Contemporary Gallery

Contacts

Contact Person: Annali Cabano-Dempsey (Curator)
Telephone: (011) 559 2099

Physical Address:
UJ Art Gallery
Cnr. Kingsway and University Road
Auckland Park
Johannesburg

Postal Address:
UJ Art Gallery
Kingsway Campus
P.O. Box 524
Auckland Park
2006

Website: http://www.uj.ac.za

In addition to the galleries, 11 special projects have been created to give new and emerging artists an opportunity to showcase their works. These projects offer visitors an experience that goes beyond the purely commercial.

Contacts

Telephone: (011) 482 4459
Fax: (011) 428 9544
Email: info@artlogic.co.za

Physical Address:
Artlogic offices
41a Frost Street
Johannesburg, 2092

Website: http://www.joburgartfair.co.za

Contacts

Tel: 072 658 0762
Fax: 086 503 5055
Email: inside@rookegallery.com

Physical Address:
The Newtown
37 Quinn Street
Newtown
Johannesburg

Website: www.rookegallery.com

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.

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

Website: www.artsonmain.co.za

Contacts
Telephone: (011) 482 4444
Fax: (011) 482 3134

Phyiscal Address:
44 Stanley Ave
Milpark
Johannesburg
2001

Website: www.44stanley.co.za

Over the years, the Society has grown to become a national body of artists and lovers of the visual arts. The organisation proved its resilience despite several war-time situations and challenges of an economic, financial, social and political nature.

Several name changes were due to follow: in 1871 it became the South African Fine Arts Association (SAFAA), in 1945 the South African Association of Arts (SAAA), and in 1998 the South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA). Despite the name changes, the Association basically retained the same objectives as reflected in the original Constitution, that of promoting the visual arts in its widest context. One of SANAVA’s major objectives concerning the development of artists relates to the administration of three fully equipped artists’ studios, in the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. These were acquired during the early 1990s in terms of an occupational rights agreement, valid till 2060.

SANAVA is an overall administrative body, serving autonomous branches and affiliated organisations (art galleries, museums, educational institutions and corporate bodies providing for the promotion of the visual arts) country-wide.

Presently, the Association comprises 26 branches and 19 affiliated organisations, including two academic institutions in Mozambique (the National School of Visual Arts of Mozambique and the Portuguese School of Mozambique, both in Maputo). Its Constitution does not allow for individual artists directly to become members of the national association. They have to be members of a branch that is a member of the national body.

SANAVA is registered with the Department of Social Development as a Non-profit Organisation as well as with the South African Revenue Service as a Public Benefit Organisation. Although the SAAA (earlier name of SANAVA) had been a founding member of the International Association of Art (IAA) in 1954, it became a dormant member in later years. On 24 September 2005, at the 16th General Assembly of the IAA held in China, SANAVA was readmitted as a member of that non-governmental world body, closely associated with UNESCO.

Main Objectives

• the promotion of the visual arts in general;
• the development of visual artists; and
• furthering international cooperation in the field of the visual arts

Management Committe

Anton Loubser
National President
Gilberto Leal
Vice-President
Lynette ten Krooden
Vice-President
Helen E Weldrick
Vice-President
Basie Botha 
Honorary National Treasurer
Avitha Sooful 
Honorary Advisor: Social Development
Constitution

Approved and adopted at the Annual General Meeting on 2 October 1998, and amended at Annual General Meetings on 23 April 2004, 21 April 2006 and 27 April 2007.

Sanava: A member of the IAA

The South African Association of Arts (SAAA), earlier name of the South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA), was a founding member of the International Association of Art (IAA)/Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques (AIAP). The IAA is a non-governmental world body run by and for visual artists in every medium, style and tradition. It was founded in 1954 under the auspices of UNESCO. Artists from countries worldwide are represented by their national committees. At the 1st General Assembly of the IAA, held in Venice from 28 September to 3 October 1954, the SAAA was represented by an established visual artist, Walter Battiss. He was elected as a member of the organisation’s first Executive Committee, together with representatives from Brazil, USA, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Japan and Sweden.

The principal objectives of the IAA are:

• to stimulate international co-operation, free from any aesthetic, political or other bias, among artists of all countries;
• to improve the economic and social position of artists at the international level, and to defend their material and moral rights; and
• to co-operate with UNESCO in the field of the visual arts.

At some or other stage during the apartheid era, the SAAA became a dormant member of the IAA. On 24 September 2005, at the 16th General Assembly of the IAA held in Beijing, China, this valuable relationship was rekindled, when SANAVA was readmitted as a member of the world body. The National President of SANAVA, Anton Loubser, was elected as a member of the Executive Committee, together with representatives from the Peoples Republic of China, Japan, Kuwait, Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico and Mauritius.
National President’s annual report 2008

The Association experienced a gradual growth in its membership, whilst consolidating its financial position and increasing its activities with regard to development projects and international involvement. At national level, SANAVA’s autonomous branches and affiliated organisations were as active as ever in furthering the Association’s major objective, that of promoting the visual arts in its widest context, always within the scope as allowed by the means at their disposal.

Contacts
Telephone: (012) 460 5826
Fax: (012) 323 1275
Fax: (012) 460 5826
Email: info@sanava.co.za
Email: antonlo@telkom.nte
Postal Address: P.O. Box 2691
Brookyln Square
0075

Website: www.sanava.co.za
 

Launched in 2001 as a response to a gap in the rapidly maturing art market, Art Source South Africa handles an array of activities within the sector from fundraising and strategy development to curation, project development and management.

It services a range of clients and interfaces between the worlds of cultural development at community and individual levels, corporate sponsors and sources of public donor funding.

Specialising in strategic project development and career management of fine artists, Art Source South Africa has undertaken projects as diverse as contemporary visual art exhibitions and rural craft development projects, as well as initiated local and international artist exchanges which often include community outreach programmes.

Art Source South Africa also operates as agents to the artists it works with and are dealers in contemporary South African art.

More recently, Art Source South Africa has expanded its activities to include specialised marketing, PR and communications for the arts, culture and development sectors. Its services include strategy development to the implementation of all or select aspects of a project campaign, such as above the line, below the line, through the line, experiential marketing, stakeholder and media communications.

Art Source cc is level 4 compliant with regard to BBBEE as an Exempted Micro Enterprise (EME).

Contacts
Physical Address: 43d Newport Road, Parkwood 2196 Johannesburg South Africa
Postal Address: P.O. Box 569 Rivonia 2128

Website:  www.artsourcesouthafrica.co.za

We believe and support the importance of artists in the creation and reflection of a South African historical and cultural perspective.

Akani Creative Consulting's offers the following services:

• Cataloguing of private and corporatecollections.

• Advising on acquiring contemporary fine art objects as part of an investment portfolio for both corporate and private clients.

• Conceptualizing and hosting contemporary fine art exhibitions for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Contacts
Office Number: 078 341 6608
Fax: 086 516 2994
Email: info@akanicc.co.za
Physical Address: 20 Ibis Manor Beretta Street Wilgehewel

Website: www.akanicc.co.za

Contacts
Tel: (012) 362 4975
Mobile: 072 444 0696

Physical Address: Corner South and Ducan Street Hatfield Pretoria South Africa

Website: www.onesmallseed.net

Contacts
Mobile: 073 244 8397
Email: onplatform@gmail.com

Physical Address: Corner 18th and Chamberlain Street Rietnodale Pretoria
South Africa

Website: www.platform18th.co.za
 

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