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Inherited Memory

A conversation starting over two years ago shows how much things grow with time, shaped by a constant dialogue.

Documented by @owasevutta by @nombidaofficial

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Please join us today as we close our exhibition wih the vibrant, independent storytelling femme arts collective and music/performance duo MANDIFEZE. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, formed by artists Mandisa Yende and Lufezo Bovungana, they utilize experimental vocal forms and theater as a medium for healing and storytelling.

Opening from 14:00-17:00

📍 Cnr 9th Street & Rustenburg Rd, Melville, Johannesburg, 2029 by @nombidaofficial

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today we have live piece by Amongst The People I Know, an experimental soul and jazz music project created by South African drummer, composer, and producer Tebogo J Mosane.

Supported by another live piece by Sebaga (🇧🇼)

Doors opening officially open 12:00-17:00

📍 Cnr 9th Street & Rustenburg Road, Melville, Johannesburg, 2029

Poster @khetheloo

Based between Gaborone and Johannesburg, the producer and artist leans heavily into alternative hip-hop, lo-fi textures, and soulful rhythms.

See you soon

📍 Cnr 9th Street and Rustenburg Road, Melville, Johannesburg, 2029

Poster @khethelooo by @nombidaofficial

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Join us for a compelling Q&A conversation moderated by Siwa Mgoboza, an award-winning South African multidisciplinary visual artist, curator, cultural architect, and fine art educator, alongside Mpumi Mayisa, a prominent Johannesburg-based art advisor, curator, digital strategist, and cultural innovator.

Conversation starts at 19:00 and doors close at 21:00

📍 Bamboo Lifestyle Center, Corner 9th Avenue and Rustenburg Road, Melville, Johannesburg, 2029

Poster design @khethelooo by @nombidaofficial

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We're excited to announce our special guest [kimetsu.]

A texture artist, sound designer, and sonic archivist who treats sound as a ritual architecture to explore memory, ancestry, and emotion.

Doors opening from 17h00-21h00

📍 Corner 9th Avenue & Rustenburg Road, Melville, Johannesburg 2029

Poster design @khethelooo by @nombidaofficial

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11 days ago

launching this second collaborative project with NWABISA NTLOKWANA as part of @designweeksouthafrica feels like a full circle moment where we get to see the work & our research going further and taking a tangible form, interrogating our collective inheritance, the preservation of memory and our practices in a direct dialogue that aims to have a broader and a sharper language.

It also feels like the perfect introduction of our women's wear head designer @theophlsramohlale and collaborators as they had the responsibility to re-imagine with us.

Can't wait to share the moment and installation with our Johannesburg family and friends from the 8th till 11th October

Doors open this Thursday at 17h00pm
Upstairs@Bamboo, Cnr Rustenburg Rd & 9th Avenue, Melville, Johannesburg 2029

#nombida #nwabisantlokwana #designweeksa by @nombidaofficial

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NOMBIDA (@nombidaofficial), founded by Thando Nombida (@thandonombida), and Johannesburg-based visual artist Nwabisa Ntlokwana (@nwabisantl0kwana) present a collaborative exhibition honouring Thando’s grandmother through the recreation of her 1980s patchwork leather dress.

The project brings together two practices rooted in material, memory, craft, sustainability and the ways women carry inheritance across generations.

For Nombida, the dress becomes a celebration of the matriarchal lineage that shaped his life; for Ntlokwana, it extends her ongoing exploration of motherhood, remembrance and renewal. Together, the artists transform an inherited garment into a contemporary vessel for memory and cultural continuity.

📍 Cnr 9th Street and Rustenburg Road, Melville (upstairs at The Bamboo Centre)

🗓️ Thurs: 17:00-21:00: Opening and special guest performance 
Fri: 18:00-21:00: Exhibition and drinks, Q&A moderated by Siwa Mgoboza (@siyabangena22) and Mpumi Mayisa (@mpumi.mayisa)
 Sat: 10:00-16:30: Live performance by Amongst The People I Know (@iamatpik) with support from Sebaga (@sebagasalorato) (14:00-15:00)  Sun: Special performance by MandiFeze (@mandifeze) from 14:00–15:00

Open to the public to attend.

The inaugural exhibition of SEFARA (@sefara_co), the independent ceramic practice founded by Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary artist Kgaugelo Rakgwale, The Vessel and the Gaze unfolds across seven sculptural ceramic works, exploring how identity is seen, interpreted reflected and transformed. Each work represents a distinct encounter between the self and external perception, examining the relationship between visibility, memory and self-recognition.

📍Roger Ballen Centre for Photography (@rogerballencentre)

🗓️ Opening Night, Thursday, 8 October from 18:00 Exhibition, Friday, 9 October

Register to attend, details listed on the Design Week South Africa website.

Contemporary African skincare and wellness house 23 by Noah (@23bynoah) introduces The First Fire, a new olfactory creation exploring The Shape of Us through scent, memory, material and heritage.

Rooted in the botanicals of Southern Africa, the creation brings a distinctly African lens to a co taken in Johannesburg, South Africa by @nombidaofficial

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Imagery from the interview we had w/ South African record producer, label owner, and deep electronic house music legend Siyanda Makhanya (@djkabila)

Documented by @twofoldza by @nombidaofficial

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