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Contemporary Art Gallery rooted in Cape Town, SA.
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair London... I tell my story... I tell your story Baviaanskloof Coloured community...through art practice we become the story! #southafricanartist #ceramics #clay #memoryandmaterial #landhasmemory taken in London, United Kingdom by @bermancontemporary
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Introducing Arizona based artist Samantha Vo for The Logic of Matter. For Sam, matter speaks. It is a repository of memory, inheritance, and gendered labour. Working between rigidity and softness, permanence and transformation, she tends to what materials resist, retain, and what they might reveal. Her practice is a process of listening—allowing matter to shape the work as much as she shapes it—where overlooked histories emerge through making. Here, material and making become forms of knowledge: embodied, situated, and continually (re)discovered through touch, tension, and time. Occupying the space where personal and historical experiences become physical, Sam’s feminist material practice asks us to consider how knowledge becomes embedded in the things we make. The Logic of Matter: Feminist Material Practice: 5 March – 3 May 2027 Discover more about Sam and her practice @samantha__vo Photography by: @m_____lr_____ by @bermancontemporary
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Meet Pilot. A wheel that will never turn, a lid that will never seal... the sea’s discards, reassembled into something that holds itself like a monument. In After the Tide, Thirza Schaap’s sculptures leave the photograph behind and take on physical form. The images make this debris beautiful; the objects, up close, stay stubbornly what they are. Thirza Schaap Pilot, 2026 Mixed material plastic sculpture 37 × 5 × 12 cm After the Tide · on view until 28 November 📍 Berman Contemporary, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town taken in Berman Contemporary by @bermancontemporary
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Thirza Schaap builds seductive still lifes from plastic pulled off South Africa’s beaches. After the Tide, on view until 28 November 2026 📍 Berman Contemporary, Cape Town taken in Berman Contemporary by @bermancontemporary
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Thirza Schaap walks South Africa’s coastline collecting what the ocean hands back, then arranges the debris into still lifes and photographs them. That double-take is the work. In this artwork ‘’Lost’’, objects from the sea are arranged like treasure: beautiful at first glance, a reckoning on the second. Because it doesn’t decompose. It just waits... Thirza Schaap Lost, 2020 Archival inkjet print on Felix Schoeller, adhered to Dibond 57.5 × 85 cm | framed 59.5 × 87.5 × 3.5 cm Edition of 7 After the Tide on view until 28 November 2026 📍 Berman Contemporary, Cape Town taken in Berman Contemporary by @bermancontemporary
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Artist Thirza Schaap transforms plastic gathered from the shoreline into sculptures that pull you in with their beauty, then reveal the waste beneath. Thirza Schaap Assemblage in white No. 2, 2026 Ocean plastics and white coating, unique piece 63 x 33 x 38 cm On view until 28 November 2026 Berman Contemporary, Cape Town taken in Berman Contemporary by @bermancontemporary
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The Women’s March to Freedom: Alf Kumalo On 9 August 1956, more than 20,000 women marched to Pretoria’s Union Buildings, led by Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa and Sophia Williams-de Bruyn, delivering petitions bearing more than 100,000 signatures against the pass laws. Drawing on this historic moment, MBR PROJECTS in collaboration with Jonathan Ball and Exclusive Books, presented an exhibition at FNB Art Joburg 2026 drawn from Alf Kumalo’s extensive photographic archive. His images do more than document women’s political participation; they form part of the visual record through which that history is remembered and understood. For Berman Contemporary, participating in conversations beyond the walls of the gallery is an important extension of our programme. We were therefore delighted that our gallery manager, Lindiwe Mngxitama, was invited to conceptualise and facilitate a conversation with Nonhlanhla Kumalo, Hlonipha Mokoena and Heidi Sincuba, reflecting on Kumalo’s work and legacy through questions of women, representation and political memory. A look back at a conversation that took the gallery’s engagement with women’s histories and representation into the wider cultural programme of FNB Art Joburg — on a day that also marked what would have been Alf Kumalo’s 95th birthday. Image Credit: @trevor_stuurman for @manor.africa by @bermancontemporary
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Featured in After the Tide by Thirza Schaap at Berman Contemporary. THIRZA SCHAAP Monochrome, 2020 Archival inkjet print on Felix Schoeller adhered to diabond 75 x 50 cm framed 77.5 x 53 x 3.5 cm Edition of 7 (#1/7) On view until 28 November 2026 Berman Contemporary, Cape Town Featured in After the Tide by Thirza Schaap at Berman Contemporary. THIRZA SCHAAP Wrap, 2020 Archival inkjet print on Felix Schoeller adhered to diabond 45 x 30 cm framed 47.5 x 33 x 3.5 cm Edition of 7 (#2/7) On view until 28 November 2026 Berman Contemporary, Cape Town Featured in After the Tide by Thirza Schaap at Berman Contemporary. THIRZA SCHAAP Musselmania, 2017 Archival inkjet print on Felix Schoeller adhered to diabond 45 x 30 cm framed 47.5 x 33 x 3.5 cm Edition of 7 (#1/7) On view until 28 November 2026 Berman Contemporary, Cape Town taken in Berman Contemporary by @bermancontemporary
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What remains when everything else has been discarded? In After the Tide, Thirza Schaap works with plastics collected from coastlines, transforming consumer residue into carefully composed still lifes that hold beauty, tension and balance in unexpected places. At the exhibition opening, Candice Berman spoke about the ideas and materials at the heart of Schaap’s body of work. On show at Berman Contemporary, Cape Town | 1 August – 28 November 2026 taken in Berman Contemporary by @bermancontemporary
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Saturday marked the opening of After the Tide by Thirza Schaap at Berman Contemporary - and what a wonderful afternoon it was. Thank you to everyone who joined us to experience the exhibition, spend time in the space and be part of the opening. Alongside the exhibition, VIVIERS Studio presented a curated selection of garments that brought another layer to the experience, creating a considered dialogue around transformation, materiality and the beauty of the unexpected. After the Tide continues at Berman Contemporary until 28 November 2026, with plenty of time to visit and experience the exhibition in person. Berman Contemporary Silo 5A2, Silo District, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town taken in Berman Contemporary by @bermancontemporary
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Installation views from After the Tide by Thirza Schaap, as we count down to the opening this Saturday at Berman Contemporary. The exhibition brings together photographic works and selected sculptural arrangements from the series, offering a closer encounter with the materials, forms and compositions that shape Schaap’s practice. The opening will also include a special presentation by VIVIERS Studio, bringing the two practices into dialogue through a shared interest in transformation, materiality and the beauty of the unexpected. We’re looking forward to welcoming you into the exhibition this Saturday. After the Tide Saturday, 29 August | 11:30–14:30 Berman Contemporary Silo 5A2, Silo District, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town RSVP via the link in bio. taken in Berman Contemporary by @bermancontemporary
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This Saturday, After the Tide opens at Berman Contemporary with a special presentation by VIVIERS Studio. Presented in dialogue with Thirza Schaap’s practice, VIVIERS will showcase a curated selection of garments connected through a shared interest in transformation, materiality and the beauty of the unexpected. Using discarded couture fabrics, production waste and found materials, VIVIERS gives new life, meaning and value to materials that might otherwise be overlooked. Image Credit: @dickeranddane Join us for the opening of After the Tide by Thirza Schaap, with VIVIERS Studio. Saturday, 29 August | 11:30–14:30 Berman Contemporary Silo 5A2, Silo District, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town RSVP via the link in our bio taken in Berman Contemporary by @bermancontemporary
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