Current Exhibitions
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Weird, Wonderful, Quirky and Peculiar
Weird, ‘Wonderful’, Quirky & Peculiar explores the delightfully strange through Salvador Dalí’s Ten Recipes for Immortality alongside works that embrace the surreal, obscure, and delightfully odd. From asemic texts and unreadable books to pigeon photography and emotional maps, artists play with the form and function of the book to reveal strange and personal views of the world.
Alexander Appolis: A Neo-Arcadian Tale: BLACK Pan in South Africa’s Pastoral Romance
Through painting, installation, sculpture, and drawing, Alexander Appolis explores themes of desire, memory, and apartheid’s spatial legacies. Neo-Arcadian Tale: BLACK Pan in South Africa’s Pastoral Romance invites reflection on haunted architectures and imagined gardens as colonial scars and sites of rewilding. As a point in Appolis’ PhD in Creative Work, the exhibition unfolds a poetic world shaped by hidden or marginalised archives.
Paul Weinberg: Between the Cracks
This retrospective exhibition brings together nearly five decades of Weinberg’s extensive photographic career. His work has taken him on multiple journeys and he has sought to go beyond the headlines, engaging in in-depth storytelling. Between the Cracks is grounded in the lives of ordinary people—often in the most difficult of times, under the constraints of racism and apartheid. Photography, for him, became both a form of resistance and a means of survival.
[Watch] Past Exhibitions
MezzanineWAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection.
Street and Core GallerySeen, Heard and Valued: WAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection
Up The RampSeen, Heard and Valued: WAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection.
Strip GallerySeen, Heard and Valued: WAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection.
Street GalleryTENX10: 100 artworks, by women and gender diverse artists, from WAM collections.
Core Gallery TENX10: 100 artworks, by women and gender diverse artists, from WAM collections.
‘Portrait of Elisabeth Eybers’‘Portrait of Elisabeth Eybers’: Marlene Dumas and Ena Jansen in conversation