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26/06/2026

Details from 'Sabela Uyabizwa', highlighting the frame as a site of relation.

Each of the eight Wa Lehulere/Mgudlandlu pairings is presented in matching wooden tapering box frames. A subtle highlight beadline runs along the narrow top edge of each pair, making clear which works belong together.
These colours were chosen by Kemang Wa Lehulere from a Gladys Mgudlandlu painting. Each colour was matched to her original palette, allowing a quiet chromatic trace to enter the otherwise monochromatic pairings.

We invite visitors to see these details in person at Peffers Fine Art, with this showcase on view until the 17th of July 2026. Private appointments can be arranged, and catalogues are available. Contact [email protected] for more.

'Sabela Uyabizwa' brings works by Gladys Mgudlandlu into dialogue with new responses by Kemang Wa Lehulere.The exhibitio...
24/06/2026

'Sabela Uyabizwa' brings works by Gladys Mgudlandlu into dialogue with new responses by Kemang Wa Lehulere.

The exhibition’s title may be understood as a summons: "respond, you are being called." Across eight pairings, that summons becomes a visual structure. Mgudlandlu’s compressed fields of mark-making, memory and abstraction are answered by Wa Lehulere through drawings that open, disperse and reconfigure them.

We encourage visitors to experience the exhibition in person at Peffers Fine Art, where the works can be intimately observed in relation to one another.

Private appointments and catalogues are available by email to [email protected].

See the link in bio for more information on 'Sabela Uyabizwa' and other modern African art.

Tomorrow evening (18:00-19:30) at Peffers Fine Art, Kemang Wa Lehulere joins Athi Joja for a public conversation around ...
10/06/2026

Tomorrow evening (18:00-19:30) at Peffers Fine Art, Kemang Wa Lehulere joins Athi Joja for a public conversation around Sabela Uyabizwa, the current exhibition bringing the work of Gladys Mgudlandlu into dialogue with new responses by Wa Lehulere.

This is an opportunity to hear directly from Wa Lehulere, alongside Joja’s critical perspective, in the space of the exhibition itself.

Athi Mongezeleli Joja () is an art critic, academic, theorist and writer whose work focuses on modern and contemporary South African art, anti-apartheid cultural histories, Black aesthetics, art criticism and critical race theory. He has written for publications including Mail & Guardian, Contemporary&, Africanah and Artforum, and is a member of the art collective Gugulective.

On Saturday morning, 13 June at 11:00am, join Kemang Wa Lehulere for an artist walkabout through the exhibition. This more intimate gallery session offers a chance to spend time with the works, their references, and the exhibition’s central dialogue between Mgudlandlu’s visual worlds and Wa Lehulere’s contemporary responses.

Exhibition on show until 17th July 2026.
Artwork in second slide: Kemang Wa Lehulere & Gladys Mgudlandlu,
'Sentlhaga (Nest)', 2026.
Pen and ink on paper.

Installation shot: Dillon Marsh Photography

Movement, memory and public space: Ahead of the presentation of our upcoming exhibition, 'Sabela Uyabizwa' (opening 23 M...
13/05/2026

Movement, memory and public space:
Ahead of the presentation of our upcoming exhibition, 'Sabela Uyabizwa' (opening 23 May), we look at David Koloane’s 'Baggage' (2013). The late Johannesburg pioneer distils the weight of daily life into a terse gesture, evoking the psychological burdens carried by Black urban residents.

Follow our page for more insight into the intersection of movement, memory, and public space.

RSVP for the opening on the 23rd of May via DM, or by writing to [email protected]

Two days to go until Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026 (20–22 February).Visit Peffers Fine Art at Booth SP2, CTICC for Ba...
18/02/2026

Two days to go until Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026 (20–22 February).

Visit Peffers Fine Art at Booth SP2, CTICC for Back o’ the Moon – Listening Across Generations, featuring photographs by Alf Kumalo and his Drum-era peers, and continue the experience at our gallery at Radio House, Loop Street.

Learn more → https://www.investeccapetownartfair.co.za/galleries/special-projects

As Black History Month unfolds, Peffers Fine Art is proud to highlight the Drum Archive – including photographs by Bob G...
06/02/2026

As Black History Month unfolds, Peffers Fine Art is proud to highlight the Drum Archive – including photographs by Bob Gosani, Gopal Naransamy and G.R. Naidoo – within our Special Project Back o’ the Moon – Listening Across Generations at Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026.
Visit us at Booth SP2 and at our gallery at Radio House, Loop Street. More → https://www.peffersart.com/drum-archive/

GALLERY LAUNCH & EXHIBITION OPENINGBlack Modernism: Between Abstraction and SpiritToday, Saturday 6 December 202510h00–1...
06/12/2025

GALLERY LAUNCH & EXHIBITION OPENING
Black Modernism: Between Abstraction and Spirit

Today, Saturday 6 December 2025
10h00–14h00

First Floor, Radio House
92 Loop Street, Cape Town City Centre

Join us for a glass of bubbles as we celebrate both the exhibition and the opening of our newly refurbished gallery space.

The exhibition brings together a focused constellation of works from the 1940s to the late 1990s by Peter Clarke, Dumile Feni, Sydney Kumalo, Ezrom Legae, Ephraim Ngatane, Helen Sebidi, Lucky Sibiya, Gerard Sekoto and their peers, alongside “Black-modern adjacent” artists including Cecil Skotnes, Edoardo Villa and Maggie Laubser. The exhibition traces how these artists negotiated form, spirit and lived experience under apartheid – and how their visions continue to reverberate in the social and political realities of today.

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