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Boemo Diale explores inheritance, memory and the making of new worlds
In her solo exhibition 'So Quick the Crocodile Has Eaten the Sun', artist Boemo Diale delves into maternal structures, Tswana cosmology, and memory to explore how inherited…
Gallery MOMO and the Long Game of African Art
After being named Outstanding Art Gallery at the National Arts Council Awards, Gallery MOMO director Odysseus Shirindza discusses more than two decades of championing…
Kelebogile Marope sees the stories we leave
Kelebogile Marope, the 2026 FNB Art Prize winner, shares her disbelief and profound insights into her art practice. From Botswana, she discusses her work which excavates memory…
Elvira Dyangani Ose is Zeitz Mocaa’s new director
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Mocaa) in Cape Town has announced Elvira Dyangani Ose as its new artistic director. Her appointment follows an extensive search after…
Gig Guide: Davis Cup action, Artist Proof Studio's KZN debut and Oskido's Big Day Out lineup
This essential gig guide covers three major events in South Africa: the Davis Cup tie between South Africa and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Pretoria, Artist Proof Studio's…
The South African Reserve Bank Museum opens its vaults to history, memory and the public
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has opened its new Head Office Campus and Museum in Pretoria, transforming a traditionally imposing institution into a vibrant space for…
Kumalo | Turpin opens its doors with warmth, multiplicity and a refusal of exclusivity
At Johannesburg’s new Kumalo | Turpin gallery, the inaugural exhibition ‘Gender/Genre’ signals a space committed to conversation, care and reimagining who contemporary art spaces…
Gig Guide: Savanna presents Festival of Comedy, Dominica releases Your Presence and Santu Mofokeng at the Standard Bank Art Lab
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Pilane Bubu and the work of remembering through folklore
Through its KinFolk theme, the Folklore Festival returns to the work of connection, bridging generations, regions and disciplines to reimagine how South Africa remembers,…
Mahindra Fusion Fest Returns: Bigger, bolder and unapologetically South African
Mahindra Fusion Fest 2026 returns to Pretoria this March, transforming the SunBet Arena into an immersive collision of music, fashion and art that celebrates the bold future of…
Speaking in tongues: The literary revolution rooted in Sepedi and Setswana
The quiet power of Moses Seletisa’s Sepedi poetry and Sabata Mokae’s Setswana novels
Kim Berman’s fire sermon
The artist’s latest exhibition, spanning 40 years, celebrates ‘the victory of memory over forgetting’
The silent thief: AI exploits creators under the guise of innovation
Africa must not become a data colony feeding algorithms that serve the Global North, while remaining voiceless in shaping the rules
Nyakallo Maleke and the gentle radicalism of drawing as care
A tender meditation on care, memory and materiality, this artist’s work invites us to slow down and feel the soul
HIV research: Professor screw it, let’s do it
Francois Venter talks about his unorthodox inaugural lecture, his work during the Aids crisis and his shoot-from-the-hip fix of our healthcare system