KEYES ART MILE

KEYES ART MILE Keyes Art Mile hosts Art and Design galleries and exhibition spaces, showcasing local and international artists and designers.
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Keyes Art Mile hosts Art and Design galleries and exhibition spaces, showcasing local and international art as well as design. Cafés, coffee-on-the-go, artisan eateries and a burger joint, as well as vibrant shops and spaces new to the Johannesburg scene, compliment the art-focused experience.

There's a certain alignment between the city outside and what's currently unfolding inside Gallery 1.As Johannesburg con...
28/05/2026

There's a certain alignment between the city outside and what's currently unfolding inside Gallery 1.

As Johannesburg continues to shift and rebuild around us, Daily Maverick's recent feature by Laurice Taitz-Buntman reflects on the next phase of Keyes Art Mile — tracing the precinct's evolution from a long-held vision to the large-scale redevelopment now underway at the corner of Cradock and Keyes avenues.

That sense of change feels deeply connected to the Groundwork exhibition, currently on show at Gallery 1. Curated by Ann Roberts from the Tortilis Collection, the exhibition brings together works shaped through processes of erosion, layering, construction and transformation — engaging with materials that carry both physical weight and cultural memory.

Seen within the context of a precinct in transition, the exhibition becomes a quiet reflection on how cities are made over time: through material, movement, imagination and the people who continue to shape them.

Thank you to Laurice Taitz-Buntman and Daily Maverick for such a thoughtful reflection on the city, its pace, and the people continuing to shape it.

🔗 Read the full feature here: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-05-20-joburgs-keyes-art-mile-20-a-vision-finally-takes-shape-after-a-decade-of-dreaming/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=KEYES%20ART%20MILE

📍 Groundwork is currently on show at Gallery 1, Keyes Art Mile, till Mid-June

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Experience Visions in Stone — a live rock painting activation with Allen Laing and Open Window where you work directly on stone, adding your own marks and symbols to a surface already shaped by time. Catch Groundwork before it closes 18 May, then step into The Atrium, where we're transforming the space into a cave-like environment and projecting Lady Skollie's Groot G*t, a work that reflects on erased histories and layered identity in South Africa.

The night softens into a preview of A Small Kind of Magic at Lizamore & Associates Gallery before Walter Battiss's Spirit of Africa (c.1960) via Aspire Art brings the colour and rhythm crashing back in.

Come for the art and stay for everything else. 🖤

This starts where things are still becoming.In Visions in Stone, rock becomes a surface for making, thinking, and resp...
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This starts where things are still becoming.

In Visions in Stone, rock becomes a surface for making, thinking, and responding. In collaboration with Allen Laing and Open Window you're invited to work directly with material that carries its own history — shaping marks, symbols, and layered meanings inspired by one of the oldest visual languages we know.

Set within Gallery 1, the activation lives inside Groundwork rather than alongside it — surrounded by stone, dust, carbon and clay, and everything the exhibition has been asking about construction and time. As it nears its close on 18 May, this Thursday is a final chance to engage with it not only as something to view, but something to respond to. Over the past weeks it has lived through making, questioning and exchange. Come add your mark.

Then the focus shifts inward with a preview of A Small Kind of Magic Lizamore & Associates. Three artists trace how identity forms in the quiet space before we fully understand it. Aspire Art, a different register emerges — Spirit of Africa (c.1960) by Walter Battiss, a monumental and rarely seen work that channels rhythm, symbolism and the energy of the African landscape in vivid, immersive form.

From material to memory, from making to meaning, the night moves through different ways of seeing and being. Be part of a growing arts precinct evolving in real time 🪨

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21 Keyes Avenue, Rosebank
Johannesburg
2196

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 23:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 23:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 23:00
Thursday 09:00 - 23:00
Friday 09:00 - 23:00
Saturday 09:00 - 23:00
Sunday 09:00 - 23:00

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