Vela Projects is pleased to present: The Joburg Group Show.

Emerging from a simple desire to engage with and celebrate Johannesburg as it’s sister city, the exhibition features work by Joburg-based artists Khanya Zibaya, Lady Skollie, Tzung-Hui Lauren Lee, Michael MacGarry, Nyakallo Maleke, Nthabiseng Kekana, Kay-Leigh Fisher and Chuma Adam.

Together these artists guide us through a short, sharp, and incomplete tour around the city – touching on the specific mix of cultures, voices, energy and history that make up a city built through rapid industrialisation, extraction, transformation, resistance, political organizing, cultural innovation and defining many of the most important occasions in South Africa’s history.

Collectively, their practices offer a nuanced portrait of contemporary South African life and its ongoing negotiations with history, identity, and belonging.