The Leeuwenhof Slave Quarters, Remembrance Gallery is where you can view the 4th Iteration of Greatest Hits – on view this Saturday 1 April and 6 May 2023 – and you need to book in advance.
The Slave Quarters at the Premier of the Western Cape’s residence have been reimagined and transformed into an art gallery and site of remembrance, as visitors are invited to pay tribute to the many people who once worked and lived there, enslaved.
The Association for Visual Arts was mandated to curate and manage five exhibitions of contemporary art to activate, visually, the research undertaken and showcased by the Cape Town Museum on the history of slavery with an emphasis on people enslaved at Leeuwenhof Estate. This is a project of the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport.
Since 2008 the Association for Visual Arts has been curating and hosting a fixed-anchor exhibition called ‘Greatest Hits’ – the only exhibition on the calendar curated by the AVA gallery director, and this year by its two Co-Directors, Richard Kilpert, and Mirjam Asmal.
Greatest Hits has emerged as a means of closing the chasm that exists for art students between tertiary education and professional exhibition exposure, and it serves as a launch pad of new talent for AVA audiences, and the commercial art circuit, too.
Please note that all visitors must book in advance by providing the names and ID numbers of everyone in the group. They need this information by 4 pm on Thursday as it must still be submitted to SAPS for screening. Book HERE
WHAT: AVA – Greatest Hits at Leeuwenhof Slave Quarters
WHERE: Leeuwenhof, Hof Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
WHEN: First Saturday 1 April and 6 May 2023
BOOKING: HERE
INFO: Association for Visual Arts Gallery, 35 Church Street, Cape Town, 8001 | T +27 21 424 7436 | Visit