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4worldlovers: The Return marks the first solo exhibition on the African continent for Nassau-born, New York-based interdisciplinary conceptual artist Tavares Strachan. The show includes ceramics, which are being displayed in an exhibition context for the first time, as well as new paintings and locally created, handwoven tapestries – all of which have been made specifically for this presentation.

4worldlovers: The Art Room is a contemporary art gallery with the luxury of having its own framing studio and factory.

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In Johannesburg’s inner city lies an exclusive art building, housing more than 40 independent, pan-African contemporary artists, in private art studios, known to the locals as ‘The Artists’ Playground’. To the outsider it’s just a 1940s historic structure until one crosses the threshold and sees where the magic lives, in five storeys of private art studios. August House gives artists a unique creative hub. With its high columns, authentic architecture and large open plan floors, it’s a wonderful blend of inspiration and stillness. Once a light industrial warehouse space, August House celebrates 15 years as a well-established, local and international contemporary African artists community, within walking distance from the Maboneng, Arts on Main district.


August House was established as an enclave for artists in 2006 by Bie Venter and Maria Svane. Its notable tenants have included artists such as Mary Sibanda, Dineo Seshee Bopape and Lawrence Lemaoana, Mbongeni Richman Buthelezi, Gordon Froud and Joseph Gaylard, Nontobeko Ntombela, Gabi Ngcobo, Gonçalo Mabunda, Jacki McInnes, Nelson Makamo, Bie Venter, Kudzanai Chiurai and Nicholas Hlobo. The space has both survived and thrived on the backs of these artists and their interest in developing relationships and community level engagement.


The building was sold in 2016 and during the transition more formal studio spaces where created for young up and coming artists. Currently there are over 40 artists housed within the building.

While August House was created to initially provide a studio space for local artists, the space has extended its programming.

All programming is focused on the support and development of the artists and the visual arts industry as a whole.

A Space that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration through incubation and collaboration.

August House is the epicentre where proud African talent meets international convention and interest.

August House is part of the Quorum Properties Group who manage the building while the META foundation programmes for the space.

The artists open their doors to the public to showcase their work. This takes place twice a year.

We provide exhibition opportunities for the artists at August House both in a physical exhibitions and through our online Latitudes page.

We host walkabouts and private tours for Collectors, Gallerists and Curators as well as in-house networking events.

We host workshops and a discussion series called “The artists discuss” through out the year.

The META foundation runs a local and international residency programme for artists outside of the Studio Building.

There are 2 awards that August House hosts, namely the Womxn to Watch award and the Thami Mnyele Residency award.

4worldlovers: Image: Sibande, Mary, I put a spell on me, 2009.09.13, photographic print. Image courtesy of the artist.


Senzeni Marasela is one of South Africa's most prolific contemporary artists. The exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery will consist of a selection of the works that were presented in the 2021 highly successful exhibition at Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town titled Waiting for Gebane.


The works in Ngoma: Art and Cosmology bring to the fore the entanglements of historical, physical, metaphysical and existential spheres of existence. Ngoma seeks to explore these spheres of existence through artworks that cover different beliefs, cultural practices, mythologies and cosmologies. It aims to encourage individual and collective engagement with questions, traumas and concerns, as well as latterly encouraging the listeners or viewers to delve into their own articulation of spiritual meaning-making or ritual healing.


Museums are an important part of our history, serving as a complex reflection of South African culture and society in the past, and in the present. Johannesburg Art Gallery is no exception to this rule. The museum houses some of South Africa’s most important, but in spite of this, visitors to the museum have declined over the years. The revival of this national monument, and its precinct is one of the focuses of the inaugural AFRISAM Student Architecture Award, which challenges students to rescript the relationship between the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), its immediate urban fabric and the community at large.


In the wake of the Soweto uprisings, the Federated Union of Black Artists became an important and safe space for black artists during the darkest days of apartheid. Through art, black artists became the voice of their communities telling poignant stories of migration, oppression and an elusive freedom. Some of the works created through FUBA currently sit in an underground archive at the JAG


In the late 1950s, Lorraine Deift registered for an Arts Degree at the Technical College in Bree Street. She traces her love for art back to her student days, when would visit the JAG museum, to journey into the fantastical world of visual imagination. Today, Lorraine shares her passion for art by acting as a tour guide to the children of Lapeng Day Care Centre.

The Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), the Embassy of France in South Africa and the French Institute of SA are pleased to present The Art of Comics, an exciting new exhibition that showcases the fascinating worlds of South African comics and French bandes dessinées, the famous French comic style.


David Koloane was born in Alexandra, Johannesburg in 1938 and from a young age had a passion for art. “I drew everything I came across in comic books and films and always made sketches of my friends” he recounted in an interview for Dutch newspaper Het Parool.

4worldlovers: A Joint Exhibition by the 2022/23 Young Womxn Studio Bursary Award recipients, Kay-Leigh Fisher & Nadia Myburgh