HUB Gallery will showcase 60 of the 100 portraits from the national Portrait Award 2025 finalists, presenting an opportunity to experience some of South Africa’s finest contemporary portraiture in one space. From 30 August to 29 October 2025.

The prestigious Portrait Award is a biennial national competition presented by Rust-en-Vrede Gallery in Durbanville. Launched in 2013, it has grown to become one of South Africa’s most significant platforms for representational art – art that portrays recognisable objects, figures or scenes from the real world – celebrating technical excellence, narrative depth and emotional power in the medium of portraiture.

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The 100 best portraits are selected from the entries received, from which the Top 40, Top 5, Top 3, and overall winning portraits are chosen. The Top 40 portraits will be exhibited at Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, while HUB Gallery will support the Portrait 100 Award exhibition by presenting the remaining 60 works.

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