{"id":764,"date":"2025-12-01T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/?p=764"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:53:09","slug":"grenslose-gesprekke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/visuele-kuns\/grenslose-gesprekke\/","title":{"rendered":"#1 Dialogues Across Place and Time: Art Exhibitions Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Visual arts speak to everyone. Young and old. Any language. Any religion. Any culture. And viewing the exhibitions are FREE!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the 30th celebration of the KKNK, the aim is to create a visual arts programme that honours historical aspects of the Klein Karoo yet reaches out to the world and into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\"><em>Dialogues Across Place and Time<\/em> is the theme for this year\u2019s programme. We live in interesting times of intense socio-political challenges. Borders and barriers are increasing, ostensibly to ensure safety, but more often it fuels fear of the unknown. In some cases, it leads to wars, in most cases it leads to mistrust and separation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dialogues Across Place and Time <\/em>is an attempt at a more nuanced conversation. One of multiple perspectives, where not all the players have to agree, but everyone is encouraged to share in the dialogue. Through conversations and interactions, we get to know one another across language, national and cultural borders. This in turn, leads to new perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A highlight of this year is the exhibition <em>PLACE<\/em>, which unites all previous festival artists, from the second festival (in 1996) to the last, in an unparalleled group show in Oudtshoorn. This is a milestone exhibition that includes an impressive list of arts stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The festival artist for 2026 is nomThunzi Mashalaba, an artist that quietly dissects the world and then re-assembles it on her own terms. The title for her exhibition is <em>So, I Let Silence Explain. <\/em>She is a clear voice within the South African art world, and it is an honour to present such an extensive body of her work at the KKNK. Her sensitive abstract works are meditative colour fields of textures. Her media meanders from textile to drawing to installation and create spaces that gently negotiate with the viewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a large visual offering that includes several local artists, such as <em>Praatland<\/em>, an extensive painting exhibition curated by Juria le Roux and Brahm van Zyl from the neighbouring town, De Rust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the focus is on conversations across place and time, it is wonderful to confirm participation of several international artists in collaboration with South Africans. Participants are from, amongst others, Germany, Belgium, the DRC, Nigeria, France, Portugal and Denmark. There are exhibitions that exist as conversations between the past and the present, such as the <em>Karoo Kaarte<\/em> photographic exhibition and <em>Stof tot verhaal<\/em> , an exhibit that literally uses dust from the C.P. Nel Museum in town as the starting point for their interactive project. There is a documentary film, <em>Doornkraal<\/em>, based on local history, as well as a screen dance film at the Taalmonument, that employs movement as communication tool to discuss history, language and architecture as power structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leave your personal convictions and preconceived ideas behind, allow curiosity to get the better of you, and spend time to look, feel and converse!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>charlie bravo kom in<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">een aand op colesberg ek was sewe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ons was op pad kaapstad toe sien ons twee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">laaities in telefoonhokkies met mekaar sit en gesels<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">die ou soort hokkie wat oranje was en uitgehol<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">en verbasend baie soos \u2019n eier hulle lywe was ten volle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in di\u00e9 doppe ingetrek soos kuikens of dalk ruimtevaarders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">hulle het gelag en was vir \u2019n wyle ontsettend ver van hier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">en terwyl ek luister hoe hulle woorde in colesberg se lug<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">verdubbel soos in \u2019n badkamer se spie\u00ebl het alles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">volledig vir my sin gemaak ook vir my suster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">net my pa was deurmekaar hulle praat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">dan met mek\u00e1\u00e1r het hy aanhou s\u00ea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">en presies het ek aanhou antwoord<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 Tom Dreyer in a parallel creative universe:<em>(Nou in infrarooi<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 30th celebration of the KKNK, the aim is to create a visual arts programme that honours historical aspects of the Klein Karoo yet reaches out to the world and into the future.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,55],"tags":[],"datum":[12,11,16,15,10,14,13,9],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visuele-kuns","category-grenslose-gesprekke","datum-1-april-2026","datum-2-april-2026","datum-28-maart-2026","datum-29-maart-2026","datum-3-april-2026","datum-30-maart-2026","datum-31-maart-2026","datum-4-april-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"datum","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/datum?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}