Interviews

To build excitement for this year's Art Fair, we've created a captivating video campaign, casting a bright light on the insights and influence of six key individuals within the dynamic landscape of contemporary art in South Africa. Join the video campaign's Art Director, Chelsea Selvan and filmmaker Jarred Figgins as they visit artist studios and the homes of private art collectors, capturing the rich interplay between creation, curation and collecting.

Prism is a series of nine new works from multidisciplinary artist Adele Van Heerden, informed by a restorative residency in Biesenthal, Germany.

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.

Latitudes' Boitumelo Makousu interviews artist Sharlene Khan.

In this exclusive interview, collector Annicia Manyaapelo shares her journey through the art world, as well as invaluable advice on collecting.

Jean Luc Iradukunda's art explores the complexities of identity, belonging, and home, acting as a bridge between cultures.

Latitudes engages in a compelling conversation with artist Adele van Heerden.

We've taken a moment to interview Sera Holland, diving deep into her practice as an independent artist.

You have to resist the urge to neatly locate Nada Baraka’s art in an Egyptian context. The thirty-three-year-old artist was born in, lives and practices in Cairo, and indeed the sense of chaos that defines the compositions of her abstract paintings could represent the city's erosion of democratic values, political order and worsening social conditions.

Latitudes sits down with collector Namita Singh Thakur, founder of Art Curio - a not-for-profit foundation that is deeply involved in collecting works of emerging artists, women artists and artists from underrepresented backgrounds.

We chat to artist Farhana Jacobs to get to know her practice a little more.

Adesola Yusuf (Arclight) is a 25-year-old multidimensional artist from Lagos, Nigeria. His visually expressive work takes inspiration through the ages, from renaissance art, to modern minimalist, pop and internet art.

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.

As a leading expert in Contemporary Art from Africa and the diaspora, Kimberley Cunningham chats to Latitudes about the Reshape 22 annual, online survey exhibition.

Yana Barinova recently joined the viennacontemporary team as a Development Officer approaching the main statement this year: Ukraine. They discuss the importance of cultural heritage, Barinova's professional breakthroughs and the impact of war on the Ukrainian art and social sector.

Lerato Nkosi’s entry for the ANNA Award features words inspired by her reading of Bell Hooks’ All About Love: “The book held special resonance for me because of its reference to the author’s upbringing, and the values that developed out of her experiences,” says Lerato.

A well-known investor in the African tech startup space, Pule is a Founding Partner at CRE Venture Capital, and has invested in many successful startups across the continent, including Andela, Yoco and SweepSouth to name a few.

Cinthia Sifa Mulanga has rapidly risen to international recognition, with her representations of female subjects trapped in interior spaces striking a particular chord during the pandemic. Now the 25-year-old Latitudes artist has caught the eye of Italian fashion house Gucci, who have commissioned her to create an artwork that celebrates their iconic Diana tote bag.

Asha Zero's astonishing work looks like paper collage but is actually intricate trompe l'oeil painting. Now, taking things a step further, it's available as an NFT.