X-CAPE PROGRAMME
A) LANGA/GUGULETHU/KHAYELITSHA/STELLENBOSCH
B) FORESHORE/DE WATERKANT/CBD
C) WOODSTOCK/SALT RIVER/OBS/RONDEBOSCH
OA) OUTLYING AREAS
PO) PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS/ONLINE
SP) SCREENINGS/PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME
C) WOODSTOCK/SALT RIVER/OBS/RONDEBOSCH
WOODSTOCK
C1) MUIR STREET WRITERS BENCH
Painter for
Life, Mantis and Seemsoe
14 April
From 10am
The artists will be working on site from 9/4 -14/4
Oriental Plaza
Muir Street, opposite Good Hope Centre main entrance
082 695 1744
www.myspace.com/painterforlife
Hosted by Mantis (South Africa) and Seemsoe (Germany), Muir Street Writers Bench is a traditional writers bench and street jam, showcasing local mural artist/ graffiti writers, as well as break-dancers, dj's and more. Also watch out for the rumoured launch of a monumental Nelson Mandela mural somewhere in the heart of the C.B.D.
C2) AFRICA MY HOME
Bradley Bailey
& Ill-literate skill
14/4 10:00am-4pm,
20/4 8:30am-5pm
21/4 8am-13:30pm
The Palms Decor & Lifestyle Centre
145 Sir Lowry Road, ground floor, The Atrium, Woodstock
021 462 0394
Artist Brad Bailey teams up with street-smart, hip-hop crew Ill-Literate-Skill to explore identity, family and community. Bailey will be showing vibrant mixed media paintings and craft works that use personal experiences to explore broader social issues, while Ill-Literate-Skill combine sharp wit with socially conscious intelligence to both provoke and evoke.
C3) LIFT OFF I
Various artists
23/3-28/4
Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5:30pm
Saturday: 10am - 4pm
Goodman Gallery
3rd Floor Fairweather House, 176 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock
083 287 6856
www.goodman-gallery.com
Lift Off I is the inaugural exhibition of the new Goodman Gallery Cape with recent works from acclaimed South African artists. Participating artists are David Goldblatt, Kendell Geers, Norman Catherine, Penny Siopis, Robert Hodgins, Sam Nhlengethwa & Zwelethu Mthethwa, Sue Williamson, William Kentridge and Willie Bester.
C4) VAN KALKER PHOTOGRAPHERS
Van Kalker Photographers
24/3-2/5
Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-1pm
Van Kalker Photography Studio
47 Victoria Road, Woodstock
021 448 0181
Donations welcome
This exhibition features a host black and white prints of studio portraits, drawn from a collection of 200 000 negatives dating back to 1937, captured at this landmark venue. The work on show highlights the changing relationship between photographer and subject and offers insight into Cape heritage.
C5) PERFECTLY STILL
Sanell Aggenbach
24/3 - 2/5
Monday to Friday 10am - 4pm
Van Kalker Photography Studio
47 Victoria Road, Woodstock
021 448 0181 / 082 956 5290
Sannell Aggenbach's installations, paintings and prints deal with our shifting cultural heritage, memory and social history. In this new body of work she draws on images sourced from Van Kalker, a community photographer who documented Woodstock, where Aggenbach lives, from 1937 till the late 1970's. Some of the original photographic prints will also be displayed separately.
C6) OPEN STUDIOS, ARTISTS WORKSHOPS
23-30/3, 10am - 2pm
2-26/4, 9am - 3pm
Greatmore Studios
47-49 Greatmore Street, Cnr Greatmore & St James, Woodstock
021 447 9699 / 021 447 9110
Donations welcome
Greatmore Studios brings together artists from diverse cultural and national backgrounds in a working environment that encourages cooperation, interaction, mentoring and cultural exchange. They will be hosting open studios where visiting artists exhibit their work-in-progress alongside works by resident artists. In addition they are hosting a range of artist workshop during April.
C7) LONGING AND BELONGING
Ivor Sias
23-30/3, 10am - 2pm
2-26/4, 9am - 3pm
Greatmore Studios
47-49 Greatmore Street, Cnr Greatmore & St James, Woodstock
021 447 9699
Longing and belonging is the focus of artist Ivor Sias' exhibition of mixed media paintings. Drawing on his previous experiences in exile, he asks: does one have to belong to any particular culture or group in order to feel at home? The emotional, socio-political and psychosexual states of exile all cohere here, in expressive layers of painting, pigment, colour and collage.
C8) ASHES
Andrew McIlleron
13/4 from 5:50pm
14/4 - 26/4 Mon-Fri 9am-4pm, Sat 9am-3pm
Exposure Gallery
Shop E101, Old biscuit Mill, Woodstock
021 447 4124
Photographer Andrew McIlleron exhibits a series of photographic prints, on cotton rag paper, which expose the aftermath of a shack fire in Joe Slovo (2006). Combining stark authenticity with subtle emotive insights, they bring to light the hidden political and social systems that cause shack fires.
C9) THE DRAIN OF PROGRESS
Zander Bloom
11/4-5/5
Opening day 5pm, then Tues-Fri 10am-4, Sat 9am-2pm
What if the World, Old Biscuit Mill
Old Biscuit Mill, 373 Albert Road, Woodstock
021 448 1438
www.whatiftheworld.com
Music and visual art collide in Johannesburg based artist Zander Blom's new installation. Featuring his trademark pop-edged graphic drawings and prints, the exhibition coincides with the release of his second album, Empty Vessels, an amalgam of adventurous audio compositions which follow the visual development of the drawings and prints towards a "perverse and ironic embrace of Modernist abstraction".
C10) WHITE ELEPHANT
Lizza Littleworth
28/3-8/4
Opening day 5pm, then Tues-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 9am-2pm
What if the World, Old Biscuit Mill
Old Biscuit Mill, 373 Albert Road, Woodstock
021 448 1438
www.whatiftheworld.com
Witty, quirky, as sure-to-offend as it is sure-to-please, Lizza Littleworth's trademark brand of puerile precocious pop offers a culturally savvy rebuke to the pretensions of the artworld. In her new exhibition she uses the "lumbering, massive redundancy" evoked by the phrase "white elephant" to explore and contextualise her identity as an "unwanted", "unjustifiably privileged" white South African.
C11) AFRICA ADORNED
Design Afrika Group of artists
24/3 - 2/5
Mon-Fr 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-1pm
42 Hares Ave
42 Hares Avenue, off Main Road, Woodstock, turn at Bush Radio.
021 448 9761
Combining the traditional and the contemporary, art and design, Africa Adorned celebrates the diversity of Africa through jewellery, wooden sculptures and furniture.
SALT RIVER
C12) COMFORT ZONES
Sue Williamson
& Pat Ward Williams
23/3 6-8pm
24/3-31/3 10am-4pm
2/4-28/4 Wednesdays 10am-4pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
Or by appointment
Salt Project Room
6 Spencer Road, Salt River
082 093 5870
Salt, a new independent project space, presents its inaugural exhibition, Comfort Zones, an interactive digital video collaboration between South African artist Sue Williamson and US artist Pat Ward Williams. In frank interviews, South Africans and Americans reveal their feelings on the touchy issue of race, racial attitudes and the possibility of forgiveness.
OBSERVATORY
C13) OBSERVATORY COMMUNITY CENTRE
Off Lower Main
Road, entrance on Collingwood Road, Observatory
Saturday 14 April
10am - late
Tel: 083 721 3108
R10
A dance theatre company run by French director Sarah Lefebvre, team up with Mlu Zondi's award winning experimental company, Sololique Projects and Citibird Creative Arts to present an exciting programme of theatre, dance, multimedia, poetry and music. For the After Party a DJ will be spinning sounds between and after the shows. Refreshments and a cash bar are available. See Screening & Performance programme for details
C14) IN A DAY
Zhané
Warren (in association with Blank Projects)
24/3 2007
2pm
Bijou Studios
Corner of Lower Main and Cole Street, entrance 178 Cole Street
083 256 1170
Rather than leaving HIV/AIDS to politicians and social workers, Zhané Warren has resurrected South Africa's legacy of artistic social engagement in a performance piece focused on the devastating speed of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Combining cold statistical data with intimate bodily performance he creates an aesthetically vivid yet starkly shocking image of the spread of the virus today.
C15) OPEN STUDIOS
Various artists
24/3 and 14/4
12am - 5pm
Bijou Studios
Corner of Lower Main and Cole Street, entrance 178 Cole Street
072 448 0792
Artists from the Bijou Artist Studios including Liza Grobler, Norman O`Flynn, Matthew Farrell, Pierre Fouche and Tina Jensen team up with guest artists Marna Hattingh, Jeanne Hoffman and Tokyo Beach to show mixed media installation, sculpture and 2D works. Expect a playful blend of crafty, irreverent wit, quirky humour and poignant insights.
C16) WORK IN PROGRESS
Various artists
24/3 10am-4pm
30/3 10am-4pm
6/4 10am-4pm
Studios at 8 Lytton
8 Lytton Street, Observatory
082 668 0840
Established Cape Town painters and sculptors Jane Eppel, Leeann Ormandy Boulter, Gabrielle Raaff and Kurt Pio open up their shared studio space for an informal group exhibition.
C17) OPEN STUDIO
Frank van Reenen
& Tracy Lee Lynch
24/3, 10am-4pm
30/3, 10am-4pm
6/4, 10am-4pm
Studios at 55 Scott Road
55 Scott Road, Observatory
021 447 7602
This open studio gives visitors the opportunity to step into the darkly comic world of artist Frank van Reenen and Tracy Lee Lynch. Van Reenen is acclaimed for his profound pop-noir sculptures, prints and comics that reflect the absurdity, horror and wit of contemporary society, while Lynch reflects on our subliminal tensions, fears and desires in her highly decorative works.
ROSEBANK
C18) LITTLE DEATHS
Kate Gottgens
7/3 - 7/4
Tues-Sat 10am-5pm
Irma Stern Museum
Cecil Road, Rosebank, Cape Town
021 685 5686
www.irmastern.co.za
Kate Gottgen's exhibition Little Deaths denotes death, not as the grand finale to life's linear narrative but as a liminal "in between" phase. Featuring expressive painted works that combine unconscious and abstract imagery, it is an exhibition about preservation - focussing on the irony that the desire to preserve presupposes the fear and inevitability of change and loss.
C19) PAINTINGS BY JACQUI GRIFFIN-JONES
Jacqui Griffin-Jones
18/4-5/5
Tues-Sat 10am-5pm
Irma Stern Museum
Cecil Road, Rosebank, Cape Town
021 685 5686
www.irmastern.co.za
Grahamstown-based painter Jacqui Griffin-Jones shows painting inspired by and based on the landscapes and figures of the Eastern Cape.
C20) NEGATIVE SPACE
Mwenya Kabwe
30 March
6:30pm
Gracia Machel (new UCT women's residence)
End of Cecil Road, Rosebank, just past the Irma Stern Museum
072 135 1597
In this solo performance combining text, movement and installation, Mwenya Kabwe engages audiences in conversations about life in general and Africa in particular. Negative Space is about Afropolitan not as an abstract condition, but as a valid way of being; about dislocation, restlessness, entanglement, xenophobia and migration; about home and transit - but mostly a conversation about suitcases.
RONDEBOSCH
C21) HEADLINES: MICHAELIS STUDENT EXHIBITION
Michaelis School
of Fine Art 4th year students
Mon-Fri 10am -12am (except Fri 20/4) + open for entire open-day 14/4.
Other times by appointment – call Peter 083 301 8545.
Centre for African Studies Gallery
Level 2, Harry Oppenheimer Building, Engineering Mall, UCT Upper Campus, Rondebosch
021 650 2308/021 650 2310
www.michaelis.uct.ac.za
Student exhibitions provide the unique opportunity to take stock of emerging contemporary trends produced away from the harsh economic realities of the art market. With that in mind this group fundraising show and open bid auction features new works by Michaelis fourth year students working in a range of media, promises to provide provocative and fresh artistic insights into contemporary life and the practice of art in Africa today.
C22) ASC07 STUDENT EXHIBITION - INTER(FACE) SOUTHERN AFRICA:
ENGAGING OUR LIVED REALITIES
UCT Architecture
Student Exhibitors at Venice Biennale 2006
2-6 April
9am-10pm
Baxter Theatre Foyer
Main Road, Rondebosch
076 163 3850
The Architecture Students Congress 2007 presents Inter(face) Southern Africa: Engaging Our Lived Realities, an exhibition of student work which recently featured at the Venice Biennale 2006. This work explores the local urban condition through the themes of dwelling, street and design. See www.asc07.com for more.
