INCCA (Independent Network for Contemporary Culture & Art) is a non-profit company that realises and manages exhibition and research projects and aims to create new platforms for visual artists, collectives, curators and other cultural practitioners. In our exhibition projects, we are almost exclusively dedicated to supporting women-identifying creatives, which is evident from our project history. We will continue on this trajectory until we witness an art industry that is definitively more balanced.
We work collaboratively, with each project striving to create an independent network and seek out spaces and formats for the realisation of new ideas. Core elements of our mission are mentorship and partnership – we aim to generate new opportunities for the exchange of knowledge and skills in the cultural sector. We’re based in South Africa, but our network stretches far and wide, and grows with every project.
info@incca.org.za
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Directors:
Londi Modiko
Lara Koseff
Non-executive director:
Nthabiseng Mokoena
We work collaboratively, with each project striving to create an independent network and seek out spaces and formats for the realisation of new ideas. Core elements of our mission are mentorship and partnership – we aim to generate new opportunities for the exchange of knowledge and skills in the cultural sector. We’re based in South Africa, but our network stretches far and wide, and grows with every project.
info@incca.org.za
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Directors:
Londi Modiko
Lara Koseff
Non-executive director:
Nthabiseng Mokoena
Selected projects and texts by INCCA co-founders:
Open call project ︎
Art
Siviwe James
Ubuhle Ngaphaya Kwameva
Opening Sunday 2 February 2025 at 10am
Victoria Yards, Lorentzville, Johannesburg
Phumelele Kunene
In My Element
Opening Sunday 2 March 2025 at 10am
Victoria Yards, Lorentzville, Johannesburg
Art
After
Baby Vol.2
Siviwe James
Ubuhle Ngaphaya Kwameva
Opening Sunday 2 February 2025 at 10am
Victoria Yards, Lorentzville, Johannesburg
Phumelele Kunene
In My Element
Opening Sunday 2 March 2025 at 10am
Victoria Yards, Lorentzville, Johannesburg
INCCA is pleased to announce the two incredibly talented artists selected from our Art After Baby (AAB) open call – Siviwe James and Phumelele Kunene. Each artist will hold their own solo exhibitions in February and March 2025 at Victoria Yards, Lorentzville, Johannesburg. We look forward to revealing more and platforming their powerful work to our network in the coming weeks.
The second edition of AAB is again supported by the National Arts Council South Africa (NAC) Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP 5).
The selected artists both create deeply personal work that reflects not only their positions as caregivers and artists, but also how they have navigated loss, which has impacted their roles as mothers and created new, unexpected paths for them as creatives.
The overall aim of AAB is to confront what remains a taboo subject, and to find pathways for the accepted applicants to participate in an industry often still dominated by men and/or privilege, and also to explore how art-making itself can be a cathartic salve for the many challenges of motherhood, caregiving and/or trauma and loss. AAB aims to provide artists with a short period of breathing room to focus on their work, and motivates those who are battling to juggle a career in the arts to find spaces and avenues to continue producing. In addition, we hope to establish routes and approaches for others in similar positions.
Previous recipients include artists Ditiro Mashigo and Naledi Chai.
The second edition of AAB is again supported by the National Arts Council South Africa (NAC) Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP 5).
The selected artists both create deeply personal work that reflects not only their positions as caregivers and artists, but also how they have navigated loss, which has impacted their roles as mothers and created new, unexpected paths for them as creatives.
The overall aim of AAB is to confront what remains a taboo subject, and to find pathways for the accepted applicants to participate in an industry often still dominated by men and/or privilege, and also to explore how art-making itself can be a cathartic salve for the many challenges of motherhood, caregiving and/or trauma and loss. AAB aims to provide artists with a short period of breathing room to focus on their work, and motivates those who are battling to juggle a career in the arts to find spaces and avenues to continue producing. In addition, we hope to establish routes and approaches for others in similar positions.
Previous recipients include artists Ditiro Mashigo and Naledi Chai.
Explore Previous AAB projects and texts below