The Artists Gallery Desk verified

The Artists Gallery opened on Bree Street in 2023 and is run by the artists who exhibit in it rather than by a dealer. That structure shows in the programme: the work on the walls spans painting, sculpture and multimedia in the same room, because the space reflects the range of its members instead of a single curatorial line. Artist-run spaces are how a lot of South African careers start, and this one sits in the middle of the Bree Street strip, within a few minutes' walk of a dozen commercial galleries — a useful contrast if you are comparing what the market is buying against what artists are making. It opens for First Thursdays, the CBD's late-opening evening on the first Thursday of every month.