Select works from the Johannesburg Art Gallery collection are back in South Africa after nearly two years touring abroad. Co-curated by Khwezi Gule and Dr. Same Mduli, the exhibition reflects on belonging, return, and the histories embedded in institutional collections.
The exhibition is open to the public at the Standard Bank Art Gallery, Marshalltown, with safe underground parking available for visitors.
📍 44 Frederick Street, Marshalltown, Johannesburg
🗓 17 March – 31 October 2026
Opening Times:
• Tues–Fri: 9am – 4pm
• Sat: 9am – 1pm
• Closed: Sundays & Public Holiday
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The JAG team will be installing a new exhibition between 1 and 12 November 2022. The new exhibition titled OCCUPATION will open on 13 November 2022. During the installation the museum will be closed.
Opening at JAG this Sunday: Senzeni Marasela's Waiting for Gebane
@senzenimarasela is one of South Africa's most prolific contemporary artists. Her practice spans more than 20 years and finds expression through a variety of media including relief prints, photography, fabric works, durational performance and often a combination of these. She uses autobiography as a starting point of her work to reflect on the social, economic and historical positioning of women in her own life particularly her mother as well as historical personages such as Sara Baartman. The exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery will consist of a selection of the works that were presented in the 2021 highly successful exhibition at @zeitzmocaa in Cape Town titled Waiting for Gebane.
Opening:
Sunday 19 June
14:00 – 18:00
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Find out more via the link in our bio.
Image: Senzeni Marasela, from the series Theodorah Comes To Johannesburg, 2004, photograph, 60×85 cm
WEBINAR ABOUT JAG'S ARCHITECTURE PRESENTED BY THE LUTYENS TRUST OF AMERICA
“There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons”. - Sir Edwin Lutyens
Join Ankie Barnes and Dr Mervyn Miller in a conversation moderated by Martin Lutyens at 18:00, Tuesday, 13 August as they explore the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens in South Africa, with a particular focus on the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
Register online.
Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, The Johannesburg Art Gallery will be temporarily closed until we receive the relevant information and instruction to reopen.
We apologise for the inconvenience that this may cause you.
For any enquiries please email: [email protected] or call 011 725 3130.
Let us all stay safe.
Join us at the Johannesburg Art Gallery this Sunday, for the opening of Ngoma: Art and Cosmology. An exhibition curated by Musha Neluheni, Philippa van Straaten and Khwezi Gule.
The works in Ngoma: Art and Cosmology bring to the fore the entanglements of historical, physical, metaphysical and existential spheres of existence. Ngoma seeks to explore these spheres of existence through artworks that cover different beliefs, cultural practices, mythologies and cosmologies.
Admission: Free
Date: 8 December 2019
Time: 4pm
Place: Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Corner Klein and King George Streets, Joubert Park, Johannesburg
For more information click on the link in our bio.
Image: Sibande, Mary, I put a spell on me, 2009.09.13, photographic print
Image courtesy of the artist.
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Join us at the Johannesburg Art Gallery for a workshop titled Comics: from idea to completion with cartoonist Mogorosi Motshumi. Motshumi has been a cartoonist for over 35 years and has worked as an editorial and sports cartoonist for varied publications including The Voice, City Press and Daily Sun. He is best known, however, for his monthly four-page comic about township life, Sloppy.
The workshop will be based largely on comic strips with a focus will be on gathering ideas, developing a unique sense of humour, and managing deadlines. The workshop is open to everyone.
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Join us this Sunday at the Johannesburg Art Gallery for a comics and visual storytelling workshop with comic book artists Kay Carmichael. The workshop will explore how to visually convey information and story, compose exciting and compelling comic frames as well as how to arrange and execute a comic page. Participants are encouraged to bring along notebooks to take down notes from the demonstration. This event is open to all ages.
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Join us at the Johannesburg Art Gallery for a drawing and character development workshop with Loyiso Mkize. This preliminary workshop will be centered on drawing and can be used as a baseline on why you decide on specific styles when working on your own comics. Loyiso Mkize is one of South Africa’s best-known graphic novel and comic book illustrators, known for SupaStrikers as well as Kwezi, South Africa’s very own homegrown superhero. The event is open to all ages.
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The Friends of JAG recently gifted the young children from Lapeng creche with some brand new yoga mats. The children, along with their instructor Lorraine Deift, can't wait to use their new mats! We are super proud of the work we do here when it comes to combining art education with well-being & wellness activities and would love for you to join us. Visit the link in our bio to join.
Augmented Reality Workshop with Athenkosi Musoke and Nkululeko Reginald Sedibe, creator of augmented reality comic book Nomvula. Creatives who will follow along with the workshop will need to bring a laptop with the latest Unity installed along with Vuforia AR support (compulsory) and Android SDK, NDK and JDK (optional). *This workshop is geared towards students in animation schools and students interested in Augmented Reality.
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Ray Whitcher, one of the curators of The Art of Comics, will be leading a workshop on the bare essentials of making a comic. No drawing or comic experience is needed, as the group will be working with general concepts of comics, starting with a brief history of comics, then writing, plotting (scamping) and, finally, making a 9-panel comic to take home. Comics are all about how we tell stories with a combination of writing and image, and you’ll be surprised how easy it is to make them. *This workshop is open to all ages
Join us for a comic making 101 workshop with Bill Masuku and explore how the individual crafts of a writer, artist, colourist, and letterer unify to create a cohesive voice from the initial idea to the finished product. This workshop is open to all ages
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