Writing Art History Since 2002
From Kumasi’s roadside sermons to the ethnographic gaze of Paris, the Ghanaian painter reflects on translation, authorship, and the shifting lives of images in his exhibition, ‘Almighty God Art Works’. 29 April 2026 Presented at […]
Speaking in Signs: Kwame Akoto’s Worlds Across Contexts. Read Article
‘Le Son de l’Art: ’Écho de la Matière’,’ transforms San Servolo into a living archive of memory, material and postcolonial becoming 24 April 2026 At the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia,
Echoes from the Margins: Guinea’s Debut Pavilion Resonates in Venice. Read Article
Caroline Gueye, curated by Massamba Mbaye, Senegal Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Navagero. 21 April 2026 A glimmer, uncertain, almost peripheral, draws the body forward into the rooms
WURUS – Light catches before form does. Read Article
Ndéyé Kouagou’s Italian debut unfolds a slippery terrain of text, performance and fractured meaning at Fotografia Europea 2026. 23 April 2026 In conjunction with Fotografia Europea 2026, ‘Ghosts of the Moment’, Collezione Maramotti presents Ndéyé
‘Ghosts of the Moment’ – Language Games in a Haunted Present. Read Article
At Venice Biennale 2026, Diane Lima stages a sensorial encounter between Adriana Varejão and Rosana Paulino that turns architecture into a site of resistance, rupture, and repair. 21 April 2026 In the Giardini, where national
Nobody Can Handle Me: Brazil Rewrites the Pavilion as Living Memory. Read Article
On the occasion of the 61st Biennale de Venezia and in commemoration of Koyo Kouoh’s curatorial framework for this year’s Biennale edition titled In Minor Keys, ART AFRICA will publish our forthcoming edition within this
CALL & RESPONSE: ART AFRICA’s Editorial Programme at the 61st Biennale di Venezia 2026. Read Article
An Atmosphere of Virtue, Thick with Contradiction. Shamiela Tyer 15 April 2026 Johannes Phokela, Fides, 2024. Oil on canvas. Photo courtesy of Eclectica Contemporary. The paintings of Johannes Phokela don’t ask to be admired. They
An inaugural pavilion listens beyond the noise, composing a polyphonic future from West Africa to the world. 17 April 2026 In Venice, where spectacle often competes for attention amid the grandeur of national pavilions, Sierra
Minor Keys, Major Shifts: Sierra Leone’s Resonant Debut in Venice. Read Article
Simon Njami on masks, memory, and the unfinished work of decolonial imagination at Musea e Real Bosco di Capodimonte. 17 April 2026 In this wide-ranging conversation, curator Simon Njami discusses NAFRICA–MASCHERE, an exhibition that stages
NAFRICA–MASCHERE: The Mask Strikes Back Read Article
In Venice, sound becomes a vessel for memory, migration, and the unfinished story of a nation. 15 April 2026 Curator Bana Kattan. Photo by Dahlia Dandashi. Image Courtesy of National Pavilion UAE In Venice, where
