“Reflections on Light” A group exhibition of artists and scientists Opening on 10 August at 6/6:30p.m.

Magic Show by Tanja Reinhardt, Director of the Science Technolgogy Education Centre at UKZN

Brief opening talk by scientist Dr. Hermann Uys from the University of Stellenbosch

Similar to previous events involving scientists and artists, artSPACE durban has organized an exhibition focusing on the fact that 2015 has been declared by the United Nations the International Year of Light.

The exhibition is titled: “Reflections on Light”. We have assembled scientists, mainly physicists and chemists from the University KZN Westville campus, to form partnerships with artists to work towards one artwork per artist that will be exhibited at artSPACE durban from August 10 to August 29, 2015.

Our first meeting with the scientists took place on Wednesday, June 10th at artSPACE durban. This first meeting was designed for the artists to meet the scientists and to choose the particular theme and scientist to work with.

The dialogue between the artist and the scientist over the following weeks will direct the artists to produce a work that is a reflection of that particular conversation. 

“Reflections on Light” Scientists and Artists:

Werner van Zyl (S), Ann-Marie Nason (A), Thomas Konrad (S), Paulo Menezes (A),

Neil Koorbanally (S), Dane Stops (A), Mark Tame (S), Camilla Kinnear (A),

Giuseppe Pellicane (S), Pamela Benporath (A), Tanja Reinhardt (S), Benjamin Perez (S), Gareth Amery (S), Rob Mills (A), Trui Roozeveld van der Ven (A), Karen Bradtke (A)

The public Honours lectures in Physics will take place on Friday, 14th August: 

9:00 to 10:30

Prof Jonathan Blackledge (former Stokes Professor at Dublin Institute of Technology now DVC and Head of the Research Office of UKZN)

Theme: Encryption and Information Hiding

10:40 - 12:10

Prof Francesco Petruccione (SARCHI Chair for Quantum Information Processing and Computation) 

Theme: Quantum Optics & Quantum Information



The exhibition ends on Saturday, 29 August at 2p.m.

“Impart” - Design School Southern Africa

a combined Student and Lecturer ‘design’ exhibition featuring top student work and lecturers’ work from fashion, interior design and graphic design departments.  

Opening talk by principal Greg Tregoning.

An education in design is no different than design itself. It should be well-planned, contemporary and, above all, creative. That’s our philosophy at The Design School Southern Africa (DSSA).

The Design School Southern Africa was founded in 1990 and grew to become one of the leading design education and training institutions in the country with a band new Campus opening in Durban in 2013. We pride ourselves on providing an inspirational learning environment whether it’s Fashion Design, Graphic Design or Interior Design.

This exhibition is a reflection of the top work done by our first and second level Durban students over the past year and a half as well as personal work by our lecturers. 

Exhibition closes on Saturday, 30 August at 2p.m.

"Urban Trails" 16 September - 5 October

Walkabout on Saturday, 5 October starting at 11a.m. 

All are welcome and it is free.

Urban Trails is an exhibition of creative practice by public art collective, VUKA NDLOVU, birth from collaborative processes that considered public and urban environments as the primary site for artistic intervention. These Interdisciplinary works manifested throughout various public spaces in Durban, Pietermaritzburg and the Midlands, and the by-products from these interactions were used as a starting point for the development of object and installation based artwork, which is presented in the exhibition. Documentation of the ephemeral public and site specific works will accompany these works in the exhibition.  

Artists: VUKA NDLOVU: Nicholas Crooks, Natalie Fossey, Muziwandile Gigaba, William le Cordeur, Matthew Ovendale, Rob Mills, Modisa Motsomi, Wayne Reddiar and Sita Suzanne. 

“A Life In Common” 25 September - 10 October 2012

“A Life In Common”

A collective exhibition by Kwa-Zulu-Natal-based artists, Doung Anwar Jahangeer, Matthew Ovendale,  Muziwandile Gigaba, Peter McKenzie, Rob Mills  and Wayne Reddiar.

Matthew Ovendale, "Please Touch, 2011, pen, ink and video recordings

The exhibition titled “A Life In Common”, portrays exactly that. It stands as a collection of artistic insights and experiences of various African cities, their emerging cultures and engrained states of flux.

Participating artists are as varied as the works that they have produced. Finding commonality in the artistic trend of utilizing signs, consciously or not in a didactic relation to these city environments.

The signs imbued in the works stand as points that have meanings other than themselves, allowing for the communication of information that resides both in plain sight and in avenues that are all too often overlooked. The works are a culmination of the artist’s predisposition to explore their experiences through the possibilities that creativity affords.

This body of work frames these cities as consolidations of incalculable human development and interaction. With an eclectic array of mediums and subject matter, providing both societal and individual insights into the depths of city living and the complexity of this evolution. 

Ends on Saturday, 13 October 2012