WHERE ART HAPPENS IN NATURE
NIROX is committed to global contemporary art through its sculpture park, artist residency, workshops, and outdoor concert venues. Since its founding in 2006, NIROX has cultivated an atmosphere that empowers, inspires, and calms artists through its residency, exhibition, and workshop programmes, while offering visitors the opportunity to be nourished by art in nature.
NIROX provide artists with full board and lodging, as well as access to studio space, tools, curatorial guidance, and our network/community. We also facilitate programmes around each residency, determined in collaboration with artists based on individual needs, and can facilitate talks, workshops, community engagement, exhibitions, media, and other research / archival related matter. Artists cover their own transport, material, and production costs (NIROX will assist with funding applications). We generate income, all of which is used to meet expenses and optimise our objectives, in order to become self-sustaining.
ARTIST RESIDENCY
The Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture is a partnership between the Claire and Edoardo Villa Will Trust and the NIROX Foundation Trust. It is a generative space for artists, curators, writers, and cultural practitioners to create and share. Its objective is to foster the arts, especially sculpture, by enabling the production of new works, and to pay tribute to the life and work of Edoardo Villa and his long-time collaborator Lucas Legodi.
Villa’s humanist concerns, vitality, and experimental approach to art-making are reflected in the Centre’s multifaceted programme of residencies, exhibitions, publications, workshops, talks, and educational initiatives.
VILLA-LEGODI
Centre for Sculpture
NIROX Sculpture Park is 30ha of cultivated lawns, arbors, fields, waterways, and wetlands, on the banks of the Blaauwbankspruit River adjoining the Kkatlhamphi Private Nature Reserve. The Park hosts more than 50 permanent and long-term installations by artists from across the globe, and at least one annual large-scale curated exhibition of new and temporary installations and performances, in collaboration with NIROX’s wide circle of global partners and curatorial affiliations.
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SCULPTURE PARK
RESTAURANT
('And then there was Fire...')
The restaurant at NIROX, ‘And then there was Fire…’, is independently owned and run. The restaurant serves a delicious array of intercontinental cuisine. They are open from Thursday to Sunday, from 11h00 – 18h00. The kitchen closes at 16h00. Booking in advance is recommended.
To make a booking, click here (alternatively, contact us on 0645374473, email bookings@andthentherewasfire.com, or visit our website).
Restaurant patrons who have pre-booked their seat at 'And then...' are eligible for a reduced park entrance fee of R80.
NIROX and its greater ecosystem hosts an array of multimodal events. Varying from exhibitions, performances, open studios, concerts, and culinary events.
Visit our WHAT'S ON page for updates on upcoming events
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WHAT'S ON
in the Valley
NIROX hosts an active concert and performance programme of diverse genres: jazz, blues, folk, classical, contemporary, indigenous, opera, new music, live & performance arts. To learn more about our upcoming concerts,
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CONCERTS / LIVE ART
The Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture is a partnership between the Claire and Edoardo Villa Will Trust and the NIROX Foundation Trust. It is a generative space for artists, curators, writers, and cultural practitioners to create and share. Its objective is to foster the arts, especially sculpture, by enabling the production of new works, and to pay tribute to the life and work of Edoardo Villa and his long-time collaborator Lucas Legodi.
Villa’s humanist concerns, vitality, and experimental approach to art-making are reflected in the Centre’s multifaceted programme of residencies, exhibitions, publications, workshops, talks, and educational initiatives.
VILLA-LEGODI
Centre for Sculpture
NATURA Co-lab resides in the raw wood and glass structure in the Water Pavilion of NIROX Sculpture Park. Run by Manthe Ribane, its reach extends to the surrounding cultivated and wild landscapes – amongst trees, grasslands, lawns and waterways that are home to the diverse flora and fauna of the Cradle of Humankind; upon ancient earth, under limitless skies.
NATURA Co-lab
Founded in 2009, Columba Residency’s vision is to instil a sense of grit, purpose, determination and 21st century skills into large numbers of young African leaders through their unique and dynamic peer-on-peer leadership model. With a powerful track record of 7900 graduates from 189 schools, Columba is creating a deep impact - changing the lives of individuals, the culture of schools and the aspirations of communities, nationwide. With the completion of their new permanent residency in the Valley, alongside NIROX, its leaders intimately experience the arts and nature, unharnessing new ways of being and imagining their future.
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COLUMBA
Leadership Academy
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