Heat Winter Art Festival 2025

The HEAT Winter Arts Festival is an exciting new addition to the Cape Town art scene.

With its second edition taking place this year from August 6 to 16 at over 16 galleries and live venues throughout the City Centre, it will feature an exciting programme filled with visual art, theatre, music, opera, comedy, talks and walkabouts.

Art gallery WORLDART’s Charl Bezuidenhout is very excited. “This is exactly why the Cape Town art scene is thriving,” he says. “In Cape Town we no longer wait for summer until we wake up. With initiatives like this, locals and visitors will have the opportunity to experience well curated, quality exhibitions and events at a time when indoor events make more sense.”

WORLDART’s exhibition, titled Technology as Palette: Imagination to Image, will explore various forms of modern technology and its contribution to helping artists realize their vision. From computer programmes for digital art and artificial intelligence in photography to machines altering images and hologram technology – these will all be on show at WORLDART during the HEAT Winter Arts Festival this year. Artists on show will include Gavin Goodman, Gavin Rain, Dale Yudelman, Ivan Smith, Ruan Jooste, Thekiso Mokhele, Andrew Whitehouse, Sulette van der Merwe and Adilson de Oliveira.

This group exhibition will be a conversation about the fusion of creativity and innovation. It will emphasize how technology becomes a tool to expand the boundaries of artistic expression.

·       The exhibition can be viewed daily from 10am till 5pm Monday to Friday, and 10am till 2pm on Saturdays.

·       On Saturday 9 August, the artists on show will also lead a walk-about at the gallery where they will discuss their work in more detail. This will start at 11am.

·       On Tuesday 12 August, two of the exhibiting artists, Gavin Goodman and Thekiso Mokhele, will be part of a panel discussion at the gallery where the use of AI in art will be discussed. This will start at 6pm.

Address: 68 Long Street (Cnr Long and Shortmarket Streets)

For more information, contact Charl Bezuidenhout on 082 901 5045 or charl@worldart.co.za.