Latitudes Editorial
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Out of time, into history, and towards a speculative future: Reverse Futures at JCAF
David Mann reviews Reverse Futures at JCAF, exploring Yinka Shonibare, Calculating Empires, Paula Gaetano Adi, and speculative African worldmaking.
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'Is he going to sell?!' The cost of performance art in today's art landscape
Minna Dundas explores the tension between performance art, online backlash, and commercial market realities through Oupa Sibeko's Pillowtical performance.
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Two Ways of Keeping
Nkhensani Mkhari reflects on Gavin Krastin, the Live Art Arcade, and how South African live art bridges the gap between ephemeral events and lasting memory.
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Articles
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Communal laboratories: Relational Trans_Positions at FADA Gallery
David Mann reviews Relational Trans_Positions at UJ FADA Gallery, exploring bio-art, sound, performance, and academic research in contemporary art.
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'Is he going to sell?!' The cost of performance art in today's art landscape
Minna Dundas explores the tension between performance art, online backlash, and commercial market realities through Oupa Sibeko's Pillowtical performance.
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Two Ways of Keeping
Nkhensani Mkhari reflects on Gavin Krastin, the Live Art Arcade, and how South African live art bridges the gap between ephemeral events and lasting memory.
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How Art Stokvels Can Change Who Gets To Own Art
Kemiso Yasmine Wessie explores how the stokvel economy and flexible payment models are democratising contemporary art collecting in South Africa.
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Art News
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Who is building Africa’s art ecosystem?
Phendu Kuta analyses the infrastructure gap, market viability, and cross-sector partnerships required to build a sustainable African art ecosystem.
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Out of time, into history, and towards a speculative future: Reverse Futures at JCAF
David Mann reviews Reverse Futures at JCAF, exploring Yinka Shonibare, Calculating Empires, Paula Gaetano Adi, and speculative African worldmaking.
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Santu Mofokeng Foundation Photography Prize
Launched in 2026 by the Santu Mofokeng Foundation in collaboration with Latitudes, the Prize honours Mofokeng's legacy by investing in new photographic voices whose work demonstrates a thoughtful and compelling engagement with the medium.
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Meet the RMB Latitudes CuratorLab 2026 participants
Meet the 11 emerging African curators selected for the 2026 RMB Latitudes CuratorLab cohort, in partnership with RMB and Art School Africa.
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Interviews
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Collector Interview with Bakang Mputle of Lehumo Art Collective
Bakang Mputle discusses communal art ownership through a stokvel, living with emerging African art, and collecting on a budget. Read the full interview.
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Curator Q&A with Renée Eisen-Khonat, founder of ReCurate
ReCurate founder Renée Eisen-Khonat discusses amplifying women artists, building Botswana's art ecosystem, and mentoring for RMB Latitudes CuratorLab.
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If Not the Word Then the Thought: On Gestures of Suspension and the In-Between with 2026 ANNA Award Winner Mankebe Seakgoe
Explore the practice of 2026 ANNA Award winner Mankebe Seakgoe. A deep dive into gestural marks, memory, language, and artistic suspension.
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What makes a collector a collector? Interview with Tariq Essop
Discover how to start collecting art on a budget. Tariq Essop shares insights on intentional art buying, payment plans, and affordable African contemporary art.
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Collecting
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Collector Interview with Bakang Mputle of Lehumo Art Collective
Bakang Mputle discusses communal art ownership through a stokvel, living with emerging African art, and collecting on a budget. Read the full interview.
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A more inclusive vision of South African art at RMB Latitudes
Certainly, if you wanted to get a taste of South African art in its myriad forms and at different levels, this much-anticipated annual art event in Joburg could function as a ‘national pavilion’ as per the Venice Biennale format.
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What’s driving the democratisation of our art market?
The accessibility of art has been a perennial topic of discussion in art circles. While art galleries and museums are theoretically open to all, social, economic, educational, cultural, class, and racial barriers often complicate access in practice.
Interview with Japan-based curator and collector Dexter Wimberly
Latitudes’ Chelsea Selvan caught up with Dexter Wimberly, the American entrepreneur and Hayama, Japan–based curator redefining contemporary narratives.
CuratorLab
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Meet the RMB Latitudes CuratorLab Mentors and Guest Speakers for 2026
Discover the leading curators, scholars, and art professionals mentoring the 2026 RMB Latitudes CuratorLab cohort with RMB and Art School Africa.
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Meet the RMB Latitudes CuratorLab 2026 participants
Meet the 11 emerging African curators selected for the 2026 RMB Latitudes CuratorLab cohort, in partnership with RMB and Art School Africa.
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RMB Latitudes CuratorLab 2026
RMB Latitudes CuratorLab is back is a mentorship initiative designed to support early-career curators from Africa through hands-on experience, peer engagement, and professional development. Applications are open for our mentorship programme!
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Wonder In Sonder: Take a walk with me
“Take a walk with me” An invitation to accompany another through the paths they navigate. This exhibition extends that call, walking alongside narratives shaped by South Africa’s enduring traumas and the identities forged within them. It retraces the long walk once framed as a journey to freedom. A walk that promised unity and equality but left uneven footprints on a divided land.
Our Podcasts
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The Latitudes Podcast Featuring Justin Naylor and Carel Nolte
Art and artists are really the only thing that moves society forward.
The Latitudes Podcast Featuring Emma van der Merwe
A good gallerist understands that the artist and their work are the same thing - it’s an extension of their soul, their pain, their DNA.
The Latitudes Podcast Featuring Antwaun Sargent
I made an oath to support and critically engage Black artists, and I’ve done that every day for 15 years.
The Latitudes Podcast Featuring Touria El Glaoui
African artists don’t need a separate table. They belong at the centre of the global conversation.
The Latitudes Podcast Featuring Thandiwe Muriu
One of my favourite African proverbs says: A bird doesn't sing because it has answers. It sings because it has songs.
So I'm going to keep singing my songs, and I hope all artists and all people in the creative economy listening to this keep singing their songs.
The Latitudes Podcast Featuring Ugoma Ebilah
Travel physically, travel spiritually, dream and try to achieve those dreams. To not dream is to die.
The Latitudes Podcast Featuring Athi-Patra Ruga
The legacy will make itself. If my work aligns with my values, if my integrity holds. I’m a boundless artist. That’s the courage I hope to leave behind.
The Latitudes Podcast Featuring Zizipho Poswa
I believe my dreams are not random. They come with purpose. If I don't receive a vision, there is no work. I’m just a vessel - my ancestors are guiding everything.
The Latitudes Podcast Featuring Ayana V.Jackson
You get to your destination, and you press ground. You send the elevator back down. That’s your obligation.
