AVA GALLERY, 35 Church Street, CBD. Tel: 021 424 7436:
Greatest Hits: 2014. Curated by Matthew Blackman, this exhibition features artworks selected from the Michaelis school of Fine Art UCT, Ruth Prowse School of Art and Stellenbosch University Graduate exhibitions. Until February 20.
BARNARD GALLERY, 55 Main Street, Newlands. Tel: 021 671 1553:
Surface: Emerging Painters. Features the work of up-and-coming painters redefining the medium in contemporary South African art. Ends March 19.
BLANK PROJECTS, 113-115 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock. Tel: 021 462 4276:
Parda. Igshaan Adams’ sculptures, installations, tapestries and banners draw on the idea of Rorschach testing to explore the idea of exposing underlying beliefs, mental patterns and blindspots, referencing the covering of Muslim women’s faces as prescribed by Shariah law. Until February 28.
BRUNDYN + GALLERY, First Floor, ORO Africa Building, 170 Buitengracht Street, CBD. Tel: 021 424 5150:
Room 2 & 3: Anyway, The Wind Blows. A group exhibition framed around the notion of myths.
Video Room: Fluorescent Sin by Amirah Tajdin. Until February 15.
THE CAPE GALLERY, 60 CHURCH STREET, Cape Town. Tel: 021 423 5029:
Vigour Awakening Ancient Vitality. Recent paintings by Derek Drake. Until February 28.
CHRISTOPHER MOLLER ART GALLERY, 7 Kloofnek Road, Gardens. Tel: 021 422 1599:
Somewhere. An exhibition of paintings by the young emerging Parisian painter, Lou Ros. Ends March 3.
COMMUNE.1, 64 Wale Street, Cape Town. Tel: 021 423 5600:
Refugium. Luke Kaplan’s first solo show features analogue and digital photographs, a sculptural element and a video. Ends Saturday.
DIE KUNSKAMER, Fresnaye, Sea Point. Tel: 021 439 6572:
Charlotte Schachat is celebrating her first year exhibiting in Fresnaye and welcomes visitors to view works by Irma Stern, Cecil Skotnes, Moses Kottler, Esther Mahlangu, JH Pierneef, Cynthia VIllet, Larry Scully and more by appointment only.
EBONY GALLERY, 67 Loop Street, Cape Town. Tel: 021 424 9985:
A Different Perspective. A group show including paintings, prints, photography and multi-media pieces by Justin Dingwall, Jean- Claude Moschetti, Ferdinand Kidd, Wycliffe Mundopa, Vuli Nyoni, Rentia Retief, Rachelle Hugo and Olaf Bischoff. Thursday to March 3.
Everard Read Gallery, 3 Portswood Road, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town. Tel: 021 418 4527:
Solo exhibition by Lionel Smit. Thursday to February 17.
GOODMAN GALLERY, 3rd Floor, Fairweather House, 176 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock. Tel: 021 462 7673:
The Poetry Inbetween: South-South/2015. Brings together a cross-section of intergenerational artists from southern Africa and Brazil. The exhibition examines the issues that connect the two regions within the discourse of the geopolitical south, starting with poetry as a way to understand the issues as open-ended and varied in meaning. Until February 28.
IZIKO OLD TOWN HOUSE, Greenmarket Square. Tel: 021 21 481 3933:
Rembrandt in South Africa: Pioneer Printmaker of Humanity and Modernity. This exhibition of Rembrandt etchings draws on the major institutional collections within South Africa, including the Michaelis Collection (Cape Town), the Iziko SA National Gallery (Cape Town), the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum (Port Elizabeth), the Rupert Art Foundation, the Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation (Stellenbosch) and UCT. Until March 28.
IZIKO SLAVE LODGE, Adderley Street, CBD. Tel: 021 467 7215:
Ghoema and Glitter: New Year Carnival in Cape Town Redux. Represents the significance of the Cape Town carnival as a celebration within the context of changing expressions of history and identity – this study of the conflation of social life, race and politics, identity, ritual popular culture and negotiating the every day in South Africa’s past. This exhibition draws on social history’s oral history and carnival collections. Until April 30.
Johans Borman Fine Art, 16 Kildare Road, Newlands. Tel: 021 683 6863:
Exhibiting a selection of works by South African Masters including JH Pierneef, Irma Stern, Erik Laubscer, Walter Battiss, Cecil Skotnes and Piet van Heerden as well as works by contemporary artists such as Jacobus Kloppers, Marlene van Dürckheim, Hussein Salim, Kyle Weeks and Anton Chapman.
Mogalakwena Craft Art Gallery, 3 Church Street, CBD. Tel: 021 424 7488:
Sewing a History of Healing. A group exhibition featuring textile art.Thursday to April 30.
Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, 10 Wellington Road, Durbanville. Tel: 021 976 4691:
Exhibition of works by Lynie Olivier, Elize Oosthuizen and Estelle Smith. February 10 to March 5.
SALON91 CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTION, 91 Kloof Street, Gardens. Tel: 021 424 6930:
Dog Days: Vanishing into the Green Light. A solo exhibition by Sarah Pratt inspired by the life and death of her dog, Laptop.
Until February 14.
smac gallery, The Palms, 145 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock. Tel: 021 422 5100:
C-Sunners & Black Mamba is Kenya-based artist Cyrus Kabiru’s first solo exhibition in South Africa. Through photo-graphy he embraces the concept of Afro-futurism and C-Sunners and Black Mama references the fixed-gear bicycles which became iconic in Kenya but are being overtaken by scooters and motor-cycles. Ends March 14.
South African National Gallery, Government Alley, Company’s Garden. Tel: 021 481 3970:
Time and Again: A Retrospective Exhibition by Penny Siopsis. Until March 23.
South African Museum, 25 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town. Tel: 021 481 3800:
2014 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition. This 50th anniversary of the competition features 100 breathtaking images of nature in its most astonishing forms. Until March 5.
WHATIFTHEWORLD GALLERY, (cnr Argyle Street and Albert Road), Woodstock. Tel: 021 447 2376:
Undo All. John Murray works on oil on canvas to create abstract compositions in a way that still hints at representational forms beneath the surface.
Ends March 21.
• E-mail info to theresa.smith@ inl.co.za. Put “gallery” in the subject line.