From the Karoo to the city: Liza Grobler extends a national conversation at HUB Gallery

The show, titled n Greep uit Grenslose Gesprekke (a phrase, translating as ‘A Byte from Limitless Conversations’, presented at the KKNK theme ‘Dialogues across Place and Time’), draws from the curatorial framework that shaped this year’s KKNK visual arts programme, which took place from 28 March to 4 April 2026. At the festival, this took the form of 22 distinct visual arts projects spanning installation, video, painting and site-specific work.

The HUB Gallery exhibition is a distilled continuation of that offering: a selection of works brought together for how they speak to one another across differences. At its core is an interest in connection, not through similarity, but through contrast.

‘What began in the Karoo as a wide-ranging conversation now shifts into a city context,’ Grobler explains. ‘By selecting works that remain in dialogue with one another, the exhibition becomes a kind of mobile version, a way of carrying that conversation forward, but allowing it to be seen differently.’

The exhibition brings together artists from across South Africa and beyond, spanning different regions, practices and career stages. Many of these artists would not typically be shown alongside one another, but here they meet on an equal footing. The result is a non-hierarchical exhibition that prioritises exchange over categorisation.