Tag: pretoria art museum

Intraparadox, Interview with Thabo Treasure Mofokeng. Still Standing. 4 Sep 2025.


[A] common thread that connects Thabo Treasure Mofokeng’s works, this year’s Runner-up winner for the SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition, as far as this art competition is concerned as a contemporary showcase of the visual arts, is that his work is the recognition of our inner selves as something akin to profoundness beyond limitations.… Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Thabo Treasure Mofokeng. Still Standing. 4 Sep 2025.

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Intraparadox, Interview with Miné Kleynhans, Advent of Autogo[gy]-logy. PAM 3 September 2025.


[The] genesis of Augury after Autogogues, Miné Kleynhans’s solo exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum started right after the end SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition 2024 opening ceremony when she was on flight to Bloemfontein. In this podcast, recorded on the morning of 03 September a few hours before this year’s overall winner, runner-up and merit award winners were announced, I try to trace the conception of her solo exhibition and the contextual background of the body of work on show… Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Miné Kleynhans, Advent of Autogo[gy]-logy. PAM 3 September 2025.

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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), Snelihle Asanda Maphumulo (Gqeberha), Vian Mervyn Roos (Pretoria) and Sarah Volker (Gqeberha) walked away with merit awards worth R 10 000.  While Thabo Treasure Mofokeng (Johannesburg) was announced as the runner-up, walking away with R 25 000, Juandré van Eck (Gqeberha) was confirmed as the overall winner for 2025.… Read More SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition 2025

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Intraparadox, Interview with Tandabantu Matola, SNS Art Competition 2024 Runner-Up. PAM 4 September.


This year’s SASOL New Signatures Art Competition’s Runner-Up’s work meditates on one of the most essential domestic items, the dishcloth. The work centers it as a metaphor for social resiliance and optimism. … Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Tandabantu Matola, SNS Art Competition 2024 Runner-Up. PAM 4 September.

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Intraparadox, Interview with Miné Kleynhans, SNS Art Competition 2024 Overall Winner. PAM 4 September.


This year’s overall winning work for SASOL New Signatures Art Competition is an interactive piece entitled Meditations on Resentment by Miné Kleynhans. In this interview the artist contemplates on her life experiences, training background and the conceptual process behind her winning work. … Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Miné Kleynhans, SNS Art Competition 2024 Overall Winner. PAM 4 September.

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