Past
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Then I Knew I Was Good at Painting: Esther Mahlangu: A Retrospective
Dr Esther Mahlangu 18 Feb - 11 Aug 2024 In February 2024, a celebration of a career spanning X years, Y global exhibitions and Z awards comes together in a monumental retrospective exhibition ‘Then I Knew I Was Good at Painting: Esther Mahlangu, A Retrospective’, curated by Nontobeko Ntombela, which will be launched at the Iziko South African National... Read more -
Quiet as it's Kept
Group Exhibition 29 Jul - 27 Aug 2023 Read more -
Enrico Navarra: “The Breath of Calligraphy”
Dr Esther Mahlangu 21 Apr - 30 Jun 2023 In 2023, The galleries Enrico Navarra and 75 Faubourg presented the exhibition 'The Breath of Calligraphy' at Galerie 75 Faubourg. Curated by Ruzy Rusike, this exciting exhibition showcased a selection of Esther Mahlangu’s acrylics on canvas that she created from 2010 to 2022. This exhibition was organized in collaboration with... Read more -
Almine Rech: “Where Two Rivers Meet”
Dr Esther Mahlangu 20 Apr - 20 May 2023 In 2023, Esther Mahlangu presented “Where Two Rivers Meet” at Almine Rech London. This exhibition was Esther’s first solo exhibition at the Almine Rech gallery. At the exhibition Esther Mahlangu displayed a wide range of her paintings as well as her bright and bold ceramics. At the same time of... Read more
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To embrace the shadow is the journey of the sun and the soul
Curated by Ruzy Rusike 3 Mar - 30 Apr 2023 Read more -
CORPS DE P@GES
Jean David Nkot 11 Nov - 18 Dec 2022 Jean David Nkot explores the plight of the ‘common man’ in his first solo to be presented in South Africa. The exhibition is accompanied by an exhibition text written by Simon Njami. This powerful body of paintings navigates the exploitation of the populations of the developing world by those who... Read more -
Also Known As Africa
21 - 23 Oct 2022 38 international galleries will present a cutting edge selection of artists under the roof of the Carreau du Temple in the heart of Paris. We are looking forward to present Dr Esther Mahlangu, Papytsho Mafolo, Pascal Konan, Simon Zitha and Hussein Salim at AKAA 2022. Read more -
SculptX 2022
Group Exhibition 1 Sep - 16 Oct 2022 This annual sculpture fair, the largest of its kind in South Africa, will, this year, present over 200 works. The materials they are fashioned from vary from bronze to wood, glass, crystal, steel and bone to stone, resin, and other media. Similarly, the modes of expression encompassed in this vast... Read more
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Wonders Shall Never End
Edozie Anedu 15 Jul - 14 Aug 2022 Edozie Anedu is a consummate painter whose spirited color palette the artist subjects to exhilarating experiments which draw from diverse materials and design principles. A prominent feature of his artistic practice is the exploration of self and how an artist’s understanding of the world influences his ability to reflect on... Read more -
The Garden of Carnal Delights
Hussein Salim 5 May - 3 Jul 2022 Hussein Salim ’s paintings are a dialogue between different cultures, and represent his strong feelings that art must be used as a tool to initiate dialogue. Salim left his home country of Sudan as a refugee, and his works awaken in us an appreciation of our differences and diverse reactions,... Read more -
OBJECTS: USA 2020
1 Feb - 1 Jul 2021 These historical objects, selected by Glenn Adamson and James Zemaitis, capture the full range that was present in the original exhibition. Additionally, R & Company will showcase fifty contemporary established and emerging talents. Chosen by Glenn Adamson, Evan Snyderman, and Abby Bangser, the exhibition’s group of contemporary American artists represents... Read more -
Universal Rhythms
REGI BARDAVID 23 Aug - 22 Sep 2020 In this time of Covid-19, and the forced isolation that it brings, I have had plenty of time to consider the meaning of my life and the important role that art continues to play in it. Why do I paint? Why have I spent so many decades so committed to... Read more
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Kurarama - To Survive
Ronald Muchatuta at The Melrose Gallery 16 Jul - 16 Aug 2020 'Green, Orange, Brown. A smile a kiss. Joint shoes. A spectacle with sighting and vision. Shapes - forms within foresight. The Joy of Chaos. Happiness riding with thrill. Oh how I missed you colour.' Following on from Ronald’s well received exhibition at the Stellenbosch Triennale and it’s premature closure due... Read more -
SKIN, BONE, FIRE: THE FIRST ALBUM
Philiswa Lila in conjunction with the Alliance Francaise 2 Apr - 5 May 2020 Her artworks are multi-disciplinary – she makes use of paint, installation, performances and writing. Most of the objects used in her installations and performances can be connected to forms that fit bodies. This linkage with bodies serves as a recording of stories – it links past experiences with the present.... Read more -
Abstractions of a Culture: Towards a Retrospective
Dr Esther Mahlangu at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 14 - 16 Feb 2020 The Melrose Gallery presented Dr Esther Mahlangu in the Past/ Modern Section at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2020. The stand, curated by Ruzy Rusike, titled ' Abstractions of a Culture': towards a Retrospective presented a timeline of Dr Mahlangu’s impressive achievements and valuable contribution to contemporary art over... Read more -
Dr Mahlangu Solo 'Disrupting Patterns'
The Melrose Gallery, Cape Town 13 Feb - 31 Mar 2020 The exhibition will showcase several of Dr Mahlangu’s latest works for which she has become so globally acclaimed. Her artworks are geometric, modern and abstract in nature speaking to the natural order and balance inherent in sacred geometry and all things. Known as a ‘disruptor’ from an early age, Mam... Read more
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Dr Esther Mahlangu unveils Rolls Royce Phantom
12 - 16 Feb 2020 Dr. Esther Mahlangu, the globally celebrated South African artist, has been commissioned by a South African patron of Rolls-Royce to create a unique work of art for the Gallery of a one-of-a-kind Rolls-Royce Phantom. Dr. Mahlangu, the visual artist from the Ndebele region and respected South African cultural ambassador, becomes... Read more -
Stellenbosch Triennale | Curators' Exhibition
The Woodmill Lifestyle Centre - Vredenburg Road Devon Valley, Stellenbosch 11 Feb - 30 Apr 2020 And the songs of praise, too early to be fully formed, fall from lips that cannot fathom the depths from which to evoke tribute, not when we say, but why we say what we say… To speak about something even before it comes into being suggests clairvoyance, not of the... Read more -
Oliewenhuis Art Museum
Permanent Collection - Oliewenhuis Museum 14 Nov 2019 - 24 May 2020 Oliewenhuis Art Museum, a satellite of the National Museum, Bloemfontein is committed to building a representative collection of South African visual art and has shown a steady and interesting growth in its collection as South Africa has produced a number of celebrated artists whose works have become highly regarded both... Read more -
In Search of a New King
Christiaan Diedericks 10 May 2019 Read more
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Out of the Furnace
Dr Willie Bester and Wolf Werdigier 13 Mar - 14 Apr 2019 Willie Bester For artist Willie Bester there can be no personal freedom or the freedom of expression without political freedom and fundamental rights and dignity for all. The distinguished artist and long-standing political, social justice and environmental activist has successfully used his profile as a celebrated international artist to create... Read more -
Paul Blomkamp | The Artist
The Melrose Gallery 19 Oct - 11 Nov 2018 'I see a sea of a million matrices I find the mind of a modern meadow. There are the secret currents that push and pull us in and out of our shapes and thoughts. Can I ever see clearly and articulately enough to crack these Quantum Ciphers with their taunting... Read more -
Arlene Amaler-Raviv | The Din of Daily Life
The Melrose Gallery 12 Mar - 13 May 2018 Arlene is excited to be returning to her home town after a break of 11 years since her last solo. The exhibition will run at The Melrose Gallery from 13 April to 13 May after a well-received run at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein. Arlene Amaler-Raviv’s artistic trajectory spans... Read more -
Willie Bester's Social Engineering
3 Nov - 3 Dec 2017 This was the first solo exhibition by Willie Bester, one of South Africa’s foremost visual artists, to be curated in Johannesburg in more than 8 years. As one of the highlights of the 2017 South African art calendar, the exhibition featured 40 artworks, paintings, sculptures and installations, which attest to... Read more
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Special Projects at 1:54 London
Adejoke Tugbiyele at Somerset House, London, United Kingdom 8 - 10 Oct 2017 Adejoke Tugbiyele: Shifting The Waves: The Mask, The Boat, The Broom, The Box Shifting the Waves: The Mask, The Boat, The Broom, The Box is a new solo performance developed by Adejoke Tugbiyele for the London edition. It explores the liberating and transformative powers of movement in decolonising institutional and... Read more -
Clint Strydom's Hidden shadows and Silent Voices of Prison Number 4
The Melrose Gallery x Constitution Hill 18 May - 27 Aug 2017 The exhibition aims to capture and portray the essence of this nefarious prison and its impact on the people who were incarcerated here including the likes of Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Robert Sobukwe and Oliver Tambo amongst thousands of others. The photographs were taken in the infamous Number 4 Prison... Read more -
Esther Mahlangu 80
Irma Stern Museum 11 Nov - 2 Dec 2015 On 11 November 2015, internationally renowned artist, Esther Mahlangu, will celebrate her 80th birthday with a solo exhibition, Esther Mahlangu 80, at the UCT Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town, South Africa. The exhibition will comprise of recent paintings and three-dimensional works. Mahlangu's first solo exhibition at the Museum was... Read more -
Dr Esther Mahlangu | An artistic Residency
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 8 Sep - 9 Oct 2014 Mahlangu, works in the traditional Ndebele style of bold, geometric patterns executed on a very large scale. In the late-nineteenth century, the Ndebele women painted the exteriors of their houses in this style as an expression of identity and pride. Over the years, with the development of commercial paints, the... Read more
Online
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A FRECKLE PAST A ‘HARE’
Carol Cauldwell 3 - 28 Aug 2022 We take pleasure in presenting A Freckle Past a ‘Hare’, Carol Cauldwell’s first solo with The Melrose Gallery, on the 4 to 28 August as part of our Womxn’s Month celebrations. Definition of ‘A Freckle Past a Hair’ Said when asked the time, humorously indicating that one does not know... Read more -
When Art Imitates Life: A moment with Marcel Tchopwe
3 - 31 Mar 2022 MARCEL TCHOPWE
Through this work it opens a debate on the place of young people in a rapidly changing society. He questions at the same time the functionality of the social ladder and equal opportunity in a political landscape where bad governance reigns. Read more -
Shifting Narratives
A Pan African Contemporary Photography Exhibition 1 Mar - 3 Apr 2022 The Photography Legacy Project and The Melrose Gallery present ‘Shifting Narratives’, an exciting group exhibition of photographic works created by more than 40 photographers from across the African continent. Presented online on this viewing room, ‘Shifting Narratives’, will run from 1 March to 3 April and will follow on from... Read more -
Azibuyele Emasisweni - (Return to the Source)
Pitika Ntuli 2 Aug 2020 - 31 Dec 2021 Azibuyele Emasisweni, (Return to the Source) is the first solo exhibition of the renowned artist and Sangoma (spiritual healer) Pitika Ntuli to comprise solely of works sculpted from bone. Pitika uses bones to ‘divine the state of the nation in a season of anomie’. The exhibition was nominated for a... Read more
