Our Mission
Art galleries and arts practitioners experience a lull during Cape Town's winter months. This is due to the inclement weather and fewer tourists.
HEAT festival was created to boost visitors to galleries in the city centre and to create another platform for live performances.
Through our themed programme and map HEAT has provided the context to unite art galleries that are walking distance from each other and different art forms.
Our winter programme is intended to inject energy and interest during a quiet time of the year in Cape Town.
With a focus on small art businesses, emerging artists and live performers, musicians and singers, we aim to support young cultural producers and those that create visibility for them.
The organisers aim to establish an annual event that will grow in terms of participants, programming and audiences serving as a yearly cultural highlight to encourage local and international audiences to visit the art node in Cape Town's city
centre in winter.
Curators
Mary Corrigall is an award-winning arts journalist and has curated numerous mulit-disciplinary art events (such as The 55 Minute Hour) and themed art tours in Cape Town and Joburg focussed on connecting the dots between spaces and ideas in art. She has also published reports analysing the South African and African art ecosystems such as The South African Art Market: Patterns & Pricing (2019). Her art consultancy Corrigall & Co offers research on different arts ecosystems and assists collectors, artists and non-profit organisations.
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Nkgopoleng Moloi is a writer and curator based in Cape Town. She recently curated "Practices of Self-Fashioning", an exhibition exploring queer mobility, at the Goethe-Institut in Joburg and was part of the curatorial team of Infecting the City (2023). She is the editor of Art Throb.
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Voni Baloyi worked in a commercial gallery in Cape Town after obtaining a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History and Law from the University of Cape Town in 2020. She has also recently completed Honours in Curatorship with the Centre for Curating the Archive at the University of Cape Town. She recently co-curated An Ode to Wild Cliffs: Moments In Time in the Elgin Valley.
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