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ONLINE EVENT Are we not makers of history? Digital publication launch and panel discussion 02 DEC 2020, 7pm (SAST) / 6pm (AST) | Facebook Live Join us for the launch of the digital publication, Are we not makers of history? edited by Luamba Muinga (Angola) and Sara Carneiro (Portugal/Mozambique), produced during the Luso-Linkup virtual curatorial … Read more

This exhibition is about conversations we have about outward situations that fill the mind with sorrow, and then go about contributing to the same situations by individually seeking power, domination and achieving. The discussions about how dreadful society is without realising that we part of society and we are equally responsible for for all the … Read more

Wandering In Silva, or “in the forest” you will encounter a visual narrative “brought to life”. Similar to a tableau vivant or a “living picture”, a visual narrative can either be performed live or depicted through an artwork. Conventionally the actors are stationary and silent, carefully posed with props and scenery while the emphasis is … Read more

“As the sky turns from black to blue, as a dress from blue to white, a mother becomes a messenger of another. With the passing of time, we are watching, we are waiting as the ever blue becomes lighter and lighter, transcending to the empty void – the unreachable horizon. For nearly five decades, my … Read more

EXHIBITION Neville Starling: Worlds are Made and Unmade; I Hear the Music of Spheres 21 NOV – 15 DEC 2020 Preview 21 NOV 2020, 10am – 2pmWalkabout 28 NOV 2020, 11am The Bag Factory presents the first SA solo exhibition, Worlds are Made and Unmade; I Hear the Music of Spheres by Zimbabwean artist Neville … Read more

DELICATE/TENDENCY/RESPONSE, a solo exhibition by DuduBloom More, the winner of the prestigious 2019 Cassirer Welz Award, presented by the Bag Factory in partnership with Strauss Education and Kalashnikovv Gallery. In this newly created body of work, Bloom uses mixed materials of thread, paper, wool, perspex, inks and more, to explore the delicacy of trauma and … Read more

Led by Bag Factory Director Candice Allison   This workshop will cover the essential components of creating an effective artist portfolio. Topics covered will include portfolio formats; what a portfolio is comprised of and used for; how to tailor your portfolio to different markets; and the basics of documenting your work and presenting your portfolio … Read more

Join us on Sat 24 Oct from 11am–3pm for our Spring Open Studios.   Drop by and get to know our studio and current residency artists at this free event offering Johannesburg audiences a unique opportunity to see, hear about and discuss the research and work-in-progress that our artists have been developing over the course … Read more

RESIDENCIES VISITING ARTIST/ CURATOR PROGRAMME The Bag Factory is a professional artist studio space, located on the border of the vibrant suburbs of Fordsburg and Newtown in Johannesburg. We have been operating for almost 33 years and have a stable community of artists from a wide variety of backgrounds. The studio space and its community … Read more