Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce the return of its Seasonal Gallery in Plettenberg Bay, presented this year at Telluric – a new wine estate set against sweeping polo fields, vineyards and the Tsitsikamma mountains.

DATES: 10 December 2025 – 10 January 2026
TIMES: Daily
VENUE: Telluric Wine Estate, Rietvlei Road, Plett

Here, the dramatic beauty of the landscape and the visual intensity of the artworks do not vie for attention; instead, they form a dynamic conversation in which each sharpens the presence of the other.

Following the success of Goodman Gallery’s seasonal projects in Saint-Paul de Vence on the Côte d’Azur this past summer in Europe, the curated art space launched with Cheetah Plains in 2024 and the Hamptons in New York State in 2021, the Plettenberg Bay exhibition extends the gallery’s commitment to innovative, site-responsive presentations. As one of South Africa’s key summer destinations – and a place where the gallery has mounted previous seasonal exhibitions – Plettenberg Bay continues to play an important role in anchoring these interventions close to home.

The presentation brings together a wide selection of works from across the Goodman programme, chosen for the ways in which they both echo and diverge from their natural surroundings. Works that resonate directly with the environment include Walter Oltmann’s finely woven insect forms, William Kentridge’s Bushveld Tree (Obelisque) and Yinka Shonibare’s quilt African Flower Magic (Conophytum Smorenskaduense). Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographic triptych Inside the Erosion: iNdonga, Tsomo, Eastern Cape expands this engagement with landscape into a deeply personal meditation on place and memory.

Shown in contrast are works that introduce an urban, conceptual or abstract register – from David Goldblatt’s black-and-white photographs of Johannesburg traffic in the 1960s to abstract compositions by international artists such as Remy Jungerman. Together, the selection underscores the diversity of Goodman Gallery’s programme, spanning major figures such as Shonibare and Kentridge through to artists introduced via the reimagined ‘Working Title’ initiative, which champions a younger generation of practitioners including Bonolo Kavula, Bulumko Mbete.

Bringing these works into dialogue with Telluric’s newly planted vineyards and its panoramic coastal setting, the Plettenberg Bay Seasonal Gallery offers a powerful encounter between art, land and the evolving creative currents shaping both the surrounding region and the global art landscape.