What We Do
Eastern Cape
VANSA GAUTENG
VANSA Gauteng operates as both the national office of the organisation, and develops programmes and projects that service the Gauteng City-Region and the surrounding provinces of Limpopo, North West, Mpumalanga and the Free State.
For more detail on what we are currently doing and who is involved, visit our Projects, Partners and People pages - or come and visit us at our offices at MainStreetLife in the bustling new visual arts precinct on the east end of the Inner city of Johannesburg - see our Contacts page for details.
VANSA (Visual Arts Network of SA), the Cape Craft and Design Institute and Business and Arts SA (BASA) have worked with the national Department of Arts and Culture around the development and realisation of a creative programme for COP17, complementing and synergising with existing initiatives, and in close cooperation with the Department of Environmental Affairs. VANSA worked on the visual and public art aspects of the programme, and together with a diversity of partners and its network, have managed to pull together a range of compelling projects.
Yeoville Studio, a community-oriented research initiative, is opening a public and interactive exhibition of its most recent work that will be an overview on its involvement in the neighborhood over a period of two years.
Launched by VANSA in September 2011, ARTCONNECT aims to explore the imaginative reuse and animation of non-arts spaces outside of the established contemporary art circuits in Gauteng, representing a unique opportunity for young artists to develop their practice with curatorial and technical support from the VANSA network.
In a pioneering move lauded by most but criticised by some, wealth management firm Citadel has launched the first SA art price index.
VANSA Gauteng is working with the WITS School of Arts and the University of Strasbourg (France) on a project to be realised during the latter part of 2012 - URBAN GAMES.
Please join us for an evening of stimulating discussion and debate about the present and future of public arts practice in South Africa.
Concerning the 2011 edition, after the selection of 5 candidates coming from South Africa, Cameroun and Nigeria, two of them succeeded in winning this competition. The winners are Victoria Samuel Udondian from Nigeria and Tamlyn Philippa Young From South Africa, Cape Town.
Assemblage is currently looking into the possibility of opening artists' studios in Johannesburg. If you are a visual artist based in Johannesburg please take a moment to complete our survey. It will only take a few minutes of your time and will help us greatly in determining whether opening studios would be viable.
Joseph Gaylard, the director of our Johannesburg office, recently visited Jakarta-based urban space collective Ruangrupa at the invitation of the Arts Collaboratory. Read his reflections on the experience below.
The National Arts Council of South Africa hereby invites all competent, suitably qualified and interested persons to serve as members. Advisory Panel members are required in the following art forms: theatre, dance, crafts, literature, music, multi-discipline and visual arts.
The exhibition Two Thousand and Ten Reasons to Live in a Small Town scheduled from 12th of May to 12th of June 2011 at the project space GoetheOnMain. Co-curated by the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) and Doung Anwar Jahangeer
The Minister of Trade and Industries has created a Commission to investigate areas of concern regarding the collection and distribution of royalties by collecting societies. There will be a series of public hearings in all 9 provinces where people are able to make oral submission.
