Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
johannesburg art gallerylatest news & developments
Pablo Picasso’s Buste Modern Style.

When art returns, who does it belong to?

As masterpieces by William Kentridge and Pablo Picasso return to Johannesburg, Homecoming becomes less about art on walls and more about who gets to claim it

Scorpion Kings: Kabza De Small and DJ Maphorisa.

Diary: Scorpion kings live at Loftus Stadium, Ofentse Sebula to tour Johannesburg and eSwatini and Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude showcases at JAG

Your essential dose of art and culture

Thato Toeba: Collage of Justice

Mapping power, memory and belonging through collage

Collages crafted by 2025 FNB Art Prize winner Thato Toeba confront colonial legacies and celebrate African intimacy and connection

Hanging in the balance: Years of neglect and mismanagement have led to the decay of the Johannesburg Art Gallery building in Joubert Park, threatening its priceless collection.  (Photo by Gallo Images/Fani Mahuntsi)

In the Shadow of the Gallery: Art, power and the fight for Johannesburg’s soul

Johannesburg Art Gallery’s decay reveals deeper cracks in South Africa’s cultural and political institutions

Once a cultural beacon, the gallery is a stark symbol of systemic neglect, reflecting the city’s broader challenges and missed opportunities in harnessing its creative potential.(Photos by Gallo Images/ Fani Mahuntsi)

Systemic neglect of Johannesburg Art Gallery contrasts with creative industry growth

JAG’s siloed approach hinders meaningful collaborations with public, private and national institutions

Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s ntombi zakwaNala eMtyamde from his show Umkhondo: Going Deeper.

Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s Umkhondo reflects memory and loss through photography

The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on South Africa’s history through deeply personal stories of loss, memory and healing.

Family matters: Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s My Mother Visiting Our Ancestors’ Graveyard 2020.

Photographer’s solo show digs deep into personal history

Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s solo exhibition Umkhondo: Going Deeper will be at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, in collaboration with Goodman Gallery, from 24 August to 23 March.

Photo supplied

Zimbabwean artist Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude wins 2024 FNB Art Prize

Nyaude’s work will be on display at the FNB Art Fair, and he will hold a solo exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery

Johannesburg’s inner city. Cities in Africa can benefit from genuinely affordable financing. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy, M&G

Joburg has lost its seat among the world’s iconic capitals

As heartbreaking as it is to admit, our beloved city is travelling down a path of no return

Invaluable artworks and artefacts at risk in the Johannesburg museums

The City of Johannesburg has been marching on the spot for years about fixing its museum infrastructure, it can no longer pretend not to see the costly damage wrought over time

Conversations: Thabang Monoa (left), Khwezi Gule (right) and Njabulo Zwane (not in photo), set up a winter and summer school. Photo: Andy Mkosi

The Portfolio: The Johannesburg Art Gallery Summer and Winter School

By facilitating a community for thought, the Sekoto School hopes to ground various discourses to do with black life

In addition to the comics, the exhibition highlights the use of comic-making tools and how they have lived in other, more revered, art forms. (Paul Botes)

The‌ ‌art‌ ‌of‌ ‌serving‌ ‌the‌ ‌public‌

The Art of Comics exhibition, now on at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, aims to meet this need

Looking back: ‘Albert Adams — An Invincible Spirit’ exhibits the artist’s seminal works such as The Captive (1952)

Invincible yet still mercurial

Albert Adams worked in self-imposed obscurity, but his work speaks boldly for himself and others

Free to be: After being in the industry over twenty years, artist Tracey Rose enjoys the fact that, now she is an academic, she can say and write what she likes. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
Video

More than one layer to the art and life of Tracey Rose

She might have softened her approach but her emotions still run high in all she does

Johannesburg Art Gallery chief curator Khwezi Gule used the works of artists, such as photographs from Steve Hilton-Barber’s collection of pictures taken in the 1990s of Northern Sotho initiates to inform ‘All Your Faves Are Problematic’

JAG exhibition sparks new discussion on all your faves

New in-house show re-engages gallery’s diverse collection

Feminising art: Ghada Amer

​The healing he(art) of women

Using their creativity, two artists help society understand the complex experience of womanhood

Contrasts: In his exhibition

The quiet activism of exposing everyday fragility

German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans captures the mundane alongside the epic

Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans brings Fragile to the Johannesburg Art Gallery

The photographer fastidiously edited his exhibition ahead of its opening at the gallery

With the 2016 local elections fast approaching

The custodian: Khwezi Gule

“People have lofty ideas of what I am expected to do but my view is to pose the question, ‘What type of institution do the people expect?’ ”

“I don’t think they understand exactly what they are talking about.” – Zuma

Love as a bridge to art of the past

Hundreds of South African works held in a German collection embody a golden era of black protest art