1 OCT 2021 – 30 NOV 2021 Bag Factory is delighted to announce that Federica Bueti (Germany) will undertake a fully-funded residency at the Bag Factory from 27 Feb – 26 May 2021. As part of TURN 2 RESIDENCY The aim of the project is to facilitate research for emerging curators and cultural practitioners with … Read more
27 FEB 2021 – 26 MAY 2021 Bag Factory is delighted to announce that Tila Likunzi (Angola) will undertake a fully-funded residency at the Bag Factory from 27 Feb – 26 May 2021. This residency is part of Art Connection Africa, a cooperation of KfW Stiftung and Triangle Network to foster visual art exchanges, capacity … Read more
1 FEB 2021 – 30 APR 2021 Bag Factory is delighted to announce that Thebe Phetogo (Botswana) will undertake a fully-funded residency at the Bag Factory from 1 Feb – 30 Apr 2021. This residency is part of Art Connection Africa, a cooperation of KfW Stiftung and Triangle Network to foster visual art exchanges, capacity … Read more
1 DEC 2020 – 19 FEB 2021 The Bag Factory and Strauss Education are delighted to announce Levy Pooe as the winner of the tenth edition of the Cassirer Welz Award! The Cassirer Welz Award, named after South African auctioneers Reinhold Cassirer and Stephan Welz, is an annual award presented by the Bag Factory in partnership … Read more
5 OCT 2020 – 30 SEP 2021 The Bag Factory is delighted to announce that Cheriese Dilrajh and Hemali Khoosal have been selected as joint recipients of the annual Young Womxn Studio Bursary, funded by Bag Factory alumni artist Sam Nhlengethwa. They will share a fully funded studio bursary at the Bag Factory for twelve … Read more
5 OCT 2020 – 30 SEP 2021 The Bag Factory is delighted to announce that Cheriese Dilrajh and Hemali Khoosal have been selected as joint recipients of the annual Young Womxn Studio Bursary, funded by Bag Factory alumni artist Sam Nhlengethwa. They will share a fully funded studio bursary at the Bag Factory for twelve … Read more
1 SEP – 30 NOV 2020 We are very excited to introduce Luamba Muinga (Angola) and Sara Carneiro (Mozambique/Portugal) as (virtual) curators in residence for our Luso-Linkup project. By focusing on networking and research, the Bag Factory’s Luso-Linkup residency project facilitates short- and long-term professional development, allowing curators to broaden their knowledge base, develop new … Read more
1 JUN – 31 DEC 2020 Henrietta Scholtz, is interested in the human condition, meta narratives and the study and development of cultures both ancient and modern. She has exhibited in various group shows including Turbine Art Fair, The National Arts Festival, MTN & UJ Continuing Conversations, top 100 Sasol New Signatures (2019) and Top … Read more
1 JUN – 31 AUG 2020 Joe Turpin is a South African visual artist. Born in Johannesburg in 1995, his practice focuses on historically charged & informed narratives and semiotics, and the physical expansion of painting as practice. Turpin is drawn to temporal conversations of decolonization, so called ‘positionality’, race and what it means to … Read more
1 MAR – 30 APR 2020 Andreas R Andersson (born. 1982 in Västerås Barkarö) is an artist living in the small village of Arvidsjaur, near the Arctic Circle in Sweden/Sápmi. With his violent sterile installations, the burnt-out blackness in his sculptures and an ability to combine hand-crafted materials with mass-produced everyday objects, Andersson creates a … Read more