For the week leading up to the FNB Joburg Art Fair, Art Week Joburg will activate various creative hubs with a line-up of events including exhibitions, artist walkabouts, performances, public art walks, panel discussions, and graffiti tours.
Among the creative hubs to be activated are the Rosebank art strip, Maboneng Precinct, Arts on Main, Braamfontein, Newtown, and Alexandra.
Art Week Joburg has been modelled on Art Week Cape Town, and is a “collaborative partnership” between the Contemporary Art Development Trust, the Visual Arts Network South Africa, and Artlogic.
“Highlights of the week abound, including Pat Mautloa’s exhibition at Mashumi Projects in Vilakazi Street, Soweto on 19 August; a walkabout on 20 August by artist Roger Ballen at Circa on Jellicoe; as well as a thought-provoking panel discussion titled Regarding Women at Gallery Momo; and a performance at Goodman Gallery by The Brother Moves On titled The Brother Breaks the Bullion,” said spokesperson Diana Williams.
“On 23 August, Fourthwall Books [will host] a talk on publishing, and Short Change [will open] at the Market Theatre.”
Williams said that the week-long event will seek to create a “more robust” community of art producers, consumers and appreciators by acting as a “market platform, an information hub, and a leisure attraction for locals and visitors”.
“Forty-eight participants, including art galleries, individual artists, independent spaces and curators will host Art Week Joburg,” she said.
“Aside from the main programme, broader precinct activity such as restaurants, shops, neighbourhood markets, and live music are included.”
Art-lovers will be able to make the most of Art Week Joburg with a shuttle service that will ferry people to and around the Rosebank art strip, Maboneng Precinct, Soweto, and Alexandra.
Art Week Joburg will run from 19 until 24 August at various venues around the city.
FNB Joburg Art Fair will run from 22 until 24 August at the Sandton Convention Centre, 161 Maude Street, Sandton.
Details: 011 402 2085; www.artweek.co.za
Art Week Joburg host venues:
Soweto: Eat My Dust, EST 1912, Mashumi Art Projects, Eyethu Centre, Maboneng Township Arts Experience.
Rosebank art strip: Circa on Jellicoe, David Krut Projects and Publishing, Everard Read Gallery, Gallery 2, Gallery Momo, Goodman Gallery, Goethe Institut, Lizamore and Associates, MAKER, Resolution Gallery.
Maboneng Precinct: Bailey African History Archives, David Krut Projects, GoetheonMain, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Joburg Fringe 2014, Living Artists Emporium, Nirox Projects Space, Parts and Labour, Museum of African Design, RubixCube, Trinity Sessions, Imba Ya Sarai, Workhouse Foundry, Bronwyn Lace, Hannelie Coetzee, Kim Lieberman, Lorenzo Nassimbeni, Ingrid Lefleur.
Braamfontein and Newtown: Art on Paper, Assemblage, Artist Proof Studio, Fourthwall Books, Ithuba Arts Fund, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Market Photo Workshop Gallery, Room, Stevenson Gallery, The Bag Factory, Two by Two Art Studio, Wits Art Museum, Wits Substation.
Alexandra: Gom.Art, Maboneng Township Arts Experience.
