Database
A view into the Archive of A4, the database offers uncurated access to projects, practitioners, artworks and publications.
MEND PIECE at Bangkok Kunsthalle
Bangkok Kunsthalle considers the role of participatory art in social change and placemaking.
30 Aug–1 Dec 2024
Exhibition
Moshekwa Langa | How to make a book
10 Aug–23 Nov 2024
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WORK
16 May–20 Jul 2024
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A Little After This
An exhibition about thresholds and inheritances.
16 Dec 2023–12 Apr 2024
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Sculptures in process
Boytchie creates an iterative installation in Goods.
23 Aug–18 Sep 2023
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You to Me, Me to You
A love letter as exhibition.
12 Aug–18 Nov 2023
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Common
An exhibition about communal resources and collective actions.
6 May–22 Jul 2023
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Exhibition Match ‘23
A social intervention inviting arts workers to compete in a football tournament.
18 Feb 2023
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Pear__ed: Hypothesis 1 & 2
An enquiry into the desires and demands of plants.
18 Feb–4 Mar 2023
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Under Projects x A4, Booth 14
Under Projects takes over A4’s booth at the Cape Town Art Fair.
25 Jan–19 Feb 2023
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The Future Is Behind Us
An exhibition about time, tense and tempo.
17 Dec 2022–19 Apr 2023
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Passage
An understated intervention in Goods considers boundaries and crossings.
17 Dec 2022
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Girls in the Woods
Dominique Cheminais works directly onto the walls of Goods.
19 Nov–3 Dec 2022
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Parallel Play v.2
Asemahle Ntlonti and Kyle Morland pursue their respective studio practices in parallel in A4’s Gallery.
31 Oct–25 Nov 2022
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Funhouse
A brief survey of games as logic and form in artmaking.
15 Oct–5 Nov 2022
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Model
An exhibition about models and modelling in A4’s Reading Room curated by Nkhensani Mkhari.
15 Oct–12 Nov 2022
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Disruption
In a gesture of playful-but-serious criticism of the local arts ecology, Hanna Noor Mahomed disrupts Social’s archival installation on the walls of Goods.
10–24 Sep 2022
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Social
Creating a free-to-public, online archive of Cape Town’s independent arts ecology through an open call to practitioners to submit digital and printed material.
6–27 Aug 2022
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Lunar Maria Chorus
A listening exhibition of Amakaba’s Lunar Maria Chorus, a series of sonic compositions influenced by the relationship between the Moon and its seas.
16–30 Jul 2022
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Customs
An exhibition that asks: what is it that invites us to make use, and to be of use?
2 Jul–8 Oct 2022
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in security
A research enquiry rendered in four sculptures.
4–11 Jun 2022
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mode(l)
Project space Goods holds preparatory work towards a forthcoming exhibition.
7–21 Apr 2022
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Polite Force | Cape Town Art Fair 2022
Unpacking twenty years of Christian Nerf’s Polite Force at the Cape Town Art Fair.
17–20 Feb 2022
Exhibition
Exhibition Match ‘22
A football match and exhibition brings together players from across the arts ecology.
16–28 Feb 2022
Exhibition
Papertrails
Independent publications, printed matter and making in the Reading Room with francis burger and Jonah Sack.
11 Feb–29 Apr 2022
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Photo Book! Photo-Book! Photobook!
A browsable, research exhibition that explores the photobook in South Africa.
11 Feb–21 May 2022
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Tell It to the Mountains
Tell It to the Mountains is an exhibition by Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Mikhael Subotzky in A4’s gallery.
21 Oct 2021–20 Jan 2022
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sound-blindness
sound-blindness: an exhibition Katharien de Villiers in A4’s Reading Room.
11 Feb–25 Mar 2021
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Missing Subject
An exhibition by Andile Phewa in A4’s Reading Room.
1 Oct–12 Nov 2020
Exhibition
“Untitled” (Fortune Cookie Corner)
A4’s elevator as exhibition room featuring Felix González-Torres.
25 May–5 Jul 2020
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Measuring the Universe
A4 invites visitors to participate in a performance work by Roman Ondák, in collaboration with the Rennie Collection, at the Cape Town Art Fair 2020.
13–16 Feb 2020
Exhibition
without a clear discernible image
A solo exhibition by Kevin Beasley, produced on site at A4.
6 Feb–30 Apr 2020
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Risk
An exhibition curated by Josh Ginsburg.
28 Nov 2019–9 Jan 2020
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Masters of Architecture Graduate Exhibition
A presentation of work by graduating Masters students from the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics (UCT).
25–27 Nov 2019
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Crossing Night | Regional Identities x Global Context
A group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).
25 Oct 2019–2 Feb 2020
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Archive as Terrarium | Part 3
An exhibition by Christian Nerf.
10–12 Oct 2019
Exhibition
Ikhono LaseNatali
25 young artists from Durban interpret Prof Sir Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama.
31 Aug–7 Nov 2019
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In Your Place
An exhibition of work by the 2019 Bard MFA graduates in Advanced Photographic Studies from the International Centre of Photography (ICP), New York.
11 Jul–1 Aug 2019
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Sounding the Void, Imaging the Orchestra V.1
Sounding the Void, Imaging the Orchestra V.1: A multimedia exhibition curated by Bhavisha Panchia.
6 Jun–15 Aug 2019
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My Hart Is So Leeg Soos ‘n Spieël
A site-specific installation by Gian Maria Tosatti.
27 Apr–11 May 2019
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Nowhere – No we’re – Now here
A selection of works from A4’s Archive selected by artist-in-residence Gian Maria Tosatti is exhibited in the A4 Library.
20 Mar–2 May 2019
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Moving Images | Cape Town Art Fair 2019
A reading space and presentation of video works by Borna Sammak and Clement Cogitore.
14–17 Feb 2019
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If I Can’t Dance It’s Not My Revolution
A collection of moving pictures by Rashaad Newsome, Clement Cogitore, and Broomberg & Chanarin.
13 Feb–7 May 2019
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Black & White Cape Town Report
An exhibition by Dan Perjovschi.
13 Feb–9 May 2019
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Hay Tiempo, No Hay Tiempo
An exhibition of work by Jo Ractliffe at the Centro Fotográfico Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico.
9 Nov 2018–31 Jan 2019
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Crossing Night / Hacer Noche
Contemporary art and artists from Southern Africa are invited to interact with the rich Mexican cultural context through a programme of exhibitions, residencies, publications and a conference.
4 Nov 2018–5 Feb 2019
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Picture Theory
An interaction with the work of David Goldblatt.
25 Oct 2018–24 Jan 2019
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Parallel Play
What is the relationship between works of art and the processes involved in making them? Parallel Play hosts a series of temporary studios in A4’s Gallery. This invites a discursive exploration between artists and visitors as witness and participant to the flow between the making and the made.
6 Jun–27 Sep 2018
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