Visual Arts

DURBAN — While delegates from 194 nations debated solutions and compromises for a deal on climate change inside Durban’s International Convention Centre, artist Jacques Coetzer scaled a ladder in the shallows of the Indian Ocean nearby.More ...

It was cheeky, even slightly provocative, of the Goethe Institut to organise an event that dealt with trauma, that bookended 9/11, but that did not have a single mention of the destruction of New York’s Twin Towers. Instead, the five-day Über(w)unden conference (Johannesburg, 7–11 September) presented artists, writers and activists from Sudan, DRC, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Europe who discussed ways in which art can deal with trauma in countries that have experienced extreme conflicts.More ...

An interview with Susanne Gaensheimer, the Commissioner of the 2011 German Pavilion in Venice.More ...

The Johannesburg Art Gallery has created an educational supplement which features selected artworks of different epochs from its permanent collection.More ...

With “Afropolis“, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne has set a course: an ethnological museum opens itself to current global processes of urbanisation and artistic intervention.More ...

David Southwood is a Cape Town based photographic artist who seems to be – after all – more interested in people and in roads. We talked to him about his new exhibition N1, about the influence of development techniques on photographs and the inside of sex worker’s handbags.More ...

Within a century, the medial availability of the means of production and distribution has swelled into a mass phenomenon.More ...

His style consists in the constant change of style and has made Gerhard Richter one of the most successful contemporary German painters.More ...

Johannesburg in the 1950s - apartheid separates everything in life into black and white. A young lawyer called Nelson Mandela steps into the public eye. Right in the thick of things – Jürgen Schadeberg from Berlin, a photographer who had just turned 20.More ...