23.04.09 Vaughn Sadie 'Situation' at Bank Gallery
21.04.09 Mlu Zondi 'Despotica' at KZNSA
21.04.09 Big Night Out at KZNSA
12.04.09 Grace Kotze 'Darkness and Wonder: New Oil Paintings' at KZNSA
12.04.09 Zander Blom 'The Travels of Bad' at KZNSA
12.04.09 Peter Rippon 'Morphology' at KZNSA
20.04.09 Nicholas Crooks 'Obsessive Urge to Categorise' at ArtSPACE Durban
20.04.09 Lee Scott Hempson 'Masterful Conversations' at artSPACE Durban
20.04.09 Jacki Bruniquel 'Hole in the Wall' at artSPACE Durban
11.05.09 Ros Cryer 'Responses' at ArtSPACE Durban
06.05.09 Sacred Legacy at the Durban Art Gallery
25.02.09 Not Alone - An international project of Make Art/Stop Aids at the Durban Art Gallery
24.05.09 KZN Schools Exhibition at Durban Art Gallery

01.03.09 Prints and Drawings from the DUT Collection at the DUT Gallery

Vaughn Sadie presents an exhibition of new work at Bank Gallery. Titled 'Situation', the show explores the nature of light, both in the context of art history and in how it helps to form our day-to-day consciousness. Using found objects and ready-mades, Sadie states that the use of light as a metaphor also raises 'crucial questions about power and ideology'.

Opens: April 23
Closes: May 28

In the KZNSA cinema, rising star Mlu Zondi exhibits his work Despotica, a performance art video installation from the Experimenta Series. The piece was conceived during the artist's two months residency in Belgium in 2008 and first performed in Brussels.

Opens: 21 April
Closes: 10 May

Big Night Out features an exciting and varied range of works by artists Albina Mitchell, Amanda Kok, Carol Beckx, Caroline Birch, Coral Spencer Domijan, Deborah van Niekerk, Di van Wyk, Gillian Gerhardt, Jane Oliver, Jane Sampson, Marianne Meijer, Michele Silk, Nicole Pletts, Nomsa Ngidi, Sean Simons and Paul Ramos. The show is the result of the KZNSA's inaugural Professional Practice Course which is aimed at artists wishing to pursue a career in art production.

Opens: April 21
Closes: May 10

In this new collection of autobiographical oil paintings, Grace Kotze combines her technical mastery of the medium with an intuitive reading of the languages of emotion. Drawing on the two extremes of darkness and wonder, Kotze presents a body of work in which a sense of foreboding coexists with the resilience of the human spirit, all set against the metaphoric context of a natural history museum.

Opens: April 12
Closes: May 31

Zander Blom's new show is also the launch of his latest publication. 'The Travels of Bad' 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. 'The Travels of Bad' comprises a 48-page mini-novella with 17 photographic works and a 17-track album soundtrack. In addition, the exhibition includes a selection of sculptures and what Blom calls 'merchandise'.

Opens: April 12
Closes: May 31

The exquisitely detailed paintings of Peter Rippon explore the nuances of mortality and intimacy. Drawing on bodies, body parts and inanimate objects, his tightly cropped paintings use the physical and the corporeal to investigate and comment on the scientific and medical view of the body as specimen.

Opens: April 12
Closes: May 31

Crooks considers the process of painting a 'dialogue with the self'. His exhibition 'Obsessive Urge to Categorise' closes on May 6.

Opens: April 20
Closes: May 6

'Masterful Conversation' is Scott Hempson's exhibition for her M Tech degree. Her work uses pictographic images, taken mostly from information signage, as story telling devices.

Opens: April 20
Closes: May 6

Jacki Bruniqel uses paint, photography and collage in this exhibition inspired by a trip to the Transkei and 'a journey towards love, light, colour and abundance.'

Opens: April 20
Closes: May 6

Ros Cryer's exhibition includes work produced in response to a journey through Mozambique, and which includes the influence of the luscious textile prints worn on women's bodies.

Opens: May 11
Closes: May 30

'Sacred Legacy' features reproductions of historical photographs of the native people of North America by legendary photographer/ethnographer Edward Curtis whose life spanned both the old West and its final destruction in the twentieth century. The result is a unique photographic record of an era and broad group of people whose representation is more usually rendered in American television and cinema. The exhibition illustrates the broad and extraordinary diversity among the North American tribes and the haunting landscape they occupy.

Opens: May 6
Closes: June 28

'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 Durban Art Gallery is once more host to the annually KwaZulu-Natal Schools Art Exhibition. The works on display include traditional disciplines such as painting, drawing, prints and collage, as well as animation and computer generated art.

Opens: May 24
Closes: June 28

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