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Cape Town's original non-profit art-space.
 

The AVA is a non-profit, membership based art organisation whose aim is the advancement of visual art.

 
 
 
 
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DISCOVER AVA’S DIGITAL ARCHIVE

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

16.01.25 - 27.02.25

 
 

Umngqwambo | Thembeka Heidi Sincuba | Front Gallery

The Promise | Group Show | Nando’s Creative Exchange in partnership with Spier Arts Trust | Main Gallery & Mezzanine

Fragmented Realities: An Algorithmic Lens | Kathy Robins | Long Gallery

 
 

AVA on Latitudes Online

Curious about what you missed? Dive into our past exhibitions on Latitudes Online.

 
 
JOURNAL
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Flipside Talk at the Cape Town Book Fair 2024

Olga Speakes | Dr. Kim Gurney | Bongani Kona

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Artist Talk with Ashraf Jamal

Exploring Love Unbound by Freya Willemoes-Wissing

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Notice of the 2024 AGM

16 October | 6pm

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Call for Board Member Nominations (CLOSED)

2024 AGM

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AVA is Hiring (CLOSED)

Gallery Administrator

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HEAT Winter Arts Festival

11.07.2024 - 21.07.2024

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2025 Open Call! (CLOSED)

Calling all artists and curators!

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AVA at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair 2024

Stall C5: 24.05.2024 - 26.05.2024

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FLIPSIDE BOOK LAUNCH

Flipside: The Inadvertent Archive

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Archiving the Future Symposium

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THE PROMISE

Nando’s Creative Exchange | Spier Arts Trust

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Fragmented Realities: An Algorithmic Lens

Kathy Robins

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Umngqwambo

Thembeka Heidi Sincuba

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DID YOU HEAR THAT SOUND?

Boytchie

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Fabrics of Society

Curated by Nani Mntonintshi

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Time As Method

Catriona Towriss

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Elsewhere or Apprentice

Clara van Or

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For(Sea)Change

The Printing Girls

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Conversations in Colour: A Departure Point

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Love Unbound

Freya Willemoes-Wissing

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View fullsize Artists’ Walkabout Saturday 7 December 11am Please joins us this Saturday for a walkabout of three of our current exhibitions: Main Gallery: Fabrics of Society | Joël Mamboka Nkumu, Micke Buitendag, Nusenu Prince Mawuli, and Viviane H
View fullsize Last night AVA celebrated the opening of four new fantastic exhibitions: Front Gallery: DID YOU HEAR THAT SOUND? | Boytchie @boytchie_ Main Gallery: Fabrics of Society | Artists: Joël Mamboka Nkumu | @joel_mamboka | Micke Buitendag
View fullsize Opening Tonight 28 November | 5pm - 8pm Please joins us tonight for the opening of: Elsewhere or Apprentice Clara van Or @claravanor New Media Room: 28.11.24 - 09.01.25 Featuring a performance by the artist and Andrew van Diemen | 6:30 pm A gr
View fullsize Opening Tonight 28 November | 5pm - 8pm Please join us this evening for the opening of: Time as Method Catriona Towriss @catrionatowriss Mezzanine & Long Gallery: Main Gallery: 28.11.24 - 09.01.25 In Time As Method, Catriona Towriss
View fullsize Opening Thursday 28 November | 5pm - 8pm Please joins us this Thursday for the opening of: DID YOU HEAR THAT SOUND? Boytchie @boytchie_ Front Gallery: 28.11.2024 - 09.01.2025 DID YOU HEAR THAT SOUND? Is Boytchie’s first solo presentation
View fullsize Opening Thursday 28 November | 5pm - 8pm Please join us this Thursday for the opening of: Fabrics of Society Artists: Joël Mamboka Nkumu @joel_mamboka | Micke Buitendag @micke.buitendag | Nusenu Prince Mawuli @nusenu.p.mawuli | Viviane Her

iQhiya Panel AVA

 
PAST EXHIBITIONS
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DID YOU HEAR THAT SOUND?

Boytchie

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Fabrics of Society

Curated by Nani Mntonintshi

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Time As Method

Catriona Towriss

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Elsewhere or Apprentice

Clara van Or

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For(Sea)Change

The Printing Girls

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Conversations in Colour: A Departure Point

Melissa Fontini

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Love Unbound

Freya Willemoes-Wissing

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Destruction Resilience Namaqualand

Curated by Ulric Roberts

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It Is What It Isn’t

Curated by Ben Albertyn

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Kudala ndilapha

Mthetho Sono

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Liminal Spaces and Guardian Spirits

Jill Joubert and Bridget Simons

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Unbinding Histories

Group show | Curated by Cagla Demirbas 

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Baking Stories in the Sun

by Staša Hlava & Christel Liebenberg

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Infinite Threads

Nina Kruger

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Ityala aliboli

Vusumzi Nkomo

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News From Elsewhere

 Vincent Bezuidenhout

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Miili Yao

by Naisula

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Sohlangana emlanjeni nna?

Curated by Amogelang Maledu.

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Community over Clout

Hosted by Patrick Bongoy and Rafiki

The Creative Block Project - New Creative Blocks available

 

The Creative Block Project - New Creative Blocks available.

 
 

Supporting emerging and established artists of South Africa

An important mandate for nurturing the arts, creativity and talent by the Association for Visual Arts is rooted
in its ArtReach programme

 
 
 
 
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The AVA is generously supported by its Donors and Sponsors