EXHIBITIONS & NEWS

WORLDART 10

WORLDART is proud to announce the second edition of WORLDART10, its artist competition designed to discover and showcase exciting contemporary talent.

CANDYFLOSS PARADISE

A SOLO EXHIBITION BY JP MEYER

WORLDART is pleased to announce JP Meyer’s first solo exhibition at WORLDART, titled Candyfloss Paradise. The exhibition will open on Thursday 4 September and run until 27 September 2025 at WORLDART’s Cape Town gallery.

HEAT WINTER ARTS FESTIVAL 2025

A GROUP SHOW BY WORLDART

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.

SITHI iGALZ (WE ARE THE GIRLS)

A SOLO EXHIBITION BY SICHUMILE ADAM

In this body of work, Sichumile Adam reimagines a space where femininity becomes a means to express and explore sexuality and autonomy, while also challenging the stereotypes that surround Black girlhood.

MOVING THROUGH MOUNTAINS

A SOLO EXHIBITION BY SIMONE VERFAILLE

With her layered abstract paintings and tapestry pieces, she created artworks that explore the interplay between inner and outer landscapes. This layering process, both visual and material, serves as a method of unearthing and building, echoing the natural cycles of the earth. Layer upon layer, surfaces were built up, broken down, and reassembled, mirroring the complex and shifting nature of lived experience.

THE JOY PROJECT

A SOLO EXHIBITION BY KAREN STEWART

The over-arching theme of all Karen’s work in THE JOY PROJECT is to explore what heals and nurtures people. She believes that art has a valuable message to deliver – one that embraces the creativity, the positivity and the joy of being human – despite everything.

RMB LATITUDES ART FAIR 2025

The annual RMB Latitudes Art Fair that takes place in Johannesburg from 23 to 25 May this year is an annual highlight for WORLDART.

KUMUKA

A SOLO EXHIBITION BY TAFADZWA MASUDI

The word "kumuka” originates from Shona, a language spoken widely in Zimbabwe, and at its core means "to rise”, “to awaken” or “to return".

LIZETTE CHIRRIME

SHORTLISTED FOR PRESTIGIOUS ART AWARD

Lizette Chirrime has been shortlisted for The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2025.

“Ancient The Modern” a group exhibition featuring artworks that explore the concept of cultural regression and the effects of conservative ideologies on contemporary culture through art.

““I’m intrigued by how accessible brands in fashion shape personal identity, often becoming symbols of subcultures. These brands were designed for practical and everyday use but end up as a form of self-expression and authenticity.”

Posed, at once, as a question, a precipice, and a pursuit, Geena Wilkinson’s The Right Moment, prompts of her viewers a utopian style of thinking; calling into question the primacy of commodity relations, and playfully imagining – though not without a degree of threat – an alternative, sweeter and more desirable future.

Aluta Null uses Glitch art to show the bizarre and often incoherent changes that happen when alterations are made to the core essence of things.

HEAT is coming to Cape Town this winter, taking place in the city centre from July 11 to 21. The 12-day festival will take the edge off the chill with 14 art galleries showcasing exhibitions around the theme "Common Ground," curated by Voni Baloyi, Mary Corrigall, Andrew Lamprecht, and Nkgopoleng Moloi.

Permit me to weather on this cherry chaiere is a an exhibition about insisting on the space or freedom to be oneself. The word chaiere is from Middle English – a form of English spoken between the 11th and the 15th century – and can refer to a comfortable seat, a raised seat or throne, or a position of authority.

Dion Cupido’s latest exhibition of paintings, titled RETRACING THE PAST… some lines can’t be traced, opens at the WORLDART gallery in Cape Town on Thursday 2 May.

Sulette van der Merwe’s latest exhibition, titled Surreal synapse, continues in the surrealist tradition but explores the effects that one of today’s prime change drivers, popular visual culture, has on our deepest thoughts.

Curator Jared Aufrichtig, along with the WORLDART gallery and Momint, presents a group exhibition that explores the relationship between art, its origins and its audience in the digital era.