This year, Lexus, in addition to providing private chauffeured drives to RMB Latitudes Art Fair, presented the second year of the Lexus Best Stand Award, which celebrated the Best Stand at RMB Latitudes 2025.
Five exhibitions within the Fair were selected as finalists and the winner was announced on Sunday, 25 May. There was also an audience award winner and visitors were invited to scan a QR code at the Fair to vote for their best stand.
The 2025 Lexus Best Stand Winner at RMB Latitudes went to Untitled!
Photo by Anthea Pokroy
The 2025 Lexus Best Stand Audience Award Winner at RMB Latitudes went to Peffers Fine Art!
Photo by Anthea Pokroy
Celebrating the Best Stand Award at RMB Latitudes 2025
All photography by Anthea Pokroy
Peffers Fine Art, Untitled, Stevenson, Southern Guild and BKhz.
The selection committee for the Lexus Best Stand Award comprised of:
More about the Selection Committee
Moni Aisida
Moni Aisida is the Executive Director of Guest Artists Space Foundation (G.A.S). With a diverse background in fintech and healthcare, she brings over 8 years of experience into the arts industry, having contributed to the success of organisations such as SMO Contemporary Art, ART X Lagos, and Affinity Gallery. Across these roles, she played a key part in driving strategic marketing efforts, strengthening stakeholder engagement, and supporting operational growth.
At G.A.S., Moni leads on strategic direction, overseeing programme development, partnerships, fundraising, and governance. Alongside her phenomenal team, she has been instrumental in expanding the foundation’s residency programmes, developing impactful initiatives that support both emerging and mid-career artists, curators, and arts professionals, locally and internationally. Her leadership has been central to growing the foundation’s presence and deepening its connections both locally and across the global art ecosystem.
Moni is committed to supporting artistic talents and institutions that foster creative development.
Karabo Morule
Karabo Morule is an investor-operator entrepreneur. In January 2020, she founded Amara Strategic Investments for the purpose of venture philanthropy or angel investing. She is also the Founder of Capital Art. Capital Art is an art-technology company. It is the first art collection management service that empowers collectors of modern and contemporary African art and has users from 20 different countries across five continents. At Capital Art, they believe that when artworks from all geographies are fairly represented and valued in the global art market, we will be a more inclusive society.
She is an actuary by profession. Her career spans investment banking at J.P. Morgan in Johannesburg and London, as well as a ten-year period in senior executive roles at a financial services conglomerate, Old Mutual Limited.
She also currently serves and has served as a non-executive director for several companies.
She is an alumnus of the University of Cape Town and Harvard Business School, and is also a member the World Economic Forum's Forum of Young Global Leaders.
Professor David Andrew
David Andrew is an Associate Professor and former Head of the Department of Fine Arts (2010-2021) in the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He studied at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg (BA Fine Arts 1985) and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (H Dip Ed [PG] 1986; Ph.D. 2011). He is an artist and has lectured in Fine Arts and Arts Education courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In addition, he has supervised students across many disciplines, including the MA Fine Arts, M Education, MA Applied Drama, MA Curatorial, Public and Visual Cultures, MA Cultural Management and Ph.D. higher degrees. Current research interests include the tracking of histories of arts education in South Africa and southern Africa more broadly; the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC) research project; the On Location research project with colleagues at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm, Sweden; and the reimagining of the arts school and artistic research in the context of the global South.
His most recent conference and symposium presentations include two papers at the Arts Research Africa Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in September 2022: A Return to Practices and Pedagogies: Artistic Research as Untethering and Foraging (co-authored with Hedwig Barry) and The Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC) Un/Chrono/Logical Timeline of Histories of Arts Education: From the Wits School of Education to documenta 15, Kassel, Germany. He also presented at the UNESCO-ICOM Regional Symposium, Cultural Centres as Places of Learning in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, at the Javett Art Centre, Pretoria, South Africa, in December 2023. In July 2023, he exhibited the first iteration of the Histories of South African Arts Education installation and drawings from the Making Sense of Small Things (Provoking the Avalanche) series, in conjunction with documentation of the C30 projects conducted with Marcus Neustetter in 2007- 2009 and material from arts education archives dating back to the 1940s. In 2023-24 he co-curated the ARAC exhibition at the Javett Art Centre, Pretoria, with Puleng Plessie and Lineo Segoete. In September 2024, as a further extension of the work produced by the ARAC research group, Professor Andrew and colleague and co-researcher Lineo Segoete (Maseru, ARAC Lesotho working group) were invited to participate in the Van Abbe Museum (Eindhoven, Netherlands) research process towards the next major exhibition of work from the institution’s collection in 2026.
Mary Corrigall
Mary Corrigall heads an art consultancy and the HEAT Winter Arts Festival in Cape Town. Building on her successful career as an award-winning art journalist and academic, she conducts research into various sectors of the creative economy. Her consultancy services art businesses, artists and collectors. Under the Corrigall & Co imprint, she has published eight reports analysing different aspects of the Contemporary African art market. Since 2021, she has regularly delivered lectures on the African Art economy at the Sotheby's Institute of Art in London. She is a high-profile commentator in the South African press and a contributor to Latitudes Online. www.corrigall.org
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