6 Spin Street, Tel: 021 461 0666.
People Make Places: A journey through the work of the Cape Town Partnership. Reflecting the work of the partnership over the past year. Ends Tuesday, November 12.
ART DE SADE, 6 Vrede Street, Gardens. Tel: 021 462 4978:
ART IN THE FOREST
Ground Zero. Annual exhibition exploring design, planters, earth, pots, succulents and botanically inspired ceramic art. November 30 to January 31.
AVA GALLERY, 35 Church Street, Cape Town. Tel: 021 424 7436:
Beasts of Burden. Robyn Denny’s ink and gouache works blur the line between reality and fantasy, highlighting the animal in all humans and the human in animals. Ends November 27.
BARNARD GALLERY, 55 Main Street, Newlands. Tel: 021 671 1666:
I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. Jaco van Schalkwyk again revisits spiritual and religious ideology, exploring the intertwined nature of faith and art. Ends December 5.
CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE, Castle Street, Cape Town. Tel: 021 787 1260:
In the Granary: Fired. An exhibition of South African ceramics which received the Best New Museum Project 2012/13 award from the Western Cape government.
COMMUNE.1, 64 Wale Street, CBD. Tel: 021 423 5600:
Entangled. Angela Briggs’s paintings invoke presence rather than depicting places or objects, to suggest elemental experiences. Ends November 21.
Fissure. A group exhibition featuring artists occupied with translating the boundless and chaotic natural world into corporeal art objects. Ends November 21.
CULTURE URBAN + CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, 1st floor, Woodstock Exchange Building, 66 Albert Road, Woodstock. Tel: 021 447 3533:
Lovely Creatures. Anja Venter, Mariette Bergh and Shirley Fintz explore the human-perceived beauty and its cost to the Earth’s natural splendour. Ends December 14.
David Krut Projects, Montebello Design Centre, 31 Newlands Avenue. Tel: 021 685 0676:
Recollection. Works on paper by Senzo Shabangu (who works primarily in the relief linocut method). Ends November 30.
D-Street Gallery, 112 Dorp Street, Stellenbosch. Tel: 021 883 2337:
Morality Monkeys. A group exhibition by Christiaan Diedericks, Clare Menck, Peter van Straten, Elizabeth Gunter, Shany van den Berg, Judy Woodborne, Matthew Brittan, Corlie de Kock, Aidon Westcott (curator) and others on a controversial matter. Ends November 24.
GOODMAN GALLERY, 3rd floor, Fairweather House, 176 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock. Tel: 021 462 7573:
Post-National Bliss. Paintings by Berlin-based, South African-born painter Carla Busuttil through which she imagines and explores the rituals and conflicts of a fictional world perpetually on the brink of chaos. Ends December 7.
IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL GALLERY, 25 Queen Victoria Street, Company’s Garden, Cape Town. Tel: 021 481 3800:
Objects in the Tide. An exhibition showcasing Iziko National Gallery collections. Ends March 31.
Against the Grain. Cape sculptors Isaac Makeleni, Ishmael Thyssen, Shepherd Mbanya, Timothy Mafenuka and Thami Kiti are featured. These works question the marginalisation of sculptors within the South African art world, and the low visibility of black African wood sculptors in the broader discourse of contemporary African art. Ends Sunday, November 17.
JOHANS BORMAN FINE ART, 16 Kildare Road, Newlands. Tel: 021 683 6863:
The Colour of Light. Oil paintings by Philip Barlow. Ends November 23.
LA MOTTE MUSEUM, R45 Main Road, Franschhoek Valley. Tel: 021 876 8850:
Works from the Cape Town triennials. Contemporary South African art that was first exhibited in the triennials exhibitions then acquired by the Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation.
SALON91 CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTION, 91 Kloof Street, Gardens. Tel: 021 424 6930:
The Witching Hour. Candice Ježek and Jade Klara use a whimsical and powerfully feminine style to create rich narratives of unexpected yet somehow familiar themes expressed through various mediums of painting, sculpture and print. Ends Saturday.
Slee Gallery, 101 Dorp Street, Stellenbosch. Tel: 021 887 3385:
Die Geraamtes van Drome/ The Skeletons of Dreams. In her exhibition, jeweller Carine Terreblanche questions the tenuous, constructed gap between jewellery, sculpture, fine arts and craft. As the title suggests, it also views the abandoned/finished object as the signifier of a dream world necessarily left behind in the creative process. November 12 to 18.
STEVENSON, Buchanan Building, 160 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock. Tel: 021 462 1500:
Kin. “A meditation on the ideals of home, both familial and humanistic. It explores the tenuous ties that both bind us to and repel us from others.” Pieter Hugo’s photographic exhibition. Ends November 23.
WHAT IF THE WORLD, 1 Argyle Street (corner of Argyle and Albert roads), Woodstock. Tel: 021 802 3111:
Block. An exhibition of rich evocative paintings in which mark and meaning-making meet the painterly gesture in Maja Marx’s signature minimalist approach. Ends Saturday, November 23.
- To be listed in the Gallery Guide, e-mail all information to theresa.smith@ inl.co.za. Please put “gallery” in the subject line of your e-mail.