99 Loop Gallery, Addis Fine Art, Afriart Gallery, Alida Anderson Art Projects, Another Antipodes, Art First, ARTCO Gallery, Arte de Gema, Artist Proof Studio, BAD PAPER, Bag Factory, Barnard Gallery, blank projects, Christopher Moller Gallery, DALE SARGENT FINE ART, David Krut Projects, Eclectica Contemporary, ELA–Espaço Luanda Arte ,
Everard Read / CIRCA, First Floor Gallery Harare, Galerie GALEA, Gallery 1957, Gallery MOMO, Goodman Gallery, Guns & Rain, Javett-UP, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Kuenyehia Trust for Contemporary Art, Lalela, Legalamitlwa Arts, Lizamore & Associates, LL Editions, MAKER, MOV’ART Gallery, National Gallery of Zim, NJE Collective, Red Door, ROOM Gallery, SA Mint, SA Print Gallery, Salon 91, SAFFCA, SMAC Gallery, SMITH, Stevenson, The Artists’ Press, The Project Space, This is Not A White Cube, TMRW, Village Unhu, WHATIFTHEWORLD, White House Gallery, Worldart
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Introduction Director's Letter FNB Letter DSBD Letter
Sponsors + Partners 11 – 13
Special Projects 14 – 25
14 Featured
Artist 2018 – Billie Zangewa Essay by Sean O'Toole 20 FNB ArtPrize 2018 – Haroon Gunn-Salie 24 Reconstituting Contemporary Art Public by Kabelo Malatsie
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Contemporary 99 Loop Gallery Addis Fine Art Afriart Gallery Art First ARTCO Gallery Arte de Gema Barnard Gallery blank projects Christopher Moller Gallery Eclectica Contemporary ELA – Espaço Luanda Arte Everard Read / CIRCA First Floor Gallery Harare Gallery 1957 Gallery MOMO Goodman Gallery Guns & Rain Kalashnikovv Gallery Lizamore & Associates MOV’ART Gallery Red Door ROOM Gallery Salon 91 SMAC Gallery SMITH Stevenson This is Not a White Cube WHATIFTHEWORLD Worldart
Solo Alida Anderson / Amy Lin ARTCO Gallery / Roger Ballen David Krut Projects / Aida Muluneh Galerie GALEA / Mamady Seydi SMITH / Dale Lawrence Stevenson / Zander Blom
Limited Edition Prints 101 – 117
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ARTCO Gallery BAD PAPER DALE SARGENT FINE ART LL Editions MAKER SA Print Gallery The Artists’ Press White House Gallery
Art Platforms 119 – 134
120 Another Antipodes 121 Artist Proof Studio 122 Bag Factory 123 Javett-UP 124 Johannesburg Art Gallery 125 Kuenyehia Trust for Contemporary Art 126 Lalela 127 Legalamitlwa Arts 128 National Gallery of Zim 129 NJE Collective 130 SAFFCA 131 South African Mint 132 The Project Space 133 TMRW 134 Village Unhu
Introduction
Creating possibilities: FNB JoburgArtFair 2018
It is with awe and pride that we enter our second decade as the FNB JoburgArtFair. To be given an opportunity to showcase the rise of African contemporary art to an international audience has been an honor and each year we can feel the critical mass grow. Creating a mirror for African contemporary art to the world is a critical part of telling African stories to a larger audience. Throughout the past decade, the FNB JoburgArtFair has remained a South African product well versed in the specifics of the present moment on the African continent. The FNB JoburgArtFair has continually responded to the needs of this art economy by bringing together art audiences around a host of visual art options over one weekend. By virtue of our positioning as the largest collection of African contemporary art under one roof, the FNB JoburgArtFair has continued to fulfill a function beyond that of traditional art fairs. The fair has a mandate to bring collectors, curators and thought leaders together to discuss and debate around African contemporary art, as well as network to set up future projects and collaborations. In this way the Fair has grown audiences and possibilities for African contemporary visual art each year. We see this as a vital part of our drive: to continually create opportunities for growth, market access and discussion around contemporary African art, here in Johannesburg. We believe that it is important for this discussion and these presentations to take place in Johannesburg, where a diverse, local, transcontinental and international audience can experience African contemporary art. First National Bank has been our partner in this venture for the past 11 years. Together we have crafted projects, such as the FNB Art Prize that enables artists to further their careers. We have also enjoyed a long and robust partnership centered around mentorship with the Gauteng Provincial Government. We welcome Cartier again this year and BMW for the first time. The fair depends in many ways on the support and enthusiasm of galleries that showcase African contemporary art. It is their efforts that ultimately sustain the market and continually produce the content that the fair curates into a weekend of visual arts celebration. Finally we acknowledge the artists that bring their work into the FNB JoburgArtFair space and so offer our visitors more engagement with African contemporary visual art. Mandla Sibeko FNB JoburgArtFair Director
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Celebrating 11 years of the FNB JoburgArtFair
The relevance of art holds distinct roles around the world, it ranges from cultural to educational, and in each instant holds a deeply personal perspective to everyone whom it touches. It is in many ways, a socio-barometer of the times and its true impact has boundless potential. Art holds a deeply personal perspective to everyone whom it touches. Its social relevance differs from tradition to tradition, ranging from cultural to educational and it is a socio-barometer that reflects the humanity of a nation as well as its creative spirit. To FNB, it is a powerful influencer of human potential and we value its capacity to uplift and inspire greatness. Over the last ten years, we have had the honour and privilege of growing the FNB JoburgArtFair into one of the largest art fairs on the continent. Now in its eleventh year, the Fair has become an iconic event that continues to unearth many a talent, and in so doing, helps to define the imagery that is associated with the Africa and its modern art. The Fair provides African artists and galleries a platform through which to showcase their considerable talent. It has become a sought-after event for collectors, investors and enthusiasts alike, drawing an ever-increasing number of local and international visitors, forever entrenching the love for the arts to newer audiences each year. This year, the FNB JoburgArtFair will feature over 45 galleries, with 15 new exhibitors of contemporary and modern arts, special projects and solo exhibitions by galleries and organizations. It is the most diverse representation from the continent in the history of the Fair, with exhibitors from Angola, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda and Zimbabwe. In line with the Fair’s leading role on the continent, the 2018 featured artist is Malawian-born Billie Zangewa, who lives and works in Johannesburg and primarily uses raw silk offcuts to create intricate hand-stitched collages in flat, colourful panache. The FNB Art Prize, which will once again celebrate the work of an artist nominated by the galleries that participate in the Fair. The FNB Art Prize honours exceptional artistic talent and, at the same time, provides many local and international opportunities beyond the Fair, often resulting in a springboard that catapults the artists’ career to a higher level. We congratulate all the amazing artists that are exhibiting in this year’s edition of the Fair, many thanks to ArtLogic for their vision and hard work with the staging of yet another successful instalment. We remain confident that the FNB JoburgArtFair will continue to highlight the creative excellence our continent continues to offer to the world.
Faye Mf ikwe FNB Chief Marketing Off icer
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Department of Small Business Development (DSBD)
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) is driven by its vision to achieve a radically transformed economy through the effective support of SMMEs and Cooperatives on product development, enterprise development and market access as well as creating an enabling environment for the thriving of small businesses through advocacy and the development of policies that are relevant for the advancement of small businesses. Market access has been identified as pivotal for the integration of SMMEs from the second to the first economy and the FNB Joburg Art Fair, due to its local and international stature, was identified as a key platform to be utilised to expose small and medium enterprises in the visual art sector to test the market and be exposed to local and international buyers. After the successful participation at Joburg Art Fir 2018, the DSBD has once more resolved to support the participation of 20 enterprises in the Visual Arts sector. The DSBD is a buffer in creating an enabling environment for SMMEs and Cooperatives in the Visual Arts Sector. The DSBD is determined to stimulate inclusive growth in the sector through targeted interventions at various stages of the value chain. Cognisant of the barriers to entry in the mainstream Visual Arts market, the DSBD has deliberately undertaken to support emerging artists who would otherwise not have access to platforms such as the Joburg Art Fair and consequentially to mainstream galleries, buyers and collectors who attend the exhibition. The DSBD has been participating in the FNB Joburg Art Fair since 2011 and is looking forward to presenting a meticulously curated experience for the visitor to the Fair. The DSBD exhibition will be presented under the ‘South African Art Collective’ brand, which will feature artists who have been selected to represent a wide demographic, and emphasis has been put on the upliftment of women, youth and people with disabilities from the creative cyle of South Africa. The South African Art Collective was launched in 2016 and has been the brand used to represent visual artists supported by the DSBD at events both locally and internationally. The South African Art Collective in the past presented a successful four-city touring exhibition of the United States of America showcasing works in Santa Fe, San Diego, Miami and New York. The South African Art Collective won stand awards at all these exhibitions and was featured in numerous news and media articles praising the unique South African artworks and artists that were showcased. We invite you to visit the South African Art Collective stand at the FNB JoburgArtFair supported by the DSBD.
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Billie Zangewa
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Special Projects – Featured Artist
Date Night, 2017. Silk collage, 101 x 110.5cm
– Sean O'Toole
Billie Zangewa
In the decade and half since she began making her lustrous silk collages on irregularly shaped fabric grounds, Billie Zangewa has repeatedly depicted Johannesburg, both its familiar vertical horizon and idiosyncratic markers of place. Her output includes a study of the cylindrical Ponte City apartment tower in Berea, a street-side view of one of those yellow-brick garment factories in Doornfontein now increasingly being repurposed as living quarters and artist studios, and – in a concession to the Northern Suburbs habitat she has long called home – a description of that vintage Mercedes-Benz dealership along Gleneagles Road in Greenside. Based on photographs, which she adapts to suit her narrative, these place-defining collages (or “tapestries” as the artist prefers) are noteworthy for their architectural exactness.
But Zangewa’s vision of Johannesburg exceeds the steel, glass and concrete infrastructure that constitute this hurried, agitated metropolis. What is most striking about her mature work is Zangewa’s consistent focus on the social rituals and verdant abundance obscured by her hometown’s suburban walls. It is behind these walls that Zangewa’s doppelganger – a tall, poised woman who plainly resembles the artist – is revealed. It also where the artist’s double, a striking avatar of black femininity, is relieved of the superhero role she boldly assumed in the artist’s best-known work, The Rebirth of the Black Venus (2010). Widely exhibited internationally, The Rebirth of the Black Venus portrays a giantess in the artist’s image looming over central Johannesburg. The sash wrapped around her naked body reveals parts of a personal slogan, “surrender wholeheartedly to your complexity”. The work is a loose amalgam of time-spanning quotes: to Sandro Botticelli’s renaissance study of weightlessness, The Birth of Venus (c.1480s), but also Reynold Brown’s poster for the cult film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958). Given its locale, Johannesburg, the work unavoidably recalls – and in the same instant subverts – the hoary sensationalism of a 1951 Drum magazine cover portraying a masked black man overshadowing Johannesburg. Zangewa’s suburban scenes, though, chart a different course. Naturalistic in their portrayal, they present her human-scale doppelganger variously performing daily ablutions, engaged in parenting, socialising around a dinner table, lazing by the pool and tending her garden. The latter activity is a self-defined pleasure, not a form of low-income wage, which, it should be noted, still keeps some of Zangewa’s countrymen from Malawi locked in a kind of bondage. Gardens and botanical subjects have been a constant of Zangewa’s practice. It is worth briefly restating this aspect of her practice, in part because this history informs the ambitious mise en scène of her FNB JoburgArtFair installation. The Rebir th of the Black Venus, 2010 Silk tapestry, 127x103cm
Before she began working on a flat fabric ground, around 2004, Zangewa made embroideries on fabric that featured remembered scenes from her suburban upbringing in Botswana. The artist lovingly detailed indigenous trees, plants and insects, initially on fabric, later on a series of bespoke handbags that first garnered Zangewa art-world notice. The effort required in producing a single handbag prompted Zangewa to work on a flat surface, and pretty much ever since she has been gardening, metaphorically speaking, with needle and thread, dramatizing her recurring themes of urbanity, intimacy and self-hood in soft, glistening fragments of silk. In 2014, Zangewa made a silk collage portraying her doppelganger in yellow sundress standing amidst a leafy vegetable patch. Framed by a silhouette of large trees, the lone figure in Constant Gardener (2014) – its title is borrowed from a 2001 murder mystery by John le Above: Constant Gardener, 2014 Carré set in Kenya Silk tapestry, 138x105 cm
– holds a gardening spade in one hand, a wicker basket overflowing with leaves in the other. The languorous mood of the female protagonist in this and other collages set in garden-like environments recalls the work of American belle époque painters Frederick Carl Frieseke and John Singer Sargent. Zangewa’s collage technique achieves a different pictorial outcome to painting. Her scenes tend to be reduced to figural essentials, as in Midnight Aura (2012), a spare work that presents her doppelganger asleep beneath a large floral-patterned cover, or The Dreamer (2016), where her protagonist, wearing a yellow floral dress, sleeps in a field of attenuated pink blooms. Zangewa’s understanding of the garden is informed by diverse references. She cites Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights (1503-15) and, unavoidably perhaps, the originary garden of Christian theology, Eden. Gardens are not singularly physical sites but also places of male dominance. Botanist Carl Linnaeus and neurologist Sigmund Freud both projected sexuality onto plants, something Zangewa recognises. It is why she prefers Nancy Friday’s feminist-centred worldview, famously announced in her pop psychology bestseller, My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies (1973). Reviewing a 2007 stage adaptation of Friday’s once-controversial book, critic Ginia Bellafante observed that the book “helped to create a confessional feminism, reliant on the assemblage of personal anecdote, that held women’s self-therapy as its overriding goal”. This insight can, with some minor retooling, be repurposed to apply to Zangewa’s work. Her habit of orchestrating “personal anecdote” into pictorial form has, over time, seen Zangewa assemble a remarkable body of work that is unambiguously grounded in a “confessional feminism”. Take, for instance, the self-assured woman looming over Johannesburg in The Rebirth of the Black Venus. This celebrated collage dramatizes the moment Zangewa recognised the diaristic impulses that had long characterised her work as a creative force, not a weakness. 17
Long Live Black Venus, 2006 Silk tapestry, 74x112cm
To confess is to empower, and by retelling stories from her daily life – initially using passages of text taken from her diary, later by repeatedly figuring her doppelganger in commonplace situations – Zangewa has sublimated her gendered insecurities. In the process she has achieved something often spoken about in the public narrative of South African life, but less easily achieved as person18 al fact: empowerment. Commenting on
the recurring figure of a woman negotiating city life in her work, Zangewa in 2014 elegantly summarised this process of self-actualisation: “My protagonist (moi!) has evolved from needing the male gaze for affirmation to this perfect, powerful being that does not look for approval outside of herself.” Alongside her many self-portraits, their mood ranging from convivial to introspective, Zangewa has also produced collages depicting other artists, notably photographer Andrew Tshabangu and American entertainer and activist Josephine Baker. Produced in shades of black, grey and white, Long Live the Black Venus! (2006) portrays Baker’s early years as a dancer in 1920s Paris and is an important statement piece in relation to Zangewa’s sustained depiction of female heroism. Zangewa describes Baker, who graduated from dancing in a St. Louis vaudeville show to performing in revues of the Folies Bergère in Paris, as one of the earliest symbols of black empowerment. “She used her body as part of her liberation,” says Zangewa, who prior to her career as an artist made pop music under the name Billie Starr. The empowerment of the black female body through self-portraiture has emerged as a popular strategy among contemporary artists, particularly those working in lens-based media. Just as Zangewa’s collage technique achieves a different pictorial outcome to painting, the same is true of the way her work exceeds its photographic sources. Even though her work is richly informed by photography – be it professionals like German fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth or personal snapshots – Zangewa’s mode of working is interpretive rather
than performative, by which I mean she materially assembles rather than mimetically reproduces her work. Her collages are responsive to the agency of her silk material, a vibrant materiality that also connects the artist to a rich and distinctive history of artistic practice unrelated to the increasingly baroque pageantry of contemporary photographic self-portraiture. Zangewa’s fabric collages are redolent of the narrative quilting traditions found in South Africa and the United States. Notwithstanding the successes of singular artists like Faith Ringgold, the practice of quiltmaking is intimately linked, as writer bell hooks pointed out in a highly personal 1990 essay, to “the aesthetic legacy and artistic contributions of unknown and unheralded black women”. Quilts, hooks writes in “Aesthetic Inheritances: History Worked by Hand”, contain material memories and tell stories. Alice Walker, in her 1973 short story Everyday Use, similarly delves into the vibrant matter of quilts, relating how quilts made by members of the Johnson family were pieced together with work shirts, Civil War uniforms and scraps of cloth. The way material and narrative are irreducibly linked explains why Toni Morrison, in her acclaimed 1987 novel Beloved, describes the process of assembling a quilt as a “spiritual process” and “a form of meditation”; it is work that renews the spirit.
Zangewa’s disarming collages – about the everyday life of a mother, wife, sister, daughter and artist – share affinities with this historical practice, but also chart their own direction. Its compass setting is contemporary Johannesburg. Whether describing dream states set in a fantasy garden or the simple pleasure of lazing by a pool with her son, Zangewa’s confessional feminism recognises pleasure and embraces whimsy, without justification. Emancipation, after all, requires no apology.
ABOUT BILLIE ZANGEWA Billie Zangewa works primarily with raw silk offcuts in intricate hand-stitched collages, creating figurative compositions that explore her intersectional identity in the contemporary context and challenge the historical stereotyping, objectification and exploitation of the black female body. Working in a f lat, colourful style, she depicts narratives concerned with experience: both personal and universal. These narratives do not make grand gestures or even overt political statements, but rather focus on mundane domestic preoccupations; universal themes connecting us to each other. Almost always the protagonist in her works, Zangewa becomes a heroine whose daily life is revealed through the scenes she illustrates. Born in 1973 in Blantyre, Malawi, Zangewa has exhibited extensively at institutions both locally and internationally, including at the MASS MoCA (2017), Stedelijk Museum (2017), Studio Museum Harlem (2016), Iziko South African National Gallery (2016), Johannesburg Art Gallery (2016), Guggenheim Bilbao (2015), WIELS (2015), La Maison Rouge (2013) and the Menil Collection (2012). Her work is represented in several notable private and public collections, including the Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art collections. Zangewa lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Great Expectations, 2017 Silk tapestry, 102 x 94.5 cm
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Haroon Gunn-Salie
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Special Projects – FNB Art Prize 2018
On the Line 1, 2016. Pair of bronze-plated shoes, 78 x 32 x 29 cm
– b. 1989 Cape Town, South Africa
About Haroon Gunn-Salie
Haroon Gunn-Salie has established a collaborative art practice that translates community oral histories into artistic interventions and installations. His multidisciplinary practice utilises a variety of mediums, drawing focus to forms of collaboration in contemporary art based on dialogue and exchange. Gunn- Salie’s graduate exhibition titled Witness presented a sitespecific body of work focusing on still unresolved issues of forced removals under apartheid, working with veteran residents of District Six, an area in central Cape Town where widespread forced removals occurred. Significant exhibitions and projects that have featured Gunn-Salie’s work include: Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist’s 89-plus project, for which he participated in the 89plus programme with Obrist at the 2014 Design Indaba in Cape Town; Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, which travelled to the Vitra Design Museum and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2015); What Remains is Tomorrow, the South African Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia (2015); and the 19º Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc Videobrasil (2015). Gunn-Salie was placed in the top five of the Sasol new signatures competition in 2013. At the 19º Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc Videobrasil in 2015 he was awarded the first ever SP-Arte/Videobrasil prize, designed to encourage and publicise the work of young artists whose lines of research focus on the debate surrounding the global south. As part of the award, Gunn-Salie presented a solo exhibition at Galpão VB during the SP-Arte fair in São Paulo in 2016. Gunn-Salie completed his BA Hons in sculpture at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2012. He is currently based between Johannesburg and Belo Horizonte.
Left: Prophecy - Agridoce series, 2016, Installation, M1 casts (detail). Opposite Top: Installation view of Amongst Men at Goodman Gallery Cape Town Opposite Bottom: Senzenina, 2018. Sculptural installation, M1 casts and sound.
Reconstituting contemporary art public
– Kabelo Malatsie
There has been a tiny shift in the public that is consuming contemporary art in South Africa. This shift is mainly visible through looking at FNB JoburgArtFair audience, which has become increasingly young and black. Young artists have also shifted what constitutes a contemporary art public. The boundary of art has also been shifted and its audience reconstituted. This can be seen through FAKA’s (Fela Gucci and Desire Marea) practice which has recently reached a height that is unprecedented. Their song Unyang’khumbula was played for Versace’s runway showcase in June 2018 in Milan. I mention FAKA because they started working in contemporary art and in recent times have been making music. FAKA has managed to reach an audience that is a little bit mainstream, even though it is very specific, in that it is queer and young. However, their audience is large when considering it within contemporary art. Is it time that institutions, curators and artists really seek to engage an audience that is not the average art enthusiast? If so, what language should be used to engage this audience? The current art audience, which includes artists, curators, critics, academics and collectors, has necessitated that contemporary art speaks from a western perspective and framework. Here, I am mainly speaking of the mechanism that packages artistic practice: the institutions, curators and critics. If this mechanism was reimagined/reconstituted, what public could it engage? With the advent of wokeness, Global South, the accessibility brought by the internet, and a seemingly politicised world, how should the art mechanism shift to respond to the times that we live in, which demands greater inclusivity that is not at face value. The talks programme is a provocation to art practitioners to tackle the question “Who’s It For?” 1 . An expansion to this question are two quotes by Jorge Ribalta and Marion von Osten, that hope to instigate a discussion beyond the programme.
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The local is the specific production of the various historical options with which we are presented and from which we choose, removed from any notion of identity. 2 as a means of making clear that the public is created by the place and practice of exhibiting and by curatorial decisions, and, thirdly, which asks exactly what brings about this positive reference to an art public, whom this public is actually supposed to address, and who constitutes it. 3
Above: Courtesy FAKA, @felagucci & @desiremarea Right: Ntombenhle Shezi and Sitha Kentane at Johannesburg At Gallery. Photographer: Senzo Bhengu
Contemporary
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2015
99 Loop Gallery
Founded based on a passion for collecting art and supporting artists, 99 Loop Gallery is best known for showcasing talent in contemporary art and associated media with a particular focus on painting. From the very start, emphasis has been placed upon the inner processes of art in order to inspire emotive and critical responses. 99 Loop prioritizes collaboration with both established and emerging talent in order to contribute to the respective South African art and curatorial fields in a proactive manner. The gallery functions as a supportive and accessible platform where numerous artists have been given the opportunity to express their voice through their first solo shows; a space truly dedicated to the future of art.
Exhibiting Artists Jeanne Hoffman Richard Mason Anastasia Pather Chris Valentine
Gallery Artists Ilené Bothma Fanie Buys Daniel Clarke Karen Cronje Chris Denovan Adriaan Diedericks Jeanne Hoffman Isabella Kuijers Wim Legrand Lizza Littlewort Richard Mason Clare Menck Anastasia Pather Nina Torr Chris Valentine
Director: Morné Marais 99 Loop Street, Cape Town, 8001 +27 21 422 3766 gallery@99loop.co.za 28 www.99loop.co.za
Richard Mason - Evian 1â„“. Enamel on Aluminium composite, 150 x 150 cm. Image courtesy of 99 Loop Gallery and the artist.
– Addis Ababa / London Founded 2016
Addis Fine Art
Addis Fine Art is a gallery specialising in contemporary African Art, with particular focus on art from Ethiopia and its diaspora. In January 2016, Addis Fine Art opened its main gallery space in the heart of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia launching an innovative programme of exhibitions, talks and events, showing a diverse set of modern and contemporary artists from Ethiopia and the diaspora. In October 2016, the AFA Project Space was opened in London, to provide an additional international platform to the gallery’s programme.
Exhibiting Artists Addis Gezehagn Merikokeb Berhanu Eyerusalem Adugna Jirenga Tadesse Mesfin
Gallery Artists Addis Gezehagn Eyerusalem Adugna Jirenga Girma Berta Luam Melake Merikokeb Berhanu Michael Tsegaye Tadesse Mesfin Tariku Shiferaw Wosene Kosrof Yonas Tadesse
Directors: Rakeb Sile, Mesai Haileleul 3rd floor, Wold Fiker Building, Bole Medhane Alem, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Addis Fine Art Project Space: 47-50 Margaret St, W1W 8SB, London UK +44 7931557544 raku@addisfineart.com 30 www.addisfineart.com
Addis Gezehagn - Joburg Floating Tower I, 2017. Acrylic and Paper on canvas, 162 x 130 cm.Image courtesy of the Artist and Addis Fine Art.
– Kampala, Uganda Founded 2002
Afriart Gallery
Afriart Gallery is a leading contemporary art gallery situated in Kampala Uganda. The artists represented by the gallery are at the fore front of Kampala’s artistic community and are responsible for the transformation of Uganda’s art landscape. The gallery was founded in 2002 by art director Daudi Karungi. It focuses on the promotion of contemporary art from Uganda and the East African region as well as forging collaborations among artists in Africa and beyond. The gallery artists have been featured in major international exhibitions, art auctions, Biennales, and Art Fairs. Afriart gallery seeks to enrich the knowledge of its visitors about contemporary African art and provide the most varied selection for the enthusiastic art collector in the gallery’s permanent collection. Apart from exhibitions Afriart has some exciting products and initiatives, ranging from an Art Education Programme to art collection advisory and art consultancy services.
Director: Daudi Karungi 56 Kenneth dale drive, Kampala, Uganda +256 712 455 555 daudi@afriartgallery.org 32 www.afriartgallery.org
Exhibiting Artists Sanaa Gateja Stacey Gillian Abe Ocom Adonias Collin Sekajugo Arim Andrew
Gallery Artists Sanaa Gateja Stacey Gillian Abe Ocom Adonias Collin Sekajugo Arim Andrew Eria Sane Nsubuga Fred Mutebi Lillian Nabulime George Kyeyune Canon Rumanzi Gosette Lubondo Paul Alden Mvoutoukoulou
Stacey Gillian Abe - Enya sa # 4, Performance still, 50 x 50 cm. Image courtesy of Afriart Gallery Kampala.
– London, England Founded 1991
ART FIRST
ART FIRST was founded in 1991 and presents an exhibition programme relevant to its stable of artists, also participating in art fairs in the UK, Europe and South Africa. Arranging museum and touring exhibitions with specialist publications is central to our activities.
Exhibiting Artists Joni Brenner Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher Karel Nel Graeme Williams Kim Wolhuter
Gallery Artists Christopher Cook Jake Harvey Simon Lewty Helen Macalister Bridget Macdonald Will Maclean Kate Mccrickard Jack Milroy Simon Morley Donald Teskey Mimei Thompson
Directors: Clare Cooper, Benjamin Rhodes 15 St Mary’s Walk, London SE11 4UA +44 7711 945098 clare@artfirst.co.uk 34 www.artfirst.co.uk
Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher - Pedi Queen Mevis Mohlai, Double Portrait, front and back. Photographic print, Each 140 x 95.5cm, Ed of 10.
– Germany / South Africa Founded 2003
ARTCO Gallery
Founded in 2003 by Jutta and Joachim Melchers, ARTCO evolved from an art agency into a gallery in 2005. Based in Aachen, Germany, ARTCO Gallery is situated close to Cologne, DĂźsseldorf, as well as bordering Belgium and the Netherlands. ARTCO Gallery represents a selection of international artists who have particular interest in painting and photography. Its main focus is the presentation of already established and emerging talented artists with an African background. The gallery participates in a number of international fairs, seeking to bring art from the continent to the widest possible audience. In addition to its program of solo shows and group exhibitions, ARTCO Gallery regularly publishes artist monographs and exhibition catalogues.
Exhibiting Artists Marion Boehm Claude Chandler Saidou Dicko Justin Dingwall Evans Mbugua Ange Swana
Gallery Artists Roger Ballen Daniel Blom Marion Boehm Marcelo Brodsky Claude Chandler Gordon Clark Bruce Clarke Saidou Dicko Justin Dingwall Hans Lemmen EL Loko Toyin Loye Raphael Mayne Evans Mbugua Richard Mudariki Adeoli Osibodu Marcin Owczarek Owusu-Ankomah Thom Pierce Manuela Sambo Ransome Stanley Gary Stephens Ange Swana Rikki Wemega-Kwawu
Directors: Joachim & Jutta Melchers Seilgraben 31, 52062 Aachen, Germany +49 24140126750 info@artco-ac.de www.artco-art.com 36
Saidou Dicko - The queen of queens /New York. C-print, 42 x 59,4 cm. Image courtesy of Saidou Dicko, ARTCO Gallery.
– Maputo, Mozambique Founded 2015
Arte de Gema
Operating as a platform for promoting artist and their artworks selling and renting original art pieces, our aim is to assist artists with their projects in technical consulting, procurement, production, as well as promote workshop and cultural exchanges. One of the main goals is to explore art on global perspective and challenge both emerging talents and established artist through different curatorial concepts to look conceptually and practically to different approaches on the production, research and promotion of their artworks in the professional domains. The gallery is experienced in doing exhibitions with the curatorial concept “art specimen” that brings together visual artists to the gallery, with multiform looks and ways of artistic practice. With this attitude, we intended to confide the possible diversity of artistic practices and the "specimen" moment that covers the aura of the artist, whether through the explored material, the evident personality or aesthetic choice, as unique samples.
Exhibiting Artists Branquinho Mabunda Gemuce Mauro Pinto Lourenço Pinto
Gallery Artists Carmen Muinga Djive Euridice Kala Famós Feliz Mula Ídasse João Donato Jorge Dias Matxacossa Mendonça Mudaulane Reinata Rodrigo Mabunda Santos Mabunda Ulissses Oviedo Vasco Manhiça Victor Sousa Walter Zand
Directors: Élia Gemuce, Pompílio Gemuce Av. Marginal nº 9519, Loja G13, Super Marés, Maputo, Mozambique +258 82 3020690 artedegema@gmail.com 38 www.artedegema.com
Mauro Pinto - Untitled. Inkjet print on fine art paper, 100% cotton Hahnemuhle, PhotoRag 300gr, 80 x 120 cm. Image courtesy of Arte de Gema.
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2010
BARNARD
BARNARD was founded in 2010 by owner and director Christiaan Barnard and is home to a select group of contemporary artists. The gallery has hosted a number of significant solo exhibitions by its stable of artists whose work has also been included in group shows at significant museums and institutions including amongst others IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg; Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; Pratt Institute, New York; Foto Museum, Antwerp; BOZAR, Brussels, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome; Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice and The Center for Book Arts, New York.
Exhibiting Artists Katherine Spindler
Gallery Artists Richard Mudariki Sarah Biggs Ryan Hewett Alex Emsley MJ Lourens Alastair Whitton Robyn Penn Lien Botha
Art Fairs have increasingly become a feature of the gallery schedule with participation in the FNB Joburg Art Fair (2012-2018); Cape Town Art Fair (2013-2018); 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London (2016-2017); VOLTA NY, New York (2017); VOLTA Basel (2018) and AKAA (Also Known as Africa), Paris (2017-2018). In 2013 the gallery extended its activities to include Barnard Publishing, an initiative aiming to further explore and support the work and careers of the gallery’s stable of artists through the medium of the book. To date these limited edition and signed publications have been added to the library collections of the University of Cape Town (UCT); Wits Art Museum (WAM), Johannesburg; Pratt Institute, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.
Director: Christiaan Barnard 55 Main St, 7700 Newlands, Cape Town +27 21 67 11 553 gallery@barnardgallery.com 40 www.barnardgallery.com
Alexia Vogel Nidkhumbule Ngqinambi Jaco van Schalkwyk Virginia MacKenny Tom Cullberg
Katherine Spindler - In Time II. Oil on Fabriano tela, 47,5 x 62,5 x 3,5 cm. Image courtesy of Barnard and the artist. Photo credit: Vanessa Cowling.
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2005
blank projects
Founded as an artist-run project space by Jonathan Garnham in 2005, blank projects has been operating as a commercial gallery since 2012, representing young and emerging artists from the region and abroad with a programme focused on critically engaged work. Through participation in prominent local and international art fairs, and an exhibition programme with a reputation for shaping the discourse around contemporary art in South Africa, blank seeks to place artists’ work in a wide range of private and institutional collections. In addition, blank continues to promote visual arts in the community through ongoing projects that support the sector.
Exhibiting Artists Igshaan Adams Jan-Henri Booyens Jared Ginsburg Bronwyn Katz Dorothee Kreutzfeldt Donna Kukama Turiya Magadlela Herman Mbamba Kyle Morland Cinga Samson
Gallery Artists Igshaan Adams Jan-Henri Booyens Jared Ginsburg Bronwyn Katz Dorothee Kreutzfeldt Donna Kukama Turiya Magadlela Herman Mbamba Kyle Morland Cinga Samson Gerda Scheepers James Webb Pedro Wirz Billie Zangewa
Director: Jonathan Garnham 10 Lewin St, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa +27 21 462 4276 info@blankprojects.com 42 www.blankprojects.com
Herman Mbamba - Until the wind blows for another time, 2017-2018. Acrylic on canvas, 210 x 300 x 5 cm. Photo credit: Edgar Bachel. Image courtesy of the artist & blank projects.
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2007
Christopher Moller Gallery
Christopher Moller Gallery was formed in 2007. The gallery deals in contemporary art, specialising in art from the African continent. Our goal is to build relationships between our artists and clients. Our building is located on a heritage site, in the heart of the Cape Town city bowl. The gallery hosts regular exhibitions, and participates in both local an international art fairs.
Directors: Christopher Moller; Jaco Claassen 7 Kloofnek Road, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001 +27 21 422 1599 info@christophermollerart.co.za 44 www.christophermollerart.co.za
Exhibiting Artists Nigatu Tsehay
Gallery Artists Nigatu Tsehay Tony Gum Ablade Glover Tsoku Maela Andre Stead Jaco Roux Hugh Mbayiwa Andrew Salgado Aldo Balding
Nigatu Tsehay - Fragile Reality. Oil on canvas, 90 x 80 cm. Image courtesy of the Christopher Moller Gallery.
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2016
Eclectica Contemporary
With an increasing focus on African Art around the world, Eclectica Contemporary aims to present a carefully selected and focused collection of art of and from the continent that interrogates the issues facing us in a globalized world. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Eclectica Contemporary sees itself as an African gallery with an international vision. We celebrate the diversity and depth of art making on our continent while aiming to contextualize this for a growing global market. We place a strong emphasis on promoting emerging artists and are passionate about providing a platform for narratives from and of Africa, by African artists -including the diaspora. We are committed to working alongside our artists to build a positive and strong relationship. With new exhibitions opening each month our program allows for a mix of solo shows by gallery artists alongside curated group shows. In addition, Eclectica Contemporary’s exhibition space has facilities for experimental, new media and project-based works.
Director: Shamiela Tyer 69 Burg Street, Cape Town +27 21 4224145 info@eclecticacontemporary.co.za 46 www.eclecticacontemporary.co.za
Exhibiting Artists Hussein Salim Leila Fanner Lars Fischedick
Gallery Artists Hussein Salim Loyiso Mkize Leila Fanner Lars Fischedick Ley Mboramwe Danielle Alexander Christa Myburgh Asuka Nirasawa Benon Lutaaya Mark Rautenbach Vincent Osemwegie
Hussein Salim - Dream II, 2017. Acrylic on canvas , 75.4 × 100 cm. Image courtesy of the Artist and Eclectica Contemporary.
– Luanda, Angola Founded 2016
ELA - Espaço Luanda Arte
ELA-Espaço Luanda Arte in Angola has been at the forefront of developing na-tional contemporary art both locally and internationally, as well as engaging the true potential of Angolan Artists, by exploring project-based and site-specific shows, with ample space for up to three solo private and five collective residencies at any given moment, an area for round-tables, discussions and artist talks, and a very large exhibition area for solo exhibitions, duets and collective shows. But it is also particularly interested in participating in key international fairs, as well as promoting pan-african and outside-of-africa collaborations between artists, curators, galleries and foundations, by holding intra and intercontinental workshops and residencies. In fact. 2018 marked the inauguration in ELA of Angola´s first official ´Artist-InResidence´ (AIR) programme.
Directors: Dominick Alexander Maia Tanner Rua Rainha Ginga, nº87, DeBeers building, 4th floor, Luanda +244 921 58 33 17 aminternacionallda@gmail.com 48 instagram: ela_espaço_luanda_arte_angola
Exhibiting Artists António Ole Kapela Paulo Van Jone Ferreira
Gallery Artists Kapela Paulo Van
Jone Ferreira - from the series “The Legend of Transformation” (2017). Photography, 90 x 60 cm. Copyright Jone Ferreira / ELA .
– Cape Town / Johannesburg / London Founded 1913
Everard Read / CIRCA
Everard Read is internationally recognized as the dealer for important contemporary sculpture. Supported by world class foundries South African sculptors have consistently created works of art from intimate smaller works to monumental bronzes that are powerful comments on the human condition. Truly we inhabit a golden era of South African sculpture. Some years ago the curatorial directors of Everard Read decided to celebrate the work of our most eminent artists working in three-dimensional art with an exhibition dedicated to their work at the Johannesburg Art Fair. We are thrilled that this ambition has come to fruition in 2018. It is a much anticipated event- one that we suspect shall be long remembered as a visual feast that delighted the eye of all visitors who relish fine works of art.
Exhibiting Artists Beth Diane Armstrong Beezy Bailey Deborah Bell Nic Bladen Arabella Caccia Norman Catherine Marco Cianfanelli Guy Du Toit Guy Ferrer Conrad Hicks Bronwyn Lace Nelson Makamo Michael Macgarry Christopher Marvell Colbert Mashile Setlamorago Mashilo Brett Murray Blessing Ngobeni Louis Olivier Thania Petersen Lionel Smit Rina Stutzer Angus Taylor Andrzej Urbanski Neill Wright
Curators: Mark Read, Monique Howse, Gina Mollé, Grace O’Malley, Megan Scott, Musa Nxumalo 2 & 6 Jellicoe Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 011 788 4805 gallery@everard.co.za www.everard-read.co.za 50
Brett Murray Visionary: Por trait/Self-Por trait. Bronze, Edition of 5, 157 x 113 x 147,5cm. Image courtesy of Mike Hall.
– Harare, Zimbabwe Founded 2009
First Floor Gallery
First Floor Gallery Harare is the leading Zimbabwean contemporary art gallery and artist led initiative, which has been supporting young artists and building international careers since its inception in 2009.
Exhibiting Artists Wycliffe Mundopa Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude Julio Rizhi Troy Makaza
Gallery Artists Takunda Regis Billiat Richard Butler Bowdon Troy Makaza Wycliffe Mundopa Thomas Muziyirwa Miriro Mwandiambira Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude Julio Rizhi Giles Ryder Mavis Tauzeni Helen Teede Lauren Webber
Directors: Marcus Gora, Valerie Kabov 2nd floor Karigamombe Centre, 53 Samora Machel Avenue, Harare, Zimbabwe +263 775709031 firstfloorgalleryharare@gmail.com 52 www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com
Wycliffe Mundopas - Our Future is in our own hands. Oil on canvas, 175 x 245 cm. Image courtesy of First Floor Gallery Harare.
– Accra, Ghana Founded 2016
Gallery 1957
Based in Accra and working internationally, Gallery 1957 is dedicated to contemporary art. With a curatorial focus on West Africa, the gallery presents a programme of exhibitions, installations and performances by the region’s most significant artists. Gallery 1957 works with artists currently bridging the gap between local and international practices, including Florine Demosthene, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Jeremiah Quarshie, Yaw Owusu, Gerald Chukwuma, crazinisT artisT and Godfried Donkor. Founded by Marwan Zakhem in 2016, the gallery has evolved from over 15 years of private collecting.
Exhibiting Artists lorine Demosthene Godfried Donkor
Gallery Artists Florine Demosthen Modupeola Fadugba Godfried Donkor Yaw Owusu Gerald Chukwuma Serge Attukwei Clottey Zohra Opoku Jeremiah Quashie crazinisT artisT
Director: Marwan Zakhem Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast, PMB 66 – Ministries, Gamel Abdul Nasser Avenue, Ridge, Accra, Ghana +233 545311683 Victoria@gallery1957.com www.gallery1957.com 54
Florine Demosthene - Meta. Collage on wood panel , 40 x 52 cm. Image courtesy of Gallery 1957 and the artist.
Gallery MOMO
– Johannesburg / Cape Town Founded 2003
Gallery MOMO is a contemporary art gallery with spaces in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. Gallery MOMO represents a growing number of internationally and locally based contemporary artists with a focus on African art and art from the diaspora. Since opening its doors in 2003, Gallery MOMO has developed a strong creative and intellectual platform for showcasing a substantial portfolio of South African, continental and international contemporary art. The Johannesburg gallery is known for its lectures, panel discussions and seminars, and hosts a residency program, which provides opportunities to collaborate with artists from around the world. In the Cape Town space, Gallery MOMO has adopted a focus on emerging artists, as well as video art. Gallery MOMO takes part in international art fairs and the gallery's artists are frequently included in exhibitions, biennales and established public and private collections across the globe. These include, among others, the Venice Biennale, Lyon Biennale, Havana Biennale, and Dak'Art.
Exhibiting Artists Stephané E. Conradie Maurice Mbikayi Pedro Pires Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Gallery Artists Roger Ballen Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo Stephané E. Conradie Florine Demosthene Kimathi Donkor Joel Mpah Dooh Dumile Feni Jonathan Freemantle Todd Gray George Hallett Coby Kennedy Dillon Marsh Maurice Mbikayi Kenrick McFarlane Pedro Pires Mary Sibande Ransome Stanley Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum Andrew Tshabangu
Directors: Monna Mokoena, Igsaan Martin, Odysseus Shirindza 52 7th Avenue, Parktown North 2193, South Africa +27 113273247 info@gallerymomo.com www.gallerymomo.com 56
Pedro Pires - Spot. Fire and machines on paper, 56 x 76 cm. Image courtesy of Gallery MOMO.
– Johannesburg, Cape Town Founded 1966
Goodman Gallery
Exhibiting Artists
Candice Breitz
Kendell Geers
Lisa Brice
David Goldblatt
Broomberg
Gabrielle Goliath
and Chanarin
Haroon Gunn-Salie
Carla Busuttil
Robert Hodgins
Kudzanai Chiurai
Alfredo Jaar
Nolan Oswald Dennis
Samson Kambalu
Jabulani Dhlamini
William Kentridge
Hasan and
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
Hussain Essop
Grada Kilomba
Ghada Amer
Mounir Fatmi
Kapwani Kiwanga
Willem Boshoff
Claire Gavronsky
David Koalane
Hank Willis Thomas
Gallery Artists
Goodman Gallery is a leading contemporary art gallery with spaces in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Since opening in 1966, Goodman Gallery has helped shape contemporary South African art, and in the decade since Liza Essers took over as owner and director that tradition has extended beyond local borders. Today, the gallery plays a vital role in supporting international collaborations in South Africa and presenting art that enriches international dialogue around colonial legacies and contemporary geopolitics. This ethos is embodied in the gallery’s 2018 programme, which features Yinka Shonibare MBE, Ghada Amer, ruby onyinyechi amanze, Grada Kilomba, Kudzanai Chiurai and Alfredo Jaar.
Liza Lou Gerald Machona Gerard Marx Misheck Masamvu Shirin Neshat Sam Nhlengethwa Walter Oltman Tabita Rezaire Tracey Rose Rosenclaire Thabiso Sekgala Rose Shakinovsky Yinka Shonibare MBE Mikhael Subotzky The Brother Moves On Hank Willis Thomas Clive Van Den Berg Minette Vari Diane Victor Jeremy Wafer Jessica Webster Sue Williamson Neliswe Xaba
Director: Liza Essers JHB: 163 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg, 2193 CT: 3rd Floor, Fairweather House,176 Sir Lowry Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town +27-11-788-1113 jhb@goodman-gallery.com www.goodman-gallery.com 58
Hank Willis Thomas - Ta r g e t (with One Arm), 2018 . Mixed media including mirror and moulded forms, 92 x 115.6 x 8.9 cm. Image courtesy of Goodman Gallery.
– Johannesburg, South Africa Founded 2014
Guns & Rain
Founded in 2014, Guns & Rain was one of Africa’s very first online galleries, established to address the under-representation of African art online and globally. The gallery works with contemporary artists from across southern Africa, including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana. We now have a permanent space in Parkhurst with a monthly exhibition programme. From 2015-2017, Guns & Rain produced regular pop-up exhibitions in multiple locations. At the same time, we provide prompt and informed advisory to collectors around the world. Most of our artists are emerging whilst some are already established. The name ‘Guns & Rain’ comes from the work of South African-born British anthropologist and playwright David Lan - who wrote about guerrillas and spirit mediums in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle - for its reference to nature, culture, identity, land, struggle, change, and other important themes.
Director: Julie Taylor 55 12th Street, Parkhurst, Johannesburg +27 762945332 info@gunsandrain.com 60 www.gunsandrain.com
Exhibiting Artists Bev Butkow Nelly Guambe Asanda Kupa
Gallery Artists Nicola Brandt Thina Dube Carmen Ford Ann Gollifer Letso Leipego Mncedi Madolo Jo Rogge Sky Salanje
Nelly Guambe - Memรณrias. Acrylic on paper, 82 x 60.5 cm. Image courtesy of Guns & Rain and the artist.
– Johannesburg, South Africa Founded 2013
Kalashnikovv Gallery
The Kalashnikovv Gallery was established in 2013 by long term collaborators M. J Turpin and Matthew Dean Dowdle out of frustration with the current South African Contemporary Art world and by extension, the prevailing “white cube” gallery discourse. They chose to create a hybrid space, bouncing to and fro between an independent artist run space, project space and commercial gallery space. Another key factor in the gallery’s inception was the decision not to compartmentalize creativity by showing art that is solely validated through academic practice and saleability. The Kalashnikovv ethos will forever champion the progressive alternative, the “outsider”, the artist as curator and the independent artist in all their creative guises and manifestations. Their existence is an endeavor to change perceptions around art, to move the industry forward as a whole, to be a catalyst for change and to make art accessible for all. Kalashnikovv strives to create exhibitions and scenarios that will cause artists, curators and the public to question their own place in this ever evolving art world.
Directors: Matthew Dean Dowdle, Murray James Turpin 70 Juta St, Braamfontein 2017, Johannesburg +27 837817406 / +27 731248183 info@kalashnikovv.co.za 62 kalashnikovv.co.za
Exhibiting Artists Vusi Beauchamp Jason Bronkhorst Andrew Kayser Ayanda Mabulu Theresa-Anne Mackintosh Io Makandal Maja Maljevic Jake Singer Skullboy Johan Thom
Maja Maljevic - Block.
– Johannesburg, South Africa Founded 2001
Lizamore & Associates
Contemporary fine art gallery and art consultants, Lizamore & Associates pride themselves in showcasing the very best contemporary art of emerging and established South African artists. The Lizamore team is led by acclaimed curator and gallerist, Teresa Lizamore. The gallery is known for the mentoring of young artists through the Johannes Stegmann Mentorship Programme and the Thami Mnyele Art Award Mentorship Programme, and regularly showcases exhibitions by the mentored artists as well as monthly solo and group exhibitions by their established artists. Lizamore gallery is proud of their travelling national museum exhibitions of artists such asJustin Dingwall and Robert Hamblin. The gallery continually promotes new prospects to collectors, while still serving the growing market of buyers looking for sound investment opportunities.
Director and Founder: Teresa Lizamore 155 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg T: +27 11 880 8802 / M: +27 82 651 4701 E: info@lizamore.co.za / M: www.lizamore.com 64 Gallery hours: T-F 10h00–17h00 S 10h00–15h00
Exhibiting Artists Benon Lutaaya Lwandiso Njara
Gallery Artists Hannelie Coetzee Robert Hamblin Mandy Johnston Zolile Phetshane Uwe Pfaff Mandy Coppes-Martin JM Tshikhuthula Justin Dingwall
Benon Lutaaya - Self-exploration. Indian ink & oil on Fabriano, 68 x 57 cm. Image courtesy of Lizamore & Associates.
– Luanda, Angola Founded 2014
MOV’ART
MOV’ART has served as an interlocutor and promoter for contemporary art in Angola since 2014. The gallery’s initial focus was a mobile, or “pop-up”, concept to promote the city’s artists by exhibiting original pieces in iconic locations throughout Luanda and abroad. In early 2017, after 16 mobile exhibitions, MOV’ART Gallery opened its fixed space in Luanda, showcasing the work of Angolan and other African contemporary through monthly expositions. The gallery’s work centers around breaking stereotypes by showing a side of Angolan culture that is little-known to the rest of the world.
Exhibiting Artists Mário Macilau Toy Boy
Gallery Artists Ihosvanny Keyezua Joana Taya Mário Macilau Rita GT Thó Simões Toy Boy
Directors: Janire Bilbao, Lauren Pereira Pozzo di Borgo Lojas Baía de Luanda, Av. 4 de Fevereiro, Luanda, Angola +244 930 340 gallery@movart.co.ao 66 www.movart.co.ao
Mário Macilau - Smoke, Faith Series. Giclée print on photo rag, 80 x 120cm. Image courtesy of MOVART Gallery.
– Lagos, Nigeria Founded 2013
Red Door Gallery
Red Door Art Gallery is located on the Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria. The Gallery opened in 2013 with the primary aim to give a global platform to emerging contemporary artists of African origin. Our artists challenge the stereotypical and predictable definitions of what “African Art” should look like or how the art should make the viewer feel. Indeed, in the new world that we are creating, the phrase “African Art” does not exist… only contemporary art that has been influenced by Africa. At Red Door, we believe that art must have a message that breaks all boundaries, builds bridges, deepens understanding and creates a stronger human race with a common language for expressing love, frustration, anger, joy, anxiety and other emotions without any unintended consequences. We have held over 30 exhibitions in London, Geneva, Johannesburg and Lagos. We have also attended several International Art Fairs.
Directors: Bola Asiru & Peter Mombaur 51b Bishop Oluwole St ,Victoria Island Lagos +234 805.894.0874 info@reddoorgallery.com 68 www.reddoorgallery.com
Exhibiting Artists Peju Alatise Fatai Adewale Nengi Omuku Cyril Oma
Gallery Artists Peju Alatise Fatai Adewale Cyril Oma Olu Spencer James Moore
Fatai Adewale - “Woman with Gun Man Pose” (2018). Mixed Media, 210cm x 180cm x 5cm. Image courtesy of The Artist.
– Johannesburg, Cape Town Founded 2011
ROOM Gallery & Projects
ROOM is an independent multidisciplinary gallery including a projectbased space and residency focused on collaboration, interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange, with monthly artistic programming. Our curatorial approach is focused on discourses centred along the global South axis and its Diasporas. With its activities ROOM instigates interrogative, critical and constructive terrain, which in turn informs its visual sensibility, creative programming and values.
Directors: Maria Fidel Regueros, Thato Mogotsi, Andrew Wessels, Megan Mace, Johannes Phokela, Benon Lutaaya Johannesburg, South Africa +27 110744944 roomforinfo@roomgallery.co.za www.roomgallery.co.za 70
Exhibiting Artists Mzwandile Buthelezi Mack Magagane Sikhumbuzo Makandula Mbali Mdluli Maqhawe Mkhwanazi
Gallery Artists Mack Magagane Mbali Mdluli Sikhumbuzo Makandula
Mzwandile Buthelezi - A call on remembrance. Charcoal on Paper, 59.4 x 84.1 cm. Image courtesy of Mzwandile Buthelezi & ROOM Gallery & Projects.
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2008
Salon Ninety One
Salon Ninety One is a Cape Town based gallery, presenting works by emerging and established contemporary artists of all disciplines, passionate about developing a new brand of local talent. The gallery specializes in accessible contemporary South African Art, Design and illustration. Founded during 2008 by Monique du Preez, (Married name, Foord), curator and director to the space and its highly energized exhibition program. The gallery presents a selection of contemporary work ranging from painting, textile, print, drawing, and to a smaller degree photography and sculpture, with a special emphasis on collaborative projects and bridging the traditional divide between disciplines. Salon91 offers international and local collectors, as well as first-time buyers unique investment opportunities into the emerging South African art market.
Exhibiting Artists Heidi Fourie Katrin Coetzer Kirsten Beets Kirsten Sims Linsey Levendall Paul Senyol
Gallery Artists Amber Moir Andrew Sutherland Berry Meyer Black Koki Bruce Mackay Cathy Layzell Donna Solovei Gabrielle Raaff Georgina Berens Jaco Haasbroek Jade Klara Katrine Claassens Matthew Prins Mareli Esterhuizen Kirsten Lilford Natasha Norman Maria van Rooyen Renée Rossouw Sarah Pratt Sean Gibson Tara Deacon Tahiti Pehrson Zarah Cassim
Director: Monique Foord 91 Kloof Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001 +27 21 424 6930 info@salon91.co.za www.salon91.co.za 72
Kirsten Beets - Cat Lady. Oil on board, 320 x 420mm (Unframed). Image courtesy of Salon Ninety One and Kirsten Beets.
SMAC
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2007
SMAC gallery was established in 2007 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Since it’s inception, SMAC has focused on presenting the work of emerging and mid-career South African artists, as well as established international artists. The gallery expanded to its current flagship space in Woodstock, Cape Town, in 2014 and opened a third space in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2016. In addition to its contemporary programme, the gallery regularly presents large-scale historical exhibitions and projects that offer a critical re-evaluation of South African art history within a global dialogue. The gallery’s art fair participation includes The Armory Show, artmonte-carlo, Artissima, Art Brussels and Miart.
Exhibiting Artists Lhola Amira Frances Goodman Kate Gottgens Georgina Gratrix Masimba Hwati Cyrus Kabiru Alexandra Karakashian Mongezi Ncaphayi Jody Paulsen Usha Seejarim Marinella Senatore Ed Young
Gallery Artists Lhola Amira Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou Willem Boshoff Barend de Wet Peter Eastman Frances Goodman Kate Gottgens Georgina Gratrix Masimba Hwati Cyrus Kabiru Alexandra Karakashian Johann Louw Wallen Mapondera Mongezi Ncaphayi Chemu Ng’ok Musa N. Nxumalo Gareth Nyandoro Giovanni Ozzola Jody Paulsen Usha Seejarim Marinella Senatore Marlene Steyn Simon Stone Pierre Vermeulen Ed Young Asha Zero
Directors: Baylon Sandri, Jean Butler 1st Floor, The Palms, 145 Sir Lowry Road Woodstock, 7925. Cape Town, South Africa +27 21 461 1029 info@smacgallery.com 74 www.smacgallery.com
Ed Young - PUPPIES, 2018. 100 x 100 cm. Image courtesy of SMAC.
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2014
Smith
SMITH is a gallery of contemporary art situated at 56 Church Street in Cape Town, South Africa. The gallery is housed in a 230-year-old Heritage site, the only “pakhuis” or warehouse building in the city centre not to have been subdivided. The high-ceilinged gallery covers a floorspace of 43m long and 6m wide, with a glass enclosure or courtyard dividing the front and back gallery areas. Founded in 2014, SMITH has within its stable a number of the country’s outstanding emerging artists. The gallery disregards convention and favours artists producing brave, joyous and timeless work that values and contributes to the discourse of contemporary art in South Africa. SMITH is passionate about creating an environment that deepens the relationship between artists and collectors and works to create unique fine art collections by profiling rare skill from unexpected places.
Exhibiting Artists Stephen Allwright Grace Cross Jeanne Gaigher Banele Khoza Dale Lawrence Michael Linders Rosie Mudge Marsi van de Heuvel Michaela Younge
Gallery Artists Stephen Allwright Grace Cross Katharien de Villiers Jeanne Gaigher HOICK Jess Holdengarde Jill Joubert Claire Johnson Banele Khoza Dale Lawrence Michael Linders Elsabé Milandri Gitte Möller Thandiwe Msebenzi Rosie Mudge Bert Pauw Gabrielle Raaff Marsi van de Heuvel Anna van der Ploeg Michaela Younge
Director: Candace Marshall-Smith 56 Church Street, Cape Town, 8000 +27 21 422 0814 info@smithstudio.co.za 76 www.smithstudio.co.za
Rosie Mudge - Below the surface into the depth into the breadth dissolving, II 2018. Automotive paint and glitter glue on canvas, 150 x 100 cm. Image courtesy of SMITH
Stevenson
– Cape Town / Johannesburg Founded 2003
Stevenson has an international exhibition programme with a particular focus on the region. The gallery opened in 2003, and has spaces in Cape Town and Johannesburg. It is jointly owned by its eleven directors.
Gallery Artists Zander Blom Wim Botha Edson Chagas Steven Cohen Meschac Gaba Ian Grose Simon Gush Nicholas Hlobo Pieter Hugo Mawande Ka Zenzile Dada Khanyisa Moshekwa Langa Nandipha Mntambo Meleko Mokgosi Zanele Muholi Simphiwe Ndzube Mame-Diarra Niang Serge Alain Nitegeka Odili Donald Odita Deborah Poynton Jo Ractliffe Robin Rhode Viviane Sassen Claudette Schreuders Bogosi Sekhukhuni Penny Siopis Guy Tillim Barthélémy Toguo Kemang Wa Lehulere Portia Zvavahera
Directors: Federica Angelucci. Joost Bosland, David Brodie, Andrew da Conceicao, Sophie Perryer, Michael Stevenson, Marc Barben, Lerato Bereng, Sisipho Ngodwana, Alexander Richards, Jessica Smuts 62 Juta St, Braamfontein 2001, Johannesburg Buchanan Building, 160 Sir Lowry Rd, Woodstock 7925, Cape Town +27 11 403 1055 / +27 21 462 1500 info@stevenson.info 78 www.stevenson.info
Portia Zvavahera - Tavingwa Nezvehusiku. Oil-based printing ink and oil bar on canvas, 198 x 198cm. Š Portia Zvavahera. Courtesy of Stevenson, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
– Luanda, Angola Founded 2016
THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE Gallery
This Is Not a White Cube (TINAWC) is an art gallery based in Luanda, focused on representing emerging contemporary artists, from Angola and its diaspora. The gallery presents work through its exhibition programme and participation in art fairs. As a multidisciplinary space and, in addition to its annual program, the gallery supports experimentation, research, project development, artistic residencies (local and Lisbon) and with regular discussions, talks on contemporary artistic practices, workshops, lectures, films, publications and archives and is keen to develop partnerships with local and international non-profit organisation focused on research. This Is Not a White Cube (TINAWC) is also a member of the Emerging African Art Galleries Association (EAAGA).
Director: Sónia Ribeiro Rua Cabral Moncada nr. 178 – Luanda, Angola +244 922939181 Sonia.ribeiro@tinawc.com Gallery.tinawc@gmail.com 80 www.tinawc.com
Exhibiting Artists Cristiano Mangovo Ana Silva Nelo Teixeira Januário Jano
Gallery Artists Januário Jano Cristiano Mangovo Ana Silva Nelo Teixeira Pedro Pires
Cristiano Mangovo - Untitled. Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 150 cm, 2018. Image courtesy of This is Not a White Cube Gallery.
WHATIFTHEWORLD
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2008
Founded in 2008, WHATIFTHEWORLD is a distinguished and recognised contemporary art gallery, both within South Africa and internationally. Since its conception, the gallery has expanded to collaborate with some of the most significant artists in Africa, as well as many talented established and emerging artists. With a strong focus on South Africa, and the broader Africa and the African diaspora, the gallery represents influential artists who critically engaged with both global and local contemporary art and socio-political contexts in an attempt to incite social transformation. The gallery thrives on nurturing their artists conceptually and materially by providing support for professional development. WHATIFTHEWORLD has a strong history in areas of publishing, having published numerous catalogues as well as artist monographs, and design and curatorship; hosting a series of noteworthy solo and group exhibitions in customised spaces. It regularly participates in international art fairs including Frieze New York and VOLTA in Basel, Switzerland. Gallery artists have exhibited in major exhibitions and biennials including the 55th Venice Biennial; The Havana Biennial; Guangzhou Triennial Guangzhou, China; Le Biennial de Dakar, Senegal as well as group exhibitions hosted at prestigious venues such at the Center Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC; SFMOMA San Francisco and MOMA, New York.
Exhibiting Artists Sanell Aggenbach Mia Chaplin Julia Rosa Clark Paul Edmunds Pierre Fouché Lungiswa Gqunta Dan Halter Maja Marx Michele Mathison Mohau Modisakeng John Murray Lakin Ogunbanwo Cameron Platter Athi-Patra Ruga Buhlebezwe Siwani Rowan Smith Ruby Swinney Michael Taylor
Gallery Artists Sanell Aggenbach Mia Chaplin Paul Edmunds Julia Rosa Clark Pierre Fouché Lungiswa Gqunta Dan Halter Maja Marx Michele Mathison Mohau Modisakeng John Murray Lakin Ogunbanwo Cameron Platter Athi-Patra Ruga Lyndi Sales Buhlebezwe Siwani Rowan Smith Ruby Swinney Michael Taylor Morné Visagie
Directors: Justin Rhodes, Ashleigh Mclean 1st Floor, 16 Buiten Street, Cape Town, 8000 +2779 876 9760 info@whatiftheworld.com 82 www.whatiftheworl.com
Thania Petersen - Avarana I, 2016. Dibond Watercolour Photograph, 67 x 100 cm.
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2004
WORLDART
WORLDART specialises in managing and marketing contemporary South African artists and their work, catering to the needs of those who appreciate and acquire art. Operating from its premises in Cape Town's CBD, WORLDART introduces local and international buyers to exciting new works in an intimate gallery space and regularly hosts exhibitions in various venues in South Africa. It also assists clients in sourcing quality artworks for corporate and private art collections.
Exhibiting Artists Kilmany-Jo Liversage Bastiaan van Stenis Gavin Rain Khaya Witbooi Norman O’Flynn Dion Cupido Catherine Ocholla Stephen Rosin
Gallery Artists Kilmany-Jo Liversage Gavin Rain Dion Cupido Norman O’Flynn
Director: Charl Bezuidenhout 54 Church Street, Cape Town +27 21 4233075 info@worldart.co.za 84 www.worldart.co.za
Kilmany-Jo Liversage - Orda518, 2018. Acrylic, newsprint, marker and spray paint on canvas, 180cm x 150cm.
Solo Presentations
– Maryland, USA Founded 2006
Alida Anderson Art Projects
Born in upstate New York and living and working in Pretoria, South Africa, Lin has had more than 15 solo exhibitions including ones in New York, Tokyo and Houston. She was featured in the recent book, "100 Artists of Washington, DC", by Lenny Campello. Notably, she was the recipient of the John Anson Kittredge Grant, the D.C. Commission for the Arts and Humanities Grant, and the Strauss Fellowship Grant. Residencies in Tokyo and Singapore have allowed the artist to interact with other art professionals and collectors in Asia and to refine and inform her work. Amy Lin’s work explores the idea of being an outsider. In creating these drawing/ sculpture hybrids, the drawings are obscured by layers of cut paper. Because parts of each drawing are hidden, the viewer has to move around and peer into the openings to see the drawing underneath. But just as with any outsider, the viewer can’t fully understand or see the whole picture and can only infer what is happening beneath, based on the tiny glimpses that are visible from the surface. Her choice of medium may seem surprising as the drawings and cut-out forms are often mistaken for being digitally produced or laser-cut, but the artist uses some of the most basic media – a pencil and a knife – as a counterbalance. Technology is usually assumed to outperform human capability for accuracy and precision, but her art develops organically in a stream-ofconsciousness, each mark suggesting the next, the finished product a surprise. Because the marks are hand-drawn, they are analogous to human beings – the differences or “imperfections” are what makes each of us beautiful.
Directors: Alida Anderson, Lenny Campello 8505 Timber Hill Ln, Potomac, MD 20854, USA +1 (301) 437-1054 info@alidaanderson.com 88 www.alidaanderson.com
Exhibiting Artists Amy Lin
Amy Lin - Rescuing. Colored pencil on paper, 60 x 70 cm. image courtesy of Alida Anderson Art Projects.
– Germany / South Africa Founded 2003
ARTCO Gallery
"Unleashed" featuring Roger Ballen in collaboration with Hans Lemmen
"Unleashed": Unsettling, even brutal, revisiting the depths of the human psyche in a project together with the Dutch draughtsman Hans Lemmen; a project remarkable in every respect. Living thousands of miles apart, the two artists have worked on each other's works over a period of months. Photos and drawings have been exchanged and re-exchanged, dissected, made into collages, in part re-photographed and drawn over; an intense dialogue involving camera, scissors, charcoal and pen. The result is spectacular, transcending the boundaries across these several genres. Born in 1950 in New York, Roger Ballen has lived and worked in Johannesburg for many years. Hans Lemmen was born in 1959 in Venlo/ The Netherlands. He lives and works in Belgium.
Directors: Joachim & Jutta Melchers Seilgraben 31, 52062 Aachen, Germany +49 24140126750 info@artco-ac.de www.artco-art.com 90
Exhibiting Artists Roger Ballen in collaboration with Hans Lemmen
Roger Ballen in collaboration with Hans Lemmen - Oh no! Photograph, 55 x 55 cm. Image courtesy of Roger Ballen and Hans Lemmen / ARTCO Gallery.
David Krut
– Johannesburg, South Africa Founded 1999
Aida Muluneh was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1974 where she currently lives. Aida left the country at a young age and spent an itinerant childhood between Yemen and England. After several years in a boarding school in Cyprus, she finally settled in Sasktchewan, Canada in 1985. In 2000, she graduated with a degree from the Communication Department with a major in Film from Howard University in Washington D.C. After graduation she worked as a photojournalist at the Washington Post. Muluneh’s work has had solo exhibitions in South Africa, USA and Canada, with participations in group exhibitions in Mali, Senegal, Egypt, France, Germany, England, Korea, and China. Her works can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, the Hood Museum, the Museum of Biblical Art in the United States, and the UNISA Collection in Pretoria. She is the recipient of awards for international support of aspiring photographers in Africa and elsewhere, starting with the recipient of the 2007 European Union Prize in the Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, in Bamako, Mali. Muluneh has been a jury member on several prominent photography competitions most notably the Sony World Photography Awards 2017 and the World Press Photo Contest 2017. She is the Founder and Director of the Addis Foto Fest (AFF), the first international photography festival in East Africa hosted since 2010 in the city of Addis Ababa. She continues to educate, curate and develop cultural projects with local and international institutions through her company DESTA (Developing and Educating Society Through Art) for Africa Creative Consulting PLC (DFA) in Addis Ababa. This solo project is a continuation of her series addressing issues of perception relating to Africa which commenced with The World is 9.
Director: David Krut, with Jillian Ross, Amé Bell and Elzette de Beer 142A Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg +27 11 880 6368 info-jhb@davidkrut.com 92 www.davidkrut.com
Exhibiting Artist Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh - Ye Buda Eyne – The Eyes of Buda, 2017 Digital Archival Print, 80 x 80cm. Image courtesy of the Artist and David Krut Projects
– L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France Founded 2005
Galerie Eric & Valérie GALEA
Born in Dakar in 1970 where he graduated from “Ecole Nationale des Arts”. He is currently living in Mbour (Senegal). Illustration of Wolof proverbs, mythological half animal, half human characters are created to catch the attention of viewer on human beings’ weaknesses and faults. Works are combination of metal and raw materials including sackcloth and wood. His large installation “The one who does not know where he goes must return where he comes from?”, was shown at Dak’Art Biennale.
Director: Eric Galea BP 70013 84801 – L’ISLE SUR LA SORGUE cedex France galerie@galeriegalea.com 94 www.galeriegalea.com
Exhibiting Artists Seydi Mamady
Seydi Mamady - Seetu du la wax dëg (Mirror, liar). Mixed media, 52 x 36 x 20 cm. Image courtesy of Galerie Galéa.
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2014
Smith
Dale Lawrence’s work as a solo artist and as part Exhibiting of the creative studio Hoick, which he co-founded, has Artists become known for a tendency to marry painstaking application and wry humour. In his two solo exhibitions Dale Lawrence at SMITH, Look Busy (2016) and Another Helping (2017), Lawrence used paintings, monotypes, linocuts and sculpture to articulate his métier - studying the tension between focused intent and willful abandon. By meticulously painting his own lackadaisical tracings of classic artworks, or creating new prints by tearing up others that have gone unsold, Lawrence’s interventions seek to locate the true value – and origin – of both an artwork and its maker. Making and selling art is an expensive business. Costs are high for both artist and dealer. And to make matters worse, the industry (being ‘contemporary’ art) requires constant innovation, but doesn’t allow those responsible for the innovation to reap the profits of it—they’re left to the imitators and hacks to repeat ad nauseam. In fact, it is not so much innovation that the industry demands, but a constant state of ‘innovativeness’. Nevertheless, money must be made and bellies must be filled. The artist is left in the precarious position, where they absolutely must find some way of cutting costs and increasing profit margins. Luckily for the inventive artist, the situation is unwittingly ideal because, as the saying goes, ‘necessity is the mother of invention’, the very thing they’re hoping to contrive. The resulting exhibition is one where the tensions of economy play out in full view. With the pursuit of the creation of treasures on the one hand (heirloom objects that are imbued to the brim with character, wonder, beauty, wisdom, integrity, nobility and significance), wrestling the demands of efficiency on the other (the demands of profit and practicality, beckoning the maker to grow up and start thinking with a business mind, along with the realisation that an invention or object with the potential to benefit people in some way almost has a responsibility to provide that benefit for all who could use it, rather than restricting access to a tiny group). This topic seems particularly important in South Africa and Africa’s current positions, as both country and continent negotiate their routes for creating inclusive, ‘developed’ economies. On the one hand, we have a massive need for access to inexpensive goods and services; on the other, a need for agency and dignity in work. These two needs are at odds with each other, as to create cheap goods and services, the producers must be paid low wages, and the products must above all be cost effective to produce—often leading them to be of low quality and not properly address the needs of the users, at least not for any length of time. And to be given agency over one’s work is to allow organic growth and learning. This is gratifying for the worker, but not efficient in the modern sense of the word, and not competitive in terms of profits. It does however provide opportunity for the creation of goods and services that are meaningful and long-lasting, which may prove to be more profitable in the long run. This also stands as an important decision for Africa’s definition of self. Much debate and thought is going into redefining the stunted external assumptions of a homogeneous Africa, instead embracing and highlighting the multifarious voices and perspectives. This is an interesting distinction from the way most nations, areas or cultural groups have defined themselves—finding commonality in distinction rather than conformation. This is profoundly different, and is no doubt a viewpoint only possible in the age of the internet, rather than the industrial era as most developed nations have done. The body of work on exhibition is a display of the tensions spoken about above, summarized as ‘impact’ and ‘efficiency’, bringing them into full view for comparison and scrutiny, the exhibition acting as a collection of self-contained model of activities and forces in the economy at large, making use of the traditions of fine art series and editions to illustrate, with titles chosen specifically to give insight into the allegorical content of the show. The work comprises a series of short-cuts, expediencies, innovations in efficiency, convenient interpretations, half-truths, half-commitments, liberties, overcompensation, over-complications, indulgences, tight fists, lavish spending and budget cuts.
Director: Candace Marshall-Smith 56 Church Street, Cape Town, 8000 +27 21 422 0814 info@smithstudio.co.za 96 www.smithstudio.co.za
Dale Lawrence - Acquisition, 2017. Acrylic on paper, 120 x 80cm. Image courtesy of SMITH
Stevenson
– Cape Town / Johannesburg Founded 2003
Stevenson presents a solo project of new works by Zander Blom.This body of work is born from Blom’s growing disillusionment with the limitations of abstract painting. Figurative elements traditionally associated with the artist’s drawing practice dominate his recent canvases, reflecting his desire for a new pictorial language that articulates concerns with art history from a simultaneously personal and cerebral standpoint. He describes this approach stating:
Exhibiting Artists Zander Blom
For the last decade or so I’ve wanted to be a serious abstract painter and I set up parameters for what that meant. With abstraction you can’t really make jokes. You can’t really have punch lines. And, I think if you deny certain parts of your personality eventually it can come back with a vengeance. About 2 years ago or so I started doing scribbles on pages from Mondrian’s books mostly. They gave an outlet to my inner teenager and slowly that started creeping into the paintings, and at some point I realised I had to make a choice. In a way it’s a rebellion against this specific type of idealism that I had about abstract painting, something I almost worked through using that vernacular for so long. And then it just boiled over to these paintings. Working figuratively, my biggest questions were what to paint,and what to draw? I had to build a whole new language and this is where it started for me. This is the first step in building a deeper, more sophisticated figurative world. And in a way, it’s begun as an extension of the drawings. Blom’s recent paintings are made with oil-bar on separate fragments of canvas that are stuck together in a haphazard mosaic. Allusions to both the history of art and Blom’s personal history proliferate, like visual quotations realised in figurative scrawl, and a single painting may combine a multitude of references, from Paul Cezanne to Irma Stern, from memories of Datsun hatchbacks in 1990s Pretoria to childhood obsessions with ninjas and knives. Blom was born in 1982 in Pretoria and lives in Cape Town. Solo shows include Polaris and Ursa Minor at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean in Port Louis (2017); New Works at Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (2017; 2015); Place and Space at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah and also at Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2011-12); The Black Hole Universe at Galerie van der Mieden in Antwerp and also at 5x6x9, Berlin (2010); in addition to Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg. In 2014 Blom won the third Jean-François Prat Prize for contemporary art in Paris. In 2016 Blom showed work on a group exhibition, as part of the fifth edition of the prize at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Blom is included in Phaidon’s latest anthology of contemporary painting: Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (2016), and his second catalogue raissoné: Paintings: Volume II, with an essay by Nicola Trezzi was released December 2016.
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Zander Blom - The Transatlantic Passenger, 2018. Oil on linen, 198 x 150cm. ŠZander Blom. Courtesy of Stevenson, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Limited Edition Prints
– Germany / South Africa Founded 2003
ARTCO Gallery
EL Loko, born 1950 Pédakondji, Togo and studied most notably under Josef Beuys, as well as Rolf Crummenauer and Erwin Heerich at Art Academy Duesseldorf, Germany. But it was Beuys who brought him to Germany and was his mentor. Though EL Loko initially “encountered many clichés about art from Africa or an African as an artist” in the German art scene, he successfully found an artistic style and voice that helped him move beyond those clichés while combining the influences of his birthand adopted homelands. EL Loko’s work encompasses wood prints, painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, reliefs, and installations. He has had dozens of solo and group exhibitions. During Documenta11, his work was displayed on city trains. In his woodcut, myths, ciphers and symbols, and above all the aesthetic forms of his cultural homeland, his African roots, become remarkably alive. Influenced by his profound contact with these diverse cultures in these early woodcuts, and later in his paintings and sculptures, EL Loko has developed a personal, unifying artistic voice. Which is why these graphics can rightly claim our undivided attention. EL Loko lived in Cologne and Pédakondji, where he died in September 2016.
Directors: Joachim & Jutta Melchers Seilgraben 31, 52062 Aachen, Germany +49 24140126750 info@artco-ac.de www.artco-art.com 102
Exhibiting Artists EL Loko
EL Loko - Ballade des Retourdataires. Wood print, 75 x 64 cm. Image courtesy of ARTCO Gallery.
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2016
BAD PAPER
Bad Paper is a multi-disciplinary editions and publications company, co-founded in 2016 by visual artist Rodan Kane Hart and book/graphic designer Ben Johnson. Born out of excitement for the potential of more accessible contemporary artwork, we aim to fill a gap in the set of alternatives to the gallery system by utilizing multiples as a form for our works. Bad Paper was founded with the vision of creating an environment where artists are able to explore the potential of their work as an edition or publication, and the ways that doing so could influence their practice. Conceptually, we’re interested in the idea of the multiple and all that it entails, including the lives of a single artwork in multiple locations, the preciousness (or lack thereof) in a copy, and the human elements of imperfection intrinsic to the process of repetition. With those questions in mind, Bad Paper collaborates with artists to concretize their existing ideas or to translate their prior experience into different modes of thinking. Ultimately, this results in tangible pieces ranging in medium from sculptures and designed objects to prints and artist books.
Directors: Ben Johnson, Rodan Kane Hart Cape Town, South Africa +27 (0) 716747723 / 832689284 info@badpaper.co.za www.badpaper.co.za 104
Exhibiting Artists Zander Blom Lea Colombo Barend De Wet Jared Ginsburg Rodan Kane Hart Keith Henning Bonolo Kavula Bella Knemeyer Nico Krijno Musa Kxumalo Mitchell Gilbert Messina Daniella Mooney Davis Ndungu Sean O’Toole & Zander Blom Cameron Platter Jaco van Schalkwyk
– Johannesburg, South Africa Founded 2010
DALE SARGENT FINE ART
Dale Sargent Fine Art is a gallery as well as an online platform that offers a range of fine South African art. We have an extensive collection of artworks by established South African artists as well as works by emerging younger artists. Dale Sargent Fine Art has a gallery space in Parktown North in Johannesburg where visits are by appointment. We also offer onsite consulting and art sourcing for corporate and private clients.
Directors: Dale Sargent, Scott Sargent 25 – 7th Avenue, Parktown North, Johannesburg, 2193 +27 (0)82 080 9571 dale@dalesargentart.com www.dalesargentart.co.za 106
Exhibiting Artists Walter Battiss Fred Schimmel Robert Hodgins Norman Catherine Wopko Jensma William Kentridge
Robert Hodgins - Golden Girl. Colour Lithograph, 50.5cm x 68cm. Image courtesy of Dale Sargent Fine Art.
– Newtown, Johannesburg Founded 2014
LL Editions
LL Editions with Nelson Makamo for the first time in collaboration to present a solo project of fine art prints by one artist at the Joburg Art fair. Collaboration prints will consist of two printing mediums, Lithographs and Monoprints by Nelson Makamo.
Director: Leshoka Joe Legate 10 Mahlathini Street, Newtown, Johannesburg 2001 011 042 5199 ( 083 576 7737) leshoka@lleditions.co.za www.lleditions.co.za 108
Exhibiting Artists Nelson Makamo
Nelson Makamo. Lithograph, 100x74cm. Image courtesy of LL Editions
MAKER
– Kew, Johannesburg Founded 2009
The making of THE NOONOO INDEX by Lunetta Bartz
In March 2015, I reconnected with South African visual and performance artist Mark Rautenbach (b.1964). At our first meeting Rautenbach spoke to me about one of his sculptures titled P(h)i[re]; an artwork he had been considering destroying. This discussion led to my discovery of his ongoing series, broadly titled Noonoos, which he has worked on for the past 15 years. I came to understand that some of these art objects had been reused to make more recent artwork, the actual ‘originals’ no longer existed, and some had in fact already been ‘lost’. I proposed to Rautenbach that we make an index in an attempt to archive and preserve the more than 80 sculptures, which make up the Noonoos series, for future reference. This index would also then serve to illustrate or trace the ‘ancestry’ of the sculptures, as many of them are ‘descendants’ of previous artworks. Together we have created a physical index, cataloguing the individual sculptures on cards, also including the related surviving images. Some works exist only as very early digital mobile telephone photographs and others as rescued social media images. With this THE NOONOO INDEX we are creating a record for each Noonoo. In addition to the index cards, which have been categorised into groups and placed in a chronological order, there will be included in the box a Noonoo language glossary and a Noonoo family tree along with additional images of Noonoos in their new locations. All this will be hand made and bound in our bindery, embellished to imitate the materiality of the Noonoo sculptures. The resulting artists’ book is in a small edition. In doing so the index becomes a custodian of ‘almost lost’ ideas.
Director: Lunetta Bartz 75 4th road, kew, 2090 +27 11 447 6680 enquiries@makerstudio.co.za www.makerstudio.co.za 110
Exhibiting Artists Mark Rautenbach
Mark Rautenbach Shamiela and the Forty Thieves. Studio-detritus from commission, recycled artwork, acrylic, polyester thread, plastic studs, sand bags, sequins, 110 x 40 x 37 cm. Image courtesy of Mark Rautenbach.
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2009
The South African Print Gallery
Limited Edition Fine Art Investment Prints The SA Print Gallery (SAPG) is the first exclusive Fine Art print dealership to promote the appreciation and dynamic investment value of SA limited edition fine art prints. Over the last 100 years, South African Printmaking has come into its own – as a strong stand-alone medium with an inspired, highly evolved language created by artists with rich and diverse cultural backgrounds. The SAPG (Est. 2009) is a pioneer gallery with over 35 years of experience, and although we have a way to go in terms of unlocking the value of SA Fine Art Printmaking, it’s a journey that we would love to share with you. Our unique philosophy is that we look at each fine art print individually and value the print according to its contribution or inspiration to the language of SA Fine Art Printmaking
Director: Gabriel Clark-Brown 109 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, Cape Town +27 21 4626851 kevin@printgallery.co.za www.printgallery.co.za 112
Exhibiting Artists Alice Goldin Anton Kannemeyer Cecil Skotnes Dan Rakgoathe Gabriel Clark-Brown Gregoire Boonzaaier Fred Page John Muafangejo Hilda Pemberton Nita Spilhaus Peter Clarke
Dan Rakgoathe - Cosmic Trinity, 1974. Linocut, 36,5 x 36,5cm.
– White River, South Africa Founded 1991
The Artists' Press
In 1991 The Artists' Press opened its doors in Newtown, Johannesburg, under the direction of Tamarind Master Printer, Mark Attwood. The print studio started as a lithography studio providing artists in Southern Africa with a workshop dedicated to the production of limited edition hand printed lithographs. Since its inception, the press has grown steadily and today offers a variety of print processes to artists as well as publishing and selling original prints and artists books. In 2003 the press relocated to a farming area just outside of White River in Mpumalanga. In the purpose-built print studio, the press now offers lithography, mono printing and relief printing. The Artists' Press is a small print studio dedicated to offering artists the very best in personal attention. All work printed at the studio is done by hand. We use acid-free paper and the most lightfast inks available, taking the utmost care to ensure that the work is of the highest possible standard. We continually strive to improve the quality of our prints. All editions are carefully curated and documented. Once editions have been printed and signed, the plate or stone is defaced thereby preserving the integrity of the edition and ensuring that no second editions can be printed. The Artists’ Press only publishes work by Southern African artists. This work can be found in both local and international collections including: The Smithsonian Institute, Bodleian Library (Oxford University), US Library of Congress, Johannesburg Art Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand Gallery Collection, Botswana National Museum and Art Gallery, South African National Archive, Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA), University of Cape Town, Winterthur Library (Switzerland), Durban Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg, Yale University (USA) and the V&A in London.
Exhibiting Artists Simon Attwood Deborah Bell Hanneke Benadé Kim Berman Coexae Bob Willem Boshoff Conrad Botes Joni Brenner Sibonelo Chiliza Karin Daymond Erika Hibbert Thami Jali Anton Kannemeyer Thama Kase Banele Khoza David Koloane Johann Louw Dumisani Mabaso Eugenie Marais Colbert Mashile Judith Mason Kagiso Patrick Mautloa Nandipha Mntambo Tommy Motswai André Naudé Sam Nhlengethwa Walter Oltmann Fiona Pole Joachim Schönfeldt Claudette Schreuders Helen Mmakgabo Sebidi Penny Siopis Paul Stopforth Winston Thekiso Kg’akg’am Tshabu Xaga Tcuixgao Strijdom van der Merwe Diane Victor Xgaoc’o X’are
Directors: Mark Attwood, Tamar Mason PO BOX 1236, White River 1240 00 27 83 676 3229 mark@artistspress.co.za 114 www.artprintsa.com
Deborah Bell - I believe in all that has never been spoken. Seven colour lithograph, 76.5 x 56.5 cm. Image courtesy of The Artists’ Press.
The White House Gallery
– Johannesburg, South Africa Founded 2001
With more than 15 years of experience working with collectors, art dealers and arts institutions internationally, The White House Gallery has developed an impeccable professional reputation as a result of a comfortable, straight-forward approach with clients and institutions on every level, as well as unusually rich and diverse collection of fine art. Their objective is very simple – they strive to successfully meet the growing needs and diverse interests of individual art collectors, art advisors, galleries, international arts organisations and museums with an approach that is personal, honest and client-focused. Specialising in master prints by many of the most recognised modern and contemporary artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, they also offer a significant selection of work by highly-regarded emerging and mid-career artists. The White House Gallery’s primary focus is in consulting with and assisting individual collectors – from those just beginning to those with the most sophisticated collections. And because their interest extends beyond the restrictions of a traditional gallery and the constraints of a finite inventory, their deep and long-term relationships within the international art community allows them to successfully source specific, rare or hard to find paintings, prints & sculptures.
Directors: Alan Uria & Clive Sergay G17, Thrupps Illovo Centre, Oxford Road, Illovo, Johannesburg +27 11 268 2115 info@thewhitehousegallery.co.za 116 www.whg.co.za
Exhibiting Artists Jim Dine Marc Chagall David Hockney Mr. Brainwash Joan Miró Victor Pasmore Patrick Rubinstein Andy Warhol Frank Stella
Mr Brainwash – Einstein, 2018. Mixed media on paper, 122 x 162 cm. Image courtesy of the Artist.
Art Platforms
– Perth / Melbourne, Australia Founded 2016
ANOTHER ANTIPODES
Another Antipodes is an Australian based visual arts platform which strives to strengthen cross-cultural communication and to forge greater inter-cultural understanding between Australian and African arts practitioners. Our focus is the extension of knowledge in contemporary art practice and interrogation of its positioning in political, social and historical narratives. For the 2018 Joburg Art Fair, Another Antipodes will present works by established West Australian artists Susan Roux, Paul Kaptein, Christophe Canato and Eva Fernandez. Together these artists represent the current contested space of competing narratives in Australian identity; reshaping future narratives by critically reviewing the past, making sense of the present and proposing possibilities for the future in an increasingly socially connected world.
Director: Gerald Sanyangore Perth/Melbourne Australia + 61 450 658 859 another.antipodes@gmail.com www.anotherantipodes.com 120
Christophe Canato Pink Triangle # 1 (detail) Photography 115 x 10 x 115 cm Image courtesy of Christophe Cananto
Artists Proof Studio
Sizwe Khoza - Monotype (detail) 98 cm x 99cm
– Johannesburg, South Africa Founded 1995
Leaders in fine art printmaking excellence since 1991. We specialise in arts training, print collaborations, partnerships, sales and distribution of prints. Artist Proof Studio (APS) is a multi-faceted community-centred organisation that trains talented students in South Africa and other countries in Africa. Our graduates are better positioned to become leading art practitioners in the market. Graduate and alumni artists are proudly represented through APS at art fairs, and reputable art galleries throughout the country and internationally. As a centre of printmaking excellence we attract opportunities to collaborate with prominent South African artists who work with our team of experienced printers to create exciting print editions.
Director: Kim Berman 3 Helen Joseph St, Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg +27 11 492-1278 lydia@artistproofstudio.co.za www.artistproofstudio.co.za 121
– Johannesburg, South Africa Founded 1991
Bag Factory Artists' Studios
The Bag Factory Artists’ Studios has been promoting, supporting and developing the visual arts in South Africa since the organisation’s inception 27 years ago in 1991. The Bag Factory achieves its aims to promote, support and develop the visual arts and visual artists in South Africa, through studio provision, an international visiting artist programme, selffunded artists’ residencies, professional skills development and curatorial development programmes, as well as outreach programmes, specialized skills workshops, and exhibitions. Currently, the Bag Factory houses resident artists, David Koloane, Pat Mautloa, Thonton Kabeya, Asuka Nirasawa, Tshepo Mosopa, Diana Hyslop, Danny Myburgh, Bev Butkow, Gail Behrmann, Asanda Kupa, Phumulani Ntuli, Usha Seejarim, Richard “Specs” Ndimande and Ramarutha Makoba. The work exhibited at the 2018 FNB Joburg Art Fair is the product of the 2018 David Koloane Mentorship Award. The award celebrates the life and career of David Koloane, artist and founding member of the Bag Factory Artists’ Studios and is based on David’s belief in the Bag Factory’s “learning by exchange” philosophy. The programme aims to provide emerging artists with professional mentoring, public exposure, and a space in which to create.
Director: Candice Allison 10 Mahlatini Street, Fordsburg, 2092 +27 11 834 9181 info@bagfactoryart.org.za www.bagfactoryart.org.za 122
David Koloane in his studio at the Bag Factory Artists’ Studios in Newtown, Johannesburg. Image courtesy of Bag Factory Artists’ Studios. Image credit: Linda Malefo.
Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria
The Javett-UP, designed by Matthews & Associates, under construction at the University of Pretoria. Photo: Alet Pretorius. Image courtesy of Javett Foundation .
Opens in 2019
Something big and exciting is coming: the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria. The Javett-UP (as it will be known to its friends) asks two questions: Whose Africa is it? And what role does art play in helping us decide who we are, where we come from and where we’re going? This is going to be a place where everybody who wonders about this stuff can meet other people who also care about African creativity and expression. The Javett-UP will open next year with an exciting exhibition. Details will be revealed closer to the time. In the meantime, we can reveal that the Javett-UP will house the world-famous Mapungubwe Collection and a 20th Century collection of South African art. For the university, it’s going to enrich teaching, learning and research. Also, it’s going to enhance how the university reaches out and engages with communities. It’s a partnership between Tuks and the Javett Foundation who are united in their belief that you can’t put a value on creativity. Why? Because it’s the very essence of our humanity. It unites us and helps us understand each other. At Javett-UP, it’s #MyAfricaOurArt. Exciting? Oh yes.
connect@javettup.art www.javettup.art
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– Johannesburg, South Africa Founded 1910
Johannesburg Art Gallery
The Johannesburg was founded in 1910 with an art collection that was initiated by Lady Florence Philips. In 1915 the collection got its permanent home in the Sir Edward Luytens building. The Johannesburg Art Gallery boasts a formidable collection consisting 17th century Dutch paintings and prints, Modern international and South African art as well as Contemporary African art. The JAG has undergone several transformations in keeping with the changing nature of its environment. At present the JAG is grappling with daunting yet exciting the challenge of decolonization.
Director: Khwezi Gule King George and Klein Street, Joubert Park +27 11 725 3130 khwezig@joburg.org.za https://friendsofjag.org/ 124
Johanness Phokela - Chocolat (detail). Oil on canvas, 198 x 108 cm. Copyright: the Artist.
Fredrick Botchway - Untitled (detail), 2016. Oil paint with cooking oil on paper, 101.6 x 76.2 cm Image courtesy of the artist.
Kuenyehia Trust For Contemporary Arts
The Kuenyehia Trust for Contemporary art, is a private not-for-profit trust formed in 2014 to play a key role in the Ghanaian Contemporary art scene set up by Elikem Nutifafa Kuenyehia with a key initiative being the Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Ghanaian Art. The Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Ghanaian Art seeks to make a contribution to Ghana’s art ecosystem, inspiring outstanding Ghanaian artists between the ages of 25 and 40 to continue to pursue their dreams with passion and excellence, while building successful and personally fulfilling lifetime careers in art locally and internationally. The prize through its activities also intends to foster art literacy and draw attention to Ghanaian art to encourage increased patronage by the middle class and corporate Ghana. In addition to the prize money, the Kuenyehia Prize provides tailored mentoring, personal development and business coaching to develop the artists and their practice. Opportunities are also made available for shortlisted artists to feature in exhibitions, art fairs, talks and publications, exposing them to a relevant wider market than they would ordinarily have access to.
– Accra, Ghana Founded 2014
Directors: Elikem Nutifafa Kuenyehia (Founder), Afia Adutwumwaa Owusu-Afriyie (Acting Managing Trustee), Alvin Ashiatey (Coordinator) F53/7 No1, By Pass Road Labone, Accra, Ghana. +27 233 24660870 info@kuenyehiaprize.org 125 www.kuenyehiaprize.org
Lalela
– Cape Town, South Africa Founded 2010
LALELA (la-Le-La) v: a Zulu word that means ‘to listen’ Lalela provides educational arts for at-risk youth to spark creative thinking and awaken the entrepreneurial spirit. Through Lalela’s arts curriculum and critical messaging component, we ignite imagination and teach children how to map and manifest their dreams and goals, launching the possibility of a different future for themselves and their communities. Our role in arts education is to help blaze the trail in whole brain thinking with a proven path to innovation and new job creation. Our programs operate in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Uganda; our programs create permanent change with positive outlooks, community role models and the mindset for our learners to design a more certain future for themselves and their communities. Ideas, art and music are the signature components of every Lalela curriculum. At Lalela we engage and empower youth in creative thinking and solutions. Our arts education methodology is not a handout, it’s a paradigm shift.
Director: Kerzner, Andrea 23 Brighton Street, Hout Bay 7806 akerzner@mac.com www.lalela.org 126
Legalamitlwa Arts
– Mahikeng, South Africa Founded 2017
LEGALAMITLWA ARTS is an arts development company based in the semi-rural town of Mahikeng, North West Province, South Africa. It is envisaged to become a visual arts and film Residency which is intended to be a space where local and international artists in the Visual Arts and Film sector can, for an extended period of time, come and live; draw inspiration; create new work; exhibit work; interact with each other and exchange ideas; learn from the locals and disseminate skills to the community as well as upcoming artists. The space will be run by its founder, independent visual arts and film curator, Joan Legalamitlwa, who is a resident of Mahikeng and has extensive knowledge and experience of the South African and international visual arts and film industry. One of the main objectives of Legalamitlwa Arts is also to showcase work by talented visual artists from the North West province, particularly those who are not signed to any galleries and have not had any Art Fair exposure.
Director: Joan Legalamitlwa 198 Steven Biko Avenue, Unit 2, Mmabatho, 2735 + 27 72 507 0180 joanlegalamitlwa@gmail.com
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– Lagos, Nigeria Founded 1957
National Gallery Of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is widely known around the world for its contentious and turbulent history largely governed by strained race relations and contested histories and ownership. Lost and Found: Resilience, Expectations, Uncertainty, Excitement and Hope Exhibition provides a platform for Zimbabwean artists to reflect and interrogate the social and economic fabric in the country in light of its most recent political upheaval.
Directors: Doreen Sibanda, Raphael Chikukwa 20 Julius Nyerere Way, Harare, Zimbabwe +27 263 4 704666 v.sithole@nationalgallery.co.zw 128 www.nationalgallery.co.zw
Exhibiting Artists Jekesai Njikizana
Gallery Artists Davina Jogi Zinyange Auntony Charmaine Chitate Ralph Chikambi
Jekesai Njikizana - The People’s Dance. Photograph on photo paper, Dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist.
NJE COLLECTIVE
Tuli Mekondjo - Meme okwali omkwaita miita no mo ngalamwenyo/ mother was a soldier at war and at life. Mixed media on paper, 61 x 46 cm. Image courtesy of NJE COLLECTIVE.
– Windhoek, Namibia Founded 2016
NJE Collective is an artist-run collective initiated in Namibia for artists from Southern Africa. The collective works under its own management, towards shared aims. It is also a crucial mechanism for mentoring, support and shared resources. Membership is fluid and new members may be included on a project to project basis. Members meet individually and as a group to discuss their creative practice, topics of common interest and potential collaboration. Membership is fluid and members remain active in the group by choice. All participating artists address produce discursive work, addressing contentious contemporary issues based on personal and political experiences - including cultural and gender identity, belonging, nationhood and recognition. Their work encapsulates the diversity and complexity of individual and collective narratives as witnessed through the lens of each artist, drawing on either historical or current narratives. The collective has embraced multilocality as a way to sidestep the contentious issue of nationality that is deemed exclusive and patriarchal.
Director: Jo Rogge Windhoek + 27 7944108509 129 Jo.rogge@gmail.com
– Johannesburg / St Emilion Founded 2014
(SAFFCA in partnership with AFSACSA)
Southern African Foundation For Contemporary Art
The Southern African Contemporary Art has known a fabulous tide of global interest. To part take in our response to this unprecedented level of attention and to share and give global access to some of the wealth, depth and diversity of our Contemporary Artworld, SAFFCA was given birth to in 2014. The Three aims of the Foundation are: To give Art exposure through passion To support, nurture and promote the visual art and artists of the Southern part of the African continent. To participate in linking Local to Global
“in most Artworks, the work can reside in private custody, but the Art remains everyone’s treasure”
Director: Pierre Lombart, Julia Magnus, Nicola Bird, Jonathan Jawno Finance House, 230 Jan Smuts Avenue Dunkeled West, Johannesburg www.facebook.com/saffca foundation@saffca.com 130 www.saffca.com
Left: Benon Lutaaya - Selfie. Paper collage on paper, 139 x 112 cm. Right: Chris Soal - To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep (detail). Toothpicks, polyurethane adhesive on board with pine frame, 1900 x 1030mm. Images courtesy of the Artists.
South African Mint
– Centurion, South Africa Founded 1892
The South African Mint, home of the world-famous Krugerrand, is a leading manufacturer of legal tender currency and collectable coins. With over 140 years’ coin minting experience, we have built a global reputation for curating and presenting to the world, our country’s rich tapestry of culture and history on metal. Our superior craftsmanship is evident in our collectible coins, through our appealing coin and packaging designs. The South African Mint’s coins boast a rich diversity of themes from South African Inventions to the flora and fauna of our Biosphere Reserves, making them the ideal enduring gift. The public can visit the South African Mint Museum and retail store, located on our premises on Old Johannesburg Road, in Centurion.
Directors: Tumisang Moses Tsehlo, Pradeepkumar Maharaj, Paul Leonard Streng, Francois Engelbrecht Groepe, Naidene Fok Old Johannesburg Road, Gateway, Centurion 0157 012 677 2477 numismatics@samint.co.za www.samint.co.za 131
– Johannesburg, South Africa Founded 2016
The Project Space
The Project Space, established in 2016 by Ugandan born artist Benon Lutaaya is a Non-profit organization centered on creating spaces and opportunities for female from the African continent and diaspora. The organization was created in response to the 2010 National Research statistical data by the South African Department of Arts and Culture on visual arts, part of which indicated that only 12% of women make a living from creating art in South Africa. The Project Space focuses on improving opportunities for female artists across Africa. (National Research statistical data by the South African Department of Arts and Culture) Our programmes include the Young Female Residency Award, the Women in Africa Residency and Women in Digital Arts Programme.
Directors: Benon Lutaaya, Aysha Waja 76 End Street, Doornfontein, JHB aysha@theprojectspace.org www.theprojectspace.org 132
Stacey Gillian Abe - Indigogo. Mixed media, variable dimensions .Image courtesy of the Artist.
Mary Sibande - A Crescendo of Ecstasy Mixed media installation with VR . Image courtesy of TMRW
TMRW
The Mixed Reality Workshop (TMRW) is a new space for artistic exploration and hi-tech play located in the Trumpet Building on Keyes Art Mile in Johannesburg. It is dedicated to the propagation of all forms of contemporary visual art, new media, interactive multimedia, and the panorama of hybrid forms of art and technology that constitute our moment in culture. As a non-profit company, TMRW is an independent platform for artists and art audiences to access technology through a curated programme of exhibitions, talks, performances, residencies and participatory events. With the understanding that technology is shaping contemporary visual arts and the belief that creativity and technological innovation go hand-in-hand, TMRW collaborates with galleries and artists to facilitate, commission and exhibit key new works by local and international emerging and established artists. Serving as a resource for critical and educational engagement with Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies, TMRW invites audiences to learn, play and interact with artistic projects that soften the often clinical perception of technology. This generates opportunities for open-ended reflection on our own place in relation to technology.
– Johannesburg, South Africa Founded 2018
Directors: Ann Roberts, Anton Taljaard, Derek White Trumpet Building, Keyes Art Mile 21 Keyes Ave, Rosebank, Johannesburg 082 783 0437 info@tmrw.gallery www.tmrw.gallery 133
– Harare, Zimbabwe Founded 2012
VILLAGE UNHU
Village Unhu is a collective created in the year 2012 for artists by artists providing studio spaces, workshops, residency programs and workshops in painting, drawings and graphics, photography, sculptures and multi-media found objects. The collective project is critically engaged and curatorial focused on offering strong frameworks for artists and audiences.
Directors: Misheck Masamvu, Georgina Maxim, Gareth Nyandoro 1 Rowland Square, Milton Park, Harare, Zimbabwe +27 263 774 630 656 +27 263 772 751 455 villageunhu@gmail.com www.villageunhu.com 134
Greg Shaw - Corona (detail). Mixed Media, 120 x 80 cm Image courtesy of the Artist and Village Unhu.
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