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
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.
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 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.
After the First Look revisits a selection of portraits beyond their first encounter, asking how perception shifts over time. Removed from the contexts that first shaped their reception, these works invite a slower, more critical form of looking, one that unsettles assumptions around identity, value, and visibility. Moving between presence and surface, recognition and doubt, the exhibition reflects on how meaning is never fixed, and how what we see changes as we do.
In the paintings of Ebenezer Samuel Akinola, movement becomes ritual. His figures traverse imagined ceremonial spaces with the solemnity of a procession, suspended between the contemporary and the ancestral, the intimate and the mythic. Constructed through carefully staged performances and translated into paint with remarkable technical precision, Akinola’s works combine cinematic storytelling, spiritual symbolism, and collective presence. Through flowing drapery, ambiguous narratives, and contemporary mythologies, the artist transforms the modern body into a vessel of memory, ritual, and passage.
Reframing Visibility brings together women artists whose practices explore presence, perception, and the conditions through which women are seen and interpreted. Across painting, sculpture, and experimental forms, the exhibition considers visibility not as a fixed state, but as a complex and contested field shaped by social expectation, resistance, and self-definition.
Not All Lives Are Legible looks back on three exhibitions, Lost Souls, The Repenters, and Darkness Rising, reflecting on how each engaged with the construction of the “other” within political and cultural systems. Moving from absence to misinterpretation to self-definition, Director Shamiela Tyer revisits questions of visibility, representation, and narrative control that remain deeply relevant today.
Notes on the creation of an artwork that would find it's way into becoming the cover image of the Netflix documentary "The Trials of Winnie Mandela" - Shamiela Tyer reflects on Loyiso Mkize's artistic process of capturing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's essence, in relation to the complexities of her life in the public eye as a prolific political figure.
An atmosphere of virtue, thick with contradiction. Director and curator of Eclectica Contemporary, Shamiela Tyer, revisits Johannes Phokela's inclusion in the 2026 Venice Biennale.
A solo show by South African and Spanish artist Pierre Louis Geldenhuys, reflecting on the natural environment using innovative and intuitive techniques that unravel humanity's relationship to mother nature. He was featured at The 2026 Investec Cape Town Art Fair.
