South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga creates flashy, dazzling spectacles that explore identity politics through engaging and colorful fashion-based performance art. Athi-Patra Ruga blends tropes and ...

In South Africa, the design of wine farms and estates can be every bit as varied as the wines they produce. How the digital exhibition ‘Goya and Africa’ connects Francisco de Goya’s legacy with ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Athi-Patra Ruga is no stranger to national turmoil. His home country of South Africa has often ...

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz Mocaa) announces a collaboration with acclaimed South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga ahead of its highly anticipated Gala event taking place on Sunday, ...

Athi-Patra Ruga is a mythmaker of distinction. The 36-year-old interdisciplinary artist, represented by WHATIFTHEWORLD gallery in Cape Town, builds nations and narratives with an artistic practice ...

Bansidhar Patra, renowned painter, designer and artist, breathed his last on December 28, but many art lovers of Odisha, Kolkata (where he was educated in art) and rest of the world could not notice ...

Renowned artist Athi-Patra Ruga illuminates on using his art to restore dignity and pay homage to forgotten and misrepresented communities. I was born eZiphunzini, also known as Duncan Village, in ...

It’s been three-and-a-half years since the statue of Cecil John Rhodes was removed from the University of Cape Town’s campus, but the old colonialist’s image remains memorialised in locations around ...

Luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton often conflates the worlds of art and fashion – a tradition that goes back almost a century. Marc Jacobs, the brand’s former creative director who has now been ...

Ever since Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” first dropped, we’ve been nostalgic for Nineties reggae artist, Patra…the original dancehall queen. The gorgeous Kingston, Jamaica native first surfaced on Shabba Ranks ...

The following is an edited conversation between Athi-Patra Ruga and Nkgopoleng Moloi, a few months before the opening of Ruga’s exhibition at the Leslie Lohman Museum, titled ‘Athi-Patra Ruga: Lord, I ...