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Fine Art

Michaelis is staffed by some of South Africa’s leading fine artists, curators and art academics. Internationally, the school is recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost institutions for the study of fine art and new media at an advanced level.

Undergraduate, Postgraduate

Art History

Visual and Art History is a six-course major available to students in the Humanities Faculty studying towards a BA degree. The courses provide an opportunity to study both the history of the fine arts and the history of other key visual traditions and cultures, including architecture, interior and industrial design and dress.

Undergraduate, Postgraduate

Curatorship

The Honours Programme in Curatorship is offered by the Michaelis School of Fine Art and hosted by the Centre for Curating the Archive in close collaboration with Iziko Museums of Cape Town.

The programme offers courses in the theory and practice of curatorship, developing in students a sophisticated awareness of the practicalities, politics and poetics of working with collections of many kinds.

 
 
 

News

Saturday, 22 September 2018
Michaelis alumni, Thandiwe Msebenzi has been awarded a Magnum Foundation’s 2018 Photography and Social Justice Fellows.

Michaelis alumni, Thandiwe Msebenzi has been awarded a Magnum Foundation’s 2018 Photography and Social Justice Fellows.

 

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Publication Date:
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 - 16:30
Michaelis graduate Bronwyn Katz exhibits in Paris

An exhibition by Michaelis graduate Bronwyn Katz, has opened at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

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Publication Date:
Monday, June 25, 2018 - 10:45
Michaelis alumnus Haroon Gunn-Salie in New York and London

Haroon Gunn-Salie’s 17 crouching figures, Senzenina 2018, honouring the miners shot in the Marikana massacre of 2012 will be displayed in London’s Regent’s Park in July for Frieze Sculpture 2018.

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Publication Date:
Friday, June 15, 2018 - 12:30
Michaelis alumnus Lungiswa Gqunta exhibiting at Whatiftheworld Gallery and Manifesta Palermo 2018

Lungiswa Gqunta completed her MFA at Michaelis in 2017.  From 17 May-30 June, she is exhibiting Qwitha, her second solo exhibition at Whatiftheworld Gallery in Cape Town, and will also participate in the European Nomadic Biennial, Manifesta 12 in Palermo.

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Publication Date:
Friday, June 15, 2018 - 12:30

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Michaelis School of Fine Art
University of Cape Town
31 -37 Orange Street Gardens
8001 Cape Town
South Africa

Tell: 021 650 7111
Fax: 021 424 2889

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