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Joburg Art Highlights: Thu, Oct 6 – Wed, Oct 12, 2022

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October is in full swing and we've only just been surviving the heat. It's still not as hot as Joburg's art scene though, here are the exhibitions you don't want to miss this week!

For a full guide to what’s on in Joburg, check out our online events calendar and subscribe to our newsletter guide to Joburg published every Thursday morning. 

From left to right: Morphologie du rêve #2 (2021), Mame-Diarra Niang; River (2022), Samson Mnisi; Frida Kahlo in her studio

Cultural monoliths

Book now – The Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation brings together the works of Frida Kahlo, Amrita Sher-Gil and Irma Stern for the first time in South Africa with Modernist Identities. A must see this groundbreaking exhibition has limited space so book now!
First Thursdays – Enjoy a drink and performances at We Are Culture's First Thursday event at Standard Bank Gallery.
Until Mar 2023 – Get lost in Keiskamma Art Project's intricate tapestries at Constitution Hill with their exhibition Umaf’ evuka, nje ngenyanga

Questions of Land

Opening Sat, Oct 8 at 12:30  – Examine how we create knowledge with Preempt Group's analysis of Mapungubwe Buffer Zones at Jawett-UP
Until Sun, Oct 30 – Interrogate what it means to belong in Joburg with Pat Mautloa's Urban Soundscapes at UJ Art Gallery

Artist abstractions

Opening Thu, Oct 6 at 18:00 Samson Mnisi returns with dense and chaotic paintings for Man of the Hour at Studio Nxumalo
Artist walkabout Sat, Oct 8 at 11:30Mame-Diarra Niang's new exhibition Sama Guent Guii opens with an artist walkabout at Stevenson Gallery
Until Sat, Oct 15 – Enjoy Peter Cohen's visual abstractions Colour in Black and White at David Krut Projects

Art and nature

Opening Sat, Oct 8 at 11:00 – See Roxy Kaczmarek's exploration of urban plantlife Shifting Positions at David Krut Project's Blue House

Spellbinding sculptures

Until Sun, Oct 16 – Be amazed by South Africa's best sculptors at ScuptX 2022 at Melrose Gallery
Until Sun, Oct 30 – Walk among Anton Smit's colossal sculptures at Art, Live on the Square at Nelson Mandela Square
 
Fenced in/out 1 (2020), Roxy Kaczmarek
One of the Intsikizi tapestries by Keiskamma Art Project
 

Wondering what else to do this week? Read our guide to the best events.

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