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Igshaan Adams, Gebedswolke (2025). © Igshaan Adams.
ARCHITECTURE

Structures of the forgotten: An installation of song, soil and spirit

A haunting meditation on land, memory and rain, Dinokana invites us to rebuild from what was lost

  • Kibo Ngowi
8 min read
Taking wing: Time Flies by Sutapa Biswas, who moved from India to England as a child, uses images of birds, some imaginary, some real-life studies, to look at issues around migration. It is part of the Ecospheres exhibition at the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation. Photo: Graham De Lacy
ART AND ECOLOGY

Ecospheres: The climate crisis through artists’ eyes

The show is a serious but entertaining look at our interaction with the natural world

  • Charles Leonard
14 min read
Frida Kahlo in her studio, Irma Stern’s painting Watussi Woman in Red and Amrita Sher-Gil’s painting Three Girls.
AMRITA SHER GIL

Museum brings together work by three larger-than-life woman painters: Kahlo, Sher-Gil and Stern

In a first for South Africa, a Johannesburg museum is showing work by the pioneering woman artists

  • Sean O Toole
9 min read
Installation view of Requiem, from left: Paulus Fürst, Doctor Schnabel von Rom, Kleidung wider den Tod zu Rom (1656); Artist unrecorded, Lonely Soul Ex-Voto (19th century). Photo Graham De Lacy
ANA MENDIETA

What lies in between? Musings on the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation

‘Liminality’ is a buzz word in art speak, but does the current Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation exhibition go far enough in meaningfully unpacking it?

  • Thabang Monoa
13 min read
Wake-up call: Mandla Sibeko, entrepreneur and founding director of FNB Art Joburg. (Photo: Andy Mkosi)
APARTHEID

Open City: The art of invading Jo’burg

FNB Art Joburg director Mandla Sibeko speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about this year’s Open City, during which unlikely spots are turned into art spaces

  • Kwanele Sosibo
4 min read