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Lost in the Gallery

The exhibition everyone must watch, then the galleries everyone must go: working notes from the city centre, with the current shows, and a few worth a call.

Exhibition everyone must watch

Zanele Muholi, Kanye Nawe, at Southern Guild.

Opened 18 July 2026 · Written about here

Galleries everyone must go

01Chandler House

Voorkamer Gallery, 18th-century Cape Georgian house, city centre. Current show: An Ode to Summer, solo exhibition by Jacques Viljoen. No closing date listed on their site, worth confirming it's still up.

02Reservoir

7th Floor, Bree Castle House, Bree Street. Last confirmed show: Deeper – Deeper, Pierre Vermeulen, 9 April to 22 May 2026. That's closed and the site hasn't updated since, so something newer is almost certainly up. Worth checking @reservoir or calling ahead.

03THK Gallery

City centre, satellite space in Cologne. Current show: I Find You All Around Me, Driaan Claassen and Karla Nixon, 3 June to 27 July 2026. Closes this weekend.

04Gallery F

78 Shortmarket Street, city centre. Fine art photography gallery, established 2002 as an extension of PAPA-SA. Rare vintage hand-printed South African photography alongside contemporary work. No current show confirmed online, worth a call.

05Ultraviolet Gallery

70 Shortmarket Street, city centre, next door to Gallery F. Current show: NO COMPUTER: Hand Printed Photographs, group show. Opened 2025, dedicated exclusively to contemporary photography, single-edition and hand-printed work only.

06AVA (Association for Visual Arts)

35 Church Street, city centre. Several concurrent shows across their gallery spaces right now: As Natural As Daylight: Plants, Memory and The Edge of Belonging (group, curated by Yusuf Essop and Jade Nair), Try a Little Tenderness (Hannah Macfarlane and Amber Alcock), Do You Know the Place? (Aimee Lindeque), Who is King? And What Do I Know? (Gill Allderman), Everything is White (Luciano Luz).

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