Welgemeend Art Month returns with major exhibition and bold new pledge fund

The 2025 edition of Welgemeend Art Month (6 August – 5 September), now in its twelfth year, reaffirms its commitment to the long-term preservation of the historic Welgemeend homestead, home to Cape Town’s much-loved winter arts festival.

Welgemeend Art Month announces the title and focus on their anchor exhibition for 2025 

Drawing on the extensive Kilbourn Collection of modern and contemporary South African art, the exhibition In en Om Ons/ In and Around Us explores what it means to be an artist working after the advent of photography. The exhibition – a cornerstone of Welgemeend Art Month, now in its 12th year – will feature select paintings and photographs from the Kilbourn Collection that explore ideas of subjectivity, consciousness, home, play and work.  

High-value works by Warhol, Stern and Kentridge anchor Strauss & Co’s exciting winter auction 

CAPE TOWN – Two giants of twentieth-century art, Andy Warhol and Irma Stern, lead the catalogue for Strauss & Co’s upcoming live-virtual auction of modern and contemporary art, to be held on Tuesday, 24 June 2025 in Cape Town. The 71-lot sale brings together a compelling selection of established names and emerging voices, including high-value works by William Kentridge, Erik Laubscher and Alexis Preller, alongside two floral still lifes by in-demand painter Vladimir Tretchikoff.

Tretchikoff’s Lady from the Orient (1955) leads Strauss & Co’s flagship sale

JOHANNESBURG – Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading auction house, is delighted to announce the inclusion of Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Lady from the Orient (estimate R5–7 million / $266,790–373,534), a global icon of twentieth-century painting, as a highlight of its flagship live sale on Tuesday, 27 May 2025, in Johannesburg.

March ART – A Tribute to South Africa-influenced Art with Special Focus on writer Melvyn Minnaar

Strauss & Co is delighted to announce its upcoming March ART auction, a timed online sale that will close on 10th March 2025 at 2pm. The sale showcases a curated selection of South Africa-influenced Art, celebrating the diversity and evolution of artmaking in the country. Notably, this sale includes a special focus on the collection