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Forthcoming

Peter Eastman
Even Rocks Melt in The Sun 6 Jun - 4 Jul 2023 Read more

Past

Tributaries: Contemporary Zimbabwean Narratives
18 Apr - 26 May 2023 Barnard in collaboration with artHARARE is pleased to present Tributaries – Contemporary Zimbabwean Narratives; a group exhibition of Zimbabwean visual artists including Richard Mudariki, Wilfred Timire, Franklyn Dzingai and Dan Halter. Represented in this exhibition are a generation of contemporary artists who speak most vocally and accurately about their country... Read more

Alexia Vogel
Strange Light 23 Feb - 11 Apr 2023 Barnard is pleased to present Strange Light, Alexia Vogel’s fifth solo show with the gallery. This new collection of work sees Vogel continuing to refine a signature visual language which, while echoing the floral and tropical motifs of previous work, now appears in its most distilled form yet. In these... Read more

Interlude: Tom Cullberg
with special guest Guy Simpson 23 Feb - 11 Apr 2023 Interludes , a series of exhibitions in the Barnard gallery's second space, adjacent to the main gallery, was introduced in 2022. Smaller in scale and scope this room allows for a more intimate and perhaps experimental engagement. We are pleased to present an installation by Swedish South African artist Tom... Read more

Jo Hummel
Looking Out 17 Jan - 14 Feb 2023 JO HUMMEL: LOOKING OUT BARNARD CAPE TOWN Using her native coastline as a starting point, Jo Hummel's work is characterised by a painted and paper collaged surface on which she employs spontaneous variations of space, colour and form. At first glance her work appears to be a physically-engaged, formal practice... Read more

Collective
Curated group exhibition 6 Dec 2022 - 10 Jan 2023 Barnard is pleased to present the end of the year summer exhibition Collective with new work by Jennifer Morrison, Jo O’Connor, Asha Zero, Alexia Vogel, Justin Dingwall in collaboration with Roman Handt, Jo Hummel, Nicholas Hales, Paul Senyol, Tom Cullberg, Katherine Spindler, Lien Botha and Jaco van Schalkwyk. Please join... Read more

The air between us
Katherine Spindler | Carolyn Parton 1 - 29 Nov 2022 the air between us a conversation returning by unused path violets complementary colours pulse and flow shared breath breath moments miles millenia letting go picture unanticipated revelation with in cycles the glowing edge all of this dis traction intings aintings andscapes sudden time and afterness tender ness illuminating frames how... Read more

Alastair Whitton
Metropolis 13 Sep - 25 Oct 2022 From 2017-2019 and then more recently in 2022, British born South African photographer Alastair Whitton made several trips to London, Paris and New York. These world capitals have been documented by celebrated photographers extensively over many decades. Whitton’s ongoing photo series METROPOLIS, represents his homage to these iconic cities and... Read more

Tshepiso Seleke
Sowetan 13 Sep - 25 Oct 2022 Barnard in association with Foto | Black Box is pleased to present selected images from South African photographer Tshepiso Seleke’s Sowetan project that were shown earlier this year at Photo London. Seleke’s work focusses on the social and economic positionality of black lives in an attempt to give a voice... Read more

Jo O'Connor
Sanctuary 2 Aug - 6 Sep 2022 In The Origin of The Work of Art Martin Heidegger asks the question: what is the source of a work of art? The artwork and the artist, he argues, exist in a dynamic where each appears to be a provider of the other. O’Connor presents her work in Sanctuary, her... Read more

PAINTER PAINTER!
21 Jun - 26 Jul 2022 Barnard is please to present PAINTER PAINTER! – an exhibition of work by selected artists engaging with the medium and material of paint. Diverse in their approach and process, each of these painters nonetheless shares a common commitment to, and celebration of, the medium with its many histories. Characterized by... Read more

Of Place & Time: The Paintings of Paul Senyol
5 May - 14 Jun 2022 Paul Senyol’s paintings are a study of humanity through his experiences of place. The artist spends his time painting and commuting by bicycle and skateboard through the landscape of his city. His daily encounters with the life of the street remains a turnkey source of artistic inspiration for him. Peculiar... Read more

Katherine Spindler: Interlude
5 May - 14 Jun 2022 Barnard is pleased to announce the introduction of Interludes, a series of exhibitions to be presented in the gallery's second space adjacent to the main gallery. Smaller in scale and scope this room allows for a more personal and intimate engagement with works. As the title implies, proposed projects by... Read more

Tom Cullberg
Local Stories 15 Mar - 26 Apr 2022 When he was seven, artist Tom Cullberg attempted to scale a bookshelf at his family home in Stockholm, Sweden. ‘It didn’t take long before the whole thing began to topple and I was under an avalanche of books,’ wrote Cullberg in 2009. ‘A literal lesson in appreciation of the weight... Read more

Abstract_ed.
Curated Group Exhibition 2 Feb - 8 Mar 2022 Barnard is pleased to present Abstract_ed. an exhibition of works by selected artists whose respective practices consider varying degrees of abstraction in painting and mixed media. Collectively and in conversation, these works articulate various interpretations of form and colour and akin to classical or instrumental musical composition require a sensory... Read more

A Pattern Language
Group Exhibition 1 Dec 2021 - 25 Jan 2022 Barnard is pleased to present A Pattern Language, a group exhibition of works by selected contemporary African artists. As the title suggests this exhibition explores notions of 'pattern’ and ‘language’ – i.e., the use of forms and formats, as well as colour and composition, in visual communication. The positioning of... Read more

Richard Mudariki
Gore Ra 2020 16 Oct - 27 Nov 2021 Richard Mudariki’s Visual Journal of the Plague Year By Sean O’Toole In May 2019, seven months before municipal health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan released a media statement detailing cases of an atypical viral pneumonia, Richard Mudariki held a solo exhibition in New York. Titled The Politics... Read more

Jaco van Schalkwyk: Smoke and Mirrors
28 Aug - 9 Oct 2021 Barnard is pleased to present Jaco van Schalkwyk’s latest solo exhibition Smoke and Mirrors. As the title suggests, not all is as it seems in this the artist’s latest body of paintings. While those familiar with Van Schalkwyk’s work will at once recognize his characteristic and meticulous attention to detail... Read more

Virginia MacKenny
Strand / Shore 6 Jul - 17 Aug 2021 Barnard is pleased to present Strand/Shore, a solo exhibition by Virginia MacKenny. Strand/Shore was generated in and between two coastal towns - Cape Town in South Africa and Swakopmund in Namibia. Comprising watercolours (produced in the limited space offered by COVID’s Lockdown and travel), oil painting and an illustrated children’s... Read more

Katherine Spindler
Paintings for Disappearing 29 May - 29 Jun 2021 Katherine Spindler's early work – her light installations - showed a preoccupation with impermanence, light and shadow; this stemming from her time spent on a hospital ship off the coast of West Africa. The shifting light of these installations could be seen as reimaginings of light coming in through a... Read more

Lien Botha
Lost in Translation 13 Apr - 18 May 2021 Barnard is pleased to present South African artist Lien Botha’s thirteenth solo exhibition titled Lost in translation, where she revisits a childhood narrative Boet & Saartjie. For this series, initiated in 2018, the artist has created digitally constructed photographic images with accompanying embroidered ‘second titles.’ The first titles are in... Read more

Garth Meyer
LINE 9 Mar - 6 Apr 2021 Barnard, in association with Foto | Black Box is pleased to present LINE – a photographic installation of works by South African photographer and filmmaker Garth Meyer. For several years Meyer photographed primary hardwood forests along the imaginary line of the equator to communicate, persuade and warn of the continued... Read more

Alexia Vogel
Tangled Dreams 26 Jan - 2 Mar 2021 Finally... I'm crossing the threshold From the ordinary world To the reveal of my heart * By the end of 2019 Vogel was unsure of the direction her next show would take. The first tests that she made were dark, densely layered and complex. It felt like there must be... Read more

Barnard Collective 2020
Curated Group Exhibition 26 Nov 2020 - 19 Jan 2021 Showcasing signature works by the gallery’s roster alongside works by invited artists, this exhibition reviews highlights from the past year while introducing examples of exciting collaborations planned for 2021. Barnard Collective includes new works by Tom Cullberg, Richard Mudariki, Jaco van Schalkwyk, Alexia Vogel, Katherine Spindler, Lien Botha, Maria Torp,... Read more

Tom Cullberg
Record/Play 3 Mar - 7 Apr 2020 The title of this body of work speaks to artist Tom Cullberg’s sense of painting as an act of recording, but also as one of play, openness, and sense-making. What do we remember and therefore record? How does our present filter those memories or intuit kinship with other objects, images,... Read more

Alastair Whitton
A Foreign Land 21 Jan - 25 Feb 2020 'My first reaction to these photographs was to shiver. Two sentences came to mind, by I know not whom - 'Africa is a cold country where the sun always shines' and another - 'The touch of the devil is as cold as ice'. In the Bible of my youth, hell... Read more

Barnard Collective 2019
Curated Group Exhibition 3 Dec 2019 - 14 Jan 2020 Showcasing signature works by the gallery’s roster alongside works by invited artists, this exhibition reviews highlights from the past year while introducing examples of exciting collaborations planned for 2020. Barnard Collective includes new works by Tom Cullberg, Richard Mudariki, Jaco van Schalkwyk, Alexia Vogel, Alex Emsley, Nicolas Hales, Sarah Biggs,... Read more

A Land I Name Yesterday
Jaco van Schalkwyk in collaboration with Jenna Burchell and Wayne Matthews 29 Oct - 26 Nov 2019 Picture a thicket you have to meander through. But the barbs and snags in this thicket are not comprised of thorns or twigs. It’s a metaphysical thicket of ideas and line work, of recorded brainwaves and German woodcuts cut up and put together again. It’s a thicket from which you... Read more

Dominique Edwards
Feelthings 26 Sep - 22 Oct 2019 Barnard invites you to view the latest body of work of three dimensional works in plaster as well as ink drawings by Dominique Edwards. Process and labour intensive, the enigmatic plaster forms of Dominique Edwards have evolved intuitively over the past two years. With layers of plastering, additions and extensions,... Read more

Katherine Spindler
From Matter to Matter 13 Aug - 17 Sep 2019 A SLOW EXPOSURE – KATHERINE SPINDLER Ashraf Jamal Seated in Katherine Spindler’s studio, listening to her as she lays out works in oil, water soluble graphite, and charcoal, one word emerged like a reckoning – sensibility. A favourite in the Eighteenth century lexicon, and in literature most famously examined in... Read more

Sarah Biggs
Gathering Dust 9 Jul - 6 Aug 2019 Since her debut exhibition with Barnard Gallery in 2015, Sarah Biggs has maintained an on-going fascination with the relationship between the human subject and the natural world, with each new body of work seeing a new evolution, expansion, or reimagining of this relationship, this inter-dependence. 2015’s Further Afieldpresented small figures... Read more

- nano 1.3
Curated Group Exhibition 28 May - 2 Jul 2019 A concept of relative simplicity, nano- 1.3 invites artists to zoom in, scale down, shrink, condense, encapsulate and compact; submitting works with an exact height of 20cm. The exhibition is an opportunity to play with scale, to explore what effects it has for both artist and viewer, and what new... Read more

Alexia Vogel
Light Leak 16 Apr - 21 May 2019 Barnard is pleased to present Light Leak, a solo exhibition of new work by Alexia Vogel. In photography, a ‘light leak’ refers to an instance where a hole or gap in a camera lets light in to what is normally a light tight chamber. In this new body of work,... Read more

Robyn Penn
News from Another World 5 Mar - 9 Apr 2019 Robyn Penn’s News from Another World reveals a striking new calibration of the sublime in line with our contemporary relationship to the natural world. Penn’s work, which has long been focused on the realities of climate change, reveals an awareness that it is that natural beauty and wonder which first gave rise to the notion of the sublime in 18th century aesthetics and which would become foundational in the development of modern art - that sense of awe and fear in the face of the indifferent majesty of nature – which now finds itself under immense threat precisely because of our problematic relationship to it. When observing Penn’s large canvases depicting ice sheets and glaciers calving and crashing into the ocean, it is hard to suppress that familiar thrill of the sublime. And yet, one also remains aware - in a less trained, more conflicted corner of the mind - that the drama depicted is in fact unnatural, that it signals not the innate majesty of nature but the very corruption of that majesty through centuries of human negligence and greed. If the 18th century understanding of the sublime centred around the awesome invulnerability of the natural world, its indifference to us, we might say that the contemporary sublime, as explored in Penn’s work, reveals the fallacy of that understanding, painting nature to be in fact intensely vulnerable, and fundamentally interconnected to the actions of humans.

And yet, despite revolving around one of the most pressing crises of our time, it is striking how Penn’s work avoids slipping into tactics of doom and shock. There remains an air of hope and levity in the imagery and a playfulness and humility in the artist’s processes. Contrast and contradiction are everywhere: deft, light brushwork is used to depict the drama of a glacier calving; imposing canvases depicting glacial landscapes are contrasted and mirrored with minimalist depictions of everyday objects and crumpled paper. In creating these seeming juxtapositions, Penn traces the connections between our everyday actions and the drastic environmental events which seem to be unfolding in another world, far away from us. She reminds us that it is the same thoughtlessness which allows us to crumple up and dispose a piece of paper, to endlessly replace and upgrade objects as they become unfashionable, that has ultimately set in motion the widespread destruction of the natural world. But Penn does not pass judgement, nor does she provide easy solutions - rather, she continues to grapple with the element of the unknown, a theme which has been on-going throughout her career. In experimenting with new media and surfaces, welcoming in the element of chance in her creative process, Penn engages in a physical gesture which mirrors a conceptual foray into the known and unknown consequences of climate change and the deeper mysteries of time itself. Her work thus belies layers of significance for the contemplative viewer, interweaving beauty and despair in an acutely perceptive response to the realities of the natural world in the 21st century.
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Monochrome
Curated Group Exhibition 22 Jan - 26 Feb 2019 Barnard is pleased to present Monochrome- a group exhibition featuring painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, video installation and collage by selected artists. It is fascinating how much variety can exist within monochromatic works despite the limitation of colour, a fact which is made very much apparent in the artworks collected for... Read more

Barnard Collective 2018
Curated Group Exhibition 4 Dec 2018 - 14 Jan 2019 Barnard is pleased to present our end of year exhibition Barnard Collective. Showcasing signature works by the gallery’s stable alongside works by invited artists, this exhibition reviews examples of highlights from the past year while introducing examples of exciting collaborations planned for 2019. Barnard Collective includes new works by Tom... Read more

Richard Mudariki
Maoneru Angu (My Realitry II) 9 Oct - 20 Nov 2018 Richard Mudariki’s work has long been interested in the intersection of personal and political worlds, a theme succinctly captured in the title of his latest body of work: Maonero Angu (My Reality II). For while the artist often tackles societal issues and public personas, rendering them in absurdist, theatrical milieus,... Read more

Tom Cullberg
Finding New Life in an Old Form 21 Aug - 2 Oct 2018 The centrepiece of Cullberg’s exhibition is the large painting Finding New Life in an Old Form (2016), which depicts eighteen newspapers on a neutral ground. The work is reminiscent of his well-known Book Portraits series (2009–on-going) and was inspired by an October 2015 edition of the Cape Argus guest edited by eight students involved in the #FeesMustFall student movement. Cullberg, a compulsive newspaper reader since his youth in Sweden, was deeply moved by the student-edited edition, later remarking “It felt like it was something that was alive, something that was direct. It didn’t have all these filters. It had something personal, the translation of personal experience into print.”

Cullberg’s paintings share a similar quality to his analysis. His practice is very much occupied with rendering sensate experiences using painted forms. Among the large paintings on exhibition, many are rendered in the style of his earlier Book Portraits series, but here include idiosyncratic montages of vinyl LPs, magazines, newspapers and objet d’art. His paintings also depict mid-twentieth-century domestic furniture by Danish designers Børge Mogensen, Swedish Bruno Mathsson and Hans J. Wegner and Italian-born American Harry Bertoia. “I know what it is like to sit in those chairs,” says Cullberg of the furniture portrayed in his work. “I know the feeling of the material. I have memories of those objects.” This sensorial knowledge is, however, not a sacred value. Many of the objects in Cullberg’s paintings are altered and lightly fictionalised. The inauthentic has equal value in his paintings, which offer more than simply unprocessed descriptions of the material world.

The chairs are often open structures that need to be filled; a motorcycle needs to be ridden somewhere; a pencil needs to make its mark. Similarly the images of magazines, books and the like (subtlety reimagined by Cullberg from their original source) offer the promise of data and information against a backdrop of woven linen. The origin of the word ‘text’ is the Greek ‘textus’ the same as for textile and reminding us that a text has weft and wove and the printed letters mean nothing until uttered, read or activated by human agency. Read more

Shoreline
Stephen Inggs & Vanessa Cowling 17 Jul - 14 Aug 2018 Barnard Gallery is pleased to present Shoreline, two solo exhibitions of new photographic and video work by Stephen Inggs and Vanessa Cowling, which run concurrently from 17 July to 14 August. Sharing more than just a title, each ofthese shows responds to the current resurgence of interest in the unstable... Read more

-nano 1.2
Curated Group Exhibition 5 Jun - 10 Jul 2018 A concept of relative simplicity, nano- 1.2 invited artists to zoom in, scale down, shrink, condense, encapsulate and compact; submitting works no larger than 20 x 20 cm. The exhibition is an opportunity to play with scale, to explore what effects it has for both artist and viewer, and what new parameters... Read more

MJ Lourens
Views on Entropy 24 Apr - 29 May 2018 Entropy, a thermodynamic concept, can be most simply defined as a measure of disorder, used to explain transfers of energy and processes of time by registering the passage from order to disorder within a given system. Being an invisible entity, the title Views on Entropy sets up an interesting contradiction.... Read more

Hugh Byrne
Point and Line 13 Mar - 17 Apr 2018 Barnard in collaboration with Ebony Curated is pleased to present Point and Line by Hugh Byrne. The title of the artist’s most recent body of work indicates a primary thrust which has extended across the artist’s career and practice – a reduction to the most basic visual forms and an... Read more

New Romantics
Curated Group Exhibition 30 Jan - 6 Mar 2018 For the first time in South Africa an exhibition dedicated to exploring a ‘romantic’ turn in contemporary art will be staged at Barnard from 30 January 2018. It is curated by well known art commentator Mary Corrigall, who has been closely observing this movement, which has largely been confined to... Read more

Barnard Collective 2017
Curated Group Exhibition 6 Dec 2017 - 23 Jan 2018 Showcasing signature works by the gallery’s stable alongside works by invited artists this exhibition reviews examples of highlights from the past year while introducing examples of exciting collaborations planned for 2018. Barnard Collective includes works by Alexia Vogel, Sarah Biggs, Lien Botha, Hugh Byrne, Tom Cullberg, Alex Emsley, Ryan Hewett,... Read more

Virginia MacKenny
At Sand's Edge 30 Oct - 28 Nov 2017 Virginia MacKenny’s exhibition At Sand’s Edge comprises oil and watercolour paintings that re-examine the tradition of landscape painting in a time of environmental duress and socio-political uncertainty. MacKenny, currently Associate Professor of Painting at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, has long been interested in the genre... Read more

Katherine Spindler
To Hold Time 26 Sep - 24 Oct 2017 Katherine Spindler’s artistic process is essentially one guided by intuition before and above concept. As such, it is difficult, and perhaps inappropriate, to attempt to describe an overarching impetus for this new collection of work, entitled To Hold Time. The very title indicates an impossible act, which is nevertheless ubiquitously... Read more

Jaco van Schalkwyk
-arium 22 Aug - 19 Sep 2017 Jaco van Schalkwyk’s ever-evolving exploration of the photorealist technique may be seen to indicate a preoccupation with illusionism – a constant attempt to seamlessly capture reality in paint, to achieve perfection in surface, to master the representation of space and light. But this painterly hyperrealism points to an investigation which... Read more

- nano 1.1
Curated Group Exhibition 26 Jul - 15 Aug 2017 Barnard Gallery is pleased to present its group exhibition, nano- 1.1 A concept of relative simplicity, nano- 1.1 invited artists to zoom in, scale down, shrink, condense, encapsulate and compact; submitting works no larger than 20 x 20 cm. The exhibition is an opportunity to play with scale, to explore... Read more

Sarah Biggs
Waiting for Rain 20 Jun - 18 Jul 2017 Sarah Biggs’ sophomore solo exhibition, Waiting for Rain , sees a complex dance play out between two enduring partners. Chaos confronts and converses with its ancient mirror: the joyful and relentless belief in meaning and logic, in patterns and explanations. It is a conversation simmering in the medium itself –... Read more

Fluid Perspectives in Paint
Curated Group Exhibiion 17 May - 13 Jun 2017 Barnard Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition entitled Fluid: Perspectives in Paint. Since the invention of photography and the rise of conceptualism, the so called “death of painting” has been announced by artists and critics alike time and time again. Often cast as a calcified medium in the... Read more

Alexia Vogel
Along the Way 12 Apr - 9 May 2017 Barnard Gallery is pleased to present Alexia Vogel’s second solo exhibition Along the Way. Poetic reverie gives us the world of worlds. Poetic reverie is a cosmic reverie. It is an opening to a beautiful world, to beautiful worlds. Gaston Bachelard Bachelard’s notion of the poetic reverie – a state... Read more

Robyn Penn
Paradise Lost 31 Jan - 28 Feb 2017 Barnard Gallery is pleased to present Robyn Penn’s solo exhibition Paradise Lost. Spaces of uncertainty, of unknowing, are very often acutely uncomfortable spaces to occupy. Despite being essential moments of tension which pervade the human psyche, continuous realities of our engagement with the world around us, they are nonetheless spaces... Read more

Barnard Collective 2016
Curated Group Exhibition 7 Dec 2016 - 24 Jan 2017 Featuring Robyn Penn, Alexia Vogel, Sarah Biggs, Gina Heyer, Richard Mudariki, Katherine Spindler, Ryan Hewett, MJ Lourens, Jaco van Schalkwyk, Anton Karstel, Alastair Whitton, Virginia Mackenny, Katherine Bull, Justin Dingwall and Gitte Moller. Read more

LIMINAL GEOGRAPHIES
Curated Group Exhibition 16 Oct - 29 Nov 2016 Liminal Geographies, while exploring the somewhat complex anthropological concept of the liminal, essentially tracks a very relatable and human process: that of coming to terms with the unknowable and the uncertain. It considers how we grapple with places and spaces which are intangible, which exist only in conjecture, memory, or... Read more

Justin Dingwall
Albus 23 Aug - 11 Oct 2016 Barnard Gallery is pleased to present Justin Dingwall’s solo exhibition Albus, in association with Lizamore & Associates. With an arresting vulnerability and striking intimacy, the photographs in Justin Dingwall’s ongoing body of work Albus constitute an extended meditation on the nature of beauty and perception. Aiming both to raise awareness... Read more

- nano
Curated Group exhibition 19 Jul - 16 Aug 2016 A concept of relative simplicity, nano- invited artists to zoom in, scale down, shrink, condense, encapsulate and compact; submitting works no larger than 40 x 40 cm. The exhibition is an opportunity to play with scale, to explore what effects it has for both artist and viewer, and what new... Read more

Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi
Window Part II 7 Jun - 5 Jul 2016 Since the publishing of Leon Battista Alberti’s treatise De Pictura in 1435, the metaphor of painting as an “open window” onto the world has been a central motif in the history of art. Codified in the rules of single point perspective, this metaphor was honoured from the Renaissance until the... Read more

MJ Lourens
Proximity by Proxy 26 Apr - 30 May 2016 It is very tempting to get lost in the surface of MJ Lourens’ paintings, to dwell there, to remain floating among the glistening city lights and sweeping sunset hues. And why not? These surfaces are marvelous things, stunning in their realism, their gleaming varnishes creating a luscious sheen washing over... Read more

Future / Present
Curated Group Exhibition 9 Feb - 22 Mar 2016 Barnard Gallery is pleased to present Future / Present, our first group show of 2016. Future / Present: a state of conjecture, imagining, and uncertainty. A mash-up, a face off, a mutual evaluation, a conversation. It suggests the ongoing, inevitable and inescapable process of change, maturation, and entropy; but also... Read more

Sarah Biggs
FURTHER AFIELD 27 Oct - 1 Dec 2015 Barnard Gallery is pleased to present Sarah Biggs debu t solo exhibition Further afield. The Field. Open to interpretation, yet marked by distance, this space thrives on the unanswered. It is a point of departure and for some, a return. It is over there. The natural environment of natural... Read more

Jaco van Schalkwyk
Eden 15 Sep - 20 Oct 2015 In Search of an lnner Eden Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu’on a perdus. (Marcel Proust) To set foot on an Island is perilous. All expectations and preconceptions must withstand the brutal test of real experience. Islands are distant places; an effort must be made to reach them. Their... Read more

Katherine Spindler
Selah 4 Aug - 8 Sep 2015 Katherine Spindler: Selah Opening speech by Dominique Edwards I have found the writing of this piece particularly challenging. How does one attribute language, in the format of the spoken word, as descriptive of a visual-experience, essentially – to a feeling? One that I do not choose to distance myself... Read more

Picture & Paper
Curated Group Exhibition 30 Jun - 28 Jul 2015 It began with the ostensibly inchoate act of making signs on surfaces, be they recordings of constellations, simple decorations or more arcane representations of shamanistic experiences, on rock surfaces and in caves. Indeed the origins of humanity cannot be extricated from the history of art – creative activities or products... Read more

Alexia Vogel
Lost in Reverie 24 Mar - 5 May 2015 There is something strangely familiar about the paintings of Alexia Vogel; they seem at once intimate and distant. Magical and altogether enchanting they offer hints of a place sensed but not necessarily seen. Gentle, beautiful and powerfully immersive her work engenders a state of reverie wherein we experience an inkling... Read more

Surface: Emerging Painters
Curated Group Exhibition 4 Feb - 19 Mar 2015 From the evocative surfaces of Alexia Vogel’s paintings to the intense and highly expressive impasto works of Mia Chaplin, Surface: Emerging Painters features the work of a select group of up-and-coming painters redefining the medium in contemporary South African art. The exhibition considers and celebrates paint both as medium and... Read more

Barnard Collective 2014
Curated Group Exhibition 12 Dec 2014 - 29 Jan 2015 Featured Artists: Lien Botha, Jaco van Schalkwyk, Virginia Mackenny, Alastair Whitton, Katherine Spindler, Robyn Penn, Richard Mudariki, Robert Slingsby, Ndikhumbule Ngqinanmbi, Sarah Biggs, Ryan Hewett, Tracey Payne and Alexia Vogel. Read more

Alastair Whitton
Glimpse 21 Oct - 4 Dec 2014 Drawing on cultural sources including literature, history, art and the Bible, Whitton is known for conceptually engaging work that is essentially concerned with the ways in which we recognize, recall and navigate the world around us. He graduated with distinction from the Natal Technikon School of Art in 1994 and... Read more

Paint Matters
Curated Group Exhibition 14 Jul - 15 Aug 2014 Barnard Gallery is pleased to present PAINT MATTERS, an exhibition of selected works highlighting recent developments in painting by the following emerging and established South African artists. Asha Zero is known for a collagist approach to painting and his work is a blend of Pop art parody, Dada conceptualism, and... Read more

Lien Botha
Yonder 20 Mar - 1 May 2014 The visual chronicles of an artist in transit on the African continent. They are short installments of the experiences you collect when you move between destinations, be it for professional reasons such as attending a Biennale in Bamako or a family event at the foot of the Magaliesberg, in Gauteng.... Read more

Barnard Collective 2013
Curated Group Exhibition 12 Dec 2013 - 30 Jan 2014 Barnard is pleased to present works by William Kentridge, Diane Victor, Asha Zero, Jaco van Schalkwyk, Lien Botha, Mary Sibande, Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi, Norman Catherine, Alastair Whitton, Stephen Inggs, Tracy Payne and Virginia MacKenny. Read more

Point of View
Contemporary South African Photography 25 Jul - 29 Aug 2013 Barnard Gallery is proud to present Point of View - an exhibition of selected contemporary photography by established and emerging South African artists. A common term in photography, point of view implies the position from which the cameraman sees and sets the scene. It is a subjective term, acknowledging the... Read more

Changing Faces
Profiling Portraits in South Africa 23 May - 18 Jul 2013 PRIMA FACIE Many, or perhaps merely some, of us, might be familiar with the mythological origin of the mirror. Legend has it that Eve was performing her ablutions in a river and became transfixed by a beautiful, glistening image gazing at her from the water. It was her own reflection,... Read more

Online

Hopes and Dreams
Part III 29 Sep - 26 Oct 2020 In the words of legendary singer, songwriter, poet and Nobel Prize laureate Bob Dylan '... the times they are a changing'. Indeed, the times they have already changed. As 1939 was, the year 2020 is a global marker - a war of a different kind and the world as we... Read more

Hopes and Dreams
Part II 8 - 28 Sep 2020 In the words of legendary singer, songwriter, poet and Nobel Prize laureate Bob Dylan “... the times they are a changing”. Indeed, the times they have already changed. As 1939 was, the year 2020 is a global marker - a war of a different kind and the world as we... Read more

Hopes and Dreams
Part I 18 Aug - 7 Sep 2020 In the words of legendary singer, songwriter, poet and Nobel Prize laureate Bob Dylan “... the times they are a changing”. Indeed, the times they have already changed. As 1939 was, the year 2020 is a global marker - a war of a different kind and the world as we... Read more

Homework
Curated online exhibition 2 Jun - 14 Jul 2020 Barnard is pleased to present ‘Homework’ the second in an ongoing series of online exhibitions. During this time of extended national lockdown in South Africa as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many or most artists have been unable to access their regular studio environments and have had to come... Read more

Hello from the inside
Curated online exhibition 5 - 26 May 2020 Blursday, May 6; forty days into nights. The lockdown continues as time seems to stand still. In hindsight what our vision of 2020 will be remains to be seen; for the moment the path ahead is unclear. What is certain is that these are unprecedented times. People, communities and governments... Read more

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