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This will be Langa’s first exhibition of new work in Johannesburg since 2009 and it’s a show rooted in process, with the artist remarking that he did not know where the exploration of the studio practice would take him. Featuring works that were produced in Amsterdam and Paris, the show is a reflection on questions of land, memory and time. It focuses on the influence of platinum mining on his hometown Bakenberg, Limpopo. Details: Stevenson Johannesburg, August 19 to October 13.
This exhibition, curated by Gabi Ngcobo and Yvette Mutumba, presents 600 works recently returned to South Africa after 31 years as part of Germany’s Weltkulturen Museum’s Art Collection. In 1986, the museum asked clergyman Hans Blum to purchase works by black South Africans and he returned with those of
Sam Nhlengethwa, Peter Clarke and many others. Free entrance. Details: Johannesburg Art Gallery, August 14 to November 5.
As part of the For Once programme, the artist and the literature and language academic will be in conversation on Saturday, August 19, from 6pm at Unit 11 at Arts on Main, 64 Fox Street and Berea Road, Johannesburg. Entrance is free but booking is essential. The talk will be followed by a theatrical presentation of Woza Albert at the same venue. Details: The Centre for the Less Good Idea, August 19.
Film Noire will host a screening of Pascale Lamche’s award-winning documentary Winnie. Details: Joziburg at One Eloff Street, Johannesburg, August 24 from 7pm to 10pm. Tickets are available on Quicket.
The makers of the early 2000s series Society, filmmakers Lodi Matsetela and Vincent Moloi, are premiering their new show on SABC 1 on Sunday night. Tjovitjo follows the lives of a dance crew as they pantsula their way out of many a fortune and misfortune, between their lives in the ’hood and a gentrifying Johannesburg. Details: Sunday August 20, 8pm on SABC 1.