ARTEFACTS, GLASS INSTALLATION EXHIBITION BY LOTHAR BÖTTCHER AND CAITLIN GREENBERG
26 July 2025 until 31 August 2025 | East Gallery
Artefacts at the Pretoria Art Museum is a collaborative exhibition showing works by Lothar Böttcher and Caitlin Greenberg.
Both artists are known for their passion and specialised use of glass in their oeuvre. This exhibition does not specifically explore materiality and craft, but rather investigates a spectrum of social narratives. Both artists examine inner voices, expressing personal dilemmas and philosophies that invite visitors to experience the space through a fourth dimension – one shaped by memory, emotion and embodied presence.
Information and enquiries:
Hannelie du Plessis (Pretoria Art Museum): 012 358 6748/6750 or hanneliedp@tshwane.gov.za
Caitlin Greenberg: 084 726 2970 or greenbergcj@tut.ac.za
2025 SASOL NEW SIGNATURES VISUAL ARTS COMPETITION
Officially open to the public from 4 September to 2 November 2025
A PREVIEW OF THE ARTWORKS ARE CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY
South Gallery, North Gallery, Henry Preiss Hall
The regional judging phase of the 2025 Sasol New Signatures Visual Arts Competition has concluded, marking a pivotal milestone in South Africa’s most prestigious art competition for emerging artists. This year saw a total of 903 entries submitted from across the country, with 105 works selected to advance to the final round of judging in August 2025 at the Pretoria Art Museum.
The chosen artworks are currently on display at the Pretoria Art Museum as a preview before the winner, runner-up and merit winners are announced on 3 September 2025. The chosen artworks will be featured in the official 2025 Sasol New Signatures catalogue and will be exhibited from 4 September to 2 November 2025, offering the public a glimpse into the future of South African contemporary art.
COROBRIK CERAMIC COLLECTION 1977–2024
Permanent exhibition | Ceramic Gallery
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Nic Sithole, Big Bowl, earthenware |
Clare Walters, Candle Stick-insect,Basalt Clay |
Eunice Botes, Tulips, stoneware |
The Corobrik Collection is a contemporary collection of ceramics that represents the development of studio ceramics and the work of rural traditional South African potters over almost five decades. Initially, the collection was started by Stellenbosch Farmers Winery, which in 1977 became the sponsor of national and regional exhibitions by the Association of Potters of Southern Africa (APSA) and purchased the winning pieces from these exhibitions. In 1982, Corobrik became the sponsor of APSA (now Ceramics Southern Africa) and acquired the collection. Since then, further acquisitions from exhibitions and pieces contributed by members have been added to the collection. The earliest acquired pieces date from 1977 to 2025.
A STORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN ART | Ongoing | Albert Werth Hall
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.
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITION – AUGURY AFTER AUTOGOGUES BY MINÉ KLEYNHANS
4 September to 2 November 2025 | South Gallery
Augury After Autogogues playfully and satirically stages a kind of speculative mysticism that indulges the sovereignty of “personal truth”. In a time when shared systems of belief are breaking down and facts are met with scepticism, the exhibition imagines the advent (appearance) of the Autogogue: a self-guided mystic who looks inward for meaning, interpreting the world through emotion, affect and intuition.
Miné Kleynhans, the winner of the 2024 Sasol New Signatures art competition, is employed at the University of the Free State’s Art Gallery as the Project Coordinator. As an artist, art project manager and facilitator, she has participated in various experimental, developmental and large-scale international creative projects.
SHADOWS AND MIRRORS BY THOMAS MASINGI AND NEO MLANGENI
13 September 2025 until 19 January 2026 | East Gallery
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Thomas Masingi, Overshadowed by the Unresolved, photography |
Neo Mlangeni, What the Mirror Forgot, Giclee print |
Shadows and Mirrors is an exhibition showing photographic, video, printmaking and multimedia artworks by Thomas Masingi and Neo Mlangeni.
This exhibition investigates issues about identity, particularly in relation to gender. There are so many debates and stereotypes about what being a man or woman is supposed to be. However, people have unique ways in which they wish to perform their masculinity or femininity. These performances of gender are usually done through lenses of our peers, which often leads to a constant need to rehearse our identities so that we fall within what society seems acceptable. This exhibition seeks to bring to light the shadows we carry. It is about embracing all parts of ourselves in order to have a holistic experience of being. We all have aspects of our personalities that we conceal from the world and parts of ourselves that we dislike.
Shadows and Mirrors opens on Saturday, 13 September 2025, at 11:00 at the Pretoria Art Museum and can be viewed until Sunday, 19 January 2026.
Information and enquiries:
Hannelie du Plessis (Pretoria Art Museum): 012 358 6748/6750 or hanneliedp@tshwane.gov.za
Thomas Masingi: 064 610 6549 or thomasmas2604@gmail.com
GUIDED TOURS
For information on guided tours, contact Mmutle A Kgokong on 012 358 6752 or mmutlekg@tshwane.gov.za.
| Admission: (cash only) Adults: R30,00; pensioners and students: R15,00; learners: R10,00 The museum is open to the public on Tuesdays to Sundays between 10:00 and 17:00. The museum is closed on Mondays and public holidays. |
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, to exhibit emerging talent and to 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