CuratorialInitiatives
Since 2008, under the leadership of owner and director Liza Essers, Goodman Gallery has expanded from a preeminent South African gallery into a pioneering global institution with a robust international programme. Central to this evolution has been a commitment to sustained curatorial inquiry – developed through long-term initiatives that extend beyond exhibition-making to foster dialogue, research, and transnational exchange. These initiatives reflect the gallery’s dedication to critical engagement with contemporary art practices from Africa, its diasporas, and the Global South.
Goodman Gallery’s international programme is shaped by a set of long-term curatorial initiatives that respond to shifting cultural, political, and geographic contexts, grounded in the gallery’s sustained engagement with the African continent and its diasporas. Through platforms such as In Context, South South, and [Working Title], the gallery foregrounds artistic and intellectual practices from the Global South, supports emerging voices, and presents artists whose work addresses movement, belonging, and suppressed histories, while challenging dominant Eurocentric narratives and proposing new models of exchange and knowledge-making.
