Exhibitions/ Industry Events

On the 5th of August 2011 Greatmore is holding a Fundraiser in aid of raising funds for Studio Space so that artists from all financial backgrounds can have an opportunity to create in an interactive environment.

Directors and Directing is hosted by the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) from 29 to 31 July 2011. Featuring several performances in addition to panels and talks, this groundbreaking event will take place at Hiddingh Campus, University of Cape Town (UCT).

“'What do you know about my Image Duplicator?' screams the mad whitecoat in an early work. That the machine ran like clockwork for decades. Almost anything could be transformed into a Lichtenstein - and almost nothing remains striking for long when it's been condensed into a cold, hard reductio ad absurdum. Lichtenstein was always his own best judge: 'Anti-contemplative, anti-nuance, anti-mystery, anti-movement, anti-light.' Even his self-portrait is - acutely - a mirror. An object very hard to depict (in effect, an invisible surface until something appears within it) and at which he himself excelled. But, in this case, the mirror is gleaming and empty, reflecting nothing back but itself.”

Michael Stevenson is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent work by Berni Searle. Seen in South Africa for the first time, Interlaced is a major three-screen video installation commissioned for Searle's solo exhibition opening in Bruges, Belgium, in April and touring to the Netherlands and France. The piece presents a site-specific engagement with Bruges, one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe and an important international trading city since the 13th century. Of particular interest to Searle were the effects of contact and exchange, location and dislocation, that these encounters may have given rise to. exhibition runs from 26 May until 23 July 2011

For the first time on the continent of Africa, new photographic works will be exhibited by Zwelethu Mthethwa, one of South Africa’s most influential contemporary artists. iArt Gallery is delighted to be opening the exhibition to the public in May/June 2011. The exhibition comprises a selection of photographs from the series The Brave Ones and The End of an Era. The exhibition runs from the 18 May until 29 June 2011 at iArt Gallery 71 Loop Street

“Phantasmagoria”, a solo exhibition of recent work by Paul Painting, will show at Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection (91 Kloof Street, Cape Town) from the 28th of April until the 21st of May. The exhibition features etches and oil paintings by the artist.

Michael Stevenson is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Paul Edmunds. As Edmunds observes, many of us have a long and close relationship with music. From elements which are often non-narrative, mostly repetitive and largely abstract, we extract or assemble meaningful experience, repeatedly. In a series of pencil drawings, a linocut and two sculptures, Edmunds uses only line and its sculptural equivalent, edge, to explore visual correspondents for music and sound, and their constituent parts. The exhibition opens on Thursday 14 April, 6-8pm

This year, the One Minute Foundation, an international organization is focusing on Africa with an awards ceremony in Egypt. Facilitator Kitty Dörje took this opportunity to get submissions from ten artists from diverse backgrounds in Cape Town. Opening on Thursday 28 April 2011 at 18h30 at Greatmore Studios

Edmann Contemporary and The Photographers Gallery za is proud to host Barbara Wildenboer’s second solo exhibition Library of the infinitesimally small and the unimaginably large. Wildenboer is a conceptualist working with paper construction and altered books. Exhibition closes 21 May 2011

invites you to the opening of three exhibitions. Elgin Rust's JUDGEMENT, UITSPRAAK 2011 CASE NO. 001/05/2008, Dillon Marsh's LAY OF THE LAND and Cinga Samson's RUSTING IRON. Opening at 6 pm Monday, 18 April 2011. Exhibition closes on Friday 13 May 2011 at 1 pm

This Must Be the Place, a group exhibition featuring new work by recent graduates of the Michaelis School of Fine Art, will be shown at iArt Gallery between 4 and 27 April. The exhibition features Abigail Harper, George Chapman, Ian Grose, Kitty Dorje and Leigh Tuckniss.

ABOUT 'KAROO-KADO'TJIES': In her seminal exhibition, Karoo-kado’tjies, this visual raconteur delivers a collection of engaging works of an exceptional standard, based around Die Koup and Tanqua Karoo areas, with the “Voortrekker nude” as main subject. The exhibition title, Karoo-kado’tjies, may be translated as “small gifts from the Karoo”, and reference objects which resonate with Kruger’s childhood memories of the Karoo. Often rusted and weathered, these objects are tangible representations of the transience to which all forms of life are subject to. SHOW DATES: 24 MARCH – 21 APRIL 2011

Whatiftheworld is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Berlin-based illustrator and figurative painter Olaf Hajek from 16 March - 16 April April, 2011. Opening Wednesday 16 March @ 6pm-9pm.

Ruth Prowse will be having an arts market on 5 November and 3 December.

Invitation to Gradex '11 - Stellenbosch University Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition

Artist in residence Emilio Moreno will give a public presentation at Iziko South African National Gallery on 1 September at 14:00.