Current Exhibitions
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GAIA Exhibition at JGCBA
GAIA: Dialogues between the book arts, natural sciences & plant humanities explores the concept of Gaia in mythology and science, highlighting the Earth as a self-regulating system. The exhibition, inspired by the late Rosalind Cleaver's vision, showcases artists' books that reflect humanity’s relationship with the Earth. It includes books from Cleaver’s original selection, alongside additional works from the JGCBA collection, the C.E. Moss Herbarium, Life Sciences Museum, and Cleaver’s own art.
Rainbow Nation Comics presents YOUNG NELSON:
Renewal/Rejuvenation
Young Nelson is a South African comic book series that follows the life of a prodigy boxer Thabo MoAfrika who is nicknamed ‘Young Nelson’ after the late Tata Nelson Mandela. Young Nelson embraces this association and begins to face his generation’s challenges with the courage, resolution and commitment to a better future embodied by Tata Madiba. He encourages the outh of South Africa to continue the rich legacy of Tata Madiba in relation to the principles of a united nation, nation building.
Serge Alain Nitegeka: Black Subjects
Serge Alain Nitegeka presents Black Subjects at Wits Art Museum, his first institutional solo show in Johannesburg. Nitegeka returns to his alma mater, where as a student, his studio was in a space above the central gallery, now repurposed into offices. For Black Subjects, he stages a monumental sculptural intervention almost directly below this formative location, re-engaging with an institution that has been instrumental in his practice and thinking over two decades.
[Watch] Past Exhibitions
MezzanineWAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection.
Street and Core GallerySeen, Heard and Valued: WAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection
Up The RampSeen, Heard and Valued: WAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection.
Strip GallerySeen, Heard and Valued: WAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection.
Street GalleryTENX10: 100 artworks, by women and gender diverse artists, from WAM collections.
Core Gallery TENX10: 100 artworks, by women and gender diverse artists, from WAM collections.
‘Portrait of Elisabeth Eybers’‘Portrait of Elisabeth Eybers’: Marlene Dumas and Ena Jansen in conversation