Overwhelmed explores what objects and materials already overloaded with personal meaning and political implications reveal when pushed to work even harder as artworks. The implication of an overwhelmed object is that it is in crisis, undergoing a fundamental shift due to external influences. In different ways, each artist allows continuous overwhelming as a potential space […]

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The Italian Cultural Institute in Pretoria and the Embassy of Italy in South Africa are pleased to announce the tour of the pianist Bruno Canino and the flutist Luisa Sello, who will perform for the first time in Namibia (Windhoek) on 16 April and in South Africa (Johannesburg) on 18 April. Among the most internationally […]

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COVID-19 may have seen the lights go down in theatres but at UJ Arts & Culture it spurred on creative process, experimentation, and play, resulting in the 2022 Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) interdisciplinary production of Hlakanyana – The Musical written, scored and co-produced by Madevu Entertainment headed by the talented duo Zolani […]

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World-class venue for a World-Class Film Festival – RapidLion returns The RapidLion South African Film Festival steps into a new era with a superb line-up of films seldom seen in South Africa. Now proudly in partnership with UJ Arts & Culture, a division of a division of the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture (FADA), […]

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Interdisciplinary artist Wezile Harmans is set to open his solo exhibition DO NOT TRUST THE BORDERS at the UJ Art Gallery on the 16th of March 2023.  Developed from his original exhibition at the Bag Factory in 2022, DO NOT TRUST THE BORDERS focuses on the challenges of migration and its dehumanising impact on migrants. In […]

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Following the 700th anniversary of the death of the supreme Italian poet Dante Alighieri celebrated in 2021, the new play “Dante & Mashudu” will be staged in South Africa. The project, promoted by the Embassy of Italy in Pretoria, the Consulate General of Italy in Johannesburg, the Consulate of Italy in Cape Town, the Italian [...] Read more »

Inequality: A Different Picture, featuring poignant photo essays by three visual artists, will be hosted at the UJ Art Gallery from 26 February to 18 March 2020. Questioning pervasive stereotypes about ‘township’ youth, black fathers, and women’s abilities, the trio of photographers aimed to portray how three Cape Town based individuals have confronted various forms […]

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Conversing the Land, the latest collaboration between the University of Johannesburg and the MTN SA Foundation in the UJ Gallery from 22 October to 27 November, offers as the title indicates an exploration of the South African landscape as shaped by the memories, myths and meanings artists have attached to place. Any physical place has […]

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Auditions for the UJ Arts Academy and UJ productions take place at the same time. Students may be selected for either a production, or acting classes – not both. Classes and rehearsals are presented weekly. Jazz Band is a weekly offering. The band is musically directed by a professional musician with many years of teaching […]

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Auditions for the UJ Arts Academy and UJ productions take place at the same time. Students may be selected for either a production, or acting classes – not both. Classes and rehearsals are presented weekly.

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Auditions for the UJ Arts Academy and UJ productions take place at the same time. Students may be selected for either a production, or acting classes – not both. Classes and rehearsals are presented weekly. The Prodigal Man Returns is a Musical Theatre Revue showcase that celebrates Lungile Michael Themba’s journey as a Producer, Composer, […]

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Inequality: A Different Picture, featuring poignant photo essays by three visual artists, will be hosted at the UJ Art Gallery from 26 February to 18 March 2020. Questioning pervasive stereotypes about ‘township’ youth, black fathers, and women’s abilities, the trio of photographers aimed to portray how three Cape Town based individuals have confronted various forms […]

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Join us for a spectacular evening of opera and song, as UJ Arts & Culture presents ‘A Grand Night for Singing’. This much anticipated annual event takes place on Saturday 18 April at 19:30. This fundraising gala, in aid of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) bursary fund.

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BREATHE is a truncated reworking and post-modern digital reconstruction of Samuel Beckett’s famous one-minute play, Breath. In the original play, a curtain goes up and then basically comes down. Not much else happens. It’s basically an abbreviated version of Waiting for Godot. At less than half the length of the original, BREATHE is a much […]

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An online work by another unknown artist, NDILINDILE is an un-experience, about the annoyance and frustration of being stood up on a first date, being stranded at a taxi rank, or perhaps waiting in a doctor’s room for an appointment with a doctor who no longer works at the practice (see, you made your booking […]

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PSYCH: Escape from Reality’, moderated by Swiss celebrity curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist, presented by and featuring two famous guest speakers who will Zoom in from their permanent residence at Westpark Cemetery. The University of Johannesburg is at the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and artificial intelligence (AI). Through unique processes, the dead will be […]

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MID is a trailblazing, internationally acclaimed, professional dance company, as well as accredited training organisation which has produced a multitude of award-winning and productive dancers, choreographers, arts administrators and teachers throughout South Africa and internationally. Since its inception, MID has had a major impact on socio-cultural transformation as well as the economic empowerment of South […]

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UJ Arts & Culture, a division of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) proudly presents CURE, a digital exhibition featuring work by seventeen South African artists, curated by Annali Dempsey, curator of the UJ Gallery, and guest curator Johan Myburg. The aspect of art as restorative endeavour, serves [...] Read more »

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The University of Johannesburg is proud to announce the opening of the long-term showcase of the Nimrod Ndebele-Gerard Sekoto Collection at the UJ Art Gallery, kindly on loan from University’s Chancellor, Professor Njabulo Ndebele. From the 22nd of September 2022, visitors to the gallery can view this unique collection of art that “resonate(s) with biographical, […]

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Skeletons is a film by UJ Arts & Culture, a division of the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture (FADA). Skeletons was conceived and created during the height of the COVID -19 lockdown, a time when theatres were shut down. The script was rewritten for a film, giving way to an experimental new project of […]

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The ongoing partnership between the MTN SA Foundation and the UJ Art Gallery supported by Business and Arts South Africa, saw the introduction, and launch of the MTN X UJ New Contemporary Awards earlier this year. Unique in their approach, the awards look at developing both the curator and the artists selected to participate. This […]

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