Goodman Gallery Johannesburg
Johannesburg, gauteng
Address
163 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg, gauteng, 2193
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For almost 60 years, Goodman Gallery has championed a leading community of artists who inspire social change and provided a platform for dialogue and healing. In 1966, during South Africa’s apartheid years, the gallery opened its doors to artists of all races, refusing to discriminate against artists of colour and becoming one of the first spaces in the world to exhibit artists who are beginning to gain global recognition as pioneers of 20th Century African Art.
Goodman Gallery maintains two footholds in South Africa – opening in Johannesburg in 1966, followed by Cape Town in 2007 and London’s Mayfair in 2019, and opening a viewing room in New York’s Upper East Side in 2023
Events at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg
Goodman Gallery Johannesburg
Guy Simpson | Was Here
Goodman Gallery Johannesburg is pleased to present Guy’s Simpson’s Was Here his first gallery presentation in the city where he was born and raised. Emerging from a network of artist-run spaces in Cape Town – where he now lives – Simpson’s practice sits at the unusual intersection of documentation and abstraction, translating photographic record into dense, materially layered and extraordinarily innovative and often sculptural paintings. By focussing on the minutiae of the spaces we inhabit, he offers an understated and beautifully tactile meditation on the transitions of places and communities.
Goodman Gallery Johannesburg
Hank Willis Thomas | FOREVER NOW
For his first solo exhibition with Goodman Gallery in South Africa in over a decade, Hank Willis Thomas presents new and reimagined works that probe how we see, remember, and participate in shared histories. The exhibition brings together text-based lenticular works and retroreflective pieces using South African archival imagery, alongside sculptural and installation works that speak to Thomas’s broader public-art practice and his ongoing interest in recontextualising familiar forms.