Athi-Patra Ruga will host a book launch for his recent Monograoh (published by Whatiftheworld) as well as a discussion with Andrew Lamprecht at The Book Lounge on Roeland Street, Cape Town on Friday, 25 June at 18h00. Please phone 021 462 2425 for more info.
The gallery is please to announce that it has again been selected for VOLTA - the international art fair in Basel, Switzerland. VOLTA is a platform for presenting the vision of contemporary art galleries of global repute whose artists represent new and relevant positions for curators and collectors alike.
Gallery artist Dan Halter has a solo presentation at Son Gallery in London from 04 June - 04 July, 2010. Titled ‘Shifting The Goal Posts,’ the exhibition features works from a recent project centered around the Beitbridge border between South Africa and Zimbabwe. This border is notorious for the number of Zimbabwean immigrants that cross it illegally to make their way into South Africa.
Gallery artist Athi-Patra Ruga has been selected for the exhibtion “…for those who live in it - Popculture politics and strong voices” showing at MU in Eindhoven, The Netherlands from 21 May - 01 August, 2010.
Gallery artists Rowan Smith, Dan Halter, and Cameron Platter have been selected for the exhibition ‘Twenty - South African Sculpture of the Last Two Decades’ at the Nirox Foundation. The exhibition is an exploration of important South African sculpture of the last twenty years, reflecting the shifts, challenges, changes and achievements this country has seen, from the release of Nelson Mandela to the hosting of the World Cup. Diverse works by more than forty artists are featured including; Edoardo Villa, Willem Boshoff, Jane Alexander, William Kentridge.
Georgina Gratrix will present her first international solo exhibition at TEN HAAF PROJECTS in Amsterdam from 08 May - 19 June, 2010. Gratrix has recently returned from an extended residency in Berlin and has produced a new body of work featuring over 50 watercolours for the exhibition titled ‘Everything Ecstatic.’
Gallery artists Dan Halter and Cameron Platter have been selected for Dak’Art 2010, the 9th Biennale of Contemporary African Art from May 7 - June 7, 2010.
Whatiftheworld will be exhibiting for the third consecutive year at the Joburg Art Fair from 26 - 28 March, 2010. Please visit us at booth 17 for a selection of recent works by featured artists.
Gallery artist Athi-Patra Ruga currently has a solo show on at Fred (London) titled The Works. The exhibition runs from 19 February - 21 March 2010 and also marks the launch of an upcoming exhibition program at Fred that focuses on African Contemporary.
Gallery artist Julia Rosa CLark has been selected as ‘Curator of the Year’ on Artthrob’s ‘Best of 2009’ list for her show Sing Into My Mouth at Whatiftheworld (May 2009). Sing Into My Mouth included enquiries into the nature of intimacy, desire, influence, exchange, memory/ false memory, self, autobiography, interpretation, poetics, contingency, dormancy and resurrection.
The gallery is pleased to announce that it has been selected for VOLTA NY, the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005. VOLTA NY was conceived to continue the original mandate to create a tightly-focused, boutique affair that would be a place for discovery and concentrate on current and topical art production.
Cameron Platter currently has a solo exhibition on show at Hilger Contemporary in Vienna, Austria until 23 February, 2010. Titled I am Lonelyness, it is Platter’s second solo presentation at Hilger Contemporary, following the sell-out success of Too Much of Anything is Very Dangerous in 2008.
Visual art collective AVANT CAR GUARD is currently featured on the cover of Art South Africa Magazine (Vol 08, Issue 02 Summer 2009) with a work from their recent exhibition ‘Scuse us while we kiss da sky (as in we’ve hit the ceiling).’
Gallery artist Dan Halter was recently interviewed by BASE for their international blog. BASE is made up of some 45 people working from offices in Brussels, New York, Barcelona, Madrid, and Santiago, Chile. The blog features regular interviews with contemporary artists from around the world.
In ‘…after he left’, Athi-Patra Ruga documents his alter ego Beiruth and its journeys to scale the façade of a charismatic church in Cape Town’s East city. It hovers and struts its way through Atlantis’ taxi rank. Both poignant and disturbing, Ruga questions notions of identity and prejudice.
Currently preparing for an exhibition of video works at Art Basel Miami, and working towards a solo show at Whatiftheworld next
year. Cameron Platter’s work creates an intoxicating vision of urban contemporary Africa. Drawing on traditional craft and wood carving techniques, Platter combines contemporary African street culture using influences as diverse as Nigerian ‘porno’ films, township couture, and drunken shabeen meat fests. Using established and respected traditional mediums, Platter creates a tableau that is at once a sincere homage to historical themes and an ironical take on contemporary Africa.
Please join us on Thursday, October 08 18h00 for the launch of CO-OP, our new project space in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. CO-OP is a collaboration between DOKTER AND MISSES and [WHATIFTHEWORLD] in association with OPEN. The aim is to create a platform for new and emerging work in the fields of contemporary art and design, featuring a diverse program of exhibitions, events and exclusive collaborations.