Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF) 2025

Southern Guild’s main booth for the coming edition of the ICTAF will include work by 10 artists from the African continent and diaspora. Paintings and photography will dominate: works by painters Ayotunde Ojo (Nigeria), Jozua Gerrard (South Africa), Kamyar Bineshtarigh (Iran/South Africa), Terence Maluleke (South Africa) and Mmangaliso Nzuza (South Africa) will feature, as well as never-before-seen new photographs from visual activist Zanele Muholi's ongoing self-portraiture series Somnyama Ngonyama being presented. Ojo's solo exhibition These Four Walls will be on view at the gallery during the fair.

There will also be sculptures by ceramic artists Zizipho Poswa and Andile Dyalvane (both South Africa), as well as a carved, wooden piece by Beninese artist, Dominique Zinkpè. Zinkpè's first solo exhibition with the gallery will also open two weeks prior to the fair. Lastly, ceramic furniture by Chuma Maweni will also feature on the booth, including a table from his recent solo exhibition, iMvelpahi, the top of which is constructed out of ceramic tiles carefully placed together, creating beautiful geometric motifs and patterns.

In the SOLO section titled PLAYSCAPES: Shaping Worlds and Selves, the gallery will present functional artworks by Kenyan artist Stanislaw Trzebinski’s, including sculptural lights, seats and vessels. Trzebinski will showcase a group of floor-based bronze sculptures, commissioned especially for the fair, incorporating hand-blown glass elements that explore the experiential impact of shadow and light. This latest body of work extends from his 2022 solo, Solastalgia, which explores a dark vision of nature’s continuation after the extinction of man, positing a dystopic wilderness reconstructing itself after climate devastation.

In addition, Zanele Muholi will also present a bronze sculpture as part of the 2025 Special Project, Cabinet/Trophy: ‘Playing the Field’. Curated by Exhibition Match (curators Alexander Richards and Phokeng Setai), this section invites 10 galleries to ‘furnish the (trophy) cabinet’ with works that capture the broad essence of Investec Cape Town Art Fair’s 2025 theme: PLAY.

Southern Guild is also part of VIP programming, with an exclusive event taking place in the lead-up to the fair:

Artist Walkabout with Dominique Zinkpè and Ayotunde Ojo, Led by Curator Dr. Amanda Maples

Date | Time: Wednesday, 19 February, 2025, 5-6 pm
Location: Southern Guild, Silo 5, V&A Waterfront

Dr. Maples, Curator of African Art at New Orleans Museum of Art, will lead an engaging walkabout with Beninese sculptor Dominique Zinkpè and Nigerian painter Ayotunde Ojo of their solo exhibitions at Southern Guild. Mimosas and a light breakfast will be served.