Keyes Art Mile

19 Keyes Ave, Rosebank , Rosebank & The Parks 16 Aug 2018

Within walking distance of the malls of Rosebank, at the corner of Jan Smuts and Jellicoe Avenues, is the start of Keyes Art Mile, an exciting development that has revitalised a formerly quiet street and created an art and design hub for the city. The first phase of Keyes Art Mile is the Trumpet building. An impressive contemporary space focused around local art and design galleries and showrooms, the building's vast atrium is curated as a gallery space. Upstairs there's a cluster of slick restaurants and bars, while chic design stores and cafés open out onto a street flanked by wild olive trees.

Art and design

Neighbouring the Trumpet building, at the landmark Circa and Everard Read gallery impressive temporary exhibitions by leading South African artists await. Meanwhile inside the Trumpet building you'll find the futuristic TMRW Gallery (The Mixed Reality Workshop) where you can view contemporary art in a whole new light with interactive augmented reality and virtual reality exhibits that range from 'digital painting' to immersive VR films and SMAC Gallery where the focus is on edgy contemporary fine art, installation and photography exhibitions.

Fashion and design are also a big attraction with stores like Shelflife, who specialise in limited edition, rare and exclusive collectable sneakers by a range of cult brands and South African luxury accessories brand Okapi. For cutting edge interior design there's South African design store Anatomy and the eye-catching True Design which showcases iconic designs by brands like Kartell and Cassina, an Italian brand defined by its dedication to producing timeless modern classics by modernist masters such as Le Corbusier.

Drinking and dining

On any given day the rhombus-shaped Trumpet building is a busy space with a cool African-retro styled pavement café-bar Milk Bar, an American burger bar BGR and the ultra-stylish rooftop Marble grill restaurant. Mesh Club, a sexy members- only club also has a super-stylish cocktail bar, Mix, which is open to the public. A gorgeous artistic space filled with an impressive collection of contemporary art, Mix also offers superb views over the suburbs and is a fabulous place to enjoy sundowners.

Events at Keyes Art Mile

Once the humdrum headquarters of a major petrol company Keyes Art Mile is now one of the hottest spots in Joburg, and attracts around 2000 people on the first Thursday of every month to its First Thursdays street parties where food trucks and pop-up bars are set up in the street, live bands perform and the art galleries host free events. Other highlights of the Keyes Art Mile monthly calendar include The Pantry Market on the last Saturday of the month and Art & Design Saturdays on the 2nd Saturday of every month. Each Art & Design Saturday is held under a different theme (previous editions have included Masters of Modernism, Tech meets Art and African Menswear) and the day is filled with a busy programme of artist walkabouts, pop-up exhibitions, live performances and film screenings.

Associated Venues

Africa’s first curated members’ club is a super-stylish and exclusive work and play space for budding and established entrepreneurs. Taking up one floor of the Trumpet building along Keyes Art Mile in Rosebank the space is designed for networking and col

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BGR

19 Keyes Ave, Rosebank

Two Americans missed the taste of home so much that they decided to open a burger joint. The original store was unusually located in the forecourt of a petrol station but has now moved to Rosebank's sexy new art hotspot, the Trumpet building on Keyes

Circa Gallery

6 Jellicoe Ave, Rosebank

An architectural landmark with its circular structure and metal fins reaching into the sky, this sister gallery to the more classical Everard Read Gallery is linked by a walkway with a show-stopping sculpture collection. Circa exhibits contemporary fi

Everard Read Gallery

6 Jellicoe Ave, Rosebank

Everard Read Gallery was first established on a dusty street of Johannesburg when the place was a young mining town. Opened in 1913 this is Africa’s oldest commercial art gallery. The gallery moved from Johannesburg’s city centre to its current locati

Marble

Keyes Art Mile (Trumpet building), cnr Keyes and Jellicoe Aves, Rosebank

The heart of star chef David Higgs’s rooftop restaurant is the live-fire grill in the open kitchen, the spectacular flames cooking up everything from meats and seafood to freshly baked bread. This 250-seater restaurant, with a lounge and bar separated by

SMAC Gallery

Trumpet, Keyes Art Mile, 19 Keyes Ave, Rosebank

Representing both emerging and established South African, African and international artists, SMAC is a well-known art gallery with locations in Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Johannesburg. SMAC'S Joburg gallery, located in the Trumpet building on Keyes Art

TMRW Gallery (The Mixed Reality Workshop)

19 Keyes Ave, Rosebank

Please note the gallery is temporarily closed. TMRW Gallery is Joburg's first digital gallery bringing artists together with technological innovations that will make you view art in whole new light. TMRW gallery is all about the now, the exp

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Keyes Art Mile

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Drinking and dining

Events at Keyes Art Mile

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Associated Venues

Milk Bar Rosebank

Mix Cocktail Bar

Mesh Club

BGR

Circa Gallery

Everard Read Gallery

Marble

SMAC Gallery

TMRW Gallery (The Mixed Reality Workshop)

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