South Africa Art, architecture and travel
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in South Africa - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to South Africa.
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Now Gallery presents the vibrant culture of ‘A Young South Africa’ captured through the lens
Now Gallery’s ‘A Young South Africa, Human Stories’ showcases six inspiring photographers for the 2023
By Tianna Williams Published
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Cape Town: 8 things to do and see for the design-minded traveller
Cape Town is a capital of art, design, food and wellness; local resident Sean O’Toole on the best things to do and see, from a Bree Street meander to a Constantia wine route
By Sean O'Toole Published
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Zizipho Poswa’s new ceramics and photography explore hair as a medium for sculpture
At Southern Guild Gallery, Cape Town, Zizipho Poswa draws on the elaborate hairstyling practised by African women in a new series of ceramics, bronze sculptures and photographs
By Jareh Das Published
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Mountain House is a contemporary South African hillside retreat
Architect Chris van Niekerk has designed a private mountain house that nestles into its site, providing space, views, and a sense of time and evolution
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Modernist Coromandel farmhouse refreshed by Frankie Pappas, Mayat Hart and Thomashoff+Partner
An iconic Coromandel farmhouse is being reimagined by the South African architectural collaborative of Frankie Pappas, Mayat Hart and Thomashoff+Partner
By Nick Compton Last updated
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Tiaan Nagel’s art collector-inspired store in Johannesburg
Tiaan Nagel has partnered with interior-architecture studio Tonic Design on a new flagship store in Johannesburg's Hyde Park Corner
By Sean O'Toole Last updated
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World View: Letter from South Africa
The World View series shines light on the creativity and resilience of designers around the world as they confront the challenges wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Working with our international contributors, we reach out to creative talents to ponder the power of design in difficult times and share messages of hope. As South Africa emerges from one of the world’s strictest lockdowns, designers and artists are scrambling to revive small businesses and channelling their creative energies to analogue production, reports Sean O’Toole from Cape Town.
By Sean O'Toole Last updated
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Last chance to see: Rich Mnisi’s furniture on view at Southern Guild gallery
Rich Mnisi’s first solo show at Cape Town’s Southern Guild gallery (until 4 February 2022) encapsulates his multifaceted approach to design
By Mazzi Odu Last updated
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Last chance to see: AHEC presents the future of South African Design
Future Heirlooms is a project by AHEC, presented at Always Welcome in Johannesburg (until 30 October 2022) in collaboration with seven South African design studios working in American red oak
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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WallpaperSTORE's latest pop-up anchors South Africa as a global design destination
By Ali Morris Last updated
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On the map: artist William Kentridge’s tapestry for Ermenegildo Zegna’s London store
By Amy Serafin Last updated
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Lemon studio grows with new creative emporium in Cape Town
By Luke Halls Last updated
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Frankie Pappas' disappearing house unites landscape with brickwork
Established in 2019 by a group of like-minded architects and designers in Johannesburg, Frankie Pappas is a ‘collection of brilliant young minds that do away with personal egotisms in order to better find remarkable solutions to fascinating problems,’ explain the founders – who prefer to remain anonymous. Following the mantra ‘wonderfully similar, beautifully different’, the collective has completed various residential projects, including the sculptural brick volumes of House of the Big Arch in Waterberg.
By Simon Mills Last updated
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Continental shift: tracing Africa’s urban transformation through photography
Africa’s changing landscapes are beautifully captured by a new generation of home-grown photographers, introduced here and in a new book by Ekow Eshun
By Ekow Eshun Last updated
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Thomas Heatherwick reveals how he will transform grain silos into an ambitious new art museum
By Emma O'Kelly Last updated
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Counterspace's Sumayya Vally on her Serpentine Pavilion
Counterspace is the fast-emerging South African architectural practice commissioned to create the latest Serpentine Pavilion in London. Here, its founder Sumayya Vally takes artist and photographer Mikhael Subotzky on a whistle-stop tour of their adopted hometown, Johannesburg
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Cape Town meets New York at new restaurant, Mulberry & Prince
By Ella Marshall Last updated
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William Kentridge turns Moleskine notebook into art
South African artist William Kentridge is the latest contributor to the Moleskine Foundation Collection, transforming a notebook into a visual parable brimming with ‘thoughts accepted and abandoned’
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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William Kentridge unpacked in dual Cape Town museum survey
A double bill across Zeitz MOCAA and Norval Foundation explores the South African artist’s rich oeuvre of sculpture, charcoal drawings, stop-frame animation, multimedia works, tapestries and more
By Sean O'Toole Last updated
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Cape Town's restaurant scene continues to expand
By Daven Wu Last updated
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Mexican concept eatery El Burro takes to Cape Town
By Daven Wu Last updated
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Tristan Plessis Studio designs Johannesburg's new bar, Alice & Fifth
By Daven Wu Last updated
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Tristan du Plessis blends Japanese and South African design influences at Cape Town's FYN
By Paul Sephton Last updated
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Noero Architects’ Cape Town beach house breaks the glass box mold
Cape Town-based architecture studio Noero Architects wrestled with strict planning regulations to craft an enviable beach house
By Elana Castle Last updated
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Lungiswa Gqunta’s dreamscapes address tangled colonial legacies at Henry Moore Institute
South African artist Lungiswa Gqunta explores knowledge systems, spirituality and collective experiences in her first solo UK exhibition, ‘Sleep in Witness’ at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
By Martha Elliott Last updated
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Kamal Ranchod uses architectural drawing to decolonise Egyptian history
Our Next Generation 2022 showcase shines a light on 22 outstanding graduates from around the globe, in seven creative fields. Here, we profile Kamal Ranchod, from the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture, South Africa
By Nasra Abdullahi Last updated
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Thabisa Mjo and Mash.T unveil sculptural brass lighting
New brass lighting by South African designer Thabisa Mjo, founder of design studio Mash.T, brings a contemporary edge to a traditional material
By Ugonna-Ora Owoh Last updated