Esther Mahlangu at the retrospective of her work at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town.
Marco Longari/Getty Images
At 88 the artist Esther Mahlangu is world famous and is the subject of a major exhibition in Cape Town.
The Ora Loapi space at the 2023 Joburg Art Fair featured Shepherd Ndudzo’s work.
Courtesy Ora Loapi
His work can only be fully understood by observing the shared traditions of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Choreographer and dancer Gregory Maqoma helped create the production.
Stella Olivier/The Head & The Load
The Head & The Load finally reaches Johannesburg after delays caused by the COVID pandemic.
Tracey Rose ahead of her mid-career retrospective in Cape Town.
Photo courtesy Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art
A major exhibition in Cape Town revealed the unique brew that characterises the work of this politically charged feminist artist.
Louis Maqhubela in London.
Images courtesy the Maqhubela family
The last great modernist of South African painting, he influenced a generation of black artists.
Artist Louis Maqhubela and his wife Tana passed away within days of one another.
Image courtesy the Maqhubela family
The master of abstract art proved that black ‘township artists’ from South Africa could become leaders of international styles.
Detail of the poster And the People Vote for Nelson Mandela.
Judy Seidman/Medu Art Ensemble
Four decades later, post-apartheid South Africa barely recalls the Medu Art Ensemble’s contributions to the liberation struggle. But that could be changing.
Untitled. 2015. Pen and Ink on Paper. 60 x 71 cm.
Ernst van der Wal
Beautiful art can provide hope and healing.
William Kentridge.
Goodman Gallery
For William Kentridge, searching and erasure serves as a model for understanding our place in the world.
Dumile Feni’s ‘African Guernica’ - charcoal on paper.
‘African Guernica’ is an incredibly powerful work of art in many ways, importantly filling that space between the visible and the visible.