Current Exhibitions
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COMING SOON: Theresa-Anne Mackintosh NOW IS NOT FOREVER
Theresa-Anne Mackintosh’s art practice spans over three decades. The Wits Art Museum
survey exhibition NOW IS NOT FOREVER includes work from her earliest artistic production to
recent work from her studio. The exhibition explores how Mackintosh has used figuration to
think about identity, emotion, and the complexity of lived experience. Her work invites close
looking rather than immediate interpretation, balancing graphic clarity with emotional depth.
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Johann van der Schijff
The exhibition asks the viewer to see the Earth anew, to experience a moment similar to when the photograph Earthrise was taken or astronauts first stepped onto the surface of the Moon. It offers a glimpse of landscapes that, at a fleeting moment in history, were still largely unspoiled. At the same time, it functions as a hand-crafted distress signal – a plea to future generations and possible extraterrestrial beings to heed the urgent call of the environmental movement before it is too late.
Thoughtforms: The Page as a Liminal Field
Thoughtforms: The Page as a Liminal Field explores the book as a site of active thinking rather than a container for finished knowledge. It treats the page as a threshold where private ideas meet permanent marks.
Tracing a lineage from 15th-century Incunabula - designed with wide margins for reader commentary - to modern works by Max Ernst and contemporary artists, the exhibition highlights the margin as a primary field of inquiry. Discover the messy, physical boundary where abstract ideas find
[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