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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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AVA on Latitudes Online

AVA Gallery is thrilled to announce its return to Latitudes Online with artworks from Vusumzi Nkomo, Nina Kruger and Vincent Bezuidenhout’s exhibitions 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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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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View fullsize Cape Town Book Fair | Norval Foundation Sunday 3 November | 1pm @norvalfoundation Join us this Sunday for a talk by AVA Director Olga Speakes in conversation Flipside author Dr. Kim Gurney and lecturer Bongani Kona. The discussion, titled Down the
View fullsize Artist’s Walkabout 𝘍𝘰𝘳(𝘚𝘦𝘢)𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 by The Printing Girls Saturday 2 November | 11am @theprintinggirls Join us this Saturday for a walkabout of 𝘍𝘰𝘳(𝘚𝘦𝘢)𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦: In an era in which we face unprecedented threats to pla
View fullsize 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳: 𝘈 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 Melissa Fontini Front Gallery - 10.10.24 – 21.11.24 @melissafontini 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳: 𝘈 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵, invites you int
View fullsize Now Available on Latitudes Online: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘌𝘭𝘴𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 by Vincent Bezuidenhout @vincent_bezuidenhout 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘌𝘭𝘴𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 features a selection of images made during the artist’s annual visits to the Mossel B
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View fullsize Artist Talk Saturday 26 October | 11am 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 by Freya Willemoes-Wissing Long gallery: 10.10.24 - 21.11.24 @freyawillemoes Join us this Saturday for an artist talk of 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥. Freya Willemoes-Wissing will be in co

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PAST EXHIBITIONS
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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

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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

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(un-)homely entanglements

by Carola Friess

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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