Investec Cape Town Art Fair

The DNA of Investec Cape Town Art Fair is a juncture for a dialogue between a wide range of artists, galleries and curators spanning across different parts of the world; always paying special attention to important issues of sustainability and legacy. Investec Cape Town Art Fair is the only international art fair on the continent, with an African core and the chance for African artists to be showcased on their continent. The fair provides a platform of accessibility, conversation and contemplation around contemporary art through a multitude of initiatives we establish in order to activate engagement with the city.

We have participating galleries from all over the world; with a strong international presence. Galleries from Europe, Middle East and the USA participate, allowing new perspectives each year at the fair. The fair strives to maintain interaction with African galleries and artists. Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2020 welcomed, for the first time, North African and Tunisian galleries. Their participation strengthens one of the fairs goals to provide a platform for more voices from the African continent and create a connection between southern and northern Africa. The galleries we choose possess a cutting edge approach to art and an inclination to connect with other galleries/artists to create new forms of dialogue.

We have a mix of local and international collectors and buyers present at Investec Cape Town Art Fair. The prices of works exhibited is a broad range, presenting works from a few thousands of rands to millions of rands.

The fair is attended by a wide range of people; from collectors and the local art scene to the broader public. The interest in contemporary art from the public has increased significantly and continues to grow as the fair strives to be accessible and open to everyone through an attempt to steer away from misconceptions surrounding art as being elite or niche.

In the past eight years of the fair’s existence, it has stood as an art fair that reflects the contemporary, Postmodern world that we are living through. The fair ignites the city of Cape Town and South Africa as a country through its vast programme of passionate connection between people and art: the perpetually-changing and globalised society in conjunction with the trajectory of art is platformed through Investec Cape Town Art Fair. An extraordinary level of networking and engagement – through the fusions of people, culture and art – is created by the fair. We continue to grow and progress as an art event that shifts with the times and encourages conversation and dialogue. Investec Cape Town Art Fair is where the fast-growing African art market and the international art world meet.

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