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
Please note: the application deadline has passed. We will be contacting shorlisted candidates in due course.
Art
After
Baby Vol.2
Please note: the application deadline has passed. We will be contacting shorlisted candidates in due course.
INCCA is pleased to announce the second edition of Art After Baby (AAB), which is again supported by the National Arts Council South Africa (NAC) Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP 5). Two successful artists will be selected to receive a living wage for two months, as well as their own solo exhibitions at Victoria Yards in Johannesburg in early 2025, mentorship and online promotion of their work through dedicated text.
In November 2024, we put out an open call inviting visual artists based in Gauteng, South Africa to apply (please note that the application deadline has now passed). We appealed specifically to those who are trying to juggle art-making with motherhood, caregiving or have been impacted by loss. This is one of the few projects in the province that acknowledges that artists are often “zero-hour workers” with a sporadic and unreliable income, and that many women carry the responsibility of being primary caregivers without the financial cushion to continue their practice. We also acknowledge that, whether they are parents/caregivers or not, countless women in particular are impacted by pregnancy, loss, and associated complications, and that this can have a deep effect on their ability to work.
In November 2024, we put out an open call inviting visual artists based in Gauteng, South Africa to apply (please note that the application deadline has now passed). We appealed specifically to those who are trying to juggle art-making with motherhood, caregiving or have been impacted by loss. This is one of the few projects in the province that acknowledges that artists are often “zero-hour workers” with a sporadic and unreliable income, and that many women carry the responsibility of being primary caregivers without the financial cushion to continue their practice. We also acknowledge that, whether they are parents/caregivers or not, countless women in particular are impacted by pregnancy, loss, and associated complications, and that this can have a deep effect on their ability to work.
We hope to establish routes for others in similar positions.
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. We aim to establish an ongoing programme that provides 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.
This project is heavily influenced by the research and work of British writer Hettie Judah, who interviewed around 60 artist mothers about their experiences in 2021, resulting in a manifesto, and ultimately a book titled How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents). It presents a solutions-based approach on the subject, looking at benchmarks all over the world. Ultimately, Judah suggests that what the art industry risks by not taking intersectional contexts into consideration is remaining more homogenous, precluding “participation by all but the wealthy and carefree”.
Explore Previous AAB projects and texts below