Latitudes and Thrive Student Housing are teaming up to spotlight the next generation of creative talent. We’re inviting university arts students across South Africa to submit original artwork for a chance to be featured on a range of Thrive merchandise!

Listen in as Thandiwe Muriu shares her journey from a DM by 193 Gallery to having her work acquired by the UNESCO Art Collection, unpacking her creative process and hopes for Kenya’s art scene.

What does building energy ecosystems across Africa have in common with collecting contemporary art?

Chapter 2 of the Latitudes Podcast, which looks at connecting the stories from the continent, takes us to Lagos in this week's episode.

For the last few months, the interdisciplinary arts space, The Centre for the Less Good Idea, has been revisiting work it’s created over the last two years, and building towards its 11th Season. Taking place at The Centre from 26 to 30 November, Season 11 takes the form of a five-day festival of visual art, dance, theatre, site-specific installations, pop-up performances, and talks.

The analogue art world faces mounting challenges – from rising rental costs for gallery and studio spaces to depreciating local currencies, which make participation in international art fairs increasingly expensive for South African art dealers.

In this episode, writer and curator Antwaun Sargent reflects on the shifting role of the art critic in a world shaped by algorithms, attention economies, and new global audiences.

As a distinction, perhaps our method of curating around absence begins with asking: who is not represented? This line of enquiry only opens the door to further scrutiny.

For more than six decades, Marguerite (Mags) Stephens has been quietly weaving the story of South African art - quite literally - using the medium of  tapestry. Sitting in her Johannesburg studio and the soft hum of creation, Stephens recalls how her life’s work began not as a grand plan but as a natural inheritance.

It should be in the interest of any good institution to consistently question itself and its ways of working. In the case of the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA), the question it’s asking itself is this: What kind of impact does our work have – on us, our students, our faculty, and the world around us?

On this episode of the Latitudes Podcast, Refiloe Mpakanyane is joined by Heba El Kayal. Heba is a curator, consultant, writer and researcher, originally from Cairo.

In recent years, the “ludic turn” has moved from an emerging tendency to a discernible cultural condition. Across the Global South and beyond, curatorial agendas, institutional commissions, and market-facing exhibitions have increasingly foregrounded play, both as a conceptual proposition and as an operative methodology.

We dig into how Millennials and Gen Z are redefining collecting: preferring more accessible price points, buying through auctions, supporting newer galleries, and leaning into art fairs not just for browsing but for community, identity, and story.

Gabrielle Kannemeyer’s debut solo exhibition re-examines the horse cultures of the Western Cape. Transforming a symbol once tied to colonial power, her photographs foreground kinship, dignity and belonging, situating these communities within a broader conversation about memory, identity, and reclamation.

In this episode of the Latitudes Podcast, Refiloe Mpakanyane talks to Moroccan-born and raised Touria El Glaoui about the impact of her cultural work.

Latitudes and Thrive Student Housing are teaming up to spotlight the next generation of creative talent. We’re inviting university arts students across South Africa to submit original artwork for a chance to be featured on a range of Thrive merchandise!

Listen in as Thandiwe Muriu shares her journey from a DM by 193 Gallery to having her work acquired by the UNESCO Art Collection, unpacking her creative process and hopes for Kenya’s art scene.

What does building energy ecosystems across Africa have in common with collecting contemporary art?

Chapter 2 of the Latitudes Podcast, which looks at connecting the stories from the continent, takes us to Lagos in this week's episode.