3 – 11 OCT 2026
2 Saxenhof, 159 Dorp Street For more than three decades, Shany van den Berg’s art has engaged with the formal and symbolic dialogue between the human figure and the natural world. She approaches both still life and figurative compositions with a unified sensitivity to shape and negative space, drawing parallels between the curve of a […]
12 Du Toit Street Strijdom van der Merwe’s art is deliberately transient – fleeting gestures rather than conventional sculptures. They are created on site, using only materials found in the environment, and are meant to exist for just a fraction of time before being, as it were, surrendered to the elements. The results are playful […]
44 Skirts Fine Art Studio, Farm 350 portion 4, Jonkershoek Trude Gunther is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the magical and the existence of being. She holds a master’s degree in Illustration and additional qualifications in Fine Arts and Theatre. Working from a highly personal and experimental perspective, her art explores themes of existence, catharsis, […]
59 Tiobelle Crescent, Jamestown When language is pushed to the limits of its expressive form, it reaches a threshold beyond which it cannot cope. As a painter, it’s Van der Merwe’s conviction that it’s in this silence, beyond language, concepts and rhetoric, where mathematics, music and painting begin, and the conditioned perspectives of history, meaning […]
28 Jonkershoek Road Zonia Scheffer obtained her honors degree in Fine Arts from the University of Pretoria. In 1998, two years after completing her degree, she received a merit award at the Sasol New Signatures competition. Since then, she has held six solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions. Her unique style combines everyday […]
The 62nd winner of the ATKV Youth Drama Competition takes a bow on the Woordfees stage. This is the ATKV’s oldest project. Only eight productions qualified for the final round. Join us in celebrating this year’s winner and South Africa’s next generation of talented artists.
With Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Antoinette Kellermann, Rolanda Marais, Carla Smith, Geon Nel In a world torn apart by war, inequality and the legacy of colonialism, Atropastrikes like an arrow to the heart. Celebrated Flemish writer Tom Lanoye’s reimagining of the Trojan War is not just a retelling – it is a radical indictment of […]
With Darkroom Contemporary: Gemma Trehearn, Rian Jansen, Tamsyn Pretorius, Inge Beckmann, Gala Winkler, Phelo Ngxukuma, Wayne Simpson autoplayis an immersive, surreal encounter between human and machine. This hybrid performance interrogates identity and autonomy in a world shaped by digital systems. A charged game of musical chairs driven by artificial intelligence, it exposes questions of agency, […]
With Bronwen Forbay(soprano), Christiaan Bester(baritone), Jose Dias (piano) In the chamber opera The Telephone, Gian Carlo Menottitransforms a simple living room into a comic battlefield where intimacy is constantly interrupted. Conversations derail, timing collapses and connection slips just out of reach. Beneath the wit lingers a quiet question: in a world of endless chatter, who […]
Presented by Penguin Random House Bella’s Kitchen is Isabella Niehaus’ love letter, to the people important in her life, and to herself. Part cookbook, part musing, every stage of her life, from her days growing up in the rural Free State, through glamorous globe-trotting fashion editor and loving mother, then successful restaurant host, to the […]
FRINGE With Christie van Niekerk, Ané Koegelenberg A satirical look at being an Afrikaner in the 21st century. This work explores the political, social, cultural and absurd landscapes in which Afrikaners/“Afrikaners”/Afrikaans speakers find and express themselves. From pop music to pyramid schemes, table prayers and a fondness for the acute accent – nothing here is […]
Presented by Tafelberg 23-year-old Rensche van der Walt’s gripping diary tells of life in the Bethulie concentration camp during the Anglo-Boer War (South African War). She writes in shocking detail about the diseases, malnutrition and overcrowding that Boer families had to endure. The book is now being republished for the first time in 60 years.Van […]
