Art & Photography | Design Indaba

Robin Rhode on talking drawing, performance and artistic ownership

Video Interviews > Art & Photography

The visual artist explains the thinking behind his show-stopping Design Indaba 2017 performance. >

17 Nov 17
Yami-Ichi disrupts how the price of art is valued

Design News > Art & Photography / Creative Economy

Here, money is powerless and instead the public is invited to barter skills, services and objects for a piece of art. >

31 Oct 17
Osborne Macharia breathes life into his fantastical, fictional imagery

Talks > African Design / Art & Photography

The self-taught Kenyan photographer takes the Design Indaba audience on a mesmerising journey of fiction, fantasy and narrative. >

27 Oct 17
Angolan visual artist on opening up the conversation about a new African identity

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Kiluanji Kia Henda is the first African artist to receive the Frieze Artist Award. >

20 Oct 17
Multidisciplinary artist Robin Rhode brings his drawing process to life

Talks > African Design / Art & Photography

The South African born artist and his “doppelgänger” light up the Design Indaba stage. >

19 Oct 17
Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | October 2017

Take Five > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Activism / Product Design

We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look! >

13 Oct 17
Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2018

Join the search for South Africa's Most Beautiful Object in Design Indaba's annual competition and exhibition that challenges aesthetic sensibilities, asking - What is beauty? >

10 Oct 17
Design Indaba Nightscape 2018

Design Indaba Festival 2018 presents a celebration of sound and sight in a festival of music, performance and exhibitions on the Artscape Piazza. >

10 Oct 17
Talking cultural clashes and interrogating stereotypes with Gerhard Human

Video Interviews > Art & Photography

Armed with a prying nose for truth and sense of humour, this artist delves into contentious social assumptions in vibrant style. >

10 Oct 17
Photo series presents thought-provoking look at humanity stripped bare

Design News > Art & Photography

The project highlights the fragility and vitality of the human body juxtaposed against the backdrop of urban architecture. >

6 Oct 17
Baba Tjeko’s illustrations bring the Sesotho geometric art of Litema to life

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

He portrays African ideas and perspectives through his Litema artwork in hopes of positive change in other young designers. >

4 Oct 17
Street art as a form of mediation

Design News > Art & Photography / Urban & Landscape Design

He aspires to transform the city's streets to create dialogue and interaction between the environment and our experience of it. >

3 Oct 17
This Guinea Bissau artist uses his art to draw attention to social injustice

Design Frontiers > African Design / Art & Photography

"Design should be used as a tool to improve lives and harmonise situations,” says artist Nu Barreto. >

2 Oct 17
Photo series pokes fun at conventional glamour photography

Design News > Art & Photography

Kolor Art Collective presents their latest tongue-in-cheek offering with Pol Kurucz at the helm. >

2 Oct 17
Striking masks inspired by North African culture

Design News > Art & Photography

This Columbian artist blurs the line between photorealistic painting and surreal expression. >

29 Sep 17
Famous artworks come to life on the streets of London

Design News > Art & Photography

Applied upon human canvases, this project aims to communicate that art is for the masses. >

28 Sep 17
Meet Aoi Yamaguchi, the Japanese Master Calligrapher expanding the form’s possibilities

Design News > Art & Photography

The California-based artist merges music and performance with the centuries-old tradition. >

27 Sep 17
Gaza Girls: Girls of the Gaza Strip is a testament to the resilience of the women of Palestine

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism

Monique Jaques’ photography captures a universal sense of girlhood in Gaza. >

7 Sep 17
From dreaming up stories to starting a movement with the multi-talented Buhle Ngaba

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Activism

We catch up with the woman taking stories to where they're needed most. >

1 Sep 17
The Maitland Institute is changing perspectives on how audiences engage with art

Design News > Art & Photography / Creative Economy

This Cape Town space is departing from the clinical, one-way-communication aspect of the modern art gallery. >

25 Aug 17
A return to our primordial roots with Stanislaw Trzebinski

Design News > Art & Photography

“In spite of our total reliance on the natural world, we have become almost blind to it,” says the artist. >

23 Aug 17
Kolor Art Collective’s latest work questions what it means to be ‘normal’

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

Photographed by Pol Kurucz, the brazenly avant-garde series defies conventionalities. >

23 Aug 17
Wacom Creatives: Benjamin Von Wong on his brand of visual engineering

Design News > Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration

"If social media didn't exist I probably wouldn't be doing photography," says the photographer. >

22 Aug 17
Exhibiting photography at roadhouses to celebrate this fading social culture

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Film & Animation

Night By Roadhouse brings local and international photography to a wide, non gallery-going audience in Johannesburg. >

18 Aug 17

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