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a ctca workshop is your start to a creative career

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Experiential art and design workshops from ctca
CTCA’s studio-based workshops offer a vital return to tactile, intentional making that bridges traditional craft with modern industry pipelines.

tech, light, and transformation

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The cape town creative student projection at lumenocity.
CTCA isn't just a traditional art school; it is a transdisciplinary creative hub where cutting-edge technology and real-world collaboration meet.

inspiring global art perspectives

/ career ready

Visitors and students walking through a professional white-cube gallery space featuring sculptures and framed photography.
Learn how CTCA integrates global art events into a curriculum that kickstarts graduates’ careers.

the 2026 guide

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Urban collage of courage posters: 'this is what courage looks like' and 'what happens if you move first? ', with street textures and qr codes.
Explore the 2026 guide to creative degrees in South Africa, from visual communication to contemporary art at Cape Town Creative Academy.

2025 matric exhibition

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For the past four years, the Face of Art & Design Matric Exhibition has stood as a prestigious highlight on the Western Cape Visual Arts and Design calendar. This flagship initiative is a collaboration between the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) and the Cape Town Creative Academy (CTCA), celebrating some of the most compelling creative work produced by South Africa’s emerging young artists and designers. In January 2026, the exhibition returns to CTCA’s main campus in Silo 5, presenting 42 outstanding Matric projects drawn from Visual Arts and Design schools across the province. Created by the Grade 12 class of 2025, these works have been carefully selected for their originality, narrative depth and bold creative risk-taking.

Celebrating student excellence

/ a year in review (2025)

As we step boldly into 2026, we do so with full hearts and immense pride. The past year has been nothing short of extraordinary for our students, our staff, and our creative community. Cape Town Creative Academy has once again solidified its place as one of the leading creative institutions on the continent, following a remarkable run of national and international recognition in 2025. But these achievements represent far more than trophies or titles. They speak to the courage, curiosity, and determination that define CTCA’s creative spirit. As South Africa’s youngest multi-award-winning creative institution, CTCA offers a collaborative, transdisciplinary, and student-centred education. We provide a nurturing, hands-on learning environment that challenges students to think differently, experiment boldly, and graduate with work-ready portfolios that shape the future of the creative industry. And in 2025, those bold thinkers shone brighter than ever.

Inside Solo Studios

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From 24–26 October 2025, Solo Studios transformed Riebeek Kasteel & Riebeek West into a living gallery. Doors opened to art-lovers and collectors, conversations flowed, and creative processes took centre stage, showcasing talent and innovation. This immersive arts event offers a rare glimpse into the creative heart of this picturesque region. Held annually, it brings together a vibrant community of established and emerging artists who open their private studios (and galleries) to the public, inviting visitors into their personal creative spaces. This unique exhibition not only allows audiences to view and purchase exceptional pieces but also to engage directly with the artists, gaining insight into their inspirations, techniques, and processes.

Kamyar Bineshtarigh “Group show” Southern Guild

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Contemporary Art Honours alumnus Kamyar Bineshtarigh presents a body of work that quietly upends exhibition conventions. His latest presentation, Group Show at Southern Guild (Silo 5, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town), reimagines the studio as an archive and the gallery as a site of careful salvage, becoming an elegant meditation on authorship, presence, preservation and impermanence. The exhibition runs 21 August–10 November 2025 and will be on view in Los Angeles from 13 September–4 November 2025.
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