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  • The Congo Biennale, curated by Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo and Nicolas-Patience Basabose, will take place over 33 days in public spaces, a fine Art Institute, gallery spaces, Kin Art Studio space, the French Institute and Bilembo art center. More than 40 artists, designers, architects, art historians, curators, art critics and others from 5 continents, have been invited to propose a project...
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    Congolese contemporary art festival set to start in October
  • Patrick Rulore with his winning painting, Stage 4 moments. All images courtesy of the artists and Sasol.
    Pretoria student, Patrick Rulore, 24, currently completing a National Diploma in Fine Arts at the Tshwane University of Technology, has been announced as the winner of the 2019 Sasol New Signatures Art Competition Rulore has won the coveted award for his oil on canvas work titled Stage 4 moments.  In his artist statement he said, “In the beginning of this...
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    Pretoria student wins Sasol New Signatures 2019 with oil on canvas work
  • Mozambican sculptor Gonçalo Mabunda expresses the wastefulness of war in his reflections on his country’s history Gonçalo Mabunda, The Owner of the New Looks, 2018. Soldering on obsolete militar metal, 60 x 60 x 15cm. Courtesy of the artist & This Is Not a White Cube. ART AFRICA spoke to Gonçalo Mabunda, who was represented by Angolan gallery This Is Not...
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    Weapons for Peace
  • Karatara: Ambient Composition, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 82.5 x 117.5cm.
    Nina Holmes is a Cape Town-based artist and has been featured in many group shows in and around Cape Town. Some of the shows where she has presented her artwork are 'She is the Masterpiece' at Nova Constantia (2010), 'Interesting Places' at Casa Boho in Kalk Bay (2013) and 'Breathe' at Eclectica Contemporary gallery (2019). She has also had...
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    it is not what i see
  • The African Space Projects intends to send work by an African artist into space in 2021 on the nose of an Ariane 5 rocket. African Artists for Development (AAD) – a philanthropic organisation founded by French art collectors, Matthias and Gervanne Leridon – initiated the project in partnership with the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat), the...
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    African art to be launched into space
  • Chechu Álava, Rebel Kid, 2019. Oil on Canvas, 35 x 27cm. Courtesy of the artist & SMAC Gallery.
    SMAC Gallery to host exhibition inspired by artists personal matrilineal ancestry 'The Female Line' calls on the artist to critically consider the inherited roles that exist within their matrilineal ancestry. In addressing and focussing closely on aspects of a culture driven by female agents (mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts) – this exhibition asks the artist to engage with their personal matrilineal...
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    The Female Line
  • Vitruviano 16, 2019.
    Multi-disciplinary Angolan artist Januário Jano moves between three continents to create work focusing on personal and creative histories ART AFRICA spoke to Januário Jano, who was represented by Angolan gallery This Is Not A White Cube at ARCOlisboa this year, about his practice, upcoming exhibitions, and how his work that sees his traveling across cultures, better allows him to reflect...
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    Home and Abroad
  • Gabrielle Goliath, This is a song..., 2019. All images courtesy of Standard Bank Gallery
    Gabrielle Goliath’s sound installation gives a song to the lived experiences of rape survivors South African multimedia artist, gender advocate and now 2019’s Standard Bank Young Artist award winner for visual art, Gabrielle Goliath (b.1983), brings her new work, This song is for… to Johannesburg this Women’s Month. Following its successful run at this year’s National Arts Festival in Makhanda,...
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    This song is for…
  • Bag Factory Artists' Studio
    Bag Factory Artists’ Studio has announced Helen Uambembe, Oupa L. Sibeko and Wezile Mgibe as the winners of the 2019 David Koloane Award The annual award, launched to honour the life and career of the late Dr David Koloane (1938-2019), celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Koloane, a founding member of the Bag Factory more than 28 years ago, was...
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    Bag Factory Announces 2019 David Koloane Award Winners
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COLLECTOR. magazine

  • 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...
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    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...
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    Aspire Art Auctions defies flat market in groundbreaking Johannesburg sale
  • William Kentridge | Drawing of William and Anne | Charcoal on paper | 99 x 70cm | R 1 800 000 - 2 500 000
    Strauss & Co Johannesburg Auction - 20 May 2019 Strauss & Co, the world’s foremost auction house for South African art, is delighted to announce details of its forthcoming Johannesburg sale at the Wanderers Club on 20 May. Following shortly on the company’s recording-breaking R106 million sale in Cape Town, this offering includes important artworks by moderns Alexis Preller, Irma...
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    Strauss & Co sale highlights how artist-teachers have shaped SA art
  • Chéri Samba, (born in 1956, Democratic Republic of Congo) L’attachement aux racines, 2010. Acrylic and glitter on canvas, 135 × 200cm. Estimate: 60.000 / 80.000€
    On May 15th, PIASA will present its ninth African contemporary art sale. Some 150 modern and contemporary works, paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures will offer a panorama of the diversity of a buoyant art scene. A segment dedicated to Textiles & Design will be presented in an exclusive online sale. The first section of the catalogue will be dedicated to modern...
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    PIASA Auction House ninth African contemporary art sale
  • Hassan El Glaoui / La Sortie Du Roi / £80,000-120,000 / Copyright: The Estate of the Artist
    Sotheby’s Sale Returns for its Fourth Consecutive Season on 2 April 2019 March 2019, London: This April, Sotheby’s dedicated sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art will return to London for a fourth consecutive season. Since the inauguration of the series in 2017, Sotheby’s sales in the category have achieved fifty world records, championing the work of artists from across the...
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    Modern and Contemporary African Art Returns to London
  • ART AFRICA’s collaboration with Robin Sprong for the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2019. All images courtesy of Robin Sprong.
    Creating moods and atmospheres with cultivating designs ART AFRICA has had the pleasure of working with the Cape Town-based, multi-award winning wallpaper studio Robin Sprong on more than one occasion. What has always set Robin Sprong apart is the company’s focus on creative collaboration and artistic nurturance brought together with high-end printing facilities and surface print offering.   The Desert Grace Lodge, Namibia,...
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    Wallpaper that speaks
  • Exterior of Villa Africa.
    New gallery and showroom in downtown Cape Town, celebrates the exuberance of the contemporary African design scene. The designer Philip Tyers has combined an eclectic collection of art, sculpture and furniture which combines the tribal rawness with honed international design sensibility for more than twenty-five years, Philip has created a unique branded interior which expresses the latest trend in African...
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    Villa Africa
  • Fallen From Grace, 1972-1976. Watercolour on canvas, 93.5 x 93.5cm. All images courtesy of the artist & SMO Contemporary Art.
    The Nigerian Modernist who contributed to building the bedrock of the contemporary art movement in Nigeria Professor Oseloka Osadebe is one of the most important artists to come out of Onitsha, Nigeria. He has made many contributions to the growth of contemporary art in Nigeria. An active member of the Zaria Art Society, Osadebe left Nigeria to pursue his graduate...
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    Living Between Spirituality and Reality
  • Untitled, 2018. Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 170cm.
    The Cape Verdian brothers, Manuel and Tchalé Figueira While genetics play a major role in artistic talent and ‘it is in the family’ is a common refrain as an explanation for all kinds of abilities, in visual art it is quite unusual for siblings to achieve concurrently major artistic reputations. In the case of Cape Verdian Figueira brothers, that is...
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    Masters we need to master
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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....
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    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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