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Ibrahim Mahama Stranger to Lines II 2020. Courtesy of Apalazzo Gallery
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Seeds of the Fig exhibition showcases contemporary sculpture

Hosted on a Tulbagh wine farm, the exhibition presents work by 24 young African artists

  • Bongeka Gumede
3 min read
Passage of time: Irma Stern (above) working in her studio in Cape Town in 1936.Photo (above): Irma Stern Museum
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Rethinking Irma Stern and the style of whiteness

A season of auctions, exhibitions and books devoted to Irma Stern upends perceptions of her stuffy legend

  • Sean Otoole
12 min read
Jade Palmer examines the gendered expectations of domestic labour and its effect on the interfamilial dynamic in Some time in February.
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Working alone, together: presenting the Wits Young Artist Award 2020 winners

Vick Bester, Pebofatso Mokoena and Jade Palmer, this year’s Wits Young Artist Award winners, each engage with with the particularities of the places where they live, inviting us…

  • Amie Soudien
8 min read
Ms Congo digital video still (2009) (Athi-Patra Ruga)
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The list: Athi-Patra Ruga’s constant reinvention

Characters have been a central part to Athi-Patra Ruga’s practice since the early days of his artistic career. Here he lets us in on their backstories

  • Athi-Patra Ruga
3 min read
uNobantu noMajola, in which protagonist Nomalizo Khwezi assumes the form of literary character Thembeka kaKhalipha, as depicted in a Lovedale Press classic, AC Jordan’s 1940 novel Ingqumbo yemiNyanya (Athi-Patra Ruga)
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Athi-Patra Ruga’s new exhibition: The stain at the end of rainbow

Athi-Patra Ruga’s latest exhibition, ‘Interior/Exterior/ Dramatis Personae’, takes his characters on transformative journeys

  • Kwanele Sosibo
10 min read
Athi Patra Ruga’s oeuvre fucks with the exclusion that is the norm of black womanhood and queer femmedom
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But some of us are brave

Athi-Patra Ruga’s ‘Queens in Exile’is on at Whatiftheworld Gallery in Cape Town on. Writer Lindokuhle Nkosi contributes to Ruga’s monography

  • Lindokuhle Nkosi
9 min read
“I use colour to disarm the viewer’’ — Athi-Patra Ruga
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Ruga explores exile within

The artist weaves a complex tapestry of personal and global histories that points to an all-embracing place

  • Thulile Gamedze 1
7 min read
An image from the Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year for Performance Art winner
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Athi-Patra Ruga’s latest art shows ‘Azania’ without a purpose

Athi-Patra Ruga’s National Arts Festival show brings to mind a neo-avant-gardist catwalk display or an opening act for Lady Gaga, writes Athi Joja.

  • Athi Mongezeleli Joja
4 min read
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Athi-Patra Ruga’s win spotlights 10 essential performance artists

As Athi-Patra Ruga claims the 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year Award for Performance Art, we look at young SA talent making waves.

  • Katlego Mkhwanazi
12 min read
Cape Town-based artist Athi-Patra Ruga.
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A window of opportunity for artist Athi-Patra Ruga

Athi-Patra Ruga hopes to mesmerise passers-by when they look at his tapestry display for Louis Vuitton on the Champs-Elysées in Paris.

  • Sandiso Ngubane
7 min read