Independent Platforms

Red Marker Spaza Art Gallery
Independent Platform . Art in Public Spaces

Uniquely situated in one of the older Johannesburg inner city neighbourhoods, the Spaza Gallery shows paintings, sketches, drawings, stone work from Lesotho, recycled works, decorated iron furniture, mosaic pieces, jewellery and lots more. As a non-profit organisation Spaza Art gallery has a vision of providing a showcase for artists of all types from all over South Africa. Spaza Gallery is a community gallery that runs mosaic workshops, has Sunday lunches, music sessions and shows. The organisation has also been responsible for the realisation of a variety oif public art projects across Johannesburg.

Key People:

Andrew Lindsay

Contact: +27 (0) 11 614 9354

email: drew@spazaart.co.za

Physical Address:

19 Wilhemina Street

Troyeville

Johannesburg

 

 

-26.20024 28.06682
  • Gauteng
  • Independent Platforms
Red Marker Cloak and Dagger
Project space, Emerging Artists.
Cloak and Dagger is a new project space based in downtown Johannesburg, established by art writer Anthea Buys and Phillip Raiford Johnson. Cloak & Dagger is envisaged as a place where artists and other creative people of all kinds have the freedom to produce projects without the creative limitations often imposed when working in commercial contexts.
 
Key people:
Anthea Buys
Phillip Raiford Johnson
 
Contact:
Website: www.cloakanddagger.co.za 
                  
+27 (0) 82 460 3427 (Anthea Buys)
+27 (0) 82 887 8822 (Phillip Raiford Johnson)
 
Physical Address:
Security Building
95 Commissioner Street

Johannesburg     

-26.20527 28.0417
  • Gauteng
  • Independent Platforms
Red Marker Centre for Historical Re-Enactments
International Exchange, Project Space, Seminars, Public Art.
The Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR) is a Johannesburg based independent platform, founded by artist and curator Gabi Ngcobo. CHR sets out to look at history to investigate how, within a particular historical hegemony, certain values have been created, promoted and subsequently sublated into a broader universal discourse. CHR aims to respond to the immediate demands of the current moment through an exploration into the historical legacies and their resonance and impact on contemporary art. Through exhibitions, events and seminars, by engaging local (South African) and international practitioners, the Center aims to raise questions about the political potentials of artistic interpretations of histories.
 
Key people:
Gabi Ngcobo, Sohrab Mohebbi, Donna Kukama and Kemang Wa Lehulere.

 
Contacts
Tel: +27 (0) 82 080 7893
 

Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-Historical-Reenactments/151490281528008?v=info
 
Physical Address:
3rd floor
August House
76 End Street cnr Moseley Street
Doornfontein

Johannesburg 

-26.201076274 28.0538034439
  • Gauteng
  • Independent Platforms
Red Marker Arts on Main
Contemporary Art Precinct . Retail . Galleries . Restaurant . Project Spaces

With a unique blend of studio, commercial, residential and retail spaces, Arts on Main is a hub for Johannesburg's creative community to develop and share ideas.

Arts on Main offers multiple creative experiences in one venue. Features include a restaurant, event and exhibition spaces, an outdoor cinema and a rooftop bar.
Developed in a newly converted early 1900s bonded warehouse, Arts on Main aims to preserve the historical aspects of the building and contribute to the Johannesburg CBD's urban regeneration.
Arts on Main is situated in the emerging City and Suburban area in the Johannesburg's Eastern CBD, in close proximity to the Absa headquarters, Ellis Park, and Jewel City.

 

Contact
Telephone: 087 830 0440/ 083 245 1040
Email: mabonengprecinct@gmail.com

Physical Address: 
264 Fox St
City & Suburban
Johannesburg
2094
 

Website: www.artsonmain.co.za

-26.2045585898 28.0578482151
  • Gauteng
  • Independent Platforms
  • media/publishing
  • live-work space/studio
  • Contemporary Gallery
Red Marker Keleketla!
Project Space . Residency . International Exchange . Public Art . Media Arts

 

Keleketla! is a Pedi word which functions as a response to the beginning of a story, a signal that one is attentive and engaged. It is some kind of an acknowledgement and a consent that ‘I am here, willing to listen to your story with active participation’. Keleketla community resource centre started in February 2008 as Keleketla! Library as a once off collaboration between Bettina Malcomess, the innacitycommunity collective and the Joubert Park Project artists collective. The library is a quiet space in the middle of the noise of Johannesburg that provides access to cultural resources and a forum in which to respond to them. Its aim is to begin to foster cultural literacy through encouraging personal, free engagement with books, art, music and film. Keleketla! Works with both local ad international artists on projects which are shaped around the space and people of the inner city of Johannesburg.
 
Key people:
Mphapho Christian Hlasane
 
Contact Details:
Mobile: +27 (0) 78 7644741
Website: thefanpalproject.wordpress.com
 
Physical Address:
1st Floor north block the Drill Hall
cnr Twist and Plein Street opposite the Noord taxi/ Shell Garage
Johannesburg
 
Postal Address:
P O Box 594

WITS 2050    

 

-26.1989969424 28.0489110947
  • Gauteng
  • Independent Platforms
Red Marker Nirox Foundation
Residency . International Exchange
 
South Africa's traumatic social history, its remarkable transformation and its diversity of culture and landscape is a crucible for creative expression.
 
NIROX offers residencies to internationally acclaimed artists, providing insight and access to the region’s extraordinary heritage and vibrant socio-political development. 
 
Conversely, these artists bring their spotlight into the region. 
 
Local artists in the accommodation programme have the opportunity to apply themselves to their work without distraction, inspired by the unique environment. Visual, musical, literary & thespian artists encouraged to interact. 

The programmes are concerned with quality without predilection for style or school, emphasising work which is relevant, challenging and uplifting. 
The residency programme aims to create exceptionally good and unique working experience for artists, sponsors and collaborators.
 
Curators and Key Staff:
Benji Leibman
Stephan du Toit
 
Contacts
Phone: +27 (0) 11 788 7902
Mobile: +27 (0) 82 854 6963
Email: niroxfoundation@gmail.com; velridge@vodamail.co.za
Website: www.niroxarts.com
 
Physical Address:
Farm 520 JQ
Portion 24 (near Kromdraai rd)

Cradle of Humankind
Krugersdorp
 
Postal Address:
53 6th Street
Houghton
Johannesburg
2196

 

-26.0261674948 27.7482032776
  • Gauteng
  • Independent Platforms
Red Marker Bag Factory
Residency, Emerging artists, International exchange, Project space, Workshops, Emerging Artists, Production.

 

For over a decade, the Bag Factory have been running workshops and residencies with the aim of stimulating creative exchange with artists from the rest of South Africa, Africa and other parts of the world. Our residency programme is related to the work of the Triangle Arts Trust, an international network of artists’ collectives, residencies and workshop programmes. As with the Triangle Arts Trust initiatives, artists are encouraged to develop their practice in a climate of cultural diversity. This focus motivates artists to make a creative and innovative contribution to the cultural development of the communities in which they live and work. The residency programme enables artists to spend time working in Johannesburg and, over the past few years, has built for itself a formidable international reputation. Artists from as far afield as Sao Paulo, Nairobi, Zurich, Delhi and Montreal have visited the Bag Factory and hold it in high esteem. Many artists from South Africa have in return visited countries abroad and have benefited from this experience. Apart from producing their own work, visiting artists engage with the local artists resident at the Bag Factory. At the end of their period of residency, they hold open studios and a public exhibition.
 
Key People:
James French (administrator)
 
Contacts
Tel: +27 (0) 11 834 9181
Fax: +27 (0) 11 838 6791
Website: www.bagfactoryart.org.za
 
Physical Address:
10 Mahlatini Street
Fordsburg
Johannesburg
2001
 
Postal Address:
P.O. Box 794
Newtown
Johannesburg
2113

 

-26.2038582845 28.0261766911
  • Gauteng
  • live-work space/studio
  • Independent Platforms
Red Marker Market Photo Workshop
Education/Training . Project Space . International Exchange . Seminars/Forums

 

The Market Photo Workshop was started by world-renowned photographer David Goldblatt in the late eighties. At the outset, the aim was to provide visual literacy and practical training to young photographers who were excluded from formal training in tertiary education institutions by the policies of the government at the time. Located in Newtown, Johannesburg, the Market Photo Workshop strives to create an environment where students learn not only the technical and conceptual aspects of photography, but also the thinking integral to the understanding of contemporary photographic practice.
Through its various endeavours and ongoing projects the Market Photo Workshop continues to make strong links with organisations both locally and internationally.  The Market Photo Workshop has played a crucial role in establishing new voices in South African photography. Alumni include: Jodi Bieber (seven times World Press Winner), other World Press winners like Themba Hadebe, and Sydney Seshibedi; and internationally acclaimed photographers such as Nontsikelelo Veleko and Zanele Muholi.
 
Key People:
John Fleetwood (Director)
 
Contacts
Tel: +27 (0) 11 834 1444
Fax: +27 (0) 11 834 1447
 
Physical Address:
2 President Street
Newtown
Johannesburg
2000

 

-26.2054369737 28.0319488049
  • Gauteng
  • education/training
  • Independent Platforms
Red Marker The Trinity Session
Directed by Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter, The Trinity Session is a contemporary art production team that investigates the relationships between art and business, collaborative practice and network development.

Hobbs’ personal artistic interest lies in the urban environment and public art interventions, and Neustetter’s in the electronic arts and expanding notions of connectivity and networks. The Trinity Session is strongly defined by its exchanges with Johannesburg, in relation to Africa and similar developed / developing world contexts. This position determines their attitude to local and global debates, networks and partnerships with a view to the survival and sustainability of the visual arts industries.

By acting as correspondents and consultants, and approaching the work process from a network and accommodation / exchange of information angle, the purpose of their working dynamic is to produce in a cross-platform multidisciplinary way with artists, institutions, brands and service providers.

Current key processes are focused on urban regeneration through public art, creativity as commodity through consultation processes, local industry strategies and development through relationships with cultural neighbours, international art networks and strategic global partnerships. Other recent processes include retail and art experiments and digital art development through digital network building.

Republic / re-publication

Exhibitions, projects and events at The Gallery Premises at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre were managed and curated by The Trinity Session from 2004 until 2008. The shift away from the gallery space to focus more exclusively on public space hails an important new phase in their collaborative artistic explorations. Although by no means newcomers to the environment of public space, The Trinity Session sees the move away from the traditional gallery environment as a move towards refining prior practice insofar as it would allow them to more effectively engage with the “re-publication” of the multi-layered fabric of life that exists in the public sphere of Johannesburg. Apartheid encouraged the privatisation of public space, with the result that works from that era presupposed a non-existing consensus among the users of public space – rendering the work culturally exclusive. The Trinity Session’s work methodology, however, seeks to explore the public as a multi- and inter-cultural collection of representatives of various social groups and mentalities. In terms of their multi-tiered collaborative approach to the relationship between art and the community, they seek to build a platform of interaction between artists and society that can give rise to democratic expression in public space. Their aim is not merely to create art in relation to urban development in the City of Johannesburg, but to challenge preconceived relationships between the artist and the public and to explore the networks that arise between art and the public space. The move also reflects a more focused integration of their personal artistic interests, as the public space now becomes aligned with the idea of the public domain in the virtual-community sense of the word. Taking its cue from the definition of the public domain (a space of exchange between different cultures and interests), public space – through the implementation of art – could now become a domain of exchange in its own right.

The Trinity Session has contributed to teaching programmes at institutions, including the University of the Witwatersrand, University of Cape Town, Vega School of Brand Communications and the International School of New Media (DE), and has published and consulted widely. Publications include the Taxi and Fresh series’ (artists’ monographs), Fine Art Forum, Tester and Leonardo (among others), as well as various exhibition catalogues and journals. Consultation, research, presentation and workshops have included various technology companies, the advertising industry, developmental organisations and international networks. These include Spier, Moyo, Red Bull, MTN, Cell C, International Labour Organisation, UNESCO and TBWA, among others.


Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter’s artistic collaborations fall under the name of Hobbs/Neustetter (H/N).

Contacts
Contact Person: Stephen Hobbs
Mobile: 082 897 7498
Email: ts@onair.co.za
Email: sh@onair.co.za

Physical Address: 39 Gwigwi Mwrebi Street Newtown Johannesburg South Africa

Contact Person: Marcus Neusetter
Mobile: 082 929 1569
Email: mn@onair.co.za

Website: www.onair.co.za
 

-26.2041566969 28.0597954988
  • specialist service providers
  • Gauteng
  • Independent Platforms
Red Marker Jozi Art Lab
Residencies . Emerging Artists . Project Space . International Exchange

 

 

Jozi art:lab develops and supports interdisciplinary art projects with artists from all over the world. The project was developed by Indra Wussow as a Johannesburg extension of the Sylt Foundation kunst:raum sylt quelle. Many projects are initiated as collaborations between local artists and artists who are invited to Johannesburg as part of the foundation's residency programme. Our art:lab offers residencies to artists from all disciplines and is committed to the individual support of every resident. Writers, artists, dramatists, film makers and composers from Europe and South Africa could apply for a residency at Jozi art:lab, which are usually for approximately one months duration.
 
Key people:
Indra Wussow (director and curator)
Tumi Mokgope
 
Contacts
Tel: +27 (0) 76 501 4291; +27 (0) 76-533 98 13 (Indra Wossow); +27 (0) 72-343 10 98 (Tumi Mokgope)
Website: www.jozi-artlab.co.za
 
Physical Address:
Arts on Main
264 Fox St
City & Suburban
Johannesburg 2094

 

 

-26.2048052599 28.0582049489
  • Gauteng
  • Independent Platforms
Red Marker Nirox Project Space
International Exchange . Project Space
 
The Nirox Project Space is an adjunct to the activities of the Nirox Foundation, providing a physical space in downtown Johannesburg for the exhibition of work linked to the residency programme of the Foundation, and other invited artists, exhibitions and projects.
 
Key People:
Benji Leibmann (director)
 
Contacts
Phone: +27 (0) 11 788 7902
Mobile: +27 (0) 82 854 6963
Email: niroxfoundation@gmail.com; velridge@vodamail.co.za
Website: www.niroxarts.com
 
Physical Address:
Arts on Main
264 Fox St
City & Suburban
Johannesburg 2094

 

-26.2047763815 28.0576550961
  • Gauteng
  • Independent Platforms
Red Marker GoetheonMain
Project Space . International Exchange . Seminars/Forums
Launched in May 2009, the GoetheonMain project space is an initiative of the Goethe Institute’s Johannesburg office. As a non-commercial platform for experimental and interdisciplinary work, it aims to build new audiences for the contemporary visual arts in the inner city of Johannesburg and address the divides that exist within the city. The Institute provides support and space for both local and international artists to develop and exhibit projects and a jury of leading South African creative practitioners from different disciplines presides over the programming of the space.
 
Key people:

Cara Snyman

Website: www.goethe.de/ins/za/joh/kue/gom/en4538212.htm

 

Physical address:
GoetheonMain
245, Main St

City & Suburban Johannesburg 

-26.2047799913 28.0580252409
  • Gauteng
  • Independent Platforms
Red Marker David Krut Publishing (ArtsOnMain), Print Workshop and Projects
Publishing . Contemporary Gallery . Alternative Space . Emerging Artists . Publishing . Production
 David Krut Publishing was established in 1997, one of the first specialist publishers for the contemporary arts scene in South Africa. Aside from producing the first major publication on William Kentridge, DKP has been responsible for producing the Taxi Art Book series of critically acclaimed publications on a range of leading South African artists. DKP has outlets in Rosebank and at Arts on Main in Johannesburg, and at the Montebello Design Centre in Cape Town.
 
David Krut Print Workshop (DKW) was established in 2000 to provide professional printmaking facilities in Johannesburg. In the collaborative environment of the workshop, artists and printmakers create limited-edition prints and unique works on paper. DKW has worked with over 65 established and emerging artists.
 
Launched in March 2007, David Krut Projects has venues in New York and Johannesburg, the latter located a few doors down from the book store and print workshop in Rosebank. The Project/Gallery space has hosted a number of exhibitions, book launches and other events, involving a cross-section leading South African contemporary artists and creative initiatives.
 
Key People
David Krut
Jill Ross
Shaun Marais
 
Contacts
 
(Bookstore and Print Workshop – Johannesburg Inner CIty)
Arts on Main
Main Street
City and Suburban
Johannesburg
Telephone: +27 (0) 11 334 1209
   
Postal Address:
PO Box 892, Houghton
2041 Johannesburg
 
-26.2045946879 28.0577516556
  • specialist service providers
  • Gauteng
  • Independent Platforms
  • media/publishing
  • Contemporary Gallery
  • education/training
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