Art in South Africa

  • SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition 2025

    This afternoon, five merit award winners, a runner-up up as well as the overall winner for this year’s edition of SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition have been announced through an opening ceremony presided over by Ms. Nozipho Mbatha, Group Brand Sponsorship Senior Manager for SASOL. Tammy Lee Baikie (Johannesburg), Rebecca Louise (Beck) Glass (Tshwane),…

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  • Murmurs in impasto and ink

    Murmurs in impasto and ink

    Selekane’s Murmurs of Migration may refer to migration by its title but to a large extent, what the work is about, is a celebration of women and their role in our multifaceted society. Some of the works featured in this exhibition betray this observation, however, these works, whether paintings or prints carry other concerns that…

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  • A Homage to my Beloveds

    A Homage to my Beloveds

    {T}he magic of the viewing experience in Banele Khoza’s work is most profound when the quality of his painting is given a closer inspection. It is in this intense viewing that the power of colour and its handling is revealed in all its splendour.

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  • CROSSROADS // TSELA TSE PEDI Art Exhibition Opening Speech.

    At the crossroads, though we may be there physically, when multiple options opens-up before us on how to progress further through existence. We are there psychologically, spiritually and socially. We are an amalgamation of a plethora of constructs.

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  • Nogolide

    Nogolide

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  • The emergence of the son of Njhakanjhaka

    In Mikondzo ya vakokwani (The Ancestors footsteps), Thephelus Rikhotso, has reflected on something deep within his psyche. He has come to share with us personalized entities that not only anchor his being in this world. But help make sense of our precarious world.

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  • The Courtyard

    The Courtyard

    The crowd stirred to leave the courtyard, the Pied Crows flapped jetted away, quacking in all directions to enshrine the proceedings of this Khorho in the heavens.

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  • Mikondzo ya Vakokwani Exhibition Invite teaser

    Following almost ten months in an art residency at the Pretoria Art Museum, Theophelus Rikhotso’s first solo exhibition is now open. It will run until 27 August 2023.

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