Kalashnikovv Gallery is pleased to announce their participation in the 2024 FNB Art Joburg.

FNB Art Joburg is a South African Art fair that presents a space for the showcasing of established and new talent in an environment that is immersive, accessible and inclusive.


Tickets are available to purchase using the link below.

For more information and to be added to the catalogue waiting list, please email the gallery at info@kalashnikovv.com

Vusi Beauchamp, one of South Africa’s most critically acclaimed artists, is suffering severe heart failure. To save his life, he needs urgent heart surgery.⁠
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Kalashnikovv Gallery is hosting an exhibition in conjunction with Aspire Art to raise funds to cover the expenses of the operation. A selection of Beauchamp’s works, along with donated works by artists in the community, will be auctioned online from Thursday 4 April - 16 April 2024.⁠
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EXHIBITION DETAILS⁠
Saturday 6 April 2024 (The exhibition will be open from Thursday 4 April - 6 April)⁠
11am - 3pm⁠
Aspire Art Gallery 32 Bolton Road, Parkwood, Johannesburg⁠
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ONLINE AUCTION⁠
Visit: Aspireart.net⁠
Thursday 4 April - Tuesday 16 April 2024⁠

Kalashnikovv Gallery presents a group exhibition for April 2024 of four artists, Zanele Montle, Ronél de Jager, Kay-Leigh Fischer, and Maja Malević; a group of artists that blend figuration and abstraction, the real and the surreal. Their work all possesses a process of manipulating reality, deletion, blurred visions, dream-like states, with distinct mark making processes in each practice.

There’s a distinct physicality in the works of these four artists, working on canvas at scale is a bodily act where there is focus on the whole and on minute details of each work. All four artists break from the traditional bounds of classical figuration and abstraction in their work, creating conversations between their visions in the curated group exhibition Inter Opsia.

Investec Cape Town Art Fair brings the international art world together in Africa. It features over 100 leading galleries and more than 500 artists from four continents. Many high-quality exhibitions take place concurrently in and around Cape Town, creating a region-wide art week.

Kalashnikovv Gallery is pleased to announce their participation in the 2023 FNB Art Joburg.

FNB Art Joburg is a South African Art fair that presents a space for the showcasing of established and new talent in an environment that is immersive, accessible and inclusive.


Tickets are available to purchase using the link below.

For more information and to be added to the catalogue waiting list, please email the gallery at info@kalashnikovv.com

Cavalli Gallery present "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden", an immersive exhibition that invites artists to explore the intricate relationship between humanity and the natural world. With the start of spring around the corner, participating artists were invited to embark on a journey to challenge conventional notions of beauty and confront the complexities hidden beneath the surface of a seemingly perfect rose garden.

The exhibition at Cavalli will feature painting, sculpture, ceramics & hand-crafted works by just over 25 artists.

Curated by Amy Lyn Eveleigh

From 26 - 28 May 2023, RMB Latitudes will bring together artists and exhibitors from across the continent to transform Shepstone Gardens, a magnificent three-acre property, into a curated celebration of art from Africa.

Visitors will be able to enjoy a curated contemporary art experience, while strolling through an iconic Johannesburg garden and attending art talks and walkabouts. What’s more, a partnership with Franschhoek Wine Valley, will see vignerons from the winelands fly to RMB Latitudes to share their top wines and bubblies with visitors. All of this will be complemented by a seasonal, fresh food offering by sustainable chef, James Diack.

“New platforms such as RMB Latitudes are vitally important,” says Azu Nwagbogu, Founder and Director of African Artists' Foundation (AAF), and curatorial advisor on RMB Latitudes 2023 International Galleries Programme. “They offer innovative models for cultural and artistic engagement that have evolved from the decay of our previous ways of living, and are developing new models for today.”

Celebrate in our shared creative spirit, ignite new relationships, and connect with artists and galleries in an inspiring setting.

Future Classics X Kalashnikovv Gallery invite you to join us for drinks to preview a specially curated exhibition and collaboration as part of the Joburg Decor and Design Week. Featuring artists include: Turiya Magadlela, Jake Micheal Singer, Maja Maljavic, Ronel de Jager, Maaika Bakker, Craig Smith, Theresa-Anne Mackintosh, Richard Hart and Ntsako Nkuna.

The exhibition focuses on celebrating the work of dynamic visiting artists who have joined the Bag Factory family within the past five years through our Awards and Residencies. The title of this exhibition speaks to the idea of reflecting whilst simultaneously appreciating where the artists are currently and looking forward as a community.

Even as these artists have made strides in their professional careers since being at Bag Factory, this return to the yellow roller doors fortifies that we are always with them on their journeys.

In representations of identity, we must consider past and prior representations of the self in order to depart from or move closer towards them. This point of departure is one marked by convergence, as Donna Haraway attests, ‘Irony.. [is] about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true.’ Loud and Clear serves as an investigation into the politics of identity and the questionable sphere of our ever changing world. It explores the liminal space of our state of being in relation to the transformations we go through over time.

In the art canon of the past, paintings did not look back. They were made for the viewer and did not confront us. They did not ask anything other than to be seen. Today, artists have breached that boundary. Paintings now are both the window pane, and the landscape beyond. Today, paintings are made for the artist – but what we see is not always what we get, because paintings now do not ask for appraisal – instead they confront us in the discomfort of their independence.

Latitudes Online and ANNA Pure Organic present a group show featuring 60 women artists.

Reshape 22 is an annual, online survey exhibition that seeks to augment the visibility of contemporary women-identifying artists in Africa. The group show, which features works by 60 artists, aims to highlight powerful women-identifying voices on the continent and empower a collective whose narrative has been underplayed and neglected throughout history, all while still taking intersectional theory into consideration.

Reshape 22 envisions a more comprehensive and inclusive art canon for future generations. The exhibition aims to highlight a contemporary view of female-identifying practices that is not based on any single narrative of womanhood, but rather explores the vital contributions of women making art, in relation to the compelling issues that define our times.

Kalashnikovv Gallery is pleased to announce their participation in the 2022 FNB Art Joburg.

FNB Art Joburg is a South African Art fair that presents a space for the showcasing of established and new talent in an environment that is immersive, accessible and inclusive.

Located at stand 13 in the main section HUB, Kalashnikovv’s full presentation will include work by artists: Tinyiko Makwakwa, Lucy Jane Turpin, Ayanda Mabulu, Turiya Magadlela, Yolanda Mazwana, Theresa Anne Mackintosh, Isaac Zavale and Lazi Mathebula. With a special focus on the work of Ronél de Jager.

Tickets are available to purchase using the link below.

For more information and to be added to the catalogue waiting list, please email the gallery at info@kalashnikovv.com

Kalashnikovv Gallery is pleased to present 'Still Here', a solo exhibition by Ronél de Jager. Please join us for the opening of the exhibition on Saturday, 11th June from 11am to 2pm at 70 Juta Street, Braamfontein.

“She lay every morning under an avalanche of details, blissed pictures of breakfasts in Patagonia, a girl applying her foundation with a hard boiled egg, a shiba inu in Japan leaping from paw to paw to greet it’s owner, ghostly pale woman posting pictures of bruises – the world pressing closer and closer, the spiderweb of human connection grown so thick it was almost a shimmering and solid silk, and the day still not opening to her. What did it mean that she was allowed to see this?” - Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

'Still Here' showcases Ronél de Jager’s latest body of work - paintings, prints and a beaded work made in collaboration with Qaqambile Bead Studio. De Jager contemplates the disintegrating boundaries between real and not real, and the consequent effects on our personal relationships and our relationships to ourselves. By integrating digital tools into her painting practice and remastering the Vanitas style from the 17th and 18th century Dutch masters, this body of work takes apart the pixelated life with a sensitivity that makes it poetic, even bearable.

Kalashnikovv Gallery is pleased to announce their participation in the 2022 edition of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair.

After a hiatus brought on by Covid19 and the subsequent lockdowns- Africa’s largest contemporary art fair, Investec Cape Town Art Fair will return to its physical home, the Cape Town International Convention Centre, from Friday, 18th to Sunday 20th February 2022.

For the 9th edition, local and international art lovers will have the opportunity to engage with the art online or in person, with Investec Cape Town Art Fair offering a hybrid of both platforms.

Highlights of their presentation include a special focus on the work of Turiya Magadlela, a new beadwork collaboration between Ronél de Jager and Qaqambile Bead Studio and exhibiting new artists Xhanti Zwelendaba and Tyra Naidoo for the first time. 

Tickets are available to purchase using the link below.

Participating artists in their presentation this year include Ayanda Mabulu, Conrad Botes, Craig Smith, Isaac Zavale, Kylie Wentzel, Lazi Mathebula, Theresa-Anne Mackintosh, Lucy Jane Turpin, Michael Linders, Ronél de Jager, Turiya Magadlela, Tyra Naidoo, Yolanda Mazwana and Xhanti Zwelendaba.

For more information and to be added to the catalogue waiting list, please email the gallery at info@kalashnikovv.com

Kalashnikovv Gallery is pleased to announce their participation in Turbine Art Fair 2021.

Turbine Art Fair (TAF) is a unique South African Art fair that presents a space for the showcasing of established and new talent in an environment that is immersive, accessible and inclusive. This year, the fair will be taking place both online and in-person at 10 Fricker Road, Illovo, Sandton from 30th Sept - 3rd Oct.

Tickets are available for purchase online at https://turbineartfair.co.za/tickets.

Participating artists in their presentation includes: Ayanda Mabulu, Seth Pimentel, Maaike Bakker, Ronél de Jager, Yolanda Mazwana, Louis de Villiers, Richard Hart, Theresa-Anne Mackintosh, Erin Chaplin, Lazi Mathebula, Kylie Wentzel, Isaac Zavale, Boemo Diale, Craig Smith and Navel Seakamela.

For more information, contact the gallery at info@kalashikovv.com

The exhibition explores womxn through the work of local artists, either engaging directly with thread, fibre or textile as a medium of expression, or indirectly by referring to the connotations brought forth by the ideas associated with the exhibition title. Loaded with gender connotations and power hierarchies, fibre-based handicrafts such as crochet, embroidery, knitting, macramé, quilting, sewing, or other media referencing ideas and associations to threads provide a fitting platform to examine the roles and representations within and round womxn in our society.

Featuring Artists: Yolanda Mazwana, Ronél De Jager, Jed Gil, Lucy Jane Turpin, Givan Lötz, Dathini Mzayiya, Theresa-Anne Mackintosh, Minenkulu Ngoyi, Ayanda Mabulu

One must look at a painting from a distance. This is the right way. Then things like perspective and proportion and use of colour all fall into place. So I was raised. But time and again I caught myself sneaking closer and closer to the painting, especially a painting in a medium like oil or acrylic. I wanted to get up close to see the paint, perhaps smell the paint, to experience something of the tangibility of paint; I wanted to see the brushstrokes, the marks of the artist's hand. Because the paint itself is a carrier of expression, of feeling. In a way, paint is the solidification of the moment the painting was made. Of the energy in that moment.

This year marked a collaborative effort with the Rupert Museum’s first ever Open Call to artists, launched in September 2020. The initiative was to use one of the most iconic pieces from the Rupert Art Foundation Collection namely Colour Symphony by South African artist Michèle Nigrini for the public to respond to.

A summer online group exhibition.

A Group Exhibition featuring Artists: André Serfontein, Floris van Zyl, Helena Hugo, Ingrid Winterbach, Karlien de Villiers, Le Mouton Riche, Marguerite Roux, Noeleen Kleve, Ronél de Jager, Stephen Rosin & Strijdom van der Merwe.

Art is a long-term investment. Therefore, art is doing all the hard work for your future. When you invest in the art world, you invest in your future.

Absa Artworks is a series of webinars where we guide you on making art work for your investment portfolio.

With our host, Dr Paul Bayliss, Senior Specialist Art Curator at Absa, as well as several industry leaders and local personalities, we’ll delve deeper into the world of art buying, investing and collecting, while celebrating our rich artistic talent from across the continent.

Not only will you have a good overview of the visual arts industry, but you’ll learn the basic principles on how to start, maintain and even grow your own art collection. In addition, we’ll share personal insights as we meet a number of artists.

Absa Artworks is free of charge, so register for your first webinar today.

Absa Art and Aspire Art Auctions have come together in the fight against COVID-19 to auction 49 pieces of art from 25 talented African artists to bidders. Funds raised will be shared by the 25 artists taking part and will also go toward supporting the broader arts industry. The auction is open to the public, with pieces starting from R2 500 up to R280 000.

The Klein Karoo National Arts Festival has built a reputation for its extraordinary visual arts exhibitions over two decades and this year has encouraged them to take the virtual leap. Although the cancelation of the 2020 festival due to the current Covid-19 pandemic remains a great disappointment, we look forward to launching this exciting new digital experience. This initiative creates an important platform to visual artists to sell their work and generate an income from works that were created for the KKNK this year.

UJ Arts & Culture commissioned over 25 South African artists to create a body of work in the comfort of their homes during lockdown inspired by UJ Choir’s new album 'When the Earth Stands Still'. Follow the #UJPandemic journey over the next 5 weeks and be inspired.

The exhibition 'Knowingly Waisting Time', currently on at No End Contempory, prompts the exploration of the time-intensive nature of painting as a medium, and the notion that time is itself, a ‘medium’ part of the painting process.

She Impressions is an all-female multidisciplinary platform that aims at inclusion and making a mark for female artists in the arts. It has been running for two consecutive years since 2017. The platform showcases artworks by womxn artists from different backgrounds and experiences.

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For this year, She Impressions has collaborated with The Project Space as both platforms share the same values of empowering and promoting womxn artists.

Celebrating achievements is a time-honoured tradition that recognises commitment and excellence and what better way to do so than to raise a glass of champagne. All over the world, champagne has become the drink of choice to celebrate success, show appreciation and so much more. Which is why we have invested into the Absa Champagne Festival, a celebration of this iconic drink with more than 40 French champagnes under one roof. For the past 18 years Absa has sponsored this prestigious event and it remains the only one of its kind in South Africa. It’s a memorable experience for all those who attend, and we are looking forward to yet another equally memorable occasion with you, this year.

Curated by our Director Candice Allison, the exhibition is an exploration of process and experimentation, a snapshot of studio practice, and a reflection on the method of using ‘found’ objects, upcycled materials, and repurposed imagery so prevalent in the work of many artists who have worked at the Bag Factory and often turn to the local areas of Newtown and Fordsburg as their source of materials and inspiration.

Featuring Artists: Candice Kramer, Diana Hyslop, Kagiso Patrick Mautloa, Olivia Botha, Phumulani Ntuli, Ross Passmoor, Sandile Radebe, Thonton Kabeya and visiting artists Mako Ishizuka and Ronél de Jager.

Contemporary art can simplify and convey critical conceptual messages and will give the viewer an overview of how contemporary art developed and changed over the past three decades. A contrast between then and now which an onlooker may use to compare certain narratives.

A group show inspired by The Voyager Spacecrafts that were launched in 1977. Aboard it is the Golden Records A time-capsule of the human spirit encrypted in binary code on a twelve-inch gold-plated copper disc, containing greetings in fifty-four most prolific human languages and songs from humpback whales, 117 images of life on Earth, and a representative selection of our planet's sounds, from an erupting volcano, to a kiss, to Bach.

In a style that suggests the analytical quality of X-rays and infrared photography, Ronél de Jager’s series ‘Forsaken Garden’ explores images of overgrown plants in the domestic space. Through these works, her intention was to honour her home and studio space, a classical, early-19th century home that was demolished, the site on which it stood turned ignominiously into a parking lot.

De Jager regards this space as one that has seen many challenges and milestones since the start of her full-time career in 2009. For this small series, she drew inspiration from Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem, “A Forsaken Garden”, in which the poet presents a meditation, not on a particular landscape per se, but on time, death and immortality.

In a comparable way, De Jager’s sensitivity to time, and her ability to slow it down through the painting process but also halt it as one stands in front of her work aims at the transcendental. Devoid of human inhabitants, the landscapes in these paintings speak to a sense of loss and desolation. 

In her own way, De Jager pays homage, by creating a final collection of paintings painted in this space.

This series also stood as a departure point in de Jager’s technical approach to painting, perhaps also due to the imminent change in studio environment. De Jager began working with vertical brushstrokes, dragging her pigment as if to suggest movement.

For the first time in South Africa an exhibition dedicated to exploring a ‘romantic’ turn in contemporary art will be staged at Barnard from 30 January 2018. It is curated by well known art commentator Mary Corrigall, who has been closely observing this movement, which has largely been confined to a generation of young Cape Town based-painters, all contemporaries. Their works will be presented along with established mid-career artists from Joburg that have been preoccupied with the area where nature, science and the sublime converge under the banner of romanticism. In harnessing and coming to grips with the aesthetic and ideological drivers behind this painterly mode, Corrigall has chosen to dub it ‘new romanticism’ as it shares characteristics with a titular movement in the late 18th century.

Myopia, a two-woman exhibition by Mandy Coppes-Martin and Ronél De Jager, queries our myopic lens and global mindsets on environmental issues through a series of mixed media works, examining beautiful and precarious seascapes and landscapes.

“In his book Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell describes a double-speak totalitarian state where most of the population accepts ‘the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them’……The world not imagined is the one that now exists” - Ian Dunlop, The Guardian (2017)

The works on show explore a range of processes that draw on ideas and interpretations of the Sacred and the Profane. It stems from the need of every era to reinvent “spirituality” for itself. Art has the potential to lead us to a place of vision that unites the material and ethereal worlds. Human experience has the possibility to be ordered by the sacred and to create fundamental meaning in the world.

‘Broeigrond: Fertile Ground for Golden Regrets’ is a multidisciplinary exhibition by Ronél de Jager, inspired by the Karoo landscape, geology, infrared photographic process and cosmology. 
In this series of works, the artist constructs fictionalised landscapes which oscillate between the familiar and the alien; De Jager constructs artefacts of paintings, light-boxes, glass orbs with brass and copper electroplated flora and time-lapse film gathered from previous expeditions in the Karoo. 

Influenced by her experimentation with infrared photography and how we see and perceive light, time and the transcendental, De Jager creates interplay between the real and surreal. In a cathartic process of retelling, De Jager layers paint in a spectrum of luminous tones to distance the viewer from the original image, mediating a portal through time and space.

It is this very mediation between photography to paint where de Jager actively teleports her viewer, from action to memory. The once still landscape seems disturbed, disrupted by some kind of alteration; transforming the dry, seasoned winter trees into something fictional.

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‘A.M. (After Midnight)’ is the final exhibition in a three-part debut solo project for De Jager. This ongoing exhibition consisted of ‘A Prelude’, exhibited at Room Gallery & Projects in June 2014, ‘An Interlude’, exhibited at the Turbine Art Fair 2014 and ‘A.M. (After Midnight)’.
This three-fold project explores the transformative power inherent in the constant, shifting presence of cast shadows and filtered light. Across this evolving body of work, the recording and capturing of light acts as a register of moments of silence, movement, flux, transition and metamorphosis.

'An Interlude' is the second installment of Ronél de Jager’s three-part debut solo exhibition 'After Midnight' and unfolds in the darkened basement of Turbine Hall.
By means of a specialised rotating camera mount (created in collaboration with cinematographer Thomas Pretorius), a video projection, capturing the circular motion of a ‘sky view scene’, is projected onto a layer of luminous material overhead. A soft echoing soundtrack enhances a simultaneous sense of immersion and isolation, as the viewer is drawn upward toward an endless sky.

Developing over time and across locations, each installment of 'After Midnight' unveils elements that recalls and resonates with previous exhibition/s. An interlude follows on the sense of transience, movement and flux evoked in A Prelude, becoming a ‘pause moment’ for reflection, solitude and silence; both exhibitions culminating in the final episode scheduled for February 2015.