/ Forthcoming Exhibitions

North Gallery

HyperFable - a group exhibition curated by Johan Conradie

10 October to 31 October 2026

‘HyperFable’, curated by Johan Conradie, brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists engaging fantasy as a critical and imaginative mode of inquiry. Encompassing painting, drawing, mixed media, digital art and textile practices, the exhibition emerges from an ongoing studio mentorship including both established artists and emerging practitioners at significant stages of their development. The exhibition explores how artists employ fantasy not as a form of escapism, but as a powerful strategy for critique, speculation, and world-building.

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek observes that “Fantasy is not the opposite of reality; it is the support of reality itself.” Fantasy functions as a generative structure through which reality is experienced, narrated, and contested. Within contemporary art it becomes a critical medium capable of exposing hidden desires, unsettling dominant narratives, and constructing speculative worlds through which new possibilities may emerge.This exhibition invites viewers into a constellation of imagined realities—worlds that illuminate the present precisely by exceeding it. In doing so, the exhibition asks how fiction, myth, and imagination might help us understand not only who we are, but who we may yet become.

The exhibition will be opened by Johan Conradie on Saturday 10 October 2026 at 11:00 and runs until Saturday 31 October 2026.

Main Gallery

HyperFable - a group exhibition curated by Johan Conradie

10 October to 31 October 2026

‘HyperFable’, an exhibition curated by Johan Conradie, brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists engaging fantasy as a critical and imaginative mode of inquiry. Encompassing painting, drawing, mixed media, digital art and textile practices, the exhibition emerges from an ongoing studio mentorship including both established artists and emerging practitioners at significant stages of their development. The exhibition explores how artists employ fantasy not as a form of escapism, but as a powerful strategy for critique, speculation, and world-building.

This exhibition invites viewers into a constellation of imagined realities—worlds that illuminate the present precisely by exceeding it. In doing so, the exhibition asks how fiction, myth, and imagination might help us understand not only who we are, but who we may yet become.

The exhibition will be opened by Johan Conradie on Saturday 10 October 2026 at 11:00 and runs until Saturday 31 October 2026.

Gallery Chaton

Minnie Gerber - Re-imagine

10 October to 31 October 2026

According to the artist the works are inspired by old photos of nature, children, individuals and even those by the then Cape Town street photographers. These are copied onto photographic paper and then, by means of a single colourful embroidery thread and sharp needle, she explores techniques and stitches enabling her to create new stories.

Traditionally embroidery, crocheting and knitting are regarded as handicrafts. But in the same way embroidery is used as concept in the smaller works, it is also incorporated in the biologically inspired hearts. The latter has been processed through printing, painting and even adding script. Finally they were embroidered to give structure, colour, depth and balance to the viewer. This elevates handicraft to art.

Minnie Gerber was born in 1948 in Laingsburg but resides in Gauteng since 1981. Post-matric she studied at the Teachers College in Oudtshoorn. She obtained her BA Fine Arts degree through UNISA in 2007. She started partaking in group exhibitions since 2002. Her work Infiltration is included in the UNISA Permanent Collection.

Gerber agrees with textile artist Eva Cecilie Skak Lassen. “Everything is handmade. It takes time to embroider, but I love the slowness and contemplation.”