WORDS Debbie Loots
Panicking about your next art-fix now that the FNB Joburg Art Fair’s come and gone? Well, gather yourself and look forward to a mega dose of the good stuff heading the Waterfront’s way in February 2015, where the third Cape Town Art Fair will open its doors at a brand new location, The Avenue.
Next year’s Cape Town Art Fair, organised by Fiera Milano Africa director Louise Cashmore, will happen from 25 February to 1 March 2015 in a new, state-of-the-art venue at the Waterfront.
Currently under construction, this chic new building will be packed with contemporary art from Cape Town and Gauteng galleries as well as from other galleries from across the continent. It promises to draw local and international art-lovers and collectors by the droves.
Edging the One & Only Hotel and aquarium, it overlooks the historic Grain Silo, re-imagined by renowned designer Thomas Heatherwick to become the new Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in 2016.
A variety of exhibitions are planned around the Art Fair, like a special art route that meanders all the way from the One & Only Hotel, past The Avenue, along the yacht basin and to the Bascule Bridge. Here the Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion has found its temporary home until the renovations of the Grain Silo is completed.
And, if you’ve had your fill of art for the day, you could always go get the lowdown on all things design at the annual Design Indaba, happening at the CTICC at the same time.
Says Joost Bosland of Stevenson Gallery, “With Design Indaba and the Cape Town Art Fair taking place at the same time, the city becomes the perfect vantage point from which to survey the art and design landscape in South Africa and the region.”
