bagfactory Bag Factory/Luso-Linkup Open Call 2020 open to curators based in Angola and MozambiqueSupported by an ANT Mobility Grant from Pro Helvetia Johannesburg financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)Residency dates: 1 – 30 September 2020 (4 weeks)Application Deadline EXTENDED: 30 April 2020 (midnight) This residency will give one emerging curator from Mozambique … Read more
Delicate/Tendency/ResponseA solo exhibition by DuduBloom More (2019 Cassirer Welz Award winner)1 – 22 FEB 2020The Bag Factory is excited to present Delicate/Tendency/Response, a solo exhibition by DuduBloom More, the winner of the prestigious 2019 Cassirer Welz Award, presented by the Bag Factory in partnership with Strauss Education and Kalashnikovv Gallery.In this newly created body of … Read more
EXHIBITIONS SUMMER SALON 01 – 15 NOV 2019 Following the success of the Bag Factory Artists’ Studios very first Winter Salon in May 2019, we are delighted to present our Summer Salon on 1 November 2019. The funds raised from these events will go towards ensuring that future generations of artists will be able to … Read more
EXHIBITIONSLOST & FOUND3 – 25 OCT 2019Lost & Found is a group exhibition of mixed media works by Bag Factory’s current studio and visiting artists. Curated by our Director Candice Allison, the exhibition is an exploration of process and experimentation, a snapshot of studio practice, and a reflection on the method of using ‘found’ objects, … Read more
1 MAR – 30 APR 2020 Andreas R Andersson (born. 1982 in Västerås Barkarö) is an artist living in the small village of Arvidsjaur, near the Arctic Circle in Sweden/Sápmi. With his violent sterile installations, the burnt-out blackness in his sculptures and an ability to combine hand-crafted materials with mass-produced everyday objects, Andersson creates a … Read more
ABOUT THIS YEAR’S WINNERDuduzile (DuduBloom) More (b. 1990) is a visual artist from Soweto, Johannesburg, currently working from Artist Proof Studio completing her 4th year in Professional Practice. She has been participating in various art competitions and her work has been included in various group exhibitions and art fairs including the FNB Joburg Art Fair. … Read more
1 FEB – 29 APR 2020Georgina Maxim is known for both working as an artist and curator with over a decade of arts management and curatorial practice. Maxim together with Misheck Masamvu co-founded Village Unhu in 2012, an artist collective space that has been providing studio spaces, exhibitions, workshops and residency programs for artists – … Read more
Amina Zoubir, will be at the Bag Factory for 3 weeks on a self-funded residency, she predominantly works as a videographer and a visual artist, her works are on the notions of body in spaces. Using female, male, animal and objects bodies, those interact with urban and rural spaces around the world. Her artworks … Read more
Erla S. Haraldsdóttir works with painting, animation, video, and photomontage as a means to appropriate and restructure reality. An academically trained painter, she currently focuses on painting where the physicality of paint and colour create space, light, and shadow. Her work combines figurative motifs, abstract colour, and patterns with painterly finesse. The works often explore … Read more
1 OCT 2019 – 30 SEP 2020The Bag Factory Artists’ Studios is proud to welcome Yolanda Mazwana as the recipient of the Bag Factory Young Woman Studio Bursary, generously funded by the Bag Factory alumni artist Sam Nhlengethwa.The Bag Factory Young Woman Studio Bursary offers an emerging/early career woman/womxn artist (under 35) a 12-month fully … Read more