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Mandy Johnston’s latest exhibition uses burning steel wool sculptures and ash paintings to explore ritual, transformation and the transitions that shape our lives
AFRIKABURN

Mandy Johnston wants to burn things to bring back traditions

The Joburg-born artist’s latest exhibition uses burning steel wool sculptures and ash paintings to explore ritual, transformation and the transitions that shape our lives

  • Unathi Kondile
6 min read
Outdoor art: Mankebe Seakgoe’s When the Sky Opened Up and Swallowed us Whole (2023), charcoal on canvas. Photos: Supplied
ART FUNDING

Outside the white cube, art learns to breathe again

A group exhibition in North West challenged institutional norms, inviting artists and audiences to rethink experimentation, community and artistic freedom

  • Gillian Fleischmann
8 min read
Facilitating dialogue: The Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.
AFRICAN ARTISTS

Six decades In, Goodman Gallery reflects on its role in art and society

Liza Essers reflects on Goodman Gallery’s legacy, its global ambitions and the challenges of sustaining a space for art, conversation and community

  • Kibo Ngowi
8 min read
Kamyar Bineshtarigh turns the walls and floors of artists’ studios into poetic records of memory, process, and collaboration
ART EXHIBITION

Documenting a vanishing present: Kamyar Bineshtarigh’s ‘Group Show’

Kamyar Bineshtarigh turns the walls and floors of artists’ studios into poetic records of memory, process, and collaboration

  • David Mann
7 min read
Ephemeral: Robin Rhode’s outdoors, large-scale works, such as Portrait with Keys, Nine Holes and Garden Service, are often brought to life by performance. (Photos supplied)
ART AND ENVIRONMENT

Robin Rhode’s artistic journey in Johannesburg’s abandoned spaces

Rhode’s interest in impermanence and repairing decay shines through in his latest works

  • Lesego Chepape
8 min read