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Clockwise from the top: 1. UJ Art Appreciation Students 2. UJ Arts Academy Students In Rehearsal at the UJ Bunting Theatre
3. UJ Arts Appreciation Student at the UJ Arts Gallery 4. UJ Arts Appreciation and UJ Arts Academy Students
These two programmes recognise the value of both practising and engaging with the arts, as a way of building essential skills for the future. Together they create a continuous cycle allowing students to move between making and experiencing the stage and audience and developing a more complete and grounded relationship with the arts.
Positioned at the centre of contemporary South African art discourse, the UJ Art Gallery brings artists, students and the public into direct engagement through a programme of curated exhibitions, artist and curator-led walkabouts and workshops. These are not passive encounters but rather structured points of dialogue where work is unpacked, challenged, and situated within broader cultural and historical contexts. Alongside its public programme, the gallery holds a significant responsibility as custodian of the UJ Art Collection. Comprising over 1,800 works, the collection traces a wide arc of artistic production – from 20th-century UJ ART GALLERY
South African modernism and social realism to contemporary practice, special collections spanning European, Indo- Persian and Japanese Gutai traditions from the 17th to 20th centuries. The gallery functions as a living archive and active resource. Works are not simply preserved; they are revisited, recontextualised and brought into conversation with current practices and research. In this way, space moves beyond exhibition-making into a broader role – supporting critical engagement, contributing to academic discourse and maintaining a continuous dialogue between past and present.
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