Exhibition title: Zine Fest
Opening date: 22 October 2026 at 16:00
Closing date: 29 October 2026
Venue: NWU Gallery (North-West University, Building F16G, Hoffman Street, Potchefstroom. 2530)
Zines, short for "fanzines" or self-published magazines, have long served as accessible DIY formats that allow individuals and communities to share ideas, experiences, and perspectives outside conventional publishing structures. Through visual art, photography, poetry, personal narratives, collage, and experimental design, the students engage contemporary social issues while questioning inherited colonial ways of seeing, knowing, and representing the world.
The exhibition emerges from Social Anthropology's ongoing engagement with questions of representation and knowledge production. Visitors can expect a rich selection of student-created works that challenge dominant narratives, foreground personal and collective experiences, and invite audiences to consider new ways of relating to people and histories.
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Exhibition title: Uqobo: Within us all
Opening date: 28 October 2026 at 18:00
Closing date: 3 November 2026
Venue: NWU Botanical Garden Gallery (North-West University, Building H5, Hoffman Street, Potchefstroom)
Curated by the 3rd year Visual Art for Education students
What makes us uniquely human?
UQOBO celebrates the essence of who we are: our identities, memories, emotions, experiences and imperfections. In a world where artificial intelligence can generate art, this exhibition invites us to look beyond the image and recognise the human stories behind artistic expression.
Every artwork begins with something human. Every creative decision carries a fingerprint of the person behind it, reflecting a unique perspective that cannot be separated from their lived experiences.
Through UQOBO, we celebrate individuality, embrace imperfection and recognise the power of human creativity.
More than what we create, art reflects who we are.