EVENTS

The internationally acclaimed South African Youth Choir (SAYC) is one of the most exciting choral projects in the world today. Since its inception in 2005, the choir has showcased its vast abilities on both local and international platform, entertaining a variety of audiences across the globe. The Choir has positioned itself as one of the most sought-after performance choirs in South Africa and regularly performs and records with various local and international artists. The Choir currently consists of 54 high school learners and students between the ages of 13 – 25 years from all over South Africa, representing the diverse cultures of the country. In the true spirit of UBUNTU, the SAYC is a celebration of unity within cultural diversity.

Join us for a night of world-class choral music in Gallery 8, with the option of a three-course dinner before the show at The Skotnes Restaurant.

• Tickets cost R500 for the show, including dinner.
• Tickets cost R200 for the show only, excluding dinner.
• Dinner commences at 18:00 sharp, and the show starts at 20:30. General Members and Art Club Members get 10% discount on dinner tickets.
• All tickets are inclusive of admission to our galleries which can be enjoyed from 17:00.

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Norval Foundation is delighted to invite you to a Talk with contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. In advance of the unveiling of his Wind Sculpture (SG) III next year at the Foundation, Shonibare will speak about the artists, movements and ideas that have influenced his practice. He will also be touching on the importance of making new monuments within an African context. We aim for the Talk to contextualise Wind Sculpture (SG) III within the artist’s larger body of work. Using patterns associated with wax batik fabric, Shonibare engages with a broad range of themes, from the history of European colonialization, Enlightenment thought, globalization and the movement of peoples, to the art historical canon. He became well known in the early 2000s for tableau-like installations that referenced seminal paintings, exposing their sexual, moral and colonial underpinnings, such as The Swing (after Fragonard) (2001).

The Talk starts at 6pm sharp and is appropriate for all ages; no formal art education is required.

RSVP via our website is essential.

Batlhaping Ba Re! is a solo exhibition by Mmakgabo Mapula Helen Sebidi (born 1943, South Africa) featuring paintings, etchings and a sculpture from a career spanning five decades. The exhibition reflects on Sebidi’s continuous dedication to mythologies, ancestry and traditional value systems, and highlights the innovations that have characterised the artist’s practice in recent years.

Batlhaping Ba Re! foregrounds the notion of the sonic and is an invitation to metaphorically ‘listen’ to Sebidi’s two-dimensional artworks. Beyond experiencing the work visually, viewers are invited to imagine what Batlhaping are sharing with us in Sebidi’s overpopulated, haunting and phantasmagorical depictions of the human.

Through her unique depiction of the human figure, we come to appreciate Sebidi’s representation of different forms of black being, and a search into the relationship between humanism, spiritualism and the contemporary black African condition.

Join us in celebrating the exhibition opening, featuring the exhibition’s curator, Portia Malatjie, in dialogue with the Mmakgabo Mapula Helen Sebidi.

The combined event starts at 4pm and is appropriate for all ages; no formal art education is required.

RSVP via our website is essential.

Norval Foundation invites you to a Talk with contemporary artist Ibrahim Mahama. Mahama, who was born and is currently based in Ghana, transforms found materials into artworks that explore Africa’s role in the global exchange of commodities and comments on how labour is valued. Humble, second hand materials, such as hessian sacks, shoe shine kits and ambulance stretchers, are employed in the creation of ambitious installations and architectural interventions that have been installed in public spaces, museums and on buildings around the world.

In advance of Mahama’s exhibition in 2019, Norval Foundation is hosting a Talk by the artist addressing some of the ideas within his practice.

The Talk starts at 3pm sharp and is appropriate for all ages; no formal art education is required.

RSVP via our website is essential.

We are delighted to invite you to a Talk by Karel Nel (Norval Foundation), and Owen Martin (Norval Foundation) focusing on the history of bronze. Using examples from our current exhibition Re/discovery and Memory, this Talk will place the sculptural work of Ezrom Legae, Sydney Kumalo and Edoardo Villa within a global context.

Norval Foundation has invited Otto Du Plessis from Bronze Age Art Foundry, a casting specialist, to speak about the complex casting process and technical aspects of working with bronze. No formal art education is needed and the Talk is appropriate for all ages.

The Talk is free with museum admission or membership, and begins at 2pm sharp in Norval Foundation’s library. You may book your seat below: members will gain free admission, and non-members will need to pay admission fee at the front desk.