Past
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Light + Space
20 Dec 2023 - 2 Feb 2024 Light + Space features artists Jake Michael Singer, Lulama Wolf, Johno Mellish, Nonzuzo Gxekwa, Talut Kareem, Gopal Dagnogo, Abdus Salaam, Driaan Claassen, and Zane Montle. Reflecting on an extraordinary year, the exhibition takes its name from the Light and Space of the Southern Summer. Wherever you are, may the bright... Read more -
Liminal States
26 Oct - 9 Dec 2023 Liminal States: 13 Questions for a Post-Materialist Agenda By Sean O’Toole Is it not the liminal that beckons, a place of paradox and transition? Are we not thoroughly tired with the ordinary, obliged to commit blasphemy against the banal? In Cape Town, where geological time and history intertwine, is it... Read more -
Complex Systems
15 Jun - 31 Jul 2023 Claassen delves into the profound exploration of the intricate pathways of the mind, tracing the labyrinthine trajectory that consciousness follows from its inception to its inevitable dissolution. Through systematic exploration and mapping of the mind, he has discovered interconnected complex systems that mirror the tapestry of society and nature. The... Read more -
OKNO
11 May - 10 Jun 2023 THK Gallery announces the first Solo Exhibition by Katarzyna (Kasia) Stefanczyk, OKNO (Window in Polish), a new sequence of light paintings by Cape Town-based Katarzyna (Kasia) Stefanczyk (b. 1992 Warsaw, Poland). OKNO is a record of Stefanczyk's exploration of time, light and shadow, taking note of the infinite forms their... Read more
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wild natural setting
11 May - 10 Jun 2023 wild natural setting A week in heaven, or just a long week. The brochures advertise unspoilt dreams, deep ventures into the heart of Eden, a wild natural setting. Seven days on holiday, or seven days to make a world. Got there and read the hotel bible. Thought I was in... Read more -
House of Fran
30 Mar - 30 Apr 2023 Read more -
Ayakha: Indlela Yokuxola
15 Feb - 25 Mar 2023 Ayakha - Indlela Yokuxola offers for the first time an exploration of new mediums including wood, animating Wolf’s elongated figures in a three-dimensional landscape which she has fused to create a multi-textural experience of her works. She adds layers to the unending depth of her works and encourages the viewer... Read more -
Things Done While Dreaming
19 Jan - 11 Feb 2023 THK Gallery announces the first Solo Exhibition by Dominique Cheminais, Things Done While Dreaming, This new series of paintings brings to life the artist's writings, depicting scenes and characters from her numerous publications. First a Painter, then a writer, now returned to painting, the paintings and text intertwine, with... Read more
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Synaptic
8 Dec 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 Synaptic is a group exhibition focused on the mysterious nature of consciousness. It looks at the feedback loop between our physical and mental realities, and the idea that you can effect change in one by altering the other. Consciousness manifests in the brain through billions of connections between individual neurons.... Read more -
Open Plot | A Group Exhibition
22 Sep - 12 Nov 2022 THK is pleased to present Open Plot, a group exhibition curated by RESERVOIR. The title plays on the double meaning of ‘plot’, both as a narrative device and a designation of space. The exhibition considers a selection of ten artists’ work against the conceptual backdrop of a vacant plot: exploring... Read more -
Africa Now: Contemporary Painters
15 Sep - 28 Oct 2022 THK Cologne presents Africa Now: Contemporary Painters, featuring Gopal Dagnono, Talut Kareem, Andrew Kayser, Lerato Motaung, and Lulama Wolf. The exhibition looks at five painters from the continent whose work embraces the mythic and the metaphysical, suggesting parallel realities and alternative ways of being. Incorporating elements of Magical Realism, their... Read more -
Pierre le Riche | Urns for the Ashes of My Lost Lovers Part II
7 Jul - 3 Sep 2022 Pierre le Riche learnt the basics of ceramics, a medium rooted in wet exploration but transformed into brittle robustness by heat, during his sculpture studies. “I loved ceramics so much that I felt I needed to continue with it,” says the artist. It helps to know that Le Riche’s studies... Read more
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EXIT | Florian Reinhardt
7 - 30 Jul 2022 “Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.” Sol Lewitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art. Exit signs, waypoints punctuating our daily experience. Ubiquitous to the point of banality, we see without seeing these signifiers of our constructed realities. Photographs... Read more -
Abdus Salaam | The Space Between
5 May - 30 Jun 2022 Following his sold out presentation in the Tomorrows/Today section of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2022, we present an extraordinary multidisciplinary presentation across all four gallery levels, with an accompanying exhibition text by Ashraf Jamal. Rooted in poetry, Salaam’s considered use of light and dark reveals a sensitivity to... Read more -
Flights of Fancy | A Group Show | THK X Boschendal X Norval
18 Mar - 8 May 2022 “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.” Seneca The Western understanding of the human imagination has shifted over time. From the earlier idea of imagination as simply reflecting on pre-existing forms and ideas, to the current concept of the imagination as a force engaged with creating... Read more -
Thomas Wachholz | Square Dance
16 Feb - 30 Apr 2022 We are proud to announce Square Dance, the first solo exhibition by leading young German artist, Thomas Wachholz. Wachholoz has been exhibited around the world, including Art Basel Miami Beach (2014, 2015) and Art Basel (2021). Wachholz has created a series of works for the exhibition – his first on... Read more
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De.code | Talut Kareem | Lerato Motaung | Lulama Wolf
16 Feb - 30 Apr 2022 de.code opens in paralell to Thomas Wachholz's solo exhibition Square Dance. In dialogue with Wachholz, de.code looks at artists exploring symbolic abstraction and coded meanings in their practice. Building on a key gallery tenet to create global conversations, de.code brings Lagos and Johannesburg Into dialogue with Cologne, a snapshot of... Read more -
Embodied Cognition | Tashinga Majiri |Â Nyasha Marovatsanga |Â Lulama Wolf
4 Nov 2021 - 11 Feb 2022 “The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.” - George Lakoff The idea of a mind body duality has defined western philosophy since the Enlightenment, with profound implications. Cartesian Dualism is a powerful thought structure, shaping the way we view the world, and dividing... Read more -
Immaterial | THK Cologne Group Show
3 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 THK Gallery is proud to announce Immaterial, our new show at THK Cologne. Featuring Jan Scharrelmann, Patrick Bongoy, Pardon Mapondera, and Johno Mellish. Immaterial brings into conversation four artists who interrogate the surface of our constructed realities. With a focus on materiality, they invert expectations and invalidate assumptions. They probe,... Read more -
Freeze | A Group Show
5 Aug - 2 Oct 2021 THK Gallery presents Freeze, a winter photography exhibition featuring Tom D. Jones, duo Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher, and Douglas Kirkland. Ahead of our participation in Paris Photo 2021 — the leading international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium — we celebrate these world-renowned photographers that THK Gallery... Read more
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TransForm | THK Cologne Group Show
27 Jul - 27 Aug 2021 THK Gallery is proud to announce THK Cologne, our new exhibition space in Cologne, Germany. Housed in a transformer station, we curate conversations between emerging and established artists from Africa and Europe, to engage with and explore our evolving visual language. Our first exhibition — TransForm — presents works by... Read more -
Pierre le Riche | Urns for the Ashes of my Lost Lovers
6 May - 31 Jul 2021 Continuing his ongoing exploration of thread and textiles, Le Riche’s creates a series of tapestries, in bold explosions of colour and form: “It is forbidden to keep all my lovers, so I harbour my feelings in containers adorned with my memories of them. My lust is carved in clay, vitrified... Read more -
Reflect. Reimagine. Reset.
3 Dec 2020 - 20 Feb 2021 We create meaning through storytelling and mythmaking. Through sharing our experiences, we are able to find common connections. The acts of imagining and dreaming are our most powerful tools to shift our lived realities. Reflect. Reimagine. Reset. is a group exhibition that looks towards the boundless creativity of artists and... Read more -
//thread
17 Jun - 30 Nov 2020 Thread is a flexible word. A signifier in a complicated tangle of signified. Straddling definitions like “a filament, a group of filaments twisted together”, it neatly side-steps into “a continuing element”, and leaps boldly through time and space to form “a series of electronic messages following a single topic or... Read more
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Different Angles | Johno Mellish | Nyasha Marovatsanga
7 Feb - 16 Apr 2020 Exhibition extended to 17 April — date subject to change. Different Angles features solo presentations by contemporary artists Johno Mellish and Nyasha Marovatsanga. Johno Mellish constructs his photographs by creating elaborate mise en scènes of fictional narratives. His works are a response to both histories and personal imaginings, which meditate... Read more -
Between the Lines | Patrick Bongoy | Atang Tshikare | Jake Michael Singer
12 Dec 2019 - 7 Feb 2020 Between the Lines showcases the works of Patrick Bongoy, Atang Tshikare, and Jake Michael Singer, and will be held in Cape Town at THK Gallery from 12 December 2019 to 7 February 2020. Between the lines of the rational and the intangible we are sensible beings trying to make sense... Read more -
Jake Michael Singer | In Murmurs
30 Oct - 6 Dec 2019 'In Murmurs is an exhibition comprising sculpture, photography and painting. I have called it In Murmurs for two reasons. One: The main corpus of the show comprises my Murmurations. Two: I think a murmur is the perfect way of speaking because its soft and gentle, yet echoes everlastingly. It’s an... Read more -
Reflecting on August | A Group Show
5 Sep - 25 Oct 2019 Andrew Orapeleng Ntshabele Fatima Tayob Moosa Jake Michael Singer Themba Khumalo Thina Dube Toni-Ann Ballenden Vusi Beauchamp Reflecting on August brings seven artists from August House under another roof. August House, located in Johannesburg's inner city, is an artistic space that fuels inventiveness and encourages thinking through incubation and collaboration.... Read more
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Anke Loots | Everything In Its Right Place
7 Mar - 14 Jun 2019 'A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I... Read more -
Angela Fisher & Carol Beckwith | African Twilight: Vanishing Rituals & Ceremonies
1 Nov 2018 - 28 Feb 2019 World-renowned photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher met over 40 years ago, beginning a photographic partnership that has seen them journey over 300 000 miles on the African continent – through 48 countries and recording 150 African cultures. For the last 15 years of their four decades of fieldwork, they... Read more -
Francois Visser | Interlude
6 Sep - 26 Oct 2018 Interlude is a pictorial chronicle documenting a colorful tapestry of subjects and places across South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania – including portraits of acrobats, alluvial miners, pikipiki riders, teenagers, and landscapes recorded on the road as traveler and observer. Some of the pictures emerge from happenstance encounters, whilst others... Read more -
Tom D. Jones | Landscapes
6 Sep - 26 Oct 2018 A selection of images from travels to far-flung locations – from the barren deserts of Namibia to expansive Icelandic landscapes, Jones’ work imparts a stunning serenity. The recipient of the Hasselblad Master Award (2012), Jones is known for his clean compositions – making use of light and depth to reflect... Read more
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Stephanie Blomkamp | Shroud
7 Jun - 31 Aug 2018 Blomkamp has a heart-breaking fondness for the moment that will inevitably vanish and attempts to record it through photography. Shroud is a photography series that explores Vanitas; a 17th Century Dutch genre in art that focused on mortality in still life painting. Still lives of the movement used skulls, decaying... Read more -
Douglas Kirkland | Icons
7 Jun - 31 Aug 2018 THK Gallery presents a selection of intimate celebrity portraits by world-renowned photographer Douglas Kirkland. Kirkland is a world-renowned photographer, and has been working at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism, and portraiture for more than 50 years. In 1961 a 27-year-old Kirkland photographed one of the world’s most iconic figures:... Read more
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Abdus Salaam | Falls of Abundance
9 Jun - 31 Aug 2021 THK Gallery is proud to announce representation of Abdus Salaam and to present his first exhibition at THK Gallery, Falls of Abundance. From the body of work The Space Between, Salaam invites us into the realm of the soul with his theosophical minimalism, focusing on the essential principles... Read more -
Pardon Mapondera | Hutsanana
2 Jun - 31 Aug 2021 Mapondera's practice centres around the concept of Hutsanana, a Zezuru word that describes a holistic soundness of being through the idea of cleanliness or hygiene. In particular, how the concept of Hutsanana, from its original meaning of a bodily and spiritual purity, has been stripped of its spiritual connotations to... Read more -
Manyatsa Monyamane | Serithi
11 Feb - 8 Apr 2021 Manyatsa Monyamane (b. 1989) is a visual storyteller, inspired and influenced by African literature, theatre, and everyday surroundings. Unpacking difficult themes, Monyamane's photography often brings attention to stories overlooked by the mainstream media. Monyamane is currently completing a Master of Arts in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand.... Read more -
Johno Mellish | Conversations in Place
27 Nov 2020 - 31 Jan 2021 My pictures of people form a continuous body of work and are a result of my thinking about the relationship between the material and the emotional in the place that I find myself in. I often wonder what it is that draws me to stay in South Africa - is... Read more
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Nonzuzo Gxekwa | Life is Beautiful
26 May - 26 Aug 2020 Nonzuzo Gxekwa’s optic is loving. It’s not simply that she chooses to focus on moments of self love—the way people occupy themselves—but that in the taking, her subjects are never wholly circumscribed. There is always space to manoeuvre. The title of her exhibition, Life is Beautiful (2020), is not only... Read more -
Insights | Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher
3 Apr - 3 Jun 2020 As we all navigate these uncertain times, we hope to bring you a twin dose of happiness and inspiration with the launch of Insights, a new series of online exhibitions. For our inaugural online exhibition, we'll take a closer look at Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher's celebrated African Twilight... Read more