STEVENSON presents Ukwanda kwaliwa ngumthakathi, Mawande Ka Zenzile’s 10th solo exhibition with the gallery and Lusochroma, a solo exhibition by Guy Tillim. This is what Zenzile had to say, “To celebrate this milestone in my art career, I have titled this exhibition Ukwanda kwaliwa ngumthakathi. This isiXhosa phrase translates to…
Richie Madyira presents Kuseri Kwezviso Zvakanaka, a solo exhibition currently showing at artHARARE in Cape Town. This exhibition opened in April 2025 and finds itself in remarkable conversation with the global cultural phenomenon of the 2025 Met Gala. While the Met Gala dazzled in New York with its…
South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa has been awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025. The announcement was made at The Photographers’ Gallery in London on the 15th of May 2025. The prize, which amounts to £30,000, is awarded to a living artist whose work has influenced international…
South African-born artist Marlene Dumas has made history again. Her 1997 painting Miss January sold for $13.6 million at Christie’s in New York, setting a new record for the most expensive work by a living female artist. Miss January by Marlene Dumas fetched $13.6 million under the hammer…
Strauss & Co, Africa’s premier auction house, will feature Vladimir Tretchikoff’s iconic Lady from the Orient as the centerpiece of its flagship live sale on Tuesday, 27 May 2025, in Johannesburg. Vladimir Tretchikoff’s iconic Lady from the Orient (Image credits: Tretchikoff) This masterpiece is expected to fetch between…
Southern Guild presents Faces and Phases 19 by Zanele Muholi as well as In Us is Heaven, a group exhibition by African and North American artists, both at the gallery’s Los Angeles space. Faces and Phases 19 celebrates 19 years of Zanele Muholi’s seminal photographic project documenting the…
Norval Foundation presents ‘We, The People: 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa’, a celebration of 30 years of democratic South Africa and Kaloki Nyamai’s ‘Kaloki Nyamai: Ithokoo masuiluni’, an exhibition which takes inspiration from quotidian life in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya where the artist was raised…
Art stands as a resounding echo of cultural narratives, memory, and meaning—carrying the weight of centuries shaped by indigenous knowledge systems, cosmologies, oral traditions, and lived experiences. For many African artists today, engaging with these narratives is not just an act of reflection but one of active construction.…
Jabulani Dhlamini (b. 1983, Warden, South Africa) is a documentary photographer whose practice reflects on his upbringing in post-apartheid South Africa alongside the experiences of local South African communities. Dhlamini’s meditative approach to photography encourages a closer look at what lies on the edges through an exploration of…