ARTISTS
2025
Tourism is a major contributor to the economy of eThekwini, formerly Durban, the South African port city that serves as backdrop for the ninety-seven photographs in Sabelo Mlangeni鈥檚 exhibition 鈥淗oneymoon.
In actuarial science, risk collapses two temporal dimensions鈥攖he present and a time yet to come.
A common misconception about 鈥渢he art world鈥� is that it maps in any way onto the art market.
Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 is set to be a blockbuster edition. Director Angelle Siyang-Le shares insider tips on how to explore the event, plus the exhibitions and installations worth seeking out.
blank presents Honeymoon. The happily ever after?, a solo exhibition by Sabelo Mlangeni and his third with the gallery.
What, then, accounts for the mysterious intelligibility of artworks? This question seems to find expression directly and obliquely in Igshaan Adams鈥� new body of work aptly titled Holy Terrain (2024).
Human connection, the underscore of every relation between artist, art and audience, emerges to me as more than a desire line in Igshaan Adams鈥檚 works, but a provocation after the power of a shared physical experience.
2024
Each year, we ask our contributors to share their highlights鈥攈ere鈥檚 what caught their eye in 2024:
The fifteen abstract paintings shown in Asemahle Ntlonti鈥檚 assured and tonally austere exhibition 鈥淚nzonzobila鈥濃�攖he Xhosa title refers to depth, typically in a watercourse鈥攁re the culmination of formal experiments begun two years ago.
Thursday afternoon. April. Its light is astringent1. There are tulips on the front desk of the gallery.
Highlights include the first-ever museum surveys of painters Esther Mahlangu and Cinga Samson
The organizers of Art Basel today announced 287 participants in the Swiss fair鈥檚 flagship edition, to take place June 13鈥�16, with preview days on June 11 and 12.
2023
The artist describes her exhibition Sabela Uyabizwa (translated from isiXhosa as Respond, You Are Being Called) as a shift in her practice.
The soft, rhythmic sound of the cardboard conveyor belt hums in the background as I enter Cape Town鈥檚 blank projects, and bright morning light pours in through its high windows.
In the brief exhibition text that accompanies Sabela Uyabizwa at blank projects, a solo by photographer Phumzile Khanyile, we encounter an apparent interest in the chasm between...