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Wits Fine Art, Braamfontein, Johannesburg (2026)

18/05/2026

Join us at The Point of Order for

R O U N D T A B L E: Critique in Crisis
23 May at 14h00

We would like to invite you to iLiso Magazine’s second roundtable discussion, “Critique in Crisis”. Following the inaugural roundtable, this discussion will assess the current state of (art, political, cultural, philosophical etc) criticism, taking seriously the stakes of Black forms of critique for our contemporary moment. The event asks, what are the contours of Black critique?

The panel will consist of Njabulo Zwane, Kholeka Shange, Tumi Mogorosi and is moderated by Sihle Motsa. This event is organised in collaboration with The Point of Order (TPO).

14/05/2026

Join us at The Point of Order for Field of Dreams, a 2nd year painting exhibition

Opening 15 May at 17h30 for 18h00

A project exhibition by Second Year Fine Arts Wits Students. Tasked with a painting course exploring figurative painting and portraiture. Come see how this group of students explore the figure through their paintings in Field of Dreams. We invite you into our minds.

29/04/2026

Join us at The Point of Order for to, fail to
by Damon Botha and Lesego Forbes

Opening 6 May at 17h30 for 18:00

to, fail to is a collaborative exhibition by Damon Botha and Lesego Forbes ( .art)
The show is motivated by our will to think about resonances in both our modes of working and an attempt, as any exhibition might be, to react to the time and place in which it comes to be. The bodies of work that are displayed here think with differing gestures of failure.
Failure that thinks with play, collapse, ruin or incompleteness.
That functions through in-betweenness and limbo, unfixed impulses.
Failure that points at empty space and nothing-place.
Failure that is transitional.
Mortal failure.
Temporal failure. Thinking alongside time,
Pockets of time
I know that this thing is there
to sit within a –
sitting in moments of collapse, it explores what it means to
yellow tape
…

Viewing: 7 - 8 May
Time: 09:00 - 14:00
Please e-mail [email protected] or [email protected] for any further enquiries.

21/04/2026

Senior Lecturer – Fine Arts, Wits School of Arts (WSOA),

University of the WitwatersrandJohannesburg, South Africa.

The Wits School of Arts (WSOA) invites applications for a permanent appointment at the level of SeniorLecturer in the Fine Arts Division.

The successful candidate will join a dynamic interdisciplinary environmentcomprising Fine Arts, Curatorial Practice and Visual Cultures, Theatre and Performance, Music, Film andTelevision, Digital Arts, Drama for Life, and Cultural Policy and Management.

We seek an artist-scholar of national or international standing, with a strong academic and creative profile,committed to advancing critical, innovative, and socially engaged art practices in South Africa and beyond.

Minimum Requirements
• PhD in Fine Art or a closely related field (mandatory for Senior Lecturer level).
• Demonstrated teaching excellence and curriculum development experience in Fine Arts or a related field.
• A substantial research or creative practice profile, including peer-reviewed publications and/or exhibitions ofnational or international significance.
• Proven postgraduate supervision experience (Honours, Master’s, and PhD).
• Evidence of at least three years of academic leadership and management experience, with readiness toassume a senior leadership role.
• Expertise in contemporary art practices and discourses, particularly within African and global contexts.• Professional and teaching experience across diverse art practices including painting, printmaking, sculpture,drawing, photography, video, digital/new media, performance art or curatorial practice.Key Responsibilities
• Provide academic leadership within the Fine Arts Department and WSOA.
• Teach and coordinate undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
• Supervise postgraduate students (Honours, MA, PhD).• Contribute to curriculum development and transformation initiatives.
• Maintain an active research and creative practice profile.• Manage and develop the studio programme to professional standards.
• Engage in fundraising and partnership development.
• Participate in departmental and school committees and the broader intellectual life of Wits.

How to ApplyApplications must be submitted via the Wits i-Recruitment platform: https://irec.wits.ac.za

Applicants should upload the following:
• A letter of motivation indicating the level applied for.
• A comprehensive CV.
• A portfolio of creative and scholarly work (or link to an online portfolio).
• Names and contact details of three academic referees.
• Certified copies of qualifications and ID.

Internal employees are invited to apply directly on Oracle by following the path: iWits /Self Serviceapplication/”Apply for a job”

External applicants are invited to apply, by registering a profile on the Wits i-recruitment platform located at https://irec.wits.ac.za and submitting your application.

Closing Date: 8 May 2026

The University is committed to employment equity and may give preference to candidates fromunderrepresented designated groups.

The University reserves the right not to make an appointment.Correspondence will only be entered into with shortlisted candidates.

18/03/2026

Join us at The Point of Order for an Open Studio
by Farhana Jacobs

26-27 March and 30-31 March
Time: 10:00 – 12:00

You are warmly invited to my open studio, where I will be sharing work-in-progress from my MAFA exhibition, Preparation/Termination.

My current practice investigates "minor transgressions"—the seemingly small, often sanctioned acts of violation that train female bodies into compliance. Drawing on personal and familial archives, I am developing an immersive installation that includes painting, video, and a corridor of suspended white sheets washed in rosewater and camphor. This work traces the uncanny resonance between Islamic bridal preparation and burial rites, asking how a lifetime of small violences can become a slow, fragrant preparation for social death.

In the studio you will find:
- Paintings exploring the archetypes of maiden, bride, and ancestor
- Video documentation of a ritual washing/unwrapping
- White cloth and objects from my mother's home; a collection of white acquired over many years, a quiet, compulsive ritual I have come to understand as her way of managing anxiety and rehearsing loss
- Works-in-progress for the installation, including works on paper and canvas

My methodology is one of soft rebellion—not spectacle, but slow, patient unwrapping.

The work asks:
What does it mean to return to vulnerability as a form of strength?
How do we unlearn the freezing that transgression teaches?

I would value your engagement, questions, and conversations as I shape this work toward its final form.

27/11/2025

Join us for the NEWWORK25 Graduate Exhibition at Wits Art Museum, The Point of Order, ArtHouse Studios and Wits School of Arts (Braamfontein, Johannesburg).

Opening 4 December at 18h00

NEWWORK25 is a year-long collaborative project culminating in a group exhibition. The project is made up of 56 young artists from the Wits School of Arts in their final year of a BA in Fine Art. The work celebrates the right to exist, to name, and to create from histories made tangible. The participating artists arrive having worked, persisted, and grown, shaping their practices and communities along the way. To begin is intentional; to become is political and rooted in kinship; to belong is to claim space without compromise. The works on display echo this conversation and reverberate between the gallery walls, forming the language of the NEWWORK25 exhibition. Come and see the culmination of a year’s worth of experimentation, reflection, and creative growth.

Editorial Statement: The Right to Be (Many)

We got the right to be (gin),
Got the right to be (come),
Got the right to be (long)...
unapologetically.
~Amy Leon

Our right to be is our claim to existence. Where we begin with the right to name ourselves. To make from hands that have carved and cut, created and moulded together sheer will and existence from unfathomable histories made tangible, given a voice. Our right to be is survival. Where we say this is not a quiet generation of artists. Arriving in these halls, we were never quiet to begin with. We came here as many. Where we were neither stagnant nor complacent. We are here now having carried and brought ourselves through years of making, failing, picking up and working. Always working. We, who are not a singular being, have arrived and will leave here as artists - deserving of our names. We cement our right:
To begin: Where beginning is a necessity. Is radical. Is intentional. To begin is an acknowledgment that we do not start from scratch but from fractures, identities, heritage. We begin because we must. We begin at the end.
To become: An active engaging with the making of ourselves, our art, our spaces. Becoming is political. It is sacred. It is a counteractive structure of disruptions that we make our way through. We are the in(be)tween. Our becoming - with, through, against - is to insist on rooting ourselves. In kinship and with our practices, with familiarity and our complexities.
To belong: where we demand of something more than our inclusion. To demand we exist as we come- without conditioning and without asking us to shrink. Without smoothing down our edges. To belong is to insist that there will be space for us. And those like us. In the archives. In the future. In the room. In the books. We are the needle stubbornly engraving our names on the phonograph of time. Our belonging is an affirmation that we, in all our flaws
in all our histories
our languages
our homes
our liveliness
our apartness
our dissonances
our dreams,
have the right to be heard here.
Listen.
We do not ask for you to hold us, but we ask for you to listen. Our work is a culmination of years of practice, an invitation to we, who are building an archive of unapologetic existence.
Then,
As we hold the door open,
Confidently and eagerly
with heads held high,
We say,
Welcome —
To NEWWORK 2025.

Artists:

Aba Fynn
Alaina Khaleck
Alyssa Habana
Andani Khandela
Angel Dimba
Aphelele Cele
Ashay Parbhoo
Ayanda Nkadimeng
Bongumusa Shezi
Busisiwe Mazibuko
Cameron Naidoo
Chantell Sediba
Dickson Phiri
Farah Dindar
Gabriella Sithole
Genevieve Tuson
Itumeleng Mtshali
Jemiye Ugwujide
Kabelo Mofokeng
Karabo Monyemangene
Keabetse Maake
Khanyisa Brancon
Khetho Mkhaliphi
Khothatso Mphuthi
Koketso Letsoalo
Kuyinene Mnqanqeni
Kwena Makama
Lebogang Mashigo
Lelami Ngoqo
Naledi Lebeko
Naledi Lephoto
Ngoma Mphahlele
Nonhlanhla Mlauzi
Odwa Sithunzela
Olebogeng Esemang
Owethu Malusi
Palesa Cenge
Philani Mpontshane
Risima Masinge
Sam Jokazi
Samihah Ismail-Ebrahim
Siphokazi Matshaka
Siphosethu Jikwana
Siyabonga Makhubela
Siyamthanda Buthelezi
Siyasanga Ngqengqeza
Slindile Mzobe
Thabiso Kholobeng
Thenjiwe Mkhandabila
Tiana Nikolov
Toby Ngomane
Tshegofatso Letwaba
Tshepo Maloba
Vhonani Munyama
Vivien Kohler
Zovuyo Pendu

27/10/2025

Join us at The Point of Order for Ho sila, ho lila, le ho olosa
by Puseletso Masemene
In partial fulfilment of a Masters of Arts in Fine Arts
Opening 30 October at 17h30
Exhibition runs from 30 October to 6 November
Viewing: 03-06 November
Time: 10:00 – 15:00

Ho sila, ho lila, le ho olosa, are forms of cultural practices and domestic labour performed by Basotho women across various generations. The ways these forms of labour are performed carry with them a visual rhythm and repetition through the body. These practices are forms of sustaining a home and preserving the Sesotho culture; however, this exhibition positions them as creative expressions.
Ho sila, ho lila, le ho olosa are explored through printmaking, sculpture, and papermaking; these mediums mobilize repetition, pressure sound, and bodily movement. The abstract forms in the exhibition highlight the repeated bodily gestures during the performance of the domestic rituals. It is through the similarities of repetition, pressure and bodily movement that the domestic rituals of Basotho women are in conversation with Fine Art techniques.

07/10/2025

Join us at The Point of Order for Uthini uma sekwenzekile? walkabout with Lindokuhle Yende and in conversation with Sinethemba Twalo

Saturday, 11 October at 11h00

Uthini uma sekwenzekile? (What do you say when it has happened?) is an intimate photographic series that offers a profound exploration of love, grief and healing after a burn injury. This work follows an exploration of the relationship between self, the body and the world, after experiencing trauma to the body.
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Sinethemba Twalo is a practitioner based in Johannesburg, South Africa. They are a Lecturer in the Curatorial, Public and Visual Cultures department at the Wits School of Arts. Twalo was a founding member of NGO- NOTHING GETS ORGANISED (2016 - 2025). They have contributed and/ or presented work in various platforms including the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018), The 2018 Taktlos Free Jazz festival in Zurich, the 3rd Black History Month Florence (2018), the 32nd Sao Paulo Bienal public programme (2016) and the 8th Jerusalem Show (2016) amongst others. Recent curatorial projects include DIM CORNERS (2024) with Pîvo São Paulo at Museum Africa in Johannesburg, Delay and Encounter and/or Other Proximate Unknowns (2023) at the Foundation for Contemporary Art Ghana and W.E.B Du Bois Center for Pan African memory in Accra, A Vocabulary of Senses (2023) convened by the Creative Knowledge Resources (CKR) at the University of Cape Town and Interfacing New Heavens (2021), with artists-in-labs (ZHdK), at the Javett Art Center at the University of Pretoria amongst other projects. Along with Amy Watson from POOL, Sinethemba is curating the project An Accumulation of Uncertainties which forms part of the World Weather Network - a global coalition of 28 arts agencies around the world formed in response to the climate crisis. Twalo obtained their PhD in Art History at the SARChI in South African Art and Visual Culture at the University of Johannesburg.

26/09/2025

Join us at The Point of Order for Uthini uma sekwenzekile?
By Lindokuhle Yende
Opening Wednesday, 1 October at 17h30

Exhibition runs from 1 October to 17 October

Uthini uma sekwenzekile? (What do you say when it has happened?) is an intimate photographic series that offers a profound exploration of love, grief and healing after a burn injury. This work follows an exploration of the relationship between self, the body and the world, after experiencing trauma to the body.

Through a combination of film and digital photography, Lindokuhle Yende documents the physical, emotional and spiritual dimensions of healing. The abstract photographs document not only the visible wound but also the subtle, everyday objects that bear witness to both the injury and the recovery process—mundane items transformed by their association with pain and healing. Symbolic objects that carry spiritual significance are woven throughout the series, revealing the intimate relationship between personal healing, familial healing and spirituality.

The self-portraits reflect the life-changing experience of existing in a body that has sustained trauma and the vulnerability arising from it. As M. Neelika Jayawardane notes, “An injury that leaves visible marks on the body means that the way people relate to us changes. Losing one’s once “seamless” skin and appearance means that
one becomes susceptible to prevailing modes of ordinary, everyday expressions of othering and a target for violence. We are no longer seen as powerful, desirable, or even acceptable.” (Jayawardane, 2025).

By inviting viewers to share in this personal narrative, the work seeks to challenge us to reflect on our own experiences of injury and healing, individual or collective - to think about the materiality of vulnerability and recovery, and the ways in which we practice healing.

28/08/2025

Join us at The Point of Order for [IN](E)TERNAL.
By Wethu Mbusi
Opening Tuesday, 2 September at 17h30
Exhibition runs from 2 September to 3 September - see poster for viewing times
Contact: [email protected]

This exhibition is the result of an ongoing conversation with my spiritual world, an exchange that resists final answers and instead thrives in repetition, gesture and labour. My practice engages patterns, figure studies and processes of making that demand time and endurance. Each mark and dug out residue becomes a meditation and a question. A way of imposing unseen presences into material form.

Patterns function as carriers of memory, rhythm and structures that exist beyond the surface into something larger than myself. The figures are embodiments of energies that are present throughout the process of thinking and making.

This is not a fixed story but a living dialogue. The works ask: “Kuthetha ukuthini xha singasebenzisana nemimoya", and how might the intensity of labour in itself become a language of reverence and return.

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