum – housed in the wing of a new private art museum – was opened by Professor Alexander Duffey, head of department of the University of Pretoria Arts in March 2019. The Adriaan...
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    A South African Impressionist memorialised
  • Dylan Lewis, Male trans-figure I maquette, 2009. Bronze sculpture, 60.5 x 77.5 x 24.1cm. Courtesy of the artist & Christie's.
    Christie’s will present  'Shapeshifting' – a sale comprising sixty outstanding animal and figurative bronze sculptures by the renowned South African sculptor, Dylan Lewis in London Dylan Lewis working on a clay prototype. Image courtesy of Kent Andreasen. Over the past decade, Dylan Lewis has been creating a unique seven-hectare sculpture garden in South Africa located in the foothills of the Stellenbosch...
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    Dylan Lewis: Shapeshifting
  • Hamed Abdalla, Untitled, Mid 1960’s. Oil on canvas, 72 x 53cm.
    Ubuntu Art Gallery seeks to extend the narrative of Egyptian art Since opening its doors in October 2014, Ubuntu Art Gallery has specialised in contemporary Egyptian artworks and secondary market Modern Egyptian art, carving a space for Egyptian art in the Middle Eastern North African (MENA) art market. Sayed Abdelrasoul, Untitled, 1968. Oil on canvas, 40 x 60cm. All images courtesy...
    COLLECTOR
    From the archives and beyond
  • WORLD RECORD: Sam Nhlengethwa, Glimpses of the Fifties and Sixties, sold for R967 300
    Aspire went into its latest Johannesburg auction with an innovative strategic focus on quality over quantity, producing spectacular sales of works by under-represented black artists and a special section dedicated to photographs, which proved a resounding triumph, in a first of its kind in the South African auction market. The company continued its resounding success with top international artist...
    COLLECTOR
    Aspire Art Auctions defies flat market in groundbreaking Johannesburg sale
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BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS

  • FRUIT SALAD RETURNING TO CAPE TOWN AFTER A SIX-YEAR ABSENCE, YOUNG PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND CHOREOGRAPHER GAVIN KRASTIN SPOKE TO GENNA GARDINI ABOUT ART, FRUIT AND HOMECOMINGS. top - bottom Gavin Krastin, Lady Exhibiting Satirical Fruit Salad, 2012, ‘Project 200: The Misses/Missus Series’, performance, National Arts Festival; Gavin Krastin, sub-, 2011, performance. Photo: Dianne Jordan; Gavin Krastin, The Pied Piper Pipe Bomber, 2012, ‘Project 200: The Misses/Missus Series’, performance....
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    Gavin Krastin
  • AA BYT BihlebeziSiwani1
    By Anna Stielau Buhlebezwe Siwani, detail from the series 'Inzilo: ngihlahla kwa bafileyo', 2014. Photographer: Raymond du Toit “Someone always cries during my performances,” Buhlebezwe Siwani tells me, adding, “There’s always at least one.” She isn’t bragging – it’s an observation delivered more as a statement of fact than a badge of pride. I ask why she...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    Buhlebezwe Siwani
  • Art South Africa Volume 3: Issue 03 Nandi Mntambo; Dineo Seshee Bopape; Stefanus Rademeyer; Langa Magwa; Jacki McInnes HIRSUTE DIVAS Nandi Mntambo, Idle, 2004, cow hide, fibreglass, resin and steel, 900 x 470 x 590mm. Emerging sculptors who buck the current trend towards installation and cutting-edge new media still need to keep one foot firmly enough in the avant-garde camp to remain on the...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    March 2005
  • Art South Africa Volume 5: Issue 03 Monique Pelser; Sabelo Mlangeni; Zander Blom IDENTITY SWAP AN ELEMENT OF ROLE-PLAY IS CENTRAL TO ALL PORTRAITURE, ARGUES MONIQUE PELSER, THIS UNPUBLISHED PORTFOLIO OF WORK UNDERSCORING HER POINT. BY SEAN O’TOOLE. On one level, her photographs are easily explained. In the manner of the German photographer August Sander, Monique Pelser, a Rhodes University MFA graduate, sought...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    March 2007
  • Art South Africa Volume 5: Issue 04 Pierre Fouché; Lawrence Lemoana; Ruth Sacks EMOTIONAL EXORCISM PIERRE FOUCHÉ ENGAGES IN PART WITH ISSUES OF SEXUALITY BUT DOES NOT WANT HIS WORK LABELLED FOR ANY SPECIFIC AUDIENCE, WRITES KIM GURNEY. left - right Pierre Fouché, The distance between us I, 2003, acrylic and pen on found cardboard puzzle, 135 x 195cm; Pierre Fouché, The distance between us III,...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    June 2007
  • Art South Africa Volume 6: Issue 01 Nelson Makamo; Nyaniso Lindi; Colleen Alborough VOICES OF THE FAMILY NELSON MAKAMO SPEAKS WITH ROBYN SASSEN ABOUT HOW THE WISDOM OF HIS GRANDFATHER UNDERLIES HIS ART MAKING, WHICH RECENTLY CAUGHT THE EYE OF ITALIAN COLLECTORS. At heart a painter, Nelson Makamo became associated with the Artists’ Proof Studio (APS) in Newtown, Johannesburg, in order to gain a sense...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    September 2007
  • First published in Art South Africa Volume 6: Issue 02 Anthea Moys; Simon Gush PLAY WITH ME FOR ANTHEA MOYS MAKING ART IS A MEANS TO CAPTURE, DEMONSTRATE AND REMIND ALL WILLING SOULS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO SIMPLY PLAY, WRITES TEGAN BRISTOW.   Anthea Moys, 94.7 Cycle Challenge, 2007, still from performance staged in Johannesburg. Earlier this year, on a weekday evening in August, the Bag Factory...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    December 2007
  • Art South Africa Volume 6: Issue 03 Alhyrian Laue; Dead Revolutionaries Club; Doing it for Daddy; Lerato Shadi   HAUNTED CUPBOARDS ALHYRIAN LAUE’S SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS, WHILE INVITING CLOSER INSPECTION, RARELY OFFER CLUES TO THEIR MEANING. BY TIM HOPWOOD. left - right Alhyrian Laue, Hypocaustic Grotto, Latrine Larder, An Evening of Social Tightrope Walking, all 2007, all found objects and mixed media. Photos Tim Hopwood. Alhyrian Laue’s astonishing and deeply...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    March 2008
  • Art South Africa Volume 7: Issue 01 Gabrielle Goliath; Hasan and Husain Essop; Reshma Chhiba; Rowan Smith WHODUNIT? SHE DID! GABRIELLE GOLIATH’S RECENT WORK IS AS MUCH ABOUT THE POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL MEANINGS OF THE BODY AS IT IS ABOUT SELF-LOVE AND SELF-LOATHING, WRITES ANTHEA BUYS. top - bottom Bouquet III, (left panel), (middle panel), (right panel), 2007, archival print, 130 x 26cm. Gabrielle Goliath’s first significant...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    September 2008
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