House and Leisure – August 2019

heyearlyJoburgArtFairhas

beenreimaginedasFNBArt

Joburg2019,andoneofthe

highlightsoftherefreshed

eventisitsinnovativeGalleryLab.

Spanningover600m^2 ,the 2019 iteration

takestheformofapavilionwhere,

accordingtoFNBArtJoburgorganisers,

‘galleriesandhybridspacesfromthe

continentandbeyondgatherforanannual

conferenceofcollaboration,discussions

andsharingofbestpractices’.

Thisyear’sGalleryLabiscuratedby

FNBArtJoburgfairmanagerNicole

Siegenthaler,andartistandfounding

directorofBraamfonteinarthubBKhz,

BaneleKhoza.‘GalleryLabwillserveasan

incubator,aspacetodevelopandnurture

emerginggalleriesandprogrammesas

wellasaspaceforexploration;topresent

andtestnewartists,ideasandbusiness

modelsrelevanttothecontemporary

Africanartslandscape,’theorganiserssay.

Aswellasinstitutionsfromacross

Africa,itwillseeparticipationfrommany

Nigeriangalleries,suchas16/16,Revolving

ArtIncubatorandReleGallery,noneof

whichhavebeenattheartfairbefore.

‘GalleryLabisgroundedbyplayin

theformofexperimentalnarratives,

educationalelementsandnew

conversationsthatarehappening

onthemargin,’Khozasays.‘We

needtheseandtheyneedtobeshared

• that’swhatwehopetodeliverwith
  GalleryLab.’Oartjoburg.com

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FNB Art Joburg’s Gallery Lab brings together galleries from

across the continent in an ‘annual conference of collaboration’

THIS PAGE ‘Blackwall Experiment’ by

Nigerian gallery Revolving Art Incubator

(left) and ‘The Big Wall II’ (2019) by

Hussein Salim (right) can be seen at

FNB Art Joburg 2019, taking place

from 13-15 September at Sandton

Convention Centre in Johannesburg.