NIROX has a range of events, exhibitions, concerts, talks, and workshops available during the year.
CONCERTS
NIROX SPRING JAZZ
Nirox Sculpture Park
Sunday, 15 September 2024
This year we focus on the innovative, changing character of Jazz as a leading musical genre, engrained deeply in South African culture.
Globally celebrated artists welcome Spring in the NIROX amphitheatre.
The Epicurean Emporium and Bernie’s Bar will provide a variety of market-style gourmet cuisines and a curated selection of beverages.
Gates open at 10h00
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
RELIEF
XWALACTUN, DADA KHANYISA, COLLEN MASWANGAYI, JOHAN MOOLMAN, SIMON MOSHAPO JR, JOHN NKOMA, USEN OBOT, BET TUGE
The Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture
The exhibition highlights an age-old tradition through a variety of contemporary perspectives, showcasing different approaches to relief work as a mode of storytelling and its connection to sculpture in the round.
INSAAN (HUMAN BEING)
ABDUS SALAAM
The Covered Space
انس (Insaan), translates as human being. The word's roots are انسان (uns), meaning 'intimate' or 'love', and نسي (nasyia), meaning 'forgetful', defining the human being as both the intimate one and the forgetful one. This poetic fragrance is often alluded to by the mystics and scholars of Islam as it so poignantly delivers us to the essence of humanity being that of love, a reality the we often forget within our terrestrial, ethereal and Divine planes.
The body of work, made over the course of six weeks in residence during the month-long fast of Ramadan, ties this land and its hominid remains, the river and it's polluted state, notions of our global environmental shortcomings alongside intimate and personal moments. It asks if perhaps love - or the reminder of it, being the essence of our being and therefore our sanctuary across multiple planes - might ease the anxieties, tensions, and personal fears that we project outwardly into the echo chamber of forgetfulness.
This notion is spread across three spaces. Held in the Screening Room, Chapter 1 starts with water, earth and light, for we are embodied souls who'stranscendence is through our earthly experience and our planet is but a reflection of our communal state. Chapter 2 is in the Covered Space, with tones of the heart and time, where change is most true; and Chapter 3 is in the Residency Studio
OUPA SIBEKO & KAMOGELO WALAZA
KO GAE
The Cool Room
Experimenting with personal belongings, archival materials, multi-media and installation from a variety of social and cultural perspectives, Oupa Sibeko’s work draws on his own recollections and how they have shaped his personalities, animating his actions and experiences. Ultimately we ask you, the viewer, to consider your own memories; to come into the space, play, and make use of KO GAE to activate your own childhood memories. We invite you KO GAE as an active space to participate and remember the child in you as you play.