Stellenbosch Triennale
Hosting the finest contemporary art from Africa and the diaspora for the world.
Opening Times
Oude Libertas
Tuesday - Saturday
10:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Exhibitions: In the Current, On the Cusp & The Bioscope Film Festival
The Bioscope
Tuesday - Saturday
10:30 AM + 3:00 PM
Exhibition: The Bioscope Film Festival | Two Screenings per day at Oude Libertas Auditorium
Rupert Museum
Tuesday - Friday
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Exhibition: From the Vault
#StellenboschTriennale
BA’ZINZILE: A REHEARSAL FOR BREATHING.
The Stellenbosch Triennale is now closed and was held from the 19th of February to the 30th of April 2025 at Oude Libertas, Rupert Museum and the Stellenbosch University Museum. Click below to see the artworks from the second edition of the Stellenbosch Triennale.
Stellenbosch Triennale
The Stellenbosch Triennale is hosted every three years and has seen two editions. Discover the artworks, performances and artists from 2020 and 2025 below.
Annual Exhibitions
Whilst we prepare for the next Stellenbosch Triennale, the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust hosts annual exhibitions throughout our town. Explore the exhibitions hosted dating back to 2012.
Amansa Tiafi (Public Toilet Africa)
ST2025 The Bioscope
Obarima Kofi Ofosu-Yeboah
Jaguar Song
ST2025 The Bioscope
Yax Ixi'im Ek Balam
Black People Don't Get Depressed
ST2025 The Bioscope
Sara Chitambo-Hatira
Institutionalisation of the informal
ST2025 On the Cusp
Helen Zeru
A Burden Consumed in Sips
ST2025 In the Current
Lebohang Kganye
Pumuzi ni kitumahi kwa mahisha ya kesho
ST2025 In the Current
Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe
Iphupho (A dream)
ST2025 In the Current
Simphiwe Ndzube
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Refraining the roots
ST2025 From the Vault
Kemang Wa Lehulere
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Blue in green (after Miles Davis)
ST2025 From the Vault
Kemang Wa Lehulere
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Ballad of envious sensations and colours
ST2025 From the Vault
Kemang Wa Lehulere
Umbhompolo
ST2025 From the Vault
Andile Dyalvane
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Bush Telegram
ST2025 From the Vault
Kemang Wa Lehulere
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Idle eyes
ST2025 From the Vault
Kemang Wa Lehulere
Isithebe
ST2025 From the Vault
Andile Dyalvane
Isichopho
ST2025 From the Vault
Andile Dyalvane
Orator
ST2025 From the Vault
Simphiwe Ndzube
Flame
ST2025 From the Vault
Simphiwe Ndzube
Mahamb’ehlala
ST2025 From the Vault
Andile Dyalvane
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Who's vocabulary is this
ST2025 From the Vault
Kemang Wa Lehulere
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Dispersed and shivering, are the alphabets, who taste the frozen silence
ST2025 From the Vault
Kemang Wa Lehulere
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Cords for sunny days to come
ST2025 From the Vault
Kemang Wa Lehulere
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My breathe, you take away
ST2025 From the Vault
Kemang Wa Lehulere
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Liberating autumn from the burden of my existence
ST2025 From the Vault
Kemang Wa Lehulere
Letters from the madhouse
ST2025 In the Current
Torkwase Dyson
Chumba
ST2025 On the Cusp
Kasangati Godelive Kabena
"Politics of the Seed" & "Dream to be Back"
ST2025 In the Current
Thierry Oussou
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(Untitled) 2025
ST2025 The Bioscope
Campbell X
The Thin Line Between Life and Breath
ST2025 On the Cusp
Nandele Maguni
Echo Bow
ST2025 In the Current
Aziz Hazara
To Read a book backwards
ST2025 On the Cusp
Simphiwe Buthelezi
Eshina Lyo Ku Topa Topa/Typewriter
ST2025 On the Cusp
Tuli Mekondjo
Flying Foot
ST2025 In the Current
William Miko
Whisper of Mupangara
ST2025 On the Cusp
Takunda Regis Billiat
“Towards our ancestors who lean towards us, with bent spines, trying to tell us where we are from, where we are going.”
ST2025 On the Cusp
Manyaku Mashilo
Eshina Lyo Ku Topa Topa/Typewriter
ST2025 Embodied Interventions
Tuli Mekondjo
Drexciya & Hablar a plantas/Talk to plants
ST2025 On the Cusp
Astrid González
Natural Daughter
ST2025 In the Current
Aline Motta
Water is a time machine
ST2025 Embodied Interventions
Aline Motta
The Thin Line Between Life and Breath
ST2025 Embodied Interventions
Nandele Maguni
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The (Famous) Squatting Dance: Jung Jung - Te Jung
ST2025 The Bioscope
Wayan Sumahardika
Language Against Identity
ST2025 The Bioscope
Santiago Mostyn
Wanditulusa
ST2025 The Bioscope
Gladys Kalichini
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STELLENBOSCH TRIENNALE
Hosting the finest contemporary art from Africa and the diaspora for the world.
A showcase for large-scale contemporary art exhibitions, the Stellenbosch Triennale is a non-commercial, multidisciplinary art platform hosting a range of artists from Africa and the diaspora. Exhibitions are free of charge with many in venues within or close to central Stellenbosch. The focus is on accessibility, development, and the democratisation of art and its numerous benefits for all. Ambitious in scale, the Stellenbosch Triennale offers us a horizon of possibility and potentiality, a space to dream and imagine anew.
“African creatives confront us with what is possible for a renewal to happen utilising art as a lens, a course correction, a stimulus around curiosity and imagination. Through the Stellenbosch Triennale, we bring work from the continent to the southernmost tip as an intersection of time – where the past, present and future are in dialogue.”
– Khanyisile Mbongwa, Founding + Chief Curator
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