HOPE Cape Town’s The Nex – Indawo Yethu campus and the Rupert Museum are only 20,5 kilometres apart, yet they lie in different worlds.

Delft

Delft is a sprawling late-apartheid township bordered by the N2, the R300, the Stellenbosch arterial road, and Cape Town International Airport and its wider precinct. An estimated 250 000 people live there.

The Rupert Museum, just off Dorp Street in Stellenbosch, is situated at one of the entrance routes to central Stellenbosch, the second-oldest colonial town in South Africa, home to Stellenbosch University, the famous Coetzenburg rugby stadium and to many of South Africa’s wealthiest people.

The HOPE Cape Town Trust and Association (www.hopecapetown.org) started working in 2001 in the realm of paediatric HIV, as well as providing medical and social support to the most vulnerable and neediest communities in the Cape Town metropolitan area. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the organisation, based at The Nex – Indawo Yethu campus, expanded its work into early childhood development, education and vocational training, connecting South Africans not only to one another but also to Europe and the wider world via collaboration with European and international organisations.

According to Shelly Stamatiadis, the Rupert Museum houses one of South Africa’s premier private collections and acts as custodian to the famed Johannesburg Station Panels by JH Pierneef. “It strives towards its ethos of being a ‘museum without walls’ to make art and education accessible to all who wish to experience the wonder of art and creativity. The Heritage Day pop-up exhibition of German and South African artists’ works from the collections managed by the Rupert Museum, curated by Eliz-Marie Schoonbee and held at The Nex, connects these different worlds and realities — both integral parts of South African reality and heritage.

Unique

“This unique event will bring artworks by Käthe Kollwitz, Cecil Skotnes, Helen Sebidi, Willie Bester and Lucas Sithole to The Nex. A small showcase of linocut prints by local young creatives is also included. The exhibition is aimed at the centre’s immediate community, accompanied by workbooks for children, walkabouts and interactive activities in print, clay and colouring that allow children and adults from Delft to make their own art while interacting with the pieces. In the lead-up to this exhibition, a group of young creatives were introduced to the medium of linocut with two workshops led by art educators and artists Sophie Peters and Sanet Visser,” says Stamatiadis.

The exhibition is open to the public on Thursday 24 September between 10:00 and 16:00, Friday 25 September between 08:00 and 16:00, Saturday 26 September between 10:00 and 13:00, and Monday 28 September and Tuesday 29 September between 08:00 and 17:00.

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