Gauteng Gallery Guide - March 15, 2013

ART AT FLAMINGO:

Various artists exhibit at Flamingo Dam on the first weekend of every month. Located at Queens Road (at the main circle and shops), Thornhill, Modderfontein, Joburg. E-mail alida100@gmail.com

ALETTE WESSELS KUNSKAMER:

Old masters on exhibition. Maroelana Centre, Maroelana Street, Pretoria East. Tel: 012 346 0728, or e-mail gerrie@artwessels.co.za

ASSEMBLAGE – NewARC:

Newtown Artist-Run Centre and Studios: connecting Joburg’s visual arts community. Artists can enjoy workshops and exhibitions. For more information, e-mail info@assemblage.co.za

CIRCA ON JELLICOE:

I Collect Gingers – a debut solo exhibition by Anthea Pokroy, artist and photographer. Through her photographs, Pokroy begins to construct a narrative, history/future and system of classification around this self-identified “race”. She uses this minority (just two percent of the world’s total population) and mythical group of red-headed people. The exhibition ends on March 22. 2 Jellicoe Avenue, Rosebank, Joburg. Tel: 011 788 4805, or e-mail ginab@circagallery.co.za

FERREIRA ART GALLERY:

A permanent display of old masters and new artists. 300 Main Road, Bryanston, Joburg. Tel: 011 706 3738, or e-mail ferreiragallery@mweb.co.za

GALLERY ART ON PAPER

Presents Public Art/Private Lives by Terry Kurgan. Walkabout and conversation with Sarah Nuttall (professor of literary and cultural studies and director of Wiser at the University of the Witswatersrand) at noon on Saturday. Ends March 23. 44 Stanley Avenue, Braamfontein Werf (Milpark), Joburg. Tel: 011 726 2234, or e-mail info@artonpaper.co.za

GALLERY 2:

In association with Clive Viveiros and Dr Eric Hefer, Pinpoint Human Resources is hosts the first solo exhibition of work by the Absa Gerard Sekoto Award winner 2012, Bambo Sibya, Khumbula Ekhaya, which can be interpreted as “I’m homesick, I’m longing to go back home and missing home”. Ends May 8. 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Joburg. Tel: 011 447 0155, or e-mail info@gallery2.co.za

GALLERY MOMO

Presents Bridges, a travelling exhibition of black-and-white photographs by Andrew Tshabangu and Rene-Paul Savignan. Ends April 15. 52 7th Avenue, Parktown North, Joburg. Tel: 011 327 3247, or e-mail Karen@gallerymomo.com

GOETHE INSTITUT:

Presents Informal/Studio: Marlboro South. Consists of four mini-documentary films, as well as text, maps, drawings and a comic. Ends Sunday, March 31. 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Joburg. Tel: 011 442 3232, or e-mail pr@johannesburg.goethe.org

ALSO: Go to Goethe on Main in the Maboneng Precinct, Main Street, City and Suburban, Joburg, for more exhibitions like Christian Nerf’s Things are Odd.

GOODMAN GALLERY:

The first solo exhibition by Berlin-based South African video artist Candice Breitz, titled The Woods. Ends Saturday, March 30. 163 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Joburg. Tel: 011 788 1113, or e-mail lara@goodman-gallery.com

JOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY

In association with Art Source South Africa, the gallery presents Venus at Home, an exhibition by Usha Seejarim using ordinary household objects as materials to create a series of sculptures and installations. Ends Sunday, May 12.

AND: French Connections has been extended to Sunday, March 24. King George Street, between Wolmarans and Noord streets, Joubert Park, Joburg (secure parking available). Tel: 011 725 3130/80, or e-mail tinym@joburg.org.za

MANOR GALLERY

The 89th exhibition of The Watercolour Society of Africa and the third of The Art Society of Africa. Paintings in all media by top South African artists. Ends May 4. Norscot Centre, Penguin Drive, Fourways, Joburg. Tel: 011 465 7934, or e-mail ahb@worldonline.co.za

NELSON MANDELA SQUARE

Antiques and Collectables Fair on the first Sunday of every month on the upper and lower levels of Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton. Tel: 011 802 1602 or 083 377 6721, or e-mail giuili@gocomms.co.za

RES GALLERY

Barely Legal, in memory of John Hodgkiss, by Brett Murray, Kendell Geers, Jean Christophe Ballot, Norman Catherine, Andre S Clements, Lippy Lipshitz, John Hodgkiss, Andrew Robertson, Cecil Skotnes, Brett Eloff, Patrick de Mervelec, Frederick Clarke, Carol Nathan Levine. Ends April 13. 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Joburg. Tel: 011 880 4054, or e-mail info@resolutiongallery.com

SPIER

The Blind Astronomer by Berco Wilsenach. Ends March 27. Museum of African Design, 281 Commissioner Street, Joburg. E-mail lucy@jeanettablignaut.com

UNISA ART GALLERY

Presents Digi Re-Engineering with participating artists Abri de Swardt, Brendon Erasmus, Carmen Truter, Rebecca Jones, Maurice Mbikayi, Marcus Neustetter and more. Ends April 5. Ground floor, Kgorong Building, Preller Street, Main Campus, Pretoria. Tel: 012 441 5876, or e-mail lebekj@unisa.ac.zo

• E-mail gallery info to waheeda.citto@ inl.co.za, with “Gallery Guide” in the subject field.