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Award winning contemporary art gallery representing African art and art from the diaspora.
Located in Johannesburg, Parktown North

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Join us this coming Saturday, 10 October 2026, for an artist-led walkabout with Blessing Blaai, as he takes us through his current exhibition, Surrogate Emotions.

Blaai will be joined in conversation by artist Vivien Kohler, offering an engaging dialogue around the ideas, processes and visual language that shape the exhibition. Together, they will explore the relationship between the physical and spiritual, while considering Blaai’s recurring use of buildings, interiors and architectural spaces as sites of memory, emotion and human experience. The conversation will also unpack the role of light, geometry, shifting forms and architectural structures in shaping the atmosphere and emotional tension within his paintings, and how these elements extend beyond representation to become a language through which space, perception and feeling are constructed.

Join us at Gallery MOMO for an intimate encounter with the artist and a deeper exploration of the ideas and processes behind Surrogate Emotions.

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Reminder: The walkabout will begin at 11:30 AM and run until 12:30 PM

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Time: 11AM till 1PM

Date: 10 October 2026

Location: 52 7th Avenue, Parktown North, 2193, Johannesburg

#gallerymomo #artistwalkabout #contemporaryart #africancontemporaryart #joburg by @gallerymomo

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LAST DAY IN ATLANTA!

Today is the final day of Atlanta Art Fair 2026, and there’s still time to experience our presentation of contemporary South African art.

Join us at Booth G11 to discover works by Fhatuwani Mukheli and Blessing Blaai, and find a work from some of the best South African artists to add to your collection.

Today, 4 October 2026
Pullman Yards, Atlanta
Gallery MOMO — Booth G11

Last chance to visit. Last chance to collect.
DM US For enquiries and acquisitions.
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Featured artworks:

1. Blessing Blaai
Piano Blues, 2025
Mixed Media (Oil and Acrylic) on Canvas
122 × 92 cm

2. Blessing Blaai
V.O.T.S.O.D, 2025
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
93 × 88 cm

3. Blessing Blaai
Surmount, 2026
Mixed Media (Oil and Acrylic) on Canvas
151 × 131 cm

#AtlantaArtFair #AtlantaArt #SouthAfricanArt #blessingblaai #artcollector taken in Atlanta, Georgia by @gallerymomo

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We’re still live at Atlanta Art Fair!

Discover and collect contemporary art from South Africa, presented by Gallery MOMO.

1–4 October 2026
Pullman Yards, Atlanta
Gallery MOMO — Booth G11

There’s still time to find a work and take a piece of South Africa home with you.

On feature:

1. Fhatuwani Mukheli
A Study of Freedom, 2026
Oil on Canvas, 4-panel work
4 × 100 × 100 cm

2. Fhatuwani Mukheli
The Stillness of Power, 2026
Oil on Canvas, 2-panel work
2 × 125 × 100 cm

3. Fhatuwani Mukheli
Ancestral, 2026
Oil on Canvas, Diptych
2 × 100 × 125 cm

4. Fhatuwani Mukheli
Between Us, 2026
Oil on Canvas
125 × 100 cm

5. Fhatuwani Mukheli
Pillar, 2026
Oil on Canvas
125 × 100 cm

#GalleryMOMO #AtlantaArtFair #AfricanArtCollectors #fhatuwanimukheli taken in Pullman Yards by @gallerymomo

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Gallery MOMO invites you to join us on 10 October 2026 for an artist-led walkabout with Blessing Blaai, as he reflects on the ideas, processes and visual language underpinning his debut exhibition, Surrogate Emotions.

The walkabout offers an opportunity to engage more closely with Blaai’s exploration of emotion, memory, space and the relationship between the physical and spiritual as he takes us through the exhibition and offers insight into the works currently on show.

Please note: The walkabout will begin at 11:30 AM and run until 12:30 PM.

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Time: 11AM till 1PM
Date: 10 October 2026
Location: 52 7th Avenue, Parktown North, 2193, Johannesburg

#gallerymomo #artistwalkabout #contemporaryart #africancontemporaryart #joburg by @gallerymomo

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15 days ago

WE ARE LIVE!!!

Atlanta, we’re here.

Gallery MOMO is officially open at the Atlanta Art Fair 2026, presenting works by Fhatuwani Mukheli and Blessing Blaai.

Come experience the presentation, meet the gallery team and discover the artists shaping contemporary conversations from South Africa and the African continent.

Booth G11 | Pullman Yards
1–4 October 2026

We’d love to see you.

#AtlantaArtFair #AtlantaArt #AtlantaCollectors #AtlantaArtCollectors taken in Pullman Yards by @gallerymomo

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Gallery MOMO is pleased to announce our debut presentation at Atlanta Art Fair 2026, taking place at Pullman Yards’ Porter Hall from 1–4 October.

Visit us at Booth G11 to discover works by Fhatuwani Mukheli and Blessing Blaai, two artists whose practices engage with questions of identity, memory, place and contemporary experience.

We look forward to welcoming you!

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Featured Artworks:

Fhatuwani Mukheli
A Study of Freedom, 2026
Oil on canvas
100cm x 100cm (4 Panels)

Blessing Blaai
Surmount, 2026
Mixed media on canvas
151cm x 131cm

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#AtlantaArtFair #AfricanContemporaryArt #GalleryMOMO
@atlartfair @artmarketproductions by @gallerymomo

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Surrogate Emotions explores the space between the physical and spiritual, the individual and collective. Through faceless figures, architectural forms and shifting fields of colour, Blessing Ntsikelelo Blaai considers emotion as something that can be carried, transferred and shared.

The figures are spirits and souls rather than specific individuals. Without facial features or fixed identities, they become vessels for memory, emotion and lived experience, allowing viewers to see themselves within the works. Rooted in Blaai’s encounters with Johannesburg’s urban spaces, the paintings bring together architecture, colour and human presence to reflect on the ways we inhabit, remember and carry the spaces and experiences around us.

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Featured Artwork:

Or more the anxious
2026
Acrylic on canvas
105cm x 120cm
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Surrogate Emotions a solo exhibition by Blessing Blaai is currently on view at Gallery MOMO Johannesburg.

Visiting Hours:
Monday to Friday- 9am to 5pm
Saturdays - 9am to 3pm
Sundays and Public Holidays- Closed
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#gallerymomo #africancontemporaryart #contemporaryart #joburg by @gallerymomo

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Gallery MOMO Director Odysseus Shirindza reflects on Blessing Blaai’s Ambient Heart, a work that explores perception, colour and emotional ambiguity within his current solo exhibition, Surrogate Emotions.

Through layered applications of colour, Blaai creates depth and movement, while the central figure shifts emotionally depending on the viewer’s position. What may appear judgmental or unsettled from one perspective takes on an entirely different emotional register from another, inviting reflection on the subjective nature of perception.

Subtle details within the composition reference Blaai’s own artistic journey, including paintbrushes placed on a bookshelf and a painting depicted as a work in progress. These elements speak to his understanding of art as an ongoing process—one shaped by making, reflection and continual becoming.

Ambient Heart ultimately brings together colour, perspective and personal experience, encouraging the viewer to engage with the work as an evolving emotional encounter.
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Surrogate Emotions is currently on view at Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg.

Visiting hours:
Monday - Friday: 9am to 5pm
Saturdays: 9am to 3pm
Sundays & Public Holidays: Closed
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#gallerymomo #contemporaryart #artcollectors #surrogateemotions by @gallerymomo

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Currently on View I Surrogate Emotions a solo exhibition by Blessing Blaai

Colour becomes both a spatial and emotional language within Blessing Blaai’s Surrogate Emotions. It creates depth, directs the eye and shifts the mood of each work, functioning not merely as an aesthetic device but as a means through which emotion is constructed and experienced.

Blaai’s use of sharp lines, defined edges and geometric forms further establishes a visual vocabulary rooted in the urban landscape. Drawing from the spaces and architecture he encountered while growing up in Troyeville, these structures evoke the rigid contours of buildings, streets and the built environment, while simultaneously becoming vessels through which memory and lived experience are translated.

Together, colour, geometry and spatial construction reveal Blaai’s ability to transform familiar environments into psychologically charged spaces, where the boundaries between the external world and interior experience become increasingly fluid.

Featured Artworks:

Fallout(His Perspective)
2026
Acrylic on Canvas
90cm x 129cm

Fallout(Her Perspective)
2026
Acrylic on Canvas
90cm x 109cm
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Visiting Hours:
Monday to Friday - 9AM to 5PM
Saturdays - 9AM to 3PM
Sundays and Public Holidays - Closed by @gallerymomo

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Day 3 | FNB Art Joburg

As the FNB Art Joburg draws to a close, we spotlight two of our stable artists, Fhatuwani Mukheli and Phoka Nyokong, whose practices engage distinct yet interconnected questions of history, identity, representation and cultural memory.

Phoka Nyokong examines the intersections of Western painting traditions and African sculptural heritage, interrogating the colonial gaze and the enduring questions of cultural ownership and repatriation.
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Fhatuwani Mukheli explores memory, lineage and Black subjectivity through psychologically resonant portraiture. Drawing from Renaissance and classical painting traditions, he reclaims monumental space for Black bodies, using stillness, light and emotional depth to reconsider histories of visibility and reverence.
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FNB Art Joburg
HUB #5 I Galleries Section
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#FNBArtJoburg #GalleryMOMO #Contemporaryart by @gallerymomo

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FNB Art Joburg | Day 2

Vivien Kohler explores memory, belonging and resilience through fragmented domestic objects, engaging with the complexities of South African history and contemporary experience.
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Across Re-membering the Journey, The Benediction and Ode of Remembrance, Vivien Kohler explores memory, belonging and resilience through fragmented domestic objects.

Drawing from Andrew Tshabangu’s photographs Middle Passage and Blessing of a Woman (1999), Re-membering the Journey and The Benediction recontextualise intimate narratives through the fragmented form of Delft plates. In Ode of Remembrance, Kohler brings imagery of Black South African resistance into dialogue with these objects, paying homage to the youth of 1976 and their resistance during apartheid, while transforming the decorative into sites of remembrance and reflection.

Fragmentation becomes a language of rupture and displacement, while also suggesting reconstruction, as intimacy, community and resistance persist within the broken.

His work ultimately considers how contested histories can be remembered, reimagined and reassembled through collective memory, connection and resilience.
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Featured works:

Re-membering The Journey, 2026
Oil on resin supported canvas
115cm x 155cm

The Benediction, 2026
Oil on resin supported canvas
115cm x 155cm

Ode of Remembrance, 2026
Oil on resin supported canvas
125cm x 125cm

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FNB Art Joburg
HUB #5 I Galleries Section
4 - 6 September 2026 by @gallerymomo

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FNB Art Joburg I Day 2. Today, we turn our focus to one of our gallery artists Blessing Blaai, whose practice engages with memory, spaces between the physical and spiritual, individual and collective.

Blessing Blaai’s practice explores emotion, memory and human connection through faceless figures, architectural forms and shifting fields of colour. Drawing from Johannesburg’s transient urban landscape, Blaai transforms fragments of abandoned architecture, light and memory into imagined geometric spaces.

His anonymous figures become vessels for shared experience, while colour operates as both an emotional and spatial language, moving between physical, psychological and spiritual states.

Blaai’s work reflects on contemporary urban life, where memory, displacement and belonging intersect, transforming personal experience into a broader meditation on the emotions we carry, encounter and share.
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FNB Art Joburg
4 - 6 September 2026
HUB #5 I Galleries Section
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#fnbartjoburg #gallerymomo #contemporaryart #contemporaryafricanart by @gallerymomo

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