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From left to right: Eternal Summer, 2022, Kate Gottgens, Oil on Canvas; One of Nos Motsamai's photographs for To Children; Laocoon, 2021, William Kentridge, Photogravure.
Portraits and paintings
Until Jan 28, 2023 – Take a dip in Kate Gottgen's oil paintings for The Swimmer at SMAC Gallery.
Until Feb 4, 2023 – Pieter Hugo's astonishingly human portraits are on show at Stevenson Gallery for his exhibition Polyphonic.
Open Studios, walkabouts and workshops
Wed, Dec 7 at 10:00 and Sat, Dec 10 at 12:00 – Ferment rice wine with the Rice Brewing Sisters Club as they invite you to a workshop forming part of their installation CHEW CHEW SPIT SPIT at Keyes Art Mile.Sat, Dec 10 at 10:00 – Join Andeath for a baking workshop for their exhibition Geologic Bakery at Keyes Art Mile.
Sat, Dec 10 at 10:00 and Sun, Dec 11 at 10:00 – Meet the artists at the beautiful Lilian Road Studios as they welcome you inside for Open Studio.
Sat, Dec 10 at 12:00 – Find out what inspired To Children, Nos Motsamai's exhibition at Constitution Hill, with a Q&A and walkabout. Exhibition opens Wed, Dec 7 at 19:00.
Legends of the game
Until Sat, Dec 31 – See the Roger Ballen retrospective of his photographic relationship with the city with Roger Ballen in Johannesburg at Standard Bank Art Gallery.Until Feb 15, 2023 – William Kentridge's monumental new exhibition Studio Life Gravures is one of his most dynamic yet, showing at David Krut Projects Gallery.
Until Mar 2023 – Get lost in Keiskamma Art Project's intricate tapestries at Constitution Hill with their exhibition Umaf’ evuka, nje ngenyanga.
Award winner
Until Jan 15, 2023 – See what the artists chosen for the MTN x UJ New Contemporary Awards have created under the title Subject:Object at UJ Art Gallery.Group exhibitions
Until Jan 21, 2023 – Goodman Gallery present A Different Now is Close Enough to Exhale on You, a group exhibition curated by writer Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.Until Feb 9, 2023 – a Cacophany! Not another group exhibition at Lizamore and Associates Firestation Gallery lets you explore a wide-range of South Africa's contemporary artists.
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