Press
Explore the latest press coverage and media features on RMB Latitudes Art Fair. From in-depth interviews with artists to exclusive insights into the fair’s innovative exhibitions, these articles offer a closer look at how RMB Latitudes is shaping the African art scene. Discover what the global art community is saying about our dynamic event, the partnerships that drive it, and the artists who make it a must-attend experience.
Browse our collection of press articles below to stay informed about our latest news, features, and coverage from leading art publications.
“Building platforms not pedestals: Lucy MacGarry and Roberta Coci, founders of Latitudes”
“The duo met in high school and held down their first job together, bartending in San Francisco. Since then, their lives and careers have taken them to fascinating and far-flung places, but Latitudes, with its varying branches, has been a way for them to bring all of their passion and know-how together to enrich the local art world, bolster artists, and encourage a culture of collecting. And as it turns out, in this case, friendship has been a brilliant ingredient for partnership.”
— by Johannesburg In Your Pocket
“There’s More Than Just Art at RMB Latitudes”
“Mary Sibande presented by USURPA and RMB Latitudes”
“Special Project ESSAY: Tracing Modernist Lineages”
“The Pulse Lounge”
“Disturbed Currents: Art for a Warming World”
“INDEX: Independent Artist Exhibition at RMB Latitudes Art Fair 2025”
“Tracing Borders and Shaping Futures: The Botswana Focus at RMB Latitudes”
“RMB Latitudes 2025 a great success”
“The art fair seems to go from strength to strength and may soon be challenging the big boys of the African fair circuit”
— James Sey
“Three Highlights from the RMB Latitudes Art Fair”
“RMB Latitudes Art Fair, located at its Shepstone Gardens venue on Hope Road, has been making its way into the hearts and art calendars of Joburgers for the last three years.”
— Christa Dee
“Africa’s depth and diversity on display — inside this year’s RMB Latitudes Art Fair”
“RMB Latitudes returns with a bold mission: to showcase the depth and diversity of contemporary African art. Art media specialist Bronwyn Coppola shares her top 10 picks — a glimpse into the artists reshaping the conversation across Africa.”
— Bronwyn Coppola
“RMB Latitudes built on last year’s successes”
“Is there a collective noun for queues of Ubers? Uberrama? Uberclust? Those standing on Hope Street outside Shepstone Gardens during the RMB Latitudes Art Fair weren’t surprised by the sight of lines of Ubers and Lexus cars and complimentary buses ferrying visitors to their cars or front doors. Last year a similar scene had unfurled, as Joburg’s well-to-do, RMB’s VIP clients and the local art community gravitated towards this luxury destination.”
— By Mary Corrigall
“What are we all even doing here? / on Group Exhibitions”
“ In attempts to map out the landscape of contemporary art on the African continent, one might find that the curator occupies a nebulous position. Existing in no man’s land, between institution, artist and audience, it can be particularly difficult to understand what demands to make of the curator.”
— By Denzo Nyathi
“Strangeness and Charm”
“People with things, things without people”
“Now, more than ever, we engage artworks through their virtual proxies, as digital images that are always present, always available, always untouchable. Even sculpture, an insistently physical practice, has been made to yield to this evolutionary advance in human experience. Objects in the round are flattened and compressed into portable digital files. Something is lost. Let’s call it the thingness of things.”
— By Sean O’Toole
“Special projects to look our for at RMB Latitudes”
“A different kind of art fair, Joburg's annual RMB Latitudes may be set in a particularly lush venue, but it's aiming to be more inclusive than most. Emerging and independent artists share space with the art world's elite in a real art playground at the historic Shepstone Gardens.”