LINDOKUHLE SOBEKWA | Umkhondo: Going Deeper
August 24 2024 - March 23 2025
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.
19 June 2022
Senzeni Marasela is one of South Africa's most prolific contemporary artists. Her practice spans more than 20 years and finds expression through a variety of media including relief prints, photography, fabric works, durational performance and often a combination of these. She uses autobiography as a starting point of her work to reflect on the social, economic and historical positioning of women in her own life particularly her mother as well as historical personages such as Sara Baartman. 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.
8 November 2019
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.
19 September 2019 - 18 November 2019
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.
23 May 2019 - 14 July 2019
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).
23 October 2018
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.
FNB JOBURG ART FAIR '18
6 September - 9 September 2018
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' Fragile
8 July 2018 - 30 September 2018
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.
