Wits Art Museum

14/10/2026

Walkabout at WAM:
'What We Do Not See'
The stories that shape our city:
Migration, memory and Johannesburg

Join Wits Art Museum on Saturday 24 October at 12:00 for the closing walkabout of What We Do Not See. Professor Noor Nieftagodien, Head of the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, will offer insights into the exhibition through the lens of migrancy, exploring the histories, experiences and layers of Johannesburg that often remain unseen.

Don't miss this final opportunity to engage with the exhibition.

What We Do Not See is an exhibition that remembers David Goldblatt in what would have been his 95th year, and explores the idea of home - the structures, places, cultures and relationships that we live within – in and around Johannesburg.

Exhibition dates: 4 August – 24 October 2026’.

Free parking for the walkabout is available in the garage beneath the Museum.

Museum hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 – 16:00
Entrance is free and all are welcome.

For more information on the show and Wits Art Museum please email [email protected]

13/10/2026

Walkabout at the JGCBA
Technics of the Page / The Last Human Reader

Join us this Saturday 17 October 2026 @ 12:00 for a walkabout of Technics of the Page / The Last Human Reader led by curators Ciara Struwig, Renzo Filinich & Stacy Hardy with Sam Kentridge, Twiggy Matiwana, Gabrielle Mudiwa, Sahar Carter and Vuyokazi Ngemntu. Don’t miss the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the exhibition, sharing fresh insights and new perspectives

Directions to JGCBA:
JGCBA is located inside Wits Art Museum in the Es’kia Mphahlele Building on the corner of Jorrisen and Bertha Streets in Braamfontein. Access is through the WAM admin door. From the foyer, go behind the security desk and take the stairs up one floor, then walk along the mezzanine level above the WAM Café. Just before the glass turnstiles, the entrance door to the JGCBA will be on your left.

Free parking for the walkabout is available in the garage beneath the museum.

JGCBA hours are Tuesday – Friday 10:00 – 16:00
Museum hours are Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 – 16:00

Exhibition dates 09 October 2026 - February 2027

Entrance is free, all are welcome.

09/10/2026

Free Family Make-and-Create at WAM

Looking & Making:
Oil Pastel Portraits

Don't forget to join WAM tomorrow, Saturday 10 October 2026, from 11:30–13:00 for a Free Family Make-and-Create workshop inspired by the exhibition The Vanilla Sisters Lunch Club: Our Portraits, Our Stories. Experienced docents Pam and Elona will begin with an interactive exploration of selected works in the exhibition, inviting families to look closely and discover the stories held within the paintings. We’ll then get creative with a hands-on activity, making our own oil pastel portraits inspired by the exhibition. Bring the whole family and spend your Saturday morning looking, making and exploring together at WAM. We’d love to have you join us!

All ages welcome, all materials are provided, and no booking or art experience is required.

Free parking for the workshop is available in the garage beneath the museum.

Perfect for families and creatives of all ages — come get making with us!

Museum hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 – 16:00
Entrance is free and all are welcome.

09/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of 'Technics of the Page / The Last Human Reader' at the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts at Wits Art Museum. A special thank you to curator, author and researcher Stacy Hardy for opening the exhibition, and to the curatorial team, Ciara Struwig and Renzo Filinich, together with Sam Kentridge, Twiggy Matiwana, Gabrielle Mudiwa, Sahar Carter and Vuyokazi Ngemntu, for bringing the exhibition together.

We invite you to join us again for a walkabout with the curators on Saturday 17 October at 12:00.

07/10/2026

New exhibition at the JGCBA
'Technics of the Page / The Last Human Reader'

Don't forget to join the opening of Technics of the Page / The Last Human Reader, an exhibition at the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts at Wits Art Museum tomorrow, Thursday 8 October 2026, at 18:00 for 18:30. The exhibition will be opened by curator, author and researcher Stacy Hardy. Join us again on Saturday 17 October 2026 at 12:00 for a walkabout led by the curators.

The book is not the opposite of technology. The book is already a machine. A hinge machine. A memory machine. A sequencing machine. A concealment machine. An imagination engine.
Rather than staging a familiar opposition between the analogue book and the digital interface, Technics of the Page / The Last Human Reader places the artist’s book beside artificial intelligence as predecessor, companion, irritant and saboteur.

The exhibition moves through technical beings, memory systems, generative machines, networks, hallucinations and that which refuses capture. It asks what happens when books and archives increasingly circulate as data, metadata, predictions and extractable patterns, and what remains stubbornly material, illegible, embodied or resistant. These books must still be turned, unfolded, rotated, decoded, listened to, peered into and sometimes performed. Meaning may lie in a fold, a cut, the resistance of a binding, an instruction, an omission.

Artificial intelligence enters the exhibition as an unstable apparatus for thinking about memory, authorship, classification, prediction and reading. The title The Last Human Reader is not a prophecy. It is a provocation:

What counts as reading when the reader may be human, collective, machinic, ancestral, distributed or imagined?

Parking for the opening is available in the garage beneath the museum.

The exhibtion is curated by Ciara Struwig, Renzo Filinich & Stacy Hardy
with Sam Kentridge, Twiggy Matiwana, Gabrielle Mudiwa, Sahar Carter & Vuyokazi Ngemntu

Exhibition dates 09 October 2026 - February 2027

JGCBA hours are Tuesday – Friday 10:00 – 16:00
Museum hours are Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 – 16:00

Entrance free, all welcome

05/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us at WAM on Saturday for the panel discussion accompanying the exhibition What We Do Not See. We extend our special thanks to Jodie Pather, Tshepiso Mabula, Zanele Dhlamini, Matsediso Dichaba and Naledi Mkupa for sharing their experiences and insights, and for contributing to a thoughtful conversation around photography, education and access.

We are grateful to everyone who joined us and engaged so thoughtfully with the work and the ideas explored.

Come and join us at WAM on Saturday, 10 October 2026, from 11:30–13:00 for a Free Family Make-and-Create workshop inspired by the exhibition The Vanilla Sisters Lunch Club: Our Portraits, Our Stories. Experienced docents Pam and Elona will begin with an interactive exploration of selected works in the exhibition, inviting families to look closely and discover the stories held within the paintings. We’ll then get creative with a hands-on activity, making our own oil pastel portraits inspired by the exhibition. Bring the whole family and spend your Saturday morning looking, making and exploring together at WAM. We’d love to have you join us!

All ages welcome, all materials are provided, and no booking or art experience is required.

Free parking for the workshop is available in the garage beneath the museum.

Perfect for families and creatives of all ages — come get making with us!

Museum hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 – 16:00
Entrance is free and all are welcome.

02/10/2026

Reminder:
In conversation at WAM
'What We Do Not See'

Don't forget to join us at WAM tomorrow, Saturday 03 October 2026, at 12:00 for a panel discussion on the exhibition 'What We Do Not See'. Facilitated by Jodie Pather, the conversation brings together Tshepiso Mabula, Zanele Dhlamini, Matsediso Dichaba and Naledi Mkupa. The discussion will explore the role of photography workshops in South African townships and rural areas where there are limited or no photography educational platforms.

The discussion will include work produced through 'Of Soul & Joy' in a photography workshop designed and facilitated entirely by women for young women living in Merafe Hostel, Soweto. In celebration of Women’s Month, the initiative created a safe and empowering space for participants to explore the theme “This is Home” through photography, storytelling and conceptual thinking.

Come and engage with the exhibition, hear from our panelists, and explore the work and conversations that emerged through this meaningful initiative.

Free parking for the walkabout is available in the garage beneath the Museum.

Museum hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 – 16:00
Entrance is free and all are welcome.

For more information on the show and Wits Art Museum please email [email protected]

30/09/2026

In conversation at WAM
'What We Do Not See'

Join us at WAM this Saturday 03 October 2026 at 12:00 for a panel discussion on the exhibition 'What We Do Not See'. Facilitated by Jodie Pather, the conversation brings together Tshepiso Mabula, Zanele Dhlamini, Matsediso Dichaba and Naledi Mkupa. The discussion will explore the role of photography workshops in South African townships and rural areas where there are limited or no photography educational platforms.

The discussion will include work produced through Of Soul & Joy in a photography workshop designed and facilitated entirely by women for young women living in Merafe Hostel, Soweto. In celebration of Women’s Month, the initiative created a safe and empowering space for participants to explore the theme “This is Home” through photography, storytelling and conceptual thinking.

Come and engage with the exhibition, hear from our panellists, and explore the work and conversations that emerged through this meaningful initiative.

Free parking for the walkabout is available in the garage beneath the Museum.

Museum hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 – 16:00
Entrance is free and all are welcome.

For more information on the show and Wits Art Museum please email [email protected]

29/09/2026

You are invited to the opening of Technics of the Page / The Last Human Reader, an exhibition at the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts at Wits Art Museum, on Thursday 8 October 2026 at 18:00 for 18:30. The exhibition will be opened by curator, author and researcher Stacy Hardy. Join us again on Saturday 17 October 2026 at 12:00 for a walkabout led by the curators.

The book is not the opposite of technology. The book is already a machine. A hinge machine. A memory machine. A sequencing machine. A concealment machine. An imagination engine.
Rather than staging a familiar opposition between the analogue book and the digital interface, Technics of the Page / The Last Human Reader places the artist’s book beside artificial intelligence as predecessor, companion, irritant and saboteur.

The exhibition moves through technical beings, memory systems, generative machines, networks, hallucinations and that which refuses capture. It asks what happens when books and archives increasingly circulate as data, metadata, predictions and extractable patterns, and what remains stubbornly material, illegible, embodied or resistant. These books must still be turned, unfolded, rotated, decoded, listened to, peered into and sometimes performed. Meaning may lie in a fold, a cut, the resistance of a binding, an instruction, an omission.

Artificial intelligence enters the exhibition as an unstable apparatus for thinking about memory, authorship, classification, prediction and reading. The title The Last Human Reader is not a prophecy. It is a provocation:

What counts as reading when the reader may be human, collective, machinic, ancestral, distributed or imagined?

Parking for the opening is available in the garage beneath the museum.

The exhibtion is curated by Ciara Struwig, Renzo Filinich & Stacy Hardy
with Sam Kentridge, Twiggy Matiwana, Gabrielle Mudiwa, Sahar Carter & Vuyokazi Ngemntu

Exhibtion dates 08 October 2026 - February 2027

JGCBA hours are Tuesday – Friday 10:00 – 16:00
Museum Hours are Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 – 16:00

Entrance free, all welcome

28/09/2026