The Centre for the Less Good Idea will host African Leipzig, an exhibition of etchings at The Less Good Lounge, Arts on Main, Johannesburg. 

The exhibition, which features 20 etchings made by artists across Africa and Germany, emerges from the ‘African Leipzig’ residency programme and will be followed by the screening of a film documenting the artists’ process in residence. 

The Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards (TMFAA) started off in the year 1987. Mnyele was a freedom fighter who utilised art as a tool of expression and communication during the struggle for liberation from apartheid. He died in exile in Botswana in 1985.

The award in his name becomes a platform for winners and finalists of the award to share their work in an exhibition that runs for a month.

Open Studios at Leipzig International Arts Programme, as part of the Spinnerei’s Rundgang: a vibrant quarterly event welcoming the public to experience the galleries, studios and workshops of Leipzig’s art hub.

Sharing work from their residency are: Bongile Gorata Lecoge Zulu (SA), Hemali Khoosal (SA), Tzung-hui Lauren Lee (SA), Max Kornfield (USA), Xhanti Zwelendaba (SA), and Roxy Kaczmarek (SA).

In light of the continuing two year battle with the global pandemic, as well as recent events in South Africa, there is a deep sense of yearning for answers, hope and solace, both on a personal and societal level. A need for reconstruction and reform. Reform refers to the making of changes for the purpose of improvement. To reconstruct a thing from the sum of its parts in order to make it better. To reimagine and restructure. - Balekane Legoabe (curator)

As recipients of The Bag Factory’s Young Womxn Studio Bursary, Hemali Khoosal and Cheriese Dilrajh present In Passing, a joint exhibition exploring fleeting encounters. Both their individual and collective works will be on show at The Bag Factory Artists’ Studios from the 28th of August to the 17th of September 2021, with a walkabout on the 4th of September.

Meeting Places is a pop-up exhibition by Guns & Rain and Bag Factory Artist’s studios, featuring Hemali Khoosal, Sizwe Sama, Bev Butkow, Tawanda Takura, and Bevan de Wet amongst others. Come and check out this new development at Oxford Parks, Rosebank. The Exhibition runs till the 10th of May 2021.

Khoosal’s two films “Between Two” (2019) and “Circumlocution” (2019) are among the short films screening at the Nano-film Festival. She is also presenting at a panel discussion and a workshop, which form part of the festival.

The festival is aimed at evoking conversations about the art of storytelling through video-media in an increasingly technological, intersectional and fast-paced media interactional age. The core of this project is to challenge artists to tell compelling stories within a micro time frame, 29 seconds!

The NEWWORK project is an annual showcase that is produced by the graduating BA Fine Art class at Wits School of Arts. It is an opportunity for the group to debut themselves as the next generation of young artists. NEWWORK19 features 33 artists that work in a diverse range of media; performance, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, multimedia installation and interactive events. NEWWORK is fresh, critical and experimental.

Viewing by appointment: please contact reshma.chhiba@wits.ac.za.

The Wits Young Artist Award (2019), an important contributor to Braamfontein’s growing cultural hub, showcases the artworks of thirteen finalists - selected from 3rd and 4th year Wits Fine Arts Students - of whom three are awarded prizes.

Works of emerging artists from the Continuing Conversations exhibition will be showing at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. This includes Khoosal’s experimental short film and digital prints.

FREE ADMISSION | ALL AGES

The UJ Art Gallery is hosting ‘Continuing Conversations’, an exhibition of portraits from the permanent collection of MTN and the University of Johannesburg, as well as selected portraits from MTN and UJ’s joint Emerging Artists Portrait Development Programme.