02.05.09 Cape 09 at various venues
03.06.09 Nicholas Hlobo, Deborah Poynton, Zina Saro-Wiwa and Katharine Jacobs at Michael Stevenson
07.05.09 Thomas Mulcaire at Goodman Gallery Cape
25.05.09 'Studio Visit' at the AVA
05.05.09 'Sing into my Mouth' at Whatiftheworld/gallery
27.05.09 Zander Blom's 'The Travels of Bad' at whatiftheworld/gallery
06.05.09 'Trifecta' at Blank Projects
05.05.09 'In Principle' at the Michaelis Gallery
19.05.09 Tierney Fellowship Group Show at Michaelis Gallery
21.05.09 Clint Strydom's 'The Real Heroes' at Bell-Roberts Gallery
05.05.09 'Exquisite Corpse Portfolio' at Rust-en-Vrede Gallery
06.05.09 'Nuance' at UCA Gallery
03.06.09 Tony Squance at João Ferreira
21.05.09 'Open Doors' at Warren Editions
11.06.09 Francois van Reenen at Muti Gallery
01.05.09 Richard Smith at Rose Korber
15.04.09 'Mixit' at 34 Long

08.05.09 Justin Brett at the AVA
16.04.09 Sam Nhlengethwa at SA Print Gallery
16.04.09 'In Black and White' and 'Tales from the Mantlepiece' at Bell-Roberts
20.04.09 Gabrielle Raaf at Muti Gallery
05.05.09 David Brown at João Ferreira
02.05.09 Bronwen Vaughan-Evans and Deanne Donaldson at Erdmann Contemporary

01.04.09 'The Tropics' at Iziko SANG
06.04.09 'Dis-ease' at Iziko SANG

Under the theme 'Convergence', Cape 09 will include a multitude of interconnecting exhibitions, events, incursions and gestures conceived and created by a number of different curators and artists. They include:
'Umahluko' at Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha

Cape Young Curator Loyiso Qanya's exhibition, 'Umahluko' will be on show at Lookout Hill in Khayelitsha, featuring work by Jane Alexander, Antonio Etona, Rosy Sbrana, Cremildo Walter Zandamela and many more. The First Official Provisional Fynbos Museum of the Greater Khayelitsha Area, a transient botanical garden curated from indigenous fynbos by Anthea Buys, is also to be found at Lookout Hill.

Opens: May 2
Closes: June 21

Lookout Hill
Corner Spine and Mew Way, Khayelitsha
Mon - Fri 9am - 4pm
Sat 9am - 1pm

'Thank you Driver' on 6 taxis

CAPE Young Curator Lerato Bereng's 'Thank You Driver' will see 6 taxi busses coverted into 'artworks on wheels'. The unusual exhibition spaces will host works by writer Lebohang Thulo, painter and sculptor Edwige Aplogan, Mozambican video artist and writer Gemuce, composer, sound artist Isa Suarez; Angolan performance and video artist Nastio Mosquito, Gugulective and James Webb.

Opens: May 2
Closes: June 21

7am - 7 pm
Routes: Gugulethu, Langa, Khayelitsha, Kloof Street to and from Cape Town's CBD and Wynberg via Woodstock and Seapoint

'So Who is Brenda Fassie' at Langa High School, Langa

CAPE Young Curator Nonkululeko Mlangeni's 'So Who is Brenda Fassie', will be staged at Langa High School.

Opens: May 9
Closes: June 7

Langa High School
Washington Street,Langa
Sat 10am - 4pm

'One Minute World' at Cape Town Station

Cape Town Station's TV appliance vendor stalls will be converted into galleries screening the 'One Minute World Exhibition', featuring 1-minute videos by 840 different artists from around the world. Cape Town's new community TV station CTV will screen the same movies througout May and June.

The Cape Town Station also plays host to a range of interventions and performances by artists and curators including Nicole Grobler, Meschac Gaba, and Project Phakama Collective: Mwenya Kabwe and Katy Streek.

Opens: May 2
Closes: June 21

Cape Town Station
Daily 9am - 5pm

Chimurenga Library at Cape Town Central Library at the Drill Hall, Cape Town

Nearby at the Cape Town Central Library, the Chimurenga Library will initiate reading routes, an exhibition of sex scenes from pan-African literature, and regular Chimurenga Sessions featuring music and poetry performances, dialogues, screenings, and more.

Opens: May 2
Closes: June 21

Drill Hall
Darling Street, Cape Town
Mon 9am - 8pm
Tue and Thurs 9am - 6pm
Wed 8am - 6pm
Fri 8.30am - 5.30pm
Sat 9am - 2pm

2009's Standard Bank Young Artist, Nicholas Hlobo, exhibits new sculptural work in a solo show entitled 'Ingubo Yesizwe' at Michael Stevenson in June. Deborah Poynton's body of recent paintings, 'Everything Matters' will be exhibited concurrently with Hlobo's work. Also showing in June at Michael Stevenson is Zino Saro-Wiwa's documentary 'This is my Africa', the first in a series of shows entitled 'FOREX', which will use foreign exchange as a metaphor for an exchange of artistic ideas with a world beyond Africa. The Side Gallery, meanwhile, will host an installation by young artist Katharine Jacobs.

Opens: June 3
Closes: August 1

Using a range of technologies to replicate the picture plane, Mulcaire plays with the ways in which various digital and electronic technologies can be used as a painting surface.

Opens: May 7
Closes: May 30

'Studio Visit' represents the culmination of an open-ended curatorial project, artworks selected by curators Bianca Baldi and Kirsty Cockerill during visits to as many studios as time and geographical constraints allowed over a three day period.

Some of the artists visited include: Ena Carstens ,Dion Cupido ,Cha Davenport , Barend De Wet, Peter Eastman , Pierre Fouche, David Fortune, Jonathon Garnham , Douglas Gimberg ,Georgina Gratrix, Mongezi Gum, Rebecca Haysom, Matthew Hindley, Viven Kohler, Lizza Littlewort , Charles Maggs, Ley Mbonamwe, Ronald Muchatuta, Dathini Mzayiya, Christian Nerf, Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi, Selvin November, Norman O'Flynn, Daniel Popper, Chad Rossouw, Gary Stepphens, Kathryn Smith, Shakes Tembani, Vuyile Voyia Vernon Williams and Ed Young.

Conversation, an ongoing project to promote oepn-ended dialogue between artists, by Bianca Baldi will be launched with this exhibition.

Opens: May 25
Closes: June 12

Curated by Julia Rosa Clark, 'Sing Into My Mouth' takes its curatorial lead from Tacita Dean's exhibition,'An Aside'. Resisting a clear thematic curatorial framework, Dean embarked on a period of non-linear meanderings, guided by idiosyncratic interests, chance, association and coincidence to a set of works that make up the final whole.

Clark's exploration of the same process includes works by Bridget Baker, Emma Coleman, Sue Clark, Tom Cullberg, Anja de Klerk, Barend de Wet, Peter Eastman, Teboho Edkins, Gus Ferguson, Gimberg & Nerf, Douglas Gimberg, Matthew Hindley, Pieter Hugo, Mandy Lee Jandrell, John Nankin, Sarah Nankin, Cameron Platter, Andrew Putter, Gregg Smith, Doreen Southwood, James Webb and Ed Young.

Opens: May 5
Closes: May 23

Two years in the making, Zander Blom's latest solo exhibition and publication travels to Whatiftheworld/Gallery in Cape Town this June. The show documents the travels of an idealist Machiavellian hero, guitar in hand, on a crusade to revitalise the arts of the culture capital of the world.

Opens: May 27
Closes: June 27

'Trifecta' is a project in three parts by Deadheat (Dorothee Kreutzfeldt & Bettina Malcomess). Over the month of May, the gallery space will become both a stage and a double for the artists' own process, defined by their related but separate practices. A dead heat is a horse racing term used to refer to the rare event of two horses crossing the finishing line simultaneously.
'Image' opening May 6 at 6pm, 'Voice' opening May 13 at 6pm, 'Screen' opening May 21 at 6pm.

Opens: May 6
Closes: May 29

Consisting of works in progress by MFA students at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town, 'In Principle' addresses the underlying tensions between principle and practice. Curated by Jonah Sack, the works on show demonstrate this conflict through the interplay between the conceptual underpinnings and the material realisation that these artists engage towards producing their final body of work. Participating artists include Jenny Altschuler, Francis Burger, Cathy Dickerson, Tracey Derrick, Claire Jorgenson, Ryna Malherbe, Tashinga Matindike, Robyn Nesbit, Catherine Price, Elgin Rust, Fabian Saptouw and Dale Washkansky.

Opens: May 5
Closes: May 15

Tierney Fellowship recipients Robert Watermeyer, Francki Burger and Tracey Edser, of Michaelis, Wits and the Market Photo Workshop respectively, present recent work at the Michaelis Gallery in May.

Opens: May 19
Closes: June 3

'The Real Heroes' is an exhibition of black and white photographs by Clint Strydom, documenting the passion that exists for football in many isolated rural areas of South Africa, despite a serious lack of funding. This collection has been recognised as official licensed product of the 2010 FIFA World Cup'. Opens: May 21
Closes: June 20

A project curated by Judy Woodborne, the 'Exquisite Corpse Portfolio' contains etchings produced as a result of collaborations between artists Paul Birchall, Christiaan Diedericks, Eunice Geustyn, Richard Kilpert, Theo Kleynhans, Julia Teal, Diane Victor and Judy Woodborne.

Running concurrently, is Mervyn Gers's exhibition of tactile pots, 'On the Surface'.

Opens: May 5
Closes: May 28

'Nuance', opening at UCA Gallery on May 6, contains work by four painters and a sculptor ' Catherine Ochulla, Maricel Albertyn, Lionel Smit, Varenka Paschke and Jonathan Munnik ' who speak to the body as a site of social and emotional politics. Cooperatively, the work suggests that beauty lies rather in a body's subtle deviations from the physical ideal than in the ideal itself.

Opens: May 6
Closes: June 27

Tony Squance, a British artist resident in Madrid, Spain, shows a new collection of paintings at João Ferreira in June, his debut solo show in South Africa.

Opens: June 3
Closes: June 27

To celebrate its 20th month in existence, Warren Editions will host an 'Open Doors' event, inviting visitors to view the studio in operation, explore works on site and engage with the studio practice as prints are pulled.

Tom Cullberg collaborates with WE in May and will edition his etchings during the Open Doors event. Cullberg and master printmaker and director of Warren Editions, Zhané Warren will each present a talk on Saturday 23 May 2009 at 10:30. Cullberg will talk about his work and the collaborative experience, and how the etchings that he made at Warren Editions in 2008 and in May 2009, operate within his body of work. Warren will describe how Warren Editions functions, what a print-collaboration is and the role it plays in contemporary South African art.

Open: May 21 and May 22: 10am to 7pm
and May 23: 10am to 5pm

'Tee Hee', a solo show comprising painting, sculpture, print and animation, by Francois van Reenen opens in June at Muti Gallery

Opens: June 11
Closes: July 31

MIXIT is a compilation of works in various media by seventeen artists. MOTEL7, Faith47, Black Koki and other local urban artists join established names Kentridge, Dumas, Bester and international stars Murakami, D*Face and Blek le Rat. Recent work by Matthew Hindley and Asha Zero are also included. Upstairs, PREHISTORIC IDOLS by Paul du Toit also runs until 16 May.

Opens: April 15
Closes: May 16

In 'The Portrait Series', a series of charcoal and collage works on paper, Richard Smith explores themes of dialogue and communication, re-casting the traditional genre of portraiture to include wider sociopolitical concerns.

Opens: May 01
Closes: June 15

Comprising watercolour, pencil drawing and installation, Brett's solo show, 'Out of Site' uses the now-demolished Graaf's Pool in Greenpoint, as an entry point to examine the body, physical architecture, memory and myth.

Opens: May 8
Closes: May 22

'Tributes: Sam Nhlengethwa and Friends' comprises Sam Nhlengethwa's Tribute Series, featuring selected works by Peter Clarke, Marlene Dumas, Dumile Feni, David Koloane, Judith Mason and William Kentridge.

Opens: April 16
Closes: May 16

'In Black and White', a group show, includes works by Pierre FouchÈ, Carol Ann Gainer, Nigel Mullins, Cameron Platter, Kevin Brand, Wayne Barker, Mxolisi Sithole, Stuart Bird, Dianne Victor, Cara vd Westhuizen, Justin Fiske, Donovan Ward, Minnette Vari, Jane Eppel, David Brown and Lynette Bester.

Running concurrently, is 'Tales from the Mantlepiece', a collaborative exhibition of works by Philippe Bousquet, Geraldine Fenn and Marchand van Tonder, whose small-scale sculptures deal with domesticity, family, tradition and fairytale.

Opens: April 16
Closes: May 16

A solo show of watercolours, 'In Our Midst', deals with the city of Cape Town, imaging it through portraits of its citizens, buildings and Google Earth profile. Raaf's watercolours of the city's roofs were previously selected for Spier Contemporary 2007

Opens: April 20
Closes: June 1

'Two men and their dogs and other works', a selection of smale-scale works in bronze, sees Brown revisit the iconography of work he produced in the late 70s and 80s, in the 'Dog of War' series.

Opens: May 5
Closes: May 29

'Left of November' deals with loss and desperate human attempts to archive love. Vaughan-Evans exhibits new works in gesso, while Donaldson's examination of the theme makes use of a cellphone camera.

Opens: May 2
Closes: May 30

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