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Current Exhibitions

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Coming Soon: Nature's Elements Nature’s Elements brings together selected works from WAM’s collections that engage with the four elements of nature – earth, water, air and fire. Spanning different periods, media and artistic approaches, the exhibition considers how artists observe, experience and interpret the natural environment. From traditional landscape painting to abstraction and contemporary explorations of space, place and perception, the works offer different ways of seeing and reimagining the natural world, drawing a
Véronique Hoog: 'The Vanilla Sisters Lunch Club: Our Portraits Our Stories' The Vanilla Sisters Lunch Club: Our Portraits our Stories invites us to better understand one another. The portraits of women living with albinism are large and bold and the stories speak of resilience, as well as goals and achievements attained with courage and determination while navigating a world that often misunderstands difference. The stories are accessible using QR codes and on the website virtual exhibition on veroniquehoog.com available from 16 September 2026.
Technics of the Page / The Last Human Reader @JGCBA The exhibition moves through technical beings, memory systems, generative machines, networks, hallucinations and that which refuses capture. It asks what happens when books and archives increasingly circulate as data, metadata, predictions and extractable patterns, and what remains stubbornly material, illegible, embodied or resistant. These books must still be turned, unfolded, rotated, decoded, listened to, peered into and sometimes performed. Meaning may lie in a fold, a cut...

[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
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