Profiles, movements, scenes, and creative work from artists, image makers, designers, influencers, and independent studios.
Tyla has moved beyond viral fame and into global cultural permanence, carrying South African sound, fashion presence, and pop identity into the world’s biggest rooms.
Hey Hillbrow! Let’s Dlala! 2026 will turn Hillbrow’s streets into a living flock of costumes, birdsongs, dance and public art, led by more than 350 children and young people.
Zanele Muholi’s Kanye Nawe gathers photography and sculpture from more than two decades of visual activism, asking what it means to witness, remember and remain with Black LGBTQIA+ lives.
Rumours/2026 reminds us why Santu Mofokeng’s photographs still matter: they refuse to flatten Black life into suffering alone, returning dignity, complexity and ordinary domestic memory to the centre of the frame.
Tshepiso Moropa’s collage practice turns archival photographs into living material, using Setswana folktales, dreams and memory to challenge the idea that archives carry one final truth.
The 2026 National Arts and Culture Awards place museums, heritage, design, literature, theatre, dance, film, gaming and visual arts inside one national recognition framework.
The Blue Album refuses easy catharsis. Vuyelwa Maluleke’s one-woman performance turns township memory, silence and queer survival into an archive that asks audiences to confront the systems that make harm possible.
