Current Exhibitions
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Theresa-Anne Mackintosh NOW IS NOT FOREVER
Theresa-Anne Mackintosh’s art practice spans over three decades. The Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Art Museum
survey exhibition NOW IS NOT FOREVER includes work from her earliest artistic production to
recent work from her studio. The exhibition explores how Mackintosh has used figuration to
think about identity, emotion, and the complexity of lived experience. Her work invites close
looking rather than immediate interpretation, balancing graphic clarity with emotional depth.
1976 at 50
16 June 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the Soweto uprising and presents an important opportunity to reflect on the events of that time and their impact on our lives today. WAM presents two bodies of work as part of this reflection, ‘Silent Witness’, a short film by independent South African filmmaker Kevin Harris, and a ‘Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ 76’, a photo essay by cinematographer Paul Laufer, the Chief Photographer in 1976 for Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Student newspaper.
Thoughtforms: The Page as a Liminal Field
Thoughtforms: The Page as a Liminal Field explores the book as a site of active thinking rather than a container for finished knowledge. It treats the page as a threshold where private ideas meet permanent marks.
Tracing a lineage from 15th-century Incunabula - designed with wide margins for reader commentary - to modern works by Max Ernst and contemporary artists, the exhibition highlights the margin as a primary field of inquiry. Discover the messy, physical boundary where abstract ideas find
[Watch] Past Exhibitions
MezzanineWAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection.
Street and Core GallerySeen, Heard and Valued: WAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection
Up The RampSeen, Heard and Valued: WAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection.
Strip GallerySeen, Heard and Valued: WAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection.
Street GalleryTENX10: 100 artworks, by women and gender diverse artists, from WAM collections.
Core Gallery TENX10: 100 artworks, by women and gender diverse artists, from WAM collections.
‘Portrait of Elisabeth Eybers’‘Portrait of Elisabeth Eybers’: Marlene Dumas and Ena Jansen in conversation