2025 ART MONTH AT WELGEMEEND

6th August – 5th September 2025

“In en Om Ons/ In and Around Us”

Art Exhibition | Walkabout | Fundraising Auction | Art Lectures
Strauss & Co Art Valuations | Classical Music Concert

Welgemeend Art Month 2025 returns with an exhibition focussing on painting, photography and contemporary sculpture.

CAPE TOWN – 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.

The artist selection ranges from important modernists Enslin du Plessis, David Goldblatt, Wolf Kibel, Francois Krige, Jürgen Schadeberg and Maude Sumner to contemporary painters Hugh Byrne, Norman Catherine, Richard Mudariki, Deborah Poynton and Asha Zero, as well as photographers Lien Botha, Lunga Ntila and Jo Ractliffe. The exhibition will explore how photographers and painters share ways of seeing and recording the world, but just as often diverge in these portrayals.

In en Om Ons / In and Around Us will also include a concise selection of contemporary sculpture from the Kilbourn Collection. The selection emphasises shared interests in form, time and abstraction. Featured artists include Juliet Armstrong, Dominique Edwards, Robert Hodgins, Warren Maroon, Hylton Nel and Rina Stutzer, among many.

Frank and Lizelle Kilbourn will this year collaborate with writer and curator Sean O’Toole in developing the focus and theme for the 2025 exhibition at Welgemeend Art Month.

THE PROGRAM OF THE 2025 ART MONTH AT WELGEMEEND VENUE CAPE TOWN