The AVA is a non-profit, membership based art organisation whose aim is the advancement of visual art.
Featured work: Suzanne Leighton, Namibia Coast, 2024
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
A LONG AND REMARKABLE LEGACY
Dating back to 1850, the AVA is the oldest nonprofit gallery in Cape Town with the mission to advance contemporary art and artists.
The AVA is committed to being the most accessible professional gallery space for emerging and independent artists to exhibit and develop their work.
A LIVING ARCHIVE
Discover AVA’s digital archive. Five decades of our archives are available online, for public access and research.
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Alka Dass and Kamyar Bineshtarigh, Kamyar in the Crack, 2024 Cyanotype
Browse our general catalogue featuring a curated selection of available artworks from our past exhibitions, available to purchase. For sales inquiries, contact admin@ava.co.za
Aaron Philander, PA’s morning paper, 2025
Nina Turok Shapiro, Familial Relation I, 2025
Transposing an Echo: Reimagining Oral Setswana Poetry through Digital Intervention
Tebogo Boikanyo Matshana
Tell me about a day you don’t remember
Group Show | Curated by Aaliya Dramat, Aiden Nel, Vida Madighi-Oghu and Erin Sweeney
A Collection to a Degree
Jean-Claude Nsabimana | Rory Emmett | Nobukho Nqaba | Ulriche Jantjes
Opening: Tales of History Retold at The lyatsiba Lab
Curated by Kim Gurney & Carlyn Strydom
Recalling: Reflections of a Queen at AVA Gallery
ArtThrob Student Review by Ellen Augustyn
What Remains: Adelheid Frackiewicz’s ‘Drawing the Line’ at AVA Gallery
ArtThrob Student Review by Tara Hall
Making & Remembering: Aaron Philander’s ‘Nanna’s Kitchen’
ArtThrob Review by Emily Freedman
Supporting emerging and established artists of South Africa
From our annual open call, we curate up to 28 exhibitions per year at our gallery space at 35 Church Street. Principles of experimentation, collaboration and shared decision making are at the heart of the AVA.
After the Anthropocene: Stefan Raubenheimer’s Remember This Land
ArtThrob Student Review by Drew Haller