Taking place in the heart of Cape Town’s city centre at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) from Friday, 17 February to Sunday, 19 February, the fair will show a variety of sections dedicated to large-scale installations, emerging artists and online art platforms alongside talks, guided walkabouts, a digital media platform, and outdoor activations that will ignite the nearby V&A Waterfront precinct.
The list of exhibitors includes galleries which represent the quality and multiplicity of the contemporary African art scene. The list includes STEVENSON (Cape Town; Johannesburg), Goodman Gallery (Cape Town; Johannesburg), Galerie Cecile Fakhoury (Abidjan, Ivory Coast), Blank Projects (Cape Town), SMAC Gallery (Cape Town; Johannesburg), Gallery 1957 (Accra, Ghana), Addis Fine Art (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), BLOOM Art Lagos (Nigeria), Everard Read (Cape Town; Johannesburg), and GalleryMOMO (Cape Town and Johannesburg).
CTAF 2017 has attracted the highest number of applications in the Fair’s history, from local and international galleries. More than 20 international galleries are part of the 2017 selection including Galleria Massimo Minini (Brescia), Primo Marella Gallery (Milan) and Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins and Havana) from Italy; British galleries Tiwani Contemporary, October Gallery, TAFETA and Art First, all from London; as well as Galerie Pascal Janssens (Gent, Belgium), Galerie Seippel (Cologne, Germany), ARTCO (Aachen, Germany), Galerie Caroline Smulders (Paris, France) and Sabrina Amrani (Madrid, Spain).
Tickets for
CTAF 2017 are R140 for adults, R100 for students and pensioners, and R80 for children under 12.
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