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PORTRAIT AWARDS 2023 | South Gallery | Until 28 January 2024
André Serfontein, The Prince and Princess of Prince Street, oil on canvas
The national competition was first initiated in 2013 by the Rust-en-Vrede Gallery in Durbanville, Cape Town, and it is a testament to the exceptional talent of South African artists. The Top 40 winners of the Portrait Awards 2023 will travel across the country and will be on show at the Pretoria Art Museum from 25 November 2023 to 28 January 2024. The first-prize winner is André Serfontein for his artwork The Prince and Princess of Prince Street (Johan & Bongi), oil on canvas. The second-prize winner is Willem Pretorius for the artwork Kewpie, oil on canvas. The third prize was awarded to Leanne Olivier for the artwork Ann, oil on canvas.
General information: Pretoria Art Museum: 012 359 6750 or artmuseum@tshwane.gov.za
Sales: RUST-EN-VREDE GALLERY: 068 457 8589 or gallery@rust-en-vrede.com
MOTAUNG // SEAKAMELA | Henry Preiss Hall | Until 14 January 2024
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Lerato Motaung, Dreamer’s Odyssey (2023), mixed media on canvas |
Navel Seakamela, As we knew (2023), acrylic and charcoal on canvas |
Lerato Motaung and Navel Seakamela’s artistic practices are quite different in their concerns and outlook. On the one hand, Motaung has abandoned the human figure and gravitated towards abstraction, which affords the viewer with open readings of his work. Seakamela has retained the deployment of the human figure as a vehicle to comment on our social condition. Not only is this exhibition a recall invitation to former associates of the Pretoria Art Museum to exhibit within its confines, as a two-man show it presents a contrast in the work of two contemporary artists and friends active in the contemporary South African art scene today.
Between 2014 and 2015, the two artists were part of the Education and Development Programme of the Pretoria Art Museum. Throughout the years, both as students and as professional artists, the two artists have maintained close ties with each other. Their two-man show, Motaung // Seakamela, will present an intertextual viewing of their work from divergent and convergent points.
Information: Mmutle A Kgokong (Pretoria Art Museum): 012 358 6750/6752 or mmutlekg@tshwane.gov.za
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UBUNTU | North Gallery | Until 25 February 2024
Ubuntu is a Nguni word that describes how another human being is able to acknowledge and accept the other, despite their background, culture, race and ethnicity. This notion of Ubuntu (humanity) in Sepedi or Tswana is normally expressed as “Motho ke Motho ka Batho” which simply indicates that “no man is an island” or “a person is a person through other people”. In this exhibition, through their self-expression, artists will exhibit artwork that speaks to how, as fellow humans, we can be moulded or renewed in our minds and through our actions to accept and tolerate each other and to bring out the best in those who are going through difficulties.
Information: Matome Mojela (Cultural Officer): 083 776 1582 or matomem@tshwane.gov.za
THE WORLD/UMHLABA: Solo Exhibition by Bongi Bengu | East Gallery | Until 17 December 2023
Bongi Bengu’s highly versatile work is a social commentary on her life. Although she is primarily a painter, she has worked with collage, soil and clay. Over the years, her work has evolved and transformed in texture and depth from creating charcoal and pastel drawings that dealt with women and power to using art as a meditation to invoke the power within the self. Her recent work sees her engaged with nature by using organic materials, such as leaves, by deliberately momentarily preserving them in an attempt to question and reinterpret the meaning of life. The work speaks of the process of decay and renewal of life, echoing her experience of exile and homecoming which has shaped her worldview.
Information
Website: bongibengu.co.za
Mmutle A Kgokong (Pretoria Art Museum): 012 358 6750/6752 or mmutlekg@tshwane.gov.za
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A STORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN ART | Ongoing | Albert Werth Hall
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (1886–1957), Amajuba, 1932, oil on canvas
This selection of artworks from the permanent collection of the Pretoria Art Museum briefly reviews South African art. It includes works by early twentieth-century painters, the Resistance artists of the 1980s and artists of the twenty-first century. The exhibition is based on the secondary school syllabus.
CERAMICS FROM THE PRETORIA ART MUSEUM AND COROBRIK COLLECTIONS | Ongoing | Ceramic Gallery
View a selection of ceramic artworks from the Pretoria Art Museum’s collection, as well as ceramics from the Corobrik Ceramic Collection. Part of the Corobrik Collection, usually exhibited in the ceramic gallery, will be on loan to the University of Pretoria. The Corobrik Ceramic Collection came into being in 1977. With continued support, Corobrik has been able to continue keeping the collection relevant for the last 46 years.
SPECIAL REDUCED ENTRANCE FEE AT CITY OF TSHWANE MUSEUMS:
R2,00 ON WEDNESDAYS
Visit the Pretoria Art Museum or Fort Klapperkop Heritage Site on Wednesdays and only pay R2,00 entrance fee.
GUIDED TOURS
No guided tours are available until further notice.
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Adults: R25,00; pensioners and students: R12,00; learners: R7,00 Wednesdays: R2,00 for all visitors The museum is open to the public from Tuesdays to Sundays between 10:00 and 17:00. The museum is closed on Mondays and public holidays.
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Pretoria Art Museum
Cnr Francis Baard and Wessels Street Arcadia Park, Arcadia Tel: 012 358 6750 Email: art.museum@tshwane.gov.za |
CENTURION ART GALLERY
Centurion Art Gallery is a commercial art gallery where local artists can exhibit and sell their artworks. The gallery aims to show a variety of art forms, exhibit emerging talent and promote Tshwane artists in particular.
For enquiries, contact the gallery on 083 328 6491 or 083 274 2221.
Centurion Art Gallery is open on Mondays to Fridays from 09:00 to 16:00 and on Saturdays from 09:00 to 13:00.
The gallery is closed on Sundays and public holidays.
Centurion Art Gallery, cnr Cantonments Road and Union Avenue, Lyttelton, Centurion