Initially established as an opportunity for artists to show and discuss their works, it experienced major growth and transformations.

[1] The KZNSA Gallery has shown exhibitions by artists such as Thando Mama (2005), Markus Wörsdörfer, (2018), William Kentridge, Theaster Gates, Cameron Platter, Jeremy Wafer, Mbongeni Buthelezi, Tom Cullberg, Penny Siopis, Callan Grecia, Derrick Nxumalo,[2] and young artist and fashion designer Gumede in 2023.

In 2024 they hosted the exhibition "Reflections of Apollo" by the Apollo Queer Art Collective with works by Franco Zucchella, Quinton Lehnert, Daniel Garbade, Peter Garrard, Michael Biello, José Gomez and Raúl Moya-Mula, and the exhibition of the Rust-en-Vrede Gallery Portraits Award 2024 with more than 40 works.

[5] The center offers diverse music performances with live concerts by Raheem Kemet, Lungelo Manzi, Zoe The Seed, Madala Kunene,[6] Kerolin Govender Zawadi Yamungu or Guy Buttery in 2019.

Constructed in 1996 by the architects Cindy Walters and Michál Cohen on an area of 1000m2,[8] it is set back from the main villa and looks at an intermediate garden with under-the-sky seating amidst indigenous acacia trees.