The KZNSA Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition openings for two exciting exhibitions: 'Sizobika, Sicele Indawo’ by Selloane Moeti and 'SOLASTALGIA and Disordering' by Jo Rogge and Jeanette Gilks on Friday, the 20th October 2025!
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'Sizobika, Sicele Indawo’
The KZNSA Gallery is thrilled to present the debut solo of Durban-based artist, Selleoane Moeti titled ‘Sizobika, Sicele Indawo’.
Moeti (b, 1984) is the winner of the 2019 KZNSA Annual Members’ Award Show exhibition themed LAND, with her performance piece ‘Bhodla PT2’.
She is known for her vivid and powerful paintings rooted in themes of ancestry and spiritual memory. She now presents us with a deeply personal body of work that turns toward the question of displacement within the process of entering marriage. The exhibition offers an intimate yet layered exploration of love, belonging and survival. It boldly invites audiences into the artist’s ongoing search for place and identity.
Moeti’s work will be on display in the Mezzanine and Park Galleries at the KZNSA from the 10th October – 2nd November 2025.
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'SOLASTALGIA & Disordering'
The KZNSA Gallery is proud to present a collaborative exhibition by artists Jo Rogge and Jeanette Gilks.
Durban-born Jo Rogge was mentored during her formative years by accomplished fibre artist and teacher Jeanette Gilks at Westville Girls’ High School. Their shared artistic dialogue comes full circle in this exhibition, which reimagines one of the most celebrated masterpieces of Western art: The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries (c.1500, Musée de Cluny, Paris).
These six medieval tapestries, which depict the five senses and an enigmatic sixth scene, have long inspired Rogge’s imagination and research. In this exhibition, Rogge reinterprets the works through a decolonised African context, replacing European iconography with African symbolism, while exploring the climate crisis and the queer lens of sensory experience. Her current research into the spiritual and cultural ties between indigenous communities and the avian world also forms a central thread, with birds envisioned as sacred beings and keepers of ecological knowledge.
Gilks, whose continuous drawing practice and archive of works engage with climate change and ecological fragility, contributes her own reinterpretations and processes to the collaboration. Together, the artists weave a layered body of large-scale and smaller works, as well as a multimedia installation, where history, ecology, queerness, and spirituality intersect.
Rogge & Gilks’ work will be in display in the Main Gallery at the KZNSA from the 10th of October – 2nd November 2025.
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Details regarding artist walkabouts to follow. See you there!
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