Western Cape

34FineArt features a variety of works in various media by established South African artists like William Kentridge, Norman Catherine, Noria Mabasa , Willie Bester, Esther Mahlangu, and also of new young talent like Asha Zero, Matthew Hindley and Peter Eastman. South African art is complemented by a selection of works by internationally acclaimed art, including Marlene Dumas and Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.

Art South Africa is a quarterly magazine, which addresses issues around contemporary visual art in South Africa, as well as the crossover between art and fashion, architecture, music and design. Produced by Bell-Roberts Publishing, the magazine has two linked publications, Itch and Snapped. ASA has won two Mondi Magazine Awards for Reviews Writing and Design and Illustration (2004).
Art South Africa's editorial policy is to offer well-written, thorough journalism. Writers are drawn from a variety of disciplines and both acvadmic and non-academic contexts.

Curators and Key Staff:
Bronwyn Law Viljoen (editor)

Contact
Bell-Roberts Publishing
Tel: +27 (0) 21 465 9108
Fax: +27 (0) 86 656 5931
Email: info@artsouthafrica.com
Website: www.artsouthafrica.com

Physical Address:
Ground Floor
Fairweather House
176 Sir Lowry Road,
Woodstock
7925
South Africa

Postal Address:
P.O. Box 16067
Vlaeberg
8018
South Africa
 

The gallery has been situated in these premises, in the heart of the city centre, since 1971, first as the Metropolitan Gallery, and then in partnership with Spier, who recently bought the building from Metropolitan. Run by the energetic Estelle Jacobs, the AVA usually hosts three exhibitions at a time, with many young contemporary artists making their debut here.

AVA’s main priority and objective is the promotion and advancement of visual art and artists in South Africa, with particular emphasis on artists from the Western Cape, both established and emerging, formally trained and self-taught.

AVA achieves this goal in several ways. Firstly, AVA hosts exhibitions which change every four weeks. This means that our space is never without an exhibition. An artist does not need to be a member of AVA to hold an exhibition here. All work exhibited goes through a selection procedure. AVA has a selection panel who meet every two months. Any artist who wishes to exhibit at AVA must bring in works on the day of the selection meeting for the panel to review. Their decision is made by majority vote. No feedback is given and their decision is final. It should be noted that being a member of AVA does not guarantee an artist an exhibition here. As the gallery space is divided into four sections, four exhibitions can be held simultaneously and these four shows all share one opening function.
 

Contacts
Tel: (021) 424 74 36
Fax: (021) 423 2637
Email: art@ava.co.za
Website: www.ava.co.za
 

Brundyn + Gonsalves strives to maintain the highest possible artistic and intellectual standards. Artworks by some of South Africa’s most prominent contemporary artists can be viewed alongside works by promising, young talent.

Brundyn + Gonsalves Gallery is pleased to have opened a Gallery at Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art in September 2009. In addition to the double storey gallery in Loop Street, which has a much more traditional feel to it, the smaller space at Wembley Square will be a supplementary exhibition and project venue. As a ‘project room’, iArt Gallery Wembley offers us a myriad of exciting opportunities to expand our reach and give our clients insight into more experimental and collaborative realms of South African art, without having to compromise or stray from the already well-established identity developed at and maintained by our Loop Street premises.

Contacts
Telephone: (021) 424 5150
Fax: (021) 424 5160
Email: info@brundyngonsalves.com
Physical Address: 71 Loop Street Cape Town 8001

Postal Address: P.O. Box 16191 Vlaeberg 8018

iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art

Physical Address: Wembley Square Gardens Cape Town 8001

Website: www.brundyngonsalves.com
 

A flowering of organic schools of thought grown in backyard gardens, tilled and fertilised by the fundamentals of humanity preached and sometimes practiced. Fela says, simply: Who no know go know.

An incomplete roll call: Ramps, Scratch, Fransch, Frantz, Zimology, Wright, Roy, Tosh, Roach, Shahrzad, Armah, Nortje, Meshell, Lee, Ali, Hani, Busi, Buchi, Kippie, (the cry of) Winnie, Mongezi ("You ain't gonna know me"), (King) Tubby, (Ken) Bugul, BigYouth, Badu-ism, Baldwin, Bili, Brathwaite, (Bra) Willie, (Bra) Wally, Kwani?, Kwaninis, Nina, Kalonji, Dyani, D-Money, Jimi, Djibril, Nkoli, LKJ, PBS, BNB (vol1), BOP, POC, TP OK Jazz, PE, Miles (sometimes), MAW, Matthews, Mazrui, Matigari, Metronome, Mapfumo, Mwalimu, Mongo, Zao, Shado, Ukooflani Maumau, Seithlamo, Chico, Ko-Shun, Okot p', Gil-Scott, Ra, Akomfrah's BAFC, Galeano, (General's) Politburo, (Real) Rozano, Yambo, Yes & No, Neo, Dumile, Dudu, Douleur, Zeke, Zoe, Achille, Mashile, Micere, Okigbo, Biko, Betty D, Bessie H, Bessie S, Olu, Anikulapo, Sobukwe, The Leninist Czar, Wole, Were-Were, Desiree, Sangare, Ray, Lorde, Letta, Vera, Wenge Musica (4x4 bcbg), Mingus, Mos, Fani-Kayode, Onsulade, Seun, Sandile, Neg'Marrons, G-Force Reagon, Tuff Gong, Banton, Kiemute, Liyenkula, Kouakou, Fong Kong Bantu Soundsystem, Skeem, Labou-Tansi, Zackie, Tsitsi, Pakhati and the other 50, The other Dumisane - "If am the other who are you?", (The) Artist, Tate, Taban, Govan, Ousmane, Tabane, (Neogy's) Transition-ers, (Botsotso) Jesters, Staffriders, Glendora, Walker, (the other) Trevor, Themba at the House of Truth, Brenda, Bonga, Donga, Amandla, Almicar, Sedar, Spivak, Lady Saw, Samora, Tchicaya, Fodeba, Makeba, Marechera, Malangatana, Binyavanga, Chimamanda, (the hand of) Maradona, Sankara, Rakim, Rose, Manfila, Nah-ee-lah, Mafika, Fiel dos Santos, Marcos, hooks, Abdullah (no, Dollar), Mboya, Chinua, Gza, Tuma, Lumumba's speech, La Guma, Tutuola, Midnight Children, Midnight Marauders, Said, Taiwa, Thandiswa, Appiah, Basquiat, Boukaka, A luta, Kalakuta, Union & Lutte, Ujamaa, Amandla (redux), Intifada, Chimurenga...in no particular order...

Contacts
Tel: (021) 422 4168
Fax: (021) 424 1673

Physical Address: Room 303 Pan African Market 76 Long Street Cape Town South Africa

Postal Address: P.O. Box 15117 Vlaeberg 8018 Cape Town
South Africa

Website: www.chimurenga.co.za

As such, Design Indaba is a celebration of design in a country iconic of the triumph of the human spirit. Proof that even the most intractable problem can be neutralised by the will of the people, resurgent South Africa is a beacon to the world. Design Indaba typifies this can-do spirit through its belief in design and how it can help solve the problems faced by an emerging economy. With the right support, a better future can be designed.

By attracting the world’s brightest talent, Design Indaba has become a respected institution on the creative landscape and one of the few global events that celebrates all the creative sectors - graphic design, advertising, film, music, fashion design, industrial design, architecture, craft, visual art, new media, publishing, broadcasting and performing arts sector. Besides the flagship conference and expo,Design Indaba has grown into a multitiered experience that incorporates an extensive range of elements such as events, publications, education, training, business, development and community initiatives.

Contacts

Telephone: (021) 465 9966
Fax: (021) 465 9978

Physical Address:
16 Mill Street
Gardens
Cape Town

Postal Address:
P.O. Box 7735
Roggebaai
Cape Town
8012

Website: http://www.designndaba.com

Contacts
Tel/Fax: (021) 887 2256
Email: info@dorpstraatgalery.co.za

Physical Address: 114 Dorp Street Stellenbosch 7600 Cape Town South Africa

Website: www.dorpstraatgallery.co.za

 The Everard Read Gallery is one of the oldest commercial galleries in South Africa, established in 1912. Over the years the gallery has grown in size and sophistication with the emergence of Johannesburg as Africa´s business and financial capital. The gallery represents a variety of leading South African and international artists. Everard Read has branches in both Cape Town and Johannesburg, and recently unveiled a new state-of-the-art building for its Johannesburg branch, Circa on Jellicoe, which also includes project and performance spaces.

Physical Address
3 Portswood Road
Victoria and Alfred Waterfront
Cape Town
8002
South Africa

Postal Address
P.O. Box 51625
Waterfront
8002
South Africa

Greatmore, and its workshop initiative, Thupelo, grew out of the first Triangle Arts Trust workshop held in New York in 1982. It follows the Triangle model of providing studios and residencies, facilitating workshops, and supporting outreach programmes to raise awareness of art. Exhibitions, workshop open days and public events provide platforms for engaging audiences and introducing the latest works of new and established artists to local and international audiences.

Greatmore Studios is an artists-run initiative. The committee and director work closely with an administrative team and accountant.
Resident artists are required to participate in outreach programmes. These activities range from slide shows and workshops to lectures and presentations at various local institutions and schools in both urban and rural communities.

All artists in residence at Greatmore, whether local or international, are required to exhibit their work in an Greatmore's gallery space during their stay.

In addition to being provided with administrative support, artists benefit from Greatmore’s digital programme. Through this programme, artists have unlimited access to the internet, enabling them to keep up to date with events, including exhibitions, residencies and competitions. The programme also includes training courses in selected applications and assistance in building websites.
Today the studio brings together artists from diverse cultural and national backgrounds under one working environment.

Contacts
Telephone: (021) 447 9699
Fax: (021) 447 9699
Email: info@greatmoreart.org

Physical Address: 47-49 Greatmore Street
Woodstock
7915
Cape Town,
South Africa

Website: www.greatmore.org
 

Jeanetta Blignaut Art Consultancy focuses on collaborative projects with emerging artists which aim to energise, challenge stereotypes and break boundaries in thinking. Projects include the Spier Arts Academy Training Programming, the Creative Block Project and Qalo, which involves collaboration between contemporary artists and traditional beadworkers. Jeanetta Blignaut has worked with a range of corporate clients around these projects and their collections, including Spier, Hollard and Nandos.

Tel: (021) 423 5403
Fax: +27 088 021 423 2136
Email: info@joaoferreiragallery.com
Physical Address:

70 Loop Street
Cape Town
8001
South Africa
 

Website: joaoferreiragallery.com

This vibrant spot is home to night and day markets, dynamic office spaces, workshops and designer stores, delicious farm-stalls, decadent cafes as well as an awesome line-up of festivals and events.

'The Mill' is also a place where people share, collaborate and show off their heart-felt passion. Explore the Mill and meet some of South Africa’s most talented designers, artists, photographers and connoisseurs of fine taste and décor.

Contacts
Tel: (021) 448 1438
Physical Address:
373-375 Albert Rd
Woodstock
Cape Town

Website: theoldbiscuitmill.co.za
 

Pro Helvetia Cape Town is one of the Pro Helvetia representations abroad, set up at the beginning of 1998, and the second base on the African continent besides Cairo. Although Pro Helvetia Cape Town has its office in the heart of Cape Town, it is set up with the characteristics of a mobile office to cover the whole of Southern Africa.

Being physically linked with the Consulate of Switzerland, by having an office space on its premises, Pro Helvetia Cape Town cooperates closely with the Swiss diplomatic representations in Southern Africa. The office in Cape Town contains a small library on Swiss and Southern African cultures, which is available to the public in office hours.

Pro Helvetia Cape Town reaches out to most countries in the Southern African region, coordinating projects not only in South Africa but also in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia and Angola. Fostering cultural interaction between these countries and Switzerland is one of Pro Helvetia’s priorities.
Through a mandate with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Pretoria, the office in Cape Town also supports local capacity building and encourages cultural interaction between Southern African countries.

The activities granted support are projects initiated by young professionals, conceived and executed locally through partnerships with venues and institutions in the region.

Contacts
Tel/Fax: (021) 465 9033
Email: capetown@prohelvetia.org.za

Physical Address: Swiss Arts Council Level D, The Adderley 25 Adderley Street
Cape Town

Postal Address: Swiss Arts Council
P.O. Box 469
Cape Town
8000
South Africa

Website: www.prohelvetia.org.za
 

The South African Print Gallery was established by Gabriel Clark-Brown who as a master printmaker has sought to promote the appreciation of South African fine art printmaking. Part of the gallery cluster that has developed around the Buchanan and Fairweather buildings in Woodstock, Cape Town, the gallery aims to showcase South African printmaking, with an emphasis on quality, good and unusual prints.

Key People
Gabriel Clarke Brown

Contacts
Tel: +27 (0) 21 462 6851
Email: info@printgallery.co.za
Website: www.printgallery.co.za

Physical Address:
107 Sir Lowry Road
Woodstock
Cape Town

Refreshingly committed to bridging the gap between fine art and design, owner Monique du Preez promises an ever-changing roster of talent on the monochrome walls.

Contacts

Tel: (021) 424 6930
Mobile: 082 679 3906
Email: info@salon91art.co.za

Physical Address: 91 Kloof Street Gardens Cape Town 8001 South Africa

Website: www.salon91art.co.za

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 Based in Cape Town, the Africa Centre is a platform for exploring contemporary Pan-African artistic practice as a catalyst for social change.

• Create an international arts and cultural centre in Africa which documents, disseminates and celebrates both the visual and performing arts throughout Africa and its Diaspora
• Develop a meaningful theoretical. Literal and philosophical space for artistic dialogue and engagements
• Interrogate the role, identity, transience and performance of art
• Build on best practice and pursue innovation in art and cultural theory, practice and praxis
• Pursue new audiences and the means and method of engagement
• Explore ways in which communities of the continent and its diasporas can engage with their heritage and histories and become entrepreneurial owners of their own cultural industries
• Use the arts and culture to enhance relationships within and between African nations, strengthening ties and promoting nation-building across the continent   

• The Spier Contemporary Competition  
• SPARCK (Research/networking)
• Infecting the City (Public Art Festival)

ASAI (Africa South Art Initiative) operates as a critical platform for research, debate and discussion on the position of the contemporary arts in Africa, and is particularly concerned with reconnecting South African art discourse to wider debates in the contemporary arts in Africa. It also provides a non-profit online platform for a range of contemporary African artists to profile themselves and their work.

Key People:
Mario Pissarra

Email: info@asai.co.za
Tel: +27 (0) 21 650 3267/3581

Physical Address
Room BG5
Beattie Building
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch
Cape Town

Postal Address:
ASAI
Department of Historical Studies
Beattie Building
5 University Avenue
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch 7701
RSA
 

Since then, the gallery has earned acclaim for successfully hosting a series of thought-provoking exhibitions accompanied by well researched publications.

SMAC Art Gallery is primarily concerned with the significance of historical and contemporary art movements in South Africa such as the modernist abstract era, the protest era and the neglected contribution of African artists in the post-war period. The gallery therefore aims to provide a platform to continually present exhibitions that assist in the process of reviewing and revising South African art. To date SMAC has published more than ten art catalogues and books. Recent exhibition highlights include Revisions +: Expanding the Narrative of South African Art, Abstract South African Art from the Isolation Years: Part III, the large mid-career retrospectives of the artists Anton Karstel and Wayne Barker, as well as a major retrospective exhibition of renowned artist Erik Laubscher.

SMAC is also committed to expanding South Africa’s participation and contact with the international art community. In 2009 the gallery facilitated and sponsored the participation of three artists; Wayne Barker, Kay Hassan and Johann Louw in an official collateral exhibition to the 53rd Venice Biennale entitled; Praise of Nature-Languages of the World. Another SMAC artist, Jake Aikman was also represented in a prestigious collateral exhibition to the Biennale entitled L’Anima Dell Acqua / The Spirit of Water. Subsequently, SMAC has been active in championing the return of South Africa in an official capacity to the Venice Biennale.

The gallery currently represents more than twenty established, contemporary and emerging artists and continues with an exciting, innovative and high profile programme of exhibitions and projects both locally and abroad.

The gallery expanded in 2009 by opening SMAC Space Stellenbosch and the SMAC Art Gallery Showroom in Cape Town. Both venues allow SMAC the freedom to engage in different projects that run concurrently with larger exhibitions in the main gallery.

Contacts

SMAC ART GALLERY

Telephone: +27 (0)21 887 3607

Fax: +27 (0)21 887 7624

Email: info@smacgallery.com

Physical Address: 1st Floor
De Wet Centre

Church Street,
 Stellenbosch
7600


SMAC SPACE

Telephone: +27 (0)21 887 7044

Fax: +27(0)21 887 7624
Email: info@smacspace.com

Physical Address: Ground Floor
De Wet Centre

Church Street

Stellenbosch
7600


SMAC ART GALLERY SHOWROOM - CAPE TOWN

Tel: +27 (0)21 887 3607

Fax: +27(0)21 887 7624

Email: info@smacgallery.com

Physical Address: 60 New Church Street (Access off Buitengracht)

Cape Town
8001


Website: www.smacgallery.com
 

Contacts

Telephone: (021) 808 3524/ 3489
Email: suz@sun.ac.za

Physical Address:
Cnr. Dorp and Bird Streets
Stellenbosch
South Africa

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

ULR: www.warreneditions.com/

This fast-rising young gallery has become a destination point for curators and collectors to experience innovative work, and to become acquainted with some new names. By giving voice to new talents, the gallery intends to grow public dialogue and critical debates within the contemporary art community, and to provide an alternative to the traditional art structures and institutions.

Whatiftheworld has been firmly behind the careers of several rising stars on the South African contemporary art scene, and is committed to building and nurturing strong relationships with each artist to support their continuing professional development. The gallery has hosted a series of critically acclaimed solo and group exhibitions, and published numerous catalogues and artist monographs.

Contacts

Telephone: (21) 448 1438
Mobile: 084 414 4554/ 072 422 2387
Email: info@whatiftheworld.com
Physical Address:

First floor
208 Albert Rd
Woodstock 7925
Cape Town
South Africa

Website: whatiftheworld.com
 

Worldart specialises in the managing and marketing of artists and their art, while simultaneously providing a service that seeks to add value to the needs of those who appreciate and acquire art.

Worldart was founded in 2004 by Charl Bezuidenhout. He studied Law at the University of Stellenbosch and then spent five years travelling and working in Europe and the USA. Back in South Africa he became active in the music industry and the visual arts, where he pursued his passion for the arts and marketing. He has since established himself as a respected and dedicated participant in the arts environment.

Services

Worldart provides the following services:

• Artist’s marketing and management. We believe that artists should focus their energy on being creative, free from the distractions that come with the marketing and selling of their work. To this extent Worldart plays an active role in managing the relationship between artist and gallery, pursuing marketing opportunities on various levels and structuring business deals with bigger clients.

• Media liaison service. Worldart offers a comprehensive, project driven media liaison service aimed at ensuring maximum exposure for art exhibitions and other art related events.
• The sourcing and selling of art. Worldart has an extensive and dedicated client base who are regularly yet unobtrusively informed about new releases by artists we work with. We also handle requests to source art.
• The arrangement of packaging and shipment of art to any destination in the world. Worldart has extensive experience in the shipping of art to destinations worldwide. We work with the best shipping companies and offer a service that includes the tracking and close monitoring of the process, at very competitive rates.

Contacts

Tel: (021) 423 3075
Mobile: 082 901 5045
Email: info@worldart.co.za

Physical Address: 54 Church Street
Cape Town
South Africa

Postal Address: P.O Box 15417
Vlaeberg
8018
South Africa
 

YoungBlackMan is a project space developed by Ed Young and Douglas Blackman. It showcases experimental and challenging work from a diversity of artists. YoungBlackMan openings have rapidly established themselves as an institution in the Cape Town arts scene, and the project enjoys close relationship with the bar at the Kimberley Hotel across the road.