SUMMER SALON, 2025
The Summer Salon 2025 brings together a constellation of artists whose practices embrace the abundance, rhythm, and multiplicity of the season. This annual exhibition is conceived as a gathering space, a kaleidoscope of visual voices where sculpture, painting, drawing, collage, and ceramics resonate with the energy of renewal and the vitality of light.
Each artist contributes a distinct sensibility: from the lyrical mark-making of Helen van Stolk and Claire Lichtenstein, to the dreamlike portraits of Sarah Grace and Louise Almon, the assemblage storytelling of John Vusi Mfupi, and the visionary sculptural works of Marke Meyer and David Kuijers. Organic form and materiality take centre stage in Astrid Dahl’s ceramics, Jasmine Jagger’s painterly explorations, and Cyrille Chamayou’s meditative studies. Dalingcebo Ngubane, Michelle Kruger, Thabo Pitso, Solomon Omogboye, Helen Joseph, Restone Maambo, and Elli Wahl expand the dialogue with works that explore identity, memory, landscape, and community through diverse mediums and cultural lenses.
The salon format celebrates encounter rather than hierarchy. Works are placed in dialogue, where contrasts and harmonies emerge unexpectedly: bronze meets charcoal, clay meets canvas, metal collides with colour. Together, they invite the viewer to move between intensity and playfulness, contemplation and joy. In this way, Summer Salon 2025 becomes a reflection of our shared season, a time of brightness, abundance, and possibility, while affirming the power of art to hold multiplicity within a single, collective moment.
