Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026: Listen

We are delighted to announce that Listen is our curatorial concept for the 2026 edition of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair.

 

In a world saturated with noise, urgency and individualistic self-expression, listening is an increasingly radical act. In contrast to seeing, when we are asked to Listen, we are invited to slow down, recalibrate our attention and forge deeper connections. Listen is not passive. It is an active, embodied, ethical gesture.

 

Listen is an invitation: to pause, to create space, to hold complexity, to tune in to what lies beneath the surface. It calls us to notice what is usually unheard: the silences, the murmurs, the voices too often drowned out or disregarded.

 

For Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026, Listen emerges as both a curatorial proposition and a sensorial framework, explored through sound, silence, resonance, resistance and the myriad ways in which artists invite us to hear differently: to reckon, to feel, to understand, to heal.

 

More than just a theme, Listen is a mode of engagement and a way of being with art, with one another, and with the moment. It asks artists to reflect on what it means to be heard. It challenges curators to assemble sections that cultivate attention and presence. It encourages visitors to participate sensitively in meaning-making.

 

Listen also reconnects us to the material and immaterial textures of art — to its rhythms, vibrations and echoes — and to the narratives that emerge when we choose to truly, deeply, listen.

 

 

For more information on the application procedures, please get in touch with Mia Louw at mia@fieramilano.co.za

 

For any communications and press queries, please get in touch with Jess Wright at jess@fieramilano.co.za