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South Africa's oldest 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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AVA on Latitudes Online

AVA Gallery is thrilled to announce its return to Latitudes Online with artworks from Vusumzi Nkomo and Nina Kruger now available!

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

10.10.2024 - 21.11.2024

 
 

For(Sea)Change - The Printing Girls | Main Gallery

Destruction, Resilience, Namaqualand - Curated by Ulric Roberts | Mezzanine Gallery

Love Unbound - Freya Willemoes-Wissing | Long Gallery

Conversations in Colour: A Departure Point - Melissa Fontini | Front Gallery

JOURNAL
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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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NEW DIRECTOR APPOINTED

Olga Speakes

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BETWEEN SHADOWS

The Leeuwenhof Slave Quarters Remembrance Gallery

FEATURED
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Baking Stories in the Sun

by Staša Hlava & Christel Liebenberg

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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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View fullsize Opening Tonight: Thursday 10 October | 5pm – 8pm Please join us this evening for the opening of the following exhibitions: Main Gallery 𝘍𝘰𝘳(𝘚𝘦𝘢)𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 |The Printing Girls (Group Show) @theprintinggirls Mezzanine Gallery: 𝘋𝘦𝘴?
View fullsize Opening: Thursday 10 October | 5pm – 8pm Please join us this Thursday for the opening of 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 by Freya Willemoes-Wissing @freyawillemoes Long Gallery - 10.10.2024 – 21.11.2024 Featuring a performance by the artis
View fullsize Opening: Thursday 10 October | 5pm – 8pm Please join us this Thursday for the opening of 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘕𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 Ulric Roberts, Ronesca Cloete, Vincent Meyburgh, Edwina Le Fleur, Lynette Du Pless
View fullsize Please join us this Thursday for the opening of 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳: 𝘈 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 by Melissa Fontini @melissafontini Front Gallery - 10.10.24 – 21.11.24 Conversations in Colour: A Departure Point,

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PAST EXHIBITIONS
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Baking Stories in the Sun

by Staša Hlava & Christel Liebenberg

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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

Unbinding_Histories_Poster_Alejandra_Ar%C3%A9valo.jpg

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

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Portals into Domestic Worlds

Vida Madighi-Oghu and Zenaéca Singh

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Offcuts

Curated by Xanthe Scout Lardner-Burke (group show)

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Vivacity

by Michael Beckurts

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Field of Possibility

by Deborah Weber

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Woman and Nature

by Many Libuta

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DOPPELGÄNGERS. FUTUREGÄNGERS. UBERGÄNGERS

By Stefan Carstens and Luke Carstens

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Home Affairs

by Pamela Bentley

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