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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.

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.

"One of my favourite takeaways from this year’s ICTAF are found in the textile works of women artists who carefully explore the everyday through the work of their hands."

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..."

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.

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.

RMB Latitudes CuratorLab is a practice-based, online curatorial residency for emerging curators in Africa. In 2023, 10 aspiring curators will be guided through a facilitated online residency, designed to offer practical experience in the industry and to hone their curatorial skills.

Winifrid Luena's latest body of work is a self-reflection on Winifrid’s continued shifting of states, perceptions, and ideas of living in response to adapting to changes in culture, reality and self-identity after moving from Tanzania to South Africa.

Nabeeha Mohamed was born in Cape Town in 1988. Her paintings and prints confront the contradictions of her position in post-Apartheid South African society.

Based in Cape Town and entirely self taught, South African artist Jono Dry has worked for the last thirteen years on creating a practice centred around his large-scale hyperrealist graphite works.

Latitudes is thrilled to share our latest collaboration between Munich Re, Waldman Studios, David Krut Projects and artist, Pebofatso Mokoena.

Is it possible to hold an exhibition with only three paintings? More importantly, can you drum up an audience without disappointing them? Surprisingly, a Joburg-based curator, Clive Kellner, director of the Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF), has managed to achieve both with the latest exhibition, Kahlo, Sher-Gil, Stern: Modernist Identities in the Global South.

A brand new indoor and outdoor art event is coming to Johannesburg in May next year. And it’s one you don’t want to miss.

Buffer Zones meditates the excruciating destruction of the landscape and its ability to rehabilitate itself after years of institutional surveillance.