South Africa Travel + Tourism Guide: Johannesburg Art Gallery

Johannesburg Art Gallery

Johannesburg Art Gallery is the largest gallery in southern Africa with an outstanding collection of European and South African paintings.

Located in Joubert Park in the central business district near Johannesburg Park Station, the collection is housed in a building first designed by British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, who was responsible for many of the buildings in New Delhi. Work began in 1911 and the building opened to the public in 1915. Further extensions and renovations took place in the 1940s and again in the 1980s.

The collection is rotated with only about 10% of the whole on display at any one time. Artists exhibited include Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Edgar Degas along with 17th century Dutch paintings and the works of representative South African artists such as Gerard Sekoto, Sydney Kumalo, Ezrom Legae, Helen Sebidi, Alfred Toba, Alexis Preller and Maud Sumner.

Johannesburg Art Gallery.

© Solly van Staden/ City of Johannesburg - Johannesburg Art Gallery

As well as paintings there are exhibits of sculpture and multi-media installations. Other recent additions include traditional African pieces, including bead jewelry in the form of necklaces and bracelets.

There are regular retrospectives by African artists and large scale temporary exhibitions.

The gallery has 15 exhibition halls, a cafe, gallery shop and sculpture gardens in the grounds of Joubert Park.

Joubert Park is not considered a safe area and the gallery should be visited by taking a taxi to the gallery's Klein Street entrance or using the secure gallery car park.

Johannesburg Park Station

Access

Johannesburg Art Gallery
Klein Street
Joubert Park
Johannesburg
Tel: 011 725 3130

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