ArtB
www.artb.co.za
The Arts Association of Bellville and Gallery has re-branded itself as Art.b - the Arts Association of Bellville. The gallery has been modernised, this attractive new website telling you all about it.
artSPACE durban
www.artspacedurban.co.za
artSPACE durban (aSd) is another gallery with a coded set of case constraints. Never mind though. This website provides a useful starting point for artists interested in hiring out the gallery space for exhibition, or renting studio space. The site allows you to view the interior spaces of aSd from your desktop.
Association for Visual Arts
www.ava.co.za
One of the oldest galleries in Cape Town, the AVA provides space for a continuous round of exhibitions decided upon by a committee.
BAT Centre
www.batcentre.co.za
Durban's Bartel Arts Trust acts as a community cultural centre on the harbour, with exhibitions, art shops and music, theatre and dance venues.
Bell-Roberts Gallery
www.bell-roberts.com
The Bell Roberts in Bree Street is a hub of activity that includes a prolific publishing house and bookshop.
Chelsea Art Gallery
home.mweb.co.za/ch/chelsart/gallery
Small, functional site of a gallery located in Cape Town's picturesque Wynberg. Current exhibitions are listed and work by gallery artists can be referenced.
District Six Museum
www.districtsix.co.za
Website commemorating the area of District Six and honouring the people who fought against the forced removals and Group Areas Act.
Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
www.everard-read-capetown.co.za
Stalwart of the South African art sellers and buyers market since 1912, the Everard Read Gallery has expanded their reach into the digital sphere. The gallery has two main branches, one in Johannesburg and one in Cape Town.
Gallery Momo
www.gallerymomo.com
52 Seventh Avenue is Johannesburg's newest contemporary art destination, an airy gallery with a neo-brutalist fa�ade. Called Gallery Momo, the gallery is already home to artists Kay Hassan and Santu Mofokeng.
The Gallery on the Square
www.galleryonthesquare.co.za
The Gallery on the Square is based in Sandton, and features the work of a number of South African artists in regular exhibitions.
Goodman Gallery
www.goodman-gallery.com
Home of South Africa's top art dealer, Linda Givon, whose artists include Kendell Geers, William Kentridge, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Sue Williamson and Moshekwa Langa.
Greatmore Studios
www.greatmoreart.org
Cape Town's Greatmore studio and residency project is now online.
João Ferreira Fine Art
www.joaoferreiragallery.com
Cape Town dealer João Ferreira's gallery in Hout Street showcases work by well-known and emerging contemporary South African artists.
King George VI Art Gallery
www.kgg.gov.za
Home of the Port Elizabeth gallery, with news of current exhibitions and activities and a virtual tour of some highlights.
KZNSA: Kwazulu Natal Society of Arts
www.nsagallery.co.za
Durban leading contemporary art gallery, run by the Natal Society of Arts.
Michaelis School of Fine Art
www.michaelis.uct.ac.za
The Michaelis School of Fine Art is the art department of the University of Cape Town. The site contains information on courses as well as applications for postgraduate courses.
Michael Stevenson Contemporary
www.michaelstevenson.com
Michael Stevenson Contemporary gallery is one of the best places to see contemporary South African art by high profile and promising emerging voices.
Museums Online
www.museums.org.za
A portal offering access to most of South Africa's national and regional museums.
Obert Contemporary
www.obertcontemporary.com
Contemporary gallery with locations in Braamfontein and Melrose Arch that represents acclaimed and innovative young artists like Kudzi Chiurai, Mark Erasmus and Mary Wafter.
Pelindaba Museum of African and Modern Art
www.pelmama.org
Brings together the former collection of Fernand F Haenggi, comprising mainly 1970s and 1980s works by South African artists including Norman Catherine, Lucas Sithole, Judith Mason and Lucas Seage.
PhotoZA
www.photoza.co.za
Johannesburg's premiere photographic gallery, with two exhibition spaces, represents Hannelie Coetzee, Graeme Williams and Jürgen Schadeberg, amongst others.
Rose Korber Art Consultancy
www.rosekorberart.com
An independent art consultant, dealing in works by leading and emerging, contemporary South African artists.
Ruth Prowse School of Art
www.ruthprowse.co.za
One of Cape Town's more enduring art institutions, housed in a historic farmhouse once owned by artist Ruth Prowse.
SA Centre for Photography
www.photocentre.org.za
The Cape Town based centre co-ordinates activities aimed at fostering the development of the practice, teaching, scholarship and criticism of photography.
South African National Gallery
www.museums.org.za/sang
Comprehensive site with info about the permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, library and newsletters.
The | Premises
www.onair.co.za
Point of access for The | Premises gallery (which is currently under construction) at the Johannesburg Civic Centre and arts consultancy group The Trinity Session.
The Owl House
www.owlhouse.co.za
Helen Martins' home and sculpture garden in Nieu-Bethesda are beautifully documented, alongside info about the Owl House Foundation's conservation efforts.
V Gallery
www.vgallery.co.za
Online gallery promotes visual artists in South Africa with the aim of selling work, and includes articles, news and profiles.
Axis Gallery
www.axisgallery.com
This New York-based gallery is run by South Africans Lisa Brittan and Gary van Wyk, the space devoted innovative exhibitions featuring South African artists.
Gasworks Gallery
www.gasworks.org.uk
The London counterpart of Jo'burg's Bag Factory and Cape Town's Greatmore Studios, with an international residency programme.
Locus+
www.locusplus.org.uk
Download essays and read about the site specific projects commissioned by Locus+, a non-profit arts organisation based in England.
Palais de Tokyo
www.palaisdetokyo.com
This beautifully executed website is worth navigating just for its crisp design and excellent animations. It also happens to be the online mouthpiece for the Palais de Tokyo, an innovative contemporary art space in Paris.
Polvo
www.polvo.org
Polvo Art Studio is an alternative space located in Chicago. The website for this space recently added a page for international artists. At the moment, it features the work of Liza Grobler and Brett Murray alongside writings by Paul Edmunds and Mario Pissarra. Follow this link directly: www.polvo.org/artists.htm
Stroom
www.stroom.nl
Dutch organisation with its own gallery, which also sponsors public art projects by such artists as Vito Acconci.
Thami Mnyele Studio
www.thami-mnyele.nl
The Thami Mnyele Studio in Amsterdam offers residencies for two visiting artists a year.
Virtual Museum of Contemporary African Art
www.vmcaa.nl
The VMCAA offers an insightful list of African artists based in the Netherlands, including Mustafa Maluka, Ina van Zyl, Michelle Tabor, Moshekwa Langa, Marlene Dumas and Jon Eiselin.
Andries Odendaal
www.wireframe.co.za
Andries Odendaal is considered one of the foremost Flash and Director developers in the world. His company, Wireframe, is based in Cape Town, and some of Andries' and his colleagues' works can be seen on this inventive site.
Alan Alborough
www.alanalborough.co.za
Standard Bank Young Artist for 2000, Alborough's site contains everything you need to know about this reclusive personality.
Arlene Amaler-Raviv and Dale Yudelman
www.urbanart.co.za
The painter Arlene Amaler-Raviv and photographer Dale Yudelman have been collaborating for some time now. The two are currently showing their works on the 8th Havana Biennial, curated by Hilda María Rodríguez Enr'quez. This well-designed and easily navigable site contains useful personal biographies on both artists, as well as images of their collaborative work at Havana.
Art in South Africa
www.art.co.za
A site that offers visual artists a home on the web, without the costs of registering domains or employing web designers. Artists include Wilma Cruise, Willem Boshoff and Diane Victor.
Bateau Laveau
www.bateaulaveau.com
www.bateaulaveau.com, is a local, well-designed Flash site that serves as an online portfolio for seven young Paarl-based artists.
Cobus van Staden
www.geocities.com/cobusvanstaden
Cobus van Staden, a South African photographer living in Nagoya, Japan, posts pics regularly on his website.
Dave Southwood
http://w_photo.play-ground.net/#
Dave Southwood is doubtlessly one of South Africa's most important young photographic talents. Currently based in Berlin, Germany, Southwood has been engaged in a number of projects, both personal and commercial, details of which are contained on his new website.
Dumile Feni
www.dumile.org.za
The Dumile Feni Foundation have released their 'monograph' website on this respected artist. The site contains a wealth of information on the artist in terms of his biography, exhibitions as well as media coverage of his career. The site further offers a good gallery of images by the artist.
In a way that could well be a template for many other artists' sites, this one is notable for being particularly true to the spirit of Feni's work.
Esther Mahlangu
http://www.esthermahlangu.co.za
This modest website link offers a cursory view of the output of acclaimed artist Esther Mahlangu.
Lien Botha
www.lienbotha.co.za
Lien Botha's new, beautiful website is a good resource for anyone interested in learning more about the artist, her work, and her history.
Liquid Fridge
www.liquidfridge.co.za
Cape Town-based Liquid Fridge is an active group of new media artists and musicians who organise many meetings and events where animators and other creative people can show their work. These events include the Upload and Icebox meetings, which are held regularly in the city. May 2005.
Lucas Sithole
www.sithole.com
A website in memory of South African artist Lucas Sithole (1931-1994), showing many important sculptures from 1966-1991, as well as biographical notes, pictorial references and stories about the works.
Muffin Balajadia
www.myfanwybekker.com
New website documenting output of this expatriate artist.
Pieter Hugo
www.pieterhugo.com
Cape Town-based Pieter Hugo works in a fledgling style I prefer to call 'new documentary'. Readers of the Italian publication Colors will likely be familiar with what I mean, and probably also recognise some of Hugo's images. Unencumbered by any gimmicks, Hugo's site allows for easy browsing of his interesting portfolio.
Present Magazine
www.presentmag.com
Present magazine is an online art magazine that features the work of a number of artists who work mostly in painterly abstraction. It has a great number of images from the artists, as well as interpretative essays on their work. The artists are mainly South African, and the production team members are mostly from Stellenbosch. It includes, among others, Joanne Halse and Michael Taylor (editors),and Adrienne van Eeden and Jeanne Hoffman among the contributors.
Rob Mills
www.signsoflife.co.za/domestic
Photographer Rob Mills reflects on domesticity and the personal realm, using a very simple site as his exhibition space.
South African Artists
www.southafricanartists.com
Independently funded directory lists over a thousand South African artists and is geared specifically towards online sales.
SOUTH PHOTO
www.southphoto.com
Offers extensive biographies and portfolio selections from an accomplished list of South African image-makers, including Rodney Barnett; David Goldblatt; Motlhalefi Mahlabe and Paul Weinberg.
Steven Cohen
www.artslink.co.za/stevencohen
Performance artist Steven Cohen's wicked attires and writings can be scrutinised at leisure on his site.
Theresa-Anne Mackintosh
www.mackintosh.co.za
Johannesburg-based artist Theresa-Anne Mackintosh's new website.
Chaz Maviyane-Davies
www.maviyane.co.zw
As influential US design magazine Print has commented, this Zimbabwean designer's work "explores an indigenous iconography that speaks not only for his clients' particular needs but for Zimbabwe."
Douglas Coupland
www.coupland.com
Intriguing and informative site by the pop author who is actually a sculptor by training.
Franz Wassermann
www.mylivingroom.org
A good way to track this Austrian artist's various initiatives, projects such as 'Administrative Detention For Asylum Seekers' and 'Barbie and Ken are HIV positive'. Activist art.
Hoogerbrugge
www.hoogerbrugge.com
We do not live in a peace-loving, happy society. This is something that Han Hoogerbrugge, a Dutch web animation artist, knows all too well. His website is a remarkable collection of his cynical work for the last six or so years. It features a wealth of short Flash animations in which humorous and sometimes disturbing representations of the unhappy states of life take precedence.
Joshua Davies' PrayStation
www.praystation.com
New York-based Davies is an inquisitive developer and programmer who applies design concepts to computer technology - often just to see what will happen.
Kheto Lualuali
www.africaserver.nl/kheto/index.html
A virtual exhibition of the works of Mozambican painter Kheto Lualuali, who has lived and worked in Amsterdam since 1998.
Manovich.net
www.manovich.net
Currently, one of the most influential voices in the field of new media is Lev Manovich. He is Associate Professor in New media in the department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and is perhaps best known for his book The Language of New Media (2001).
Pleix
www.pleix.net
Pleix call themselves a 'virtual community' of digital artists. They are based in Paris, and they work in the digital realm. Areas of activity include music, graphics, video and 3D animation. The website serves as a repository of their work, and features music videos such as Basement Jaxx's 'Cish Cash' (2004).
Ruri
www.ruri.is
The Icelandic artist Ruri seamlessly uses modern technology to celebrate the ancient beauty of nature.
Yugo Nakamura
http://www.yugop.com
Showcase for this Japanese master of Flash animation's MONO*crafts project.
Scott McCloud
www.scottmccloud.com
Scott McCloud is a legend in the field of comics. Not only has he been prolific as a comics artist and writer (notably for 'Zot!'), but he is also hailed for his pioneering writing on the nature of comics as a medium.
Wooloo.org
www.wooloo.org
Wooloo Productions describe themselves as 'an independent production collective from Denmark, Australia and The United States - founded in 2002. Wooloo Productions is working on a variety of projects including curating, community-based software and social art development.'Wooloo.org is their online community where they allow artists to show work and on which they host a number of projects.
Brett Kebble Art Awards
www.bkaa.co.za
Follow the intrigue as selectors make their way across the country, and get updates on news about the shows.
International De5ign Indaba
www.designindaba.com
Showcase for the International Design Indaba, which takes places annually in Cape Town.
Klein Karoo National Arts Festival
www.kknk.co.za
A melting potjie of art, language, politics and the best koeksisters this side of the Swartberg, the annual Easter festival offers its highlights online.
'Homeport'
www.cell.nl/homeport/capetown
The December 2001 Cape Town leg of the six-city 'Homeport' exhibition is documented with maps, pictures, information on contributing artists, and essays by Sue Williamson, Vincent Kolbe and Natasha Becker.
Public Eye
www.public-eye.co.za
Founded in 1999, Public Eye was formed by a collection of Cape Town-based artists and cultural activists to initiate and manage art projects in the public arena with the aim of enriching the cultural life of the city and the country.
Red Eye @rt
www.redeyeart.co.za
Information on the monthly Red Eye art-for-all event founded by Suzy Bell at Durban Art Gallery.
Aeolian Ride
www.aeolian-ride.info
In November of 2004, New York-based artist Jessica Findley brought her 'Aeolian Ride' to Cape Town. The event was previously staged in New York City and San Francisco. Bicycle riders dressed in wind inflatable white suits proceeded on their route from Saunder's Rock in Sea
