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Hermann Niebuhr
Nasty Cat
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'Unfettered' at Frewin
Turning the tables on the art gallery, Frewin, a quirky interior design shop, has opened its doors to a group of artists, including Andries Botha, Hermann Niebuhr, Tito Zungu, Medina Morphet and Harry Kentrotas. The series of exhibitions will kick-start with a group show, and each artist is later to be given a solo exhibition.
This will be the first time in over a decade that Andries Botha has a show in a commercial space in South Africa. In keeping with this rebellion against the white cube gallery, the paintings are to be hung in an eclectic salon style and the sculptures will interact with the mostly used furnishings already in the shop.
Opens: April 19
Closes: May 9
Frewin
75 Loop Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 422 0366
Hours: Mon - Fri 11am - 3pm, Sat 10am - 1pm
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Dave Robertson
Zamaleki, Cairo 2006
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'The African Issue' at Focus Contemporary Photography Gallery
Focus Contemporary presents its second group photography exhibition entitled 'The African Issue'. The show features Mimi Cherono Ngok, Dave Robertson and Athol Moult.
Cherono Ngok is a Kenyan artist who will show work that investigates the experiences of African immigrants living in Cape Town. Self-taught photographer Dave Robertson will display panoramic photographs taken in Egypt, exploring the juxtaposition of aspects of everyday life that are understood and recognisable with that which is more abstract and metaphysical.
Opens: March 30
Closes: May 2
Focus Contemporary Photography Gallery
2 Long Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 419 8888
Fax: (021) 419 8888
Email: info@focuscontemporary.co.za
www.focuscontemporary.co.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 9am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 2pm
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'Cape '07'
The 'Cape '07' project sets out to be a biennale 'that is not just another biennale'. The new Cape Africa coordinating team of Gabi Ngcobo and Jonathan Garnham has taken over from Gavin Jantjes. Forty five contemporary African artists to use the entire city as a process driven workspace in order create lasting cultural impact on the city. With artists given complete creative freedom, the organisers are calling it a display of 'cultural soup Afrique'.
Some of the biggest names in contemporary African art, like Marlene Dumas, William Kentridge and Godfried Donkor, will show in venues from Khayelitsha and Stellenbosch to the city centre.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
CAPE Africa Platform
71 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 488 3064
Fax: (021) 488 3061
www.capeafrica.org
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''Cape '07': Slave Lodge
The Slave Lodge serves as a backdrop for painter, printmaker and installation artist Muhsana Ali's (Senegal / USA) presentation focusing on issues relating to slavery, history, alienation and dislocation.
Open: April 2
IZIKO Slave Lodge
Cnr Adderley and Whale Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 460 8242
Hours: Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm
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'Cape '07' Official Opening
Opens: 1.30pm, Saturday, March 24 (transport is available from 1pm - 7pm)
Closes: May 2
Lookout Hill
Khayelitsha, Cnr of Spine and Mew Way Roads, Ilitha Park
Hours: Fri and Sat 10am - 4pm
Circular transport route:
CAPE offices, 71 Buitengracht Street
Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha
Stellenbosch
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Santu Mofokeng
Ishamel - Eyes wide shut 2004
cibachrome print
120 x 180cm
Brett Murray
Mediated Morality 2006
metal and gold leaf
dimensions variable
Dineo Bopape
Keep it to yourself (detail) 2005
installation with video
Ingrid Mwangi
Untitled 2006
performance
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Iziko SANG
Standard Bank Young Artist 2006 Churchill Madikida, veteran photographer Santu Mofokeng and internationally acclaimed artist William Kentridge will be exhibiting in the main gallery of the SANG.
Madikida's self-referential videos, performances and installations assess the relationship between contemporary culture and Xhosa tradition. Mofokeng also investigates the complex relationship between African traditions and an imposed Western paradigm in 'Chasing Shadows' where the artist challenges the divisions between traditional healing and professional medical treatment of HIV/Aids. Kentridge will be showing one of his short animated films entitled Tide Table.
Brett Murray's satirical take on the influence of popular media icon Oprah in 'Mediated Morality' leads the viewer into the new media and video lounge at the National Gallery. Here the work of 15 artists who are linked by their personal and political interrogations of a particularly African identity are on display. The artists are Adel Abdessemed (Algeria), Sammy Baloji (DRC), Ty Bello (Nigeria), Dineo Seshee Bopape, Zoulikha Bouabdellah (Algeria/France), Meschac Gaba (Benin), Anawana Haloba (Zambia), Susan Hefuna (Egypt/Germany), Churchill Madikida, Thando Mama, Patrick Mukabi (Kenya), Zanele Muholi, Ingrid Mwangi (Kenya/Germany), Emile Youmbi (Cameroon), Dominique Zinkpé (Benin/France).
Iziko SANG
Government Avenue, The Gardens, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 467 4660
Hours: Tue - Sun 10am - 5pm
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Iziko South African Museum
DRC-based photographer and a video artist Sammy Baloji investigates the undocumented histories suppressed by the unstable political situation in the DRC. In a country where photography is viewed with suspicion and it is illegal to photograph state buildings, his images of ruined urban architecture are especially provocative. His camera becomes a transgressive tool and the act of taking pictures a daring performance. Baloji will show a 50 metre long photographic installation.
Iziko South African Museum
25 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 481 3900
Hours: Mon - Sun 10am - 5pm
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Peter Clarke
Schwitters
mixed media
50 x 35 cm
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The Centre for the Book
In his 'Fanfare' project, art veteran Peter Clarke continues to reveal the poetic dimensions underlying social realities. Clarke will show colourful collages accompanied by playful and evocative prose that is inspired by friends as well as historical, biblical and literary figures.
Alongside Clarke, Senam Okudzeto (Ghana/US/Nigeria/Switzerland), who draws on her personal experience of movement and flux in order to question the relationship between identity and nationality, will create an installation which combines self help books and scam 419 letters that duped people into giving out their banking details.
The Centre for the Book
62 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 423 2669
Hours: Mon - Fri 8.15am - 4.15pm
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Johannes Phokela
Head on collar
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The Michaelis Collection
Johannes Phokela does battle with the sacred icons of European art, from Hogarth to Rembrandt, in order to assert the value of contemporary African art. A truly postmodern painter, Phokela engages with simulation, identity, translation, inclusion and exclusion, while poking fun at overblown Western notions of their own inventiveness. This show features a new series of portrait paintings.
The Michaelis Collection
Greenmarket Square, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 481 3933
Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm
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Penny Siopis
Pinky Pinky: Wounds (detail) 2003-2004
oil and found objects on canvas
380 x 122cm
Annie Anawana Haloba
Salt Licked Map 2005
video still
Annie Anawana Haloba
Salt Licked Map 2005
video still
Mustafa Maluka
Don't stand me down 2007
oil and acrylic on canvas
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The Castle of Good Hope
South Africans Thando Mama, Mustafa Maluka and Penny Siopis are joined by the acclaimed Anawana Haloba (Zambia). Siopis will be presenting an installation of her Pinky Pinky series, which taps into personal childhood memories, dreams and local folklore. In these works, Pinky Pinky is a vaguely threatening figure, the embodiment of anxieties of a personal, social and political nature. Overlapping narratives of personal and collective memories also underpin Anawana Haloba's practise. This Zambian artist installs a sound installation that explores Africa's fractured history using her body to mediate between subjective experiences and external realities.
The influence of popular culture upon the individual is the concern of artists Thando Mama and Mustafa Maluka. Maluka creates stylised portraits that engage with the issues of race, identity and culture. Firmly located within the contemporary, Maluka relies upon the internet in order to redefine notions of place and community. Best known as a video installation artist, Thando Mama's work examines the role of television in society and raises questions about how popular culture impacts on our perceptions of life. He uses video to investigate his black masculine identity, interrogating the mass media's portrayal of black identity and emphasising the role media can play in reflecting positive imagery of Africa.
The Castle of Good Hope
Kasteel Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 787 1260
Hours: Mon - Sun 9am - 4pm
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Hany Rashed
People 2006
photographs and wood (installation detail)
Lolo Veleko
Kinky! 2005
photograph
Nicholas Hlobo
Umthubi 2006
exotic and indigenous wood, steel, wire, ribbon, rubber inner tube
200 x 400 x 730cm (variable)
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Lookout Hill
Lookout Hill will be divided into two thematic components. Nicholas Hlobo's kraal installation, seen at Michael Stevenson last year, will be the central link, because it exists on the border between issues of identity and of space within the urban environment.
Titus Moteyane will display a 7 metre city map and Hany Rashed is to install monochromatic three-dimensional painted assemblages which use scale to question relations of power in the urban environment. Tackling the issues of globalisation from an African perspective, Godfried Donkor (Ghana/UK) uses various methods to expose the hypocrisies of the Western mindset. Donkor explores the history of slavery and its effective commodification of the black body, with a cultural legacy that evidences itself in the contemporary Western media. Mixing conflicting imagery - from heavyweight boxing to the stock exchange - he scrutinizes themes of capitalism, globalisation and liberation. El Loko's site-specific installation will involve the overthrow of traditional power relations. Leading into the area will be a carpet depicting the various heads of state upon which the viewer will be invited to walk. David Goldblatt's photographs explore the subtleties of life in the time of Aids.
The spiritual aspect of creation is explored by Zimbabwean sculptor Mambakwedza Mutasa. His work explores the opposing forces that define human life: spiritual and physical, natural and supernatural. In his often monumental sculptures, the physicality of materials such as scrap metal, stone and wood enliven his themes with a rich, vibrant tactility. Compulsive collector Dineo Seshee Bopape installs a satirical domestic votive altar. Dinkies Sithole expresses African identity through both performance and painting, concentrating on the influence of environment in the creation of his pieces.
In the second thematic component of Lookout Hill, photographic portraits from lesbian activist artist Zanele Muholi compete with the performative fashion icons of Lolo Veleko. Marlene Dumas will show an original portfolio of five pieces, made up of lithographs and a text piece. Dumas' work, which displays the characteristic chromatic restraint that underpins her careful negotiation of the beautiful and the disturbing, taps into societal taboos by presenting a series of decapitated heads. Brett Murray presents three large scale paintings.
Lookout Hill
Cnr Spine Road and Mew Way Road, Ilitha Park, Khayelitsha
Tel: (021) 361 7087
Hours: Mon - Fri 8am - 4:30pm
Saturday by appointment
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Wim Botha
Sublimation 2006
Rhodesian teak parquet blocks, kiaat,
crushed marble, maize meal, electric motor
dimensions variable
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Spier Wine Estate Gallery
Anawana Haloba, Berni Searle and Wim Botha all deal with the role of history in the contemporary mindset. In a particularly apt setting, Searle will display her Approach series that was shot in the local vineyards. Botha's ingenious sculptural installations are marked by an adventurous approach to materials which sees maize meal replace stone as a sculptural material. Throughout his oeuvre Botha has interrogated the symbolic imagery of power and its ideological stranglehold. In Sublimation Botha juxtaposes parquet floors with an endlessly rotating chandelier to symbolize middle class denialism, cracking open the repressed underside of the wealthy.
Lolo Veleko whose vivid, defiant and highly individualised photographs explore the performance of both personal and collective identities in our contemporary world will show photographs here along with video work by Zambian Haloba.
Spier Wine Estate Gallery
R310, Stellenbosch
Tel: (021) 881 3116
Hours: Mon - Sun 10am - 5pm
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Willem Boshoff
SKOOB
installation detail
Billie Zangewa
Christmas at the Ritz 2006
silk collage
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US Art Gallery
illem Boshoff will be creating a site-specific installation in this historic space. Boshoff investigates the scientific practises of classification and the supposedly rational basis of knowledge by creating an installation entitled SKOOB ('books' spelt backwards). The books are complex sculptural objects that indicate a search for order and clarity in a world in which words have lost their true meaning and power.
Hip young artist Robin Rhode will present a video installation which promises to extend this artist's fresh approach to artmaking. Color Chart is a street-savvy work that is both wonderfully comic and deadly serious, taking a fresh look at the haunting spectre of whiteness that continues to wield a psychological power. It incorporates diverse elements of performance, drawing, street art and graffiti through video.
Malawian-born Billie Zangewa's work uses embroidery and collage on fabric to create intimate and personal stories set in the urban environment. Using this medium she creates intimate and personal stories that reflect on urban tensions.
US Art Gallery
Cnr Dorp and Bird Street, Stellenbosch
Tel: (021) 808 3524
Hours: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 9am - 1pm
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'XCape'
'XCape', the independent artist-led fringe of 'Cape '07', will operate in 90 venues across the Cape Town Unicity. The 280 participants will produce an eclectic mix of exhibitions, performances, interventions, events and happenings.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
'XCape' has put together a recommended programme for visitors to see events:
Saturday March 31:
Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Langa and Stellenbosch
10am - 4pm
Circuit After Party: Kwa Mlamli
Gugulethu, NY 146
Tel: 084 435 8789
Wednesday April 4:
The CBD, Tamboerskloof and Foreshore
5pm - 10pm
Circuit After Party: Artheat
The Waiting Room, 3rd floor Royale Eatery, 273 Long Street, Cape Town
Tel: 079 493 6554 / (021) 422 4536
www.artheat.blogspot.com
Saturday April 14:
Observatory, Rosebank and Woodstock
10am - 10pm
Cicuit After Party: Bijou Factory Theatre
Corner Lower Main and Cole Street, Observatory
Tel: 083 721 3108
Saturday March 24:
Salt River, Woodstock, Observatory
Bus Ride 10.30am – 2.30pm
Train Ride 10.45am
Tel: 082 093 5870
Saturday April 14:
Salt River, Woodstock, Observatory
Taxi Loop 11am – 2.30pm
Train Ride 10.45am
Tel: 082 093 5870
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Gerry Dixon
Ex Nihilo
Lookout Hill
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LANGA / GUGULETHU / KHAYELITSHA / STELLENBOSCH
'ReCenter' at Lookout Hill
Mario Pisarro curates 'ReCenter', a group exhibition comprising a range of visual arts media from artists Garth Erasmus, Randolph Hartzenburg, Xolile Mtakatya, Donovan Ward, Ernestine White and the curator himself. The exhibition explores notions of centre/periphery and posits that a more 'aggressive' approach to decentralization is required in order to shift perceptions of marginalization.
Open: March 24 – April 15, April 20 – April 21, April 27 – April 28
Lookout Hill
Mew Way Road, Khayelitsha
Tel: (021) 361 7098
Hours: Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm
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Marieke Kruger
Wedding Feast I
Zest Restaurant
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Marieke Kruger at Zest Restaurant
Recent Absa l'Atelier Award finalist Marieke Kruger presents a selection of large digital prints, litho prints and drawings that intertwine everyday personal experiences with universal biblical events and metaphors.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
ZEST Restaurant
2A Ryneveldt Street, Stellenbosch
Tel: (021) 887 9560
Hours: Mon – Sat 9.30am – 10pm
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'Akuchanyawa' at Kwa Mamli Shebeen
Using the Kwa Mlamli shebeen as a base, the Gugulective reignites the creative crossovers that fired the Drum era in a series of collaborative multimedia works.
Opens: March 31
Closes: April 6
Kwa Mlamli Shebeen
NY 146, Gugulethu
Tel: 084 435 8789
Hours: Mon – Sun 3pm - late
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'Landscapes of Love' at Sasol Art Museum
Amanda Botha curates 'Landscapes of Love' an exhibition that features Lien Botha, Jac de Villiers and Angéle Etoundi Essamba (Cameroon/Netherlands). All photographers, their work is defined by its intimacy, immediacy and emotional depth.
Opens: February 21
Closes: April 5
Sasol Art Museum
52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch
Tel: (021) 808 3691
Hours: Tues – Fri 9 am – 4.30pm, Sat 9am – 4pm
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'Kwela Arts Festival' at Manyanani Peace Park
The 'Kwela Arts Festival' is a celebration of Khayelitsha's creative spirit that features more than 15 artists working in media from dance and music to design and visual arts.
Open: March 31
Manyanani Peace Park
Zakhele Road, Khayelitsha
Tel: (021) 361 4736 / 073 714 4328
Hours: 11 a.m to late
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Chris Wait at the Sasol Art Museum
In 'The Other Side of the Tracks' Chris Wait presents two documentary films that depict the life and views of people living in communities on the edge of a fast developing, modern town. Those marginalised by urbanisation, fragmentation and polarisation in contemporary society are allowed a voice.
Open: March 24, 29 and 31, April 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26 and 28
Sasol Art Museum
52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch
Tel: (021) 808 3691
Hours: Tues – Fri 9 am – 4.30pm, Sat 9am – 4pm
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Damien Schumann
Dialogues – Understanding Tuberculosis
The Show House
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Damien Schumann at the Show House
In 'Dialogues – Understanding Tuberculosis' Damien Schumann offers a deeply personal interpretation of living with TB by showing intimate detailed portraits of patients along with their handwritten texts.
Opens: March 24
Closes: April 6
The Show House
B 431B, Mahobe Street, Nulongile (Site C), Khayelitsha
Tel: 083 3397259
Hours: Mon – Fri 9am – 5 pm
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'Group Exhibition' at the Dorp Street Gallery
This group show brings together a selection of contemporary Stellenbosch artists working in a variety of media.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
Dorp Street Gallery
144 Dorp Street, Stellenbosch
Tel: (021) 886 5703
Hours: Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm, Sat 9am – 2pm
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Tamsin Relly at Guga'Sthebe
Tamsin Relly steps out of her inner-city comfort zone and takes her spontaneous real-time portraiture to Langa. Visitors are invited to participate by sitting for a portrait or contributing to the project journal.
Opens: March 27
Closes: May 5
Guga'Sthebe Cultural Centre
Corner of Washington and Church Street, Langa
Tel: (021) 695 3493
Hours: Mon – Fri 8am – 5pm, Sat – Sun 9am – 1pm
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Mary-Ann Orr at the Mary-Ann Orr Gallery and Art Studio
In 'Trance-Formation: Images of San Cosmology' Mary-Ann Orr uses recycling techniques to present an exhibition of tapestries, paintings and sculptures that depict transformation.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
Mary-Ann Orr Gallery and Art Studio
18 Andriga Street, Stellenbosch
Tel: (021) 886 6871
Hours: Mon – Fri 9am – 6pm
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Minnette Vári
Vigil 2007
digital video installation
Michael Stevenson
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FORESHORE / WATERKANT / CBD
'Afterlife' at Michael Stevenson
Sophie Perryer curates 'Afterlife', an exhibition that explores the nebulous zones where the material and spiritual realms intersect. The selected works reflect on such phenomena as passage or transition from one state of being to another, communication with the spirits or ancestors, rebirth and reincarnation. The selected artists include Wim Botha, Ângela Ferreira, Moshekwa Langa, Mustafa Maluka, Nandipha Mntambo, Samson Mudzunga, Claudette Schreuders, Minnette Vári, James Webb and French/Algerian artist Zineb Sedira.
Opens: March 22
Closes: April 28
Michael Stevenson Contemporary Gallery
Hill House, De Smidt Street, Green Point
Tel: (021) 421 2575
Fax: (021) 421 2578
www.michaelstevenson.com
Hours: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 1pm
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Make your mark 2007
blank projects
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The blank paper projects at blank projects
For the blank paper project, blank projects will become an open studio. And a dynamic installation, comprising of a working table, a pile of paper and pencils. Artists are invited to make drawings on the paper between 1pm and 5pm daily, the results of which will be
hung on the walls of the space. An assistant will be on hand to sharpen pencils. At the end of the show, the drawings will be bound into a book, 'blank paper 2007'.
Opens: March 22
Closes: April 10
blank projects
198 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town
Tel: 072 198 9221
Email: blankprojects@gmail.com
Hours: Tue - Fri 12pm - 5pm, Sat 12pm - 2pm
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Barend de Wet
blank projects
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'Steek' at blank projects
Cult writer Chuck Palahniuk once said: 'the fun part about crafts is they're so easy to make while you watch TV'. Liza Grobler and Barend De Wet seem to have reached a similar conclusion. In 'Steek' they stitch imagery culled from contemporary pop and media culture into cutting-edge embroideries that unpick high/low art divisions.
Opens: April 13
Closes: May 2
blank projects
198 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town
Tel: 072 198 9221
Email: blankprojects@gmail.com
Hours: Tue - Fri 12pm - 5pm, Sat 12pm - 2pm
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Julia Rosa Clarke 2007
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'Hypocrite's Lament' by Julia Rosa Clark at João Ferreira
"I tried to stare into the bright light. The voice said 'this is your
future, all you need to do is give up everything you know and this
will be yours'. I trembled. I wanted to do as the voice said -just to
get rid of it- but I knew it would be imposible for me to quit. All I
could do was wait for the end."
In this room-sized installation, Clark romanticises and bemoans our
millenial obsession with The End, nasty weather, happiness and
Modernity. Using her usual mixture of found and reconstituted bits and
pieces, the work acts as an evolving diagram, in part illustrating the
artist's desire to understand the moment between denial and surrender.
There will also be a number of email based text pieces leading up to the show.
Opens: April 4
Closes: April 24
João Ferreira
70 Loop Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 423 5403
Fax: (021) 423 2136
Email: info@joaoferreiragallery.com
www.joaoferreiragallery.com
Hours: Tues – Fri 11am – 6pm, Sat 11am – 3pm
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Suzanne du Preez
Boundaries
Buitengracht stone wall
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Suzanne du Preez at the Buitengracht stone wall
Suzanne du Preez presents a site-specific installation that investigates social, cultural and personal boundaries, specifically within the fragmented social and urban fabric of Cape Town. Using second-hand jerseys that are deconstructed and then reconstructed, she weaves a solid knitted wall that is placed along the invisible boundary line between the Cape Town CBD and Bokaap.
Opens: March 24
Closes: April 7
Buitengracht stone wall
Corner Buitengracht and Pepper Street, Cape Town
Tel: 083 391 0444
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Lawrence Lemoana
I love you positive or negative
Alliance Française du Cap Gallery
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Lawrence Lemoana at Alliance Française
In 'Player of Colours', Lawrence Lemoana, the 2005 Absa L'Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award winner, presents paintings, cushions and sculptures which probe his complex identity as an artist, a black South African male and a rugby player. Combining fast-witted irony, camp aesthetics and crafty kitsch humour, these works effortlessly tackle masculine themes such as identity, sexuality and history.
Opens: March 29
Closes: April 18
Alliance Française du Cap Gallery
155 Loop Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 423 5699
Hours: Mon – Tues 9am – 7pm, Fri 9am – 5pm, Sat 9am – 1pm
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'Making Space' at Castle of Good Hope
A diverse group of visual artists - operating as the GoodHopeArt Studio express their personal mythology and interpret the concept of SPACE using various media including painting, drawing, print making, mixed media and installation works.
Opens: March 24
Closes: April 27
Adam Tas Studio
Castle of Good Hope, Corner Buitenkant and Darling Street, Cape Town
Tel: 083 343 1551
Hours: Mon – Sat 10am – 4pm
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Myer Traub at what if the world…
Cultural activist and impresario Myer Taub combines live art and performance with interactive narratives, maps, hidden treasures and political dynamics in this once-off event held at What if the World and two other undisclosed sites. Titled 'Injunction', it aims to serve a firm warning to the city of Cape Town about its dubious maternal status.
Open: April 4, 6pm – 10pm
What if the World…
11 Hope Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 461 2573
www.whatiftheworld.com
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Elizabeth Gunter
Hippo 2007
Charcoal on paper
Erdmann Contemporary
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Elizabeth Gunter at Erdmann Contemporary
Artist and lecturer Elizabeth Gunter's finely rendered charcoal drawings combine ambiguous symbolic iconography and virtuoso technique. Loot sees a highly personal exploration of the signification of the animal in constructing symbolic identity.
Opens: April 4
Closes: April 28
Erdmann Contemporary
63 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 422 2762
www.erdmanncontemporary.co.za
Hours: Mon – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 1pm
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Tamlin Blake
Chickens
Bell-Roberts Contemporary
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Tamlin Blake at Bell-Roberts
Tamlin Blake's poetic and political oeuvre is realised in diverse and often marginalised media, including sewing, embroidery and beadwork. In 'Birthright' she contrasts disturbing imagery drawn from commercial farming and ritual practises of slaughter with the seductive beauty of her materials to create deft explorations into historical value systems and cultural identity.
Opens: April 4
Closes: April 28
Bell-Roberts Contemporary
89 Bree Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 422 1100
Fax: (021) 423 3135
Email: suzette@bell-roberts.com
www.bell-roberts.com
Hours: Mon - Fri 8.30am - 5.30pm, Sat 10am - 2pm
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Vaughn Sadie
100m Sprint 2006
installation detail
AVA
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'From Here to There' at the AVA
Artist and curator of the DUT Gallery Nontobeko Ntombela and Storm Janse Van Rensburg, former KZNSA curator, now working for Goodman Gallery Cape, curate this group exhibition featuring recent works by contemporary artists living and working in KwaZulu Natal in order to explore the contextual shifts that 'representative exhibitions' provoke. Works included range from subtle subversions of KwaZulu Natal's rich craft traditions (Clive Sithole), to socially provocative video interventions (Doung Anwar Jahangeer) and deeply personal prints (Gabisile Nkosi).
Opens: March 26
Closes: April 13
AVA
35 Church Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 424 7436
Fax: (021) 423 2637
Email: avaart@iafrica.com
www.ava.co.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 1pm
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Kurt Campbell
Vessel Headrest
Worldart
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Kurt Campbell at Worldart
Combining visionary, conceptual and craft approaches, Kurt Campbell creates sculptures and prints that explore the uneasy relationship between coloniser and colonised. In 'Fever-Sleep' he inserts 'colonial materials' like bullets, nails and coins into traditional African headrests to create bristling, visceral works that disrupt these objects' traditional use.
Opens: April 30
Closes: May 2
Worldart
54 Church Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 423 3075
www.worldart.co.za
Hours: Mon – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 2pm
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'Cipher and Cynopolis' at AVA
UK-based photographer Chris Webster continues his ongoing exploration into the unconscious through darkly mysterious, fragmented photographic assemblages in 'Cipher', while painter Gretchen van der Byl combines technical precision with an uncanny poetic insight in 'Cynopolis'.
Opens: April 16
Closes: May 5
AVA
35 Church Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 424 7436
Fax: (021) 423 2637
Email: avaart@iafrica.com
www.ava.co.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 1pm
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Dale Yudelman
Silver Man
Jo'burg Bar Gallery
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Dale Yudelman at Jo'burg Bar
Imbued with story-telling innuendo, satirical humour and social commentary, 'Reality Bytes' an exhibition by acclaimed photographer Dale Yudelman embraces fictive 'truths' aimed at provoking the assumptive mind.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
Jo'burg Bar Gallery
218 Long Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 422 0142
Hours: Mon – Sat 6pm – 4am
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James Seigel
Thai Soy
Freida's Café
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James Seigel at Freida's Café
In 'Treasure in a Teacup' James Seigel explores the small details, subtle nuances and hidden beauty that make up contemporary reality. Through his travels he documents and presents fresh insights into the small treasures that we so often take for granted.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
Freida's Café
15 Bree Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 421 2404
Hours: Mon – Fri 8am – 4pm
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'Voyage Ensemble II' at Scalabrini Centre
The 'Voyage Ensemble' exhibition curated by Sylvie Groschatau-Philips reflects the movement of African people and their cultures. Featuring the individual work of 5 professional artists from Congo, Burundi and Mozambique alongside 6 South African artists, it aims to foster exchange and challenge xenophobia.
Opens: March 29
Closes: April 7
Scalabrini Centre
47 Commercial Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 465 6433
Hours: Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm
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'The Brown Europe Pageant / Round One' at Bell-Roberts
'The Brown Europe Pageant' comprises stylised video profiles, with accompanying photographs and design prints,that examine identity in terms of the constant creolisation of culture. Featuring women of colour from across Europe it looks towards the 'Age of the Flipside', a new future that transcends current black-white, coloniser-colonised binary divisions.
Opens: April 14
Closes: May 9
Bell-Roberts Contemporary
89 Bree Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 422 1100
Fax: (021) 423 3135
Email: suzette@bell-roberts.com
www.bell-roberts.com
Hours: Mon - Fri 8.30am - 5.30pm, Sat 10am - 2pm
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Pieter Badenhorst
Sasol in Albert Rd Woodstock 2006
Paddy's Service Station
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Pieter Badenhorst at Paddy's Petrol Station
The embassies of global oil giants, policed by a uniformed army, lit up like movie sets, open 24/7. South Africa's service stations have become oasis' for a middle class terrified by the nocturnal, urban landscape. Photographer Pieter Badenhorst captures this world in his 'Oasis' photographic installations shown at service stations throughout the City Bowl.
Opens: March 29
Closes: April 24
Paddy's Service Station
130 Buitenkant Street, Gardens
Tel: 083 253 8416
Open all hours
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Five Faces of Modern South East Asia at VEO
Featuring original work by five Balinese contemporary artists, 'Five Faces of Modern South East Asia' explores the changes that have taken place in the region in recent years. The exhibition also highlights the move towards more expressionistic and abstract modes of artistic representation among the new generation of Balinese artists.
Opens: April 12
Closes: April 23
VEO Gallery
28 Jarvis St, De Waterkant, GreenPoint
Tel: (021) 421 1568
www.veo.co.za
Hours: Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm
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Carolyn Parton at Hippocampus
In 'Release' artist and designer Carolyn Parton explores the three-dimensional sculptural possibilities of paint. The works on show consist solely of paint released from a surface support and suspended from carbon-fibre rods.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
Hippocampus
4th Floor, De Waterkant Centre, 9 Somerset Rd, Greenpoint
Tel: (021) 421 0948
Hours: Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm, Sat by appointment
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'The Lovestick Collective' at The Bin
Combining the talents of Justin, Loveme and Motel 7, street art and design collective, 'The Lovestick Collective' have developed a reputation as one of the Mother City's hottest new creative crews. Expect a fashion, pop-culture and art mash-up that blends wicked humour with tight skills and a street-savvy improvised flair.
Opens: April 8
Closes: May 2
The Bin Gallery
105 Harrington Street, East City
Tel: (021) 465 8314
www.thebin.co.za
Hours: Mon – Fri 10 am – 6pm, Sat 10.30am – 3pm
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'Grassgrassgrass' at Thibault Square
Grass is typically suburban and domestic: tamed, prescribed and controlled. Here it finds itself a new form, which invites interpretation and lends itself to a fresh reading. In a series of site specific urban interventions the greenery of suburbia confronts and meets the city with specific randomness.
Opens: April 4
Closes: April 6
Thibault Square and blog
Between Adderly, Riebeek, Hans Strydom and Long Street, Cape Town
www.multimediations.org/michelle
Hours: 8am – 6pm
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'Who Are They Really?' at 38 Special
This wide-ranging group show sees Cape Town artists Alessandra Desole, Janet Ranson, Kate Smith, Michael Goldberg, Selvyn November and Xolile Mtaktya come together to explore their influences and inspirations. Expect diverse process-driven, self-reflective works that range from the humorous to the heroic, presented in a variety of media including drawing, painting, photography and installation.
Opens: March 31
Closes: April 19
38 Special
38 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 462 1348
Hours: Mon – Fri 7.30am – 4pm
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'Hot Not Café' at Saint Stephens Church
For most of its history, Heritage Square (formerly known as Hottentot Square) has been a place of gathering and celebration. Every Thursday evening during 'XCape', Hot Not Café will bring this tradition back to life on the site of the city's first theatre, Saint Stephen's Church, with an open market for the arts, featuring artists remixing stories and images from Cape Town's invisible histories. Visitors are also invited to participate in Hot Not Café's open-mic evenings of sound, video, and performance every Thursdays from sundown.
Opens: April 4
Saint Stephens Church
Riebeeck Square parking lot, Buitengracht Street, Cape Town
Tel: 083 769 2138
Hours: 7pm til late
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Dathini Mzayiya at erf [81] Farm
In 'The Journey Continues' Dathini Mzayiya skilfully blends graphic, gestural and painterly sensibilities in his expressive figure drawing. For this exhibition he makes visible and challenges the binaries that haunt society: right/ wrong, good/ bad, left/ right, black/ white.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
Erf [81] Farm
Erf 81 Military Road, Tamboerskloof
Tel: 076 866 8426
Hours: Mon – Fri 12pm – 4pm, Sat by appointment
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'Modern Russian Painting' at 3rd i Gallery
This exhibition of modern Russian paintings by a selection of established artists presents a thought-provoking look at contemporary life in this post-communist country. The show runs alongside the Russian Film Festival.
Opens: April 5
Closes: April 26
3rd i Gallery
95 Waterkant Street, Foreshore
Tel: (021) 425 2266
Hours: Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm, Sat 9.30am – 1pm
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Daya Heller at erf [81] Farm
In 'Home' Heller presents a body of work that investigates the human body as a site for the meeting point of the physical and the divine. Based on cycles of life and death, journey, process and transformation, it juxtaposes inanimate figurative sculpture with the live bodies that occupy the same space.
Opens: March 28
Closes: May 5
Erf [81] Farm
Erf 81 Military Road, Tamboerskloof
Tel: 076 866 8426
Hours: Mon – Fri 12pm – 4pm, Sat by appointment
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'The Life and Work of Petrovic Petar' at Intimate Theatre
'The Life and Work of Petrovic Petar' is a multimedia performance piece that takes audiences on a tour of Africa through the eyes of its protagonist, a European refugee in Africa. Questions of race, identity, history, geography, sexuality, pop culture and tradition all blend in this tragic-comic encounter.
Opens: April 2
Closes: April 7
Intimate Theatre
Hiddingh Campus, 31-37 Orange Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 480 7129
Hours: 8pm daily
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'Bridging the Gap' at The Spearhead
This group exhibition brings together three South African artists - German Mahlase, Vuysani Migijima and Charles Maleka - who create their own visual language to communicate their experiences and sensations to the viewer. The work on show includes painting and pottery that ranges from the abstract to the representational.
Opens: February 5
Closes: May 2
The Spearhead
42 Hans Strydom Ave, Foreshore
Tel: (021) 423 5309
Hours: Mon – Sun 8am – 10pm
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Jonathan Basckin at Howzitchina Galleries
After successful exhibitions in London and Beijing, Cape Town pilot and photographer Jonathan Basckin presents a new body of graphic, abstract arial vistas that highlight the tensions and exchanges between culture and nature. 'Abstract by Nature Two' includes his Tankwa Schools Project, which adds an important on-the-ground human counterpoint to his work's abstract seductive force.
Opens: March 20
Closes: May 5
Howzitchina Galleries
7 Upper Orange Street, Oranjezicht
Tel: 083 461 7796
Hours: Mon – Fri 9am – 1pm
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Bridget Baker
The Blue Collar Girl (Cape Town) 2004
Lambda print and diasec
54.5 x 241.5cm
João Ferreira
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'Group Show' at João Ferreira
The João Ferreira Gallery has a reputation for presenting a diverse, commercially smart but conceptually strong and defiantly edgy artistic dossier. In 'Group Show' they bring together works from recent exhibitions by artists including Bridget Baker, Alan Alborough, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Egon Tania, Eleonora Rossi, Mark Hipper, Tracey Lindner Gander, Tom Cullberg and Dave Southwood.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
João Ferreira
2nd Floor, 80 Hout Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 423 5403
Fax: (021) 423 2136
Email: info@joaoferreiragallery.com
www.joaoferreiragallery.com
Open by appointment
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Sasha Hartslief at Everard Read
In 'Windows' Sasha Hartslief observes and investigates the underbelly of Cape Town's urban life. Her broad brushstrokes and rich palette render people and places suspended in moments of introspection.
Opens: April 26
Closes: May 10
Everard Read Gallery
3 Portswood Road, V&A Waterfront
Tel: (021) 418 4527
www.everard_read_capetown.co.za
Hours: Mon – Fri 9am – 6pm, Sat 9am – 1pm
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Gavin Rain
She got the job, detail
Worldart
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'Elements of Texture' at Worldart
Gavin Rain, Richard Scott, Russel Travis, Varneka Paschke combine familiar and innovative painting methods in order to create a reality that both reflects contemporary society and provokes viewers to see it afresh.
Opens: March 28
Closes: April 28
Worldart
54 Church Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 423 3075
www.worldart.co.za
Hours: Mon – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 2pm
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'Potart' at 34Long
The starkly elegant shapes, beautiful surfaces and high esteem in which clay pots are held in Zulu culture have, with justification, attracted the attention of collectors world-wide. This exhibition includes only pots that were originally used in domestic contexts. Among them are revered ceremonial vessels and exciting contemporary examples.
Opens: April 3
Closes: May 5
34Long
1st Floor, 34 Long Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 426 4594
www.34long.com
Hours: Tues – Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm
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'The Lion and the Jackal' at The Loop
This group exhibition, featuring photographs taken by ordinary people, aims to explore the potential for a visionary perspective of society: 'a living story, a thread of in-between-ness, of happenings together' that maps the movement of peace though Africa. Also on show are artwork created during an artist workshop focussed on the power of breath.
Opens: March 24
Closes: April 16
The Loop
2 Loop Street, Cape Town
Tel: 073 766 6820
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Kendell Geers
La Sainte Vierge 57 2004
indian ink on paper
200 x 140cm
Goodman Gallery Cape
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WOODSTOCK / OBSERVATORY / SALT RIVER / RONDEBOSCH
'Lift off Part I' at Goodman Gallery Cape
'Lift off Part I' is the inaugural exhibition of the Goodman Gallery Cape. A decade after the first 'Lift Off' exhibition at the launch of the new Goodman Gallery premises in Johannesburg, gallerist Linda Givon has invited many of the original artists to participate in the debut of her Cape Town venture. The show features Willie Bester, Norman Catherine, Kendell Geers, David Goldblatt, Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge, Kagiso Pat Mautloa, Sam Nhlengethwa, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Penny Siopis and Sue Williamson.
Opens: March 22
Closes: April 28
Goodman Gallery Cape
3rd Floor Fairweather House, 176 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock
Tel: (021) 462 7573
Fax: (021) 462 7579
Email: info@goodmangallerycape.com
Hours: Tue - Fri 9.30am - 5.30pm, Sat 10am - 4pm
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Sue Williamson & Pat Ward Williams
Comfort Zones 2006
Video installation still
Salt Project Room
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'Comfort Zones' at Salt Project Room
Salt, a new independent project space, presents its inaugural exhibition, 'Comfort Zones', an interactive digital video collaboration between Sue Williamson and US artist Pat Ward Williams. In frank interviews, South Africans and Americans reveal their feelings on the touchy issue of race, racial attitudes and the possibility of forgiveness.
Opens: March 23, 6-8pm
Closes: April 28
Salt Project Room
6 Spencer Road, Salt River
Tel: 082 093 5870
Hours: March 24 – 31: 10am – 4pm; April 2 – 28: Wed 10am – 4pm and Sat 10am – 2pm
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Sanell Aggenbach
Three Men
Van Kalker Photography Studio
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Sanell Aggenbach at Van Kalker Photography Studio
Sanell Aggenbach's installations, paintings and prints deal with our shifting cultural heritage, memory and social history. In this new body of work entitled 'Perfectly Still' she draws on images sourced from Van Kalker, a community photographer who documented Woodstock, where Aggenbach lives, from 1937 till the late 1970's. Some of the original photographic prints will also be displayed separately.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
Van Kalker Photography Studio
47 Victoria Road, Woodstock
Tel: (021) 448 0181 / 082 956 5290
Hours: Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm
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Bijou Factory Theatre
The Bijou Factory, a space and a dance theatre company run by French director Sarah Lefevbre, team up with Mlu Zondi's award winning experimental company, Sololique Projects and Citibird Creative Arts to present an exciting programme of theatre, dance, multimedia, poetry and party sounds.
Opens: April 5, 8.30pm – 12pm
Closes: April 14
Bijou Factory Theatre
Corner Lower Main and Cole Street, Observatory
Tel: 083 721 3108
Hours: April 12 from 7pm; April 14 from 10am
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'Van Kalker Photographers' at Van Kalker Photography Studio
This exhibition features a host black and white prints of studio portraits, drawn from a collection of 200 000 negatives dating back to 1937, captured at this landmark venue. The work on show highlights the changing relationship between photographer and subject and offers insight into Cape heritage.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 5
Van Kalker Photography Studio
47-49 Victoria Road, Woodstock
Tel: (021) 448 0181
Hours: Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat 10am – 1pm
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Lizza Littlewort
Pawns 2007
oil on canvas
80 x 80 cm
what if the world...
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Lizza Littlewort at what if the world…
In 'White Elephant' Littlewort examines the unlovely fact of white identity in contemporary South Africa. Her canvases point to a similarity between the redundant white elephant and the position of a local white artist. Littlewort is fast becoming one of the city's more prolific artists, with this being her third show in several months.
Opens: March 28
Closes: April 8
what if the world...
Unit E102, The Old Biscuit Mill, 373 Albert Road, Woodstock
Tel: (021) 448 1438
Email: info@whatiftheworld.com
www.whatiftheworld.com
Hours: Mon - Fri 9.30am - 5.30pm, Sat 9am - 4pm
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Kate Gottgen
Irma Stern Museum
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Kate Gottens at Irma Stern Museum
Kate Gottgen's exhibition 'Little Deaths' denotes death, not as the grand finale to life's linear narrative but as a liminal 'in between' phase. Featuring expressive painted works that combine unconscious and abstract imagery, it is an exhibition about preservation – focussing on the irony that the desire to preserve presupposes the fear and inevitability of change and loss.
Opens: March 7
Closes: April 7
Irma Stern Museum
Cecil Road, Rosebank
Tel: (021) 685 5686
www.irmastern.co.za
Hours: Tues – Sat 10am – 5pm
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'Open Studios' at Bijou Studios
Artists from the Bijou Artist Studios including Liza Grobler, Norman O`Flynn, Matthew Farrell, Pierre Fouche and Tina Jensen team up with guest artists Marna Hattingh, Jeanne Hoffman and Tokyo Beach to show mixed media installation, sculpture and 2D works. Expect a playful blend of crafty, irreverent wit, quirky humour and poignant insights.
Opens: March 24
Closes: April 14
Bijou Studios
Corner Lower Main and Cole Street, Observatory
Tel: 083 256 1170
Hours: Mon – Fri 12pm – 5pm
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'Open Studios' at Greatmore Studios
Greatmore Studios brings together artists from diverse cultural and national backgrounds in a working environment that encourages cooperation, interaction, mentoring and cultural exchange. They will be hosting open studios where visiting artists exhibit their work-in-progress alongside works by resident artists. In addition they are hosting a range of artist workshop during April.
Opens: March 24
Closes: April 26
Greatmore Studios
47-49 Greatmore Street, Corner Greatmore and St James Street, Woodstock
Tel: (021) 447 9699 / (021) 447 9110
Hours: March 23 – 30 10am – 2pm; April 2 – 26 9am – 3pm
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'Open Studio' at 55 Scott Road
This open studio gives visitors the opportunity to step into the darkly comic world of artist Frank van Reenen and Tracy Lee Lynch. Van Reenen is acclaimed for his profound pop-noir sculptures, prints and comics that reflect the absurdity, horror and wit of contemporary society, while Lynch reflects on our subliminal tensions, fears and desires in her highly decorative works.
Opens: March 24
Closes: April 6
Studios at 55 Scott Road
55 Scott Road, Observatory
Tel: (021) 447 7602
Hours: March 24, 30, April 6 10am – 4pm
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Ivor Sias at Greatmore Studios
'Longing and Belonging' is the focus of Ivor Sias' exhibition of mixed media paintings. Drawing on his previous experiences in exile, he asks: does one have to belong to any particular culture or group in order to feel at home? The emotional, socio-political and psychosexual states of exile all cohere here, in expressive layers of painting, pigment, colour and collage.
Opens: March 24
Closes: April 26
Greatmore Studios
47-49 Greatmore Street, Corner Greatmore and St James Street, Woodstock
Tel: (021) 447 9699 / (021) 447 9110
Hours: March 23 – 30 10am – 2pm; April 2 – 26 9am – 3pm
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'Michaelis Student Show' at Centre for African Studies
Student exhibitions provide the unique opportunity to take stock of emerging contemporary trends produced away from the harsh economic realities of the art market. With that in mind this group fundraising show features new works by Michaelis fourth year students working in a range of media, promises to provide provocative and fresh artistic insights into contemporary life and the practice of art in Africa today.
Opens: March 28
Closes: May 2
Centre for African Studies Gallery
Level 2, Harry Oppenheimer Building, Engineering Mall, UCT Upper Campus, Rondebosch
Tel: (021) 650 2308 / (021) 650 2310
www.michaelis.uct.ac.za
Hours: Mon – Fri 9am – 4pm
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'Inter(face) Southern Africa' at Baxter Theatre
'Inter(face) Southern Africa: Engaging Our Lived Realities' is an exhibition of student work which recently featured at the Venice Biennale 2006. This work explores the local urban condition through the themes of dwelling, street and design.
Opens: April 2
Closes: April 6
Baxter Theatre Foyer
Main Road, Rondebosch
Tel: 076 163 3850
Hours: Mon – Fri 9am – 10pm
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'Africa My Home' at The Palms Décor and Lifestyle Centre
Artist Brad Bailey teams up with street-smart, hip-hop crew Ill-Literate-Skill to explore identity, family and community. Bailey will be showing vibrant mixed media paintings and craft works that use personal experiences to explore broader social issues, while Ill-Literate-Skill combine sharp wit with socially conscious intelligence to both provoke and evoke.
Opens: April 20
Closes: April 21
The Palms Décor and Lifestyle Centre
The Atrium, Ground Floor, 145 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock
Tel: (021) 462 0394
Hours: Wed 8.30am – 5pm, Thurs 8am – 1.30pm
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Jacqui Griffin-Jones at Irma Stern Museum
Grahamstown-based painter Jacqui Griffin-Jones shows painting inspired by and based on the landscapes and figures of the Eastern Cape.
Opens: April 18
Closes: May 5
Irma Stern Museum
Cecil Road, Rosebank
Tel: (021) 685 5686
www.irmastern.co.za
Hours: Tues – Sat 10am – 5pm
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'Searle Street Writers Bench' at Searle Street Park
Hosted by Mantis (South Africa) and Seemsoe (Germany), 'Searle Street Writers Bench' is a traditional writers' bench and park jam, showcasing local mural artist/ graffiti writers, as well as break-dancers, dj's and more. Also watch out for the rumoured launch of a monumental Nelson Mandela mural somewhere in the heart of the CBD.
Open: April 14
Searle Street Park
Corner of Keisergracht and Searle Street, Woodstock
Tel: 082 6951744
www.myspace.com/painterforlife
Hours: from 10am
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Andrew McIlleron at Exposure Gallery
In 'Ashes' photographer Andrew McIlleron exhibitions a series of photographic prints, on cotton rag paper, which expose the aftermath of a shack fire in Joe Slovo (2006). Combining stark authenticity with subtle emotive insights, they bring to light the hidden political and social systems that cause shack fires.
Opens: April 13
Closes: April 26
Exposure Gallery
Shop E101, Old Biscuit Mill, Woodstock
Tel: (021) 447 4124
Hours: Mon – Fri 9am – 4pm, Sat 9am – 3pm
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Zander Bloom at what if the world…
Music and visual art collide in Johannesburg based artist Zander Blom's new installation 'The Drain of Progress'. Featuring his trademark pop-edged graphic drawings and prints, the exhibition coincides with the release of his second album, 'Empty Vessels', an amalgam of adventurous audio compositions which follow the visual development of the drawings and prints towards a 'perverse and ironic embrace of Modernist abstraction'.
Opens: April 11
Closes: May 5
What if the World…
Old Biscuit Mill, 373 Albert Road, Woodstock
Tel: (021) 448 1438
www.whatiftheworld.com
Hours: Tues – Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat 9am – 2pm
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'Work in Progress' at 8 Lytton Street
Jane Eppel, Leeann Ormandy Boulter, Gabrielle Raaff and Kurt Pio open up their shared studio space for an informal group exhibition.
Opens: March 24
Closes: April 6
Studios at 8 Lytton Str
8 Lytton Street, Observatory
Tel: 082 668 0840
Hours: March 24, 30 and April 6, 10am – 4pm
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'Africa Adorned' at 8 Hares Ave
Combining the traditional and the contemporary, art and design, 'Africa Adorned' celebrates the diversity of Africa through jewellery, wooden sculptures and furniture.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
8 Hares Ave
Woodstock
Tel: (021) 448 9761
Hours: Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm, Sat 9am – 1pm
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OUTLYING AREAS
'Like a Thief' at Centre for Performing Arts
Who or what is criminality in South Africa today? That's the big question at the heart of this dynamic physical theatre piece. Essentially the story of two brothers – the thief and the business man - it deconstructs the binary divisions between victim and perpetrator, to present a complicated, disturbing but still amusing portrait of contemporary South Africa.
Open: April 14, 3pm and 7pm
Centre for the Performing Arts, UWC
University of Western Cape, Bellville
Tel: (021) 959 3189
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'Fibreworks Ten' at Nova Constantia Cellars
This exhibition celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Fibreworks Group, a collective of artists who use fibres and textiles as their predominant materials of expression. The show features diverse mix media works that combine mature design aesthetics with freshness and unpredictability.
Opens: April 7
Closes: April 28
Nova Constantia Cellars
Nova Constantia Road, Constantia
Tel: (021)794 4667
Hours: Mon – Sat 10am – 4pm
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Churchill Madikida
Like Father Like Son? 2006
installation detail
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Churchill Madikida at Iziko SANG
Churchill Madikida, winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2006 Award, presents his travelling show 'Like Father Like Son?' The exhibition is a journey of exploration, examining the psychological consequences of the artist's first encounter with his father whom he believed had died decades earlier.
Opens: March 24
Closes: May 2
Iziko South African National Gallery
Government Avenue, Company Gardens
Tel: (021) 467 4660
Email: cquerido@iziko.org.za
www.museums.org.za/iziko
Hours: Tue - Sun 10am - 5pm
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Ulrich Apt the Elder
The Crucifixion 16th century
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'Fabrications' at Iziko SANG
'Fabrications', an ongoing exhibition drawing on the gallery's permanent collection, examines the ways in which artists have creatively used, painted or sculpted approximations of fabric and costume in their work, revealing surprising insights into social history as well as the artistic process.
Iziko South African National Gallery
Government Avenue, Company Gardens
Tel: (021) 467 4660
Email: cquerido@iziko.org.za
www.museums.org.za/iziko
Hours: Tue - Sun 10am - 5pm
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Santu Mofokeng
Democracy is Forever, 2003
photograph
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Santu Mofokeng at Iziko SANG
A survey show called 'Invoice' of the work of photographer Santu Mofokeng at Iziko SANG includes photographs from nearly all his major bodies of work produced between 1982 and 2006. The exhibition is hosted in partnership with Gallery Momo in Johannesburg and Autograph ABP in London.
Mofokeng began working as a street photographer and in the mid-80s he joined the Afripix Collective agency. Pam Warne, curator of photography and new media at SANG, says of his work: 'From an early stage, Mofokeng exhibited an independent approach and produced images that refuse to be overtly political but nonetheless contain a fundamental political dimension.'
Mofokeng has held solo shows in Johannesburg and London and recently participated in the international exhibition 'Africa Remix' as well as Beijing's Forbidden City International Photography Festival. He has received numerous awards and exhibited extensively in Europe and elsewhere.
Opens: December 2
Closes: May 2, 2007
Iziko South African National Gallery
Government Avenue, Company Gardens
Tel: (021) 467 4660
Email: cquerido@iziko.org.za
www.museums.org.za/iziko
Hours: Tue - Sun 10am - 5pm
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Penny Siopis
Baby in Red 2002
cibachrome photograph
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'Embracing HIV/Aids' at Iziko SANG
'Embracing HIV/Aids', which opens on International Aids Day, showcases a substantial body of new work around the impact of HIV/Aids on the country. Artists featured include Kim Berman, David Goldblatt, Churchill Madikida, Berni Searle, Clive van den Berg, Diane Victor and Zapiro, and media range from photography to sculpture, paintings and drawings. Works previously acquired (Goldblatt, Gideon Mendel, Penny Siopis and Hentie van der Merwe) are also included.
Says Iziko SANG of the exhibition: 'As with many previous projects, the exhibition Embracing HIV/Aids will be a point of departure for education programmes and special walkabouts. It will draw NGOs into our work and vision and sensitise visitors to the challenges we face in South Africa.'
Opens: December 1
Iziko South African National Gallery
Government Avenue, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 467 4660
Fax: (021) 467 4680
Hours: Tue - Sun 10am - 5pm
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Lolo Veleko
Untitled exhibition poster 2007
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GIMBERG/ NERF/ SACKS/ YOUNG at SMAC
The Stellenbosch Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery will host an exhibition of work by Douglas Gimberg, Christian Nerf, Ruth Sacks and Ed Young. A new publication facilitated by Kathryn Smith entitled One Million and Forty-Four Years (and Sixty-Three Days) will accompany the exhibition. The show is to be opened by the controversial Ronald Suresh Roberts.
Opens: 6.30pm, March 21
Closes: May 5
SMAC
De Wet Centre, Church Street, Stellenbosch
Tel: (021) 882 8335
Email: laetitia@rank.co.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 9.30am - 5.30pm, Sun 10am - 6pm
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Judy Woodbourne
Eve icon I
oil painting on gold leaf prepared canvas
30 x 40 cm
Mimmo Paladino
Carnival I 2001
drypoint etching
Christo Coetzee
Plaited self-portrait 1982
82 x 70 cm
Michael Matthews
Alsomvattend (monumental ashtray for Piet Retief)
digital print on canvas
80 X 60cm
Adriaan van Zyl
Operating Theatre I 2004
oil on board
310 x 420 mm
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Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
KKNK 2007 features Judy Woodbourne as the festival artist and focuses on her oil paintings rather than her more famous etchings in an exhibition titled 'The Garden of Eden'. Other shows include a posthumous Adrian van Zyl retrospective as well as the Chris Diedericks-curated 'FLESH!' exhibition. 'Boerekitsch', a group exhibition curated by Gordon Froud features too.
Opens: March 31
Closes: April 8
Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
Oudtshoorn
Tel: (044) 203 8600
www.absakknk.co.za
Judy Woodbourne
The KKNK 2007 visual art curator, Theo Kleynhans, has selected Judy Woodbourne as the festival artist and focuses on her sensual oil paintings rather than her more famous etchings. The exhibition is titled 'The Garden of Eden' and explores the universality of the myths surrounding that enchanted utopia. WoodbourneiLs paintings employ the traditional technique of painting on gold leaf, which gives the work a rich shimmer.
Prince Vincent Building
Baron van Reede Street, Oudtshoorn
Tel: (044) 203 8600
www.absakknk.co.za
Hours: Mon - Sun 8am - 5pm
FLESH! at Die Oog
FLESH! seeks to open debate on sexuality, sexual identity and artists' interpretations thereof. Curator Chris Diedericks, winner of the 2006 Canna Prize for Visual Art, has included a diverse range of art forms in the show and many local and international artists, amongst others Mimmo Paladino (Italy), William Wiley (England), Peter Mayer and Jorge Schmeisser (Germany).
Die Oog
Voortrekker Road, Oudtshoorn
Tel: (044) 203 8600
www.absakknk.co.za
Hours: Mon - Sun 8am - 5pm
Christo Coetzee at the Drill Hall
Curator Charl Bezuidenhout teams up familiar aspects of Coetzee's work with previously unpublished photographs documenting certain events that took place during his career - the slashed paintings of one of his shows, the artist cutting up a painting so that the viewers can eat it and more - in 'Verborge Vorme' (Hidden Forms).
Drill Hall
11 Camp Street, Oudtshoorn
Tel: (044) 203 8600
www.absakknk.co.za
Hours: Mon - Sun 8am - 5pm
Van Boerekitsch en Ander Dinge at the Prince Vincent Building
Curator and artist Gordon Froud presents a light-hearted show entitled 'Van Boerekitsch en ander dinge'. The show explores the significance of kitsch in the cultural history of South Africa and features amongst others artist Diane Victor.
Prince Vincent Building
Oudtshoorn
Tel: (044) 203 8600
www.absakknk.co.za
Hours: Mon - Sun 8am - 5pm
Adriaan van Zyl Retrospective
Amanda Botha curates a retrospective of the late Adriaan van Zyl's oeuvre, sourcing paintings that go back as far the '80s. But it is the most recent series 'Hospitaaltyd' that eloquently ponders 'medical' architecture and it purported application in aiding healing which reveals van Zyl's contribution to the genre of photorealism in South Africa. The show is accompanied by a catalogue with contributions by Marlene van Niekerk, curator Amanda Botha and Dr Lize van Robbroek.
CJV Hall
Church Street, Oudtshoorn
Tel: (044) 203 8600
www.absakknk.co.za
Hours: Mon - Sun 8am - 5pm
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