In preparation for The Refusal of Time (a project for Documenta 13 in Kassel, 2012, informed by discussion with the science historian Peter Galison) Kentridge worked with composer Philip Miller and award winning dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo to create Dancing with Dada. The work wrestles with our changing ideas about time, the history of [...]

Playing on Image – a music, film and performance  work – presents a live concert with music by Kentridge’s foremost musical collaborator, Philip Miller. The performance sets Miller’s music, played by Jill Richards, to films by Kentridge and collaborative films made with Deborah Bell and Robert Hodgins, including Memo (1994) and Hot-el (1997). Films by [...]

Telegrams from the Nose combines French composer François Sarhan’s original music with Kentridge’s projections, including preparatory fragments for the opera The Nose. Telegrams presents a large canvas painted by Kentridge over which is projected amorphous human shadows, small black animated silhouettes in cut-out paper, geometric shapes evoking Russian constructivism. In phase with Kentridge’s images, the [...]

In 1837, the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol wrote the short  story The Nose. A man wakes up one morning to find that his nose has escaped his face and attained a higher rank than his own. This story about both the terrors of hierarchy and the division of the self was the source text for [...]

There is a free walkabout of the exhibition on Thursday 8th Sept from 1 -2 pm

Boshoff’s exhibition SWAT opens on 18th August at 6 pm and runs until 24th September.  

‘Take a  walk with me’  opens on 2oth August at 14.00 ; on till 3rd Sept

Chris Saunders presents S’phara Phara, a photo essay that documents the The Real Actions Pantsula Dance Crew from Orange Farm.   Unit 4 Chester Court 142 Jan Smuts Ave

Opening speaker Carl Jeppe. Come for a glass of wine and to meet the artist. Artspace is at 142 Chester Court, Jan Smuts Avenue. Phone 011 880 8802 or email artspace@wol.co.za

An exhibition where South African artists explore how fundamental water is to life.  Standard Bank Cnr Frederick and Harrison Sts Open 8-4.30 Monday to Friday and 9-1 Saturdays