Kamogelo Kgaswane wins the Wits Young Artist Award 2022
Kamogelo Kgaswane won first prize (R12,000) at this year’s WYAA for his video work Who am I. Vidya Chagan and Phumla Dhlamini won merit awards of R6,500 each, and Matsi Wa Lesego won the artist’s discretionary award (R,5000). The selection panel comprised of curator Tammy Langtry and Simnikiwe Buhlungu along with adjudicators: Thuli Gamedze, Grace Meadows, Rucera Seethal and Ruth Seopedi Motau.
Read Nikita Keogotsitse’s review of the WYAA exhibtion, Asymptotic convergences.
Social Impact Arts Prize 2022 Awarded Projects Announced
The Rupert Museum awards ten submissions to the second cycle of the Social Impact Arts Prize. The awarded projects (and their leading artists) are:
Pollinator Pathways – Doreen Gowans
E’PLAZINI – Mpumelelo Buthelezi
Listening Garden – lo Makandal
A Still Life – Taryn Millar, Sarah Cairns and Aarti Shah, in collaboration with Hannelie Coetzee
The Orange River Project – Nina Barnett, Sinethemba Twalo and Amy Watson
Doba-Dash – Space Salad Studios
Kammakamma – Abri de Swardt
two tempests (for the river that swallowed its mouth) – Bettina Malcomess
Women from the Winterveld: Hands Become Voices for Our Planet – Women artists from Mapula Embroideries
Terroir – Georgia Munnik, Larissa Johnson and Chanelle Adams (Artist Residency in Graaff-Reinet).
The projects will be realised for an exhibition at the Rupert Museum come December.
FNB Art Joburg kicks off at Sandton Convention Centre
This year’s Joburg art fair – back after a three-year hiatus as a cause of the pandemic – is set to be a big one, with almost fifty exhibitors at the fair itself and activations happening all across the city. Come visit ArtThrob in the ETC. section! Fair hours are Friday, 11am – 8pm; Saturday, 11am – 7pm; Sunday, 11am – 5pm. Tickets are available here.
Paintings by Zander Blom at the ArtThrob booth at FNB Art Joburg, 2022
An exhibition of 25 young creatives, curated by Simon Njami, launches at Constitution Hill
What Comes First? is the result of a week-long AtWork workshop organised by the Moleskin Foundation in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and Constitution Hill. During the workshop, conducted by Simon Njami, 25 young creatives explored their values, priorities and creativity through conversation and critical debate. The exhibition opens today, Friday 2 September with a talk at 2:30pm.
