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  • Méné, Family, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 121 x 151cm.
    A very sunny group show, in the grayness of our days, gives us the colour, light and comfort that we so badly need! Three African artists – Henri Abraham Univers, Prince Galla Gnohité, Méné – put love, happy vitality and sweet dreams in the spotlight. Méné, My reflect, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 94 x 122cm. MÉNÉBorn 1977, Ivory Coast. Lives and...
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    Méné: 'Time is Love' at Out of Africa Gallery
  • Prince Galla Gnohité, Course de pneu, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 140 x 125cm.
    A very sunny group show, in the grayness of our days, gives us the colour, light and comfort that we so badly need! Three African artists – Henri Abraham Univers, Prince Galla Gnohité, Méné – put love, happy vitality and sweet dreams in the spotlight. Prince Galla Gnohité, Solidarité, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 130 x 170cm. PRINCE GALLA GNOHITEBorn 1989 in...
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    Prince Galla Gnohité: 'Time is Love' at Out of Africa Gallery
  • Henri Abraham Univers, Le Chat et l'Oiseau, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 80cm.
    A very sunny group show, in the grayness of our days, gives us the colour, light and comfort that we so badly need! Three African artists – Henri Abraham Univers, Prince Galla Gnohité, Méné – put love, happy vitality and sweet dreams in the spotlight. Henri Abraham Univers, Africa Blues, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 150cm. All images courtesy...
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    Henri Abraham Univers: 'Time is Love' at Out of Africa Gallery
  • Image adapted from Mohammed Kazem's Autobiography 4 (1997). Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation.
    Register now to attend online talks, panels and lectures featuring over 50 former Sharjah Biennial curators, artistic directors and artists who will examine the evolution of the Sharjah Biennial and the future of the biennial model. Image adapted from Mohammed Kazem's Autobiography 4, 1997. Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Booking is now available for the March Meeting 2021: Unravelling the Present online and...
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    March Meeting 2021 online and on-site bookings are now available
  • Courtesy of Lagos Biennial
    The Akete Art Foundation is delighted to announce a joint 3rd and 4th Edition of the Lagos Biennial which will hold in November 2021 and November 2023. Due to the current global pandemic and travel constraints, this iteration of the biennial has been split over two editions with the 2021 edition beginning the process and conceptualization of what will...
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    Open Call: Lagos Biennial 3
  • Sahlah Davids, ITHNA 3ASHAR, 2020. Mixed Media, 40 x 40 x 40cm.
    Jaffer Modern is pleased to announce, ‘Tell Me 3 Things About Yourself’, an exhibition featuring Sahlah Davids, Abdus Salaam and Aimee Messinger. The exhibition, curated by Sara Khan, presents the artists as three elements, three intervals of introspection and retrospection, three moments of pause and three invitations to dialogue and debate. You are invited to consider this prevalent question, "Tell me...
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    ‘Tell Me 3 Things About Yourself’ at Jaffer Modern
  • The Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Lekgetho Makola as the new Chief Executive Officer. Previously Makola was the head of the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg. Lekgetho Makola. Courtesy of Javett-UP. Makola joins Javett-UP with many years’ experience. He has contributed significantly to the art community, especially with regards to...
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    Lekgetho Makola appointed as new CEO of the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP)
  • Social media and black pride are shaping some of the African continent’s rising artists represented in the Image Swing collection Whether you are perusing an auction or art fair dedicated to contemporary African art, it will become immediately clear that African art is currently dominated by portraiture. If you look at some of the most prized African artists operating in...
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    African artists exploit portraiture genre
  • Installation view of सावधान: The Regimes of Truth, an apexart International Open Call exhibition in New Delhi, India, in October 2019.
    Accepting Proposals: February 1st - March 1st, 2021 apexart will accept proposals for its International Open Call from February 1st - March 1st, 2021. Four winning proposals for idea-based group exhibitions will become apexart exhibitions presented in their selected locations around the world as part of our 2021-22 exhibition season. Curators, artists, writers, and creative individuals, regardless of location or...
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    apexart International Open Call 2021-2022
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  • Bob-Nosa Uwagboe, Boy in Detention, 2020. Acrylic and spray paint on textured canvas, 150 x 107cm. Courtesy of OOA Gallery.
    Suzette Bell-Roberts, co-founder and publisher of ART AFRICA presents her top picks for the online edition of ART X Lagos. ART X Lagos is West Africa’s premier international art fair, designed to showcase the best and most innovative contemporary and modern art from the African continent and its Diaspora. Bob-Nosa Uwagboe, Boy in Detention, 2020. Acrylic and spray paint on textured canvas,...
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    ART AFRICA presents their top 7 picks from ART X Lagos 2020
  • T. J. Lemon, From the series Oswenka, the Jeppe hostel swankers [The Jeppe hostel swankers strike a pose before a show in the hostel basement], 2000
    Aspire Art Auctions collaborated with the Photography Legacy Project (PLP) to present the first-ever dedicated auction of African photography. Bob Gosani, Mandela Boxing, 1957. Featuring an impressive collection of 126 works by 56 photographers from across the continent (including Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan and Zimbabwe), the auction opened for online bidding on 21 October and concluded on...
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    First ever African Photography Auction delivers a good punch with new records
  • Irma Stern, Swazi Girl. Oil on canvas laid down on board, 51,5 x 39cm. Estimate: R 3 000 000 - 4 000 000
    NORTH/SOUTH Live and Virtual Auction will be taking place  8-11 November 2020 Irma Stern, Swazi Girl. Oil on canvas laid down on board, 51,5 x 39cm. Estimate: R 3 000 000 - 4 000 000. From the Tasso Foundation Collection of Important South African Art assembled by the Late Giulio Bertrand of Morgenster Estate. Luxury and collectability is a hallmark of...
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    Irma Stern marine landscape leads Strauss & Co’s offering of rare and high-value lots
  • G. R. Naidoo © Baha, Mkhumbane, 1960
    The ASPIRE X PLP African Photography Auction is currently open for online bidding online until 5 November. In support of the Photography Legacy Project (PLP), Aspire Art Auctions presents a special auction of photographic works by some of the most notable South African photographers and their pan-African counterparts.In this first-ever African photography auction on the continent, a dynamic collection of ...
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    The Photography Legacy Project in partnership with ASPIRE ART AUCTIONS
  • Cameron Platter, On Set: Beware the Curves, Scene 7: La Rêve, 2005 | Estimate: R 80 000 – 120 000
    Globally, sturdy results at art auctions over the past two quarters indicate a healthy market that is holding steady in challenging times. These results reveal that art trading has continued successfully, which bodes well for the future of the art market. This spring, Aspire returns to Johannesburg with a much-anticipated auction of Modern and Contemporary art taking place on...
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    Treasures & Trailblazers: Aspire Art Auctions sets the stage for exciting sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in Johannesburg
  • Siwa Mgoboza, Bitch, You Betta Werk, 2017.
    Spotlighting Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa as excitement builds for dedicated auction in Paris. Aspire Art Auctions presents a co-curated auction of Modern and Contemporary African Art in collaboration with French auction house Piasa, to take place in Paris on Wednesday, 24 June.The debut of an African based auction house presenting a dedicated sale in Europe marks an industry...
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    Aspire Art Auctions Co-Curates Auction in Paris
  • Abstractly Ours: Amel Bennys & Osi Audu While African figuration continues to dominate the headlines of contemporary art on the continent, much remains to be said about the depth of tradition and history of abstraction on the continent. Philosophically nuanced and culturally complex abstraction gives each one of us the agency to interpret and reflect personally and intimately on and...
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    Masters we need to master
  • The 77-year-old artist spoke to ART AFRICA in an all-encompassing conversation that touched on his origins as an artist, his favourite materials and the state of contemporary art in South Africa today Pitika Ntuli with one of his monumental sculptures, Madiba and the Rainbow Children, 2016. Carved out of wood. Photographer: Refilwe Modise “I started as a traditional healer, and that...
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    Pitika Ntuli
  • Aspire X Piasa excels with unprecedented offering while accessing new global markets The landmark Aspire X Piasa Auction: Modern & Contemporary African Art, took place on Friday, 14 February at OroAfrica House in Cape Town. With a curated collection of 198 artworks, the large-scale Africa-focused auction offered collectors a diversity of works (painting, photography sculpture and mixed-media) by artists from...
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    Top Results for Modern and Contemporary African Art
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