A visitor looking at the large charcoal drawings in the Reservoir by Marieke Kruger.
This exhibition, CARCERAL SPACES: ANTICIPATING THE SUBLIME…, by Marieke Kruger, won the award for best Visual Art exhibition at the Free State Arts Festival.
Remnants in the Reservoir
The acclaimed artist Paul Emmanuel showcased his poignant solo exhibition Remnants in the Reservoir, following its showing in 2016 at Boston University’s 808 Gallery in Massachusetts, USA. This was the first time the exhibition was presented in South Africa.
Ben Botma and Prof. Naòmi Morgan
Ben Botma, Head of the Department of Fine Arts, University of the Free State, is an established visual artist and a specialist in meticulous mark making in a variety of media such as etching, scraperboard, charcoal and pencil.
Jodi Bieber during the walkabout at Oliewenhuis
The visual poetry and politics of humanity is the enduring focus of photographer Jodi Bieber. In a country like South Africa with its violent history of apartheid, ambivalent transition to democracy and fraught position today, there is no greater opportunity to envision the effects of these three very different periods on South Africans.
Karoo Disclosure was a multimedia collaborative art project that focused on the effects of shale gas exploration (fracking) on the land, the people and the environment of the semi-desert region of the Karoo.