01.03.09 Prints and Drawings from the DUT Collection at the DUT Gallery
03.03.09 'Imaging South Africa: Records' by Siemon Allen at Bank Gallery
08.03.09 'Imaging South Africa: Newspapers' and 'Stamps' by Siemon Allen at Durban Art Gallery
10.03.09 New Connections: DUT Department of Fine Art and Jewellery Design Staff Exhibition
27.01.09 Andries Botha at the KZNSA Gallery
11.03.09 Victoria Verbaan at Artisan Contemporary
30.03.09 Gerald Baise at artSPACE durban
30.03.09 Greg Bauermeister at artSPACE durban
26.03.09 Lara Mellon, Joan Martin, Lesley Magwood-Fraser, Rene Leslie and Maggie Strachan at Kizo Art Gallery

25.02.09 'Not Alone' at the Durban Art Gallery
17.02.09 Sasol Wax Art Award at KZNSA
16.02.09 'Siqela Ziqubu at artSPACE durban

9.08.08 ''Pic(k) of the Dag ' at the Durban Art Gallery (formerly called 'Schools Curriculum')

On exhibition currently is a selection from the DUT's Permanent Art Collection including works by William Kentridge, Barry Maritz, Penny Siopis, Andrew Verster, Jan Jordaan, Helen Sebidi, Oldrich Kulhanek, Aidan Walsh, Dan Rakgoathe, Deryck Healy, Nick Hunter, Robert Hodgkins, Anthony Starkey, Barry Truter, David Morgano, Graham Lang, Dumile Feni, Susan White, Breyten Breytenbach, Tito Zungu, Jeff Rankin, Bronwyn Findlay and S'tembiso Sibisi.

Semi-Permanent exhibition

Siemon Allen's Records installation comprises a comprehensive collection of Miriam Makeba recordings in multiple formats, forming part of his double-header which also takes place at DAG.

Opens: March 3
Closes: April 16

As part of his 'Imaging South Africa' show, Siemon Allen's Stamps and Newspapers installations are on exhibition at Durban Art Gallery.

Opens: March 8
Closes: April 26

'New Connections' is an exhibition comprising multi-media installations and mixed media works from staff of the Durban University of Technology Fine Art and Jewellery Design departments. Included here are Andries Botha, Chris de Beer, John Roome, Hennie Stroebel, Bonginkosi Tshabalala, Bronwen Vaughan-Evans, Brenton Maart, Barry Truter, Marlene de Beer, Jan Jordaan, Nirmi Ziegler, Royal Gwala, Nkosinathi Khanyile, Themba Shibase, Greg Bye, Samantha Vincent, Greg Streak and Tony Starkey.

Opens: March 10
Closes: March 29

A large sculptural elephant from Andries Botha's Ungayithenga inhlizyo nomongo wami (You can buy my heart and my soul) series is on view at the KZNSA Gallery. This is the first time that a work from this series has been exhibited in South Africa.

Opens: January 27
Closes: May 28

'Lost Girl', an exhibition of works on canvas by Victoria Verbaan, opens at Artisan Contemporary Gallery on March 11.

Opens: March 11
Closes: April 4

'YEStoDAY', an exhibition of sculptural works by Gerald Baise, is on view at artSPACE durban from March 30.

Opens: March 30
Closes: April 18

'Shadow Dance' comprises a body of oil on canvas paintings by Greg Bauermeister, on view from March 30 at artSPACE durban.

Opens: March 30
Closes: April 18

An exhibition of mixed media works by Lara Mellon, Maggie Strachan, Joan Martin, Lesley Magwood-Fraser and Rene Leslie will be on view at Kizo Art Gallery from March 26.

Opens: March 26 at 6:30pm
Closes: April 26

'Not Alone - An international project of Make Art/Stop Aids' includes works by artists from Brazil, the USA, India and South Africa in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography and embroidery. A highlight will be the Keiskamma altarpiece embroidered and beaded by 120 people from the Eastern Cape. Another iconic piece is Medicine Man by Daniel Goldstein and Daniel Kapellas, a sculpture comprising over 300 empty medicine bottles and syringes used by the artists over the 20 years since they were diagnosed as being HIV-Positive.

Local artists include William Kentridge as well as Pieter Hugo, Langa Magwa, Clive Van den Berg and others. Over 50 works are on show and most of the international artists are new to South African audiences. The title refers to the fact that the epidemic does not affect isolated communities, and the nature of this exhibition, which changes at each venue, conveys the different stages which have developed since the beginning of Aids in the 80s. Solidarity and communication are the leitmotifs of this exhibition.

Opens: February 25
Closes: May 20

The Sasol Wax Art Award is, arguably, South Africa's most prestigious accolade for established artists. It is the only industry benchmark that recognises artists who have achieved professional maturity and are on a par with the best internationally.

Five of South Africa's most dynamic contemporary artists -Avhashone Mainganye, Tracey Rose, Stephen Hobbs, Hentie van der Merwe and Brett Murray - were selected from over 100 nominations to participate in the third Sasol Wax Art Award exhibition.

Each of the five produced a body of work that took as its starting point wax, whether through process, medium or concept. 2008 winner, Hentie Van der Merwe, joins the two previous winners, Jeremy Wafer and Walter Oltmann.

Van Der Merwe's Reaching New Frontiers is a complex installation in which van der Merwe explores new avenues in terms of medium, execution and display.

The relationship between art and industry has existed throughout art history. According to van der Merwe, one of the earliest examples of an artwork where the relationship between art and industry is explored, is in a suite of poems by Virgil called The Georgics from 29 BC, in which 'a strong sense of the necessity and dignity of labour breathes throughout the poem from beginning to end'. In the fourth book of this poem Virgil speaks of bees and beekeeping as a means of exploring the strife and flux between the metaphysical and the material. Another conceptual concern which the artist outlines is that of the artist/patron alliance.

This theme is explored trough a video of an unnamed man in a suit reading Virgil's text in its original Latin, with subtitles on screen. The screen is located on the wall of a sterile office cubicle, executed to the exact specs as set out by governmental labour practices.

The exhibition will also include works from the Sasol Wax Art Award Jewellery Outreach Initiative, funded by the Department of Arts and Culture. This project seeks to enhance skills exchange in the jewellery industry. It is highly significant that this exhibition is showing in Durban, as most of the winners of this initiative were drawn from the Durban University of Technology and Durban-based Velobala community group.

Opens: February 17
Closes: March 8

Sicelo Ziqubu is a young artist working in the Municipal offices in Charlestown in rural KwaZulu Natal. He spent l993 at the M L Sultan Technikon on a bridging course for graphic design, but he is largely self-taught. Ziqubu has been inspired by crafts made by prisoners at the Waterval Prison where his father was a warder. He creates 'thrones' out of papier-maâché that are becoming increasingly more elaborate and noticed by collectors.

He placed second in 2007 Start Nivea Art Award exhibition at the KZNSA Gallery and was a regional finalist in the Absa L'Atelier Art Award 2008. He was also among the 100 artists at the 2008 Spier Contemporary. His work is represented in the collections of the Carnegie Art Gallery (Newcastle), Museum Stadthof Zwolle (Netherlands), the Tatham Art Gallery (Pietermaritzburg) and the Johannesburg Art Gallery.

Opens: February 16
Closes: March 7

The Durban Art Gallery has collaborated on a project with the Department of Education in making works on the curriculum available for learners to view. The Gallery's collection is seldom seen in its diversity due to space constraints, so this exhibition will not only enhance the learners' appreciation of the works they are studying but also provide a view into the collection's scope for the general public. It will be on semi-permanent display.

Opens: August 16