drawing Archives - eclectica contemporary

Girls Run The World

FortEclectica2022-09-30T12:21:00+02:00

Our intentions, as a gallery and as a team, have always been to provide a platform that highlights and celebrates the narratives of and from the African continent and so, by hosting a group exhibition in August each year, our focus turns towards sharing the stories of woman and non-binary artists. This means turning towards conversations around the impact of gender, its definitions, and the constraints that shape and reflect society at large.

Girls Run The WorldFortEclectica2022-09-30T12:21:00+02:00

João Ladeira – Crossing Over

FortEclectica2021-02-02T11:21:04+02:00

João Ladeira Crossing Over Crossing Over is a solo exhibition by João Ladeira, featuring mixed media works installed on the ground floor of Eclectica Contemporary’s building. Working mostly with brightly coloured Dutch wax fabric that have become ubiquitous across many African countries, Ladiera’s

João Ladeira – Crossing OverFortEclectica2021-02-02T11:21:04+02:00

Mimouni El Houssaïne

FortEclectica2020-10-01T15:25:27+02:00

Mimouni El Houssaine lives and teaches fine art in Montpellier although he travels constantly between the two Mediterranean shores of Morocco and Europe. These constant coming and goings are reflected on his canvases in a game of symbols, spattered written texts

Mimouni El HoussaïneFortEclectica2020-10-01T15:25:27+02:00

Elsewhere – Hussein Salim

FortEclectica2021-06-29T12:44:39+02:00

Elsewhere - Hussein Salim Hussein Salim is no stranger to travel, finding new environments, adapting to new living spaces. Having traveling extensively since leaving Khartoum, Sudan in the 1980s, his experiences have layered his work with a dense patterning of

Elsewhere – Hussein SalimFortEclectica2021-06-29T12:44:39+02:00

Asanda Kupa – Relearn, my soul

FortEclectica2020-08-06T14:29:22+02:00

Asanda Kupa - Relearn, my soul Kupa’s latest body of work that follows up from his previous solo. Relearn, my soul is a culmination of a period of Kupa’s self-investigation that grappled with the importance of the three stages of

Asanda Kupa – Relearn, my soulFortEclectica2020-08-06T14:29:22+02:00

ICTAF2020

FortEclectica2020-08-06T14:37:26+02:00

SOLO BOOTH C10 Nina Holmes The fear and embarrassment of obsolescence makes for a civilization that is not civil but instead one that is hardened to any body or thing that is deemed worthless and has thus become irrelevant to societal functioning. My

ICTAF2020FortEclectica2020-08-06T14:37:26+02:00

Before Tomorrow Comes | Onyis Martin

FortEclectica2022-03-18T15:21:57+02:00

Borders are critical and complex entities, concepts and constructs. Many artists have engaged with notions of permeability, transience and constraints in relation to borders but few have dealt with the impressions of borders and their bureaucratic ephemera as tangibly as Onyis

Before Tomorrow Comes | Onyis MartinFortEclectica2022-03-18T15:21:57+02:00

Democrazy: Ofentse Seshabela

FortEclectica2020-11-16T15:19:15+02:00

Democrazy: a demonstration of craziness, a solo exhibition at Eclectica Contemporary In 2018, Ofentse Seshabela first exhibited with Eclectica Contemporary. First on a group exhibition at the gallery and then at the FNB Joburg Art Fair. His installations of collage, smudging

Democrazy: Ofentse SeshabelaFortEclectica2020-11-16T15:19:15+02:00

Fusion Vol 2. – group exhibition

FortEclectica2020-08-06T14:34:00+02:00

Eclectica Contemporary is situated in the heart of Cape Town’s CBD. It hosts an impressive, carefully chosen, group of Artists. The Gallery, with it multiple levels set in an historical heritage building, attempts to question old traditions with new voices in

Fusion Vol 2. – group exhibitionFortEclectica2020-08-06T14:34:00+02:00

OUR STORIES – group show

FortEclectica2020-08-06T14:34:58+02:00

To tell our stories is an offering of love, a chance to meet and connect and most of all to share. To acknowledge, honour, celebrate and bask in womxn’s month, Eclectica Contemporary hosts a womxn’s group show in our womxn-run gallery. Entangling

OUR STORIES – group showFortEclectica2020-08-06T14:34:58+02:00