Vuleka Art Competition

Haidee Nel has won the Vuleka Art Competition! Congratulations Haidee.

Manfred Zylla in Rome, Italy

Manfred Zylla has been invited to exhibit his work at the Centro Luigi Di Sarro in Rome, Italy. His exhibition will open on 21 October 2010. Zylla will be present for the opening.

Exhibition at BMW showroom

Heidi Erdmann curated the exhibition for BMW Auto Atlantic’s showrooms at the Foreshore. This is the first in a series of exhibitions which will be presented at these premises.

Obie Oberholzer Diesel & Dust Part I exhibition opened in East London

Oberholzer’s exhibition Diesel & Dust Part I opened at the Ann Bryant Art Gallery in East London on 5 August @ 6pm. This very successful exhibition includes a wide range of classic Oberholzer colour photographs.

South African Contemporary Art from the Heidi Erdmann Collection

Manfred Zylla’s next solo exhibition will open on 11 August. Save the date! Jennifer Lovemore-Reed is also included in our next exhibition, Conceptual Matter. A one week exhibition/event! Save the opening date of Wednesday 4 August.

Italian photographer Erik Chevalier has had a busy year with plenty of exhibitions in Europe. Lien Botha has just returned from a one month residency in Sylt, Germany. Norman O’Flynn is included in a group exhibition opening in London during July. Come and view new monotypes by Karlien de Villiers; these pieces were all included in museum exhibitions in Europe.

We are proud to announce that Kilmany-Jo Liversage was commissioned to produce a major artwork for the World Aids Campaign. The work was exhibited at the global conference on AIDS in Vienna, Austria during July.

Do not miss the upcoming one night exhibition of Mark Hipper’s work. Hipper has recently joined our gallery, and we will be showing you a decade of work produced by this multi talented artist. All works will be for sale!
We say farewell to Robert Hodgins whose 90th birthday was on 27 June 2010. Two earlier paintings from 1988/9 and 1991 are included in this exhibition!
We are very proud to present Abrie Fourie’s provocative photograph End of the World, Cape Point in an exhibition at this gallery. His upcoming solo exhibition and book are both eagerly awaited!
A small sample of new photographs by Melanie Cleary, taken at the Body Building World Championships held in SA during October 2009 is also included in this exhibition.

Recent & New Works - Notes on this Multi Media group exhibition

ERDMANNCONTEMPORARY is pleased to be working with Marna Hattingh. Her work fits well into our specialised area of comic art. We are also pleased to announce our collaboration with sculptor Haidee Nel. Nel is included in our upcoming exhibition, Conceptual Matter which opens in August.

Brendhan Dickerson latest Politizela series, is a must see! His sculptures are in the shape of vuvuzelas and AK 47 machine guns, and individually titled as VuvuZille, JujuZela, Zumazela and WinNieMADickiZela. This is political satire at it’s best.

Conceptualist, Jennifer Lovemore-Reed completely debunks the myth that one cannot make art without money. Most of the work on this exhibition was made with her own hair, her husband’s hair or simply collected from hair salons. Conceptual artist, Lynette Bester asked a few artists for items which they were tripping over. She received a collection of useless, broken and non functional objects. View the exhibition to see how this artist transformed these items into desirable artworks.

Barbara Wildenboer is another young conceptualist to watch. Known for her delicate paper sculptures, hand made books, installations and precision scalpel work.

We are also very pleased to welcome Kilmany-Jo Liversage to our stable of gallery artists. Liversage is a painter, who incorporates silk ribbons and steel pins onto her canvasses. She will have a solo exhibition at this gallery during September 2010.

We are also pleased to announce a solo exhibition later this year by Eastern Cape based painter Mark Hipper. Paintings by our talented gallery artists, Norman O’Flynn, Jan Neethling and Bronwen Vaughan-Evans and drawings by Elizabeth Gunter are also included in this exhibition. These are all collectable artists with promising and in some cases, established international careers.

We look forward to successful careers for newcomers, Lara Feldman and Rentia Bartlett, both are talented painters to be watched.
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Affordable Art Fair Bristol, UK.

We are pleased to announce that Norman O’Flynn’s work will be included at this fair, visit Geeta Chagan at booth B5.

South African artists in Naples, Italy.

The exhibition Premondial Barocco will go on view from 8-30 May at Il Ramo D’Oro.
Artist included Karlien de Villiers, Nomusa Makhubu, Collen Maswanganyi & Norman O’Flynn.

The Photographers Gallery za & ERDMANNCONTEMPORARY is proud to announce our association with the Centro Luigi Di Sarro in Rome, Italy. We have hosted two projects since November 2009. The World Needs Us exhibition (Karlien de Villiers, Collen Maswanganyi, Norman O’Flynn and Nomusa Makhubu) was well received by both public and media in Rome. South African Ambassador to Italy Ms Thenjiwe Ethel Mtintso opened the exhibition. Makhubu and de Villiers both lecturers at universities in South Africa, presented illustrated talks at the University of Rome.

The exhibition went on view at KYO Gallery in Viterbo (just outside Rome). The next and final stop is an exhibition in Naples at Il Ramo D’Oro, until 30 May 2010.

The Photographers Gallery za in Cape Town hosted the debut solo exhibition for Italian photographer, Erik Chevalier. The Family Safe focuses on Chevalier paternal grandfather’s photo album. Over the years, most of the photographs had been removed, and the album had become a book with descriptions of places and people no one knew or remembered. Chevalier took (or found) photographs which fitted the descriptions. Some of the photographs included had been taken by him between the ages 6 and 10 years old. Erik lives and works in Sardinia.
If you missed this exhibition, go to works by Erik Chevalier.

Matters Conceptual / Conceptual Matter

The second part of this exciting exhibition opens on Wednesday 4 August @ 6 pm.
Note that it will have a one week run. Save this date. Click here to view images from the Matters Conceptual exhibition.

We love Lungelo Mndi’s bags!

Lungelo Mndi bought two sewing machines after completing a short training programme. These bags are all original designs and sell for R 180.00 each. Contact the gallery to place your order.