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Featured work: Josephine Grindrod, Flora III, 2025 (detail)

The Members Exhibition Returns

Opening Friday 25 September

Bringing back the Members Exhibition is a vital step in gathering our community, moving beyond virtual spaces and back onto the gallery walls. For over 55 years, 35 Church Street has served as a locus for artists’ lives. This exhibition offers an opportunity to build bridges across generations, foster dialogue, and cultivate a shared sense of belonging.

Please join us to celebrate the opening:

· Friday, 25 September 2026
· 5pm - 8pm
· Opening remarks at 6pm, featuring our guest Speaker, Andrew Lamprecht, Curator of Historical Paintings & Sculpture, Iziko SANG

The exhibition will be on view until 08.10.26.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

06.08.26 - 17.09.26

Terrains of Memory by Ayobola Kekere-Ekun

Absa L'Atelier Ambassador

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Sequins/Sequence

Ashley Walters

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The Theatre of The Yellow Rock Fort

Kristen McClarty

Cairn

Micro.Exhibits

A LIVING ARCHIVE

Discover AVA’s digital archive. Five decades of our archives are available online, for public access and research.

VISIT

LIMITED STOCK - AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

Flipside: The Inadvertent Archive

by Kim Gurney | R590 Ex. Shipping

This book takes the reader on a thematic journey through the rooms of a former house in Cape Town that the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) has, since 1971, called home. The architectural records that inspire this narrative structure are lodged in the AVA Archive, comprising a vast array of physical documents of care, to which Flipside creatively responds.

Flipside is available for local collection at AVA Gallery, 35 Church Street, Cape Town. We also offer local and international shipping for an additional fee. A member of our team will contact you shortly after purchasing to coordinate your collection or provide a custom shipping quote and delivery timeline.

For sale inquiries, contact admin@ava.co.za

Givan Lötz, Blaze II, 2025

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Pia Truscott, Notes for an Orchestra, 2026

Kirsty Tinkler, Gates of Diss, 2026

Browse our general catalogue featuring a curated selection of artworks from our past exhibitions, available to purchase. For sales inquiries, contact admin@ava.co.za

catalogue

PAST EXHIBITIONS:

Paivapo (There once was…)

Pyda Nyariri

Kite Diagrams

Jonah Sack

The Art of Existing

Kyle Jardine & Careshia Esperanza

Where We Were Wo(r)n

Alka Dass, thato makatu and Zenaéca Singh

Articulated seams

Carola Friess & Kerry Lee Chambers

Making My Way

Pia Truscott

Broken Telephone

Luca Evans & thato makatu

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To Whom It May Concern

Lebogang Mbewe

Notes from the Fire

Givan Lötz

Rumble: The Body Entangled

Alexia Smit

The Crow Messengers

Judith Westerveld

Sacred Debris

Kirsty Tinkler

AVA | 2026 ICTAF

Catalogue

Making Space

Nando’s Creative Exchange | Spier Arts Trust

Ain’t Shit Funny But A Joke Ni…

Tusevo Landu

Coastline, interrupted

Tanja Bosch

“Where Are We Going?”

Richard ‘Specs’ Ndimande

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As Natural As Daylight: Plants, Memory and The Edge of Belonging

Group show | Curated by Yusuf Essop & Jade Nair

Try a Little Tenderness

Hannah Macfarlane and Amber Alcock

JOURNAL:

Notice of 2026 AGM

Tuesday 6 October | 6pm

Apply: 2026 Art Writing Workshop

Hosted by Keely Shinners

Call for Board Member Nominations

2026 AGM

Dance As Social Practice in Ashley Walters’ Sequins/Sequence

HEAT feature by Nkgopoleng Moloi

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Memory from a Different Place - Ayobola Kekere-Ekun

HEAT feature by Chloë Reid

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Paivapo (There once was …) by Pyda Nyariri at the AVA

ArtThrob feature by Sandra Dodson

2027 Open Call (Closed)

Calling all artists and curators!

Call for Internships (Closed)

Gallery Assistant

40 Years of Absa L’Atelier

2026 Applications Open

The Members’ Exhibition (Closed)

Apply Online

Flipside: The Inadvertent Archive

Order online

AVA at the 2026 ICTAF

20 - 22 February 2026

Exhibition Programme

2026

The Dog Is Chasing Its Tail: Tshepo Sizwe Phokojoe’s ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’

ArtThrob review by Luca Evans

Precarious Times: Svea Josephy’s ‘Cities of the Future – In the Past’

ArtThrob review by Tiyani Rikhotso

PAST PROJECTS:

NEXXUS (2023)

Sonya Rademeyer, Franco Prinsloo, Caroline Sohie

iQhiya Panel at the AVA.

Uncovering a discourse centred on the voices of black women.

Call for Internships: Gallery Assistant
Temporary position

We are pleased to invite applications for a paid, part-time Gallery Assistant Internship. Interns will provide essential support to the gallery’s operations, focusing on administrati

It’s the last chance to view our current exhibitions! All shows will be on view until 11.06.26.

Front Gallery: To Whom It May Concern
by Lebogang Mbewe @_therealbudd

Long Gallery: Broken telephone
by Luca Evans and thato makatu @lucaevans_ @

Making My Way
On view in our Mezzanine Gallery until 11.06.26
@piatruscott

Pia Truscott’s solo exhibition presents a series of wire “drawings” entangled with everyday objects. Like a pencil moving across a page, these suspended w

Currently on View

In Broken Telephone, Luca Evans and Thato Makatu engage in a collaborative exchange of works made in response to one another—a creative back-and-forth of ideas, prototypes, and artworks. By printing, stitching, taping, stapl

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Every visual artist in South Africa deserves to be seen.

You create a R5.6 billion economy — but 81% of you have never accessed public support. VACSA is mapping the sector, province by province, to

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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.

The AVA is generously supported by its Donors and Sponsors