Exhibitions and Events

SOLO STUDIOS - Intimate Art Encounters 2022

26 - 28 August 2022
Event: Riebeek Valley, Western Cape

Art Times article June / July 2022 on ISUU

STUDIO ARTISTS

18 Riebeek Valley resident artists have been selected to open their personal spaces to a limited number of visitors; the artists invite the art lover into their personal realm. 

COLLABORATIONS

In order to add some variety to the event and for the first time since its inception in 2016, Solo Studios has accepted Studio Artists’ proposals to partner with non-resident artists, resulting in some interesting collaborations! 

FEATURED

Solo Studios is proud to be associated with this year’s featured partners and contributions, providing for some stimulating variation to the visual art on display. 

EBB AND FLOW

10 - 19 June 2022
Group Exhibition: The Marine Hotel, Hermanus

An exhibition of work by  twenty thread artists curated by Dal Botha and 
held at the Fyn Atrs Gallery, Hermanus
 
The twenty-two invited artists have interpreted the theme, Ebb & Flow: a recurring pattern of coming and going or decline and growth, particularly relevant to our present times.
Over the past forty years fibre work has become increasingly conceptual with fibre artists creating artworks that are influenced by cultural, social, environmental and political issues. These artworks maybe textile only or textiles used in combination with mixed media, including paper.

JUMP!

3 February - 4 April November 2022
Sisonke Gallery, Cape Heritage Hotel
Group exhibition with Hanneke Benade and Marlise Keith

 

JUMP!

7 November - 28 November 2021
RK Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel
Group exhibition with Hanneke Benade and Marlise Keith



Opening event: poetry intervention by South African poet Kobus Moolman
Sunday 7 November 11:30

“Change is the only constant”, a familiar term but one we have particularly had to come to terms with one way or another over the last year or two. So much has changed, is changing and will change in the immediate future that even previously unquestioned institutions and ideas, if they have not crumbled, have been shaken. For many of us at this time some action is being demanded, or we are being pushed to make difficult decisions.

One way to deal with all this is to jump!
Jumping can offer a way out, it is about movement and energy.

The works on this exhibition explore what happens when you make that leap of faith, take the risk of starting something new, or accept an ending by moving on. We explore the hidden emotional jump needed to stay afloat in the chaos and change and where possible to rediscover the excitement of new possibilities.

PERSISTENCE OF VISION

2 October - 15 November 2021
Knysna Fine Art
Thesen House Knysna
Group exhibition 

Art has always been interconnected to the human condition. It helps us to come to terms with our existence and own mortality.

 

EMERGENCE

JOE'S SIRENS

Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
This newspaper tapestry is currently on view through the gallery.

In this piece I have held in my mind the stories my mother’s father told, stories my mother repeated or embellished.

Visually, I have chosen to focus on the women in my grandfather’s life (his sirens or temptresses?) and to touch gently on the question of their roles as wives, mothers and daughters. How have they been affected by his life, his stories, and a fraught emotional family life?

Just after starting to weave this piece we went into lockdown and the strange new world of forced domestic existence and the fear of an unseen threat wormed its way into the practice of weaving. To make this more visceral I wove the numbers of the covid-19 infected and death rates into the tapestry as I worked. I became fascinated with how we have to number everything even our fears, quantify them, in the hope that this will give us some control.

OCCUPANTS OF THE INHABITED

Current 
Group Exhibition: The Old Manor House, Spier Wine Farm
Curated by Kefiloe Siwisa

An exhibition featuring leading South African artists, curated by Kefiloe Siwisa in collaboration with Spier Arts Trust, currently on show at our Manor House.

Works by artists including Athi Patra-Ruga, Billie Zangewa, Thandiwe Msebenzi, and Igshaan Adams will be showcased for a year in this historic space, along with excerpts from interviews with some of the featured artists.

“In a sense, the selected artists become occupants, the building’s second skin,” explains Siwisa. “The works have been selected to challenge the Manor House’s spatial history, exploring and acknowledging the physical and psychological impact of colonial architecture and how it sits in this moment of postcolonial movement, making, and transformations.”

The works invite viewers to consider the complexities of heritage preservation, recent appropriations, and repurposing of colonial sites. Siwisa adds: “These works cannot be asked to heal the spirit of the place but rather they can bear witness to the weight of the past and carry new dialogues into the present.”

 

FORWARD? FORWARD! FORWARD...

5 December 2018 - 30 April 2019
Group Exhibition: Stellenbosch University Museum
Curated by Ulrich Wolff and Elizabeth Miller-Vermeulen

The Stellenbosch University museum invites you to the opening of a group art exhibition addressing the future of Stellenbosch University and higher education in Africa.
“Forward? Forward! Forward..." is the result of an open call to artists earlier to propose artworks addressing the future of higher education, locally and in Africa, and re-imagining the future of Stellenbosch University.