Investec Cape Town Art Fair

Investec Cape Town Art Fair
19 – 21 February 2027
Cape Town, South Africa

Over the past 12 years, Investec Cape Town Art Fair has stood as a pillar in the African and international art world as the leading contemporary art fair on the African continent. Stay in the loop for future highlights by following our social media platforms, linked below, and we look forward to welcoming you back to the 11th edition of the fair taking place on 21 - 23 February 2025.

DR MARIELLA FRANZONI CURATES TOMORROWS/TODAY | Dr Mariella Franzoni is an independent curator, researcher, writer, and l...
28/08/2026

DR MARIELLA FRANZONI CURATES TOMORROWS/TODAY | Dr Mariella Franzoni is an independent curator, researcher, writer, and lecturer based in Barcelona. Holding a PhD in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, and the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, her practice brings together critical theory, cultural anthropology, and the study of contemporary art ecosystems.

Working across Europe and Africa, she develops exhibitions and public programmes that foster intergenerational and transgeographical dialogue, with a particular focus on emerging artists and the Hispanic and Southern African art scenes. Her curatorial work explores how art shapes the imagination and contributes to new ways of relating to the world, advocating forms of cultural production grounded in care, reciprocity, and critical engagement.

In addition to her curatorial work at Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Mariella is Artistic Director of By Invitation in Barcelona. She also collaborates with museums, foundations, galleries, and private collections internationally, while teaching and lecturing on contemporary curating, collecting cultures, and the global art ecosystem.

For the section outline of Tomorrows/Today and Mariella’s full curatorial statement, and to apply, visit our website:
https://bit.ly/tomorrows_today2027

Mariella Franzoni


INTRODUCING TOMORROWS/TODAY | Tomorrows/Today is a section dedicated to emerging and underrepresented artists, offering ...
27/08/2026

INTRODUCING TOMORROWS/TODAY | Tomorrows/Today is a section dedicated to emerging and underrepresented artists, offering a platform for new perspectives and critical engagement. Under the curation of Dr Mariella Franzoni, the section is shaped by the concept of ‘Material Imaginations’ in 2027.

The section proposes an exercise in poetic and political imagination, where contemporary artistic practices actively participate not only in how reality is perceived, sensed, represented, and reimagined, but also in how it is materially brought into existence. In this moment of exhausting image consumption and, paradoxically, of growing inability to imagine beyond our present’s crystallised dystopias, Material Imaginations seeks to foreground artistic practices that engage materiality as a poetic and transformative force.

Additionally, the Tomorrows/Today prize supported by Fiera Milano Exhibitions Africa is awarded by a panel of art professionals to the artist with the highest quality presentation.

For the section outline of Tomorrows/Today and Mariella’s full curatorial statement, and to apply, visit our website:
https://bit.ly/tomorrows_today2027

Mariella Franzoni


A few articles we’ve read recently, unpacking the stories, people, and events shaping this month in the international ar...
21/08/2026

A few articles we’ve read recently, unpacking the stories, people, and events shaping this month in the international art community:⁠

P**e Taukobong, founder of A33, unpacks the possibilities of connection and conversation at his cultural Cape Town space during his interview by Drew Haller. Read it in Connect Everything Collective Media.

A detailed and accessible guideline on how to research an exhibition from a curator’s perspective offers tips for art enthusiasts to understand the practical and conceptual actions that go into making an art exhibition meaningful. Read it on Call for Curators.

Abirami Logendran considers the visual and conceptual forms produced by an ever-shifting meaning informed by the relationships between displacement, diasporic identities, and moving images. Read it in e-Flux.

Margaret Hong discusses transparency and authentic connection in the art market during the age of social media and ample information. Read it in ArtTactic.

The recent news of Elvira Dyangani Ose as the new artistic director of Zeitz MOCAA has been announced. Read about it on ArtThrob.

What have you been reading lately? Let us know in the comments below which pieces discussing contemporary art society have left a lasting impression.⁠
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To access each piece featured here, visit the article on our website:
https://www.investeccapetownartfair.co.za/story/6a85883fdfcf5f223a7b4ad0

Image credits available via the linked article on our website.

Connect Everything Collective
Call for Curators
e-flux
ArtTactic


CÉLINE SEROR CURATES SOLO | Céline Seror is an independent curator and consultant. In 2013, she co-founded the art agenc...
20/08/2026

CÉLINE SEROR CURATES SOLO | Céline Seror is an independent curator and consultant. In 2013, she co-founded the art agency artness, promoting a transcultural vision of contemporary art, and contributed to the launch of IAM – Intense Art Magazine, dedicated to women in art from Africa. She later co-created the platform, The Art Momentum, in 2018.

For over a decade, her work has focused on amplifying new voices through exhibitions, publications, and artistic initiatives. Between 2021 and 2024, she served as co-curator of the travelling exhibition Memoria: Accounts of Another History, presented in Bordeaux (2021), Abidjan (2022), Yaoundé (2023), and Antananarivo (2024).

She has curated the past two editions of the SOLO section of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair: in 2025 with Playscapes: Shaping Worlds and Selves and in 2026 with Echoes of Humanity. Since 2025, she has also mentored artists through the Hands-On Residency Programme, supporting the development of their practices and professional trajectories.

For the section outline of SOLO and Céline’s full curatorial statement, and to apply, visit our website:
https://bit.ly/SOLO2027


INTRODUCING SOLO | SOLO offers in-depth, curated presentations of individual artists, both local and international, prov...
19/08/2026

INTRODUCING SOLO | SOLO offers in-depth, curated presentations of individual artists, both local and international, providing insight into the scope and evolution of their practice. Under the curation of Céline Seror, the section is shaped by the concept of ‘Becoming Otherwise: Matter, Spirit, World’ in 2027.

Moving across material, spiritual, and speculative dimensions, this section of solo presentations seeks artists whose work explores the shifting conditions through which bodies, forms, and ways of being continuously emerge, transform, and become otherwise. Inspired by philosophies and cosmologies that understand the world as a web of visible and invisible relations, ‘Becoming Otherwise: Matter, Spirit, World’ considers creation as a space of continuous mutation, where spiritual and embodied experience converge with material transformation.

For the section outline of SOLO and Céline’s full curatorial statement, and to apply, visit our website:
https://bit.ly/SOLO2027

Photographs by Anthea Pokroy


The process behind making an artwork is an important reminder of what contributes to art’s beauty, depth, and inarguable...
17/08/2026

The process behind making an artwork is an important reminder of what contributes to art’s beauty, depth, and inarguable humanity.

We’ve put some thoughts together about what this idea of process means in the larger picture of making art, and what it means to us. Swipe to see the ways that focusing on art-making processes can shift how we interact with the works they create.

Our 2027 curatorial concept, ‘In Acts of Alchemy’, places a lot of focus on how the power of transformation can be built through an amalgamation of processes that can be visible or invisible to the eye. Regardless, their energy can be felt in their ever-present ability to shape how art is made, both materially and conceptually.

Read the full article on our website:
https://www.investeccapetownartfair.co.za/story/6a7f30ce15612d9258bcb9cb

Image 1 courtesy of Matt Dutile/Southern Guild. Artist Manyaku Mashilo at work in studio (Cape Town, 2024).

Image 2 courtesy of Everard Read. Featured artwork by nomThunzi Mashalaba.

Image 3 featuring artwork by Owanto at Reiners Contemporary Art's booth at Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026. Photograph by Anthea Pokroy.

Southern Guild
Everard Read Cape Town


We celebrate the announcement of Elvira Dyangani Ose as the new Artistic Director of Zeitz MOCAA.Elvira Dyangani Ose’s a...
13/08/2026

We celebrate the announcement of Elvira Dyangani Ose as the new Artistic Director of Zeitz MOCAA.

Elvira Dyangani Ose’s appointment signifies a strong continuation of the institution’s identity as both rooted in Africa and connected to the broader international contemporary art community.

She brings her extensive experience in international art institutions to forge a new direction for contemporary art practice and leadership. This exciting look towards the future simultaneously builds on the legacy of her predecessor, the late Koyo Kouoh.

We wish Elvira Dyangani Ose and the team at Zeitz MOCAA every success in this exciting new chapter, and welcome her warmly and with much excitement into Cape Town’s contemporary art community.

Photo by Ramiie G, courtesy of Zeitz MOCAA.

Zeitz MOCAA


HAMZEH ALFARAHNEH CURATES GENERATIONS | Hamzeh Alfarahneh is a Cape Town-based curator, art advisor, and consultant. He ...
13/08/2026

HAMZEH ALFARAHNEH CURATES GENERATIONS | Hamzeh Alfarahneh is a Cape Town-based curator, art advisor, and consultant. He is the founding principal of Art(Advisory), a firm established in 2022 to advocate for and place the arts of the Global Majority, a term frequently used in conversation with the term Global South. With a career in the visual arts spanning back to 2019, in addition to working with private collections, Alfarahneh has consulted for prestigious institutions, including Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town and the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and has served as a creative director at A4 Arts Foundation.

His curatorial practice is rooted in curiosity and grounded in multi-polar dialogue, showcasing the rich artistic traditions and contemporary practices of the Global Majority while fostering cultural connections. Through visual art, he aims to build bridges, connecting people through a shared sense of humanity. This ethos is evident in exhibitions and projects such as ‘Ex Situ: A Snapshot of Contemporary South African Abstraction’ at Anthracite in Zurich, ‘Fables from the Earth that Stood Still’ at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, ‘By the Movement of All Things’ at Lawrie Shabibi in Dubai and ‘Between Two Palms’ in Cape Town.

For the section outline of Generations and Hamzeh’s full curatorial statement, and to apply, visit our website:
https://bit.ly/generations2027


INTRODUCING GENERATIONS | For our 14th edition, Generations has been significantly restructured. Living up to the full a...
12/08/2026

INTRODUCING GENERATIONS | For our 14th edition, Generations has been significantly restructured. Living up to the full ambition of its name, it is now conceived as a premium offering within the fair dedicated to group presentations that bring together modern, contemporary, and ultra-contemporary practitioners in genuine cross-generational dialogue. Under the curation of Hamzeh Alfarahneh, the section is shaped by the concept of ‘Form Is The Essence’ in 2027.

At our 14th edition, Generations brings together practitioners engaged in abstraction across generations and geographies, with the aim of making visible the plurality of non-figurative practices from around the world, with an emphasis on the Global Majority and its diaspora.

For the section outline of Generations and Hamzeh’s full curatorial statement, and to apply, visit our website:
https://www.investeccapetownartfair.co.za/apply ⁠


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