Art X Lagos 2021
West Africa's premier Art Fair returns.
03 Nov 2021
'ARE THERE ANY LEFT?’
A sales frenzy at London's 1-54 Fair reflects the heated demand for African Contemporary Art.
20 Oct 2021
Collector Mark Ramirez On Art That Gives Him A Physical Reaction
US-based collector Mark Ramirez believes if you dream about an artwork, you should buy it.
12 Oct 2021
Explore Innovative Works by Four Daring Zimbabwean Artists on Artnet Auctions
Fadzai Muchemwa, curator of the 2022 Zimbabwe Pavilion at the Venice Biennale writes about four up and coming Zimbabwean artists featured in Africa Present on Artnet Auctions.
07 Sep 2021
Latitudes co-curates Artnet's Africa Present auction
Latitudes will be co-curating the 'Meet' section of Artnet Auctions’ second Africa Present sale, an auction designed to highlight the work of up-and-coming as well as established artists from the African continent.
20 Aug 2021
Remembering When Life Got Still
Shrines to the minutiae of our lives and the mysteries of death; is still life the artwork of these times?
08 Jun 2021
Guest Curator Roger Sivuyile Lupuwana
Roger Sivuyile Lupuwana knows the beat of South Africa’s creative pulse by heart. We asked him to do some window shopping on Latitudes to choose the artworks he’d most want to take home.
11 May 2021
Guest Curator: Stephanie Blomkamp of Oath
Stephanie Blomkamp is the founder and editor of Oath, a print magazine dedicated to championing African photography. Here she chooses her favourite photography on Latitudes.
12 Apr 2021
Guest Curator: Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose
22 Mar 2021
The Open Call Collection Auction
The Lockdown Collection (TLC) and Latitudes present an online auction, created by 21 emerging artists, the proceeds of which will go towards benefitting artists affected by Covid-19.
17 Mar 2021
Latitudes Collections
A place for museums, foundations and corporate institutions to contribute to Africa’s shared cultural heritage by showcasing their art collections.
12 Mar 2021
Contemporary Art for your Zodiac Sign
Art has never been a career that one gets into for the stability. It’s more often than not an urgent calling that can’t be ignored...
23 Feb 2021
Solo Show | Puleng Mongale | Heaven on Earth
Doyle Wham and Latitudes are delighted to present a solo exhibition of Puleng Mongale (b. 1991, Orlando East, Soweto), surveying key works from the artist's burgeoning oeuvre.
17 Feb 2021
Behind the Artwork: Wim Legrand’s ‘we’re Toast!’
An artwork is generally published with a title, a date, a size and a price. There’ll be some information about what it was made with...
15 Feb 2021
The Sun Rises Daily : Five SA artists using the people’s paper
Daily Sun has been captivating, enraging and entertaining South Africans for almost two decades with its outrageous...
08 Feb 2021
Latitudes x TLC announce: The Open Call Collection
Art and artists have always been a critical part of society and culture. Like everyone, they have been deeply affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
26 Jan 2021
Jumping into the New Year like...
Welcome to 2021! We hope you had a rejuvenating festive season and are feeling rested and ready for the year ahead. We are certain this year will bring its own newness...
13 Jan 2021
Esther Mahlangu: Anothher Milestone for South African Painter at 85
As one of South Africa’s most acclaimed female painters,
11 Nov 2020
COLLECT: A Sculptural Medium
As an avid or aspiring contemporary art collector, which artistic media are you most drawn to? Painting, photography, printmaking, drawing, film, new media or sculpture?
19 Oct 2020
Live Artist Interviews with Andy Mkosi
Latitudes is thrilled to launch a series of live artist interviews. Presented in partnership with Andy Mkosi of This Audio is Visual...
31 Aug 2020
Further Reading In Articles
The late Gianni Mariano honoured with a 52-metre long artwork in his hometown Fallo, Italy
A group of young artists from Artist Proof Studio were selected for a residency programme in memory of Gianni Mariano, co-founder of Mastrantonio group, former BASA board member, chairman of the Artists Proof Studio board and mentorship pioneer, who sadly passed away in 2023.
16 Oct 2024
Between the Painting and I
In some way, the presence of a painting on every wall — from the pristine white finish of a gallery to the prehistoric archive of a cave — can be somewhat overwhelming. How has the language of paint transcended race, time, geography and cultural context?
02 Oct 2024
Collector Profile: Meet Nkathuto Olwethu Gallant
As someone who comes from a creative industry you would think that I would have always been drawn into the art space, but like many others I have always found galleries, let alone art collecting, to be a space which intimidated me greatly.
18 Sep 2024
Beyond the Status Quo: Bridging the artistic divide
A review of Steelwool and Other Paradoxes, the current show at Latitudes Centre for the Arts.
04 Sep 2024
Dream-like work and artistic lives of artist couple, Wendy Vincent and Geoffrey Armstrong
An innate rapport with the natural world is the heartbeat of works by artist partners and stewards of the earth, Geoffrey Armstrong and Wendy Vincent. Over the past 25 years their Magalies Rock Garden near Hekpooort in South Africa has set the stage for the conception of dream-like works of genius.
Interview with artist Sharlene Khan
Latitudes' Boitumelo Makousu interviews artist Sharlene Khan.
21 Aug 2024
Meet our 2024 ANNA Award Winner!
We are thrilled to announce that Xanthe Somers is this year's ANNA Award Winner!
07 Aug 2024
Collector Profile: Meet creative entrepreneur Annicia Manyaapelo
In this exclusive interview, collector Annicia Manyaapelo shares her journey through the art world, as well as invaluable advice on collecting.
31 Jul 2024
Earthbound: Soil and Memory in Contemporary South African Art
As an artist, my engagement with soil has been both sporadic and profound, each interaction a meditation on the earth's raw, tactile essence. Over the years, I've witnessed a growing embrace of soil as a medium by a diverse cadre of artists near and far.
24 Jul 2024
Meet the Top 12 ANNA Award Finalists!
Our esteemed selection committee is hard at work deciding on a winner from the 2024 Top 12 Finalists, who we are beyond excited to present to you!
Emerging voices turn up the HEAT on Cape Town's art scene
If you peruse the 16 art exhibitions and live programming of the HEAT Festival, you aren't likely to see the names of too many famous artists. The HEAT Winter Arts Festival was not originally tailored for young or emerging artists. This focus occurred organically - as a nascent festival, it made sense to unearth new talent, and a fresh point of view.
10 Jul 2024
Encountering fiction in South African works of art
Art and artists make for good stories. Over the years, a rich relationship between South African art and fiction has emerged, with art serving as a point of inspiration for fictional narratives.
Strangeness and Charm
Many of the works on display at RMB Latitudes Art Fair exemplified the strangeness and charm of the bizarre in a venue so splendidly unorthodox that one might be forgiven for thinking it was designed for the very purpose.
26 Jun 2024
Beyond Function: The Persistence of Clay
The similarity in all these artists' work was that they allowed the clay to just be “the thing itself” they encouraged it to transcend its practicality, they handled it in its enduring and dynamic nature, they explored its time-based and process-driven element, it pulled them in, and they let it.
Pathmaking and placemaking at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair
Art Fairs offer pathways of access to artists, exhibitors, and viewers – placemaking in an industry that so often hoards access. Latitudes serves to meet you half-way – to posit emergent work and spaces.
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