ArtPulse is a South African contemporary art platform and events guide featuring contemporary art exhibitions in South Africa 2026, art fairs, artist talks, auctions, walkabouts and museum events across Cape Town, Johannesburg and beyond. The platform highlights both established institutions and emerging creative spaces while supporting discovery within the contemporary African art scene.
1-54 London 2026 | Contemporary African Art Fair
FNB Art Joburg
Rust-en-Vrede Portrait Award at Vrystaat Arts Festival 2026
South African Artist Ros Koch Selected for Prestigious National Portrait Gallery Exhibition in London
Premium June Fine Art Auction 2026 | Stephan Welz & Co Johannesburg Live Sale
99 Loop Gallery at Volta Contemporary Art Fair, Switzerland
Norval Foundation Showcases Winning Student Art Prize Entries
Free Youth Weekend at Norval Foundation | Youth Day Celebration with Free Museum Access
Exhibitions Suleiman’s Sun | Imraan Christian at Everard Read Cape Town
Art Exhibition Winter – A Group Exhibition Of Contemporary Art at Everard Read
Tiny Treasures – Group Exhibition at ArtB Gallery
Hermanus FynArts Festival 2026 | Visual Arts Programme
If Joburg had a beach, who would go? Unathi Mkonto at Goodman Gallery
Reappearing Forms | Contemporary Ceramics at Hermanus FynArts Festival 2026
Time and Tide: Expressions of Hermanus and the Coastal Overberg at FynArts Gallery
Lets Make Mistakes Tonight And Go For Therapy Tomorrow – Janine Glanz at WorldArt Gallery
Procession as Myth: The Sacred Cinematic Worlds of Ebenezer Samuel Akinola at Eclectica Contemporary
After The First Look: A Contemporary African Portraiture Exhibition at Eclectica Contemporary
When We Gather: Celebrating 35 Years of the Bag Factory at Everard Read
I Find You All Around Me | Driaan Claassen & Karla Nixon at THK Gallery Cape Town
Naked: Misheck Masamvu’s Bold Exploration of Colour, Community and Abstraction – Goodman Gallery
Earth Song: Keeping Time – Group Exhibition at Cape Gallery
How to Like It | Lucy Robson at Southern Guild Cape Town
Echoes of Home at Christopher Moller Gallery | Cape Town
AMEN: Grassroots Football – Solo Photography Exhibition by Jessica Hilltout at Gallery F, Cape Town
I Keep Coming Back Here, I Don’t Know Why – Curated by Aza Lithalethu Mbovane at Stevenson
Chapter 3 at AITY Gallery Franschhoek | Contemporary South African Group Exhibition 2026
Jeanne Hoffman | Gardening Fragments at Everard Read, Johannesburg
Between Dog and Wolf – Nicola Bailey at Everard Read, Johannesburg
Thero Makepe Exhibition at Javett Art Centre Pretoria | We Didn’t Choose to Be Born Here
Gatherers – Mandy Johnston at Berman Contemporary, Silo District Waterfront, Cape Town
Exhibit B Auction – Peter Clarke Art Centre, Cape Town
Disobedient Doilies – Shonisani Netshia at UJ Gallery, Johannesburg
To Whom It May Concern- A solo exhibition by Lebogang Mbewe at AVA Gallery, Cape Town
Aspire Art Auctions | Call for Consignments, June 2026 Auction in Johannesburg
Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize Finalist Exhibition at the JSE, Johannesburg
The Poets Are Working – Group Exhibition at Southern Guild
Karen Kotze: Curating Vessels Ceramic Exhibition at CUBE at Rust en Vrede Gallery
Where Time Has Gathered – Group Exhibition at Lizamore, Johannesburg
Orchard of the Imagination at Javett Art Centre Pretoria
Irma Stern: A Life Of Displacement | Norval Foundation
Artist, Joseph Benistant Joins Europe’s Largest Street Art Exhibition in Paris
Brett Murray: Wild Life | Norval Foundation
Installation By Rita Mawuena Benissan – The Procession | Zeitz MOCAA
Githan Coopoo: Tears Now But Heaven Tomorrow | Norval Foundation
