Nkgopoleng Moloi / art&culture

Artist Helena Uambembe confronts a painful past and compresses time

Helena Uambembe’s practice is personal and particular. As an interdisciplinary artist, she uses performance, photography and printmaking to ...

Marcia Elizabeth / art&culture

Gustavo Speridião | A Russian Constructivist Palette criticizing the art world

Da ideia a chama já consome / A crosta bruta que a soterra – The flame of the idea already burns away / the rough burying crust (from the th...

Christa Dee / art&culture

Refuse to be the Muse – Highlighting the role of women in the art world

Refuse to be the Muse. This is a powerful and expressive statement. This is also the title for a month-long campaign running in connection w...

Marcia Elizabeth / art&culture

Artist Maria Johansson has been tinkering for 12 years to create the perfect 158 Objects

Born in the small village of Nordanå in the south of Sweden, Stockholm based artist Maria Johansson completed her MA in Ceramics and Glass a...

Gemma Hart / art&culture

Lemeeze Davids // Cuisine and Collective Memory

Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember - Reni Eddo-Lodge Scents that saunter from the kitchen as an embracing invi...

Christa Dee / art&culture

NO BAD HAIR – a stylish visual rant

The visual collaboration titled NO BAD HAIR is a testimony to the generating power that can come from acting on spontaneity and creative imp...

Marcia Elizabeth / art&culture

Film Festival Film turns the mirror onto film festivals

Created over a weekend at the Durban International Film Festival in July 2018 Film Festival Film by the Medu African Film Ensemble takes as ...

Christa Dee / art&culture

‘What is South Africa, even? Vol 2.’ // exploring history and nationhood

Curator Carlyn Strydom has been active in the heritage and arts sector for 7 years. Her own story in curatorship is tied to the development ...

Marcia Elizabeth / art&culture

Source Code Gallery – Creating Experimental spaces for the digital arts and creative technologies

Source Code Gallery curated by Fak’ugesi Festival and hosted by the Tshimologong Innovation Precinct is a digital arts and creative technolo...

Gemma Hart / art&culture

Olivia Botha // Things Left Unsaid as an exploration of intergeneration matriarchal legacy

You are guardian of a treasure, Oh, just like a sleeping serpent And you shall see, I shall make you Spin around like that sleepy snake. ...

Nkgopoleng Moloi / art&culture

Neo Matloga fractures the central narrative

South African artist Neo Matloga is one of three artists (together with Funda Gül Özcan and Lonneke van der Palen) nominated for the Volkskr...

Marcia Elizabeth / art&culture

‘A Black Aesthetic: A view of South African Artists (1970 -1990)’ | A challenge to existing ideas of South African art history

A Black Aesthetic: A view of South African Artists (1970 -1990) presented by Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg revisits the art collection...