Galleries: Western Cape
3rd i Gallery
This small commercial gallery and framers in central Cape Town showcases mainly
photography and painting by young and emerging artists.
95 Upper Waterkant Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 425-2266
Fax: (021) 425-2267
Email: fcinciii@iafrica.com
Arts Association of Bellville
This non-profit association hosts temporary exhibitions including the annual regional
Absa L'Atelier competition.
Library Centre, Carel van Aswegen Street, Bellville
Tel: (021) 918-2301/2287
Fax: (021) 918-2083
Email: artb@icon.co.za
Association for Visual Arts
The AVA is an important not-for-profit gallery in central Cape Town hosting up to 50
exhibitions a year, with proposals selected by committee. Run by the energetic
Estelle Jacobs, the AVA usually hosts three exhibitions at a time, with many young
contemporary artists
making their debut here.
35 Church Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 424-7436
Fax: (021) 423-2637
Email: avaart@iafrica.com
Website: http://www.ava.co.za
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery
This contemporary gallery has made a great impact on the contemporary art scene
in the past two years, soliciting solo exhibitions by trendy young artists such as
Brett Murray and Doreen Southwood. Run by a husband and wife team, the gallery
adjoins a café and bookshop and the Bell-Roberts publishing company, which
prints books, catalogues and postcards for the art set.
199 Loop Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 422-1100
Fax: (021) 423-3135
Email: suzette@bell-roberts.com
Website: http://www.bell-roberts.com
Bronze Age
Foundry
Incorporating Albertyn's Stables Art Gallery and a bronze foundry which services
many of the city's artists, this wharf-side institution is housed in a 200-year-old
building originally used by a cartage company to stable horses and store carts.
King George Way, Simonstown
Tel: (021) 786-1816
Fax: (021) 786-2237
Email: bronzeage@mweb.co.za
Cape Gallery
60 Church Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 423-5309
Fax: (021) 424-9063
Email: cgallery@mweb.co.za
Website: http://www.capegallery.co.za
Chelsea Art Gallery
51 Waterloo Rd, Chelsea-Wynberg
Tel/fax: (021) 761-6805
Email: chelsea-gallery@mweb.co.za
Website: http://www.home.mweb.co.za/ch/chelsart/gallery
The Cold Room Gallery
This gallery specialises in photographic works, mainly by young, up-and-coming
Cape Town artists.
143 Harrington Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 447-4183
DC Art
Riebeeck Square, corner Bree and Church Streets, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 423-6939
Fax: (021) 422-1768
Email: d-cart@global.co.za
Dorp Street Gallery
176 Dorp Street, Stellenbosch
Tel/ Fax: (021) 887-2256
Email: dorp@adept.co.za
Elsie Balt Art Gallery
Evita se Perron, Arcadia Street, Darling
Tel: (022) 492-2851/2831
Email: evita@iafrica.com
Website: http://www.evita.co.za
Everard Read Gallery
A regional offshoot of the
long-established Johannesburg gallery, the Everard Read
specialises in investment art including wildlife and landscape paintings.
The Clocktower, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 418-4527
Fax: (021) 418-4524
Email: ctgallery@everard.co.za
Greatmore Studios
Affiliated to the Bag Factory in Johannesburg and the Gasworks in London, the
Greatmore Studios offer work places to local artists and temporary residencies to
visiting artists. Exhibitions by residents are held on an irregular basis.
47-49 Greatmore Street, Woodstock
Tel/fax: (021) 447-9699
Email: artmore@mweb.co.za
Hänel Gallery
84 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 423-1406
Fax: (021) 423-5277
Email: ehaenel@compuserve.com
João Ferreira Fine Art
Run by one of the city's
most prominent dealers, the gallery hosts regularly
changing exhibitions by established artists such as Sue Williamson and Robert
Hodgins, as well as emerging artists.
80 Hout Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 423-5403 or 082 490 2977
Fax: (021) 423-2136
Email: info@artjoao.co.za
Website: http://www.artjoao.co.za
Michaelis Collection
Situated in the historical Old Town House on Greenmarket Square in the city centre,
the gallery is home to a collection of paintings by Dutch and Flemish masters as well
a small collection of antique Dutch furniture.
Old Town House, Greenmarket Square
Tel: (021) 424-6367
Email: hfransen@iziko.org.za
Website: http://www.museums.org.za
Michaelis Galleries
These university
galleries occasionally stage cutting-edge, non-commercial shows
including video art by local and international artists, as well as housing postgraduate
and undergraduate exhibitions.
Hiddingh Campus, 31-37 Orange Street, Cape Town
Tel/fax: (021) 480-7111/4
Email: cperez@hiddingh.uct.ac.za
Natale Labia Museum
This city museums houses an historical collection as well as occasional temporary
shows, as well as offering drawing classes, workshops and lecture series.
192 Main Road, Muizenberg
Tel: (021) 788-4106
Fax: (021) 788-3908
Picto-Ifas
A photographic gallery run in association with the French Institute of South Africa.
11-13 Bree Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 419-6290 or 082 566-7711
Fax: 419-6293
Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery
31 Dorp Street, Stellenbosch
Tel: (021) 886-4340
Fax: (021) 887-3399
Email: saw@rembrandt.com
Rose Korber Art Consultancy
48 Sedgemoor Road, Camps Bay
Tel: (021) 438-9152
Fax: (021) 438-6262
Email: roskorb@icon.co.za
Sanlam Art Gallery
2 Strand Road, Bellville
Tel: (021) 947-3165
Fax: (021) 947-3838
Email: stephanhundt@sanlam.co.za
Sasol Art Museum
This museum is run by the University of Stellenbosch and houses a collection of
historical works by Cape artists as well as temporary curated and solo exhibitions.
52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch
Tel: (021) 808-3693
Fax: (021) 808 3669
Email: lmdw@sun.ac.za
Website: http://www.sun.ac.za/usmuseum
South African National Gallery
South Africa's flagship art museum houses
major collections of South African,
British, French, Dutch and Flemish art. Selections from the permanent collection
change regularly to enable the museum to have a full programme of temporary
exhibitions of paintings, works on paper, photography, sculpture, beadwork, textiles
and architecture.
Government Avenue, Company Gardens, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 465-1628
Fax: (021) 461-0045
Website: http://www.museums.org.za/sang
UCT Irma Stern Museum
The museum is situated in Irma Stern's old home where a large collection of her
paintings, African artefacts and furniture are preserved. There is also an exhibition
space in the museum where both contemporary and historical exhibitions are
regularly mounted.
Cecil Road, Rosebank
Tel: (021) 685-5686
Fax: (021) 686-7550
Email: bpettit@protem.uct.ac.za
US Art
Gallery
This gallery, situated in an old church, falls under the University of Stellenbosch and
is regularly host to exhibitions of contemporary art.
Corner Dorp and Bird Streets, Stellenbosch
Tel: (021) 808-3524/3489
Fax: (021) 808-3669
Email: sld@sun.ac.za
Website: http://www.sun.ac.za/usmuseum
William Fehr Collection
Located in the Castle of Good Hope, and comprising both the B Block and Good Hope
galleries, the William Fehr Collection is a permanent display of historical paintings
and decorative arts from the 17th to mid-19th centuries reflecting social life, events
and the natural environment, mainly in Cape Town, the Western Cape and Eastern
Cape. There are also archaeological displays of artefacts excavated in the Castle
and a number of furnished interiors. Gallery spaces are occasionally used for
historical and
contemporary art exhibitions
Corner of Darling and Buitenkant Streets, Cape Town
Tel/fax: (021) 462-3751
Email: lmeltzer@iziko.org.za
Website: http://www.museums.org.za
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