NIROX has a range of events, exhibitions, concerts, talks, and workshops available during the year.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
KHARTOON!
Khalid Albaih
The Covered Space
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The exhibition includes a range of the artist’s political cartoons alongside an open-access, digital newspaper (accessible via the QR code on the postcards or via the link in our bio) that marries his work as a cartoonist with a selection of his writing over the last five years (2019 – 2024), providing a broader contextual arc whilst drawing connections between the struggles of those in his home country, Sudan, with those in other parts of the world, from Guantanamo Bay to Palestine.
GRASP
Johan Thom
The Residency & The Hub​
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The exhibition, split across two venues began at NIROX’s Residency Workshop where Thom’s showcased his recent installation Time after Time (2023), in which an automated brick and bronze skull constantly rotate, narrowly missing each other.
Dwell is a large replica of a red building brick, such is commonly used for the construction of homes, shelters, and buildings in South Africa. Made to the weight of the artist, it is a deceptively complex minimalist gesture in which the body is shown to be a contested, uneasy home — at once a space of ‘dwelling’ (of knowing and being) whilst also forming part of the skewed spatio-political and economic organisation of the contemporary South African landscape. In turn, LH+RH+LHRH (Grasp) (2024) is a site-specific installation that gives three-dimensional form to the negative space generated by ‘grasping’ a lump of clay. The result is an overwhelming number of near alien, bone-like fragments, arranged in three minimalist, 10 x 3m rectangular grids. In keeping with the context of the Cradle of Humankind, this arrangement is reminiscent of the anthropological/archeological sites nearby. Here, the act of grasping becomes a metaphor for that which remains unknown or undiscovered, suggesting that the tactile and material remain largely dormant, fecund repositories for rethinking our partial knowledge of the world.
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CONCERTS
HUGHFEST 2024
Nirox Sculpture Park
Sunday, 1 December
This summer, HUGHFEST returns to NIROX, continuing a celebration of Hugh’s legacy,musical diversity and the pursuit of excellence.
Line-Up to be announced soon.
HUGHFEST 2024 is proudly sponsored by Assupol.
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IBIZA ON THE HIGHVELD
Nirox Sculpture Park
22-23 November 2024
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Since the 60’s IBIZA has been home to global creatives and sybarites, inspiring a unique style and way of life. NIROX joins the Spanish Embassy to bring IBIZA to the Highveld with the residency of Michelin Star Chef Victor Martin and Spanish DJ Frank Osorio, presenting for patrons a series of events in the Kromdraai Valley, supported by the PrueLeith Culinary Institute. ​​