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Cassirer Welz Award Winner Mpumelelo Buthelezi

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20 APR – 30 JUN 2022 Mpumelelo Buthelezi lives and works in Johannesburg. He is a photographer who studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the Market Photo Workshop. He graduated in 2017. Mpumelelo went on to exhibit his photographs at Social Art Award in Germany 2019, Transitions Rotterdam Foto Festival in the Netherlands in 2019, … Read more

Cassirer Welz Award 2021 finalists

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Four Cassirer Welz Award 2021 finalists announced Congratulations to all the artists in the running for this year’s awardBag Factory Artists’ Studios, in partnership with Strauss & Co Fine Art Auctioneers, is pleased to announce the four shortlisted finalists for the 2021 Cassirer Welz Award:Mpumelelo Buthelezi, Nthabiseng Boledi Kekana, Samuel Nnorom and Xanthè Jackson.The winner … Read more

Bev Butkow’s Masters Show

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We’re thrilled to share the news of Bev Butkow, one of our artists, will have her Masters Show ’embodied-entanglements/entangled-embodiments’ at Wits University Origin Centre from Monday 18 to Saturday 23 October 2021. “My creative process is guided by my body’s collection of experiences, and embodied perception of things in the world,” she says of her … Read more

Tuva Bjork

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1 NOV 2021 – 31 JAN 2022 BIO Tuva Björk is a video artist and documentary filmmaker from Helsinki, Finland. She holds a BFA in Fine Arts and an MFA in Artistic Film Directing both from Valand Academy of Art, Sweden. She has also studied at the Film and TV department in the University of … Read more

Meeting Places

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OFF/ EXHIBITION Meeting Places 10 APR – 10 MAY 2021 Meeting Places is a collaborative exhibition presented by the Bag Factory and Guns & Rain at the new Oxford Parks precinct in Dunkeld.   The exhibition features a selection of artists affiliated with the Bag Factory’s studios and Guns & Rain gallery.   Join us … Read more

Vacancy: Communications Manager

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Communications Manager: Job Description and Person Specification Closing date for applications: 31 March 2021 Introduction The Bag Factory is a non-profit contemporary visual art organisation in Newtown, Johannesburg. With a pioneering 30-year history of providing a supportive infrastructure for artists, the Bag Factory is unique in combining art making with cultural debate and art exhibitions, … Read more

Vacancy: Programmes Manager

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Programmes Manager: Job Description and Person Specification Closing date for applications: 31 March 2021 Introduction The Bag Factory is a non-profit contemporary visual art organisation in Newtown, Johannesburg. With a pioneering 30-year history of providing a supportive infrastructure for artists, the Bag Factory is unique in combining art making with cultural debate and art exhibitions, … Read more

Call for Applications: Turn2 Residencies

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OPEN CALL: TURN2 Residencies Curatorial Research Residencies in Johannesburg for curators and cultural practitioners based in Germany.  For Residencies in Berlin for curators based on the African continent, please click here. A joint project of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation), the ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics and the Triangle Network. … Read more