26.02.09 Claudette Schreuders at Michael Stevenson
07.03.09 Review Revue at the Goodman Gallery Cape
28.03.09 Nontsikelelo Veleko at the Iziko SANG
02.04.09 'Nation State' at Goodman Gallery Cape
01.04.09 'The Tropics' at Iziko SANG
06.04.09 'Dis-ease' at Iziko SANG
25.02.09 Richard Hart at Whatiftheworld/Gallery
26.03.09 Avant Car Guard at Whatiftheworld/Gallery
26.02.09 'Printing Money' at SA Print Gallery
04.03.09 'Sometimes I Forget that you Exist' at blank projects
23.03.09 'Social Pattern' at the AVA
02.03.09 Lynne Lomofsky at the AVA
01.11.08 'Intimate Distance' at Iziko SANG
11.02.09 'Supermarket' at Muti Gallery
04.03.09 'Solum' at UCA Gallery
01.04.09 Christopher Slack at UCA Gallery
03.03.09 Eleonora Rossi at João Ferreira Gallery
10.03.09 MOTEL7 at 34 Long
31.03.09 Paul du Toit at 34 Long

26.02.09 David Goldblatt at Michael Stevenson
25.02.09 Fahamu Pecou at Bell-Roberts

27.01.09 Four at 34 Long

11.12.08 William Kentridge at Iziko SANG

12.11.08 Andrew Verster at Iziko SANG

'Recent Prints', a collection of new lithographs by Claudette Schreuders, opens in February at Michael Stevenson.

Opens: February 26
Closes: April 9

'Review Revue' features a selection of diverse works from over 50 years of South African art (from the 1940s to 1990s), situated within a localised history.

Opens: March 7
Closes: March 28

Nontsikelelo Veleko, Standard Bank's Young Artist of 2008, presents her travelling show 'Wonderland', a collection of photography and mixed media at the SANG.

Opens: March 28
Closes: May 10

Curated by the gallery's Storm Janse Van Rensburg, 'Nation State' includes works by both South African and International artists.

Opens: April 2
Closes: May 2

Curated by Prof. Dr. Viola König, Dr. Peter Junge and Alfons Hug, 'The Tropics: views from the middle of the globe' examines the myth of the Tropics, through a range of artworks from the past and present.

Opens: April 1
Closes: June 14

Curated by Greg Streak, 'Dis-ease' is a collection of recent video art drawn from the Rijksakademie archives. It debuted last year at Durban's Bank Gallery.

Opens: April 6
Closes: June 28

'Kind Pockets' is Hart's debut solo exhibition of paintings. Hart is best known as the creative force behind 'Disturbance', a Durban-based design studio.

Opens: February 25
Closes: March 21

Avant Car Guard will be presenting a new body of work entitled 'Volume III' in March, consisting of large-scale paintings, photographic works, prints and a limited edition publication called Volume III.

Opens: March 26
Closes: April 25

SA Print Gallery opens in February with 'Printing Money'. Curated by gallery owner Gabriel Clarke Browne, it will feature prints by young, local artists including Ali Aschman, Julia Rosa Clark, Georgina Gratrix and Rowan Smith.

Opens: February 26
Closes: March 28

Curated by Trasi Henen, 'Sometimes I Forget that you Exist' is a collaborative research project around desire and the heterotopia, culminating in a closing event.

Opens: March 4
Closes: March 27

Curated by Kirsty Cockerill, 'Social Pattern' presents artwork which not only utilizes repetitive processes, but reflects a social pattern/practice/dynamic.

Participating artists include Lynette Bester, Kevin Brand, Paul Cooper, Paul Edmunds, Justin Fiske, Carol-anne Gainer, Bronwyn Lace, Fritha Langerman, Kim Lieberman, Vaughn Sadie, Fabian Saptouw, Rowan Smith, Greg Streak and Cobus van Bosch.

Opens: March 23
Closes: April 3

Lynne Lomofsky's new multimedia exhibition, 'A Patient Copy', continues her engagement with 'the sick body' and how illness may be visualised and represented.

In the Long gallery, Kemang Wa Lehulere presents 'Ubontsi: Sharp Sharp!', his first solo exhibition of works on paper.

Opens: March 2
Closes: March 20

Opens: November 2008
Closes: March 15

Recent addition Muti Gallery, shows paintings and sculptures by a collection of young Cape Town-based artists, including Theresa-Anne Mackintosh, Gabrielle Raaff and Justin Fiske.

Opens: February 11
Closes: March 15

'Solum' features paintings by Vernon Williams, Cha Davenport, Mel Williamson, Maricel Albertyn and Liza Grobler, each of whom explores the South African landscape.

Opens: March 4
Closes: March 28

In April UCA will host a solo show by Christopher Slack, including paintings and prints from his Chicks with Guns series.

Opens: April 1
Closes: May 2

'Morning Walking: new dawn' is a collection of paintings exploring alienation by Eleonora Rossi.

Opens: March 3
Closes: March 27

Opens: March 10
Closes: April 11

Paul du Toit exhibits 'Prehistoric Idols', a collection of mixed media paintings.

Opens: March 31
Closes: May 16

Goldblatt's photogaphic essay, 'In Boksburg', was shot from 1979 - 80 on the East Rand of the Witwatersrand, and the book published in 1982, but this will be the first time that the full series has been shown in the 30 years since the photographs were taken.

The spread of Boksburg's new suburbs across the veld and the daily life of the town encapsulated - to Goldblatt's eye - the intricacies of the lunacy of ordinary white middle-class life in the years of apartheid. As he wrote in the foreword: 'Boksburg is shaped by white dreams and white proprieties. Most of its townspeople pursue the family, social and civic concerns of respectable burghers anywhere, while locked into a deep and portentous fixity of self-elected legislated whiteness. Blacks are not of this town. They serve it, trade with it, receive charity from it and are ruled, rewarded and punished by its precepts. Some are its privileged guests. But all who go there, do so by permit or invitation, never by right.'

Goldblatt photographed life on the streets, in shops and businesses, the sports and social clubs, the churches, the municipality, the homes and gardens and the cemetery. As he recalls, 'Literally for days on end, I stood rivetted to street corners, parking lots and sidewalks. I was completely engaged by what I saw and tried to penetrate and hold with the camera, of the wholly uneventful flow of commonplace, orderly life.' With his characteristic intimacy and dispassion, he dissected the social structures of this town to remind us of the ironies and hypocrisies as well as sincere gestures that were entwined in daily life in this town.

For this exhibition Goldblatt has returned to his negatives of the series and, in addition, has printed several previously unpublished images. He has also returned to Boksburg to photograph the town in its present incarnation, and a selection of these large-format colour prints will be included on the show.

Opens: February 26
Closes: April 9

New York-born Fahamu Pecou is a painter who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Pecou's paintings utilize his alter ego as 'art celebrity'. These works consider and challenge art-world politics and issues of the black male body. Audacious, confrontational, and witty, the work appropriates the lexicons of celebrity, magazine and fine art culture to facilitate conversations that allow the viewer to examine these traditionally separate worlds and see where they connect.

This is Pecou's debut showing in South Africa following a string of exhibitions in the US and Europe.

Opens: 25 February
Closes: 28 March

The mix of artists on 34 Long's current show, 'Four', has proved popular and so its run has been extended, with some exciting additions. Several works - among them some by Robert Hodgins, D*Face and Willie Bester - have left the gallery, and have been replaced with new ones. A new work by Marlene Dumas has been added as well as a limited number of editioned prints by Takashi Murakami. If these passed you by last year, be sure not to miss them now.

Opens: January 27
Closes: March 7

William Kentridge's multi-channel projected work entitled I am not me, the horse is not mine is on view at Iziko South African National Gallery. Based on the short story, 'The Nose' (1837) by Nikolai Gogol, and part of the process of developing Kentridge's production of Dmitri Shostakovich's The Nose, commissioned for the Metropolitan Opera in 2010, it was first presented to international acclaim at the Biennale of Sydney in June this year.

The work stems from Kentridge's ongoing interest in the roots and trajectory of modernism: a mixture of the absurd, the self-reflective (and the 'self-divided') and the forms of fragmentation that one associates with modernism, its crushing in Russia in the 1930s and the long-term trajectory of the terrors of hierarchy.

Opens: December 11
Closes: March 8

'Past/Present' is a survey of works by Andrew Verster who turned 71 this year. The exhibition's point of departure is 1994 - the start of democracy in South Africa - and shows work produced from that time to the present. The artist places significance on this particular period as it has been a milestone for personal and political freedom, mainly due to the new Constitution which grants equal rights to all. Speaking as a gay man, Verster claims that 'For the first time in my life I became legal.' His work reflects a sense of liberation and joyousness which seems to have recently burst forth.

Curated by Carol Brown, 'Past/Present' is a multi-media exhibition consisting of paintings, drawings, stage sets, costume designs and wax panels. The intention is to showcase the diversity and consistent creativity of one of the country's most prolific and respected artists.

Opens: November 12
Closes: March 22, 2009