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🌍SATURDAY AT 15H00 💥ART & THE BRAIN Special Exhibition Talk & Walkabout with leading South African neurologist, visual artist and speaker Dr. Kirti Ranchod! — Join Us! 📲 RSVP as space is running out! — Date • 17 October 2025 Time • 15H00 Venue • 15 Abbotswold Road, Saxonwold, Johannesburg #Art & the #Brain 🤸🏽 HUMAN CREATIVE COGNITION EXPLORED The Creative Process & Cognition | Making #Art What happens in the brain when we create art? Join us for this unique and interactive exhibition walkabout and exchange on Saturday 17 Oct.26 — THE CREATIVE BRAIN UNVEILED & UNDERSTOOD Celebrated neurologist Dr. Kirti Ranchod leads through the exhibition, interacting with various works by different artists and sharing insights about cognition, brain health, function, and creative process . ART, HEALTH & NEUROSCIENCE - #BRAIN @_memorability founder Dr Kirti Ranchod is a visual artist and scientist exploring cognition - @_art.spirit.health_ ‘Our Mothers Gardens’ - Group The Exhibition As a featured artist in the exhibition she will explore how art can influence our experience, emotions and wellbeing, and what happens in the brain when we view or create art. Kirti’s appreciation for art began with Friday evening drawing lessons from her very patient father when she was eight years old. She went on to use drawing and creativity to support her medical studies and now incorporates art and creative practices into her work as a neurologist and brain health specialist. by @gaya_artspace
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💥ART & THE BRAIN - Invitation to a stimulating exhibition talk and special walkabout with leading South African neurologist, Dr. Kirti Ranchod. 🌍 HUMAN CREATIVE COGNITION EXPLORED The Creative Process & Cognition | Making #Art What happens in the brain when we create art? Join us for this unique and interactive exhibition walkabout and exchange on Saturday 17 Oct.26 — THE CREATIVE BRAIN UNVEILED & UNDERSTOOD Celebrated neurologist Dr. Kirti Ranchod leads through the exhibition, interacting with various works by different artists and sharing insights about cognition, brain health, function, and creative process . ART, HEALTH & NEUROSCIENCE - #BRAIN ‘Our Mothers Gardens’ - Group The Exhibition As a featured artist in the exhibition she will explore how art can influence our experience, emotions and wellbeing, and what happens in the brain when we view or create art. Kirti’s appreciation for art began with Friday evening drawing lessons from her very patient father when she was eight years old. She went on to use drawing and creativity to support her medical studies and now incorporates art and creative practices into her work as a neurologist and brain health specialist. — Influenced by her culture, the cultures around her, and her professional and personal experiences, her work explores the intersections—and points of divergence—between neuroscience, art, yogic science and other knowledge systems. She regularly hosts stimulating talks and walkabouts at Wits University, exploring themes including art, brain health and mental wellbeing. 📲 RSVP - gayaartspace@gmail.com — #gayahabitatforartandhealing @timeoutjohannesburg madlozicontemporaryart johannesburg @johannesburginyourpocket by @gaya_artspace
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💥’OUR MOTHERS GARDENS’ | Introducing the multidisciplinary #artist • Lemogang Matlhong and her work. #Drawing & #Photography | 📸 Join Us. — ART & WELLNESS WEEKEND | INVITATION - Meet the Artist & Discover Her Work — • Saturday, 03rd October 2026 • 11h30 • Gaya Habitat for Art & Healing | MCA Art Gallery • 15 Abbotswold Road, Saxonwold, Johannesburg __ We’re pleased to introduce the talented Lemogang Matlhong. Come and meet artist and learn about her work and praxis this weekend! Her exquisitely detailed and beautiful works form part of the group exhibition at GAYA Habitat for Art & Healing. — ABOUT THE ARTIST | Matlhong is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between photography, drawing, and movement as embodied exploration. Her work is rooted in observation, intuition and an ongoing interest in the relationship between the inner and outer worlds | 🌍 @lemogang_matlhong INTERIOR WORLD-MAKING & CYCLES In her drawing practice, Matlhong works primarily with fine-liner pens on paper, creating intricate patterns from shapes, forms, textures and movement encountered in everyday life. She works intuitively, guided by connection and allows each mark to guide the next until patterns unfold into complex organic forms. DRAWING AS HEALING PRAXIS — Repetition is central to her process, becoming a meditative rhythm—almost like a mantra— and the artist seeks out and deploys repetition as a device to create a maze of feeling, cycles of presence, stillness, and inner restoration. — CONNECTION, MOVEMENT, HEALING & MEMORY Across disciplines in her practice Matlhong explores connection - across time, memory, movement and between humanity and nature, through healing, and in the many the ways we experience and make sense of each other, and the world around us. by @gaya_artspace
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🤸🏽#MOVEMENT MEDICINE | 💥Rise, Shine & Work it All Out in a Mindful Dance-Healing Class at Gaya. Breath, Body Work, Dance - Let the flow inspire you! 🌱’TENDING THE GARDEN WITHIN’ • A space to clear, plant, and tend the inner garden Join us to dance, release, and nurture your body and spirit. #Dance #Healing — EVENT DETAILS On Saturday international Movement Medicine teacher and artist LEMOGANG MATLHONG starts the weekend with an embodied movement class - you are invited. Join us.. | Saturday - 03 Oct 2026 10h00 - 11h00 | MOVEMENT MEDICINE’ CLASS 15 Abbotswold Road, Saxonwold, Johannesburg R100 per-person | Donations welcome BREATH, MOVE & RELEASE, Accredited teacher Lemogang Matlhong conducts this invigorating and deeply restorative dance-healing class. Join and release the stress of the week. 🤸🏽All bodies are welcome & no experience is needed. See you there! 📲 Bookings at | gayaartspace@gmail.com HEALING PRACTICE | THE BODY KNOWS Movement Medicine teacher Lemogang Matlhong healing dance class is rooted in her belief that the body holds wisdom, and movement is how we listen. Through intentional music, breath and embodied exploration, she guides you back into deeper connection with yourself — beyond words, beyond thinking, into feeling. Her spaces are soft yet powerful. Welcoming, safe and alive. Spaces where you are free to arrive as you are, move as you feel, and express what wants to be expressed. It’s about presence, freedom and remembering the joy of being in a body that moves. Soft yet powerful. Welcoming, safe and alive. Spaces where you are free to arrive as you are, move as you feel, and express what wants to be expressed. Coming home to yourself. Cultivate the Garden Within you. — See the new group #exhibition in our gallery: ‘OUR MOTHERS GARDENS’ on until 2 November! 🌟 @visitgauteng @visitjohannesburg @timeout.johannesburg @whatsoninjoburg @johannesburginyourpocket #Johannesurg by @gaya_artspace
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#Exhibition Weekend Invitation. Come and enjoy the sheer magnetism of nature, and #art 💥 Explore 12 leading voices in South African contemporary art in conversation with the sacred matrilineal in the gallery at Gaya, in a beautifully tended, lush and tranquil Saxonwold garden. A haven to create… and exhale. — ‘OUR MOTHERS GARDENS’ is a group exhibition in honour of our ancestral foremothers, coexistence with nature, and embodied memory honouring the wisdom of women who would not allow colonial disruption to sever the seeds of culture and connection to spirit. — GAYA Habitat for Art & Healing is place for art and community, wellbeing, culture and togetherness. All are welcome. — | Join us on Saturday.🌱 | A SPECIAL CURATOR-LED WALKABOUT | • Saturday 9th Sept. 2026 • 11h30 at Gaya Habitat for Art & Healing. 15 Abbotswold Road, Saxonwold, JHB. — 12 Artists, multiple mediums and diverse cultural representations in dialogue between past & present. Madlozi Contemporary Art in collaboration with Gaya Habitat for Art & Healing present a beautifully considered exhibition exploring Secrets of The Mother-Line in ‘OUR MOTHERS GARDENS’. — • What sacred, survival-based knowledge and practices would be lost if it were not for the wisdom of our ancestral foremothers? • And what do goddesses and deities unlock symbolically, and spiritual? • What knowledge have we retained in our bodies, our psyches, our codes of survival in the natural world?? HEALING #HER I MEMORY - WE ARE THE SEEDS #Curator and gallerist, Beathur Mgoza Baker takes us on an insightful experience through the exhibition. @gaya_artspace 🌍 by @gaya_artspace
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📲#LADYSKOLLIE | Works by the celebrated South African artist featured exclusively in: ‘OUR MOTHERS GARDENS’ #exhibition at Gaya Habitat for Art & Healing. 💥Phallic, Femme & Finding Ourselves Sexually | Have you seen the show? — Join Us — Saturday | @gaya_artspace 🌍 INVITATION | CURATED GALLERY WALKABOUT | | A Curator-Led, Guided Exhibition Tour & Talk • Saturday | 19 September 2026 • 11h30 • Gaya Habitat for Art & Healing + Madlozi Contemporary Art in collaboration. • 15 Abbotswold Road, Saxonwold, Johannesburg. — | LADY SKOLLIE - FEATURED ARTWORKS | ‘PUSSY OUROBOROS’ - 2026 Acrylic on canvas 149 cm x 148 cm — ‘JUST A BUNCH OF DICKS’ - 2026 Acrylic on canvas 77 cm x 105 cm — ‘ANOTHER DAY’ - 2022 Acrylic on canvas 56 cm x 77 cm — *Pricing on Request : DM for enquiries. — #OurMothersGardensExhibition | Exhibition Weekend | ‘OUR MOTHERS GARDENS’ ❤️ Love Contemporary Art? | Join us on Saturday.🌱# ART & RECLAIMING ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE | 12 Artists, multiple mediums and diverse cultural representations in dialogue between past & present. A beautifully considered exhibition exploring Secrets of The Mother-Line in ‘OUR MOTHERS GARDENS’. — Critical Questions… • What sacred, survival-based knowledge and practices would be lost if it were not for the wisdom of our ancestral foremothers? • And what do goddesses and deities unlock symbolically, and spiritual? • What knowledge have we retained in our bodies, our psyches, our codes of survival in the natural world?? HEALING #HER I MEMORY - WE ARE THE SEEDS Curator and gallerist, Beathur Mgoza Baker takes us on an insightful experience through the exhibition. Her talk explores the artist motivations, practices, materiality and making insights, storytelling as inheritance, sacred histories, myths, legends, and cultural / spiritual contexts that inform the works, and origins of the exhibition thematic. | @artsavant_africa | — OUR BODIES AS LANDSCAPES, LINEAGES AS ACTS OF RECLAMATION & DECOLONIALITY | 🤲🏽 All Are Welcome! by @gaya_artspace
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💥WHAT DO SNAKES 🐍 SEEDS, GODDESSES, ANCESTORS, ARTISTS + MOTHER NATURE HAVE IN COMMON??? Join & Find Out this Saturday!!! 🌍#EXHIBITION WALKABOUT | 11h30 Join the Curator of our current group show, ‘OUR MOTHERS GARDENS’. — LOVE #ART? ❤️ • Join The Curatorial Walkabout & Talk | • Saturday 9th Sept. 11h30 at Gaya Habitat for Art & Healing. 15 Abbotswold Road, Saxonwold, JHB. — ‘GENESIS’ - artwork by Shanti Govender | @shanti_gaya Glass Beads, Acrylic, Wood, Glue & Resin on Canvas 200 cm x 150 cm *Featured Artwork - Price on Request: DM to Enquire. — ‘We Are The Seeds’ - Understanding The Secrets of The Mother-Line: 12 Artists in Conversation! — A FASCINATING CURATOR-LED ART EXPERIENCE #Curator and gallerist, Beathur Mgoza Baker takes us on a fascinating experience through the exhibition. We explore the artist journeys, motivations, artwork insights and ancestral stories informing the history, myths, legends, spiritual contexts and personal motivations that inform the works, and origins of the exhibition thematic. | @artsavant_africa | — REMATRIATION - RECLAIMING THE MOTJER LINE OUR BODIES & ANCESTRAL LINEAGES AS ACTS OF RECLAMATION & DECOLONIALITY | Seeding | inheritance, biodiversity, food sovereignty. The Body | fertility, sensuality, healing, autonomy. Earth | ecology, rivers, forests, climate justice. The Archive | harvesting, memory, photographs, textiles, oral histories. Healing Our Stories | collective care, art making #OURMOTHERSGARDENS by @gaya_artspace
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🌍 #HEALING THE #EARTH & RE-LENSING FEMALE BODIES | Artist Talk & Guided Walkabout with TANISHA BHANA, renowned South African #Photographer Activist & Visual Artist this Saturday! 🌱🌱 #HER GAZE | ‘OUR MOTHERS GARDENS’ | 19.09.26 We’re pleased to invite you to an artist-led exhibition walkabout and talk with environmentalist #TanishaBhana 📷 Her critically acclaimed photographic works are featured in our current exhibition at Gaya Habitat for Art & Healing. Join us for a stimulating discussion with the artist as she shares her signature works, praxis and motivation as an environmental and gender justice activist. — “With the Earth as mother, from which we are all born, caught in the ceaseless, repetitive cycle of life and death, together with all other organisms on earth, the soil, the air, matter and the ether I am a witness to our immersion in the earth’s resources”. SAVE THE DATE - ARTIST TALK | EVENT DETAILS • Date | Saturday 19th September 2026 • Time | 12h30 • Venue | 15 Abbotswold Road, Saxonwold, JHB | ARTIST STATEMENT | NATURE’S CYCLES As part of her practice the artist presents a series of poetry that responds to her awareness-raising and experimental photography work. Reflecting on her practice she says: 🌍 Capturing the abundant fertility in all places, to all forms of life, be the spaces loved and forgotten, abandoned and urban, used and discarded, or ravaged by abuse, the value chain of the earth and the rhythms of natural processes that may go unnoticed, are seen and acknowledged by these images as a testament to the awe and appreciation of the earth as the ultimate maternal source of life. — CHARGED SPACES & SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES The growth, degradation and rebirth of places, reflecting the vulnerability, strength and rhythmic motion of the natural world displays a constant symbiosis in all that live together on earth. DISCARDED TREASURES EXPLORED What is discarded by some is a treasure to another. These works are a celebration of the traumatic and orgasmic cycle of samsara, the changing roles that we play, in different forms of different lifetimes on a fertile substrate in constant motion. 💥 See You on Saturday! | Ways of Seeing 📸 by @gaya_artspace
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🔥LADY SKOLLIE, the formidable multi-disciplinary contemporary artist and activist is exhibiting her work in ‘OUR MOTHERS GARDENS’, our current exhibition. #LadySkollie 🥂in person. — ‘WE ARE THE SEEDS’ The exhibition features the artist’s compelling works - drawings and paintings that boldly confront the euphemisms we use to avoid naming our desires, truth and sexual identity, orientation and organs thereby liberating them from the fear we stand behind! — The artist launched her new collection of works at rh FNB Joburg Art Fair this weekend to critical acclaim and embedded themes around the sacred, liberated feminine in our consciousness - standing out in what was a busy and vibrant landscape of artworks. — The prolific #artist @ladyskollie is fearless about depicting phalluses for what they are, painting vaginas with a vengeance and just having fun with freeing us from our inhibitions while also confronting critical themes and using experimental practices to layer her work and messaging. — Come and enjoy the series by Lady Skollie who is represented by Everard Read art gallery. We’re pleased to have amongst her more special pieces consigned to us and available for this exciting exhibition exploring feminine power and matrilineal legacies, and ancestry. 🤸🏽 Have you seen the show?! Curated by @artsavant_africa — Contact us to arrange a viewing or join us on Saturday from 11h00 - 16h00 in the gallery. 📲 *Enquire about remaining works available for purchase at: 📧 gayaartspace@gmail.com — @gaya_artspace | find us at: 15 Abbotswold Road, Saxonwold, #Johannesburg #madloziartgallery by @gaya_artspace
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💥Special Birthday Tribute 🎥 #Film Screening: ‘AND SHE DIDN’T DIE’ by filmmaker Kethiwe Ngcobo. You’re Invited! Heritage Month 📽️ #LaurettaNgcobo — Gaya Habitat for Art & Healing in collaboration with Madlozi Contemporary Art, and Fuzebox Films 🍿present a unique screening of the award-winning film about the formidable activist, author and freedom fighter. She continued agitating for freedom from oppression while in exile and gave the world her hard-hitting human stories and books.📚 — “Without memory, there is vacant space” - Lauretta Ngcobo 📽️ International Success Returns Home for Screening!! The film which has toured internationally and won various awards is back in South Africa. We are pleased to invite you to a unique screening. In keeping with our commitment to culture and supporting creatives we are proud to announce this event. • JOIN US! | • Date | Saturday 12th September 2026 • Time | 15h00 • Location | 15 Abbotswold Road, Saxonwold, Johannesburg. The Director’s Perspective | 🎤 ‘In documenting my mother, Lauretta Ngcobo, I discovered that our journeys were always intertwined. This film is a daughter’s tribute, a tapestry of memory, archive, and love that traces her path from rural South Africa to the world stage. It is my way of filling the ‘vacant space’ she spoke of, preserving her voice for future generations and celebrating the power of storytelling as an act of defiance’. – Kethiwe Ngcobo | @andshedidntdie_film — ‘AND SHE DIDN’T DIE’ - About The Film 🎦 This important documentary provides an account of the extraordinary life of Lauretta Ngcobo-a rural South African storyteller turned revolutionary, political exile, and celebrated feminist writer. Directed by her daughter, Kethiwe Ngcobo, the film blends its rich collection of archive materials with re-enactments, contemporary interviews, and readings from Laurettas books. She gathers together the various strands of her mother’s life, her own narrative becomes woven into the film, the lives of mother and daughter intertwining in a complex family history. 💥 The film foregrounds women as leaders in the forefront of change, not confined to motherhood. by @gaya_artspace
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💥#Artist Talk & Exhibition | Meet RESHMA CHHIBA, contemporary artist, photographer and sculptor presenting her work and contextualising her incredible practice and works in our current exhibition, ‘OUR MOTHERS GARDENS’. Now on. — THE GODDESS AS INSPIRATION Drawing on the great female deities and their symbolism, power and centrality to inform her extraordinary work the artist challenges problematic gender tropes and misrepresentations of female bodies and narratives. #KALI — ABOUT THE ARTIST | Biography | Reshma Chhiba is a visual artist and dancer based in Johannesburg working at the intersection of contemporary visual art and ‘classical’ Indian dance practices in South Africa, across different mediums with a focus on analogue photography, soft sculpture, non-traditional painting media and performance. Through feminist strategies her work embodies defiant womanhood that disrupt patriarchal expectations and logics, while drawing on iconography from Hindu mythology and folk tales. Central to her practice is an exploration of storytelling through visual, performance and written form. Her multi-disciplinary approach, merging dance, visual art, and mythological symbolism, creates a distinct narrative that interrogates the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality, particularly within the context of post-apartheid South Africa.🇿🇦 @thetalkingyoni ‘THE TALKING YONI’ - A Body of Work by the Artist | Inspired by her grandmother, the artist depicts encounters with the goddess Kali – the unbridled, provocative and ferocious goddess of Time. EMBODIMENT – The Talking Yoni draws on aspects of sexuality and identity as understood through Kali’s embodiment of female defiance and aggression. Her outstretched blood-stained tongue, her vulva, or yoni, her dark volumes of wild hair and her performative defiance to the camera become the core motifs of The Talking Yoni’s language. ‘Our Mothers Gardens’ | A Group Exhibition | Running until the 5th of October 2026 at Gaya - 15 Abbotswold Road, Saxonwold #Johannesburg — Curated by #BeathurMgozaBaker | @artsavant_africa 📲 Gallery | viewing by appointment - weekend 10h00 - 15h00. Don’t miss it! by @gaya_artspace
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💥JOIN US | #Film & #Photography | Girls in Film & Photography - Debut Screening & Fundraiser Event Saturday 12 September 2026. 🎥 You’re Invited! Support the fundraiser ❤️and young women behind the lens! — The Global Girls film and photography skills training collective and BUMP Films with producer Bridget Pickering are pleased to invite you to the debut screening of films and photography work produced by young women filmmakers and photographers. #HER LENS | Give Back to Girls behind the lens! — In collaboration with Gaya Habitat for Art & Healing and Madlozi Film, Art & Heritage the Global Girls collective are proud to present this project and new voices entering the industry with great skills and confidence, supporting creativity and addressing important social challenges through the female gaze. — • SATURDAY at 13H00 • Gaya Habitat for Art & Healing • 15 Abbotswold Road, Saxonwold, Johannesburg ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION | THE FEMALE LENS Special Guest Speaker | Gulshan Khan Framing Women Behind the Lens 📸 We are pleased to announce that the award-winning, South African-born international photographer and lens-based artist and activist Gulshan Khan will be a speaker and panelist at the roundtable session. #Fundraiser — What a great way to spend your time on Saturday surrounded by #art and filmmakers, talent, and imaginative voices and vision at GAYA! 🌱 Campaign | Publishing & Training Support Are you passionate about enabling the voices of young women?! Donate and share your pledge to support Global Girls graduates in publishing their photography book and images towards exhibition by sending it to: 📲 gayaartspace@gmail.com Subject Field: Support for Global Girls See you on Saturday!!! ☎️ by @gaya_artspace
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