ART REDEFINED
With an increasing focus on African Art around the world, Eclectica Contemporary aims to present a carefully selected and focused collection of art from the continent that interrogates the issues facing us in a globalized world. The art at Eclectica often shows practices and materials familiar from art history but which push these boundaries and explore uncharted territories of representation, technique and theory.
Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Eclectica Contemporary sees itself as an African gallery with an international vision. We celebrate the diversity and depth of art making on our continent while aiming to contextualize this for a growing global market.
Our program of exhibitions shows a mix of solo shows by gallery artists alongside curated group shows. In addition, the Eclectica Contemporary exhibition space has facilities for experimental, new media and project-based works.
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
“Black and white are the colors of photography. They symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is subjected.”
Everybody is looking at us
At no point in the history of painting has the black body been so exalted, fetishized, or scrutinised. I believed the matter to be one driven by colonial guilt, the attrition of white mythological power, and, in lieu of a more hybrid and global grasp of humanity, the need for revisionism. This greater inclusivity is certainly the case, but so is the ongoing commodification
Controlled Rupture
Presented as part of HEAT Festival, Lars Fischedick's solo exhibition Controlled Rupture explores the dynamic relationship between precision and disruption. Through carved timber, resin, and metal, the exhibition reveals the hidden forces within material, where geometry, texture, and transformation converge in powerful sculptural works.
All the Places Inside of Me
Presented as part of HEAT Festival, Jasirah Sayed's solo exhibition explores memory, identity, and cultural inheritance through suspended tapestries, sculptural canvases, and layered collage panels. Drawing on the symbolic language of the Persian garden, the exhibition invites viewers into contemplative spaces where personal and collective histories unfold through material, memory, and transformation.
Between Memory and Migration
Between Memory and Migration brings together the works of Hussein Salim and Mimouni El Houssaïne in an exploration of identity, memory, and belonging. Through layered symbols, calligraphic gestures, and poetic abstraction, both artists reflect on migration as a journey through space, memory, and imagination, transforming personal histories into universal narratives of displacement, longing, and return.
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