Business and arts partnerships are BASA’s ikigai. What defines a successful partnership between corporates and creatives, NGOs and artists, brands and illustrators? Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) CEO, Ashraf Johaardien, muses on 25 partnerships that caught his eye in 2022. BASA’s flagship event, the
Kevin Atkinson – Art and Life is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to the legendary Cape Town artist, educator, cultural activist, philosopher and shaman Kevin Atkinson (1939-2007). Emerging in the 1960s, Atkinson gained a formidable reputation as a daring and forward-thinking artist fully engaged by
It may not feel like it yet, but the end of 2022 is upon us, bringing with it some extraordinary live performances, film screenings, exhibitions, and more. We’ve put together a wide range of events taking place over December and January, from Cape Town and
2022 was a busy year for the Creative Feel team. In addition to undertaking new editorial projects, we also formed new partnerships, continued longstanding relationships with institutions, organisations and independent art spaces, and maintained our coverage of local and global music, performance, visual art and
The power of ‘being within’ – heard and seen, making a positive contribution to the creative economy and their communities; these are the rewards and responsibilities of the graduates of the three-year BASA Debut Programme. The 24 graduates were recently celebrated in a ceremony they
For its 10th edition, the Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF) has announced 88 participating exhibitors and its overarching theme. The Fair, taking place from 17 to 19 February 2023 at Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), will focus on the concept of time. The
Inga Somdyala was recently named the winner of the 2022 MTN X UJ New Contemporary Awards. The awards, which returned this year after a number of years, saw four artists working under the guidance of the curator Khanya Mashabela to create new installations for the
The Standard Bank Young Artist Awards (SBYAA) are back. The winners of the 2022 SBYAAs were announced on the evening of 29 November 2022 at a ceremony in Johannesburg, emceed by 2020 SBYAA winner, Jefferson ‘J.Bobs’ Tshabalala. Receiving a Standard Bank Young Artist Award is
Excellence in curatorship, innovation, and digital technologies in art is celebrated at this year’s MTN X UJ New Contemporary Awards (MTN X UJ NCA). Inga Somdyala has been announced as the winner of the overall Artist Award at the inaugural MTN X UJ New Contemporary
Over the course of six decades, Bob Dylan steadily brought together popular music and poetic excellence. Yet the guardians of literary culture have only rarely accepted Dylan’s legitimacy. His 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature undermined his outsider status, challenging scholars, fans and critics to think
This November, the Springs Art Gallery (SAG) presents its latest exhibition, RECKONING, a group show featuring original work by 40 emerging artists. Hailing from all provinces, the artists in RECKONING use both conventional and unconventional materials to challenge the limits of their media – painting,
Cape Town Opera presents One in Three from 25 November to 11 December 2022, a compilation of powerful opera and play extracts aiming to raise awareness of gender-based violence. One in Three, which takes its name from the proportion of women and girls who experience abuse in
Norval Foundation and The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF) have announced the 30 artists shortlisted as finalists for the second edition of The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, an annual award for contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora. The finalists were selected from 326 entries
The Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra (Mzansi NPO) embarks on its first national tour of South Africa next month, led by the world-renowned American conductor Marin Alsop. Commencing on 15 December 2022, the orchestra will tour to Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, performing Beethoven’s Symphony No.
The violence of the past is far from over. But it is disguised in many ways, made invisible and normalised. What started with the Spanish, Portuguese or the Ottoman empires continued with the British, French and Russian empires, and now the United States. Imperial political
When an artist is welcomed into the monumental interiors of a structure such as the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa for a retrospective of their work, it suggests the levels of recognition they enjoy. The gallery, crafted from old dockyard silos in Cape Town,
In Roger Ballen in Johannesburg, showing at the Standard Bank Gallery from 19 October 2022 to 31 January 2023, the artist takes audiences on a mini retrospective encapsulating his photographic relationship with the city. Born in New York and living in Johannesburg since 1982, the
What does the story of South Africa’s historical transformation look like when told by the country’s artists and artworks? In September 2022, Sanlam and MTN joined forces to host Re Mmogo: We are Together, an exhibition comprised of artworks from both of their corporate art
The latest iteration of the MTN X UJ New Contemporary Awards was launched earlier this year. Unique in their approach, the awards look at developing both the curator and the artists selected to participate. Khanya Mashabela was awarded the curatorship of MTN X UJ New
Five world-renowned artists will each mentor an outstanding emerging artist as participants in the 2023 – 2024 cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. The 2023 – 2024 mentors are El Anatsui (Visual Arts), Bernardine Evaristo (Literature), Jia Zhang-Ke (Film), Anne Lacaton (Architecture)
A new online platform, The Lucky Bean Tree, aims to take artwork produced in the Eastern Cape to national and international audiences. Founded by arts entrepreneur, Tracy Cahill, it showcases the work of local artists and crafters to audiences that they would not normally be
The University of Johannesburg has announced the opening of the ‘Nimrod Ndebele – Gerard Sekoto Collection’ at the UJ Art Gallery, a long-term showcase on loan from the University’s Chancellor, Professor Njabulo Ndebele. Visitors to the gallery can view this unique collection of art that
Lehlogonolo Mashaba is a Kwa-Thema-born artist who lives and works in Johannesburg. In his drawings and prints, Mashaba centres thought as the origin of life. In this way, he employs a confluence of texts, forms and lines in his work to construct figures that ultimately
The annual Plett ARTS Festival kicks off this 30 September, running until 9 October in the resort town of Plettenberg Bay. With a programme full of exhibitions, film screenings, live performances, public art and more, Creative Feel’s editor, David Mann, has selected five aspects from
Following the successful fresh-air focused 2021 Plett ARTS Festival, outdoor spaces, nature and nature-inspired art will once again take centre stage at the ninth annual Plett ARTS Festival, taking place from 30 September to 9 October 2022. The theme of this year’s festival is Connect.
MTN and Sanlam are showcasing a curated selection of artworks from their respective art collections in the collaborative exhibition Re Mmogo: We are Together. Featuring over 100 pieces by 75 artists from across the African continent and its diasporic global community, the exhibition will be