What is on
CURE :: Paolo Naldini
CURE :: Paul Emmanuel
Today’s featured artist for the UJ Art Gallery’s ‘CURE’, is visual artist Paul Emmanuel. His artwork, entitled Carbon Dad 2017, takes a look at how Emmanuel grapples with the intricacies of traditional masculine roles and how his own father played a part in his outlook on gender. Emmanuel’s father, a traditionally masculine force, struggled with […]
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CURE :: Eric Duplan
The Third Paradise Opening
The Third Paradise is realised as a balanced connection between artifice and nature. This group exhibition is presented in collaboration with Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, Johannesburg Business School. The symbol designed by the eminent Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, a reconfiguration of the mathematical infinity symbol, is widely used as a performative instrument […]
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ROAR NOW, not later
ROAR now, not later seeks deeper engagement with the archival material of The Right of Admission Project (first launched in 2014), which explores the negotiated presence of blackness within racially stratified spaces. Presented for the first time, The Right of Admission archive comprises of a collection of collaborative and single authored artworks, video works, performances […]
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UJ Arts & Culture takes Dynamic Communication and Presence Online
On 30 July and 6 August, UJ Arts & Culture (a division of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg) will present a free, two-part web series: Taking Dynamic Communication and Presence Online with voice coach and facilitator Caryn Katz. At a time when online communications take precedence over all […]
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UJ Weekend of Jazz 2020
Joburg audiences are in for a treat, with UJ Arts & Culture’s inaugural Weekend of Jazz which takes place at their Auckland Park Campus in Johannesburg, 28-30 May 2020. Curated with the young and young-at-heart in mind, the programme nods to the ‘nostalgia’ of the genre and area, while offering new ways to experience the […]
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Let the Right One In
Let the Right One In is an enchanting, brutal vampire myth and coming-of-age love story adapted from the best-selling Swedish novel and award-winning film by John Ajvide Lindqvist, which was adapted for stage by Jack Thorne. The play will be produced and performed from for the first time in South Africa. He befriends Eli, the […]
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Mothers’ Grimm
Mothers’ Grimm is a coming of age play for children and pre-teens which tells the story of Goldi, an eleven year old girl who is going through changes both in her life and at home among her family. With the imminent arrival of a new sibling, Goldi begins to feel out of place and disregarded. […]
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Lwandiso Njara: God Engineering
This exhibition interrogates the notion or belief about heaven and hell, not only in a mystical experience but in everyday life. Recently, a Nigerian friend who lives in Sunnyside, Pretoria City, said to me “We are living in hell in Pretoria City, we are suffering so much. One day we will be in heaven without […]
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Mona Lisa’s Smile
Mona Lisa’s SMILE is not really an exhibition, but veteran UJ Art Gallery curator Annali Dempsey thought it was interesting that Da Vinci anticipated the technology that would be used in future pandemics. “For instance, he depicted a Mona Lisa wearing a gas mask, another with a latter-day medical mask, and her hoarding objects similar […]
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Pauline Gutter: Execution Opening
Gutter’s current art-making embodies universal themes of time, negligence, scarification, decay and conflict as framed by the sublime. The Kantian view on the sublime concerns that which is unfathomable – that which gives awe and cannot be explained. Gutter’s representation of the landscape forms part of the South African landscape tradition but move beyond a […]
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Silence: A Grand Night for Nothing
Don’t join us for a spectacular evening of opera and song, as UJ Arts & Culture presents A Grand Night for Silence. Baritone Federico Freschi, won’t be joined on stage by internationally acclaimed pianist Christopher Duigan, the renowned UJ Choir and emerging stars, which has become synonymous with this event. An exciting and diverse programme […]
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Stil
STIL is a 48-hour, uninterrupted, sustained silent reading series by a collective of artists from the Free State, called Byl en Vuurpyl. This deeply intimate and disturbing digital work has never won any awards. Founder of Byl en Vuurpyl, Jaco Kotze, is also Chairperson of the Free State chapter of the International Dyslexia Association (FSIDA), […]
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Gag(ged)
GAG(GED) was inspired by something said in a social media post by well-known comedian, creative director and one-third of a comedy powerhouse. What do cancelled and postponed events mean for the business of comedy in South Africa? Who is this comedian? Where was this social media post? What did it say? Does it matter? Does […]
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