12/01/2023
& inviting entries for our upcoming auctions
Looking back at 2022, here are some of the milestones achieved in our four Live Auctions last year.
16/11/2022
Preview Opening and Cocktail Party in Johannesburg
Join Aspire Art for drinks on Thursday 24 November from 5pm to 8pm and view artworks on their upcoming auction of 20th Century and Contemporary Art.
04/11/2022
Johannesburg Live Auction on 30 November 22
The electronic catalogue for our anticipated end of 2022 Liv auction in Johannesburg is LIVE.
We are excited to present this top-quality collection of works for our final auction of 2022.
04/11/2022
Impressive selection of Kentridge works
Aspire Art brings a magnificent collection of artworks by William Kentridge, one of the most celebrated and influential living artists today, to auction in Johannesburg on 30 November 2022.
03/11/2022
Important Irma Stern paintings
Aspire Art brings a magnificent collection of artworks by the much-celebrated Irma Stern to auction in Johannesburg on 30 November 2022.
02/11/2022
Aspire Art brings a magnificent collection of Zanele Muholi artworks to auction in Johannesburg on 30 November 2022. Included are two large-scale photographs: Aphelile X, Durban (2020) and a – never before seen – photograph from the Somnyama Ngonyama series. Also on offer is a magnificent bronze sculpture, Muholi II, the first edition of this new body of work to be offered on auction.
06/10/2022
Aspire hosts a fundraising raffle to win artist decorated Krone bottles at A Good Time exhibition
The upcoming exhibition: A Good Time which opens on Thursday 6 October will include a raffle for Krone magnum bottles transformed by artists included on the exhibition; Nobukho Nqaba, Alice Gauntlett, Sepideh Mehraban and Gaelen Pinnock, the proceeds of which will assist in funding this year’s Michaelis grad show.
04/10/2022
Exhibition curated by Michaela Limberis at Aspire Cape Town
A Good Time celebrates the early careers of a group of local artists over the past decade, from university to the present moment. Featured artists: Rory Emmett, Alice Gauntlett, Bonolo Kavula, Sepideh Mehraban, Heinrich Minnie, Lena Dewaegenaere, Siwa Mgoboza, Nobukho Nqaba, Gaelen Pinnock, Jake Singer, Sitaara Stodel.
20/09/2022
Aspire Art Cements Position in Chosen Markets
Aspire Art is pleased to have opened the Spring season art calendar with their recent live auction, 20th Century & Contemporary Art in Cape Town on Wednesday, 14 September. The sale featured a focussed collection of specially selected top calibre works with special sections on Black Modernism and Photography and highlights Aspire's approach to smaller and more curated collections, centered on quality over quantity, to serve the discerning collector.
02/09/2022
Aspire Art is proud to present three exquisite wood carved panels by the highly regarded and much-loved artist Cecil Skotnes, produced between 1960 and the late 1970s, an important time in the artist’s career.
31/08/2022
Forming part of the upcoming live auction 20th Century & Contemporary Art taking place in Cape Town on Wednesday, 14 September 2022, Aspire Art is pleased to present a specialist section focussed on Black Modernism.
24/08/2022
As part of the upcoming live auction 20th Century & Contemporary Art which is taking place in Cape Town on Wednesday, 14 September 2022, we are pleased to introduce a special collection of selected photographic work by some of the foremost artists working in the medium – historically and currently.
03/08/2022
Landscape with Billboard, an Expressive Landscape Drawing by William Kentridge
Following a string of impressive results achieved for the sale of William Kentridge’s work at auction over the past years and the R3,186,400 sale of Drawing for Mine (1991) in March 2022, Aspire Art is pleased to announce the consignment of a captivating expressive landscape drawing by world-renowned artist, William Kentridge.
01/08/2022
Untitled, 1998, an Early Drawing by Penny Siopis
One of the many highlights on Aspire Art's upcoming live auction of 20th Century & Contemporary in Cape Town on the 14 September is an early, never-before-seen, drawing from 1998 by Penny Siopis. Created in the same year the artist presented her critically acclaimed solo exhibition Charmed Lives at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, this sensitively rendered drawing stylistically references previous works from her ‘History Period’.
01/08/2022
Thulani I, Paris, 2014 by Zanele Muholi
Following the recent June openings of Zanele Muholi’s major survey exhibition at Kunstforeningen Gl Strand in Denmark, curated in association with Tate Modern and Bildmuseet, and the artist’s solo exhibition Somnyama Ngonyama at Fotografihuset in Norway, it is with much excitement that Aspire Art presents the striking photographic self-portrait titled Thulani I, Paris, 2014.
01/08/2022
Study for Confrontation by Edoardo Villa
Aspire Art is honoured to reveal Study for Confrontation, an important conceptual work by Edoardo Villa, one of the country’s most celebrated modern sculptors.
21/07/2022
P5’22: Painting, Paper, Photography, Patina, Print
A spotlight on print in Aspire Art’s Timed Online auction P5’22: Painting, Paper, Photography, Patina, Print taking place from 14 – 26 July.
21/07/2022
P5’22: Painting, Paper, Photography, Patina, Print
A spotlight on patina in Aspire Art’s Timed Online auction P5’22: Painting, Paper, Photography, Patina, Print taking place from 14 – 26 July.
21/07/2022
P5’22: Painting, Paper, Photography, Patina, Print
A spotlight on painting in Aspire Art’s Timed Online auction P5’22: Painting, Paper, Photography, Patina, Print taking place from 14 – 26 July.
21/07/2022
P5’22: Painting, Paper, Photography, Patina, Print
A spotlight on paper in Aspire Art’s Timed Online auction P5’22: Painting, Paper, Photography, Patina, Print taking place from 14 – 26 July.
21/07/2022
P5’22: Painting, Paper, Photography, Patina, Print
A spotlight on painting in Aspire Art’s Timed Online auction P5’22: Painting, Paper, Photography, Patina, Print taking place from 14 – 26 July.
14/07/2022
Timed Online Auction from 14 – 26 July
This Winter, Aspire Art presents P5’22: Painting, Paper, Photography, Patina, Print, a Timed Online auction focussing on the materiality of art.
29/06/2022
Aspire Art Builds Contemporary Art Markets and Supports Contemporary Artists
Since its inception in 2016, Aspire Art has taken the lead in actively developing value in new and emerging art market segments locally and abroad. Continuously forward-looking and dynamic, we are not afraid to take risks at auction, while pushing the boundaries in the contemporary art market.
16/06/2022
Aspire Art is delighted to present Current & Curated: The Art Gazette Collection, an exciting large-scale Timed-Online auction of fresh and cutting-edge contemporary art that will run from 15 – 23 June 2022.
07/06/2022
Join us for a walkabout with academic, cultural theorist and author of Strange Cargo: Essays on Art, Ashraf Jamal (2022), as he discusses works from our upcoming auction The Present Future: A Private Collection of African & International Contemporary Art.
07/06/2022
The Present Future: A Private Collection of African & International Contemporary Art
Representative of Africa right now, in the present and indeed into the future, Aspire Art is thrilled to present a vibrant contemporary single-owner sale in Johannesburg on 22 June 2022.
02/06/2022
Aspire Art is delighted to have been entrusted with a Private Collection of African and International Contemporary art. This exciting single-owner sale comprises of 79 lots and includes important works by new and leading voices in African art.
24/05/2022
Carina Jansen selects her favourite books
Carina Jansen, Cataloguer and Researcher at Aspire Art reviews her favourite books from VOLUMES a Timed Online Book Auction taking place from 19-26 May 2022.
24/05/2022
Nonkululeko Sibande selects her favourite book
Nonkululeko Sibande, Intern Assistant at Aspire Art reviews her favourite book from VOLUMES a Timed Online Book Auction taking place from 19-26 May 2022.
24/05/2022
Chlöe Jane Venter selects her favourite book
Chlöe Jane Venter, Catalogue & Logistics Intern at Aspire Art reviews her favourite book from VOLUMES a Timed Online Book Auction taking place from 19-26 May 2022.