Shows

Faith is nurtured and strengthened by shared practice, repeated gestures and communal bonds. The artworks shown here invite viewers to consider how belief shapes identity and how a sense of oneness grows when individuals search for meaning together. This exhibition aims to encourage us to focus on our shared human need for connection and fullness rather than the differences that exist across beliefs.

This exhibition explores fragments of home, the spaces and conditions that shape us, through the intertwined themes of memory, freedom, and identity. Home here is not confined to walls; it is emotional, mental, and spiritual. It is a place that shapes and mirrors who we are, even when fractured by inequality and displacement.

Conflict and war shape our experiences and definitions socially, and art is no different. Most artists from conflict-affected regions find their work defined by these circumstances, whether they embrace or resist this lens. Since April 2023, many Sudanese art exhibitions have been framed politically or nostalgically, but as a curator, I ask: who is thinking of the art itself? How does the environment affect visual memory and artistic production?

What happens in the space between certainty and the unknown? Between who we were and who we are becoming? In the Between: States of Becoming is a contemporary art exhibition exploring the psychological and emotional terrain of transition moments suspended between stability and chaos, clarity and confusion. The exhibition presents a raw and resonant look at the human condition through the lens of mental health, focusing on the invisible yet transformative process of change.

In her novel En compagnie des hommes, Ivorian writer Véronique Tadjo gives voice to the Baoba tree. The tree, symbol of great wisdom, speaks and awakens the memory of humanity, as a deadly and incurable virus looms and threatens the human race with extinction. In this way, Véronique Tadjo revives the African narrative tradition of giving voice to plants, animals, and other inanimate natural elements, which thus become privileged observers of the humans with whom they coexist.

This curatorial exhibition aims to bring together African artists whose practices move through ancestral memory, spiritual lineage and the living archive.

What We Don’t See: A Sensory Rebellion explores how art moves beyond the visible, revealing a world perceived through sound, texture, rhythm, and silence. The exhibition questions the dominance of sight in the way we experience and interpret art, reimagining perception as a multisensory field where emotion, material, and memory shape the act of seeing.

In Ethiopia, vulnerability is often met with silence or spiritual platitude. Feelings, especially those that are heavy, shapeless, or unresolved rarely find form, let alone space. The Weight of Soft Things brings together five emerging Ethiopian women artists who confront this absence by placing emotional life at the center of their work.

‘embo: where we once knew‘ is a pathway to ancestral memory: isikhumbuzo sethu sothando (somhlaba). This exhibition is a love letter to the land; it is the cry and the consolation; it is a reminder that this land continues to birth us.

Fabrics Tell Stories Too is born from a refusal to remain within the frame. It asks: what happens when art is no longer only what hangs on the wall, but also what is worn, carried, cleansed, bled, or mourned? What happens when materials themselves become testimonies of memory, resilience, and survival?

“Take a walk with me” An invitation to accompany another through the paths they navigate. This exhibition extends that call, walking alongside narratives shaped by South Africa’s enduring traumas and the identities forged within them. It retraces the long walk once framed as a journey to freedom. A walk that promised unity and equality but left uneven footprints on a divided land.

Bella Knemeyer merges her background in sculpture and landscape architecture to explore urban narratives and material flows.

A review of Steelwool and Other Paradoxes, the current show at Latitudes Centre for the Arts.

Latitudes Centre for the Arts (LCA) is proud to present a new exhibition focusing on the work of four artists who offer a thought-provoking window into their interior lives, revealing their most intimate thoughts and delving deep into the new reality and challenges of our contemporary lives.

Le Guin tells us that fiction can be like the carrier bag, a receptacle for all sorts of incidentally found things, and I want to venture that the paintings included in Hedwig Barry’s solo exhibition, Unrest, on show at Guns & Rain until 27 October, do the same thing. They too are tools “that [bring] energy home”.

All That She Carried is a large-scale exhibition in celebration of Women's Month. The show takes its name from Tiya Alicia Miles's New York Times bestseller, in which the historian "traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a testament to people who are left out of the archives."

Cameron Platter’s pencil drawings are meticulous enlargements of quick, impulsive marker drawings and collages. The artist then carefully plots and reworks-into these digitally, before painstakingly translating them into pencil on paper.

ESSAY is an exhibition that showcases a cross-generational dialogue through the works of three artists - Sam Nhlengethwa, Katlego Tlabela, and Cinthia Sifa Mulanga. The exhibition, which forms a Special Project at RMB Latitudes, and is presented by Lexus in collaboration with Goodman Gallery, explores the complexities of identity, culture, and artistic heritage through a nuanced approach to colour and line.

INDEX is a new platform to give exposure to independent artists, who often have to create their own networks and methods for getting their work seen by audiences. Meet the artists!

Titled Kilelo Milelo (Today we Cry), Munguanzo’s debut solo exhibition, which was held at the AVA Gallery’s mezzanine in Cape Town, captured and contemplated the life of the ordinary people of the DRC in the post-covid lockdown era when life worsened for most.