35 Church Street
City Bowl
Cape Town
Tuesday – Friday
10:00 – 17:00
Saturday
10:00 – 13:00 Visit Website
The Association for Visual Arts (AVA) is a non-profit, membership-based arts organisation whose primary aim is the advancement and promotion of South African contemporary art and artists.
In 2004 the AVA received its certified NPO status from the Department of Social Development. The AVA Gallery is based in the heart of Cape Town, having occupied its current premises at 35 Church Street since 1971.It is the oldest non-profit art gallery in Cape Town.
Here contemporary visual art production is promoted through regular exhibitions showcasing all media – from painting through to ceramics, photography, installations and performance – by established and emerging artists. In its choice of artists, the selection committee endeavours to promote the discursive and experimental nature of contemporary art. In doing this the AVA seeks to make important contributions to the ‘open texture’ of South Africa’s art community.
“My work is informed by the idea of the “infra-thin” – how close the relation between one thing and another. Notions of the double, the sur-real, and slippages in meaning are set against painting’s relation to mechanical modes of reproduction and repetition.
Through my broad exploration of ritualized play –whether as carnival, festival or a child’s imaginal world - I seek to evoke a certain atmosphere where the intertwining of the tender and the ghastly, the live and the deathly, are simultaneously evoked."
Other exhibitions on show:
Long Gallery
Yoshiteru Hagiwara: Wander Tokyo
New Media Room
Simon Ker-fox: LOCUS
50 Harrington Street
115C Harrington street
160 Strand Street
62 Roeland street
70-72 Bree Street
56 Church Street
54 Church Street
40 Long Street
143 Upper Harrington Street
