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Contemporary art gallery in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

03/09/2026

Michael Selekane in his studio getting ready to send his work to the nineteenth edition of FNB Art Joburg.  On this new body of work, Michael says:   “In a densely woven society, the rhythms of everyday life often conceal the quiet tensions that shape the human experience. Beneath the surface of communal life lies an ongoing negotiation of displacement, belonging and identity. My practice examines the lived realities of the migrant body within liminal spaces, drawing from my own experience of internal displacement in South Africa.   Through observation, listening and documentation, I translate these experiences into a visual language of stillness and restraint, creating contemplative spaces that invite reflection on the psychological dimensions of migration and social exclusion. Using a reduced colour palette and simplified forms, I construct expansive, sparsely inhabited environments that heighten a sense of vulnerability while resisting spectacle. These compositions foreground the emotional and existential conditions of those living at the margins, where silence becomes both a witness to isolation and a testament to resilience.”  𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 2026 Oil on canvas 120 × 180 cm 
Michael Selekane is represented by White River Gallery. 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 will be on show at FNB Art Joburg.

For more information ahead of the fair, email: [email protected] 
FNB Art Joburg | gallery ARC | 4–6 September 2026 | Sandton Convention Centre

30/08/2026

Five days out.

Three artists, one stand - gallery ARC at FNB Art Joburg, 4–6 September, Sandton Convention Centre. We can’t wait to see you there! 
Our featured artists:

Ingrid Uys
Michael Tshepo Selekane  Bianca Black Art
 

28/08/2026

Johann Booyens in Quiet Topographies

Johann Booyens is drawn to the threshold: The narrow overlap where two opposing ideas are held in the mind at once, without either being resolved away. The oldest of these, he suggests, runs between nature and the built environment - the one organic, fluid and integrated, the other static, framed and geometrically intrusive. It is usually described as a tension, though he treats it as a double desire: with the one we fall into softness, with the other we make sense. Neither cancels the other, and both, in his account, are equally valid and equally necessary.

Artworks featured:

Johann Booyens
𝘝𝘳𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘢𝘵, 2026 (Sold)
Monotype
70 x 90 cm

Johann Booyens
𝘏𝘰𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘥, 2026
Monotype
70 x 90 cm

Johann Booyens is part of the group exhibition Quiet Topographies, on show at White River Gallery at The Studio, 48b 5th Avenue, Parktown North, Johannesburg. The exhibition has been extended to Saturday 12 September.

For further information please contact [email protected]

27/08/2026

White River Gallery will show at the nineteenth edition of FNB Art Joburg (FNB Art Joburg), the oldest contemporary art fair on the continent, with three of the artists we represent. It is a considerable honour. Working with Bianca Black, Michael Selekane and Ingrid Uys has been a privilege, and watching each body of work find its own direction - some over years, some more recently - has been the better part of it. What I look forward to most is the size of the room, and the chance to stand back while the work speaks for itself. — Dana

FNB Art Joburg | gallery ARC | 4–6 September 2026 | Sandton Convention Centre

Fair photography courtesy of FNB Art Joburg

25/08/2026

Majak Bredell | INTERCONNECTIONS

White River Gallery, The Art House in Hoedspruit
Now Showing

The White River Gallery is currently exhibiting local artist Majak Bredell’s work at The Art House, Hoedspruit. The exhibition, INTERCONNECTIONS, comprises of large works on paper and smaller gouache paintings.

The gouache paintings were started during the 2020 lockdown. These works were inspired by the illuminations of an 8th century Spanish monk, Beatus of Liébana’s commentary on the Apocalypse of John. Majak was particularly inspired by Beatus’ use of horizontal coloured bands that divided the page in different zones on which his subject matter was then dramatically staged. By dividing her own pages into these horizontal bands, perspective, scale, and form fell away to set the stage for a different iconography - levels and layers of interconnectedness between the physical realm and the metaphysical realm between both these and the natural world that is home. The colour bands denote the above and below, and the in-between, while it also hints at the levels of consciousness and encounters with self that arose during the pandemic lockdown.

Majak’s gouache paintings pay tribute to the earth and the animals and to that wild part at home in the human spirit. Scroll here for two examples of these paintings currently on show and available as part of INTERCONNECTIONS.

The exhibition catalogue, INTERCONNECTIONS, and both Majak Bredell’s books, “Sacred Scars” and “Pilgrimage to Myself: A Journey To Wholeness Through Artmaking,” are available in the gallery.

For further information please contact: [email protected].

23/08/2026

Congratulations to Mellaney Roberts (far right in the photo) on the Outstanding Visual Artist award at Friday night’s National Arts and Culture Awards (NACA), and to Berman Contemporary, who show her work.

Mellaney works in ceramics, on identity, memory and belonging/otherness - subjects we have been drawn further into as a gallery, and we remain excited about the growth of ceramics and the artists working in the medium.

It is no small thing that two of our represented artists, Gwenneth Miller and Michael Selekane, were shortlisted alongside Mellaney. This photograph from the awards is a joy to see - three artists from three different parts of the country, working in three different ways, and between them asking questions about identity and place that are uniquely ours. We cannot wait to see where each of them goes next, and we would urge you to keep an eye on all three.

Address

Casterbridge Lifestyle Centre
White River
1240

Opening Hours

Monday	10:00 - 16:00
Tuesday	10:00 - 16:00
Wednesday	10:00 - 16:00
Thursday	10:00 - 16:00
Friday	10:00 - 16:00
Saturday	10:00 - 14:00
Sunday	10:00 - 14:00

Telephone

+27827846695

Website

http://www.whiterivergallery.co.za/

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