Stevenson Gallery

In black and white: Zander Blom tells of the colour in his work

The artist’s new Joburg exhibition has drips and smears – it can scare you – but it can also make you feel light

Charles Leonard

14 min read

On the face of it: South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s pictures Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 2015 (Pieter Hugo)

ALBINISM

25 OCT 2024

Pieter Hugo’s tragic beauty pushes the button of mortality

The photographer’s ambitious new exhibition What the Light Falls On is a free-ranging meditation on life

Charles Leonard

14 min read

Ephemeral: Robin Rhode’s outdoors, large-scale works, such as Portrait with Keys, Nine Holes and Garden Service, are often brought to life by performance. (Photos supplied)

ART AND ENVIRONMENT

5 JUL 2024

Robin Rhode’s artistic journey in Johannesburg’s abandoned spaces

Rhode’s interest in impermanence and repairing decay shines through in his latest works

Lesego Chepape

8 min read

Portia Zvavahera’s Maruva akaburitswa tiri mugomo (We received flowers) from her new exhibition, 2020. (Courtesy of Stevenson gallery)

ANCIENT VOICES AND FRIENDS

27 NOV 2020

Don’t Miss: A weekly round-up of virtual and in-person events

From art exhibitions to live jazz, we’ve got your weekend programming sorted

Arts Desk

3 min read

Nono Motlhoki’s Lenyalo questions generational burdens of culture on women.
(Courtesy of Veefatso Motlhoki)

BOITUMELO MOTAU

10 OCT 2020

Can ‘The Nonrepresentational’ prove a new model for artists and galleries?

‘The Nonrepresentational’, created virtually through discussions between the artists and the gallery, seeks to build a new model of artist representation

Nkgopoleng Moloi

6 min read

We Wanted a Revolution – Black Radical Women, 1965-85 (Duke University Press)

ARUNA D SOUZA

11 JUN 2020

The List: A peek at the Stevenson library

Stevenson gallery staff took to Instagram to share a small selection of literature guiding their “respective journeys towards listening, learning and confronting bias”

Zaza Hlalethwa

3 min read