1. 17–19 FEB 2017
BRINGING TOGETHER
CONTEMPORARY ART
FROM AFRICA AND
THE WORLD
PRODUCED BY
Cape Town
International
Convention Center
South Africa

3. What Makes Us Unique
Cape Town presents a rich and vibrant art scene. The
success of the Cape Town ART FAIR has positioned the city
as the leading cultural hub on the African continent.
The Cape Town ART FAIR hosts the top African galleries
and cultural institutions as well as international visitors,
artists and collectors to come and enjoy the finest
contemporary art in Africa.
“Discovering through the
impeccably designed fair’s
space art from Africa, was
a thrilling and expiring
experience, making me
feeling to want more!”
Davide Quadrio (Director,
Arthub Asia, Shanghai)

4. “From a curatorial standpoint, this
miscellaneous of geographies
strongly pinned down the visitors
to think about those conceptual
routes through which Cape Town
has historically been linked with.”
Claudio Cravero (Chief Curator, King
Abdulaziz Center for World Culture,
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia)
“The Cape Town Art Fair allowed me to
discover more about the scene, get to know
the artists, the galleries and the recent
developments which will definitely influence
the whole region. I believe the fair has a
lot of potential to bring more international
art people to the city and to foster future
collaborations and partnerships.” Bige Orer
(Director, Istanbul Biennale, Turkey)

5. The Cape Town ART FAIR is the leading art fair in Africa
that brings the top exhibitors from the continent and its
diaspora together with leading international galleries from
around the world.
The fourth edition, hosted for the first time at the Cape
Town International Convention Center, was greeted with
overwhelming public interest as well as unmatched sales
fulfilling the following goals:
Consolidating the local art economy
Attracting top international collectors to Cape Town
Positioning Cape Town as the leading cultural hub in the
world for contemporary art from Africa
Creating a sustainable art market for contemporary art
from Africa by stimulating new business on the continent
The Event
“I believe it is important to
support platforms that foster
an environment to explore
new ways of engaging with
contemporary art from Africa
and diaspora especially on the
continent.”Azu Nwagbogu
(Director, Lagos photo and
founder of the African Artists
Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria)
8548
unique attendees
14 000
visits
R30 million
in sales
1125
VIPs
2016
Key Numbers

6. The Fair in Growth
The Cape Town Art Fair has doubled
its size year on year.
2013 – The Lookout at the
V&A Waterfront – 700sqm
2014 – BMW Pavilion at the
V&A Waterfront – 1400sqm
2015 – The Avenue the
V&A Waterfront – 2000sqm
2016 – Cape Town International
Convention Centre – 4187sqm
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Sales
(R in millions)
Media Reach
(R in millions)
Visitors Recorded
(per 1000)
Galleries
2013 2014 2015 2016

7. The Cape Town International Convention Center
(CTICC) is a world class exhibition venue that is the
new home of the Cape Town ART FAIR.
The CTICC is located at
the heart of Cape Town’s
CBD and provides the best
facilities required by our
exhibitors. This investment
in the new venue aligns the
Cape Town ART FAIR to
international standards set by
art fairs around the world.
Additional infrastructural investment is the
procurement of 3.6m walls and top exhibition class
lights, bringing a revolutionary layout never before
seen in art fairs in Africa.
The New Venue

8. The Fair Structure
34 galleries in Main Section – the core body of the
Cape Town ART FAIR showing top class exhibitors
from around Africa and the world
5 galleries in Past/Modern – a section dedicated
to master works produced prior to the year 2000
8 galleries in Tomorrows/Today – a curated
section dedicated to young and emerging artists
from Africa and the diaspora
6 galleries in Prints & Editions – dedicated to
works produced in multiples
5 exhibitors in Magazines & Bookstores –
presenting a range of informative specialist
publications dedicated to art
11 galleries in Cultural Platforms – non-
profit institutions and artists studio collectives
representing the CSI of the Cape Town ART FAIR

9. Exhibiting Galleries
Artco – Aachen, Germany
ArtFirst – London, UK
Artist Proof Studio – Jo’burg, SA
ArtThrob – Cape Town, SA
Art Vault Gallery – Joburg, SA
AVA Gallery – Cape Town , SA
Bag Factory – Jo’burg, SA
Barnard Gallery – Cape Town, SA
Blank – Cape Town, SA
Christopher Moller Gallery – Cape Town, SA
Circle Art Agency – Nairobi, Kenya
Commune 1 – Cape Town, SA
David Krut Projects – Jo’burg & Cape Town, SA
District Six Museum – Cape Town, SA
Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, SA
Espace Doual’art – Douala, Cameroon
Everard Read/Circa – Jo’burg & Cape Town, SA
First Floor Gallery – Harare, Zimbabwe
Friends of the South African National Gallery
Galerie Caroline Smulders – Paris, France
Galerie NOKO – Port Elizabeth, SA
Galerie Pascal Janssens – Ghent, Belgium
Galleria Continua – San Gimignano
Gallery AOP – Jo’burg, SA
Gallery MOMO – Cape Town& Jo’burg, SA
Goodman Gallery – Cape Town & Jo’burg, SA
Grahams Fine Art Gallery – Jo’burg, SA
Greatmore Studios – Cape Town, SA
Iziko Art Collections – Cape Town, SA
Johans Borman Fine Art – Cape Town & Joburg, SA
Kalashnikovv Gallery – Jo’burg, SA
Lalela – Cape Town, SA
Lizamore & Associates – Jo’burg, SA
Mariane Ibrahim – Seattle, USA
Michaelis Galleries – Cape Town, SA
National Art Gallery of Namibia
National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Salon Ninety One – Cape Town, SA
Seippel Gallery – Cologne, Germany
SMAC Gallery – Cape Town & Stellenbosch, SA
SMITH – Cape Town, SA
South African Print Gallery – Cape Town, SA
Stevenson – Cape Town & Jo’burg SA
Sulger-Buel Lovell – London, UK
The Edoardo Villa Trust – Jo’burg, SA
Thomarts – Nelspruit, SA
WHATIFTHEWORLD – Cape Town, SA
Wall – Cape Town, SA
Warren Editions – Cape Town , SA
World Art – Cape Town, SA
99 Loop – Cape Town, SA

10. A special project featuring 8 solo presentations of young
and emerging artists from Africa & it’s diaspora. The project
features a cash prize of R75 000 awarded to the winning
artist by a independent jury consisting of Luigi Fassi,
(Curator, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Austria), Ernestine
White (Curator of Contemporary Art, South African National
Gallery) & Dumi Gumbi (Collector & Film Producer).
In 2016 Tomorrows/Today was co-
curated by Ruth Simbao (prof. in
Art History at Rhodes University)
& Azu Nwagbogu (director Lagos
Photo, Nigeria) and featured:
Kyle Morland (SA) from Blank
Projects
Rehema Chachage (Tanzania)
from Circle Art Agency
Thania Petersen (SA) from
Everard Read/CIRCA
Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude
(Zimbabwe) from First Floor
Gallery
Mathias Chirombo (Zimbabwe)
from Galerie NOKO
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
(Nigeria) from Goodman
Gallery
Masimba Hwati* (Zimbabwe)
from SMAC Gallery
Laura Windvogel (SA) from
World Art
*winner in 2016
SPECIAL PROJECT
Tomorrows/Today

11. Daily walkabouts of the Cape
Town ART FAIR with artworld
professionals Andrew Lamprecht
(lecturer in theory at the Michaelis
School of Fine Art, UCT) and
Ruarc Peffers (Former auctioneer
& independent Curator, Jo’burg)
providing the public with an
educational in-depth view of the
art on display.
SPECIAL PROJECT
Curated Walkabouts

12. The talks program featured two panel discussions
each day and are dedicated to a different theme.
Speakers include international curators, collectors
and directors of institutions. These dialogues aimed
to reconsider Africa’s place in the global conversation
around contemporary art production and exchange.
The partcipants were:
Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey (head of production and international
projects, Liverpool Biennial)
Azu Nwagbogu (director, Lagos Photo, and founding director of the
African Artists’ Foundation, Nigeria)
Alia Swastika (director, 13th Biennale Jogja, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Bige Orer (director, Istanbul Biennale)
Ashraf Jamal (South African writer and critic)
Raphael Chikukwa (curator, National Gallery of Zimbabwe)
Christopher Till (director, Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg)
Karel Nel, (associate professor at the School of Arts, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
Clare Lilley (director, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and curator, Frieze
Sculpture Park 2015, London)
Rory Bester (head of Art History, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg)
Claudio Cravero (chief curator, Museum Abdulaziz Center for World
Culture, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia)
Kerryn Greenberg (curator of international art, Tate Modern,
London)
Fiona Rankin-Smith (curator of special projects, Wits Arts Museum,
University of the Witwatersrand)
Davide Quadrio (director, BizArt and Arthub, Shanghai)
Daan Roggeveen (principal architect, MORE Architecture, Shanghai)
Ruth Simbao (associate professor, Department of Fine Arts, Rhodes
University, Grahamstown)
Dabing Chen (entrepreneur, collector and founder of a private
museum in Wuhan, China)
SPECIAL PROJECT
Talks

13. The Cultural Platforms forms the basis of the Cape Town ART FAIR’s
commitment to Corporate Social Investment and includes non-profit
institutions and artists studio collectives.
This section also featured a historical first with three National Art
Galleries from the SADC region exhibiting side by side. Those were:
National Gallery of Namibia
National Gallery of South Africa
National Gallery of Zimbabwe
SPECIAL PROJECT
Cultural Platforms

14. Side Events
Two exhibitions hosted at the District Six Homecoming
Center. This represents the first external collaboration in
South Africa of an art fair and a public museum with rich
historical ties to Cape Town.
1. Adrift by Giovanni Ozzola, a leading Italian artist whose work
focuses on issues of place, migration and memory. Courtesy of
Galleria Continua together with SMAC Gallery representing a bi-
lateral exchange between Italy and South Africa.
and
2. Altrove by the Soundwalk Collective (International art
collective based in New York and Berlin) presented by the
Consulate of Italy, Cape Town. The exhibition featured a live
sound performance at the District Six Homecoming Center
dealing with issues of place, displacement & memory.

15. Collectors & VIPs
Our VIP program offers our invited guests an unique
insight into the Cape Town ART FAIR by providing an
opportunity to mingle with the who’s who of the local
and international art world.
Exclusive networking events with
high-net worth individuals
Top social events with collectors,
gallery owners and artists
Intimate guided views of private
collections
Private previews of galleries
Curated walkabouts of public &
private museums
Guided exhibition viewings and
studio visits
Intimate collectors functions
Tours of some of the finest cultural
venues in Cape Town & it’s
surrounds
Sponsors Lounges & collateral events
tapered to your business needs

16. Strategies for 2017
Growth: To continue with the momentum of the Cape
Town ART FAIR to accommodate Hall 3 at the CTICC
taking the gross space to 6000sqm.
Sponsors & VIP Lounges: To give our invited guests
and sponsors the best experience of the Cape Town
ART FAIR we plan to host them with private facilities
within the CTICC.
New Section: To stay at the forefront of global
innovation in the artworld the Cape Town ART FAIR
plans to build a new section to accommodate large
museum quality sculptural installations that would not
normally fit in regular sized booths.
Attracting New Business:
Africa presents an untapped
resource of artistic production.
The goal is to provide a
sustainable art market and thus
to attract more galleries from
the continent as well as around
the world.
R13,86
generated for
every R1 spent.
R30 million
in business sales.
Capitalises
on Cape Town as
a cultural tourist
destination for the arts.
Economic
Impact (2016)
(Reference: Cape Town
2016 Art Fair Economic
Impact, Urban-
Econ Development
Economists Pty Ltd)

17. THANK YOU
17–19 FEB 2017
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