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southern guild tribeca expansion 2025

Southern Guild, the prominent Cape Town gallery co-founded by Trevyn and Julian McGowan, is opening a new outpost in a restored 19th-century Tribeca townhouse on Leonard Street in New York. The expansion comes as the gallery closes its Los Angeles space, a move the McGowans describe as instinctive rather than strategic. The new space, with its sixteen-foot ceilings and exposed brick, represents a leap of faith amid a challenging 2025 art market marked by gallery closures and industry retrenchment.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 24, 2026 visibility 24 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

South Africa’s Southern Guild Opens First NYC Art & Design Gallery

Southern Guild, a gallery founded in 2008 by Trevyn and Julian McGowan in Cape Town, South Africa, is opening its first New York City location at 75 Leonard Street in Tribeca on April 24. The gallery, which works with collectible design and contemporary art, will inaugurate the space with two solo exhibitions featuring South African artists Mmangaliso Nzuza and Usha Seejarim. The move follows the transition of its former Los Angeles space and reflects the gallery's expansion from its roots in Cape Town's Silo District, where it operates within a production ecosystem of ceramic studios, bronze foundries, and fabrication workshops.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 16 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

Gerda Scheepers at blank projects

Gerda Scheepers presents "Mallarmé’s Pillow" at blank projects in Cape Town, running from March 26 to May 9, 2026. The exhibition includes 27 images documenting the show, with a press release and checklist available.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 24, 2026 visibility 23 link 8 artists, 2 galleries

Southern Guild Stakes Its Claim in Tribeca

Southern Guild, a South African gallery founded by Trevyn and Julian McGowan in 2008, has opened a new outpost in Tribeca, New York, after closing its Los Angeles location. The gallery, which began in Cape Town and expanded to a 32,000-square-foot campus, now occupies a 19th-century heritage building with 17-foot ceilings and cast-iron columns. Its inaugural exhibitions feature South African artists Usha Seejarim and Mmangaliso Nzuza, showcasing large-scale works that take advantage of the dramatic vertical space.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 28, 2025 visibility 13 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Local artists transform waste into striking art at the Melrose Gallery

The Melrose Gallery in Johannesburg is hosting "Junkyard Dogs," an exhibition featuring South African artists Dr. Willie Bester and Prof Pitika Ntuli, running until October 31. The show transforms discarded materials into sculptures, paintings, and installations that address social and political issues, including apartheid and post-colonial identity. Curated by Ashraf Jamal and Tumelo 'Tumi' Moloi, the exhibition includes a soundscape, children's workshops, poetry sessions, and guided walkabouts, all free to the public.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 14, 2025 visibility 13 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

Young artists show their talent

The Young Artists’ Project (YAP) exhibition returns to the KZNSA Gallery in Durban, South Africa, from August 22 to September 21. Initiated in 2002 by then-curator Storm Janse van Rensburg, the annual project mentors emerging artists in producing their first solo exhibitions. This year features two artists: N’lamwai Luntha Chithambo, a Malawian-born painter who earned degrees from Rhodes University and has shown at the National Arts Festival and Sasol New Signatures; and Zama Mwandla, a South African surrealist painter whose work confronts sexual violence and healing, with exhibitions at the African Feminisms show and the 54th Art & Antique Fair in Salzburg.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 30 link 11 artists, 2 galleries

WORDS WORDS WORDS at Everard Read shows the power of words in contemporary art

The article reviews 'WORDS, WORDS, WORDS,' an exhibition at Everard Read Gallery's CIRCA space in South Africa, which explores the role of language in contemporary visual art. Curated with a focus on how words are bent, repeated, fragmented, and reassembled, the show features works by South African artists including Willem Boshoff and Luca Evans, who engage with conceptual art traditions from Dada to Barbara Kruger. Boshoff's braille-inset wooden piece 'Planet of Echinus' questions inclusion and exclusion in language, while Evans' work riffs on Joseph Kosuth's iconic text pieces using ancient wood-inlay techniques.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 15 link 9 artists

Strauss & Co offers accessible works in year-end auctions

Strauss & Co has launched its year-end auctions, featuring five concurrent timed online sessions from 20 November to 8 December 2025, plus a separate contemporary sale titled 'In the Now' running until 9 December. The auctions offer a wide range of modern and contemporary works at accessible price points, including pieces by major South African artists such as Irma Stern, William Kentridge, Sam Nhlengethwa, Norman Catherine, and Alexis Preller. Sessions include 'Re/View' with works from previous auctions, focused sessions on paintings, sculpture, and works on paper, and an 'Art Club' session curated by Strauss & Co specialists.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 21, 2025 visibility 13

Online art exhibition to be launched on World Alzheimers Day - The Home Of Great South African News

An online art exhibition is set to launch on World Alzheimer's Day, organized by SA Good News. The exhibition aims to raise awareness about Alzheimer's disease through visual art, showcasing works that explore themes of memory, identity, and care. The initiative leverages digital platforms to reach a broad audience and engage communities in South Africa and beyond.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 16, 2025 visibility 11

SU master’s students present their work at local gallery

Three master’s students from Stellenbosch University—Rebekah Pringle, Thabo Ngwenya, and Emily Fitzgerald—launched an exhibition titled "Matter of Self: Private fragments, public forms" on 7 August at the Gallery University Stellenbosch (GUS). The show is part of a master’s review series that highlights their academic year progress. Pringle’s work explores her domestic experience and caretaker relationship with her grandmother using repurposed furniture; Ngwenya’s pieces address alienation as a Ndebele man in Zimbabwe through pop culture references and self-portraits as "boundary objects"; Fitzgerald’s art challenges patriarchy and heteronormativity using archival photographs, clay, and photolithographic processes.

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