Blue Gecko Art Studio

Blue Gecko Art Studio Blue Gecko offers art studio rentals in Maitland Cape Town. A Sanctuary of artistic expression in the industrial heart of Cape Town.

Because every artist deserves a creative safe haven to create in

Happy international museum day!
18/05/2026

Happy international museum day!

14/05/2026

Be the sneaky inspiration you want to see in the world ✨🌍

02/05/2026

The Sasol New Signatures Visual Arts Competition offers emerging artists a powerful platform to grow their careers and gain national recognition. This competition is open to South African artists over the age of 18 who have not yet held a solo exhibition. Artists must submit their entries in person at one of eight collection points around South Africa on Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 June 2026 between 10h00 to 16h00. Entry forms are available for downloading from the competition’s website www.sasolsignatures.co.za

01/05/2026

One of the best creative festivals in South Africa!

Happy Africa month! 🇿🇦
01/05/2026

Happy Africa month! 🇿🇦

23/04/2026

Opportunity Alert! 🔍🖼

Bag Factory, in association with Strauss & Co., has officially opened a call for the Cassirer Welz Award 2026. Now in its sixteenth year, the Cassirer Welz Award’s focus has always been on recognising artistic excellence, encouraging creative practice, and providing the supportive spaces and presentation platforms emerging artists require.

Applicants must:
*Be no older than 35 at time of residency
*Not represented by a commercial gallery
*Currently working in any contemporary visual art medium
*Based in the following countries: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe

The successful candidate will receive:
*A 3-month residency at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg. (Please note that all travel costs are NOT included and will be at the artist’s expense.)
*Contribution towards the artist’s residency stipend, materials, and exhibition costs.
*The opportunity to showcase new work produced during the residency in a solo exhibition at the Bag Factory.
*An individualised programme of mentoring and professional development opportunities.
*Curatorial and pastoral support from the Bag Factory’s staff, and established artists.

⭐️Deadline for applications: 6 May 2026
⭐️Shortlisted candidates will be informed: 27 May 2026
⭐️Residency begins: 08 June 2026

📃More details on the form
🔗Link in Bio

This project is made possible with the support of Strauss & Co (Strauss & Co)

"If you're saying something and have something to show, an exhibition is a great outlet for it, but also, it is nice to participate and be a part of this bigger South African art scene" Smiso Cele, CWA 2025 recipient, on his residencies and exhibitions at the Bag.

10/04/2026

Berman Contemporary invites submissions from women artists for an upcoming group exhibition engaging with material as a site of transformation, resistance, and reimagination. We are seeking artists whose practices move beyond image into material intelligence.

Post Material Feminism is not about rejecting material. It is about rethinking it. It asks:
What happens when the materials historically associated with women’s labour, craft, and survival are no longer marginal, but central?

What happens when cardboard, textile, plastic, thread, detritus, and the overlooked become carriers of meaning, memory, and structure?

This call is for artists who:
• Treat material as language, not medium
• Work with processes of accumulation, fragmentation, construction, or erosion
• Engage with themes of identity, labour, memory, body, ecology, or displacement through material form
• Challenge hierarchies between “high” and “low” materials
• Move toward sculpture, installation, assemblage, or spatial thinking
• Embrace risk, experimentation, and unresolved forms

We are particularly interested in:
• Cardboard, paper, and packaging as structural or conceptual material
• Textile and fibre as architecture, not decoration
• Found, recycled, or discarded materials
• Hybrid practices crossing art, design, and making
• Works that exist between fragility and strength

What we are not looking for:
• Conventional painting that does not extend beyond the canvas
• Image-based practices without material interrogation
• Purely decorative or surface-driven work
Applications are open until 3 May 2026
Exhibition will open mid/end 2027 - dates to be confirmed

An exciting festival to explore this weekend!
10/04/2026

An exciting festival to explore this weekend!

10/04/2026

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