Jared Ginsburg is represented by Blank
Marc Barben is a director at Stevenson

This show occupies Marc’s first-floor apartment in Lower Gardens, Cape Town, transformed into a temporary gallery space – as a site for collaboration between two good friends who first met at art school in 2006.

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Untitled (pink arms), 2024
Oil paint, canvas, cardboard, cotton stitching, paper, steel cabinet
50.5 x 53.5 x 2.5cm (open)
25.5 x 53.5 x 5cm (closed)

Untitled, 2025
Oil paint, canvas, steel cabinet
50.5 x 53.5 x 2.5 cm (open)
25.5 x 53.5 x 5 cm (closed)

A series of personal encounters in plaster and cardboard 5, 2023
Graphite on plaster, cardboard
29.5 x 28 x 4cm

Three Positions, 2020–25
Motors, rubber, string, jewllers wire
Dimensions variable

Untitled (lying on bed), 2024
Oil on canvas
22 x 20 x 5cm

Hanging Drawing (Marc’s house), 2025
Bamboo, rubber, cotton string and jewellers’ wire
134 x 184 x 28cm

Untitled (two figures at night), 2024
Oil on canvas, stitched to cardboard, tape, paper
52 x 35 x 3cm

Dear my loves, 2025
Oil on canvas, stitched to canvas, resin, paper
20 x 27 x 3.5cm

Figure in pink and blue, 2025
Oil on wood, resin
27 x 37 x 1cm

At rest, 2013
Canvas, stuffing
172 x 55 x 37cm

note on shadows, 2025
pencil on canvas, resin, paper
49.5 x 46 x 3.5cm

one note, 2025
wax chalk on paper on cardboard, resin
34.5 x 31 x 3cm

Anne, 2025
oil on canvas, stitched onto cardboard, dims
34.5 x 31 x 3cm

Vienna, 2025
Graphite, plaster, resin, oil on wood, steel cabinet
50.5 x 53.5 x 2.5 cm (open); 25.5 x 53.5 x 5 cm (closed)

Marc’s apartment at 4am, 2025
Ink, canvas, cardboard, cotton stitching, paper, steel cabinet
50.5 x 53.5 x 2.5 cm (open); 25.5 x 53.5 x 5 cm (closed)

Jared Ginsburg is represented by Blank
Marc Barben is a director at Stevenson

In the run-up to this show, Jared visited this space on the way home from his studio, each day with an additional object, one by one, until a body of work formed, that spoke for itself, united by his instinct and imagination.

In Jared’s work, one gesture guides the next. Marks and things are made and unmade, preserved, erased. Sometimes they are rediscovered in the studio many years later. By means of detour and prompt, Jared’s work emerges as the layered accumulation of formal consideration and material enquiry, as the sum of his decision-making and playfulness. On the way to some place he describes finding himself somewhere else, the result is a new thing brought into the world.

Ginsburg uses art-making to explore alternative modes of knowledge production and transfer. He recognizes art as a tool, a means to test and probe the world, hoping to nurture new strategies for productive engagement. Ginsburg employs a range of media types in his practice, including painting, sculpture, drawing, video and performance. Seeking “indeterminacy or chance operations” in his process, Ginsburg’s studio plays a significant role; at once a lab, an instrument and a character in conversation.

His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), A4 Arts Foundation (Cape Town), the Rennie Museum (Vancouver) and Astrup Fearnley (Oslo).