bagfactory Bag Factory Artists’ Studios in association with Strauss & Co. Education Fine Art Auctioneers, announce the prestigious 2024 CASSIRER WELZ AWARD Call for Entries are NOW OPEN “Since its inception, this award has helped the winners launch their careers and really start making a name for themselves. This award is an important part of Strauss & Co.’s … Read more
We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2024 David Koloane Award The award is open to early career South African-based, contemporary visual artists, aged 21-35 who are not represented by a commercial gallery. Artists working in the fields of painting, drawing, printmaking, lens-based and performance-based art are invited to … Read more
ABOUT THE EVENTS Symposium Day 1 Friday, 9 February 2024, 10 am – 4 pm at Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, 10 Mahlathini Street, Fordsburg Symposium Day 2 Saturday, 10 February 2024 10 am – 12 pm at Umhlabathi Collective, 2 Helen Joseph St, Newtown, Johannesburg, 2001 Exhibition Opening: Saturday, 10 February 2024, 12 … Read more
ABOUT THE SHOWS Exhibition Opening: Saturday, 27th January 2024, 11 am – 2 pm Exhibition Walkabout: Saturday, 3 February 2024, 12 – 2 pm Venue: Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill ________________ For more information on the exhibition and media-related enquiries, please contact: Bag Factory Communications Department: Zinhle Zwane Office: +27(0)11 834 9181 & Email: communications@bagfactoryart.org.za Insta: @bagfactoryart || … Read more
CATALOGUE ABOUT THE SHOW Exhibition Opening: Thursday , 30 November 2023 6pm – 8 pm Exhibition Walkabout: Saturday, 13 January 2024 12pm – 1pm ________________ For more information on the exhibition and media related enquiries, please contact: Bag Factory Communications Department: Zinhle Zwane (she/her): Office: +27(0)11 834 9181 & Email: communications@bagfactoryart.org.za Insta: @bagfactoryart || fb: @bagfactoryartists || … Read more
Nomo KhumaloDirector and Executive Head of Strategy at Momentum Health solutions. Nomo has 24 years experience locally and abroad in financial services and healthcare. He is a director and Executive Head of Strategy at Momentum Health solutions. Nomo is married with two kids. … Read more
Bag Factory in association with Morris Isaacson Centre for Music hosted a 7-day school holiday programme from 2 October 2023 – 6 October 2023 consisting of visual art workshops conducted by practicing early and mid-career artists. This programme aimed to provide school going children with exciting art educational experiences. They were exposed to various mediums … Read more
Mpethi Morojeleis owner and founder of the MMA Design Studio, an award-winning architecture and urban design studio based in Johannesburg, South Africa. For the last 25 years MMA has been involved in often iconic and ground-breaking architectural and urban projects in various countries on the African continent … Read more
Molemo Moiloalives and works in Johannesburg, and has worked in various capacities at the intersection of creative practice and community organizing. She currently works on notions of ungovernability, social infrastructures of cultural organizing, and relationships to nature. She is one half of the … Read more
Kagiso Pat Mautloais a prominent South African artist and a full time practicing studio artist at Bag Factory Artists’ Studios Kagiso Pat Mautloa studied art at Jubilee Art Centre in 1969 and at Johannesburg‚í.s Mofolo Art Centre in 1970. He obtained a Fine Art … Read more