Obie Oberholzer at Circa from 16th February

solo photographic exhibition Long Distance opens at Circa in Lower Rosebank on 16th February and runs till the 10th March.   

Of Dreams and Nightmares,  Jaco van den Heever’s 3rd solo exhibition opened at Art Space on Jan Smuts Parkwood on 1st Feb and runs until F29th Feb. Focusing on the dynamic & changing nature of Johannesburg’s urban landscape he comments on its fraught and complex history.  For more see http://www.artspace-jhb.co.za/archive/articles_2012/archive_of_dreams_and_nightmares.html

Candice Breitz’s Extra opens Tues 8th Feb at the Standard Bank Gallery in Joburg Central and runs until 5th April.

On Thursday 9th Feb Gallery MOMO has its first exhibtion opening of 2012 with a group exhibition including Mary Sibande and Gary Stephens (runs until 12th March). Thursday will be a busy night as Everard Read opens 3 solo exhibitions: Carlo Gamberin, Caryn Scrimgeour, and Jeremy Houghton. Runs until 3rd MArch. And Advance …. Notice which opened at Goodman last Thursday runs until 25th February  
                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Jessica Webster’s exhibition Mainly Benoni. And Paintings opens at 12 pm today at Nirox Projects on Arts on Main

Showing at In Toto is She@Intoto a group show on women by women. The invite includes Georgia O’Keefe’s aphorism: ‘I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore’.   Closes 28th Feburary so plenty time to visit.   6 Birdhaven Centre, 66 St Andrews St Birdhaven

Closing on 28th January is John Phalane’s Malete an exhibition of his map art , currently showing at AOP at 44 Stanley Ave

Voice and Citizenship is a group show with a difference.  Showing at Artist Proof Studio at the Bus Factory in Newtown until 31st January, this exhibition depicts the visual journey that five Artist Proof Studio students and Cloudia Harwig their facilitator have undertaken over the last year as part of her masters study titled: ““The role of screen-print projects in enhancing awareness of active citizenship: a case study at Artist Proof Studio”.  The exhibition presents the processes, concepts and final artworks in the sequential stages that took place throughout the study. The screen-printed results present the different varieties of stencil-making techniques that screen-printing has to offer.   

Diane Victor’s exhibition at University of Johannebsurg Gallery finishes on Wednesday 25th Jan with a closing ceremony at 19.00

Anton Momberg’s show at Circa Gallery opened on 13th January and runs until 11th February.

Tinsel the fabulous store with jewellry designed by Geraldine Fenn and other award winning SA contemporary jewellers is moving at end January to Parkhurst . So visit them at their current location (until 31st January) in the Bamboo Centre in Melville. 

But still to open are:

Candice Breitz’s Extra! at the Standard Bank Gallery which runs from 8th February to 5th April.  

And it seems Goodman’s 2012 programme only opens on 2nd February with a Group Show Advance/…. Notice with a stellar line-up including works by Candice Breitz, Mounir Fatmi, Robert Hodgins, Sam Nhlengethwa, Sigalit Landau, Walter Oltmann, Willem Boshoff ,William Kentridge, Langa Moshekwa, Mikhael Subotzky, Kudzanai Chiurai ,David Goldblatt, Frances Goodman, Gerhard Marx, Hank Willis, Thomas Hasan & Husain Essop,Jodi Bieber, Kagiso Pat Mautloa, Kendell Geers, Kentridge and Gerhard Marx – many of the who’s who of contemporary South African art.  Closes 25th February.

Two very different exhibitions are those showing the works of  Willie Saayman and Robyn Penn.  Penn’s exhibition Pretty World opens at David Krut at Arts on Main on Thurs 17 Nov (6.30 pm).  Penn draws on the tradition of Romantic landscape painting (particularly the German Romantics) and clouds are often her subject matter. This seemingly celebratory approach to nature’s sublime imagery is ironically subverted with references in her titles to the dropping of atom bombs – a low point in humankind’s development.

Willie Saayman’s The Wrong Pills draws on very different tradition – that of outsider art. Making reference to graffiti, children’s art, skater culture and graphic novels, Saayman overturns traditional painting conventions and re-visits Modernist ideas of primitivism and immediacy of expression.  Saayman’s exhibition opens at AOP 44 Stanley Ave this Saturday 12th Nov at 2 pm. The exhibition runs until 3rd December.

Also opening Thursday 17th at In Toto Gallery 66 St Andrews St Birdhaven is Kreh Mellick’s Wolf Mother and Tales of the Impromptu Circus.  I don’t know her work but she  exhibited in London earlier this year. In these images stylized figures are developed with swirling motifs and abstract designs. The exhibition runs until the 12th December.

Drawing for 'Other Faces' taken from Goodman Gallery invitation

Kentridge’s latest film, Other Faces, has been drawn and filmed over the past year. It will be shown in conjunction with a group of working drawings used in the film’s animation, as well as drawing fragments and prints.  For more  information see http://www.rosebank.co.za/view/index/other_faces/62/1/137

Minette Vari's Life of Boubo: Apotrope I & III

Untitled by Zander Blom

Thursday 27th Oct sees 2 exhibition openings. Zander Blom opens at Stevenson Gallery, Juta St Braamfontein while In Toto Gallery is showing Helen Joseph’s and Jenny Stadler’s works in an exhibition entitled Two: Studio Sessions with Live Models.  Minette Vári  is showing small collection of new drawings at Goodman’s Viewing Room at the gallery in Parkwood. Her particular focus is on the goddess Baubo, of whom figurines have been found dating from the 5th Century BC.  Vári will give a walkabout on Saturday 29th at 10 am.

Jonah Sack’s Reading Room  (below left) runs until the 29th October at AOP 44 Stanley, Auckland Park

 A Means to an End,  an exhibition by Patricia Driscoll opens at Gallery Momo Parktown North on 20th October at 18.30. It runs until 14th November . 

Stephen Rosin’s first solo exhibition opened at the ABSA Art Gallery 161 Absa Towers North on 12th October  

Images of Africa , a photographic exhibition by Kobus Van Niekerk  Upstairs at Bamboo, Melville on until 20th October

At Kim Sacks Gallery in Parkwood From the table, to the wall, and back, Clementina Van der Walt’s exhibition of her recent ceramic works.

Lettie Gardner’s People on the Edge is showing at Thompson’s Gallery 78 3^rd Ave Melville. There will be a panel discussion on Sunday 16^th Oct at 4 with Professor Douglas Irvine (a collector of Gardner’s work), Joyce Ozynski, art critic and art historian, and journalist Fiona Lloyd.

Resolution gallery (142 Jan Smuts Ave Parkwood) presents Rodney Place’s Tasche du Sac, which runs throughout October to 5 November

There is always lots on at Arts on Main .  SEIPPEL GALERY is hosting a new groupshow with sculptures from Kevin Brand (Cape Town), Danelle Janse van Rensburg (Pretoria) and Robert Schad (Germany) as well as prints of the series “50 Stories” by Colleen Alborough. Showin until 19th November.

Showing at GoetheOnMain at Arts on Main is Fragments from the City Abdulrazaq Awofeso.  Awofeso uses combustible, organic matter – the discarded pallets he collects in Johannesburg where he works – to carve statues of the faithful. Closes 31 October .