“Art is a form of individual self-expression, where everyone can have a voice. As long as art is open and free of legislation, and as long as viewers can look at art without prejudice, I think there is a natural connection between art and human rights.”
– Anne Sassoon (CCAC artist)

“People that come to the Constitutional Court meet art with an open mind to be influenced by it. The world is looking at us making a success of what we do here and how we deal with apartheid.”
– Stefan Blom (CCAC artist)

Learn more about the works on display.

Weaving Baskets from Stars (2020)

The first publication focuses on The Benefit of the Doubt by Marlene Dumas, released freely as PDF on 10 December 2020, International Human Rights Day.

Marlene Dumas has donated Charles Badenhorst’s animation video artwork of Adam Small’s poem to the CCAC.

Here's what our previous graduate interns have to say about working on the CCAC.

“Art is fundamental to the appearance, understanding, and provision of justice in South Africa and of South African justice at the highest judicial level.”
– Eliza Garnsey in The Justice of Visual Art

"The collection symbolises the best aspirations of our democracy, of reconciliation, of justice, and of transformation."
– Justice Edwin Cameron