The Sculpture Garden at the Norval Foundation features three-dimensional installations by artists from South Africa and the rest of Africa. The unique site, bisected by a protected Cape lowland freshwater wetland and surrounded by the natural beauty of the Western Cape, features flora indigenous to the area. The placement of artwork takes the site into consideration, using the contours of the garden to hide and reveal work, creating an experience of discovery for the viewer. The building has been designed so that the western side gives way onto the Sculpture Garden at multiple points, allowing visitors access from the galleries to the Sculpture Garden and creating connections between exhibitions taking place both inside and outside. The exhibition programme in the Sculpture Garden aims to represent a plurality of practices currently taking place in the region, including artists working with the figure, narrative and mythology, abstraction and post-minimalism, and craft. Artworks will be a mixture of long term loans and work from the Homestead Art Collection, which are installed permanently.

Special thanks to all the artists and the generous support of Everard Read CIRCA Gallery, Cape Town, Johannesburg and London; Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, Johannesburg and London; Cape Town and Johannesburg; SMAC, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Stellenbosch; and WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town.

Michele Mathison
Volition, 2017
Steel
375 x 95 x 162 cm

Courtesy of the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town.

Joni Brenner
Kin, 2015 – 2016
Bronze
82 x 90 x 110 cm

Courtesy of the artist.

 William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx
Fire Walker, 2009 – 2010
Painted steel
300 x 175 x 204 cm

Courtesy of the artists, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, Johannesburg and London; Lia Rumma, Milan and Naples; and Marian Goodman Gallery, London, New York and Paris.

Current exhibitions