FORMS Gallery is a dynamic structure for working with artists. It was founded by Anthea Buys in 2021 and works closely with ten artists, most of whom are in the early stages of their careers.
FORMS draws on gallery, institutional and independent curatorial models, presenting a programme that takes shape through a combination of online and in-real-life manifestations. At the heart of this programme are ongoing collaborations with artists who make work that is critically, aesthetically and politically important. Also central to the FORMS ecosystem are connections with like-minded spaces, people and organisations.
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FORMS Gallery is a dynamic structure for working with artists. It was founded by Anthea Buys in 2021 and works closely with ten artists, most of whom are in the early stages of their careers.
FORMS draws on gallery, institutional and independent curatorial models, presenting a programme that takes shape through a combination of online and in-real-life manifestations. At the heart of this programme are ongoing collaborations with artists who make work that is critically, aesthetically and politically important. Also central to the FORMS ecosystem are connections with like-minded spaces, people and organisations.
News
Robyn Penn’s solo exhibition, God’s Away on Business, is on show at Nel, Cape Town until 26/08/2022. Download the exhibition catalogue here. Read more about the exhibition here.
Nyakallo Maleke has been selected to participate in the 2022 Aichi Triennale, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The triennale runs until 10/10/2022 and Maleke has created a new large-scale installation work featuring drawings and sculptures.
Nyakallo Maleke has been selected to participate in the 2022 Aichi Triennale, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The triennale runs until 10/10/2022 and Maleke has created a new large-scale installation work featuring drawings and sculptures.
Artists
Abri de Swardt (b. 1988, Johannesburg)
Adrian Fortuin (b. 1994, Johannesburg)
Hedwig Barry (b. 1969, Bloemfontein)
Jarrett Erasmus (b. 1984, Cape Town)
Khotso Motsoeneng (b. 1993, Free State)
Matty Monethi (b. 1996, Maseru)
Nyakallo Maleke (b.1993, Johannesburg)
Robyn Penn (b. 1973, Johannesburg)
Tzung-Hui Lauren Lee (b. 1998, Johannesburg)
Zen Marie (b. 1980, Durban)
Abri de Swardt (b. 1988, Johannesburg)
Adrian Fortuin (b. 1994, Johannesburg)
Hedwig Barry (b. 1969, Bloemfontein)
Jarrett Erasmus (b. 1984, Cape Town)
Khotso Motsoeneng (b. 1993, Free State)
Matty Monethi (b. 1996, Maseru)
Nyakallo Maleke (b.1993, Johannesburg)
Robyn Penn (b. 1973, Johannesburg)
Tzung-Hui Lauren Lee (b. 1998, Johannesburg)
Zen Marie (b. 1980, Durban
Current Projects
GOD’S AWAY ON BUSINESS
Robyn Penn
Nel on Long, cornder of Long and Church Streets, Cape Town
04/08/2022 – 26/08/2022
In God’s Away on Business, Robyn Penn brings together two new bodies of work that are strikingly different in content and execution, but come from the same critical view of global current affairs. Borrowing the title of the exhibition from a Tom Waits song, Penn invokes Waits’s leaden pessimism (“It’s all over, it’s all over, it’s all over”), but reminds us that in the midst of crisis and collapse, there can be lightness, humour and sublime beauty.
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Past Projects
TURBINE ART FAIR 2022
Booth 11
21 – 24/07/2022
For the tenth edition of the Turbine Art Fair, FORMS Gallery is pleased to present a selection of works by artists who are represented by or collaborate closely with the gallery. The pieces chosen for this showing speak to the relationship between abstraction and pictorial sensibilities, moving between representational modes and adventurous abstract explorations.
Visit us at Booth 11 between 21 and 24 July, and online on Artsy from 20 July to 7 August.
PARALLEL PROCESS
Matty Monethi, Khotso Motsoeneng, Adrian Fortuin
David Krut Projects, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg,
19/05/2022 – 18/06/2022
FORMS Gallery and David Krut Projects are pleased to present Parallel Process, an exhibition of unique monotype prints and paintings by Matty Monethi, Khotso Motsoeneng and Adrian Fortuin.
Monethi, Motsoeneng and Fortuin were invited to spend time in the David Krut Workshop at Arts on Main in downtown Johannesburg, experimenting with monotype printmaking techniques under the guidance of the David Krut team of printmakers and facilitators.Through three short residencies, they each had the opportunity to put work through a printing press, a process that creates imagery and marks which the artists would not ordinarily be able to achieve in their own studios. They used a combination of oil and watercolour pigments to create unique painting transfers on paper, incorporating other processes like cyanotype, drypoint and collage elements as well. In Parallel Process, these prints are presented alongside paintings which the artists completed in response to their time spent in the workshop.
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TIME IS A BROKEN UMBRELLA
Abri de Swardt , Adrian Fortuin , Hedwig Barry, Jarrett Erasmus, Khotso Motsoeneng, Matty Moneth, Nyakallo Maleke, Robyn Penn, Tzung-Hui Lauren Lee
KZNSA, Durban
13/05/2022–26/06/2022
This is an exhibition without a curator. Or, this is an exhibition with at least nine curators. Time Is A Broken Umbrella is an experiment that sets out to see if it is possible to disperse and decentralise curatorial logic and to substitute the contained convolutions of a single brain for a thinking network, or a networked thinking.
The exhibition proposes a kind of score or playbook for an exercise: nine artists embarked on this project with the same brief, to curate themselves, collectively, into an exhibition. They were invited to listen to and look at each other’s practices, to mediate their own and each other’s work, and to anticipate each other’s final outputs with their own, all in the hope that what emerges in the final public display has some sort of legibility or significance, if not coherence.
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ADRIAN FORTUIN
THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN
Artist Admin, Cape Town
21/04/2022 – 05/05/2022
In This Bird Has Flown, Adrian Fortuin presents a new collection of unique prints made using a combination of experimental and traditional darkroom techniques. From silver gelatin prints created from photographic negatives, to chemigrams made with the assistance of an inkjet printer, these works draw on the relationship between the physical world – that which we perceive as the raw material of the photographic image – and the physical processes that are used to create images in the darkroom. The universe of the photograph is the starting point for this exhibition, and the fundamental vulnerability, fragility and contingency of the images that result from darkroom developing techniques become a metaphoric ground for a meditation on memory.
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TIME IS A BROKEN UMBRELLA
Abri de Swardt , Adrian Fortuin , Hedwig Barry, Jarrett Erasmus, Khotso Motsoeneng, Matty Moneth, Nyakallo Maleke, Robyn Penn, Tzung-Hui Lauren Lee. With Writing by Chloë Reid.
KZNSA, Durban
13/05/2022–26/06/2022
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HEDWIG BARRY
HERE IS WHERE WE MEET
NIROX Sculpture Park
22/01/2022–13/10/2022
Hedwig Barry’s first solo exhibition, Here Is Where We Meet, is a collection of sculptures and paintings completed during her seven-week residency at the NIROX Sculpture Park.
The exhibition centres around new Crumple sculptures, large-scale three-dimensional works made from massive sheets of crumpled metal welded together and then painted to create complex and enigmatic forms.
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︎ More past projects (coming soon)