Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026
Goodman Gallery presents a focused presentation at the 2026 Investec Cape Town Art Fair, bringing together landmark works by internationally recognised artists alongside emerging and independent voices supported through the gallery’s Working Title programme. As the gallery enters its 60th year, the booth reflects the gallery’s long-standing commitment to artistic experimentation, material inquiry, and the development of local artistic infrastructure within new contexts.
Among the highlights are works by William Kentridge, Yinka Shonibare, and Leonardo Drew, whose practices treat material as both structure and carrier of meaning. Kentridge presents Remove Not the Old Landmark (Paravent) (2026), a five-panel folding screen that extends his engagement with the paravent as a spatial and narrative device, following his inclusion in Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Century at Fondazione Prada (2023). Shonibare’s African Flower Magic (Aloe Erinacea) (2025) draws on quiltmaking traditions and Dutch wax fabric to frame botanical imagery as a site of colonial history and cultural entanglement. Drew’s Number 255D (2020) exemplifies his distinctive abstract language, articulated through layered, weathered surfaces that negotiate tensions between order, entropy, and historical inscription.
Paintings by Cassi Namoda, Clive van den Berg, Kate Gottgens, and Misheck Masamvu underscore the gallery’s commitment to diverse painterly practices across generations and geographies. Sculptural and installation works include Continuity in Two #4 (2024) by Naama Tsabar, part of an ongoing series transforming reconfigured ready-made bows into sculptural form. Also featured is Nolan Dennis’s biko.nomzamo (2024), an installation in which receipt printers emit an imagined dialogue between Steve Biko and Winnie Nomzamo Mandela on the notion of love. Generated through an algorithm trained on their writings, the work frames speculative conversation as a political gesture, centering radical love, understood as care, responsibility, and collective holding, as foundational to decolonial thought and Black liberation. The presentation is anchored by iconic photographs by David Goldblatt, alongside new ink-based paintings by Sue Williamson, which extend an ongoing series that recreates and reframes colonial-era postcards depicting Africa in the early 20th century. The booth further includes a rotating selection of works by artists from the gallery’s Working Title artists, including Banele Khoza, Unathi Mkonto, Micha Serraf, and Guy Simpson. Relaunched in 2025, Working Title operates as a year-round incubator platform supporting South African artists working independently of the gallery’s represented roster. Led by curator Nandi Jakuja, the programme balances international visibility with a sustained commitment to local artistic infrastructure, reflecting Goodman Gallery’s long-term investment in experimentation, mentorship, and the health of South Africa’s contemporary art ecology.
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About
Sue Williamson
Sue Williamson (b. 1941, Lichfield, UK) is one of South Africa’s most important contemporary artists. In the 1970s, Williamson started to make work which addressed social change and by the late 1980s she was well known for her series of portraits of women involved in the country’s political struggle, titled A Few South Africans (1980s).
In 2025, a major retrospective of her five-decades long career, titled There’s something I must tell you, will be shown at the Iziko South African National Gallery, following her UK and US institutional exhibitions in 2023 at The Box, Plymouth and The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.
In 1997, Williamson founded www.artthrob.co.za, a leading website on South African contemporary art and the first of its kind in the country. Williamson has also authored two major publications - South African Art Now (2009) and Resistance Art in South Africa (1989).
Williamson has participated in biennales around the world, including the Kochi Muziris Biennale (2019); several Havana Biennales as well as Sydney, Istanbul, Venice and Johannesburg biennales.
Major international solo exhibitions include: Between Memory and Forgetting, The Box, Plymouth, UK (2023); Other Voices, Other Cities, Las Palmas (2023); Can’t Remember, Can’t Forget, Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg (2017); Other Voices, Other Cities, SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia (2015), Messages from the Moat, Den Haag, (2003) and The Last Supper Revisited, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. (2002).
Group exhibitions include: Tell Me What You Remember, Barnes Foundation (2023); Breaking Down the Walls – 150 years of Collecting Art at Iziko, Iziko South African Museum (2022); RESIST! The 1960s Protests, Photography and Visual Legacy, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (2018); Women House, La Monnaie de Paris and National Museum for Women in the Arts (Washington D.C) (2017, 2018); Being There, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2017); Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, International Centre for Photography in New York and the Museum Africa in Johannesburg (2014); The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and P.S.1 New York (2001-2).
Collections include: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Pompidou Centre, Paris; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg. Williamson has authored two books – ‘South African Art Now’ (2009) and ‘Resistance Art in South Africa’ (1989).
Awards and fellowships include: The Living Legends Award (2020), attributed by the South African government’s Department of Sports, Arts and Culture; the University of Johannesburg’s Ellen Kuzwayo Award (2018); the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship (2011); the Smithsonian’s Visual Artist Research Award Fellowship (2007) and the Lucas Artists Residency Fellowship (2005) from Montalvo Art Center in California.
Williamson lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976, New Jersey, United States) is a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture.
Thomas has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including the International Center of Photography, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; Musée du quai Branly, Paris; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, and the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Netherlands.
Thomas’ work is included in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
His collaborative projects include, ‘Question Bridge: Black Males,’ ‘In Search Of The Truth (The Truth Booth),’ ‘Writing on the Wall,’ and the artist-run initiative for art and civic engagement, ‘For Freedoms,’ which in 2017 was awarded the ICP Infinity Award for New Media and Online Platform. Thomas is also the recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2019), the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2018), Art for Justice Grant (2018), AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize (2017), Soros Equality Fellowship (2017), and is a member of the New York City Public Design Commission. Thomas holds a B.F.A. from New York University (1998) and an M.A./M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts (2004). In 2017, he received honorary doctorates from the Maryland Institute of Art and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.
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Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar (b. 1956, Santiago, Chile) is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who considers social injustices and human suffering through thought-provoking installations. Throughout his career Jaar has used different mediums to create compelling work that examines the way we engage with, and represent humanitarian crises. He is known as one of the most uncompromising, compelling, and innovative artists working today.
Through photography, film and installation he provokes the viewer to question our thought process around how we view the world around us. Jaar has explored significant political and social issues throughout his career, including genocide, the displacement of refugees across borders, and the balance of power between the first and third world.
Jaar’s work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010) as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).
Important individual exhibitions include The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); Whitechapel, London (1992); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005) and The Nederlands Fotomuseum (2019). Major recent surveys of his work have taken place at Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2008); Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin (2012); Rencontres d’Arles (2013); KIASMA, Helsinki (2014); and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017).
The artist has realised more than seventy public interventions worldwide and has been the subject of over sixty monographic publications. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. His accolades include the Hiroshima Art Prize (2018) and the prestigious Hasselblad Award (2020). More recently, he received the Edward MacDowell Medal and was announced the winner of the 11th Prix Pictet in 2025.
His work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MOCA and LACMA, Los Angeles; MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo; TATE, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MAXXI and MACRO, Rome; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlaebeck; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan; M+, Hong Kong; and dozens of institutions and private collections worldwide.
The artist lives and works in New York, USA.
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