Rafs Mayet, Cedric Nunn at Afrapix darkroom, circa 1985 Born and raised in the vibrant Warwick Triangle, Rafs Mayet attended Melbourne Primary and Umbilo High Schools. After matriculating, he embarked on […]
Forced Removals: Newslands, Durban, 1985 Deseni Soobben teaches Photojournalism in the Journalism Programme at Durban University of Technology. Whilst studying Photography at DUT, she photographed sports events for The Graphic newspaper. Soobben […]
ASAI and AFH will host a presentation of the museum fellowship programme run by Zeitz Mocaa & UWC, at the Art Resource Centre (AFH), 10 May, 12:30-14:00. 2025 Open Call_ZM […]
You are invited to join us for a creative writing workshop by Professsor Zakes Mda, hosted in collaboration with the Centre for Creative Arts, Time of the Writer Festival 2024. […]
Alka Dass. Transdisciplinary artist based in Durban, South Africa. I strings beads of storytelling, myth, memory, trauma and identity through the lens of belonging and migration. These themes […]
Cedric Nunn is an award-winning documentary photographer and artist based in Mangethe on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast. Nunn began making photographs in 1982 and joined the Johannesburg based photographic association […]
Art For Humanity invites you to film screenings, walks and seed/herb shares for Palestine, alongside the work of visual artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna, visual artist and permaculture practitioner Yasmin […]
Acclaimed documentary photographer Cedric Nunn unveils a new retrospective exhibition along with the launch of the African Documentary Photography archive (ADPAI), marking a pivotal moment in the preservation of South Africa’s visual history.
ADPAI is a collaborative effort between AFH and a growing group of acclaimed documentary photographers including: Cedric Nunn, Deseni Sooben, Rafs Mayet, and Jeeva Rajgopaul.
We are thrilled to announce the latest session in our Black Studies Mobile Academy programme:
“We are always imagining something that looks like sovereignty, and if it feels out of reach we are compelled to reach toward it anyway.”
Imbeleko_artist offerings is an online series of commissioned artist interactions, or offerings, collaboratively supported by Art for Humanity (Durban University of Technology) and the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (University of Johannesburg).
Documentation from The Practicing Refusal Collective’s visit to South Africa 2019.
Art For Humanity is excited to announce the first activation of The Sojourner Project – South Africa, a mobile black studies academy presented by the Practicing Refusal collective.
Art For Humanity is excited to announce the first activation of The Sojourner Project – South Africa, a mobile black studies academy presented by the Practicing Refusal collective.
AfH Artist Solidarity Fund The AfH Artist Solidarity Fund is a short-term intervention set up to provide immediate relief to artists, art students and creative practitioners based in the Durban […]
The AfH Artist Solidarity Fund committee has successfully paid out the first round of disbursements for the month of April. We raised a total of R43085.35 in 9 days and paid 77 verified applicants a total of R559.55 each.
Ifu Elimnyama: The Dark Cloud is a trans-media project that spans the disciplines of film, performance and text by Russel Hlongwane (Durban).
Scheduled for 4-10 May 2020, the Sojourner Project jhb/dbn, is envisioned as a dual city cultural intervention – or Black Studies Mobile Academy – and will be collaboratively presented by the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD), University of Johannesburg (UJ); Art for Humanity (AFH), Durban University of Technology (DUT); the Market Photo Workshop; and the Practicing Refusal Collective (PR Collective).
Molemo Moiloa lives and works in Johannesburg, and has worked in various capacities at the intersection of creative practice and community organizing.
A workshop for emerging and established visual arts writers. Includes inputs and discussion on writing trends and challenges, and artists speaking about their work. First two days are open to the public, the final day is a closed session.
Thulile Gamedze (b1992) is an independent cultural worker, operating as an artist, writer, curator and member of the art collective iQhiya, based in Johannesburg.
Join us at AFH this coming Wednesday for a roundtable conversation on public art in Durban.
Join us at AFH on Tuesday the 3rd of September for an artist talk by Sisipho Ngodwana.
The AfH Artist Solidarity Fund is a short-term intervention set up to provide relief to artists, art students and creative practitioners in the Durban area in the context of the COVID-19 crisis.
Artist Talk: Stellenbosch Triennale 2020
Why another Triennale in Africa and why Stellenbosch?
The body explored as an archive of multi-dimensional existence where the past, present and future are intersection of time.
Call for Participation: Poetry workshop with Brazilian poet, educator and activist, Élida Lima
Daniel Lima is a Brazilian multimedia artist that explores design and space in the urban ambient.
We offer a rolling open call for Masters students within Fine Arts and any creative discipline.
We are working on an on-site library that focuses on increasing the resources for students and visitors
Proclamation 73 The exhibition Proclamation 73 comes forth out of a project initiated by Zara Julius and Chandra Frank that explores the family archives of people racialized as coloured and […]
INDLELA SEMINAR/WORKSHOP SERIES PRESENTS: City Walk in downtown Durban by Russel Hlongwane The city is laden with buildings, and buildings are laden with history. The flaneur is an aimless wanderer, […]
INDLELA Lecture/Workshop Series You are invited to join us for an artist talk with Doung Anwar Jahangeer Tuesday 11 September 12pm AFH Office City Campus DUT About Doung Anwar Jahangeer […]
INDLELA Lecture/Workshop Series Please join us for a lecture by Khanyisile Mbongwa: Wednesday 8 August 12pm AFH Office City Campus DUT About Khanyisile Mbongwa: Khanyisile Mbongwa is a Gugulethu-born independent […]
About Khanyisile Mbongwa: Khanyisile Mbongwa is a Gugulethu-born independent curator based in Cape Town. In 2006 she was amongst the founding members of the artist collective Gugulective. Her work has […]
Conversations in Gondwana is a platform of research and experimentation in contemporary art between countries of the global South.
Fracture Zone conjures artists from Brazil and South Africa to dialogue as duos over shared subjects.
The exhibition Proclamation 73 comes forth out of a project initiated by Zara Julius and Chandra Frank that explores the family archives of people racialized as coloured and indian in Durban under the 1950 Group Areas Act.
