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The collection is an exploration of the changing landscapes of South Africa, framed through our abundance of raw materials and beauty. KARROO, Land of Thirst, is inspired by the surreal beauty of the magical Karoo landscape, that only really reveals itself, as one drives through this scorched, thirsty land.

AI technology has infiltrated image-making, how will this influence traditional art-making and how we conceive of creativity?

Visitors will be able to enjoy a curated contemporary art experience, while attending art talks and walkabouts. What’s more, a partnership with Franschhoek Wine Valley, will see vignerons from the winelands fly to RMB Latitudes to share their top wines and bubblies with visitors. All of this will be complemented by a seasonal, fresh food offering by sustainable chef, James Diack.

Here's a brief glimpse into what’s been happening outside the formal gallery system.

Red carpet events, flashy outfits and celebrity status surrounded the opening of Zeitz MOCAA When We See Us. Beneath the fanfare was an exhibition centred on the simple joys of life.

Celebrating a decade of magnetising galleries from all corners of the continent and beyond in the past, this iteration will explore the notion of time. Chaze Matakala is curious to hear from the different regions on the artists of the moment and the future of contemporary African art.

Micha Serraf’s practice is centred around rewriting the trauma of displacement with the imagined memory of celebration, homage and childlike wonder.

RMB Latitudes 2023 is proud to launch the International Galleries Platform as a sustainable means for galleries and artists on the continent and in the diaspora to show in South Africa.

As regional and global art trade join collectors in Cape Town next week, the inaugural Art Business Conference Africa, the first event of its kind to take part on the Continent, will explore the opportunities and challenges in the African Art Market today.

"Music will doubtlessly continue to change lives, this as future generations of artists look to music and sound, consanguineous media that are defiantly ephemeral, temporal and invisible..."

In May 2023, RMB Latitudes will partner with OpenStudios.Joburg. Over the same weekend, not only will you be invited to explore a plethora of art from the continent at RMB Latitudes, but you'll also have access to a network of artist studio spaces throughout Johannesburg's inner city.

The South African Friends of the Israel Museum (SAFIM) is dedicated to supporting art education and opportunities, both locally in South Africa, and at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Considering generational and embodied knowledge by way of ‘unlearned’ art-making, this exhibition opens 28 Jan 2023, 11am and runs until 25 Feb, Keyes Art Mile.

Climate activists threatened to vandalise masterpieces to turn attention to what our society values. Did this have the desired effect and what did it reveal about what kind of art and artists are valued and how climate activists view art institutions?

RMB Latitudes CuratorLab is a practice-based, online curatorial residency for emerging curators in Africa. This year, ten aspiring curators all the way from Ghana, Namibia, Mozambique, Botswana, Nigeria and South Africa will be guided through a facilitated online residency.

With surprisingly limited local media coverage, 2022 marked some extraordinary moments for Black women artists from South Africa.

Dora Dalila Cheffi, a Finnish-Tunisian artist, belongs nowhere. We meet at the artists studio at the Cape Town Art Residency to discuss her self-portraits. A tall mirror is a striking studio tool. There, reversed, the artist sees herself.

The Swiss-English artist, Lawrence Calver, is in love with Rothko, though he is no painter. Sewing, dyeing, bleaching, are the integral elements in the creation of his art.

When Norwegian-based Zambian Artist Victor Mutelekesha began to conceive of a space that would function as a repository of the arts, it naturally followed that LuCAC would become a station that highlights the multiplicity of cultural identities present in the capital city.