Exhibitions: 19 – 26 November

VISUAL ART AUCTION FOR DIANE VICTOR: artworks donated by artists including William Kentridge, Walter Oltmann, Anton Kannemeyer, Conrad Botes, Claudette Schreuders and Diane Victor will be auctioned off for Victor, who is awaiting an urgent kidney transplant, at the auditorium of the University of Johannesburg’s Fada Building, Bunting Road Campus, Auckland Park on 30 November. Details: 084 423 8635; gordart@yahoo.com

STILLNESS: an exhibition of works by Hermann Niebuhr (paintings), Chris Letcher (music) and Lloyd Ross (video). The opening night performance will begin at 7pm at The Canopy, 81 De Korte Street, Braamfontein, from 21 November until 7 December. Details: www.niebuhr.co.za

TRANSLATIONS: ART INTO JEWELLERY: an exhibition of artwork and jewellery designed by artists including Norman Catherine, Marco Cianfanelli, Diana Hyslop and Senzeni Marasela at Everard Read Gallery, 6 Jellicoe Avenue, Rosebank, until 21 November. Details: 011 788 4805; www.everard-read.co.za

GROUP SHOW: an exhibition of mixed-media works by Artist’s Club, Jozi and friends, including Juanita Frier, Ronel Wheeler, Conrad Bo, Sue Rankin, Lionel Murcott, Bob Cnoops, Bart Cox, Marika Gregory and Refilwe Mpobole, at Gallery on 6th, 28 6th Street, Parkhurst, until 22 November.

NEW WORK 13: the wits School of Arts’ visual arts division’s graduation exhibition will take place at Wits Art Museum, corner of Bertha and Jorissen Streets, Braamfontein, until 24 November. Details: 011 717 4745; info.diva@wits.ac.za

KILLING THE GOOSE: an exhibition by Mandy Coppes-Martin that presents an eclectic conversation about the things we make, the stories we tell and the threads that bind them, at Artspace, Chester Court, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, until 27 November. Details: 011 880 8802; www.lizamore.co.za

CONSTRAINTS: an exhibition of work by Jaco van Schalkwyk in which one is compelled to ask whether the work is about abstract colour field painting, colourful abstractions, or even about a process of abstracting colour from the picture plane itself. At Gallery AOP, 44 Stanley Avenue, Braamfontein Werf, until 30 November. Details: 011 726 2234; www.galleryaop.com

NOW MUSEUM/NOW YOU DON’T: an exhibition of works by Maaike Bakker that presents a body of work that introduces the notion of the ephemeral and intangible without making any claims to be, themselves, intangible and ephemeral artworks. At NIROX Projects, 264 Fox Street, Arts on Main, Maboneng Precinct, Johannesburg, until 1 December. Details: 072 350 4326; www.niroxarts.com

STAY: an exhibition of works by seven emerging artists at Ithuba Gallery, 100 Juta Street, Braamfontein, until 7 December. Details: info@artsithuba.co.za

CONVERSATIONS WE DO NOT HAVE: an exhibition that tells the story most ordinary women in South Africa can recognise. These are narratives and creative interpretations created by women from KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Northern and Eastern Cape, and North West Province. At Constitution Hill, 11 Kotze Street, Braamfontein, from 22 November until 13 December. Details: 011 381 3126; www.constitutionhill.org.za

MY JO’BURG: an exhibition of work by David Koloane, Abe Mathabe, Themba Khumalo and Ross Passmoor at Gallery 2, 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, until 22 December. Details: 011 447 0155; www.gallery2.co.za

THE LEGACY OF THE MINE: winner of the 2012 Ernest Cole award, Ilan Godfrey, will hold his exhibition, Legacy of the Mine, which explores the social depths of the mining industry beyond its profit and economic contribution. At Wits Art Museum, corner of Jan Smuts Avenue and Jorissen streets, Braamfontein, until 15 December. Details: 011 717 1357; www.wits.ac.za/wam

BODY OF WORK: an exhibition drawings by Ann Roberts that explores the obese human form and its movement, in which she plays with the weight of her subject’s bulk, her isolation and the vast distance between her concerns and those of modern media. At ROOM, 70 Juta Precinct, Juta Street, Braamfontein, from 22 November until 20 January. Details: 011 074 4944; www.urbanartprojects.org

ADAMA IN WONDERLAND: a body of work was developed by photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi during stays in Johannesburg in 2012 and 2013. The artist described the work as “a wander through the contested streets of Johannesburg looking for, searching for, its essential essence.” At Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, from 28 November until 31 January. Details: 011 442 3232; www.goethe.de/johannesburg

NATIVE NOSTALGIA: the Museum of African Design’s first full-length exhibition. Through architecture, construction, cartography, photography, communal archives, and historical reenactment, each artist and participant has a conversation with a past through which they did not live by juxtaposing design elements with those of today. At MOAD, 281 Commissioner Street, Maboneng Precinct, until 9 February. Details: 010 007 0080; www.moadjhb.com