Using mixed mediums of wood, charcoal, oil paint or acrylic and brush on paper or canvas, visual artists Sakumzi Nyendwana and Msindisi Nyendwana capture the moments in life which make the brush dance and paint sing. A study of life through traditional culture, history, love and hate, good and bad.

All works on exhibition are available for sale to raise funds for the Gratitude Art Competition. There will be an auction event on 25 September  at 16:00.

• 10:00 to 19:00 Daily during the Festival
• Art Auction  30 September 16:00

Khaya Ngcangca and Sakhumzi Nyendwana celebrate the lives of ordinary people through the medium of fabric, wood and fire. They have both experimented and found unique ways to honour the strength and beauty in the lives of people in their communities.

• 9:00 – 16:30 weekdays
• 9:00 – 13:00 Saturday

Influenced by world history, Farook Mohammed’s diverse family background ‘spanning continents’, and and the global and local events affecting us all, this is a journey through Afro-Arab creativity and the concepts of Ubuntu (Ukhwah in Arabic) meaning unity, humanness and brotherhood. Bridging the gap between the North and the South of Africa, this show combines our beautifully diverse cultural expression, past and present to reveal the powerful role African creativity has to play on a global stage.

• 9:00 – 16:30 weekdays
• 9:00 – 13:00 Saturday

The exhibition pays tribute to the role of the Art Museum and art as a conduit for people, art, and ideas to meet. Artworks are selected from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum’s permanent collection.

• 9:00 – 16:30 weekdays
• 9:00 – 13:00 Saturday

This exhibition showcases top local art. Works will be selected from new acquisitions made over the last five years to the permanent art collection of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality housed at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum.

• 9:00 – 16:30 weekdays
• 9:00 – 13:00 Saturday

This collection of works looks into the various ways power is wielded socially, using digital media depicting scenes of rural and urban landscapes to portraiture. The exhibition explores themes of power and the strength of African traditions portrayed in traditional ceremonies. The impact of power cuts, through a series of photographs depicting powerlines in the townships. Exploring what blackness means through a portrait series of prominent black artists from African and the diaspora respectively.

The artists have unpacked power, how it impacts identity, recourses and its impact on access.

• 10:00 – 19:00 Daily during the Festival

Artists: Vuyo Giba, Pola Maneli, Lonwabo Ngcwayi
Curated by Buntu Fihla and Nompumezo Gubevu

As part of the 5 Year Name Change Celebrations at the Nelson Mandela University, the Hubs of Convergence(HoC) is hosting a photo exhibition, capturing the University’s engagement with its stakeholder communities. The exhibition draws inspiration from the liberation song “uMandela uthiayihlome ihlasele” which speaks to Nelson Mandela’s call for individual and collective action for social change. The exhibition displays a five-piece photo series emerging from our collaboration with the Zwide Development Forum, Nelson Mandela Foundation and Food Systems Programme. The collaboration is a demonstrable expression of how transformative engagement can be embodied.

• 09:30 to 15:30 Weekdays

20 Bird street, Central, Gqeberha

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041 504 3293

Yes! We have come to another victorious year. The organisation has been in existence for 105 years. This year the theme is ” a leap from a Century”, and the work that was submitted gravitated toward spirituality and consciousness. There is a sensation of calling out to a higher purpose, a stand-out approach to taking charge. A realisation that we are who we are waiting for, and at the same time know and accept the beautiful chaos of life. The works are explorative, daring and dazzling. They are strikingly focused on the now, looking back and forward, without concern.

• 10:00 to 16:30 Weekdays

It is time to respond to the many representations of the female body in visual art, across social media, and other digital platforms which are overtly sexualized and objectified. It is my aim to amend this over-saturation of a single perspective in service of voyeurism by giving a platform to honest, real and diverse representations of women, by women and in service of nothing but the female experience and identity(is). We are made up of many intersectional and faceted stories, and to insist on only one, is to flatten our experience, and to overlook the other stories which have formed us.

• 10:00 to 16:0 Weekdays
• 10:00 to 13:00 Saturdays

The Eastern Cape Craft Collection shop has curated a selection of authentic high quality, Eastern Cape craft products. The shop has a collection of local traditional and contemporary products, including beadwork, jewelry, grass work, woodwork and accessories like bags, belts, hats, scarves and shoes. The shop showcases a diverse range of creativity, design and heritage of the Eastern Cape under one roof.
The EC Craft Collection shop is supported by the Eastern Cape Development Corporation and the Department of Small Business Development to assist local crafters and designers with marketing and selling their products. It is located at the Shop number 13 Beacon Bay Crossing, Beacon Bay East London.
The ECDC Craft Shop intends to celebrate Heritage Month at the Nelson Mandela Bay Arts Festival, with a showcase of the best of traditional contemporary wear. Alongside this display of fashion will be selection of traditional homeware and accessories.

• 10:00 to 19:00 Daily during the Festival

“I am a student of the Sublime. Painting is my medium. The world is ending.

“Like everyone, I have been grappling with the impending extinction of humanity. There is nothing more Sublime, more overwhelming, more beautifully terrifying, and more unifying than this. It will crush us all in an orgiastic display of pure cataclysmic fatalism. But we do nothing, trapped as we are by Capitalist systems that deny and delay while the obscenely wealthy get richer. Their lies are so persuasive and ubiquitous that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Capitalism. The world is ending.

“This is an absurdist tragedy worthy of Magritte. We hand these bitter fruits without nourishment to our children and grandchildren. The world is ending. I might as well paint.”

• Weekdays 9:00 – 16:00
• Saturdays 9:00 – 13:00