Festivals and Films
Cape Town What's on
11 February-11 March 2011. The Iziko Planetarium hosts this event both for adults and teenagers, which investigates on the Cosmic Egg, an ancient mythological concept, which was resurrected by modern...
Cape Town What's on
23 February-30 April 2011. This exhibition pays homage to the South African photographer Ernest Cole with a selection of extremely rare and unpublished photographs from the Swedish Hasselblad Foundati...
Cape Town What's on
Gerhard Marx at the Goodman Gallery
22 January-12 February 2011. This exhibition entitled Cumulus by Gerhard Marx inaugurates the new Goodman Gallery. On display is a series of new works, which were created thanks to several processes d...
Cape Town What's on
Collection of Stamps on Beadwork
1 January-30 June 2011. The South African Post Office have collaborated with Iziko Art and Social History Collections departments for seven years on this project and exhibition entitled 8th Definitive...
Cape Town What's on
World Aids and Emancipation Day at Iziko
1 December 2010. Iziko Museums celebrate the World Aids ad Emancipation Day by welcoming the public to its museums for free. Furthermore, at the TH Barry Lecture Theatre, inside the Iziko South Africa...
Cape Town What's on
27 November 2010-30 April 2011. This exhibition brings together textiles and other adornment items from Iziko
Cape Town What's on
Made in Translation-Images from and of the Landscape
21 November 2010-21 November 2011. This exhibition displays a diverse range of translations, including the works of copyist, which have been made from and of the landscape since 1850 and throughout th...
Cape Town What's on
6 November 2010-16 January 2011. This exhibition displays the most recent series of theatrical images, entitled Boarding House, by the American photographer Roger Ballen. In Ballen
Cape Town What's on
11 October-21 November 2010. An exhibition at Iziko South African Museum launched in conjunction with the festival entitled Save our Seabirds (SoS), organised by Birdlife South African during the nat...
Cape Town What's on
26 October 2010-30 January 2011. For the first time this photographic exhibition, entitled Borders, travels to South Africa and presents a selection of works on the African diaspora that were displaye...
Cape Town What's on
A Vigil of Departure by Louis Khehla Maqhubela
18 October 2010-13 February 2011. This exhibition, entitled A Vigil of Departure, is a retrospective of the modern abstractionist Louis Maqhubela and displays his works from 1960 to 2010.
The Lo...
Cape Town What's on
13 Oct 2009-28 Feb 2010. This exhibition, curated by Roger van Wyk and Kathryn Smith, takes a look at the Dada Movement which began in Zurich in 1916. It presents works from the 1960s to the present...
Cape Town What's on
Erika Elk, Nike Romano and David Rossouw at AVA
26 July-20 August 2010. The Association of Visual Arts (AVA) presents three solo exhibitions: Material Matters by Erika Elk, The Sum of the Parts by Nike Romano and Worker Interrupted by David Rossouw...
Cape Town What's on
5-17 July 2010. This exhibition presents a selection of seven images by the South African photographers Jodi Bieber, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Hasan & Husain Essop, David Goldblatt, Mikhael Su...
Cape Town What's on
New Year Carnival in Cape Town
15 June-30 November 2010. The Iziko Bo-Kaap Museum reopens to the public following extensive renovation with an exhibition dedicated to Cape Town
Cape Town What's on
The Lie of the Land: Representations of the South African Landscape
10 June-11 Sept 2010. This exhibition brings together a rich selection of paintings, photographs, sculptures, maps and charts created over the centuries. The works on show illustrate how South African...
Cape Town What's on
26 May-19 June 2010. A new series of oil paintings entitled Transition, Emergence and The Parts in Between by Lara Feldman explores how the ordinary and spatially undefined journeys of everyday life a...
Cape Town What's on
2010 Fine Art: an Eye on the World Cup
21 May-31 July 2010. On the occasion of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July, this exhibition displays paintings, sculptures and photographs by leading contemporary artists...
Cape Town What's on
30 May-15 Aug 2010. This exhibition by the South African artist Nicholas Hlobo, winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art 2009, arrives in Cape Town after a year-long tour of other...
Cape Town What's on
Ghoema & Glitter: New Year Carnival in Cape Town
5 June 2010-31 Jan 2011. This exhibition by the Iziko Social History Collections (SHC) department focuses on a peculiarity of Cape Town
