UPDATED 19 JAN 2022. Many of these activities were put on hold during the 2 year Covid Lockdowns and have not restarted so please check before planning to visit any of these events. Along with pop-up shops it’s become popular to have a special event on a particular day of each month making it easy […]
Lots of choice for #FirstThursday It’s #FirstThursday tomorrow 7th July when many of the art galleries stay open late – both in Braamfontein and along the Rosebank Art Mile. First Thursdays started as a Cape Town initiative and is gradually taking off in Joburg. But take extra care walking between galleries in Braamfontein – there […]
First Thursday 3rd March From large-scale installation work to small images no larger than 30 X 30 cm, there are some very exciting exhibitions already running or opening this coming week. The 3rd March is the first Thursday of the month which means late evening opening in Braamfontein as well as on the art strip […]
Joburg has long been regarded as the Cinderella at the cultural ball, in the shadow of her more glamorous step-sister, Cape Town. However, the city has emerged during the last 20 years as a dynamic centre of cutting-edge arts activity, offering a whole range of art galleries catering to the tastes of cultural aficionados and […]
Marx and Wilsenach examine different ways of seeing: Looking down and looking up Marx’s exhibition Lessons in Looking Down opens at the Goodman Gallery on Thursday evening . The exhibition takes its name from a chapter in Jules Verne’s book A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Verne’s two geologists discover a potential route into the centre […]
What’s On: September 2013 There are a number of interesting exhibitions on at the moment in Joburg and the Parks galleries. Spanning thirty-five years of Simon Stone‘s work, from 1978 – 2013, this retrospective at the Standard Bank Gallery only has another week before closing on the 14th September. Stone uses recognizable imagery in his […]
Our early winter fare at the Parks galleries is very varied with lots of different genres and styles in evidence. Just above the mantel piece is an exhibition of works by Karin Preller which opens at Artspace on Wednesday 5th June. The one liner description of the show is: ‘Seeing things differently: the immutable presence […]
Clustered around the lower Rosebank/Parkwood border on Jan Smuts Ave is a number of galleries which offer an exciting range of exhibitions. Showing at Everard Read from 11th April to 4th May are Pappetti’s large scale canvases depicting industrial landscapes, interiors and human figures. Also on at Everard Read from 18th April is a collection […]
What’s on at Joburg galleries On 24th January an exhibition entitled To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light featuring the work of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin opens at the Goodman Gallery. Broomberg & Chanarin have been shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013. The winner will be announced at […]
What a treat in store for art lovers at the moment. We’ve had a guest staying at Liz at Lancaster who comes out from London twice a year – ex-Saffer but has been out of the country for a long time. She always loves Joburg with all its transformations and ‘buzziness’ and is continually struck […]