Talks and Tours
Art Joburg visitors will be spoilt for choice with three leading art specialists hosting the guided tours, each giving the public an insight into their respective selection of artists and their works: Prof Federico Freschi,…
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Reward of $10 million
The Concert by Johannes Vermeer The museum was well renowned for its beautiful architecture, with the collection held in Gardner’s Venetian palazzo-inspired home. Following her death in 1924, the museum gradually fell into disrepair, and…
Mbongeni Buthelezi
Mbongeni Buthelezi at work with a heat gun. The war on waste has resulted in a monumental artwork, titled Jozi My Jozi, by Mbongeni Buthelezi, a Joburg-based artist who has spent the past 30 years honing his extraordinary…
Close and Far
Close and Far is a survey exhibition of Karel Nel’s work curated in relation to themes present in four of the artist’s works in the WAM permanent collection. Nel’s wide-ranging interests and lifelong engagement over…
Quiet Ground
Set against the backdrop of forced migration and land dispossession in South Africa, the exhibition is focused on the possibilities of personal and communal repair in a context of being ‘foreign at home’. Through these…
Mahlangu’s iconic BMW 525i Art Car
The exhibition charts Mahlangu’s contribution to contemporary art for close on seven decades. More than 100 artworks have been loaned from international and local collections, carefully curated alongside historic photographs and a short film. Also included in the…