Stevenson Cape Town presents two exhibitions: Space minding, the first solo exhibition by Olafur Eliasson to take place in South Africa, and Kemang Wa Lehulere, the 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art.
Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation artworks that employ elemental materials such as light, water and earth. In 1997, he participated in the second Johannesburg Biennale with the urban intervention Erosion, in which he turned a water reservoir into a running stream that stretched 1.5 kilometres through the city.
At Stevenson, Eliasson will present a group of works focused on light. Mono scanner (2004) consists of a cylindrical Fresnel lens, mounted horizontally on a rotating pedestal, which casts a single, narrow beam of light onto the floor, walls and ceiling of a room.
In a second room, he will exhibit works from his Polar fall fade series: each consists of three coloured glass panes, supported on a wall rack, with a different elliptical cut-out in each pane.
Kemang Wa Lehulere’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, his first in the Cape Town space. Wa Lehulere is the 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art.
Titled To whom it may concern, Wa Lehulere’s exhibition is a direct and indirect response to a work by Chieko (Mieko) Shiomi (b 1938), a Japanese artist with links to the Fluxus movement, whose Spatial Poems comprised instructions for small interventions as well as reports on these actions by participants. Taking his cue from Spatial Poem No 3 (Falling Event), Wa Lehulere suggests forms of falling, both literally and metaphorically, and connects various real events/moments, time and distance in a non-linear manner. He will utilise sculpture, video and other mediums to excavate pasts, both static and malleable, existent and imaginative, instructive and fantastical in this new body of work.
Kemang Wa Lehulere has an artist  talk at the gallery on Friday 23 Jan at 11am
WHERE: Stevenson Cape Town, 160 Sir Lowry Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town 7925
WHEN: The exhibitions open on Thursday 22 January, from 6 to 8pm. The gallery is open from Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, and Saturday from 10am to 1pm.
INFO: T 021 462 1500 or visit
