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GUS GUS (Gallery University Stellenbosch) is an extension of the Visual Arts Department at the University of Stellenbosch.

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This week, our gallery will be hosting three exhibition walkabouts across two of our current shows. Please join us on th...
06/10/2026

This week, our gallery will be hosting three exhibition walkabouts across two of our current shows. Please join us on the following days for insightful and thought-provoking guided tours with our artists and curators:

ā€˜Alchemical (Im)possibilitiesā€™ [Gallery 1 - 2] - Saturday, 10 October 11:00 | Led by curators Jean & Svea Josephy | Free entry

This exhibition explores both the potential and limitations of photography, pushing the boundaries of traditional photographic methods and materials to uncover unexpected visual possibilities.

ā€˜in resonanceā€™ [Gallery 4] - Thursday, 8 October 17:00 & Saturday, 10 October 11:00 | Led by participating artists Ulriche Jantjes Vincent Engelbrecht Kabous Hanslam & Ron Sauerman | R120 on Quicket or R150 at the door

ā€˜in resonanceā€™ is a dynamic group show and open studio exhibition that transforms the gallery into a shared and active workspace for these four artists, inviting visitors behind the scenes to reveal the raw materials, experiments and daily rhythms of making.

Join us next week Thursday at 17:30 for the official opening of ā€˜in resonanceā€™ - a group exhibition and open studio by U...
25/09/2026

Join us next week Thursday at 17:30 for the official opening of ā€˜in resonanceā€™ - a group exhibition and open studio by Ulriche Jantjes, Vincent Engelbrecht, Kabous Hanslam and Ron Sauerman.

This exhibitionā€™s open studio format transforms the gallery into a shared, active workspace where the artists pull back the curtain on their creative processes. Moving beyond finished, static displays, this dynamic format invites visitors into an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the daily rhythms and material experiments that shape their art-making.

ā€˜Alchemical (Im)possibilitiesā€™, a group exhibition curated by Jean and Svea Josephy opened to the public on Thursday. Th...
18/09/2026

ā€˜Alchemical (Im)possibilitiesā€™, a group exhibition curated by Jean and Svea Josephy opened to the public on Thursday. These images offer just a few close-up details from the exhibition, with many more works to experience at the gallery.

If you havenā€™t had the chance to visit yet, weā€™d love to welcome you to the opening reception tomorrow morning at 11:00.

Come view the exhibition and enjoy a glass of w**e generously sponsored by Warwick W**e Estate.

ā€œWhat are the possibilities for a medium at a crossroads in a time of great instability?ā€This is a central question at t...
10/09/2026

ā€œWhat are the possibilities for a medium at a crossroads in a time of great instability?ā€

This is a central question at the heart of ā€˜Alchemical (Im)possibilitiesā€™ posed by its curators Jean Brundrit and Svea Josephy.

ā€˜Alchemical (Im)possibilitiesā€™ is a group exhibition that brings together works of photographers based in the Western Cape who are ā€œextending photographyā€™s pasts and futuresā€ through their exploration of both new and old technologies. By foregrounding the process and materiality of the photograph, these artists consider how the present has been shaped not only by its histories but by its futures as well.

Open for public viewing on Thursday, 17 September with the opening reception on Saturday, 19 September at 11H00.

The Stellenbosch University Creative Jewellery and Metal Division cordially invites you to 'Reflections in Form', the an...
27/08/2026

The Stellenbosch University Creative Jewellery and Metal Division cordially invites you to 'Reflections in Form', the annual competition exhibition that celebrates the creativity, craftsmanship and development of undergraduate jewellery students from all four years study.

This exhibition showcases a diverse collection of work that explores material, form, concept and the many ways jewellery and metal can become a means of creative expression.

Please join us at GUS on Thursday, 3 September at 18:00 for the opening reception.

We look forward to seeing you there!

21/08/2026

Feature Friday | Mikhail Adam Motala šŸ“ø

There are a couple of days left to view ā€˜Echoes of Remembranceā€™, an exhibition by postgraduate students Mikhail Motala a...
21/08/2026

There are a couple of days left to view ā€˜Echoes of Remembranceā€™, an exhibition by postgraduate students Mikhail Motala and Yasmeen Williams as part of the masters mid-year review period.

07/08/2026

Feature Friday | Vincent Engelbrecht šŸ¦‰

While ā€˜Curiouser Curiouser Curiouserā€™ is still on show and will be up for a bit longer, weā€™re taking a moment to sit with the work of one of its artists, Vincent Engelbrecht.

ā€œThings begin with drawings for me, I plan, think and dream through drawings. It has become the foundation of where I work from regarding this body of work.

I also draw from themes of magical realism, embodied knowledge, lived experiences, daydreams and nightmares to inject life into my work.

The prints, drawings and objects in this space are a culmination of everything that I have worked towards in the effort to create a world/narrative. This world has recurring objects and characters which become things of their own.ā€

Make sure to come and view the exhibition before it closes next week Wednesday, 12 August.

ā€˜Curiouser, Curiouser, Curiouserā€™ - the third group exhibition in our masters mid-year review season - features works in...
05/08/2026

ā€˜Curiouser, Curiouser, Curiouserā€™ - the third group exhibition in our masters mid-year review season - features works in progress by Nkhuwemi Kumwenda, Vincent Engelbrecht and Luke Rudman.

This exhibition is open to the public from Thursday, 6 August through Wednesday, 12 August.

ā€˜Remainsā€™, the second exhibition in our postgraduate lineup, showcases work by Enrike Groenewald and Rebekah Pringle. Th...
29/07/2026

ā€˜Remainsā€™, the second exhibition in our postgraduate lineup, showcases work by Enrike Groenewald and Rebekah Pringle.

This exhibition focuses on the process and products of a creative discourse with collections of remains. Enrikeā€™s work explores concepts of mourning and commemoration through contemporary jewellery made using the bodies of insects, intentionally blurring the boundaries between notions of preciousness and repulsion. Rebekahā€™s work uses everyday materials such as wooden furniture and cement to unpack the interdependent relationship she has with her grandmother, resulting in a body of work that evidences lived experience, putting memory into form.

ā€˜Remainsā€™ will be open for public viewing tomorrow until Friday, 31 July.

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