For the duration of the fair, the V&A Waterfront and participating galleries from Cape Town, Joburg, Pretoria, Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Italy, Hungary, the UK, and more, will form part of a dynamic Art Route: a four-day celebration of all things art.
The main art celebrations will take place at the V&A Waterfront, from its vantage point at the Waterfront on the yacht basin, in-between The One & Only Hotel and The Aquarium, which boasts views of Table Mountain and the soon-to-be MOCAA (Museum of Contemporary Art Africa), based in the silos. MOCAA is currently under construction and will be ready by 2016. The Cape Town Art Fair will illuminate the city along its newly established Art Walk, which extends from the One & Only Hotel, past the naval ship SAS Somerset - which will form part of a dazzling light installation - through North Wharf up to the Bascule Bridge, allowing visitors to amble alongside the yacht basin while enjoying the finest art exhibits, art in public places, panel discussions, book signings, talks, performance artists and festival of the moving image in art, in one of the most beautiful settings in the world.
Shuttle busses and the V&A Waterfront canal boat will ferry visitors to and from the various art installations and exhibits across the V&A campus and further afield.
In 2015, the Italian and South African collaboration is stronger than ever before. Fiera Milano presents The Italian Focus, a spectacular line-up of highly acclaimed and carefully selected Italian galleries, artists and curators alike.
Guest curator, critic and author RoseLee Goldberg will be curating significant African live performance artists. Based in NYC, internationally acclaimed Durban-born curator Goldberg founded Performa, which is a 10-year-old organisation dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance art.
Influential and original contemporary pan-African artists will be showing their cutting-edge work at the Cape Town Art Fair. Visitors can look forward to a thought-provoking selection of art seldom seen on such a large platform by such a varied selection of artists. The representation of artists and galleries from across the African continent, together with the work by international galleries and artists, will unite top local and international galleries under one roof.
There will also be installations at Chavonne's Battery Museum in partnership with Zeitz MOCAA, not to mention the launch of its new exhibition at The Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion at Bascule Bridge.
The 2015 Cape Town Art Fair is held during an important time on Cape Town's art and design calendar, when the Mother City welcomes the Art and Design Week which includes the celebrated Design Indaba, Guild Design Fair and the South African National Gallery Programme.
• A Palazzo, Brescia
• ARTlabAfrica, Nairobi
• Artco Gallery, Aachen, Germany
• Art First, London
• Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
• Biksady Gallery, Budapest
• Blank Projects, Cape Town
• Brundyn, Cape Town
• The Christopher Møller Art Gallery, Cape Town
• Circle Art Agency, Nairobi
• Commune.1, Cape Town
• David Krut Projects, Cape Town
• Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town
• Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
• First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare
• Fried Contemporary, Pretoria
• Gallery AOP, Joburg
• Gallery Continua, Italy
• Gallery MOMO, Joburg
• Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
• Johans Borman Fine Art, Cape Town
• Lizamore & Associates, Joburg
• Sulger- Buel Lovell, Cape Town, London
• Omenka Gallery, Lagos
• Primo Marella Gallery, Milan
• The South African Print Gallery, Cape Town
• Salon91, Cape Town
• SMAC Gallery, Cape Town
• Stevenson, Cape Town
• Tiwani Contemporary, London
• WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
• Worldart, Cape Town
• Thursday, 26 February: 10am to 8pm.
• Friday, 27 February: 10am to 8pm.
• Saturday, 28 February: 10am to 8pm.
• Sunday, 1 March: 10am to 6pm.
Adults: R80
Children under 12: R50
Children under two years: Free
