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Investec Cape Town Art Fair names its 2026 award winners

The Investec Cape Town Art Fair announces its 2026 prize winners, spotlighting artists whose practices are reshaping contemporary conversations around material, image and digital…

Jazz rehersals at home. Zola Madyaka and Eric Nomvete.

Photography as a listening tool: Beata America puts it all on record

Beata America transforms photography into a medium of listening and memory in her Cabinet section, Record, at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair

Shamilla Aasha’s The Healing Alchemy 2025

Generations in conversation: Tandazani Dhlakama curates across time

Tandazani Dhlakama’s Generations section at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair pairs artists across borders and eras to reveal the quiet continuity shaping contemporary African art

Left to right: Elizabeth Fick of Investec,Tristanne Farrell of Investec, Emma Van der merwe of Everard Read and Cumesh Moodliar of Investec next to Warren Maroon’s award-winning piece-Photo by Anton Scholtz

Warren Maroon named emerging artist of the year

Cape Town sculptor Warren Maroon wins the Investec Emerging Artist Award 2026 for ‘Rising Sun’ at the Cape Town Art Fair

Diary: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Protest theatre classic returns, Ayanda Jiya in Durban

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Work by Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, who is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Photos: Güliz Özbek and Stephanie Veldman)

Happy 10th birthday to Cape Town Art Fair

With the international galleries and collectors it attracts, the event has become the country’s most important art event for dealers

Expressions: Charity Vilakazi’s work, such as  ‘Isisho II, Ibomvu ‘

Through the matriarchal gaze

In her paintings, Durban-born Charity Vilakazi offers a perspective on African societies with women as the drivers of social change and healing

The Investec Cape Town Art Fair will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in February 2023 with an exhibition that examines the notion of time and promises to dive into concepts surrounding the past, present and future

Investec Cape Town Art Fair turns 10 in 2023

The Investec Cape Town Art Fair will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in February 2023 with an exhibition that examines the notion of time and promises to dive into concepts…

Mythic quest: Dylan Lewis explores relationships and a sense of self in his sculpture exhibition ‘Chthonios’. (Stella Oliver)

The Weekend Guide

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Detail of ‘Al Hurra’ by Thania Petersen. Photo: Hayden Phipps courtesy of Whatiftheworld.

Embedding value into material culture at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair

Chaze Matakala writes of encountering Thania Petersen and Ibrahim Mahama at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair.

Michael Cook is the only artist from outside the geo-political borders of the Global South in this section, with all the other galleries focusing on the African continent.

ICTAF: What is meaning when local goes global?

The Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF), may offer a new visual languages that looks to disentangle what we know as contemporary art in Africa.

The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SS Mendi ritual breaks new ground

"I am one of these womxn. We have been called to witness and to heal the memory of the SS Mendi".