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WHATIFTHEWORLD open by appointment

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that we are now open by appointment, from Mon – Fri: 10:00 – 14:00. Please contact any member of our staff should you have any inquiries or to schedule an appointment. Justin Rhodes justin@whatiftheworld.com+27 (79) 490-7293 Ashleigh McLean ashleigh@whatiftheworld.com+27 (76) 422-2387 Lindsey Raymond lindsey@whatiftheworld.com+27 (82) 522-1528 Akshar Maganbeharie akshar@whatiftheworld.com+27 (79) 876-9760 Eleonora Marforio eleonora@whatiftheworld.com +39 348…

Lakin Ogunbanwo wins Thami Mnyele Award

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to share that Lakin Ogunbanwo was announced as the winner of the Thami Mnyele Residency, announced during the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Marrakech. Nigerian photographer, Lakin Ogunbanwo, is the first artist to be awarded the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair’s new residency programme in collaboration with the Thami Mnyele Foundation,…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at 1-54 Marrakech

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that WHATIFTHEWORLD will be showing Lakin Ogunbanwo and Thania Petersen’s work at Booth 11 at 1-54 Marrakech. Central to Ogunbanwo’s artistic investigation, is his desire to document the culture of Nigeria’s capital, Lagos; expand the contemporary African visual archive; and portray self-represented African narratives. This is explored in his photographic…

Gallery Closing Times

WHATIFTHEWORLD would like to thank you for your support and engagement this year. We are also pleased to announce that Ruby Swinney’s solo exhibition, Hold Still, will be on show over the holiday period. We have altered our opening times to accommodate viewings and appointments. Please find our opening times below, or call to schedule an…

Athi-Patra Ruga’s Collaboration with DIOR

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce Athi-Patra Ruga’s collaboration with Dior on their Lady Dior Art Bag. Ruga joins other artists such as Rina Banerjee, Maria Nepomuceno, Mickalene Thomas, Jia Lee, and Eduardo Terrazas in designing bags for the fourth edition of the capsule collection. “I think that’s the modernist curse: if it’s too beautiful, it’s…

Winter Break

Please note that the gallery will be closed for the long weekend from the 9th of August. The gallery will also close for the annual winter break from the 12th of August until the 19th of August with Dan Halter’s ‘Cross the River in a Crowd’ and Chris Soal’s ‘ Field of Vision’ which will…

Sanell Aggenbach at CIRCA

WHATIFTHEWORLD is proud to announce that Sanell Aggenbach will be opening her exhibition, The Heart Has Many Rooms, tonight, 18th of July, at CIRCA Gallery, Jellicoe Ave, Rosebank, Johannesburg. Sanell Aggenbach’s ‘The Heart Has Many Rooms’ offers a quiet meditation on affection: actual and implied. The body of work is divided into two distinct areas of interest and…

Thania Petersen at the National Arts Festival

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Thania Petersen’s exhibition, Between Land and a Raised Foot, had a well-received run at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. Her work showed at the Monument Basement and Raw Spot Gallery over the 27th of June – 7th of July. Thania Petersen’s exhibition subtly explores the revolutionary and healing potential…

Dan Halter and Chris Soal Walkabout at WHATIFTHEWORLD

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to invite you to Dan Halter and Chris Soal’s artist walkabouts at the gallery tomorow, Saturday, 29 June at 11.00. Halter and Soal will walk us through their current exhibitions, ‘Cross the River in a Crowd’ and ‘Field of Vision’, both of which host sculptural works. In Dan Halter’s solo exhibition, he…

Chris Soal at MÉCA – Maison de l’Économie Créative et de la Culture en Aquitaine

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Chris Soal’s work will be included at the inauguration tomorrow of the new cultural centre for contemporary art, performance arts and literature, MECA, in Bordeaux, France. “The new Maison de l’Économie Créative et de la Culture en Aquitaine, MÉCA, located on the historical riverfront of Bordeaux will house three…

Athi-Patra Ruga at McNay Art Museum

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga will be featuring in the exhibition, ‘Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today’ at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. The exhibition will open tomorrow, Thursday June 20th and run until September 15th, 2019. “Transamerica/n is the country’s first broad survey of contemporary artwork from across North America…

Thania Petersen and Athi-Patra Ruga at the Ford Foundation

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Thania Petersen and Athi-Patra Ruga are showing in the exhibition, ‘Radical Love’, which opened at the Ford Foundation, New York last week. the show will be on until 17 August, 2019. “Love, in the context of this exhibition, is defined by a commitment to the spiritual growth and interconnectedness…

Athi-Patra Ruga at Realness Residency

WHATIFTHEWORLD is proud to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga has been selected to participate in the 2019 African Screenwriter’s Residency with Realness, for their 4th edition. The six participants were announced this past week at Cannes Film Festival. The 6 selected projects were chosen by an international panel of 16 world cinema stakeholders, including Elias Ribeiro,…

Mia Chaplin at No Man’s Art Gallery

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Mia Chaplin will be having her first international solo exhibition, ‘Underbelly’, at No Man’s Art Gallery in Amsterdam. Chaplin will show several paintings and sculptures that she has made while in residence at the gallery’s permanent space in Bos en Lommerweg. The opening will be on Saturday, June 8th…

Mohau Modisakeng at Click Festival

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce the success of Mohau Modisakeng’s performance at Click Festival in Amsterdam. ‘No Serenity Here’ formed part of a selected program at this year’s festival, which aimed to “present the work of artists responding to an ever-changing world and it’s moments of misuse, misunderstanding and intervene in today’s structure and moments…

Mia Chaplin and the GoGo Collective in Brugge

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that leading up to her solo exhibition with No Man’s Art Gallery in Amsterdam, Mia Chaplin will be showing in a group exhibition, ‘Measures of Poetry’, as part of the GoGo Collective. The Collective formed in Cité internationale des arts in Paris, France in 2018, and consists of international artists…

Lungiswa Gqunta at the Wanas Konst Museum

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Lungiswa Gqunta’s work will be included in the exhibition ‘Not a Single Story II’ at the Wanas Konst museum in Sweden, ‘’Not A Single Story II’ is a further development of the large exhibition that Wanås Konst’s leadership duo co-curated at the Nirox Foundation sculpture park outside Johannesburg in…

Athi-Patra Ruga at Havana Biennial

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga will be featuring in the exhibition, ‘Inside Out’, alongside Nigerian artist, Ayọ Akínwándé. Curated by Isabel Moura Mendes and Natalia Palombo, the artists’s work will be hosted at Factoria Habana in Cuba as part of the curatorial project ‘Intersections’, a larger program curated by Concha Fontenla for…

Athi-Patra Ruga at Impressions Gallery

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to share an update on Athi-Patra Ruga’s inclusion in the exhibition Africa State of Mind, now touring to Impressions Gallery, Bradford. The exhibition opens on the 29th of March until the 15th of June 2019. Africa State of Mind, curated by Ekow Eshun with NAE, explores the work of an emergent generation of photographers from…

Mohau Modisakeng at Sharjah Biennial 14

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Mohau Modisakeng will be participating in the 2019 edition of the Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber (SB14), opening today. Modisakeng will showcase ‘Land of Zanj’ (2019), a new performance and mixed-media installation on Friday, 8 March. In his SB14 project, Modisakeng draws links between experiences of displacement within South…

Friends Visit: Walkabout with Thania Petersen

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Thania Petersen will be doing a walkabout of her solo exhibition ‘IQRA’ with Friends of the South African National Gallery. The walkabout will take place on Friday 1 March at 11h00 at WHATIFTHEWORLD. . Tickets can be purchased on the Friends of Iziko South African National Gallery’s website here.

WHATIFTHEWORLD at Cape Town Art Fair 2019

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that we will be participating in the 2019 edition of Cape Town Art Fair. The gallery will exhibit a group presentation of works by Sanell Aggenbach, Paul Edmunds, Pierre Fouché, Lungiswa Gqunta, Dan Halter, John Murray, Mohau Modisakeng, Cameron Platter, Athi-Patra Ruga, Ruby Swinney (Booth D6). The Cape Town Art…

Gallery Closing Dates

Please note that WHATIFTHEWORLD will close on the 22nd of December 2018. The gallery will reopen on the 7th of January 2019 with Mia Chaplin’s exhibition Mouth and Paul Edmunds’ exhibition The Road to Natural Selection is fraught with Random Mutation which will continue running until the 2nd of February 2019. Please contact akshar@whatiftheworld.com should…

Maja Marx Walkabout at WHATIFTHEWORLD

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to invite you to Maja Marx’s artist walkabout at the gallery on Saturday, 1 December at 10.30. Marx will walk us through her current exhibition, Chorus, which hosts a number of abstract works. In this series, Marx literally ‘finds’ the lines and compositions from which her paintings originate as she moves around…

Dan Halter and Athi-Patra Ruga in Crossing Night

Dan Halter and Athi-Patra Ruga are included in the exhibition ‘Crossing Night’ – which takes place across various locations in Oaxaca, Mexico. The exhibition is hosted by IDRIS NAIM A.C. and the National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico. “Crossing Night looks comparatively at societal relationships with death in Southern Africa and in Mexico as an entry point…

Pierre Fouche at Escaldes-Engordany Textile Festival

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Pierre Fouche was chosen to participate in Escaldes-Engordany’s 12th Textile Festival in Andorra where he presented an artist lecture and a bobbin lace design masterclass as well as participation in an exhibition. For more information, click here

‘Of Gods, Rainbows and Omissions’ by Athi Patra Ruga

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga will host a solo exhibition at the Somerset House in the UK. The exhibition ‘Athi-Patra Ruga: Of Gods, Rainbows and Omissions’ will open on the 4th of October in the Terrace Rooms of the South Wing, and run until the 7th of January 2019. “New and rarely…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at 1-54 London

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce their participation in 1-54 London 2018. The gallery will be located at Booth E2 from 4–7 October at Somerset House, Strand (London), presenting works by Dan Halter, Thania Petersen, and Buhlebezwe Siwani. Click here for more information.

Michele Mathison at Frieze Sculpture 2018

WHATIFTHEWORLD is please to announce that Michele Mathison has been selected to participate in Frieze Sculpture 2018 in London.In place from 4 July to 7 October 2018, Frieze Sculpture is located in the English Gardens of The Regent’s Park. Entrance to Frieze Sculpture is free to the public. Frieze Sculpture will return to The Regent’s…

Lungiswa Gqunta at The Showroom

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Lungiswa Gqunta will be presenting new works from her residency at Gasworks at The Showroom. The exhibition, titled Women on Aeroplanes will take place from the 3rd of October 2018 until 29 January 2019. The exhibition will open at The Showroom (63 Penfold Street London NW8 8PQ) at 18h00…

Athi-Patra Ruga at the New Art Exchange

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga is included in Africa State of Mind at the New Art Exchange in London. The exhibition opens on the 29th of September until the 16th of December 2018. The exhibition will tour to the Impressions Gallery, Bradford in 2019. Africa State of Mind, curated by Ekow Eshun with NAE,…

Pierre Fouche at Hunterdon Art Museum

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Pierre Fouche’s work will be included in the exhibition ‘Lace, not Lace: Contemporary Fiber Art from Lacemaking Techniques’ at the Hunterdon Art Museum in New Jersey, USA. “A groundbreaking exhibition showcasing the work of contemporary fiber artists applying bobbin and needle lace techniques to a multitude of fibers and filaments…

Cameron Platter at KZNSA

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce Cameron Platter’s solo exhibition, ‘GALAXY AS0-730223NMJ-ZSDSSS’ at the KZNSA gallery in Durban! This exhibition showcases new paintings, collages, video, and sculptural works by Cameron Platter and is running from 06 September until 07 October 2018. Click here for more information.

Mia Chaplin at Cité Internationale Des Artes

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Mia Chaplin has been selected to take part in a 2 month residency programme at Cité Internationale Des Artes in the Marais district, Paris. “Ever since the Cité internationale des arts was founded in 1965, artists have been coming from all over the world to take part in our…

Lungiswa Gqunta at Rijksakademie

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Lungiswa Gqunta has been selected for the Rijksakademie Residency in 2019. The Rijksakademie contributes to the development and renewal of the artistic practice by carefully selecting talented and ambitious artists for a work period. This two-year program offers artists theoretical, technical and artistic facilities. Research into, experimentation with, and…

WHATIFTHEWORLD Artists at Cairns Art Gallery

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that works by Buhlebezwe Siwani, Athi-Patra Ruga and Mohau Modisakeng will be included in the exhibition “Continental Drift” at the Cairns Art Gallery in Queensland, Australia which will take place from 6 July to 23 September 2018 Continental Drift highlights the shared experiences of contemporary blak/black artists from South Africa…

Lungiswa Gqunta at Gasworks, London

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce Lungiswa Gqunta’s residency at Gasworks in London, which runs from 2 July – 17 September 2018. During her residency at Gasworks Lungiswa plans to further extend the notion of displacement explored in her previous works by creating interventions that evoke and represent some of the physical discomfort experienced as a…

Athi-Patra Ruga at Sean Kelly Gallery

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that new works by Athi-Patra Ruga are to be included in a group exhibition ‘Ravelling Threads‘ which opens on Thursday, 21st of June at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. The exhibition will open from 6-8 pm at 475 Tenth Avenue. Sean Kelly is delighted to present Ravelled Threads,…

Lungiswa Gqunta at Manifesta 12 Palermo

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Lungiswa Gqunta is participating in this year’s Manifesta taking place from the 16th of June until the 4th of November 2018 in Palermo, Italy. Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, originated in the early nineties in response to the political, economic and social changes following the end of the Cold…

Mohau Modisakeng at ARTCAPITAL 2018

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Mohau Modisakeng’ work Passage (2017) is included in the exhibition In Pursuit of Eden as part of Art Capital 2018 in Hungary. This year’s festival centres on the concept of the garden, and – with its 24 new exhibitions, 52 programs and 136 artists – welcomes visitors in Szentendre, the Hungarian…

Cameron Platter in Los Angeles, San Fransisco and Paris

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Cameron Platter will host three solo exhibition aboard during the months of May and June. The exhibitions will take place in1301PE, Los Angeles; Éric Hussenot, Paris; and Ever Gold [Projects], San Fransisco. See below for the various dates and addresses. Teen Non_Fiction at 1301PE. 19 May – 16 June, 2018 6150…

Ruby Swinney at Zeitz MOCAA

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Ruby Swinney will host a solo exhibition title Human Nature at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art. There will be a preview on the evening of the 30th of May at 7pm. Please note access to preview events are on presentation of membership card and ID. The exhibition will run…

Lungiswa Gqunta at CCA, Lagos

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Lungiswa Gqunta will be involved in a research project, Women on Aeroplanes, to be hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria. The project is titled after Ghanaian writer Bernard Kojo Laing’s critically acclaimed second novel, Women of the Aeroplanes, written in 1988. The project will comprise of a…

Lungiswa Gqunta at Glasgow International

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Lungiswa Gqunta is included (as part of the IQhiya Collective) in the 2018 Glasgow International Festival which opens on Friday. IQhiya’s project will take place at 6pm, on the 20th of April at Transmission (28 King Street Glasgow G1 5QP), followed by an exhibition which will run until the 7th of May. Working…

Olaf Hajek at Southern Guild

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Olaf Hajek will be presenting a solo exhibition of new work at Southern Guild. The exhibition Paravent will open on Tuesday, the 24th of April, and run until the 12th of July 2018. Paravent by Olaf Hajek, presented in collaboration with WHATIFTHEWORLD, is the internationally renowned German painter’s third solo show…

Athi Patra Ruga at The Afrika Museum

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga’s work; which was awarded the grand prize at the 11th Edition of the African Photo Biennale in Bamako, will travel to The Netherlands to be exhibited at The Afrika Museum. The exhibition will open on the 14th of April until the 2nd of September 2018. On Friday, April…

Gallery Closing Dates

Please note that WHATIFTHEWORLD will close on the 28th of March for the deinstallation of Dan Halter’s solo exhibition Patience can Cook a Stone. The gallery will be closed until the opening of our new premises in Cape Town towards the end of April. Please follow our social media channels here and here, for updates…

Michele Mathison Tour at Zeitz MOCCA

The Fruits of Our Labour: A tour with Michele Mathison ‘The Fruits of Our Labour’ is a walking tour with the artist, Michele Mathison and Zeitz MOCAA Assistant Curator of Sculpture, Marijke Andrea Tymbios. Born in South Africa, raised in Zimbabwe, Michele Mathison creates work inspired by his surroundings. Addressing issues of labour, agriculture and humanity’s treatment of- and dependence…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at The Armory Show 2018

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce its participation in The Armory Show 2018. Athi-Patra Ruga will be exhibiting a solo presentation of works in the Presents Section (P3). The fair will take place this weekend, 8-11 March 2018 at Armory Show Piers 92 & 94 in New York. Location Piers 92 & 94 711 12th Avenue at 55th Street…

Mohau Modisakeng at M.Bassy

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Mohau Modisakeng is included in the group exhibition More Aphrike #7 »Afrofuturism is now« at M.Bassy in Hamburg, Germany. Afrofuturism is a pop-culture movement which ensued in the African-American communities in the 1950s as a result of racism and discrimination. It then wanted to serve as a contrast to the sad…

Michele Mathison Public Sculpture for V&A Waterfront

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Michele Mathison’s commission – ‘Angular Mass’ will be unveiled at the Silo District this month. The unveiling will take place at 6pm on the 15th of February at the V & A Waterfront The sculpture comprises of five large flywheels that formed an integral part of the original Grain…

Celebrating a Decade

WHATIFTHEWORLD is proud to announce our 10-year anniversary, celebrating a decade of forging new paths in the South African contemporary art scene. To mark this milestone in the development of the gallery and looking forward to the next 10 years, we are pleased to announce the launch of our new premises in central Cape Town…

Buhlebezwe Siwani at Kunsthal KAdE

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Buhlebezwe Siwani is included in the group exhibition Tell Freedom at the Kunsthal KAdE in the Netherlands. The exhibition will take place from the 27th of January to the 6th of May 2018. The exhibition Tell Freedom comprises new and existing work by fifteen young artists from South Africa. In it,…

Mohau Modisakeng at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Mohau Modisakeng will be included in the upcoming exhibition – ‘Ex Africa’, at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro. The exhibition will open on the 20th of January, and run until March 26th 2018. Bringing together dozens of names that attract international attention, but are…

Dan Halter at the Weatherspoon Art Museum

WHATIFTHEWORLD is please to announce that Dan Halter’s work is included in the exhibition Baggage Claims, which was first exhibited at the Orlando Museum of Art last year. The exhibition will now travel to its second location at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in North Carolina, where it will open on the 26th of January at 18h30….

Athi-Patra Ruga at Nordwind Hamburg

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga will be premiering his performance ‘Queens in Exile’ – featuring Angel-Ho and Tanya Tagaq, at the Nordwind Festival in Hamburg on the 16th of December 2017 . In this performance, the South African performer and visual artist Athi-Patra Ruga and the Canadian singer Tanya Tagaq gives voice…

Dan Halter at the Konstmuseet in Skövde

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Dan Halter will be exhibiting a solo exhibition titled ‘Zimbabwean Traffic’ in the museum at the Skövde Kulturhus. The exhibition will open on this Thursday (14th of December) at 17h00, and run until 18 March 2018. Dan Halter left Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe’s major land reforms in the early…

Gallery Closing Dates

Please note that the WHATIFTHEWORLD (CPT & JHB) will close on the 23rd of December 2017. The Cape Town gallery will reopen on the 8th of January 2018 with Athi-Patra Ruga’s exhibition – ‘Queens in Exile 2014–2017’, which will run until the 27th of January 2018. Please contact mia@whatiftheworld.com should you require any urgent information. Happy Holidays!

Athi-Patra Ruga wins Grand Prize at the 11th Edition of Rencontres de Bamako in Mali

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga has been awarded the Seydou Keïta Prize (Grand Prize) of Les Rencontres de Bamako by the Malian Ministry of Culture. Ruga’s work is included in the Pan African Exhibition at the National Museum of Mali, as part of the Rencontres de Bamako/ biennale africaine de la photographie which will…

Cameron Platter at blank projects

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Cameron Platter will exhibiting a new body of work at blank projects in his solo exhibition ZOL. The exhibition will open this Thursday (19 October) at 10 Lewin Street, Woodstock. Incorporating aspects of sculpture, drawing, video, collage, poetry, tapestry, and web, Cameron Platter’s practice appropriates and filters, in a highly personal…

Athi-Patra Ruga at Nordwind Berlin

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga will be particapating in the Nordwind Festival 2017 in Germany. Ruga will be performing on the 9th of November at 8.15pm at the silent green Kulturquartier (without Tanya Tagaq) and in December in Hamburg at Kampnagel – Internationales Zentrum für schönere Künstel In his performance The BEATification of Feral Benga,…

Mohau Modisakeng at PERFORMA

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Mohau Modisakeng is included in PERFORMA 17, with his performance ‘Zion’. For Zion, Modisakeng choreographs a street procession of twenty dancers, each one carrying an array of personal possessions, various pieces of baggage, and furniture via an exodus choreography of walking, running, jumping, falling, leaning, and sitting—enacting the blistered legacy of…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at 1-54 London 2017

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce its participation in 1-54 London 2017 from the 5-8th of October at Somerset House (Strand, London, WC2R 1LA). We will be exhibiting a group presentation (Room CR30) including new works by Dan Halter, Mohau Modisakeng, Lakin Ogunbanwo, Athi-Patra Ruga, and Buhlebezwe Siwani. Opening Hours. Thursday 5 October: 11:00 – 19:00…

Michele Mathison, Mohau Modisakeng and Moffat Takadiwa at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Michele Mathison, Mohau Modisakeng and Moffat Takadiwa are included in African Voices, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. The exhibition will run until the 31st of October 2017. The exhibition’s main thrust is centered on confronting frontiers. It is time to take stock of the past…

Dan Halter and Pierre Fouché at the A4 Arts Foundation

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Dan Halter and Pierre Fouché are included in the group exhibition You & I at The A4 Arts Foundation. The exhibition will open in conjunction with Gallery Night (hosted by Cape Town Art Fair) at 18h00 on Wednesday, 13 September. You & I will run from 13 Septmeber until 31 October…

Gallery Night in Cape Town

WHATIFTHEWORLD will be participating in (in association with Cape Town Art Fair) on Wednesday, 13 September, between 16h00 and 21h30. On the night we’ll be opening Mohau Modisakeng’s Solo exhibition – Passage, which will include a performance commencing promptly at 18h00. We will also be presenting a group exhibition titled ‘Every Anomaly’ including work by…

Bend to Her Will in Johannesburg

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Sanell Aggenbach’s exhibition Bend to Her Will will travel to Johannesburg, to be exhibited in our gallery in Rosebank. The exhibition will open on the 6th of September 2017, and run until the 14th of October. Please join us for the open on the 6th of September at 18h00 until…

Winter Break

Please note that the Cape Town gallery will close for the annual winter break from the 12th of August until the 27th of August. We will reopen on the 28th of August with Pierre Fouché’s exhibition – ‘Vreesaanjaende Verligting’ which has been extended until the 2nd of September. The Johannesburg gallery will close on the…

Mohau Modisakeng and Athi Patra Ruga in Another Antipodes Exhibition

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Mohau Modisakeng and Athi-Patra Ruga are included in the Another Antipodes Inc Exhibition: Urban Axis taking place in Perth, Australia. In an Australian first, Another Antipodes/urban axis exhibition project is poised to deliver the freshest of new art from Africa this winter in Perth and Fremantle and one of the…

Lungiswa Gqunta at KELDER Projects

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Lungiswa Gqunta is exhibiting her solo project Poolside Conversations at KELDER Projects in London. The exhibition will open on the 5th of October at 18h30, and will run until the 17th of December 2017 at KELDER (Basement of Mercer & Co., 26A Chapel Market, London N1 9EN) Lungiswa Gqunta…

Athi-Patra Ruga and Buhlebezwe Siwani at the Foundation Louis Vuitton

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga and Buhlebezwe Siwani are include in the Art/Africa, le nouvel atelier exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton. Ruga and Siwani’s work will feature in the section titled Being There: South Africa, a contemporary scene. A selection of artists born in the 1980s, whose works examine South African identity…

Buhlebezwe Siwani at Documenta 14

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Buhlebezwe Siwani will be participating in Documenta 14 with the artist collective iQhiya. IQhiya will be presenting two performances and installations titled The Portrait (2016) and Monday (2017). The Portrait is an endurance performance that speaks to the role forced upon Black women in society, referencing the tensions between suffering…

Lakin Ogunbanwo at Galeries Lafayette

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Lakin Ogunbanwo has been commissioned by Galeries Lafayette to create 11 window displays for the iconic building. As part of the Africa Now exhibition, Ogunbanwo’s display will be on show until the 10th of June 2017 at Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, 40 Boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris, France. For more information click here….

Moffat Takadiwa and Mohau Modisakeng at Galerie Des Galeries

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Moffat Takadiwa and Mohau Modisakeng are included in the group exhibition Le Jour Que Vient in Paris. The exhibition will take place from the 28th of March until the 10th of June 2017 at Galerie Des Galeries, 1st floor, Galeries Lafayette, 40 BD, Haussmann, 75009 Paris This exhibition designed by Marie-Ann Yemsi,…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at Art Paris 2017

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce it’s participation in Art Paris 2017. The fair will take place from the 30th of March to the 2nd of April at the Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais in Paris. We will be presenting a solo booth (C8) of photographic and video works by Mohau Modisakeng. Hours. Thursday 30st March /…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at VOLTA NY 2017

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce its participation in VOTLA NY 2017 with a solo presentation by artist Mohau Modisakeng (Booth B09). In Modisakeng’s work the personal is political. Informed by his experience as a young boy in Soweto at the cross-roads of a violent political transition, Modisakeng uses memory as a portal between past and present…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at Cape Town Art Fair 2017

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce its participation in the fifth edition of Cape Town Art Fair, with a group presentation by artists Mohau Modisakeng, Dan Halter, Athi-Patra Ruga, Sanell Aggenbach, Michael Taylor, and Buhlebezwe Siwani (Booth C4). The Cape Town Art Fair is taking place from 17 – 19 February at the Cape Town International Convention Centre…

Gallery Closing Dates

Please note that WHATIFTHEWORLD will be closed from the 25th of December for the Christmas and New Year season. The gallery will reopen on the 3rd of January 2017 or by appointment. Happy Holidays!

Athi-Patra Ruga at Woordfees 2017

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Stellenbosch University Woordfees have selected Athi-Patra Ruga as the 2017 Festival Artist, and will be presenting a retrospective exhibition of tapestries, video, and photograph works at the SU Woordfees 2017. The exhibition will run from the 3rd until the 12th of March, with a performance taking place on the…

Dan Halter and Siwa Mgoboza at Nanjing International Art Festival

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Dan Halter and Siwa Mgoboza have been included in the The Third Nanjing International Art Festival in China. Historicode: Scarcity and Supply opens on the 12th of November 2016 and will be on show until the 12th of February 2017. Regardless of your viewpoint regarding the contemporary, it would be…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at Untitled Art Miami Beach 2016

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce its participation in Untitled Art Miami Beach 2016 with a solo presentation by Paul Edmunds (Booth B46). Untitled Art Miami Beach is taking place from 30 November – 4 December at Ocean Drive and 12th Street, South Beach, Miami. Opening times are as follows: Wednesday, Nov 30, 11am–7pm Thursday, Dec 1, 11am–7pm…

Athi-Patra Ruga lectures at Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

Athi-Patra Ruga has been invited to give a series of lectures hosted by the University of Michigan’s Penny Stamps Speaker Series. Titled “Queens in Exile,” Ruga’s lecture will come first to the MOCAD, on Friday, Nov. 4, from 7-10 p.m. The following Thursday, Nov. 10, he’ll be making his official Penny Stamps Speaker Series presentation…

Mohau Modisakeng at Laumeier Sculpture Park

Mohau Modisakeng will be presenting a solo exhibition hosted by the Laumeier Sculpture Park, at the Whitaker Foundation Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Laumeier presents an indoor multimedia exhibition by South African artist Mohau Modisakeng in the Whitaker Foundation Gallery at the Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center, November 5, 2016–January 29, 2017. Mohau Modisakeng’s exhibition is the…

Mohau Modisakeng at the 57th Venice Biennale

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Mohau Modisakeng has been selected to represent South Africa, along with Candice Breitz, at the South African Pavilion in the 57th Venice Biennale. The South African Department of Arts and Culture has appointed Connect Channel to organise the South African pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. It…

Lakin Ogunbanwo, Mohau Modisakeng, and Siwa Mgoboza at Lagos Photo

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Mohau Modisakeng, Lakin Ogunbanwo, and Siwa Mgoboza are included in the seventh LagosPhoto Festival. ‘Rituals and Performance: Inherent Risk’ opens on the 22nd of October, and runs until the 21st of November. The act of posing as a repetitive act that constructs an image or images which morph into…

Athi-Patra Ruga at PERFORMA

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga will be performing a collaborative piece titled Over the Rainbow – at the 2016 Performa Gala in New York. Beloved Country’ will feature a special tribute to the power of the visual arts and performance in South Africa in honour of renowned curator Okwui Enwezor on the 1st…

Simphiwe Ndzube wins 2016 Tollman Award

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Simphiwe Ndzube is this years recipient of the prestigious Tollman Award. The award is accompanied by a grant of R100 000, and is awarded to a young artist who has critical acclaim but limited resources to realize the full potential of their work. Previous winners include: Wim Botha, Churchill Madikida,…

Dan Halter in 100 Geographies

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Dan Halter will be included in the group exhibition 100 Geographies, at the Stellenbosch Museum. The exhibition, hosted by the SSAG (Soceity of South African Geographers, will take place 29 September to 21 December 2016. The reception will take place at 18h30 on 29 September, at the Stellenbosch Museum, 52…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at Joburg Art Fair 2016

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce its participation in the 2016 FNB Joburg Art Fair with a group presentation by artists Sanell Aggenbach, Mohau Modisakeng, John Murray, Simphiwe Ndzube, Athi-Patra Ruga, Rowan Smith, Ruby Swinney and Moffat Takadiwa (Booth 76). The Joburg Art Fair is taking place from 9 – 11 September in the Sandton Convention…

Lyndi Sales at CIRCA

Castle in the Air is Lyndi Sales’ second solo exhibition at Circa Gallery in Johannesburg. This new body of work exists at the interface of art and rationalism, reason and wonder. Working with hand-woven textiles, sculptural installation and collage, she uses the “basic building blocks of the universe” as a departure point for her artistic enquiry. Whilst located…

WHATIFTHEWORLD & Southern Guild in Johannesburg

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to introduce the launch of its new gallery space in Johannesburg, in collaboration with Southern Guild. The gallery is located at Trumpet, 19 Keyes Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg. This collaboration of contemporary art and collectible design presents a strong focus on leading artists and designers from Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and South…

Dan Halter at M HKA

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Dan Halter has been included in ENERGY FLASH – The Rave Movement at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen. Rave culture from the 1980s and 1990s was Europe’s last big youth movement. During this period of radical social and political change, rave, in its various guises, migrated around the continent…

Lakin Ogunbanwo at BOZAR

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Lakin Ogunbanwo is included in the exhibition ‘Dey your Lane!’ as part of ‘Summer of Photography 2016’ in Brussels. ‘Dey your Lane!’ is a typical Lagos expression for ‘mind your own business’. When you realise that Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, with a…

Mohau Modisakeng at the National Arts Festival

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce Lefa La Ntate, an exhibition of work by Mohau Modisakeng as part of his 2016 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art. The exhibition takes place at the Monument Gallery in Grahamstown during the National Arts Festival 2016. The exhibition will run from 30th June until the 10th July…

Cameron Platter at Depart Foundation

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Cameron Platter will be exhibiting a new body of work at Depart Foundation in Los Angeles. The exhibition U-SAVED-ME will be on show from 23 June until 24 September at Depart Foundation, 9105 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. U-SAVED-ME is Cameron Platter’s first solo exhibition in the United States, featuring…

Athi-Patra Ruga Performance in Denmark

Athi-Patra Ruga presents the newly conceived performance ‘The Decimation’ as part of the ‘An Age Of Our Own Making’ Performance Festival which is held from the 25-26 June 2016 in Roskilde Denmark. ‘An Age of Our Own Making’ is an exhibition project in three parts, the first part in Holbaek. The project examines the human and…

Mohau Modisakeng at Tyburn Gallery

Mohau Modisakeng will be opening a solo exhibition, Bophirima at Tyburn Gallery, London, UK from 10 June to 17 September 2016. His new work’s title, Bophirima, is from the artist’s mother tongue Setswana, meaning ‘West’ or ‘where the sun sets’, but can also be interpreted as ‘twilight’ or ‘before dusk’. The series reflects on his own personal experiences of…

Lakin Ogunbanwo at Red Hook Labs

Lakin Ogunbanwo’s latest series of photographs will form part of the group exhibition Nataal: New African Photography at Red Hook Labs in New York. The group show, which runs from 7 to 15 May 2016, features six contemporary photographers from Africa and its diaspora. The works of the selected artists, both emerging and internationally recognised, express…

Michael Taylor at M Contemporary

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce Michael Taylor’s second solo exhibition at M Contemporary in Sydney Australia. The exhibition titled Jungle Husband will be on display from 7 to 29 May 2016. In his portraits, Taylor explores notions around masculinity, selfhood, and personal mythology. Themes of disillusionment, escapism, solitude, and longing, were important for the artist’s own interpretation of…

Moffat Takadiwa & Mohau Modisakeng at WAM

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce the participation of Mohau Modisakeng and Moffat Takadiwa in the group exhibition When Tomorrow Comes. When Tomorrow Comes is currently on show at the Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg until the 29th May, after which it will move to the Michaelis Galleries in Cape Town from 11 July to 5…

Dan Halter & Mohau Modisakeng at the Weserberg Museum

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that works by Dan Halter and Mohau Modisakeng will be exhibited, alongside other works from the Reydan Weiss Collection, at the Weserberg Museum in Germany. The exhibition, I Prefer Life marks the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the Weserberg Museum. I Prefer Life will run from 20 May until 26…

Dan Halter in Rennie Collection

Dan Halter forms part of the Rennie Museum’s permanent collection and current exhibition titled Winter 2015: Collected Works – a major group exhibition featuring 41 prominent and emerging artists. The exhibition, which runs until 20 May 2016, brings together a variety of practices and media and aims to reveal the chaos of the world by addressing enduringly…

Mohau Modisakeng at Galerie Ron Mandos

Mohau Modisakeng’s new solo exhibition titled ENDABENI is currently on show at Galerie Ron Mandos in Amsterdam. ENDABENI, which opened on the 17th of February, is Modisakeng’s first solo exhibition in The Netherlands and will be on until the 2nd of April. Click here for more information

The Armory Show 2016

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce its participation in The Armory Show 2016 with a solo presentation of work by Dan Halter (Booth 550). The Armory Show will take place from 3 – 6 March at Pier 94 in New York. Dan Halter’s work engages with empire and the continued impact of colonialism on the African continent….

Michele Mathison at Tyburn Gallery

Michele Mathison’s debut solo exhibition at Tyburn Gallery (London) titled Uproot will be on show from 5 February until 19 March. Through the manipulation of various materials, Mathison transforms everyday objects into charged artistic declarations. Informed by his own migratory experience, living primarily in South Africa and Zimbabwe, his sculptures and installations form a visual language…

Gallery Closing Dates

Please note that WHATIFTHEWORLD will be closed over the Christmas and New Year season. The gallery will however be open on the following dates: Tuesday, 29 December & Wednesday, 30 December. WHATIFTHEWORLD will reopen on the 5th of January 2016 or by appointment. Happy Holidays!

Nico Krijno in Romantik

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Nico Krijno will be participating in the group exhibition Romantik at August Produzentengalerie, Cologne, Germany. The exhibition runs from the 26th November until the 6th December 2015. Romance – What it is capable of, where are its limits? There is the thesis, that romance is displaced by the humans putative need…

Pierre Fouché and Athi-Patra Ruga in Queer Threads Exhibition

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce the inclusion of Pierre Fouché and Athi-Patra Ruga in the group exhibition Queer Threads curated by John Chaich, and organised by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Twenty-six artists from around the world remixing fiber traditions and materials to explore contemporary LGBTQ identities and ideas. The exhibition opens at…

Mohau Modisakeng wins the 2016 Standard Bank Young Artists Award

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that artist Mohau Modisakeng wins the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for 2016. “Bringing visual art to the table is Soweto born Mohau Modisakeng. Known primarily as a sculptor, Mohau is a multidisciplinary artist who has ventured into film, installation, performance, and large-scale photographic prints. A Masters graduate from UCT’s…

Athi-Patra Ruga at Theatre National De Chaillot

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga’s debut performance It is Only in the Black of Night That You Can See the Stars will take place from 3-5 November at Theatre National De Chaillot in Paris, France. This performance will form part of the Lumières d’Afriques initiative. Click here for further information

Michele Mathison at Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion

WHATIFTHEWORLD and Zeitz MOCAA are pleased to announce that Michele Mathison’s installation Harvest will be presented at the Zeitz MOCAA Scheryn Pavilion. Originally previewed at the exhibition Dudziro in the Zimbabwean Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2013, Harvest opens on 7 November (12pm – 8pm) and will run until 17 January 2016. Entry is free and open to all….

Mohau Modisakeng at MoCADA

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Mohau Modisakeng will be participating in the group exhibition DIS/PLACE at the Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) in Brooklyn, NY. The exhibition opens on Saturday, 17 October and will run until 17 January 2016. Displacement, or a state of being rooted in uprootedness, is a consequence of colonial conquest in Africa…

Pierre Fouché at Museum of Fine Arts Boston

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Pierre Fouché’s work is included in Crafted: Objects in Flux at the Henry and Lois Foster Gallery (Gallery 158), Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. This group exhibition, which runs until 10 January 2016, is the first of its kind within an encyclopedic museum to explore the broad possibilities of…

Sanell Aggenbach at Aardklop 2015

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Sanell Aggenbach was selected as the festival artist for the 2015 Aardklop festival. A solo exhibition of Aggenbach’s work, titled Atopia, will be presented at the North-West University in Potchefstroom from 5 – 10 October 2015. Through this presentation of a new series of paintings and scukptures, Aggenbach renews her…

WHATIFTHEWORLD artists at Tyburn Gallery

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that artists Dan Halter, Michele Mathison, Mohau Modisakeng, Lakin Ogunbanwo, Athi-Patra Ruga, and Moffat Takadiwa are participating in ‘Broken English’ at Tyburn Gallery, London. The ‘Broken English’ group exhibition is the Tyburn Gallery’s inaugural exhibition and will be on display from 18 September to 28 October 2015. Click here for further information…

Athi-Patra Ruga at In Situ Paris

In Situ Gallery, presents the exhibition A Land Without A People… For A People Without A Land by WHATIFTHEWORLD artist Athi-Patra Ruga. The exhibition runs from 10 September until 31 October 2015 at In Situ, Paris, France. Azania is a borderless country, one without geography. “A Land without a People for a People without a…

Athi-Patra Ruga on 21 Icons

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga is featured as the first icon on Season 3 of 21 Icons which will be showcased on SABC 3 this Sunday, 6 Septmeber at 19:27. 21 Icons is the next generation of South African leaders, influencers and role models exploring these creative and exceptional young people’s lives…

Nico Krijno in re:GROUP Exhibition

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Nico Krijno will be participating in the group show re:GROUP – A Visual Collaboration with Nico Krijno, Roelof Petrus van Wyk & Dokter and Misses. When Art, Architecture and Design collide in a massive mashup celebrating spring break. A selection of works from Krijno’s most recent exhibition, New Gestures: Fabricated to be…

Nico Krijno book shortlisted for The Unseen Dummy Awards 2015

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Nico Krijno’s book New Gestures: Fabricated to be Photographed (2015); designed by Ben Johnson, has been shortlisted for The Unseen Dummy Award 2015. Click here for further information

Winter Break

Please note that WHATIFTHEWORLD will be closed from the 15th of August until the 1st of September. Please contact mia@whatiftheworld.com should you require any urgent information.

Bogosi Sekhukhuni & Athi-Patra Ruga at TATE Modern

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that artists Bogosi Sekhukhuni and Athi-Patra Ruga will be participating in The Film Will Always Be You: South African Artists on Screen at the TATE Modern in London, UK. This exhibition, curated by Zoe Whitley and Abrie Fourie, forms part of SA-UK Seasons 2014 – 2015 and the screenings will be…

Athi-Patra Ruga at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival

Athi-Patra Ruga Presents The Elder of Azania a work that is part of his ongoing performance series The Future Women of Azania. First performed at the Yerba Buena Centre/SFMOMA in 2014 and at the Venice Biennale in 2015 this performance will enjoy its first continental premier at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival. The Elder is a new…

WHATIFTHEWORLD on Artsy

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce its partnership with Artsy. Follow WHATIFTHEWORLD on Artsy to keep up to date with upcoming exhibitions and art fairs. Follow WHATIFTHEWORLD on Artsy

Athi-Patra Ruga to participate in Group Show at Louisiana MOMA

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Athi-Patra Ruga will be participating in the group show AFRICA: Architecture, Culture and Identity at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition, which will run from 25 June to 25 October 2015, is the third chapter in Louisiana’s major series Architecture, Culture and Identity. In 2011, the museum unveiled the first…

Athi-Patra Ruga at the 56th Venice Biennale

The Johannesburg Pavilion and WHATIFTHEWORLD are pleased to announce a performance by Athi-Patra Ruga on 5 May 2015 at the Bauer Hotel, Venice. The performance is co-hosted by the Bauer Hotel, Blain Souther and 154 Art Fair as part of the Johannesburg Art Pavilion programme. The Johannesburg Pavilion is curated in memory of the final Johannesburg Biennale curated…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at Art Dubai

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce its participation at Art Dubai 2015 from 18 – 21 March at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai (Booth J6). The gallery will be presenting new work by John Murray, Cameron Platter, Athi-Patra Ruga, and Lyndi Sales. Taking place each year in March, Art Dubai presents a select yet diverse line-up of around 90 galleries from the…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at VOLTA New York

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce its participation at the 2015 VOLTA New York from 5 – 8 March at Pier 90 in New York (Booth B11). The gallery will be presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Michael Taylor. VOLTA NY is a platform for challenging, often complementary — and sometimes competing — ideas about contemporary art. Single-artist booths…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at Cape Town Art Fair

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce its participation in the 2015 Cape Town Art Fair (Booth A11). The gallery will be presenting a selection of works by artists Cameron Platter, John Murray, Maja Marx, Rowan Smith and Lakin Ogunbanwo. The Art Fair will take place from 26 February to 1 March at the Avenue, Dock Road at the…

Athi-Patra Ruga at I.T Beijing Market

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that an installation of Athi-Patra Ruga’s work is currently on show at the I.T Beijing Market, Comme des Garcons store in Beijing. Click here for further information

Cameron Platter announced as 2015 Resident Artist at Zeitz MOCAA

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Cameron Platter has been confirmed as the 2015 Artist in Residence at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA).

Nico Krijno’s book Synonym Study is shortlisted for The Paris Photo Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2014

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Nico Krijno’s book, Synonym Study made the shortlist for the The Paris Photo Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2014. Krijno’s book is self-published, with support from the 133 Arts Fund and has been shortlisted under the First Photobook category. The book is also part of a travelling exhibition that visits New York, Tokyo…

Lakin Ogunbanwo makes the British Journal of Photography’s ‘Ones To Watch’ List

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that Lakin Ogunbanwo has been recognised as one to watch for 2015 by the British Journal of Photography in their annual Ones To Watch edition. Out of the 300 emerging photographers nominated in the annual survey of global talent, Ogunbanwo was placed on the Top 25 Photographers for 2015 list. Click here for further…

Athi-Patra Ruga wins the 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist Award

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce Athi-Patra Ruga as the 2015 Winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Performance. The Standard Bank Young Artist Award is arguably the most prestigious accolade to be awarded in South Africa, and is given to young South African artists who have demonstrated exceptional ability in their chosen fields….

WHATIFTHEWORLD at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce its participation at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair from 16-19 October at Somerset House in London (Booth G-16). The gallery will be presenting new work specifically commissioned for 1:54 by artists Dan Halter, John Murray, Athi-Patra Ruga, Cameron Platter and Lakin Ogunbanwo. 1:54 is a platform for galleries, artists,…

WHATIFTHEWORLD artists on show at the National Gallery

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that the works of artists Dan Halter, Cameron Platter, Athi-Patra Ruga and Pierre Fouche are on display at the Iziko South African National Gallery. These artists’ work form part of the latest exhibition at the Iziko South African National Gallery entitled Brave New World…20 Years of Democracy, which will be…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at START Art Fair

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to announce that the works of Dan Halter and Rowan Smith will be on show at the START Art Fair (booth 7.2) in London, UK. The inaugural START Art Fair presented by Prudential is held at the Saatchi Gallery in London from 26 – 29 June 2014. The fair is dedicated to…

WHATIFTHEWORLD at Volta 10 Basel

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to present new work by Athi-Patra Ruga, Cameron Platter and Dan Halter at booth B2 at VOLTA10 in Basel, Switzerland from 16 to 21 June. VOLTA is Basel’s renowned platform for presenting the vision of contemporary art galleries of global prestige whose artists represent new and relevant positions for curators and collectors…

WHATIFTHEWORLD artists at Nirox Sculpture Fair

Over the weekend of 10 and 11 May 2014, four WHATIFTHEWORLD artists will be exhibiting their work at the NIROX Foundation Sculpture Park in Johannesburg. Cameron Platter, Michele Mathison, Rodan Kane Hart and Daniella Mooney will all be showcasing some of their latest sculptures as part of The 2014 Mastercard Winter Sculpture Fair, situated in the…

Dan Halter Work On Show At Fowler Museum (UCLA)

Dan Halter’s work will be on show as part of an exhibition titled Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa at the Fowler Museum at the University of California (23 April – 14 September 2014). The exhibition features more than one hundred exceptional works of art from the 19th–21st centuries,…

Athi-Patra Ruga on the cover of Art South Africa Magazine

The photograph by Athi-Patra Ruga entitled Night of the Long Knives I is the cover image for the March 2014 edition of Art South Africa magazine. Anal Beads Click here to obtain copies