The global economic recession seems not to be affecting a number of new developments underway in the sphere of project spaces and emerging galleries.

Following in the footsteps of galleries like Goodman and David Krut Publishing who have recently opened satellite project spaces at the trendy new Arts on Main development on the east end of the city of Johannesburg, Cape Town based gallery Whatiftheworld launches their own satellite in Braamfontein.

Located at 68 Juta Street, Whatiftheworld presents Co-Op; a workshop and exhibition...

The global economic recession seems not to be affecting a number of new developments underway in the sphere of project spaces and emerging galleries.

Following in the footsteps of galleries like Goodman and David Krut Publishing who have recently opened satellite project spaces at the trendy new Arts on Main development on the east end of the city of Johannesburg, Cape Town based gallery Whatiftheworld launches their own satellite in Braamfontein.

Located at 68 Juta Street, Whatiftheworld presents Co-Op; a workshop and exhibition space in collaboration with design house Dokter and Misses. This new space is intended to promote emerging contemporary artists and introduce collectors to some new names, as well as to combine the design workings of Doktor and Misses in a number of collaborations including the likes of David West. The space opened on October 8 in conjunction with the Jo’burg leg of the Spring Art Tour.

Cape Town’s Blank Projects has found a new location. Since leaving their old premises in the Bo-Kaap, the project space has struggled to find an appropriate new venue. Blank has now secured a 150- square-meter venue opposite the old Bell-Roberts on Main Road in Woodstock, and it is here that a new incarnation of Blank will be born, geared to project-driven contemporary art exhibitions. The new space opens with a video-installation by Swiss based artists Marianne Halter and Mario Marchisella.

YoungBlackman, a collaboration between Ed Young and novelist Matthew Blackman, has also opened this month next door to The Book Lounge. Suitably, the space was inaugurated with a screening of Sue Williamson’s video piece 'Better Lives' in conjunction with Williamson’s launch of her new book South African Art Now at The Book Lounge.