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Everything Eats Light
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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's exhibition inspired by Proterocladus antiquus
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27 Sep 24
Art of noise
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Interaction Design
A new exhibition celebrates the designs that shape our experience of music.
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16 May 24
Snake charmer
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Rich Mnisi explores the duality of nature in his latest exhibition of collectible design.
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18 Mar 24
Great Yes, Great No
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African Design
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Art & Photography
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Film & Animation
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Graphic Design & Illustration
New William Kentridge drawings and sculptures on show in Cape Town
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13 Dec 23
For stories
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Architecture & Interiors
This spiral building serves as a public exhibition and reading area.
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2 May 23
Photographic memory
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Art & Photography
Influential post-war Japanese photographer’s solo exhibition highlights the pathos of the past
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6 Jun 22
Emerging creative Wandile Leeu on bridging the gap between tradition and cool
Video Interviews
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
“The whole essence behind us establishing the brand was to celebrate the city and the people and the mentality of what Joburg is about.”
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2 Sep 19
How Hannah Barry is revolutionising the London art scene
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Urban & Landscape Design
She may not call herself an art curator but Hannah Barry explains how she revived an art scene via an abandoned car park.
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13 May 19
Toyin Ojih Odutola’s portraits show black skin as textured and diverse
Design News
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Art & Photography
“We have enough about what my skin looks like but what does it feel like?’
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23 Apr 19
William Kentridge: the barbarity of the 'Great War' told through an African lens
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Design Thinking
Kentridge underlines the lunacy of the project in every part of the production – from ruined landscapes to caricatural imagery to ironic captions
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10 Dec 18
Lucas De Man
Artistic director of company: New Heroes
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13 Nov 18
Meet the young innovators at antenna’s first exhibition
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
It’s an evolution of the first antenna conference which took place at Dutch Design Week last year.
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12 Oct 18
Acknowledging Ghana's slave trade history with sculptor Kwame Akoto-Bamfo
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
“As a Ghanaian who is interested and inspired by Ghanaian and African culture, I'm a living witness to the knowledge that is being lost to time.”
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14 Sep 18
Designing for urban mobility means learning from the past and predicting for the future
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
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Industrial Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
Trans Utopias is an exhibition which explores the way we design our transport systems in the past, present and for the future.
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25 Jul 18
A museum where your emotions are the main attraction
Next Generation
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
Siphilele Magagula’s conceptual design asks participants to lay their prejudices bare.
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18 May 18
Using textile design to track the history of nutmeg
Design Frontiers
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Marta Velasco Valesco on what inspired her #Antenna2017 project, Pulau Banda.
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27 Mar 18
Aiming for Democratic Architecture exhibition taps into the role of architecture in democracy
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
At the exhibition, held in Stockholm recently, Design Indaba chatted to MYCKET, a women-led design firm.
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8 Mar 18
Morag Myerscough turns concrete jungles into spaces of belonging
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
The artist talks us through her giant centrepiece for Design Indaba Festival 2018, Embrace The Unknown.
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5 Mar 18
Cape Town architect Ilze Wolff is up for emerging architect of the year award
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Wolff's work is as concerned with social transformation as it is with documenting Cape Town's architectural heritage.
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9 Feb 18
Ben Myres
Ben Myres is ready to put South Africa at the forefront of game design.
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18 Jan 18
Kgaugelo Rakgwale
Kgaugelo Rakgwale is a self-taught artist who believes in capturing a message.
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18 Jan 18
Didintle Ntshudisane
Didintle Ntshudisane shines light on being a creative stylist.
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18 Jan 18
Nickita Maesela
The designer is here to reinvent and represent.
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18 Jan 18
Tyler Yeo
The creative hopes to create a platform that helps people do what they love.
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18 Jan 18
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