The Johannesburg Art Gallery, in collaboration with Goodman Gallery, is proud to present ‘Umkhondo: Going Deeper’, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s first solo exhibition at the museum, following his 2023 FNB Art Prize Award.

‘Umkhondo: Going Deeper’ unites two significant and interconnected bodies of work — ‘I carry Her photo with Me’ and ‘Ezilalini (The Country)’ — seen together for the first time. The exhibition showcases Sobekwa’s journey of introspection and discovery as he wrestles with absence, loss and belonging.

Senzeni Marasela is one of South Africa's most prolific contemporary artists. The exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery will consist of a selection of the works that were presented in the 2021 highly successful exhibition at Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town titled Waiting for Gebane.

The works in Ngoma: Art and Cosmology bring to the fore the entanglements of historical, physical, metaphysical and existential spheres of existence. Ngoma seeks to explore these spheres of existence through artworks that cover different beliefs, cultural practices, mythologies and cosmologies. It aims to encourage individual and collective engagement with questions, traumas and concerns, as well as latterly encouraging the listeners or viewers to delve into their own articulation of spiritual meaning-making or ritual healing.

Museums are an important part of our history, serving as a complex reflection of South African culture and society in the past, and in the present. Johannesburg Art Gallery is no exception to this rule. The museum houses some of South Africa’s most important, but in spite of this, visitors to the museum have declined over the years. The revival of this national monument, and its precinct is one of the focuses of the inaugural AFRISAM Student Architecture Award, which challenges students to rescript the relationship between the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), its immediate urban fabric and the community at large.

In the wake of the Soweto uprisings, the Federated Union of Black Artists became an important and safe space for black artists during the darkest days of apartheid. Through art, black artists became the voice of their communities telling poignant stories of migration, oppression and an elusive freedom. Some of the works created through FUBA currently sit in an underground archive at the JAG

In the late 1950s, Lorraine Deift registered for an Arts Degree at the Technical College in Bree Street. She traces her love for art back to her student days, when would visit the JAG museum, to journey into the fantastical world of visual imagination. Today, Lorraine shares her passion for art by acting as a tour guide to the children of Lapeng Day Care Centre.

The Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), the Embassy of France in South Africa and the French Institute of SA are pleased to present The Art of Comics, an exciting new exhibition that showcases the fascinating worlds of South African comics and French bandes dessinées, the famous French comic style.

David Koloane was born in Alexandra, Johannesburg in 1938 and from a young age had a passion for art. “I drew everything I came across in comic books and films and always made sketches of my friends” he recounted in an interview for Dutch newspaper Het Parool.

Coming soon to the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) is the contemporary visual art exhibition  “AND COUNTING”, presented by the !Kauru Contemporary African Art Project and curated by Tšhegofatso Mabaso (South Africa) and Julia Taonga Kaseka (Zambia).

Curated by Khwezi Gule, the chief curator of the Johannesburg Art Gallery, All Your Faves Are Problematic is intended to provoke different ways of thinking about South African art.

For this year’s FNB Joburg Art Fair, the Johannesburg Art Gallery will be selling works that were donated to be sold, to raise seed money to start a fund for the restoration of the JAG building.

Wolfgang Tillmans’ touring exhibition, Fragile, is coming to the Johannesburg Art Gallery this July after making stops in Kinshasa and Nairobi. This exhibition, which will be touring many more cities on the continent over the next few years, is presented by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen/ Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) in collaboration with Tillmans and the Goethe-Institut.