Joburg Art Fair is a

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held annually in

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. The first show took place from 13 to 16 March 2008.SouthAfrica.info
, Accessed 22 December 2007 The second Joburg Art Fair is scheduled for 3 April to 5 April 2009. The Joburg Art Fair which is sponsored by First National Bank aims to address the gap between prices attained by living African artists behind those from developed countries and Asian emerging markets. FNB's aim is to bring contemporary art to a broader, upper-income local market, including black business people with new-found wealth.

Joburg Art Fair 2008

The 2008 event, which was the first of its kind in Africa, included 22 galleries from

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, showing work by contemporary, predominantly African, artists. The first Joburg Art Fair was held in the Sandton Convention Centre and covered a total area of . The fair represented the single largest collection of African and South African contemporary art for sale thus far.Joburg Art Fair
Accessed 22 December 2007 The fair included notable African artists including Zwelethu Mthethwa,

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, Guy Tillim, David Goldblatt, Peter Hugo,

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and Moshekwa Langa. Participating Galleries included: *

: Goodman-gallery, Everard Read-gallery, David Krut, Warren Siebrits, Art on Paper, Rooke-gallery,

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, Art Extra. *

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and Stellenbosch

: Joao Ferreira-gallery, Michael Stevenson, SMAC, Whatiftheworld, Bell Roberts. *

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: Townhouse-gallery *

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: L’Appartement 22 *

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: ASNI -gallery *

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, France: Gallery Ames d’Afrique *

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, United States: Jack Shainman, Perry Rubenstein *

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, United Kingdom:

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Joburg Art Fair 2009

The second Joburg Art Fair is scheduled for 35 April 2009. Twenty-four galleries will participate in the 2009 fair, including two new South African galleries ( Afronova and iart) and four new international galleries (Seippel Gallery; Galerie Beatrice Binoche; Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos and Emerging World Art). The galleries that will take part in 2009 are: Gallery MOMO, Galerie Ames d’Afrique, Galerie Peter Herrmann, Goodman Gallery, David Krut Projects, Art on Paper Gallery, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Whatiftheworld, October Gallery, Seippel Gallery, Warren Siebrits, Michael Stevenson, Brodie/Stevenson, CCA Lagos, Everard Read, SMAC, KZNSA, Rooke Gallery, iArt, Erdmann Contemporary, Afronova, Townhouse Gallery, ARTCO, Galeriebeatricebinoche, Emerging World Art. The Featured Artist for 2009 will be Jane Alexander exhibiting ''Security'', an installation originally commissioned for the 27th São Paulo Biennale and hosted by the

Gordon Schachat Gordon Schachat (born 25 January 1952) is a South African businessman and art collector. Personal life In 1973 Schachat met his first wife at university, the former ''Sunday Times'' columnist Jani Allan and married her in Mauritius in 1982.

collection.
Mail & Guardian. 3 March 2009 The fair will also include a screening booth featuring moving image work from countries in the Global South, a book lounge, and artist talks.

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