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# ART AFRICA Magazine

Contemporary Art from Africa And The Diaspora, Painting, Sculpture, Writing

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- [When Objects Look Back](https://artafricamagazine.org/when-objects-look-back/) - Elolo Bosoka on transforming onion sacks, charcoal bags, and other well-travelled materials into living archives of movement, memory, and exchange. 12 August 2026 For Elolo Bosoka, the studio has no fixed address. It unfolds in markets, streets, trains, and conversations - where ordinary objects accumulate traces of the people and places they encounter. In this
- [After It's All Said: Diane Lima and the 39th Panorama of Brazilian Art.](https://artafricamagazine.org/after-its-all-said-diane-lima-and-the-39th-panorama-of-brazilian-art/) - At MAM São Paulo, Diane Lima considers what might emerge from the debates that have transformed contemporary Brazilian art — and what it means to build new artistic, institutional, and critical possibilities from the Global South. 11 August 2026 Since its inception in 1969, the Panorama of Brazilian Art has provided a recurring lens for
- [Beyond the Finished Form: How Nigerian Art Takes Shape](https://artafricamagazine.org/beyond-the-finished-form-how-nigerian-art-takes-shape/) - Curator Charles Udeh discusses 'Tracing Forms: The Art of Making’, an exhibition that reveals how material, gesture, technology and artistic labour shape contemporary Nigerian art. 11 August 2026 What if an artwork's meaning begins long before it is finished? In this interview, curator Charles Udeh reflects on ‘Tracing Forms: The Art of Making’, exploring the
- [Maren Hassinger: What Holds Us Together.](https://artafricamagazine.org/maren-hassinger-what-holds-us-together/) - Curator Anthony Graham on Maren Hassinger's landmark retrospective, where sculpture breathes, participation becomes practice, and care emerges as a radical artistic language. 11 August 2026 For more than fifty years, Maren Hassinger has transformed industrial materials into meditations on movement, ecology, and human connection. In ‘Living Moving Growing’, her largest retrospective to date at the
- [Karyn Olivier: The Weight of What Remains](https://artafricamagazine.org/karyn-olivier-the-weight-of-what-remains/) - Karyn Olivier reflects on absence, monumentality, and the restless material lives of objects in ‘Bend, Break, Mend’, where sculpture becomes a way of navigating historical rupture, collective memory, and the unfinished work of repair. 5 August 2026 In ‘Bend, Break, Mend’, Karyn Olivier transforms found materials, overlooked landscapes, and everyday objects into poetic meditations on
- [Living Heritage: How Benin is Reimagining the Museum](https://artafricamagazine.org/living-heritage-how-benin-is-reimagining-the-museum/) - As Benin invests in museums, welcomes the return of looted royal treasures and stages the Festival of Masks, it is advancing a new vision of heritage in which ritual, scholarship and cultural policy converge, challenging conventional understandings of what museums preserve and how history is told. Suzette Bell-Roberts 5 August 2026 Describing the Festival of
- [The Politics of Presence: Chloë Bass on Care, Public Space, and the Art of Paying Attention](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-politics-of-presence-chloe-bass-on-care-public-space-and-the-art-of-paying-attention/) - As ‘Soft Services’ continues its installation at Seattle's Henry Art Gallery, artist Chloë Bass reflects on public space as a site of intimacy, collective responsibility, and quiet resistance -where a simple bench becomes an invitation to slow down, connect, and imagine new forms of care. 6 August 2026 For Chloë Bass, art begins where everyday
- [Imagining What Remains: Widline Cadet's Currents 40](https://artafricamagazine.org/imagining-what-remains-widline-cadets-currents-40/) - Haitian artist Widline Cadet reflects on transforming the absence of family photographs into an expansive meditation on migration, ritual, language, and belonging. She discusses the evolving life of Seremoni Disparisyon, the emotional landscapes of the Black diaspora, and photography's capacity to preserve the past while imagining new futures. 5 August 2o26 For nearly a decade,
- [rootoftwo: Imagining Beyond the Inevitable](https://artafricamagazine.org/rootoftwo-imagining-beyond-the-inevitable/) - rootoftwo on civic imagination, technological power, and why the future must be collectively authored rather than inherited 5 August 2026 As artificial intelligence, surveillance, and digital infrastructures increasingly shape everyday life, the question of who gets to imagine the future has become profoundly political. In ‘Anyspace? Whatever.’, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art
- [Curating the Seen and the Unseen](https://artafricamagazine.org/curating-the-seen-and-the-unseen/) - Curator Jennifer Inacio on Woody De Othello's ‘Coming Forth By Day’, creating exhibitions that are felt before they are understood, and the enduring spiritual connections that bind objects, memory, and the African diaspora. 30 July 2026 For Jennifer Inacio, curating is not about explaining artworks but creating the conditions for meaningful encounters. In ‘Coming Forth
- [Thero Makepe: The Histories We Inherit](https://artafricamagazine.org/thero-makepe-the-histories-we-inherit/) - Thero Makepe on family archives, political memory, and reimagining Botswana's place within Southern Africa's liberation histories 5 August 2026 In ‘We Didn't Choose to Be Born Here’, Thero Makepe transforms family photographs, oral histories, documentary images and re-enactments into a powerful meditation on migration, resistance and belonging. Rooted in the intertwined histories of Botswana and
- [Returning Home: Beya Gille Gacha on Curating NZƏNDA for the Cameroon Pavilion.](https://artafricamagazine.org/returning-home-beya-gille-gacha-on-curating-nzenda-for-the-cameroon-pavilion/) - For the Republic of Cameroon's presentation at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, artist and curator Beya Gille Gacha reflects on creating NZƏNDA. This immersive Pavilion draws on Indigenous knowledge, sound, ritual and contemporary art to propose a different way of experiencing healing, memory and the living world. 29 July 2026
- [Reverse Futures - The Future Has a History](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-future-has-a-history/) - Curated by Clive Kellner at the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation, ‘Reverse Futures’ proposes that the future is not merely invented, but conjured from the histories, values, and knowledge systems that shape how societies dream and interpret the world. Brendon Bell-Roberts 30 July 2026 Each era envisions the future through the lens of its most transformative
- [Where Dreams Remember What History Cannot](https://artafricamagazine.org/where-dreams-remember-what-history-cannot/) - In ‘Dreamscapes In Transit’, Johannesburg-based artist Leonardo Sitoe reflects on dreams as an evolving archive of migration, memory, and urban experience. 29 July 2026 For Leonardo Sitoe, dreams are neither private reveries nor fleeting moments of unconscious thought. They are living repositories where memory, history, and lived experience converge. Developed through the Bag Factory's Young/Unframed
- [The Body Keeps the Story](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-body-keeps-the-story/) - Mosa Anita Kaiser on memory, fragmentation, and reclaiming the body as a living archive 29 July 2026 In ‘Residues of Proximity: One Body, Many Parts’, South African artist Mosa Anita Kaiser approaches the body as more than a physical form. It becomes an archive of memory, a repository of violence and care, and a site
- [Where Memory Finds Its Shore](https://artafricamagazine.org/where-memory-finds-its-shore/) - Keisha Scarville reflects on photography as ritual, the material afterlives of grief, and transforming the Brooklyn Museum into a space where personal remembrance becomes a shared act of belonging. 29 July 2026 In ‘Where Salt Meets Black Water’, Keisha Scarville expands the intimate language of photography into a monumental public installation that honours memory as
- [Dreaming Forward Through Black Collecting](https://artafricamagazine.org/dreaming-forward-through-black-collecting/) - A landmark exhibition celebrates Peggy Cooper Cafritz's transformative legacy through a remarkable collection of contemporary artists of African descent. 28 July 2026 The Studio Museum in Harlem presents ‘Dreams of This Future: The Collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz’, a major exhibition honouring one of the most influential collectors, educators, and cultural advocates of the late
- [Beyond the Black Triangle](https://artafricamagazine.org/beyond-the-black-triangle/) - Armet Francis' landmark photographic journey maps the histories, resilience and everyday beauty of the African diaspora. 28 July 2026 For more than four decades, Jamaican British photographer Armet Francis has built one of the most significant visual archives of Black life across Africa, Europe and the Americas. ‘Beyond the Black Triangle’, presented by London's Autograph,
- [5× 5 Baltimore: The Art of Black Men](https://artafricamagazine.org/5x-5-baltimore-the-art-of-black-men/) - Black male artists from Baltimore and the Lehigh Valley come together in a powerful exhibition that reclaims identity through memory, imagination, and creative expression. 28 July 2026 Bringing together ten Black male artists from Baltimore and Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, 5 × 5 Baltimore: The Art of Black Men offers a timely meditation on identity, resilience,
- [Where the Land Remembers](https://artafricamagazine.org/where-the-land-remembers/) - Karyn Olivier transforms Detroit's industrial landscape into a meditation on memory, material, and collective endurance. 28 July 2026 ‘Bend, Break, Mend’ presents a compelling new chapter in the practice of Trinidad-born, Brooklyn-raised artist Karyn Olivier. The exhibition brings together recent works and newly commissioned sculptures that draw deeply from Detroit's industrial histories, waterways, architecture, and
- [Where the Body Lingers: The Poetry of Ordinary Things](https://artafricamagazine.org/where-the-body-lingers-the-poetry-of-ordinary-things/) - Laila Majid and Inaam Zafar discuss metaphor, materiality and the quiet dramas of everyday life in ‘Body Quotidian’, a two-person exhibition curated by Raja'a Khalid at Sharjah Art Foundation. 28 July 2026 Bringing together recent sculptures, photographs and paintings, ‘Body Quotidian’ places the practices of London-based Laila Majid and Lahore-based Inaam Zafar into an intimate
- [The Living Language of Benin:  Art, History, and Cultural Repair](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-living-language-of-benin-art-history-and-cultural-repair/) - As ‘Back to Benin: New Art, Ancient Legacy’ brings together ten contemporary Edo artists in the wake of the restitution of a Benin Bronze, curator Aude Christel Mgba reflects on repair, living heritage, and why the future of Benin's cultural legacy belongs as much to contemporary artists as to the objects that inspired them. 28
- [Breathing History into Being: donna Kukama on Memory Beyond the Archive](https://artafricamagazine.org/breathing-history-into-being-donna-kukama-on-memory-beyond-the-archive/) - In 'I Breathe, You Breathe’, donna Kukama reimagines history as something living, embodied, and collective. She reflects on breath as political metaphor, performance as knowledge, and the possibilities of remembering beyond the limits of the archive. 28 July 2026 History, for Donna Kukama, is not a fixed record waiting to be retrieved. It is something
- [AETHER COMMONS: Refracted Cosmologies](https://artafricamagazine.org/aether-commons-refracted-cosmologies/) - Reframing Modernism At the Stefan Gierowski Foundation in Warsaw, Azu Nwagbogu places one of Poland's most significant abstractionists in dialogue with contemporary artists from Africa and beyond, revealing how parallel investigations into light, materiality and perception have unfolded across cultures, often beyond the established narratives of modernism. Brendon Bell-Roberts 22 July 2026 Why would one
- [Lives Beyond the Label](https://artafricamagazine.org/lives-beyond-the-label/) - Erica P. Jones and Carlee S. Forbes on Belongings, provenance, and reimagining the museum as a space of shared inquiry. 22 July 2026 At a moment when museums are reassessing the histories embedded within their collections, ‘Belongings: Changing Hands and Shifting Meanings in African Arts’ at the Fowler Museum at UCLA offers a compelling reframing
- [Streets as Archives Second Edition Invites African Photographers to Reframe the Built Environment](https://artafricamagazine.org/streets-as-archives-second-edition-invites-african-photographers-to-reframe-the-built-environment/) - Unpublished Africa calls for a photographic series exploring architecture, urban memory, and the ways African cities record histories of change through the built environment. 21 July 2026 Open Call: Unpublished Africa has launched an open call for ‘Streets as Archives: Second Edition’, inviting photographers from across the African continent to submit work for a forthcoming
- [Zīnah (Adornment): Oman’s Pavilion Tunes the Biennale to Resonance Over Spectacle](https://artafricamagazine.org/zinah-adornment-omans-pavilion-tunes-the-biennale-to-resonance-over-spectacle/) - 1 May 2026 At the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the Sultanate of Oman offers a quietly arresting proposition. Zīnah (Adornment), conceived by Haitham Al Busafi in the dual role of artist and curator, unfolds in the Arsenale Artiglierie from 9 May to 22 November 2026 as an immersive meditation on
- [Friction, Energy, and Collective Practice](https://artafricamagazine.org/friction-energy-and-collective-practice/) - PACT Zollverein invites applications for IMPACT26, an international laboratory exploring artistic collaboration through practices of encounter, negotiation, and cooperation. 21 July 2026 Open Call: PACT Zollverein has opened applications for IMPACT26, the latest edition of its international PACT Lab programme. Titled Friction Energy: On Practices of Encounter, Negotiation and Cooperation, the four-day laboratory will take
- [Mangrove Imaginaries](https://artafricamagazine.org/mangrove-imaginaries/) - A collective exhibition at Mémorial ACTe traces memory, belonging, and the evolving landscape of the Caribbean World. 21 July 2026 Mémorial ACTe in Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, presents ‘Nou an péyi révé, Traversées de la mangrove’, an ambitious collective exhibition inspired by the life, thought, and literary legacy of Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé. Conceived by
- [Embaga ya Naki ne Naki](https://artafricamagazine.org/embaga-ya-naki-ne-naki/) - Leilah Babirye transforms the imagined queer wedding into a powerful sculptural meditation on love, kinship, and survival. 21 July 2026 At the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Leilah Babirye unveils ‘Embaga ya Naki ne Naki (Wedding of Naki and Naki)’, a major new exhibition that extends her profound exploration of identity, resilience, and chosen family
- [Masks in Motion](https://artafricamagazine.org/masks-in-motion/) - New African Masquerades reclaims the living artists transforming one of Africa's most dynamic cultural traditions. 21 July 2026 Masquerade has long occupied a central place in global perceptions of African artistic traditions, yet the makers behind these extraordinary works have too often remained unnamed. ‘New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations', on view at the
- [Framing the Unseen](https://artafricamagazine.org/framing-the-unseen/) - Vantage Point 13 at Sharjah Art Foundation expands the language of documentary photography through six newly commissioned bodies of work. 21 July 2026 What does documentary photography become when certainty gives way to ambiguity? ‘Vantage Point 13’ at Sharjah Art Foundation invites audiences to reconsider the image as a site of inquiry rather than evidence,
- [Creative Lineages: Shaped by Inheritance](https://artafricamagazine.org/creative-lineages-shaped-by-inheritance/) - A major Princeton exhibition traces creative lineages across Africa and its diasporas through the enduring language of ceramics. 21 July 2026 Clay is both material and archive, carrying histories of place, labour, ancestry and knowledge across generations. At the Princeton University Art Museum, ‘Clay Has Memory: Creative Lineages from Africa’ brings together 45 vessels and
- [Where the River Remembers Tomorrow](https://artafricamagazine.org/where-the-river-remembers-tomorrow/) - Olalekan Jeyifous transforms the Mississippi into a site of memory, ecology, and speculative futures at the Walker Art Center. 21 July 2026 This August, the Walker Art Center presents ‘Olalekan Jeyifous: Hydricosmic Litanies’, the first solo museum exhibition by the acclaimed Nigerian American artist, architect, and designer. The exhibition expands Jeyifous’ celebrated practice of speculative
- [Rubber, Memory, and Monument: Chakaia Booker Reclaims the Industrial Landscape](https://artafricamagazine.org/rubber-memory-and-monument-chakaia-booker-reclaims-the-industrial-landscape/) - At the National Gallery of Art, monumental sculptures fashioned from discarded tyres transform environmental waste into powerful reflections on history, resilience, and the possibilities of renewal. 21 July 2026 For more than four decades, Chakaia Booker has reshaped discarded tyres into monumental sculptural forms that challenge conventional understandings of abstraction, materiality, and environmental responsibility. ‘In
- [Reclaiming Turandot from the Western Imagination.](https://artafricamagazine.org/reclaiming-turandot-from-the-western-imagination/) - 'TURANDOT: To the Daughters of the East' brings eleven women artists into conversation across Central and West Asia and their diasporas, challenging inherited ideas of the “East” through memory, mythology, displacement and resilience. 20 July 2026 Presented at the historic Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti in Venice, 'TURANDOT: To the Daughters of the East' brings together eleven women
- [More Than a Store: Preserving Black Memory Through Everyday Spaces](https://artafricamagazine.org/more-than-a-store-preserving-black-memory-through-everyday-spaces/) - Photographer Jasmine Ross discusses ‘Beauty Plus’, her evolving exploration of Black-owned beauty supply stores as living archives of care, entrepreneurship, memory, and cultural inheritance. 21 July 2026 For Jasmine Ross, ‘Beauty Plus’ is not simply a photographic record of a beloved Black-owned beauty supply store at the end of its 31-year history. It is an
- [Resisting Erasure: Curating Sudan's Living Archive](https://artafricamagazine.org/resisting-erasure-curating-sudans-living-archive/) - Curator Edith Arance reflects on memory, photography, and the urgent responsibility of preserving Sudanese voices through ‘Resistance in Memory: Visions of Sudan’, an exhibition that moves beyond the headlines to foreground resilience, testimony, and the enduring power of lived experience. 17 July 2026 As war, displacement, and exile continue to reshape Sudan, ‘Resistance in Memory:
- [Painting Beyond the Self: Móyòsóré Martins on Returning Home, Spiritual Practice and Building an Inner World](https://artafricamagazine.org/painting-beyond-the-self-moyosore-martins-on-returning-home-spiritual-practice-and-building-an-inner-world/) - As one of the invited artists in the Republic of Sierra Leone Pavilion at the 61st La Biennale di Venezia, Nigerian artist Móyòsóré Martins reflects on artistic vulnerability, returning to Nigeria, and the role of genuine encounters in shaping his creative practice. 16 July 2026 The Republic of Sierra Leone Pavilion, Worlds of Today, brings
- [The Sacred Work of Remembering: Demetri Broxton on Ancestry, Diasporic Histories, and the Language of Materials](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-sacred-work-of-remembering-demetri-broxton-on-ancestry-diasporic-histories-and-the-language-of-materials/) - The Oakland-based artist reflects on memory, spirituality, and the transformative power of material practice, revealing how beadwork, portraiture, and ritual become acts of honouring lives that continue to shape the present. 16 July 2026 With ‘Ancestral Echoes’, Demetri Broxton offers a deeply personal yet universally resonant meditation on ancestry, memory, and belonging. Drawing on archival
- [Making Meaning in an Age of Uncertainty](https://artafricamagazine.org/making-meaning-in-an-age-of-uncertainty/) - Artists Mike Cloud and Nyeema Morgan discuss ‘Story Structure, Pt. 2’, their exhibition at the Neubauer Collegium, reflecting on language, ambiguity, power, and the shifting ways stories shape how we understand ourselves and the world. 16 July 2026 Presented at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society in Chicago, ‘Story Structure, Pt. 2’ brought together
- [Reconstructing Palmyra](https://artafricamagazine.org/reconstructing-palmyra/) - Walking through Sara Shamma’s The Tower Tomb of Palmyra at the 61st Venice Biennale 16 July 2026 The Syrian Pavilion reveals itself long before you reach it, and that is the point. Titled The Tower Tomb of Palmyra, the Syrian Arab Republic’s first official solo national presentation at the Venice Biennale is anchored by a
- [Apply for the 2Roads Foundation’s Gallery on the Greens Residency in the Vaal.](https://artafricamagazine.org/apply-for-the-2roads-foundations-gallery-on-the-greens-residency-in-the-vaal/) - Emerging South African visual artists are invited to apply for a six-week residency that combines studio practice, mentorship, and exhibition opportunities in a riverside setting designed to foster artistic growth. 15 July 2026 Open Call: The 2Roads Foundation has opened applications for its inaugural Gallery on the Greens Residency, a six-week programme supporting emerging and
- [Hack the Web: Apply for Akademie Schloss Solitude's Web Residencies No. 22](https://artafricamagazine.org/hack-the-web-apply-for-akademie-schloss-solitudes-web-residencies-no-22/) - Artists from all disciplines are invited to propose bold online projects that challenge digital power structures, AI systems, and extractive technologies through a four-week residency and production grant. 15 July 2026 Open Call: Akademie Schloss Solitude has launched Web Residencies No. 22, titled Ignore All Previous Instructions, curated by the Berlin-based artist duo ! Mediengruppe
- [The Colour Afroblue](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-colour-afroblue/) - A sweeping exploration of colour, memory, and contemporary African imagination at Fondation Blachère. 15 July 2026 Blue has long carried the weight of longing, spirituality, migration, and transformation. In ‘Afroblue’, Fondation Blachère brings together 36 artists from across Africa and its diasporas to examine the many lives of this evocative colour, revealing blue not simply
- [The Silent Power of Belkis Ayón](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-silent-power-of-belkis-ayon/) - MALBA brings the pioneering Cuban printmaker's haunting meditations on myth, gender, and resistance to Argentina for the first time 15 July 2026 This July, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) presents Belkis Ayón: Myth and Disobedience, the first institutional exhibition in Argentina dedicated to the visionary Cuban artist whose powerful monochromatic prints
- [Material Histories and Landscapes That Remember](https://artafricamagazine.org/material-histories-and-landscapes-that-remember/) - Dawoud Bey's powerful new installation traces the enduring presence of Black history across North American landscapes, inviting viewers to see memory, rupture, and resilience inscribed in the land itself. 15 July 2026 Acclaimed American artist Dawoud Bey returns with a profound new exhibition that transforms landscape into a site of historical reckoning. Opening at the
- [Uterus in Uterus, Earth Remembers](https://artafricamagazine.org/uterus-in-uterus-earth-remembers/) - Delcy Morelos transforms Bozar into a multisensory sanctuary where ancestral knowledge, architecture, and ecology converge. 15 July 2026 Colombian artist Delcy Morelos invites audiences into an immersive encounter with earth, memory, and materiality. On view at Bozar, Brussels and presented as part of the Bozar Monumental series, the newly commissioned installation, Uterus in Uterus, reimagines
- [Stone, Flesh, and Fantasy](https://artafricamagazine.org/stone-flesh-and-fantasy/) - Nevine Mahmoud’s ‘Second Nature’ transforms marble and alabaster into uncanny sculptures that blur the boundaries between the organic and the artificial at Asia Society Texas. 15 July 2026 What happens when stone begins to feel soft, flesh-like, or strangely alive? In ‘Second Nature’, British artist Nevine Mahmoud invites viewers into a sculptural landscape where familiar
- [Outerworlds: Painting Between Rupture and Renewal](https://artafricamagazine.org/outerworlds-painting-between-rupture-and-renewal/) - Vian Sora's luminous abstractions transform memory, displacement, and the landscapes of Iraq into a powerful meditation on survival at Asia Society Texas. 15 July 2026 At Asia Society Texas, ‘Vian Sora: Outerworlds’ presents the Iraqi American artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States, bringing together a decade of paintings that trace the evolution
- [Remixing Memory Through Material](https://artafricamagazine.org/remixing-memory-through-material/) - From quilts and textiles to sculpture and painting, ‘Remixed: Entwined Histories and New Forms’ reveals how contemporary artists transform inherited histories into bold new visual languages. 15 July 2026 At the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, ‘Remixed: Entwined Histories and New Forms’ brings together a dynamic group of contemporary artists who approach making as an
- [Frames in Motion: Where Comics, Cartoons, and Contemporary Art Converge](https://artafricamagazine.org/frames-in-motion-where-comics-cartoons-and-contemporary-art-converge/) - At Nafasi Art Space, Kibongobongo celebrates the rich visual language of comics, animation, and illustration, revealing their growing influence on contemporary artistic practice. 15 July 2026 ‘Kibongobongo’ invites audiences into a vibrant world where illustration, animation, comics, and cartooning become powerful vehicles for artistic expression and cultural storytelling. Curated by Martin Shayo and Lizana Kafwa,
- [Werewere Liking in ‘In Minor Keys’](https://artafricamagazine.org/werewere-liking-in-in-minor-keys/) - Presented in Koyo Kouoh's curated exhibition 'In Minor Keys', the central exhibition of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, this interview with ART AFRICA follows the Cameroonian-Ivorian artist as she reflects on five decades of artistic evolution, spirituality, sculpture, performance, ancestral knowledge and the invisible forces shaping her multidisciplinary practice. 30
- [How Is the Equation After They Colonised It?](https://artafricamagazine.org/how-is-the-equation-after-they-colonised-it/) - In Algebra, Paulo Nazareth transforms movement into methodology, using the idea of tracing fractured histories as his method. This connects Venice, Veneza, Africa and the Americas through repair, relation and ancestral memory, with 'algebra' serving as a metaphor for bringing together broken or separated parts of history and memory. Suzette Bell-Roberts 20 June 2026 There
- [Building a Cultural Nation: How the UAE Created One of the World's Most Dynamic Art Ecosystems.](https://artafricamagazine.org/building-a-cultural-nation-how-the-uae-created-one-of-the-worlds-most-dynamic-art-ecosystems/) - At the 20th Global Art Forum, presented as part of Art Dubai, Shumon Basar joined Antonia Carver, Sunny Rahbar and Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi in a conversation that reflected on two decades of cultural transformation. Their discussion revealed a much larger story: how the UAE built an interconnected ecosystem of institutions, ideas, and people that
- [Becoming the Glitch: Vitória Cribb on Surveillance, Mutation and Digital Desire](https://artafricamagazine.org/becoming-the-glitch-vitoria-cribb-on-surveillance-mutation-and-digital-desire/) - From the seductive gaze of VIGILANTE_EXTENDED to the shapeshifting liberation of echoes of a wet finger, Brazilian artist Vitória Cribb discusses surveillance, artificial intelligence, body horror and why transformation, rather than resolution, lies at the heart of her evolving practice. 8 July 2026 Contemporary life is increasingly shaped by invisible systems of surveillance, algorithmic decision-making
- [Riding Towards Freedom: Aysha E Arar on Art, Resistance and the Power of Hope](https://artafricamagazine.org/riding-towards-freedom-aysha-e-arar-on-art-resistance-and-the-power-of-hope/) - In ‘Al Farisa’, Palestinian artist Aysha E Arar draws on folklore, memory and lived experience to imagine freedom beyond occupation. She reflects on the horsewoman as a symbol of resilience, the responsibility of making art during war, and why hope remains a radical creative force. 8 july 2026 For Palestinian artist Aysha E Arar, art
- [Illuminate New Possibilities at Spier Light Art 2027](https://artafricamagazine.org/illuminate-new-possibilities-at-spier-light-art-2027/) - Artists and makers from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals for the ninth edition of Spier Light Art, South Africa's leading light-based contemporary art exhibition, where light becomes the driving force behind ambitious new commissions. 8 July 2026 Open Call: Spier Light Art has opened its international call for expressions of interest for the
- [Apply for Padimai's OOPS Onchain Artist Residency](https://artafricamagazine.org/apply-for-padimais-oops-onchain-artist-residency/) - Padimai Art & Tech Studio invites artists and creative practitioners to join Origin of Primary Source (OOPS), a three-month online residency exploring contemporary art, blockchain technology, digital archiving, and creative experimentation. 7 July 2026 Open Call: Applications are now open for the inaugural edition of Origin of Primary Source (OOPS), Padimai Art & Tech Studio's
- [Who Is Really in Control?](https://artafricamagazine.org/who-is-really-in-control/) - At 421 Arts Campus, Dr Ahmad AlAttar transforms artificial intelligence into a tactile, immersive game that questions the invisible systems shaping contemporary life. 6 July 2026 What if the simplest gesture became part of an algorithm’s decision-making? In ‘Human in the Loop’, Emirati artist, robotics engineer, and researcher Dr Ahmad AlAttar invites audiences into an
- [Sabala Kotoku and Other Structures: Weaving Memory into Form](https://artafricamagazine.org/sabala-kotoku-and-other-structures-weaving-memory-into-form/) - Elolo Bosoka transforms everyday materials into poetic reflections on movement, exchange, and belonging, linking form to the journeys that shape his work. 6 July 2026 Ghanaian artist Elolo Bosoka brings a compelling body of recent work to Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe with ‘Sabala Kotoku and other structures’, a solo exhibition that traces the journeys of objects, people,
- [Portraits of a Nation in Transition](https://artafricamagazine.org/portraits-of-a-nation-in-transition/) - Spanning 250 years of artistic practice, the Mattatuck Museum's landmark exhibition explores how portraiture has shaped, challenged and reimagined American identity. 6 July 2026 What does it mean to picture a nation? As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, the Mattatuck Museum responds with ‘About Face: 250 Years of American Portraits’, an ambitious exhibition
- [The Risk and Relevance of Belonging](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-risk-and-relevance-of-belonging/) - Daudi Yves examines migration, memory, and the enduring legacies of colonial systems in a timely solo exhibition at The Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre. 6 July 2026 How do inherited systems continue to shape who belongs, who moves freely, and whose lives are recognised? In ‘Risk and Relevance: A Non-Linear Passage’, artist Daudi Yves confronts these
- [Stillness on the Signal](https://artafricamagazine.org/stillness-on-the-signal/) - Jasper Marsalis transforms live broadcasts into a meditation on time, technology and the invisible architectures of seeing. 6 July 2026 What does it mean to witness a landscape through a machine? In ‘Still Life’, London-based artist Jasper Marsalis presents his first institutional exhibition in the United Kingdom, unfolding at Chisenhale Gallery as an immersive audiovisual
- [The Art of Making, Reimagined](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-art-of-making-reimagined/) - A new exhibition at the Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art shifts attention from the finished artwork to the materials, techniques, and knowledge that shape contemporary Nigerian artistic practice. 6 July 2026 What if the most compelling story behind an artwork lies not in its image, but in the process of its making? ‘Tracing Forms: The
- [Reimagining the Civic Machine](https://artafricamagazine.org/reimagining-the-civic-machine/) - rootoftwo transforms MOCAD into a participatory arena where technology, democracy, and collective imagination collide. 6 July 2026 As conversations around artificial intelligence, surveillance, and digital governance become increasingly urgent, ‘Anyspace? Whatever’. Invites audiences to consider who shapes the future of the cities we inhabit. Presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the exhibition is
- [Driving Change in 'Prime Mover'.](https://artafricamagazine.org/driving-change-in-prime-mover/) - Pat Phillips explores labour, movement, and Black creativity in a powerful first solo museum exhibition. 6 July 2026 The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) presents ‘Prime Mover’, the first solo museum exhibition by Pennsylvania-based artist Pat Phillips, whose incisive paintings and installations examine the intersections of race, labour, class, and power through the visual
- [Beyond the Blank Slate: Peterson Kamwathi on Identity, Memory, and Collective Life](https://artafricamagazine.org/beyond-the-blank-slate-peterson-kamwathi-on-identity-memory-and-collective-life/) - Presented at the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI), ‘Tabula Rasa’ marks a new chapter in Peterson Kamwathi's ongoing exploration of power, belonging, and collective identity. Taking its title from the notion of the "blank slate", the exhibition critically examines historical frameworks that have sought to simplify complex identities and erase difference. 2 July 2026 ‘Tabula
- [Saudi Pavilion: Hey, Algorithm, Leave Those Hands Alone.](https://artafricamagazine.org/we-dont-need-no-prompt-control-or-hey-algorithm-leave-those-hands-alone/) - Adilson De Oliveira 1 July 2026 Dana Awartani’s Saudi Pavilion is a fragile, furious hymn to craft, mourning and the artisanship that software still cannot fake. I did not expect to be humbled by bricks. That sounds stupid, I know, especially at Venice, where one spends most of the week being professionally humbled by queues,
- [Scattered Memories, Shared Futures](https://artafricamagazine.org/scattered-memories-shared-futures/) - Jasour Abualgasim reflects on displacement, collective memory, and the itinerant exhibition that traces Sudan's cultural landscape across borders. 25 June 2026 As Sudanese communities continue to navigate war, exile and dispersal, ‘Scattered Memories’ emerges as a travelling platform for artistic reflection, dialogue and remembrance. Developed across multiple countries before arriving in Berlin, the exhibition brings
- [The Architecture of Independence](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-architecture-of-independence/) - Head Curator Martino Stierli reflects on the buildings, architects, and ideas at the heart of ‘Architects of Liberation’, a landmark exhibition that reconsiders modernism through the histories of post-independence Western Africa. 30 June 2026 Between the late 1950s and early 1980s, a generation of architects helped shape the futures of newly independent nations across Western
- [Prolongations: Rewriting the Rules of the Game](https://artafricamagazine.org/prolongations-rewriting-the-rules-of-the-game/) - In ‘Prolongations’, M’barka Amor, Ouassila Arras and Dalila Dalléas Bouzar turn the football pitch into a charged site of memory, racial politics and embodied resistance, tracing the tensions between aspiration, violence and survival through painting, textiles, installation and sculpture. 1 July 2026 Sport has long functioned as a theatre for collective fantasy: a space onto
- [Dwelling in the In-Between](https://artafricamagazine.org/dwelling-in-the-in-between/) - Curators Adria Gunter and Kiki Teshome on ‘Fade’, the latest chapter in the Studio Museum in Harlem’s influential “F” series 1 July 2026 Nearly a decade after ‘Fictions’, the Studio Museum in Harlem returns to its landmark “F” exhibition series with ‘Fade’, bringing together seventeen emerging artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent. Now on view
- [Beyond the Visible Horizon: Dawit L. Petros on Migration, Memory and the Politics of Looking](https://artafricamagazine.org/beyond-the-visible-horizon-dawit-l-petros-on-migration-memory-and-the-politics-of-looking/) - In ‘From the Edge of the Horizon’, the Eritrean-born artist traces the entangled histories of movement, colonialism and belonging across photography, video, sculpture and installation. Speaking to ART AFRICA, Petros reflects on opacity, displacement and the limits of what images can reveal. 1 July 2026 For more than two decades, Dawit L. Petros has developed
- [Rubem Valentim: Building a Vocabulary of Freedom and Form](https://artafricamagazine.org/rubem-valentim-building-a-vocabulary-of-freedom-and-form/) - Curators Raquel Barreto and Phelipe Rezende on Rubem Valentim’s search for a visual language rooted in Afro-Brazilian cosmologies, modernist abstraction and the possibility of a universal order. 30 June 2026 Few artists have reshaped the language of Brazilian modernism as profoundly as Rubem Valentim. Spanning more than four decades, his practice brought together geometry, symbolism
- [Touching History Through the Lens](https://artafricamagazine.org/touching-history-through-the-lens/) - From textiles and photography to politics and self-expression, ‘Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens’ revisits the Malian photographer's studio as a space where identities were imagined, performed, and preserved. 25 June 2026 More than three decades after Seydou Keïta's work first captivated international audiences, ‘Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens’ offers the most expansive North American presentation
- [Lead the Next Chapter of the Gwangju Biennale](https://artafricamagazine.org/lead-the-next-chapter-of-the-gwangju-biennale/) - International open call seeks Artistic Director for the 17th Gwangju Biennale in 2028 30 June 2026 Open Call: The Gwangju Biennale Foundation has launched an international open call for the Artistic Director of the 17th Gwangju Biennale, inviting experienced curators and cultural leaders to shape the artistic vision of one of Asia’s leading contemporary art
- [Poetry in Plain Sight](https://artafricamagazine.org/poetry-in-plain-sight/) - Donika Kelly transforms a public window into a luminous meditation on memory, landscape, and the quiet power of language at Kunstverein München. 29 June 2026 American poet Donika Kelly brings the written word into the public realm with 'A mist, a wind, the old dog and the hill', the latest presentation in Kunstverein München’s Schaufenster
- [Bodies Never Lie](https://artafricamagazine.org/bodies-never-lie/) - Stan Douglas traces the hidden rhythms of history through film, photography, and the expressive power of music. 29 June 2026 How do societies remember moments of upheaval? How do images preserve what official histories choose to forget? In ‘Bodies Never Lie’, internationally celebrated Canadian artist Stan Douglas brings together film, photography, and immersive installation to
- [Painting Country Beyond the Canvas](https://artafricamagazine.org/painting-country-beyond-the-canvas/) - A major retrospective at Fondation Opale celebrates the visionary practice of Emily Kame Kngwarray, bringing together more than 80 works that reveal the enduring relationship between Indigenous knowledge, abstraction, and the living landscape. 29 June 2026 Fondation Opale presents ‘Emily Kame Kngwarray’, the most comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the celebrated Anmatyerr artist. Organised in collaboration
- [Framing a New Generation](https://artafricamagazine.org/framing-a-new-generation/) - The Studio Museum in Harlem’s latest Expanding the Walls exhibition celebrates a new generation of photographers whose intimate visions of New York reveal the beauty of everyday life. 29 June 2026. The Studio Museum in Harlem continues its long-standing commitment to nurturing emerging artistic voices with ‘Through Motion and Repose: Expanding the Walls 2026’, an
- [The Politics of Fabric and The Strength of Soft Materials](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-politics-of-fabric-and-the-strength-of-soft-materials/) - Chalisée Naamani’s 'Octogone' transforms textiles into powerful reflections on identity, protest, and the politics of the body. 29 June 2026 What can a garment hold beyond the body that wears it? In ‘Octogone’, French-Iranian artist Chalisée Naamani invites audiences to consider clothing as a site of memory, resistance, and cultural transformation. Presented at Kunst Halle
- [In the Blink of Everyday Life](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-the-blink-of-everyday-life/) - Daoud Aoulad-Syad’s luminous colour photographs reveal the quiet poetry of Morocco at Photo Tangier 2026. 29 June 2026 As part of its Hors Les Murs programme, MACAAL presents ‘Le Temps d’un Battement de Cil (In the Blink of an Eye)’, a solo exhibition by celebrated Moroccan artist Daoud Aoulad-Syad. Opening at Galerie Delacroix in Tangier
- [Calling the Ghosts of History](https://artafricamagazine.org/calling-the-ghosts-of-history/) - Bouchra Khalili’s major Scandinavian exhibition at Malmö Konsthall explores storytelling, belonging, and the collective power of memory. 29 June 2026 This summer, Malmö Konsthall presents ‘How to Call a Ghost’, a major solo exhibition by Moroccan French artist Bouchra Khalili, marking the largest presentation of her work ever staged in Scandinavia. Bringing together film, installation,
- [Tracing the Invisible Threads Between Venice and Ethiopia](https://artafricamagazine.org/tracing-the-invisible-threads-between-venice-and-ethiopia-2/) - As the 13th artist-in-residence at AKKA Project during the 2026 Venice Biennale Arte, Dawit Abebe reflects on travel, cultural exchange, and the unexpected historical connections that have transformed Venice into both a subject and a collaborator in his evolving practice. 24 June 2026 For Ethiopian artist Dawit Abebe, travel is more than merely reaching a
- [Strangers at The Showroom: Trusting the Alien](https://artafricamagazine.org/strangers-at-the-showroom-trusting-the-alien/) - Harold Offeh’s long-awaited London return reimagines estrangement as a site of collective possibility. 23 June 2026 More than two decades after his last major solo exhibition in London, Ghanaian-British artist Harold Offeh returns to the city with ‘Trustful Strangers Induce Fearless Aliens’ at The Showroom, a timely meditation on belonging, otherness and the radical potential
- [The Shape of Silence.](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-shape-of-silence/) - At the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Armen Agop transforms the Egyptian National Pavilion into a sanctuary of stillness. Through granite, painting, sound, scent, and touch, Silence Pavilion: Between the Tangible and the Intangible offers a contemplative response to an increasingly fast-paced world, inviting visitors to slow down, listen inward, and rediscover the
- [Practising Liberation.](https://artafricamagazine.org/practising-liberation/) - Black, queer, feminine artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan reflects on faith, colonial histories, memory and the radical possibilities of joy in The Practice of Liberation. 25 June 2026 For Michaela Yearwood-Dan, painting is both a deeply personal and expansive act of inquiry. Her exhibition, 'The Practice of Liberation', at The Whitworth, Manchester, draws together painting, ceramics, sound,
- [The Ocean of Repatriation: Where the Tide Brings Back](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-ocean-of-repatriation-where-the-tide-brings-back/) - Curator, artist, and theorist Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll discusses ‘Tide of Returns’, a landmark exhibition by the Repatriates Collective that reimagines repatriation as care, ceremony, and collective futurity. 23 June 2026 At TBA21- Academy’s Ocean Space in Venice, ‘Tide of Returns’ refuses to treat repatriation as a completed transaction. Conceived by the Repatriates Collective and
- [Open Call for Prizes: Advancing the Discourse on Photography](https://artafricamagazine.org/open-call-for-prizes-advancing-the-discourse-on-photography/) - Two international awards recognise outstanding research and innovative writing on the photographic medium. 24 June 2026 Open Call: The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and the German Photographic Society (DGPh) invite applications for the fourth edition of two international awards: the DGPh Research Award “Thinking Photography” and the DGPh Award “Writing Photography” for Innovative Publication. Presented
- [Rethinking Art, Place and Storytelling: Registrations for Classes Now Open](https://artafricamagazine.org/rethinking-art-place-and-storytelling-registrations-for-classes-now-open/) - Sharjah Art Foundation invites participants to join free intensive summer courses exploring urban memory, research and creative writing. 24 June 2026 Open Call: Sharjah Art Foundation invites university students, emerging artists, writers, cultural practitioners, and anyone interested in contemporary art and culture to register for the latest edition of Semi-systems, a series of intensive summer
- [Dreaming Against Empire: Reclaiming Wifredo Lam's Radical Modernism](https://artafricamagazine.org/dreaming-against-empire-reclaiming-wifredo-lams-radical-modernism/) - In conversation with Beverly Adams, co-curator of ‘Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream’ at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 23 June 2026 Spanning six decades of artistic production, ‘Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream’ revisits the work of one of modernism's most influential and elusive figures. Bringing together more
- [Farah Al Qasimi on Algorithms, Imagination and the Possibility of Repair](https://artafricamagazine.org/farah-al-qasimi-on-algorithms-imagination-and-the-possibility-of-repair/) - In ‘Psychic Repair’, the artist examines how digital culture, consumer spectacle and personal memory shape contemporary life, reflecting on photography's shifting role in an age of surveillance, self-performance and endless image circulation. 23 June 2026 At the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, Farah Al Qasimi's exhibition ‘Psychic Repair’ brought together photography, sound and
- [‘Apoi’: A transnational language of fibre, memory, and embodied knowledge](https://artafricamagazine.org/apoi-a-transnational-language-of-fibre-memory-and-embodied-knowledge/) - At Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Acaye Kerunen’s ‘Apoi’ marks a pivotal moment not only in the Ugandan artist’s trajectory but also within the institution’s evolving engagement with the intersections of art, craft, and social practice. 23 June 2026 Kerunen’s interdisciplinary practice resists containment. Moving between sound, textile, performance and film, she draws from indigenous knowledge systems and
- [Two Artists, One Year, $20,000 Each](https://artafricamagazine.org/two-artists-one-year-20000-each/) - Queens Museum launches the 2027–28 QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for emerging visual artists in New York City. 23 June 2026 Open Call: The Queens Museum invites applications for the 2027–28 QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists. The programme will support two visual artists through a one-year fellowship that combines financial support, professional development, mentorship, and the
- [Reimagining Curatorial Practice: Open Call](https://artafricamagazine.org/reimagining-curatorial-practice-open-call/) - International Curator Course 2026 at the 16th Gwangju Biennale 23 June 2026 Open Call: The Gwangju Biennale Foundation invites applications for the 2026 International Curator Course, a two-week intensive programme designed for emerging curators and cultural practitioners. Taking place in conjunction with the 16th Gwangju Biennale, the course offers participants direct engagement with the Biennale’s
- [The Body Remembers](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-body-remembers/) - Mosa Anita Kaiser’s ‘Residues of Proximity: One Body, Many Parts’ traces memory, inheritance and becoming through the living archive of the body 23 June 2026 The Bag Factory presents ‘Residues of Proximity: One Body, Many Parts’, a solo exhibition by Mosa Anita Kaiser, curated by Melusi Masike, that explores the body as a site where
- [Dreaming the City Into Being](https://artafricamagazine.org/dreaming-the-city-into-being/) - Leonardo Sitoe’s ‘Dreamscapes in Transit’ charts the shifting terrain between memory, movement and belonging in Johannesburg 23 June 2026 At a time when cities are increasingly defined by movement, uncertainty and layered histories, Leonardo Sitoe’s ‘Dreamscapes in Transit’ offers a compelling meditation on what remains when the boundaries between waking life and the subconscious begin
- [Singing Change into Being](https://artafricamagazine.org/singing-change-into-being/) - Sonia Boyce transforms collective voice into an immersive act of resistance, joy and world-making at the Queens Museum. 23 June 2026 What happens when a museum becomes a chorus? In ‘Demonstrate’, internationally acclaimed British-Jamaican artist Sonia Boyce invites audiences into a richly layered environment shaped by sound, movement, collaboration and collective imagination. Presented at the
- [Holding sp(l)ace for the in__between](https://artafricamagazine.org/holding-splace-for-the-in__between/) - At the National Arts Festival 2026, the MTN x UJ New Contemporaries Award Exhibition foregrounds sound, land, breath and belonging as sites of collective imagination. 23 June 2026 The UJ Art Gallery, in partnership with the MTN SA Foundation and with institutional support from Iziko Museums South Africa, presents ‘Holding sp(l)ace for the in__between’, the
- [In Between: Colour Without Borders](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-between-colour-without-borders/) - Uman: In Between at CCS Bard traces two decades of radical experimentation, memory and material transformation 23 June 2026 Few painters working today command colour with the freedom, intensity and emotional charge of Uman. Opening at the Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, ‘Uman: In Between’ offers the most comprehensive survey of the Somali-born artist’s
- [The Trophies of a Nation](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-trophies-of-a-nation/) - Froiid’s 'O Caneco é Nosso' turns a vanished football icon into a meditation on memory, myth and collective desire at MAM Rio. 23 June 2026 As Brazil once again turns its gaze toward the spectacle of the World Cup, Froiid invites audiences to look beyond the pitch and into the afterlife of one of the
- [Creative Assembly 2026 to 2027: Community-Centred Residency at the New Orleans Museum of Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/creative-assembly-2026-to-2027-community-centred-residency-at-the-new-orleans-museum-of-art/) - A year-long residency supporting artists who engage communities through creative practice, public programming, and collaboration within a major museum context. 18 June 2026 Open Call: The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is accepting applications for its Creative Assembly 2026-2027 Residency Program. Launched in 2021, the programme supports artists through a year-long residency focused on
- [Basquiat Decoded at PAMM](https://artafricamagazine.org/basquiat-decoded-at-pamm/) - PAMM’s landmark exhibition traces the figures, signs and symbols that continue to shape the visual language of our time. 23 June 2026 This June, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) unveils ‘Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols’, a major exhibition bringing together 10 masterworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat, described as the largest presentation of the artist’s work ever staged
- [Projecting Freedom: A Planet Reimagined](https://artafricamagazine.org/projecting-freedom-a-planet-reimagined/) - Barbican’s landmark exhibition traces a century of Pan-African imagination, resistance and cultural solidarity across continents and generations. 23 June 2026 This summer, London’s Barbican unveils ‘Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica’, an ambitious international exhibition that charts the enduring influence of Pan-Africanism on artistic and cultural production from the early twentieth
- [Listening Across the Breath](https://artafricamagazine.org/listening-across-the-breath/) - In ‘Cosmic Breath’, Joe Namy traces the adhan as a living sonic archive, bringing together voices from across time and geography to explore memory, spirituality, and collective listening. 22 June 2026 For ‘Cosmic Breath’, artist Joe Namy assembles more than a century of recordings of the adhan, creating a layered sound installation that unfolds across
- [A Mouthful of Blood and Ink ](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-mouthful-of-blood-and-ink/) - Tracey Rose’s Artpace works return to Ruby City, San Antonio, with the Linda Pace Foundation, as a fight between body, page, performance, and survival. Adilson De Oliveira 18 June 2026 When Tracey Rose arrived at Artpace in 2000, she was already testing the terms under which South African art was being made visible abroad. By
- [Mein Österreich: Painting Against Forgetting](https://artafricamagazine.org/mein-osterreich-painting-against-forgetting/) - In her exhibition ‘My Austria’, Ramesch Daha transforms archival postcards into monumental blue murals that unsettle familiar narratives of nationhood, memory, and belonging. 18 June 2026 At TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, the Austrian artist reimagines idyllic postcard imagery through her signature monochromatic painting technique, bringing together romantic landscapes with testimonies from Austro-fascism and fragments of her
- [Building Home in Motion: Cisco Merel’s ‘La Chantin’](https://artafricamagazine.org/building-home-in-motion-cisco-merels-la-chantin/) - At Kunsthalle Lissabon, Cisco Merel reimagines the house as a living archive of migration, memory and survival, drawing on Afro-Antillean architectural histories to explore home not as a destination, but as an ongoing practice of adaptation. 18 June 2026 For ‘La Chantin’, Cisco Merel transforms the gallery into a shifting landscape of mobile structures, suspended
- [Conjugating Humanity in Santiago](https://artafricamagazine.org/conjugating-humanity-in-santiago/) - The 36th Bienal de São Paulo arrives in Chile with a timely meditation on memory, dignity and belonging. 18 June 2016 This July, Santiago becomes the latest site for a vital transcontinental conversation as the itinerant programme of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo: ‘Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice’ opens
- [Archipelagos of Connection: Rethinking the Afro-Atlantic Through Améfrica](https://artafricamagazine.org/archipelagos-of-connection-rethinking-the-afro-atlantic-through-amefrica/) - Curator Helio Menezes discusses Lélia Gonzalez’s enduring influence, the politics of diaspora, and why the exhibition refuses fixed borders in favour of movement, relation, and reinvention. 18 June 2026 ‘Améfrica: Diasporic Connections in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection brings together artists from across Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Australia to explore the enduring cultural, political,
- [‘Slits are Girls’: Punk Across Geographies](https://artafricamagazine.org/slits-are-girls-punk-across-geographies/) - Ângela Ferreira traces unexpected connections between punk in 1970s London and apartheid South Africa, exploring how acts of resistance travel across time, place, architecture and sound. 18 June 2026 For more than three decades, Ângela Ferreira has examined the political lives of architecture, memory and cultural exchange, often revealing the hidden connections that shape historical
- [Holding the Stone, Holding the Memory](https://artafricamagazine.org/holding-the-stone-holding-the-memory/) - Rosalind Nashashibi's latest exhibition transforms painting into a site of resistance, intimacy and political imagination. 18 June 2026 At a moment when images of Gaza circulate with relentless speed and devastating familiarity, Rosalind Nashashibi invites us to look differently. ‘Get Me A Stone’, on view at Artium Museoa in Vitoria-Gasteiz, gathers paintings produced between 2021
- [Create, Experiment, Produce: Studio Opportunities at Sharjah’s Al Hamriyah Studios](https://artafricamagazine.org/create-experiment-produce-studio-opportunities-at-sharjahs-al-hamriyah-studios/) - Affordable studio spaces in a purpose-built contemporary arts complex supporting artistic research, experimentation, and production in the UAE. 18 June 2026 Open Call: Sharjah Art Foundation is inviting applications from UAE-based artists and creative practitioners for studio leases at Al Hamriyah Studios, a multidisciplinary arts complex located in the coastal town of Al Hamriyah, Sharjah.
- [Geneva of The Mind](https://artafricamagazine.org/geneva-of-the-mind/) - Janiva Ellis unravels the inherited fictions of history, identity and image at Kunsthalle Basel. 18 June 2026 In her first institutional solo exhibition in Europe, ‘Geneva’, Janiva Ellis transforms Kunsthalle Basel into a site of visual slippage, where meaning is never fixed, and certainty remains perpetually out of reach. Bringing together a new body of
- [Brave Beauty Arrives in Rio](https://artafricamagazine.org/brave-beauty-arrives-in-rio/) - Zanele Muholi's landmark survey at MAR celebrates visibility, resistance, and the transformative power of image-making. 18 June 2026 Following a critically acclaimed presentation at IMS Paulista, 'Beleza Valente' arrives at the Rio Art Museum (MAR), offering Brazilian audiences a powerful encounter with the work of acclaimed South African visual activist Zanele Muholi. Opening on 12
- [Rogue Agents of History: Ghosts of the Future](https://artafricamagazine.org/rogue-agents-of-history-ghosts-of-the-future/) - Larissa Sansour reimagines history through science fiction, myth, and the politics of memory. 18 June 2026 At Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour invites audiences into a world where fact and fiction collapse into one another, revealing the fragile architectures of memory, identity, and belonging. ‘Rogue Agents of History’, the artist's first solo exhibition in
- [Pour Noubia: Holding space for Personal histories.](https://artafricamagazine.org/pour-noubia-holding-space-for-personal-histories/) - At Migros Museum, Mohamed Bourouissa transforms personal memory into a powerful reflection on visibility, migration and care. 18 June 2026 What does it mean to belong in a world structured by exclusion? At the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, French-Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa confronts this question through ‘Pour Noubia’, a deeply personal exhibition that
- ['Ancestral Echoes' - Beading Memory, Reclaiming Lineage](https://artafricamagazine.org/ancestral-echoes-beading-memory-reclaiming-lineage/) - Demetri Broxton’s first solo museum exhibition transforms ancestral fragments into luminous acts of remembrance at MoAD. 18 June 2026 At the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD), Oakland-based artist Demetri Broxton presents ‘Ancestral Echoes – Crops of Empire’, a powerful meditation on memory, migration, and the enduring presence of ancestors. Marking the artist’s first solo museum
- [Blessed by the Bees: The Many Lives of Zakes Mda](https://artafricamagazine.org/blessed-by-the-bees-the-many-lives-of-zakes-mda/) - An expansive exhibition at Springs Art Gallery reveals the celebrated novelist, playwright and thinker as a visual storyteller of rare depth and imagination. 18 June 2026 Few cultural figures have navigated the intersections of art, literature and public life with the dexterity of Zakes Mda. Opening at Springs Art Gallery, ‘Blessed by the Bees’ offers
- [Hombres Libres / Free Men](https://artafricamagazine.org/hombres-libres-free-men/) - Roberto Diago turns the Cuban Pavilion into a scarred counter-history of empire, labour, Black survival, and the human warmth missing from the polished machinery of the Venice Biennale. Adilson De Oliveira 11 June 2026 To arrive at the Cuban Pavilion in Venice is already to understand something about power. You leave behind the manicured theatre
- [In Absence and in Presence: Holding Place Beyond Geography](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-absence-and-in-presence-holding-place-beyond-geography/) - May Alqaydi reflects on displacement, interconnected histories and the shifting geographies in this collaboration between Sharjah Art Foundation and Aranya Art Center in Guangzhou. 11 June 2026 Bringing together more than 70 works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, ‘In Absence and in Presence’ traces artistic dialogues across West Asia, South Asia, Africa and their
- [Collaging Diaspora: Fiyin Oluokun on Black Life in Contemporary Ireland](https://artafricamagazine.org/collaging-diaspora-fiyin-oluokun-on-black-life-in-contemporary-ireland/) - Through collage, memory and intimate observation, the Nigerian-Irish artist explores migration, identity and the quiet realities of diasporic life. 11 June 2026 In ‘Race and Class in Contemporary Ireland’, Nigerian-Irish artist Fiyin Oluokun turns to the intimacy of everyday life to explore how identity is shaped across borders, communities and domestic spaces. Through layered photomontages
- [Where Water Remembers: Trina Michelle Robinson on Archives, Ancestry, and Living Histories.](https://artafricamagazine.org/where-water-remembers-trina-michelle-robinson-on-archives-ancestry-and-living-histories/) - In a two-site exhibition spanning 500 Capp Street and Root Division, the artist explores migration, material memory, and collective authorship - where the archive becomes both evidence and imagination, and water flows as a quiet witness across generations. In ‘Open Your Eyes to Water’, Trina Michelle Robinson constructs a deeply immersive meditation on lineage, migration,
- [THE MERCHANT OF VENUES](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-merchant-of-venues/) - Inside the moral collapse of the Venice Biennale, where spectacle, sponsorship and political theatre increasingly eclipse the art itself. 26 May 2026 Adilson De Oliveira There is a strange violence to the contemporary Biennale circuit that nobody wants to name. Not the symbolic variety embalmed beneath symposium jargon or flattened into the anaesthetic grammar of
- [Global Sculpture Prize Opens with USD 45,000 Top Award](https://artafricamagazine.org/global-sculpture-prize-opens-with-usd-45000-top-award/) - The Eighth Lihpao Sculpture Biennial Awards invites artists worldwide to compete in one of Asia’s leading international sculpture competitions, offering significant cash prizes and global exposure through an internationally recognised platform. 9 June 2026 Open Call: The Lihpao Cultural Arts Foundation, in collaboration with the Austrian Office Taipei and with support from Taiwan’s Ministry of
- [Allegories: Marked by Memory](https://artafricamagazine.org/allegories-marked-by-memory/) - Vaughn Spann transforms abstraction into a powerful meditation on race, identity and resistance at the Tampa Museum of Art. 9 June 2026 In ‘Allegories’, American artist Vaughn Spann harnesses the visual force of abstraction to confront the lived realities of race, surveillance and collective memory. Presented at the Tampa Museum of Art, the exhibition brings
- [What Holds Us Together?](https://artafricamagazine.org/what-holds-us-together/) - At BAMPFA, Maren Hassinger’s art offers a powerful answer through care, community, and nature, tracing five decades of ecological imagination, collective care, and radical interconnectedness. 9 June 2026 The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents ‘Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing’, the most comprehensive retrospective of the celebrated American artist’s career to date. Spanning
- [RARE ESSENCE: Colour and Cloth](https://artafricamagazine.org/rare-essence-colour-and-cloth/) - Eric N. Mack transforms the museum into a living fabric of movement, memory and possibility. 9 June 2026 What happens when painting escapes the wall? In ‘RARE ESSENCE’, New York-based artist Eric N. Mack reimagines the Speed Art Museum’s Gheens Court as a site of flux, where textiles, colour and spatial intervention converge to create
- [The Many People of Many Venices](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-many-people-of-many-venices/) - 'The Many Venices' traces the hidden migrant histories that continue to shape the floating city. 9 June 2026 What does Venice look like when viewed not through the lens of empire and tourism, but through the lives, movements, and memories of those who have long traversed its waters? ‘The Many Venices’ invites audiences to reimagine
- [Gateways:Across Time, Across Blackness](https://artafricamagazine.org/gatewaysacross-time-across-blackness/) - Tracing 150 years of African American artistic vision through a landmark collection that reframes identity, history and belonging. 9 June 2026 At a moment when questions of representation, memory and cultural inheritance remain urgently contested, ‘Gateways: African American Art from the Key Collection’ arrives as both a historical survey and a powerful act of reclamation.
- [The Forest Crosses the Ocean](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-forest-crosses-the-ocean/) - MAR unveils a landmark exhibition of Huni Kuin paintings, bringing Indigenous cosmologies, ancestral knowledge and living artistic traditions to the heart of Rio de Janeiro. 9 June 2026 The Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR) opens ‘Cipó: Huni Kuin Paintings in the MAR Collection’, a major exhibition celebrating one of the most significant institutional collections
- [Coming Forth into Presence](https://artafricamagazine.org/coming-forth-into-presence/) - Woody De Othello transforms everyday objects into vessels of memory, spirit and renewal at Pérez Art Museum Miami. 9 June 2026 At Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami-born artist Woody De Othello returns to his hometown with ‘coming forth by day’, an immersive solo exhibition that blurs the boundaries between body, object and spirit. Bringing
- [Willie Birch: Stories to Tell](https://artafricamagazine.org/willie-birch-stories-to-tell/) - This exhibition's sweeping retrospective traces the layered afterlives of Black cultural memory across six decades of art making. 26 May 2026 At the California African American Museum, 'Willie Birch: Stories to Tell' unfolds as both retrospective and reckoning. Spanning works from the late 1960s to the present, the exhibition gathers more than five decades of
- [Ecuador Pavilion: Tawna & Oscar](https://artafricamagazine.org/ecuador-pavilion-tawna-oscar/) - A Punch Thrown With Eight Fingers Adilson De Oliveira 3 June 2026 The Ecuadorian Pavilion did not feel like something I simply visited. It felt less like something I viewed and more like something detonated inside me afterwards — a kind of emotional firecracker lodged beneath the ribs, continuing to go off long after leaving
- [Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom](https://artafricamagazine.org/prisoners-of-love-until-the-sun-of-freedom/) - A polyphonic meditation on captivity, resistance, voices that refuse erasure, and the enduring poetics of freedom. In ‘Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom’, presented at MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme construct an immersive installation that does not simply recount history but dwells within its ruptures, absences,
- [Building Structures of Visibility: Unpublished Africa and the Politics of Sustained Empowerment](https://artafricamagazine.org/building-structures-of-visibility-unpublished-africa-and-the-politics-of-sustained-empowerment/) - Curator and Unpublished Africa founder Anesu Chikumba reflects on curatorial responsibility, photographic infrastructure and the urgent need to move beyond visibility as a temporary gesture toward long-term systems of access and support. 2 June 2026 Through ‘I’d Be Empowered If…’, Unpublished Africa continues its evolving investigation into the realities shaping the lives and careers of
- [Listening for Return: Mafolofolo and the Sonic Afterlives of Land](https://artafricamagazine.org/listening-for-return-mafolofolo-and-the-sonic-afterlives-of-land/) - At Hangar in Lisbon, Johannesburg-based collaborative MADEYOULOOK traces histories of dispossession, ecological knowledge, and collective memory through sound, proposing repair as an ongoing practice of return. 3 June 2026 For interdisciplinary artist collaborative MADEYOULOOK, the creative partnership between Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho, sound is both archive and method. Their exhibition ‘Mafolofolo’ draws on oral
- [Open Call: Comic Artists and Illustrators for Corniche 8](https://artafricamagazine.org/open-call-comic-artists-and-illustrators-for-corniche-8/) - Illustrators and comic makers from across the Gulf region are invited to develop and publish original work through the eighth edition of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual comics anthology. 3 June 2026 Open Call: Sharjah Art Foundation has opened applications for Corniche 8, the latest edition of its annual comic anthology. The open call invites illustrators
- [Claudia Alarcón & Silät: Living, Weaving.](https://artafricamagazine.org/claudia-alarcon-silat-living-weaving/) - Collective memory, material knowledge, and the politics of textile practice. 2 June 2026 In 'Claudia Alarcón & Silät: Viver Tecendo', the Argentine artist presents a body of work developed in close collaboration with the Silät collective, a group of more than one hundred Wichí women weavers. Bringing ancestral knowledge into dialogue with contemporary forms, the
- [Bag Factory Artists' Studio: When Walls Remember](https://artafricamagazine.org/bag-factory-artists-studio-when-walls-remember/) - Bag Factory Artists' Studios celebrates 35 years of artistic community, exchange, and enduring influence with a landmark fundraising exhibition. 2 June 2026 For 35 years, Bag Factory Artists' Studios has stood as one of South Africa's most vital sites of artistic production, dialogue, and experimentation. This year, the institution marks the milestone with ‘When We
- [From This Darkness, We Grow](https://artafricamagazine.org/from-this-darkness-we-grow/) - Anawana Haloba’s Festival Exhibition 2026 transforms Bergen Kunsthall into a resonant landscape of memory, resistance and collective becoming. 2 June 2026 Bergen Kunsthall presents ‘From This Darkness I Shall Grow’, the highly anticipated Festival Exhibition 2026 by Zambian-Norwegian artist Anawana Haloba, one of the most compelling voices in contemporary art today. Marking one of Norway’s
- [Leila Babirye: The Architecture of Belonging](https://artafricamagazine.org/leila-babirye-the-architecture-of-belonging/) - Leilah Babirye transforms discarded matter into a monumental celebration of queer kinship at ICA Boston. 2 June 2026 At the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Leilah Babirye unveils a powerful new body of work that expands her ongoing exploration of identity, resilience and chosen community. Centred on the idea of the queer wedding, the exhibition
- [SAY IT LOUD: Black Art remembered](https://artafricamagazine.org/say-it-loud-black-art-remembered/) - Five decades of Black artistic resistance, community and cultural memory come alive at ICA Boston. 2 June 2026 At a moment when the histories of Black cultural production continue to demand renewed visibility, 'Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977 to Now' arrives at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, as both an exhibition and an act
- [Where Salt Meets Water and Where Memory Becomes Tide](https://artafricamagazine.org/where-salt-meets-water-and-where-memory-becomes-tide/) - Keisha Scarville’s monumental Brooklyn Museum installation transforms photography into a site of healing, remembrance and diasporic belonging. 2 June 2026 This season, the Brooklyn Museum’s Iris Cantor Plaza becomes a space of reflection through ‘Where Salt Meets Black Water’, a powerful new installation by Brooklyn-born artist Keisha Scarville. Recipient of the 2026 UOVO Prize, Scarville
- [Ghost Gardens of Grief](https://artafricamagazine.org/ghost-gardens-of-grief/) - Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah’s ‘no flowers’ transforms absence into luminous matter at Centre Culturel Suisse. 2 June 2026 What does mourning look like when memory fractures, language fails, and technology begins to dream on our behalf? In ‘no flowers’, her first solo exhibition in France, Zurich-based artist Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah invites audiences into a haunting visual
- [Tião’s Rio Reclaimed: Um Fotógrafo da Providência](https://artafricamagazine.org/tiaos-rio-reclaimed-um-fotografo-da-providencia/) - An intimate archive of memory, belonging and resistance emerges from the slopes of Morro da Providência. 2 June 2026 At the Museu de Arte do Rio, 'Tião: Um Fotógrafo da Providência' brings into focus a remarkable visual history of Rio de Janeiro, seen not from its postcard vistas but from within one of its oldest
- [Cartographies of the Unseen, Mapping African Cities](https://artafricamagazine.org/cartographies-of-the-unseen-mapping-african-cities/) - Atlas of Uncertainty maps African cities beyond the limits of data, disorder, and prediction. 2 June 2026 As narratives of crisis continue to dominate representations of African urbanism, ‘Atlas of Uncertainty: Transforming African Cityscapes’ proposes a different point of departure. Bringing together artists, scholars, writers, and urban thinkers, the exhibition considers African cities not as
- [Curatorial Internship Opens at the Constitutional Court Trust](https://artafricamagazine.org/curatorial-internship-opens-at-the-constitutional-court-trust/) - Recent graduates are invited to apply for a paid six-month curatorial internship working with the Constitutional Court Art Collection in Johannesburg. 2 June 2026 Open Call: The Constitutional Court Trust is inviting applications for a full-time paid curatorial internship working on the Constitutional Court Art Collection at the Constitutional Court of South Africa in Johannesburg.
- [Sony World Photography Awards 2027 Opens Global Call for Entries](https://artafricamagazine.org/sony-world-photography-awards-2027-opens-global-call-for-entries/) - One of the world’s most prestigious photography competitions returns with free entry, international exposure, major prizes, and opportunities for photographers at every stage of their careers. 2 June 2026 Open Call: Entries are now open for the Sony World Photography Awards 2027, inviting photographers from around the world to submit work across its Professional, Open,
- [Playtime: Isaac Julien at PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany](https://artafricamagazine.org/playtime-isaac-julien-at-palaispopulaire-berlin-germany/) - The PalaisPopulaire is hosting an exhibition devoted to Isaac Julien, an award-winning British artist and filmmaker known for his impressive lyrical films and video installations. Five years after the profound global financial crisis, Julien presented the film Playtime in 2013. In it, he addresses a fundamental question: how can capital be visualised? 3 April 2023 On view
- [Ekow Nimako: Reimagining African Futures in Black LEGO](https://artafricamagazine.org/ekow-nimako-reimagining-african-futures-in-black-lego/) - The Ghanaian-Canadian artist reflects on Building Black Civilisations – The Nile 3025 CE at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, where Afrofuturism, mythology and speculative world-building converge in monumental sculptural form. 26 April 2026 In discussion with ART AFRICA, Ekow Nimako reflects on Building Black Civilisations – The Nile 3025 CE at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, an ambitious exhibition that extends
- [We Didn’t Choose to Be Born Here: Inherited Frequencies](https://artafricamagazine.org/we-didnt-choose-to-be-born-here-inherited-frequencies/) - Tracing memory, migration and resistance through Thero Makepe’s intimate photographic language. 26 May 2026 Botswana-born artist Thero Makepe turns the camera toward the emotional residue of history. Presented at Javett-UP, the exhibition unfolds as an expansive meditation on inheritance, exile and political memory, drawing together staged portraiture, archival imagery and documentary photography into a deeply
- [What the Water Refuses to Forget: Nuits Balnéaires and the Poetics of Ancestral Return](https://artafricamagazine.org/what-the-water-refuses-to-forget-nuits-balneaires-and-the-poetics-of-ancestral-return/) - Nuits Balnéaires charts a luminous passage through memory, mythology and the afterlives of inheritance. 26 May 2026 In Paris, Ivorian artist Nuits Balnéaires unveils 'Eboro', a deeply introspective exhibition that drifts between photography, installation, fashion and archival gesture. Rooted in the coastal atmospheres of Grand-Bassam and shaped by a transgenerational meditation on family history, the
- [Threads That Refuse to Break](https://artafricamagazine.org/threads-that-refuse-to-break/) - In Aasha John’s woven photographs, memory becomes a tactile act of resistance across generations and geographies. 26 May 2026 In 'As I Weave', Trinidad-born, London-based artist Aasha John transforms family archives into sites of emotional excavation, threading together photography, oral history and textile practice to map the fragile architectures of memory. Presented at Autograph, the
- [Stitching a Mind of Peace](https://artafricamagazine.org/stitching-a-mind-of-peace/) - Rosy Simas transforms ancestral memory into a living, immersive encounter at the Walker Art Center. 26 May 2026 At the Walker Art Center, Rosy Simas unfolds a space where movement, memory, and material practice converge with profound emotional precision. The Seneca artist’s ambitious new commission, 'A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:’ (i hope it will stir your mind)', emerges
- [Tracing the Body Through Dust and Memory](https://artafricamagazine.org/tracing-the-body-through-dust-and-memory/) - Igshaan Adams transforms the Guggenheim Bilbao into a living archive of movement, intimacy, and collective repair. 26 May 2026 At the Guggenheim Bilbao, South African artist Igshaan Adams presents 'Unsettling Dust: The Body’s Archive', an immersive exhibition that blurs the boundaries between weaving, choreography, sculpture, and social history. Presented as the latest chapter of the
- [Zanzibar: Mapping Memory Through Sound and Colour](https://artafricamagazine.org/zanzibar-mapping-memory-through-sound-and-colour/) - Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska transform Lisson Gallery into an immersive meditation on loss, migration and belonging. 26 May 2026 At Lisson Gallery, 'Zanzibar' (1999–2023) reunites the collaborative practices of Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska in a richly layered installation where painting and sound converge as vessels of memory. Originally conceived through a series of
- [RESONANCE 2026 Opens Fully Funded Paris Residency](https://artafricamagazine.org/resonance-2026-opens-fully-funded-paris-residency/) - ART X Lagos and Cité internationale des arts invite Nigeria-based visual artists, curators and designers to apply for the international residency programme. 26 May 2026 Open Call: Applications are now open for the 2026 to 2027 edition of RESONANCE, a fully funded international residency programme for visual artists, curators, and designers currently living and working
- [Sharjah Art Foundation Launches The Hook for Emerging Art Writers.](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundation-launches-the-hook-for-emerging-art-writers/) - New editorial platform invites regional writers to develop critical voices through close engagement with contemporary art. 26 May 2026 Open Call: Sharjah Art Foundation has launched The Hook, a new initiative that supports emerging and established art writers across the region through commissioned critical writing focused on contemporary artworks exhibited at Sharjah Art Foundation venues.
- [Future Generation Art Prize Returns with $100,000 Award for Emerging Artists.](https://artafricamagazine.org/future-generation-art-prize-returns-with-100000-award-for-emerging-artists/) - Global open call invites artists under 35 to apply for one of the world’s leading contemporary art prizes. 26 May 2026 Open Call: Applications are now open for the eighth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, an international contemporary art prize supporting emerging artists aged 35 and under from anywhere in the world. Established
- [Cultivate: Open Call to Invest in Nottingham’s Creative Future](https://artafricamagazine.org/cultivate-open-call-to-invest-in-nottinghams-creative-future/) - New Art Exchange launches year-long development programme for community-focused organisations. 26 May 2026 Open Call: New Art Exchange (NAE) is inviting applications from Nottingham-based organisations for Cultivate, a year-long development programme designed to support organisations in strengthening a key area of their work and planning for future growth. The programme offers time, space and strategic
- [Shape the Future of Festivals: Open Call for Applications](https://artafricamagazine.org/shape-the-future-of-festivals-open-call-for-applications/) - New Art Exchange launches YOUnique Young Producers Programme for emerging creative leaders in Nottingham. 26 May 2026 Open Call: New Art Exchange (NAE) is inviting applications for the YOUnique Young Producers Programme, a development opportunity for aspiring festival and event producers aged 18 to 30 living in Nottingham City. The programme supports young people to
- [Helena Uambembe and Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino are among winners of ars viva prize 2025](https://artafricamagazine.org/helena-uambembe-and-wisrah-c-v-da-r-celestino-are-among-winners-of-ars-viva-prize-2025/) - The 2025 ars viva prize winners have been chosen. This year’s prize will be awarded to Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino (*1989), Vincent Scheers (*1990) and Helena Uambembe (*1994). This year’s award is associated with exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bremen, Haus der Kunst in Munich, and an artist:s residency on Fogo Island, Canada. The jury
- [Art Dubai Marks 20 Years with Special Edition Focused on Collaboration and Cultural Exchange - Friday, 15-17 May 2026.](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-dubai-marks-20-years-with-special-edition-focused-on-collaboration-and-cultural-exchange-friday-15-17-may-2026/) - Returning to Madinat Jumeirah this May, the landmark edition brings together galleries, institutions and artists from across the region and beyond, reaffirming Dubai’s role as a global centre for contemporary culture and dialogue. Art Dubai returns this May with a special 20th-edition programme that both reflects on the fair’s remarkable evolution and reasserts Dubai’s role
- [Venice Biennale Opens Amid Strikes, Protests and Institutional Rupture.](https://artafricamagazine.org/venice-biennale-opens-amid-strikes-protests-and-institutional-rupture/) - As artists, activists and cultural workers descend on Venice, the 61st Biennale becomes a volatile stage for debates around war, labour, ethics and the future of global art institutions. 8 May 2026 The 2026 Venice Biennale has opened amid extreme turmoil, with organisers facing pressure over national pavilions, particularly amid calls to protest the Israel
- [OPEN CALL - Diriyah Art Futures: Emerging New Media Artists 2026-2027 Edition.](https://artafricamagazine.org/open-call-diriyah-art-futures-emerging-new-media-artists-2026-2027-edition/) - Diriyah Art Futures announces an open call for the third Emerging New Media Artists Programme 2026-2027. 5 May 2026 Diriyah Art Futures (DAF) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has opened applications for its Emerging New Media Artists Programme 2026–2027, a one-year, fully supported programme dedicated to creative production at the intersection of art, science, and technology.
- [AKKA Venice Project: Beyond the Exhibition](https://artafricamagazine.org/akka-venice-project-beyond-the-exhibition/) - Reframing support, slowness, and long-term commitment as African artistic ecosystems shift and return to the continent. 5 May 2026 For over a decade, the founder of AKKA, Lidija Khachatourian, has operated with a quiet but deliberate consistency, first in Dubai and now in Venice, centring African and diasporic artists within a model that extends far
- [Mapping the Invisible: Saudi Arabia’s A Necessary Fiction Unfolds in Venice](https://artafricamagazine.org/mapping-the-invisible-saudi-arabias-a-necessary-fiction-unfolds-in-venice/) - 2 May 2026 In Venice, where histories of trade, empire, and exchange are etched into every canal and façade, a new exhibition invites us to reconsider how the world has been imagined—and misimagined—across centuries. Opening in tandem with the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, A Necessary Fiction: Maps, Art, and Models
- [In Minor Keys: The 61st Biennale di Arte Venezia Opens Under Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025).](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-minor-keys-the-61st-biennale-di-arte-venezia-opens-under-koyo-kouoh-1967-2025/) - Lines Redrawn: African Pavilions and a Biennale in Transition and Disruption. 29 April 2026 Brendon and Suzette Bell-Roberts The 61st Biennale di Arte Venezia opens this week with a curatorial vision that is both deeply political and sensorially expansive. Helmed by Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025), the late Cameroonian-born curator whose intellectual and institutional imprint reshaped the
- [‘In Mali, When Animals Dance’ - Inside the Pulse of Sogo Bò](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-mali-when-animals-dance-inside-the-pulse-of-sogo-bo/) - Yoann Cormier on bringing 'In Mali, When Animals Dance' to life at the Musée des Confluences. 30 April 2026 How do you exhibit something that resists being fixed in place? In ‘In Mali, When Animals Dance’, Yoann Cormier takes on the challenge of translating sogo bò, a vibrant Malian performance tradition rooted in community, rhythm
- [A Document in Motion: ArtWorld Passports head to the Venice Biennale.](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-document-in-motion-artworld-passports-head-to-the-venice-biennale/) - An artwork that reimagines mobility, authorship, and belonging across the global art world 30 April 2026 Arriving in Venice at a moment when the art world stages its most visible circuits of exchange, 'ArtWorld Passport' resists the conventions of exhibition-making. Conceived by Zimbabwean artist Richard Mudariki, it is not so much an exhibition as it
- [Echoes of Memory and Quiet Revolutions](https://artafricamagazine.org/echoes-of-memory-and-quiet-revolutions/) - Inside the final chapter of the Henrike Grohs Art Award and the artists who reshaped its legacy. 30 April 2026 At the heart of this final chapter stands Rehema Chachage, a Tanzanian artist whose work unfolds like a living archive. Named the 2026 laureate, Chachage received a 20,000-euro prize and support for a major publication.
- [What Faces Do Not Say: Reimagining Portraiture Beyond Recognition.](https://artafricamagazine.org/what-faces-do-not-say-reimagining-portraiture-beyond-recognition/) - Curator Yasmin Sarnefors on identity, opacity, and the shifting language of the portrait across Africa and its diaspora. 9 April 2026 Alice Sartori In 'What Faces Do Not Say', portraiture is disrupted. It is no longer just about recognising faces; instead, it becomes a space filled with ambiguity, memories, and acts of resistance. Curator Yasmin
- ['What My Mother Gave Me': Monuments of Flesh](https://artafricamagazine.org/what-my-mother-gave-me-monuments-of-flesh/) - Reclaiming memory, motherhood, and the Black female body in Nona Faustine’s first retrospective. 29 April 2026 Nona Faustine’s ‘What My Mother Gave Me’ unfolds as both an intimate archive and a political reckoning. The exhibition, the artist’s first retrospective, gathers nearly three decades of work to reveal how Faustine collapsed the distance between the personal
- [Sharjah Biennial 17 Assembles 109 Artists Across a Restless Global Landscape.](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-biennial-17-assembles-109-artists-across-a-restless-global-landscape/) - Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento convene an expansive constellation of practices to probe the unfinished histories and infrastructural imaginaries shaping the present. 27 April 2026 Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the full participant list for Sharjah Biennial 17, titled ‘What remains, sits restive’, curated by Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento. Bringing together 109 participants across
- [Speaking in Signs: Kwame Akoto’s Worlds Across Contexts.](https://artafricamagazine.org/speaking-in-signs-kwame-akotos-worlds-across-contexts/) - 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 the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Kwame Akoto: 'Almighty God Art Works' marks the first major exhibition in
- [Yves Klein Research Grant 2026: A Funded Residency for Emerging Scholars](https://artafricamagazine.org/yves-klein-research-grant-2026-a-funded-residency-for-emerging-scholars/) - A CHF 6,000 grant and residency programme supporting new research on one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. 29 April 2026 Open Call: The Yves Klein Foundation launches its first Research Grant, inviting applications from emerging researchers worldwide. The programme supports original research projects that deepen understanding of Yves Klein’s work, ideas,
- [M’barek Bouhchichi: Hands That Remember](https://artafricamagazine.org/mbarek-bouhchichi-hands-that-remember/) - A poetics of gesture, memory and making across Madagascar and Morocco. 29 April 2026 ‘Les mains des poètes’ unfolds as both encounter and inscription, where the hand becomes a site of knowledge. Moroccan artist M’barek Bouhchichi anchors this exhibition in a process of immersion and exchange, following a residency in Madagascar that privileged proximity over
- [KABARIN-JAVAKANTO: Speaking in Many Tongues](https://artafricamagazine.org/kabarin-javakanto-speaking-in-many-tongues/) - Reframing a collection through the poetics of encounter. 29 April 2026 At Fondation H in Antananarivo, ‘Kabarin-javakanto: A Reading of the Fondation H Collection’ unfolds less as an exhibition than as a living discourse. Conceived by curator Abdellah Karroum, the project reimagines the foundation’s international holdings through the lens of kabary, the Malagasy oratorical tradition
- [Between Here and Elsewhere: A New Generation Steps Forward](https://artafricamagazine.org/between-here-and-elsewhere-a-new-generation-steps-forward/) - Ten emerging voices from Tlhagella reimagine presence, memory, and becoming. 29 April 2026 At the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria, ‘Between Here and Elsewhere’ convenes the Top 10 artists of the 2025/26 Tlhagella Incubation Programme in a resonant articulation of emergence. Conceived as both an exhibition and a threshold, the presentation marks
- ['Scattered Memories': Fragments That Refuse to Fade](https://artafricamagazine.org/scattered-memories-fragments-that-refuse-to-fade/) - Sudanese artists reassembling memory across borders, bodies and time. 29 April 2026 In Cairo this May, ‘Scattered Memories' unfolds as an intimate yet expansive meditation on loss, remembrance and the fragile architectures of cultural memory. Initiated by the Goethe-Institut Sudan in collaboration with the Humboldt Forum Berlin, the exhibition resists the fixity of a single
- [‘What Color is Your Sky Today?’: The Becoming of the Image](https://artafricamagazine.org/what-color-is-your-sky-today-the-becoming-of-the-image/) - Armineh Negahdari’s restless drawings unfold between body, memory, and metamorphosis. 29 April 2026 In its latest Open Space iteration, the Fondation Louis Vuitton turns to the charged, unsteady language of drawing with Armineh Negahdari’s first institutional solo exhibition in France. Bringing together a new body of works, the Bordeaux-based artist approaches drawing not as representation,
- [‘Rostos da Imigração’: Faces That Refuse Silence](https://artafricamagazine.org/rostos-da-imigracao-faces-that-refuse-silence/) - Alfredo Cunha’s lens traces the fragile geographies of belonging in contemporary Portugal. 29 April 2026 At a moment when migration continues to redraw the cultural and political contours of Europe, ‘Rostos da Imigração’ emerges as both testimony and intervention. Presented at the UCCLA gallery in Lisbon, Alfredo Cunha’s photographic exhibition gathers a constellation of portraits
- [Zaha Hadid: Architectures of Endless Experiment.](https://artafricamagazine.org/zaha-hadid-architectures-of-endless-experiment/) - Tracing a radical imagination through dialogue, drawing and the unfinished future. 29 April 2026 Marking a decade since Zaha Hadid's passing, LUMA Arles’ latest chapter in the Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives unfolds as both homage and provocation, positioning the architect not as a fixed legacy but as an ongoing method of thinking. Anchored in a
- [In Search of the Incredible.](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-search-of-the-incredible/) - Julianknxx at LUMA Arles and the poetics of memory in motion. 29 April 2026 ‘In Search of … Incredible’ unfolds as both invocation and inquiry, a meditation on how memory is carried across bodies, geographies, and time. Sierra Leone-born, London-based poet, artist, and filmmaker Julianknxx brings a new commission into the subterranean spaces of the
- [Arte Laguna Prize 21: Exhibit in Venice and Join a Global Art Network](https://artafricamagazine.org/arte-laguna-prize-21-exhibit-in-venice-and-join-a-global-art-network/) - An international open call offering exhibition opportunities, cash awards, and worldwide visibility for contemporary artists. 29 April 2026 Open Call: The 21st Edition of the Arte Laguna Prize is now open for applications, inviting artists to submit work to a major international contemporary art competition. Selected finalists will exhibit at the Arsenale Nord in Venice
- [E·CO/26 Open Call: Collaborative Art Projects Across Africa and Ibero-America](https://artafricamagazine.org/e·co-26-open-call-collaborative-art-projects-across-africa-and-ibero-america/) - A €5,000 funded programme supporting interdisciplinary collectives to rethink the past and imagine new futures. 29 April 2026 Open Call: E·CO/26 is an international open call for collaborative artistic and research projects developed by interdisciplinary groups. The programme supports new works that engage critically with history to better understand the present and to propose future
- [Art Explora Residency Open Call for 2027](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-explora-residency-open-call-for-2027/) - A three-month international residency supporting artists, researchers, and curators with funding, studio space, and global networks. 29 April 2026 Open Call: The Vila 31 x Art Explora Residency Programme 2027 invites applications from artists, artist collectives, researchers, curators, and writers worldwide. The programme offers fully funded three-month residencies in Tirana, Albania, across three sessions in
- [Nobody Can Handle Me: Brazil Rewrites the Pavilion as Living Memory.](https://artafricamagazine.org/nobody-can-handle-me-brazil-rewrites-the-pavilion-as-living-memory/) - 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 pavilions have long performed the politics of representation, Brazil arrives in 2026 with a proposition that refuses containment. ‘Comigo ninguém
- ['Apoi' and Weaving What Remains](https://artafricamagazine.org/apoi-and-weaving-what-remains/) - Acaye Kerunen reimagines art as a living practice of care and continuity. 21 April 2026 At Kunstmuseen Krefeld, ‘Apoi’ unfolds as part of the ongoing HL HE Dialog: What Comes After Art series, centring the deeply relational practice of Ugandan artist Acaye Kerunen. Installed across the modernist spaces of Haus Lange and Haus Esters, the
- [‘Ghosts of the Moment' - Language Games in a Haunted Present.](https://artafricamagazine.org/ghosts-of-the-moment-language-games-in-a-haunted-present/) - 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 Kouagou’s first solo exhibition in Italy. Bringing together recent works and new commissions, the exhibition foregrounds the Paris-based artist’s language-driven
- [WURUS - Light catches before form does.](https://artafricamagazine.org/wurus-light-catches-before-form-does/) - 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 of Palazzo Navagero, where the Senegal Pavilion unfolds as less an exhibition and more a shifting field of attention. WURUS,
- [Echoes from the Margins: Guinea’s Debut Pavilion Resonates in Venice.](https://artafricamagazine.org/echoes-from-the-margins-guineas-debut-pavilion-resonates-in-venice/) - '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, curated by Koyo Kouoh under the evocative theme In Minor Keys, the Republic of Guinea arrives not with spectacle, but
- [ART AFRICA to host 2nd NEW FUTURES ARTS COLLABORATIVE 2026, in Cape Town, South Africa.](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-africa-to-host-2nd-new-futures-arts-collaborative-2026-in-cape-town-south-africa/) - OPEN CALL: De-composition, Extraction and Regeneration 22 April 2026 Notions of change happen individually and collectively. In a world where personal challenges are echoed in others, these become sites for social justice. How could we shift from the singular "my" to "ours"? Our life, our planet, our existence? How to return to the earth? In
- [Johannes Phokela: Exploring Virtue, Contradiction, and Power at the Venice Biennale 2026.](https://artafricamagazine.org/heading-johannes-phokela-exploring-virtue-contradiction-and-power-at-the-venice-biennale-2026/) - 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 unsettle first. At a distance, they appear controlled, even obedient. The language is familiar, the weight of European Old Master
- [Zanele Muholi Makes History with Prestigious International Photography Prize in Sweden.](https://artafricamagazine.org/zanele-muholi-makes-history-with-prestigious-international-photography-prize-in-sweden/) - South African visual activist and artist Zanele Muholi has been named the recipient of the 2026 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, widely regarded as the most prestigious honour in the field. The award recognises a practice that has profoundly reshaped contemporary photography through its insistence on visibility, dignity, and human rights. 20 April 2026
- [Fragments of Light: Julia Kater on her exhibition 'Duplo' at the Simões de Assis Alameda Lorena, São Paulo.](https://artafricamagazine.org/fragments-of-light-julia-kater-on-her-exhibition-duplo-at-the-simoes-de-assis-alameda-lorena-sao-paulo/) - The artist reflects on photography, collage, and dyed silk as fields of memory, absence, and chromatic transformation. In 'Duplo', Julia Kater shows fourteen new works created between Paris and São Paulo. She explores landscape as a collection of fragments, colours, and memories. By using photography, collage, and dyed silk, Kater builds images that are not
- [Writing the Earth: 'Ilā Turāb' by Moroccan artist Fatiha Zemmouri.](https://artafricamagazine.org/writing-the-earth-ila-turab-by-moroccan-artist-fatiha-zemmouri/) - The artist traces soil as a living lexicon, material, memory, and meaning, unfolding in a delicate floor-based installation that hovers between formation and erasure. 20 March 2026 In ‘Ilā Turāb’, Zemmouri transforms soil into a shifting inscription that unfolds slowly across the floor. What first appears as a dense accumulation of earth gradually resolves into
- [Rememory and Return: The 25th Biennale of Sydney 2026.](https://artafricamagazine.org/rememory-and-return-the-25th-biennale-of-sydney-2026/) - Reclaiming histories, reimagining belonging across a dispersed city. The Biennale of Sydney marks its 25th edition with ‘Rememory’, a proposition that feels both timely and necessary. Opening this weekend and unfolding across an expanded network of sites, the exhibition gathers more than 80 artists and collectives from across the globe, threading together stories of memory,
- [Buried Roots Up In The Air.](https://artafricamagazine.org/buried-roots-up-in-the-air/) - Nigerian artist Eniwaye Oluwaseyi navigates memory, migration, and the mutable idea of home through layered, psychologically charged interiors at Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery. 21 March 2026 In Buried Roots Up in the Air, Eniwaye Oluwaseyi transforms personal archives into evocative painterly worlds where memory is neither fixed nor faithful, but constantly reworked. Drawing on family photographs, domestic
- [‘Minna, منا, of Us’: A Lineage That Seeks No Permission.](https://artafricamagazine.org/minna-منا-of-us-a-lineage-that-seeks-no-permission/) - Curator Ridikkuluz reflects on proximity, satire, and the politics of gathering across Arab queer diasporas in a conversation on ‘minna | منا of us' at PARTICIPANT INC and SALMA in New York. 20 April 2026 Ridikkuluz enters into conversation with Suzette Bell-Roberts about an exhibition shaped by intimacy, urgency, and shared political ground. Bringing together
- [Urban Reflections: Daniel Melim on the City as Living Archive.](https://artafricamagazine.org/urban-reflections-daniel-melim-on-the-city-as-studio-archive-and-collective-space/) - In conversation with Brendon Bell-Roberts, the Brazilian artist reflects on the origins of graffiti, layered urban memory, and participatory practice in his exhibition at São Bernardo do Campo. SER, 250 cm x 625 cm, 2017, Daniel Melim. Crédito Sylvia Sanches. For Brazilian artist Daniel Melim, the city is not merely a subject but an active
- [Ethiopia Returns to Venice with Tegene Kunbi’s Shapes of Silence.](https://artafricamagazine.org/ethiopia-returns-to-venice-with-tegene-kunbis-shapes-of-silence/) - At the 61st Biennale Arte, Kunbi's layered paintings probe silence as a social and political condition in which material, memory, and power converge. 22 March 2026 Tegene Kunbi. Dale Grant Photography, © Dale Grant. Courtesy the artist. At the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Ethiopia returns with Shapes of Silence, a
- [Frank Bowling and the Intimacy of the Sublime.](https://artafricamagazine.org/frank-bowling-and-the-intimacy-of-the-sublime/) - Curator Habda Rashid, on curating scale, sensation, and a transnational abstraction across seven decades. 20 March 2026 In ‘Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime', curator Habda Rashid brings a focused and intimate lens to one of the most expansive practices in contemporary painting. Spanning nearly seventy years, the exhibition resists the tendency toward monumental survey, instead
- [‘A Protea Is Not a Flower’: the Making and Unmaking of A Symbol](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-protea-is-not-a-flower-the-making-and-unmaking-of-a-symbol/) - Khanyi Mawhayi in conversation on opacity, intergenerational memory, and the unstable ground of belonging. 20 March 2026 'A Protea Is Not a Flower' unfolds as an intergenerational dialogue that traces the shifting contours of exile across South African histories and diasporic imaginaries. Bringing contemporary artists Lerato Shadi and Robin Rhode into conversation with Gerard Sekoto,
- [CALL & RESPONSE: ART AFRICA's Editorial Programme at the 61st Biennale di Venezia 2026.](https://artafricamagazine.org/call-response-art-africas-editorial-programme-at-the-61st-biennale-de-venezia-2026/) - 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 thematic context. 2 April 2026 Call & Response: The Antiphonal Rhythms of Africa, the ART AFRICA Editorial Programme at the
- [Rewiring the System: Jean Katambayi Mukendi.](https://artafricamagazine.org/rewiring-the-system-jean-katambayi-mukendi/) - Jean Katambayi Mukendi speaks about technology, extraction, and speculative infrastructures in his exhibition, ‘Ratio’ at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. 27 March 2026 In ‘Ratio’, his first solo exhibition in Germany at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Jean Katambayi Mukendi brings together drawings, sculptural installations, and recycled materials to examine the
- [‘Between A Memory and Me’: Navigating Belonging](https://artafricamagazine.org/between-a-memory-and-me-navigating-belonging/) - Rahim Fortune maps memory, land, and Black life across the American South. 21 April 2026 Fortune composes a quiet yet resonant cartography of Black life, where landscape and lineage fold into one another with lyrical precision. Presented by the California African American Museum in collaboration with Art + Practice, and curated by Center for Photography
- [Post-Mortemism: An Autopsy of “Nigerian Modernism: Art and Independence” at Tate Modern.](https://artafricamagazine.org/post-mortemism-an-autopsy-of-nigerian-modernism-art-andindependence-at-tate-modern/) - Pronouncement of Death. Ayọ̀ Akínwándé 4 April 2026 Bruce Onobrakpeya, installation view of The Last Supper and The Fourteen Stations of the Cross. © Tate Photography (Jai Monaghan) PostMortemism names both the procedure and the position taken here. This essay conducts a forensic autopsy of ‘Nigerian Modernism: Art and Independence’ at Tate Modern, an exhibition
- [‘We refuse_d’: rehearsing refusal as method, memory, and possibility.](https://artafricamagazine.org/we-refuse_d-rehearsing-refusal-as-method-memory-and-possibility/) - At M HKA, Nadia Radwan and Vasif Kortun reframe refusal beyond negation, tracing its movements across displacement, institutional critique, and artistic agency. 11 April 2026 Marking fifteen years of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, ‘we refuse_d’ arrives at M HKA as both a travelling exhibition and a shifting proposition. ART AFRICA spoke to curators
- [Sunkissed and the Poetics of Repetition.](https://artafricamagazine.org/sunkissed-and-the-poetics-of-repetition/) - Amal Al Ali on Ahaad Alamoudi’s vibrant meditations on memory, development and Khaleeji visual culture. 09 April 2026 In ‘Sunkissed’ at Sharjah Art Foundation, Jeddah-based artist Ahaad Alamoudi threads humour, pop-cultural immediacy, and symbolic resonance into a compelling reflection on repetition, fatigue, and transformation in the Gulf. Bringing together newly commissioned and recent works, the
- [Minor Keys, Major Shifts: Sierra Leone’s Resonant Debut in Venice.](https://artafricamagazine.org/minor-keys-major-shifts-sierra-leones-resonant-debut-in-venice/) - 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 Leone arrives quietly, yet with profound clarity. Its debut at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
- [Nigeria At Venice: Speaking on Our Own Terms.](https://artafricamagazine.org/nigeria-at-venice-speaking-on-our-own-terms/) - Rethinking the pavilion as a site of cultural sovereignty, Nigeria challenges the limits of global inclusion and redefines its role within the art world. 11 April 2026 For Nigeria’s return to the Venice Biennale in 2028, the question is no longer how to be included, but how to hold authorship. Curator Richard Vedelago reflects on
- [A Year in Harlem: Residency Open Call for 2026–27](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-year-in-harlem-residency-open-call-for-2026-27/) - A landmark programme supporting artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent at the Studio Museum In Harlem, including studio space, curatorial mentorship, and a culminating exhibition in New York. 21 April 2026 Open Call: The Studio Museum in Harlem invites applications for its 2026–27 Artist-in-Residence programme. The residency will run from November 2, 2026, to October
- [Negative Impressions and Positive Traces of '20th Century Debris'.](https://artafricamagazine.org/negative-impressions-and-positive-traces-of-20th-century-debris/) - Marc Brandenburg’s spectral cityscapes reframe the debris of contemporary life. 21 April 2026 Brandenburg’s ‘20th Century Debris’ unfolds as a meditation on the afterimage of modernity, where the ordinary is rendered uncanny through acts of inversion and erasure. Long embedded in Berlin’s cultural fabric, Brandenburg turns to the city not as subject but as residue,
- [Where Thoughts Provoke and Truths Take Form.](https://artafricamagazine.org/where-thoughts-provoke-and-truths-takes-form/) - Henry Taylor’s restless portraits of the present arrive in Paris. 21 April 2026 Henry Taylor’s ‘Where Thoughts Provoke’ unfolds as both a survey and a reckoning, tracing nearly four decades of a practice rooted in observation, intimacy, and the politics of looking. Across painting, sculpture and installation, Taylor constructs a visual language that is at
- [Holding Us Together: Images of Care, Continuity, and Black Life](https://artafricamagazine.org/holding-us-together-images-of-care-continuity-and-black-life/) - A living archive of everyday gestures, where photography becomes both witness and participant in community memory. 21 April 2026 Drawn from the expansive Texas African American Photography Archive, ‘Kinship & Community’ gathers a constellation of images that reframe the visual history of Black life in the American South. Spanning the mid-twentieth century and rooted in
- [Dancing the Revolution: The Exhibition](https://artafricamagazine.org/dancing-the-revolution-the-exhibition/) - Rhythms of resistance and the politics of the body. 21 April 2026 At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ‘Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón’ unfolds as a pulsating archive of sound, movement and insurgent imagination. Bringing together more than forty artists across installation, video, sculpture and sonic interventions, the exhibition positions dance not
- [The Cosmic Entanglements and Inner Transformations of ‘Metamorphosis’.](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-cosmic-entanglements-and-inner-transformations-of-metamorphosis/) - Isaac Julien reimagines time, transformation and relational worlds inside The Cosmic House. 21 April 2026 ‘All That Changes You. Metamorphosis’ unfolds as a meditation on transformation, as sensorial as it is philosophical. Conceived as a site-responsive work, the film inhabits Charles Jencks’s postmodern architectural cosmos, where time loops, folds and returns rather than proceeds in
- [Tabula Rasa: The Geometry of the Collective.](https://artafricamagazine.org/tabula-rasa-the-geometry-of-the-collective/) - Peterson Kamwathi maps the politics of bodies in formation. 21 April 2026 At the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, Peterson Kamwathi’s practice unfolds as a study in accumulation, where the individual dissolves into the charged terrain of the collective. Working across drawing and collage, Kamwathi returns insistently to the figure, not as a portrait but as
- [Fellowship Open Call - Shaping Africa’s Curatorial Futures](https://artafricamagazine.org/fellowship-open-call-shaping-africas-curatorial-futures/) - Fully funded Zeitz MOCAA and UWC Museum Fellowship Programme 2027 for emerging African art professionals. 21 April 2026 Open Call: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, in partnership with the University of the Western Cape, invites applications for the 2027 Museum Fellowship Programme. This year-long, fully funded programme combines practical museum training with postgraduate academic
- [Reframing Leadership - Photography Open Call](https://artafricamagazine.org/reframing-leadership-photography-open-call/) - Unpublished Africa invites African photographers to explore everyday, creative, and collective expressions of leadership. 21 April 2026 Open Call: African photographers are invited to submit work responding to the question: What does leadership look like in your context? This open call seeks visual narratives that reflect how leadership is expressed across different environments, experiences and
- [Lights, Funding, Action - Film Grant Open Call](https://artafricamagazine.org/lights-funding-action-film-grant-open-call/) - Sharjah Art Foundation’s Short Film Production Grant 2026 supports bold new filmmaking voices with funding and global exposure. 21 April 2026 Open Call: Sharjah Art Foundation invites applications for the ninth cycle of its Short Film Production Grant, presented in conjunction with Sharjah Film Platform. Open to filmmakers worldwide, the grant supports the completion of
- [‘Out of Place’ : The Afterlives of Landscape.](https://artafricamagazine.org/out-of-place-the-afterlives-of-landscape/) - Jo Ractliffe on memory, distance, and the quiet persistence of history across four decades of photographic practice. 15 April 2026 Spanning more than forty years, ‘Out of Place’ brings together over two hundred images that trace Jo Ractliffe’s sustained engagement with landscape as a charged and unstable terrain. Ractliffe reflects on the evolving language of
- [NAFRICA–MASCHERE: The Mask Strikes Back](https://artafricamagazine.org/nafrica-masks-the-mask-strikes-back/) - 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 a charged encounter between colonial archives and contemporary artistic practices. Bringing together historical material such as the unsettling anthropological records
- [‘Washwasha’ (Whispers Across Water): Sonic Cartographies of the UAE at the Venice Biennale.](https://artafricamagazine.org/washwasha-whispers-across-water-sonic-cartographies-of-the-uae-at-the-venice-biennale/) - 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 water carries every footstep into echo, the UAE Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
- [St. Elmo Arts Residency Supports Emerging MFA Graduates Through Studio Practice and Pedagogy](https://artafricamagazine.org/st-elmo-arts-residency-supports-emerging-mfa-graduates-through-studio-practice-and-pedagogy/) - Positioned between academic training and professional practice, the St. Elmo Arts Residency at the University of Texas at Austin offers a structured transition for recent MFA graduates—combining studio production, teaching, and public engagement. 11 April 2026 Installation view of Pablo Tut: Land Invention, 2024–25 St. Elmo Arts Residency Fellow exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX,
- [One Month, Global Exposure: Light Work’s Artist Residency](https://artafricamagazine.org/one-month-global-exposure-light-works-artist-residency/) - An international open call offering time, space, and resources for photographers and image-makers to develop new work in Syracuse, New York. 14 April 2026 Open Call: Light Work invites applications for its internationally recognised Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program. Each year, 12 to 15 artists are selected for a one-month residency in Syracuse, USA, to focus on
- [Funded Archival Research: The Center for Craft Fellowship Spotlighting Hidden Histories.](https://artafricamagazine.org/funded-archival-research-the-center-for-craft-fellowship-spotlighting-hidden-histories/) - Supporting researchers and artists to uncover and amplify underrepresented narratives in American craft through a $5,000 fellowship and national publication platform. 14 April 2026 Open Call: The Center for Craft invites applications for its Craft Archive Fellowship, with the 2026 cycle open and a deadline of May 20, 2026. Up to four to six fellowships
- [Three Years, One City: Tulsa’s Transformative Artist Fellowship.](https://artafricamagazine.org/three-years-one-city-tulsas-transformative-artist-fellowship/) - A long-term, place-based award supporting artists and arts workers to develop ambitious projects while living and engaging deeply with Tulsa’s cultural landscape. 14 April 2026 Open Call: Tulsa Artist Fellowship invites applications for its 2027–2029 award cycle, open from April 7 to May 7, 2026, with a short grace period for final submissions. Each cycle
- [Two Weeks, Full Access: Brooklyn’s Hello New York! Artist Programme.](https://artafricamagazine.org/two-weeks-full-access-brooklyns-hello-new-york-artist-programme/) - A free, intensive professional development residency connecting artists to New York’s art ecosystem through mentorship, studio visits, and critical exchange. 14 April 2026 Open Call: The Curatorial Program for Research announces periodic open calls for its Hello New York! artist residency in Brooklyn, with recent cycles including 2026 applications open from April 1 to May
- [The Practice of Liberation and Sanctuaries of Becoming.](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-practice-of-liberation-and-sanctuaries-of-becoming/) - Ritual, memory and the slow work of liberation in Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s luminous new commission. 14 April 2026 At the Whitworth, Michaela Yearwood-Dan unfolds a space that feels at once devotional and defiantly intimate. ‘The Practice of Liberation’ marks the artist’s first institutional exhibition in the UK, a decisive moment that gathers painting, ceramics and sound
- [Derrick Adams: Glimpses of Black Leisure](https://artafricamagazine.org/derrick-adams-glimpses-of-black-leisure/) - Reframing Black life through the radical clarity of the everyday. 14 April 2026 At the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, ‘Derrick Adams: View Master’ unfolds as both an archive and a proposition, assembling more than 100 works that trace two decades of the artist’s expansive, multidisciplinary practice. This first mid-career survey positions Adams not simply
- [Consequences of Being and the Process of Becoming.](https://artafricamagazine.org/consequences-of-being-and-the-process-of-becoming/) - Deborah Roberts and the politics of looking, remembering, and reassembling. 14 April 2026 At The FLAG Art Foundation, ‘Consequences of Being’ gathers Deborah Roberts’s newest works into a charged field of visibility, where the act of looking is never neutral. Spanning large-scale paintings, works on paper, and the artist’s first foray into ceramic sculpture, the
- [The Order of Symbolism, Signs and Sensibility  ](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-order-of-symbolism-signs-and-sensibility/) - Rubem Valentim and the poetics of an Afro-Brazilian modernity at MAM Rio. 14 April 2026 ‘Rubem Valentim: a ordem do sensível’ unfolds as both retrospective and reorientation, tracing the contours of an artistic language forged between abstraction and ancestral memory. Bringing together around 180 works across painting, relief and sculpture, the exhibition surveys over four
- [The Music Is Black: Frequencies of Belonging in Britain](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-music-is-black-frequencies-of-belonging-in-britain/) - Tracing the pulse of Black British music across memory, migration and modernity 14 April 2026 At V&A East’s inaugural exhibition, ‘The Music is Black: A British Story’, sound becomes both archive and witness. Curated by Jacqueline Springer, this exhibition spans more than a century, mapping the rhythms of Black British life through music, revealing a
- [Fragments of Belonging in 'Black Bricolage'.](https://artafricamagazine.org/fragments-of-belonging-in-black-bricolage/) - Johny Pitts maps the poetics of being ‘Afropean’ through image, memory and encounter. 14 April 2026 At MEP Studio, Johny Pitts ‘Black Bricolage’ unfolds as a quietly radical meditation on Black life in Europe, assembling a constellation of images, notes and lived encounters into an immersive visual essay. Spanning two decades of work, the exhibition
- [There Is a Fountain Even If Pale That Flows Beneath Us All.](https://artafricamagazine.org/there-is-a-fountain-even-if-pale-that-flows-beneath-us-all/) - Hajra Waheed at Kunstinstituut Melly. 14 April 2026 In ‘There Is a Fountain Even If Pale That Flows Beneath Us All’, Hajra Waheed invites us into a space of attunement where sound becomes both a method and a politics. Guest curated by Hera Chan and presented within Kunstinstituut Melly’s ongoing Call & Response series, the
- [ICA Live Art Festival at UCT Announces Open Call](https://artafricamagazine.org/ica-live-art-festival-at-uct-announces-open-call/) - An open call for artists working across live and interdisciplinary forms to present new and experimental work at one of South Africa’s leading performance festivals. 14 April 2026 Open Call: The Institute for Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town invites proposals for the ICA Live Art Festival 2026, scheduled to take place from
- [Listening to Light: Owanto’s Traces of the Timeless](https://artafricamagazine.org/listening-to-light-owantos-traces-of-the-timeless/) - A meditation on gesture, ancestral memory, and the luminous current of Ozangé. 18 February 2026 Owanto, Do you have a name?, 2025. Glass neon light, 15 × 150 cm. Courtesy of Owanto Studio In Traces of the Timeless, Owanto turns inward without retreating from the collective. The exhibition marks a profound return to painting — not as image-making,
- [The Act of Being Seen: Painter MUMBY and Photographer Hélène Feuillebois on the Politics of Presence](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-act-of-being-seen-painter-mumby-and-photographer-helene-feuillebois-on-the-politics-of-presence/) - Written and edited by Tanlume Enyatseng, this studio conversation brings Congolese painter MUMBY and photographer Hélène Feuillebois together to reflect on presence, visibility, and the quiet labour of being seen in contemporary Paris. 29 March 2026 © Hélène Feuillebois In a Paris studio, large canvases lean against the walls. Paper rolls curl across the floor.
- [Too, Fly: On Icarus and the Black Art of Becoming](https://artafricamagazine.org/too-fly-on-icarus-and-the-black-art-of-becoming/) - Reframing Icarus through Black cosmology, diasporic memory, and the spiritual labour of becoming Fahamu Pecou, 'Icarus', Montresso Art Foundation. Photographer: Mourad Boulhana In his exhibition at the Montresso Art Foundation in Marrakech, Fahamu Pecou revisits the myth of Icarus through Afrocentric and diasporic frameworks of flight, return, and recognition. Spanning painting, sculpture, drawing, and the
- [‘Earthscape’: Mapping Land, Memory, and Diasporic Imagination.](https://artafricamagazine.org/earthspace-mapping-land-memory-and-diasporic-imagination/) - Marcia Harvey Isaksson in conversation on curating the Afro-Nordic condition, material histories, and the politics of landscape. In ‘Earthscape’, curator Marcia Harvey Isaksson brings together eight artists of African descent whose practices move across photography, painting, ceramics, textiles, and sculpture, tracing a shared yet deeply heterogeneous Afro-Nordic experience. As the second exhibition drawn from the
- [‘Shanduko nhema’: A Monument Made of Memory.](https://artafricamagazine.org/shanduko-nhema-a-monument-made-of-memory/) - Kresiah Mukwazhi reflects on her exhibition 'Shanduko nhema', tracing the politics of intimacy, circulation, and Black feminist refusal within Museum Ludwig's Schultze Projects. 20 March 2026 In ‘Shanduko nhema', Kresiah Mukwazhi gathers the intimate residues of women's lives into a monumental field of abstraction. This field resists easy legibility but insists on proximity. Composed of
- [Statues Also Breathe: A Chorus of Clay and Memory, Where the Missing Return as Form.](https://artafricamagazine.org/statues-also-breathe-a-chorus-of-clay-and-memory-where-the-missing-return-as-form/) - Curator Meriem Berrada and artist Prune Nourry on collective remembrance, sculptural presence, and the afterlives of absence at MACAAL. 4 April 2026 At MACAAL, ‘Statues Also Breathe’ unfolds as both monument and gesture, a collective act that resists disappearance through form. Bringing together 108 terracotta heads shaped through a collaborative process between Prune Nourry, artisans,
- [‘We Are Here’: Queer Presence and Memory in African Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/we-are-here-queer-presence-and-memory-in-african-art/) - Kevin D. Dumouchelle on collaboration, continuity, and the politics of visibility in ‘Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art' at the Smithsonian Museum of Modern Art. 4 April 2026 Developed through years of conversation with LGBTQ+ artists, ‘Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art’ foregrounds self-representation, community, and historical continuity within African and diasporic art.
- [Banff Centre’s “On Other Archives” Residency Reconsiders the Archive as Site of Memory and Re-Storying](https://artafricamagazine.org/banff-centres-on-other-archives-residency-reconsiders-the-archive-as-site-of-memory-and-re-storying/) - The Banff Centre’s thematic residency On Other Archives invites artists to engage archives as unstable terrains—where memory, absence, and inherited narratives are contested and reimagined. 11 April 2026 Open Call:Operating within Banff Centre’s broader Visual Arts residency framework, On Other Archives is a thematic programme that foregrounds the archive as a critical and creative tool.
- [GHOSTMACHINE Gallery Open Call Invites Artists into Curator-Led Exhibition in New York](https://artafricamagazine.org/ghostmachine-gallery-open-call-invites-artists-into-curator-led-exhibition-in-new-york/) - GHOSTMACHINE Gallery’s latest open call offers artists a collaborative exhibition model that foregrounds dialogue between curator and practitioner. 11 April 2026 Open Call:GHOSTMACHINE Gallery has announced an open call for artists to participate in a two- or three-person exhibition curated by Dominika Tylcz, scheduled to run from 31 July to 29 August 2026 at the
- [CCI Fellowships 2026 Opens Call for Caribbean Artists and Researchers Across Diasporic Contexts](https://artafricamagazine.org/cci-fellowships-2026-opens-call-for-caribbean-artists-and-researchers-across-diasporic-contexts/) - Positioned at the intersection of research, production, and institutional access, the Caribbean Cultural Institute Fellowships foreground artistic and scholarly practices that rethink Caribbean art beyond fixed geographies. 11 April 2026 Open Call:The Green Family Foundation Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has opened its 2026 call for fellowships, inviting artists, researchers,
- [ACT Nyoloha Scholarship Programme 2026: Deadline Extended](https://artafricamagazine.org/act-nyoloha-scholarship-programme-2026-deadline-extended/) - The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) invites applications for its Nyoloha Scholarship Programme, supporting South African youth pursuing undergraduate studies in the arts. 11 April 2026 Open Call:The ACT Nyoloha Scholarship Programme is open for applications. The programme supports young South Africans pursuing careers in performing, visual, and digital arts through a structured scholarship and
- ['House of Galleries (Volume 11)':  Niquu Eyeta and Ghizlane Sahli in a Shared Field of Care, Memory, and Material Becoming.](https://artafricamagazine.org/house-of-galleries-volume-11-niquu-eyeta-and-ghizlane-sahli-in-a-shared-field-of-care-memory-and-material-becoming/) - Exploring ritual, repetition, and ecological consciousness through practices rooted in care and process. 11 April 2026 Within ‘House of Galleries (Volume 11)’, the works of Niquu Eyeta and Ghizlane Sahli unfold as a quiet yet charged dialogue, shaped by material sensitivity, temporal depth, and an attunement to processes of transformation. Eyeta’s layered, organic compositions, shaped
- [COAL Prize 2026: Call for Projects – “The Night”](https://artafricamagazine.org/coal-prize-2026-call-for-projects-the-night/) - The COAL Prize 2026 invites artists worldwide to submit projects that engage with the ecological, cultural, and symbolic dimensions of “the night,” with a €12,000 grant and a residency awarded to the winning project. 11 April 2026 Open Call:The COAL Prize 2026 is dedicated to the theme of “The Night,” inviting artists to explore night
- [Who Gets to Save the World?](https://artafricamagazine.org/who-gets-to-save-the-world/) - Ladji Diaby reimagines collapse, care, and collective futures at Lafayette Anticipations. 9 April 2026 At Lafayette Anticipations, Ladji Diaby’s ‘Who’s gonna save the world?’ unfolds as both provocation and proposition, an exhibition that refuses the comfort of singular answers. Instead, the Franco-Malian artist assembles a charged constellation of found furniture and discarded objects, reworked into
- [The Sky Lives in Us Still, Resistance and Imagination Take Flight.](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-sky-lives-in-us-still-resistance-and-imagination-take-flight/) - Vanessa German reimagines histories of escape, community, and becoming at the Speed Art Museum. 9 April 2026 Opening at the Speed Art Museum, ‘…do you remember when you were the sky?’ marks a profound return for the Pittsburgh-based artist, inaugurating the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program with a body of work shaped by deep community
- [In Dim Light, New Histories Emerge](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-dim-light-new-histories-emerge/) - Afro-Puerto Rican photographers reclaim image, identity, and archive at Museo Afro Casa Silvana. 9 April 2026 Deyaneira Lucero Maldonado, “Guaraguao”, 2023 / 13 ⅛” x ⅛”, Digital Photograph on Luster Fine Art Paper In Humacao, Puerto Rico, a quiet yet urgent reframing of photographic practice unfolds with ‘Dim Light: Afro-Puerto Rican Photography’, on view at
- [Free and Queer: Black Californian Roots of Gay Liberation](https://artafricamagazine.org/free-and-queer-black-californian-roots-of-gay-liberation/) - Reclaiming histories of Black queer resistance, culture, and political imagination 9 April 2026 Now open at the California African American Museum, 'Free and Queer: Black Californian Roots of Gay Liberation' unfolds as a vital act of historical reorientation, positioning California as a crucible for Black-led LGBTQ struggle, expression, and resistance. The exhibition traces a lineage
- [Sortilégios de desvio and the Politics of Image-Making](https://artafricamagazine.org/sortilegios-de-desvio-and-the-politics-of-image-making/) - No Martins reconfiguring memory, gesture, and Afro-Brazilian visual narratives at the Museu de Arte do Rio. 9 April 2026 Installation view of 'Sortilégios de Desvio' 2026, courtesy of artist No Martins. Photo Credit: Cris Lucena ‘Sortilégios de desvio’ by No Martins arrives as a compelling articulation of contemporary Brazilian artistic practice, unfolding at the Museu
- [The West as Witness: Langston Hughes Reimagined](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-west-as-witness-langston-hughes-reimagined/) - Reframing Langston Hughes through geography, memory, and movement. 9 April 2026 At the California African American Museum, ‘A New Song: Langston Hughes in the West’ repositions a canonical literary figure within a lesser-told cartography. Known widely as a central voice of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes shaped a poetics that carried the rhythms of Black
- [MAFOLOFOLO: Sonic Cartographies of Return](https://artafricamagazine.org/mafolofolo-sonic-cartographies-of-return/) - MADEYOULOOK maps land, memory, and resistance at Hangar 9 April 2026 At Lisbon’s Hangar – Centro de Investigação Artística, the South African collective MADEYOULOOK presents ‘Mafolofolo’, a resonant installation that unfolds as both archive and proposition. Curated by Margarida Mendes, the exhibition marks a significant iteration of a work first commissioned for documenta fifteen, now
- [FLESH, FREQUENCY, FLIGHT: Acra's Angels descend on the ICA](https://artafricamagazine.org/flesh-frequency-flight-acras-angels-descend-on-the-ica/) - Painting as pulse, rupture, and becoming in the Venezuelan artist’s latest London incursion 9 April 2026 The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) presents ‘Angels’, a concentrated yet expansive exhibition of new paintings by the boundary-defying Venezuelan artist, musician, and performer Arca. The exhibition marks the artist’s return to the ICA, over a decade after her
- ['Story Structure, Pt. 2': Mike Cloud and Nyeema Morgan in Dialogue.](https://artafricamagazine.org/story-structure-pt-2-mike-cloud-and-nyeema-morgan-in-dialogue/) - A dynamic exhibition at the Neubauer Collegium invites audiences into a layered encounter with form, language, and perception. 27 March 2026 The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society presents ‘Story Structure, Pt. 2’, a compelling exhibition that brings together the distinct yet intersecting practices of Mike Cloud and Nyeema Morgan. Framed as a continuation of
- [When Animals Speak: Mali’s Living Theatre Arrives in Lyon](https://artafricamagazine.org/when-animals-speak-malis-living-theatre-arrives-in-lyon/) - A landmark exhibition tracing material memory, extraction and the poetics of relation. At a moment when global institutions increasingly turn to African cultural forms as sites of knowledge rather than spectacle, the Musée des Confluences in Lyon presents ‘In Mali, When the Animals Dance’, a resonant exploration of the performative traditions of the Niger River
- [Otobong Nkanga: ‘I Dreamt of You in Colours’](https://artafricamagazine.org/otobong-nkanga-i-dreamt-of-you-in-colours/) - A landmark exhibition tracing material memory, extraction and the poetics of relation. At the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, ‘I dreamt of you in colours’ presents a major exhibition devoted to the work of Otobong Nkanga, unfolding as a layered and expansive exploration of material histories and ecological entanglement. Conceived in close collaboration with
- [‘Beauty Plus’: Intimacy, Labour, and the Unseen Economies of Black Beauty in a Closing Storefront.](https://artafricamagazine.org/beauty-plus-intimacy-labour-and-the-unseen-economies-of-black-beauty-in-a-closing-storefront/) - Tracing care, commerce, and community through the final days of a Black-owned beauty supply store. In ‘Beauty Plus’, the Museum of the African Diaspora turns its gaze toward a modest beauty supply store in New Haven, transforming it into a site of layered cultural inquiry. At once documentary and elegy, the exhibition foregrounds the fragile
- [Tide of Returns: Reclaiming Memory Through Oceanic Ritual](https://artafricamagazine.org/tide-of-returns-reclaiming-memory-through-oceanic-ritual/) - At Ocean Space Venice, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) Academy’s latest exhibition reframes repatriation as a poetic, living process shaped by water, community, and care. In ‘Tide of Returns’, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21)–Academy opens its 2026 programme at Ocean Space with an exhibition that moves beyond the language of restitution into something more intimate and relational.
- [OPEN CALL - CIMAM Travel GRANTApply for a CIMAM Travel Grant: International Open CallOPEN CALL - CIMAM Travel GRANT](https://artafricamagazine.org/open-call-cimam-travel-grantapply-for-a-cimam-travel-grant-international-open-callopen-call-cimam-travel-grant/) - CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) has opened applications for its 2026 Travel Grant Programme, which supports participation in its 58th Annual Conference, under the theme Museums Beyond Limits: Imagining Repair Across Cultures, Ecologies and Knowledges. CIMAM 2025 Annual Conference in Turin. © Giorgio Perottino Marking the organisation’s first annual conference
- [Hangar Announces Longitudes Residency Open Call for Artists, Writers, Curators and Musicians.](https://artafricamagazine.org/hangar-announces-longitudes-residency-open-call-for-artists-writers-curators-and-musicians/) - Hangar invites practitioners across disciplines to apply for its Lisbon-based residency programme, offering a process-driven environment for research, exchange, and experimentation, with stays ranging from one to three months. OPEN CALL Hangar – Centro de Investigação Artística has opened applications for its Longitudes Residency, welcoming artists, writers, curators, researchers, and musicians working across disciplines. The
- [Diane Victor at Académie des Beaux-Arts.](https://artafricamagazine.org/diane-victor-at-academie-des-beaux-arts/) - The Academy of Fine Arts awarded the 10th Mario Avati Engraving Prize 2025 to South African artist Diane Victor. Often complex, Diane Victor’s images, where the sacred merges with the profane, are rendered through a line that reconciles precision with expressivity. They draw on multiple sources: biblical parables, foundational myths, allegories, traditional cultures, self-staging, news
- [Fundación Botín Opens 2026–2027 Art Grants for International Artists](https://artafricamagazine.org/fundacion-botin-opens-2026-2027-art-grants-for-international-artists/) - Artists of all nationalities are invited to apply for Fundación Botín’s 2026–2027 Art Grants, offering €23,000 to support research, training, and production projects. Applications close 8 May 2026. OPEN CALL Fundación Botín has announced the 33rd edition of its Art Grants, awarding six grants to support individual artistic projects across research, training, and production. Each
- [Time the destroyer, time the preserver: at the Sharjah Foundation, UAE.](https://artafricamagazine.org/time-the-destroyer-time-the-preserver/) - On staging memory, architecture as witness and the ethics of exhibiting catastrophe. Jorge Tacla, Identidad Oculta (Hidden Identity)163, 2022. From ‘Identidades Ocultas’, 2005–ongoing. Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York. Over the past forty years, Jorge Tacla has explored places where history is deeply affected. His work often shows pressured bodies, charged
- [Excavating Memory: Nick Cave in conversation about his exhibition 'Mammoth'](https://artafricamagazine.org/excavating-memory-nick-cave-on-mammoth/) - The artist reflects on family histories, found objects, and reimagining monumentality at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Installation view. Image Courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Photos by Ron Blunt. In 'Mammoth', Nick Cave turns toward the landscapes and familial rituals that shaped his upbringing in Missouri, transforming personal memory into a monumental installation at
- [Restitution and Reparation: Africa and the Post-Colonial Condition Fellowship.](https://artafricamagazine.org/restitution-and-reparation-africa-and-the-post-colonial-condition-fellowship/) - The Africa Institute, Global Studies University, in collaboration with the Open Society Foundations, announces its annual fellowship program themed, “Restitution and Reparation: Africa and the Post-Colonial Condition.” The program will convene scholars or practitioners interested in restitution and repatriation issues related to African art and artefacts. By fostering dialogue and research, the fellowship aims to
- [Cisco Merel Reimagines the House as a Living Archive](https://artafricamagazine.org/cisco-merel-reimagines-the-house-as-a-living-archive/) - ‘La Chantin ’ at Kunsthalle Lissabon traces migration, memory, and the architecture of survival. At Kunsthalle Lissabon, Panamanian artist Cisco Merel presents ‘La Chantin ’, his first solo exhibition in Portugal, unfolding the house as a shifting, collective organism rather than a fixed site of belonging. Conceived specifically for the institution, the exhibition departs from
- [Clockwork Systems: Sable Elyse Smith’s Expanding Vocabulary of Power](https://artafricamagazine.org/clockwork-systems-sable-elyse-smiths-expanding-vocabulary-of-power/) - The Contemporary Austin stages a defining survey of the artist's incisive interrogation of carceral and cultural structures. Sable Elyse Smith, Colouring Book 126, 2023. Screen printing ink, oil pastel, and oil stick on paper. 60 x 50 inches. Image courtesy The Contemporary Austin. Photograph by Alex Boeschenstein In March 2026, The Contemporary Austin opens ‘Clockwork’,
- [Prolongations: Playing Beyond the Field of Dreams](https://artafricamagazine.org/prolongations-playing-beyond-the-field-of-dreams/) - At the Institute of Islamic Cultures, three artists reframe sport as a site of memory, resistance and fragile aspiration. At the Institute of Islamic Cultures in Paris, ‘Prolongations’ unfolds less as an exhibition than as a lived terrain where bodies, histories and projections collide. Bringing together M’barka Amor, Ouassila Arras and Dalila Dalléas Bouzar, the
- [Residency, grant and fellowship: Transitional Justice with Artists.](https://artafricamagazine.org/residency-grant-and-fellowship-transitional-justice-with-artists/) - Framer Framed, AFIELD and Arts of the Working Class, launches the Transitional Justice with Artists Grant for European-based artists. The Transitional Justice with Artists (TJA) programme supports Europe-based practitioners and the communities they serve who have endured severe human rights violations. It honours the lived experience of victims and survivors, recognising the complexity of their
- [Dreaming is a Map: Dorothy Akpene Amenuke Maps the Intangible at Nubuke Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/__trashed-2/) - An immersive exhibition in Accra traces the fragile boundaries between space, identity and collective memory. In this exhibition, curated by Ngoné Fall, Amenuke invites viewers into a terrain where dreaming becomes a method of mapping. The exhibition Dreaming is a Map unfolds as a tactile and spatial meditation on how we inhabit, define and unsettle
- [Sonia Boyce at Tate Britain.](https://artafricamagazine.org/sonia-boyce-at-tate-britain/) - Improvisation, intimacy and the politics of collective voice. At Tate Britain, Boyce’s long-overdue survey unfolds not as a conventional retrospective, but as a living, breathing environment shaped by collaboration, interruption and refusal. Spanning over four decades, the exhibition brings together installation, photography, collage, drawing, film and sculpture in a multi-sensory constellation that resists the stability
- [Artist Proof Studio at 35: At Strauss and Co, Johannesburg.](https://artafricamagazine.org/artist-proof-studio-at-35-at-strauss-and-co-johannesburg/) - Printmaking, pedagogy and the politics of access in South Africa's living legacy. The tenth annual Legacy Exhibition turns its attention to an institution whose influence has long exceeded the scale of its workshop. ‘Artist Proof Studio at 35: A Continuing Commitment to Artists, Access and Excellence’ is less a retrospective than a living archive, tracing
- [‘Stolen Past’: Hrair Sarkissian at Ibraaz Majlis, London.](https://artafricamagazine.org/stolen-past-hrair-sarkissian-at-ibraaz-majlis-london/) - Hrair Sarkissian’s luminous archive of absence and the politics of cultural erasure. At Ibraaz’s Majlis space in London, Hrair Sarkissian’s ‘Stolen Past’ unfolds as a quiet but insistent meditation on loss, memory and the afterlives of objects displaced by war. Comprising rows of softly glowing forms, the installation resists spectacle, opting instead for a subdued
- [William Kentridge in Prague: Staging Ambiguity in the City of Kafka.](https://artafricamagazine.org/william-kentridge-in-prague-staging-ambiguity-in-the-city-of-kafka/) - At Kunsthalle Praha, the South African artist's expansive new exhibition embraces contradiction, memory, and the productive space of not knowing. William Kentridge has long insisted on the value of uncertainty. In ‘The Battle Between YES and NO’, opening at Kunsthalle Praha, this commitment unfolds across a sprawling exhibition that resists chronology in favour of association,
- [Open Call 08 | UPNEXT 2026](https://artafricamagazine.org/open-call-08-upnext-2026/) - Southnord is pleased to announce the open call for UP NEXT 2026. Southnord is pleased to announce the open call for UP NEXT 2026, our annual exhibition dedicated to showcasing the next generation of Afro-Nordic artists. This year, we take inspiration from the Southnord Artfest 2026 opening in Helsinki, the headline exhibition of which is
- [Open call: Co-Creation.](https://artafricamagazine.org/open-call-co-creation/) - An artistic project in any discipline supported by Pro Helvetia as part of an equal artistic cooperation between partners from Switzerland and from a region covered by Pro Helvetia liaison offices. For Whom Two artist partners – individuals, duos or collectives – whose collaboration was initiated as part of a residency, a research trip or
- [ditšwatšhemong: Cultivating Memory, Land and Futurity](https://artafricamagazine.org/ditswatshemong-cultivating-memory-land-and-futurity/) - Cow Mash’s solo installation at Javett-UP reimagines lineage and indigenous knowledge systems through an immersive, intergenerational landscape of play, ritual and becoming. Cow Mash ditšwatšhemong, profile. Image courtesy of the artist. Tshwane-based artist Cow Mash presents ditšwatšhemong at Javett-UP, a solo installation whose title translates as “they come from the field” or “the origins of
- [‘Entering the Great Night’: Guilhermina Augusti at Museu de Arte do Rio.](https://artafricamagazine.org/entering-the-great-night-guilhermina-augusti-at-museu-de-arte-do-rio/) - Art, philosophy, and radical Black thought converge in a landmark institutional debut. At MAR, a new exhibition by Guilhermina Augusti unfolds as both proposition and provocation. ‘Entering the Great Night’ marks the artist’s first institutional solo presentation and situates her practice within an expansive dialogue between image, theory and lived experience. Working across painting and
- [Welding Entrepreneurship](https://artafricamagazine.org/welding-entrepreneurship/) - Skills Workshop Exhibition - supported by ART AFRICA The Welding and Entrepreneurship Skills Workshop for KwaZulu-Natal Youth is a community-based initiative that explores the relationship between art, practical skills, and economic empowerment. Facilitated by Kenneth Shandu through Bhuju Art and Design, the project aimed to equip unemployed and graduate youth aged 18 to 35 with
- [Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens](https://artafricamagazine.org/seydou-keita-a-tactile-lens/) - Seydou Keïta. Untitled, 1949–51, printed ca. 1994–2001. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Musée national du Mali. © SKPEAC/Seydou Keïta, courtesy The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art and Danziger Gallery, NY Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens presents the most expansive North American exhibition to date devoted to the celebrated Malian photographer whose studio portraits
- [Chasing Away the Darkness: Portia Zvavahera at Norval Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/chasing-away-the-darkness-portia-zvavahera-at-norval-foundation/) - Dreams, prayer and spiritual transformation converge in a deeply intimate exhibition that reveals the emotional and ritualistic dimensions of the Zimbabwean artist's practice. Portia Zvavahera, Buda zuva rakanaka, 2026. Courtesy of Stevenson and David Zwirner. Entering the galleries at Norval Foundation, one is immediately drawn into the dreamlike universe of Portia Zvavahera. The exhibition Tanda
- [‘Fashion_The Image’ at the Roger Ballen Centre for Photography and the Inside Out Centre for the Arts, Johannesburg](https://artafricamagazine.org/fashion_the-image-at-the-roger-ballen-centre-for-photography-and-the-inside-out-centre-for-the-arts-johannesburg/) - A major exhibition revisits five decades of fashion photography’s impact on African visual culture. Still from ZEBRA AND BIRDS. Gavin Rajah by Michael Oliver Love. Courtesy of the Roger Ballen Centre for Photography. The Inside Out Foundation presents ‘Fashion_The Image’, a major exhibition examining the development and impact of fashion photography in South Africa and
- [‘I’d Be Empowered If…’ at Baraza Media Lab, Nairobi](https://artafricamagazine.org/id-be-empowered-if-at-baraza-media-lab-nairobi/) - Unpublished Africa’s fourth Women’s Month exhibition unites photographers from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Egypt to spotlight empowerment and access within the African creative economy. Ruth Takele G Eyesus (Ethiopian), Reflection of Time. 2025 Unpublished Africa presented its fourth Women’s Month exhibition on 8 March 2026 at Baraza Media Lab in Nairobi. Titled ‘I’d Be
- [‘Claudia Alarcón & Silät: Living, Weaving’ at MASP — Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand](https://artafricamagazine.org/claudia-alarcon-silat-living-weaving-at-masp-museu-de-arte-de-sao-paulo-assis-chateaubriand/) - Wichí artists' textiles vividly investigate territory, memory, and collective authorship through ancestral weaving. Claudia Alarcón & Silät, Kyelhkyup — El otoño [Outono] [Autumn], 2023. Hand-spun chaguar fiber, dyed with natural pigments and aniline, woven in yica stitch, 160 x 142cm. Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP). Photographer: Eduardo Ortega MASP — Museu de
- [‘An Indigenous Present’ at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston](https://artafricamagazine.org/an-indigenous-present-at-the-institute-of-contemporary-art-boston/) - A survey of contemporary Indigenous abstraction spanning a century of artistic practice Teresa Baker, Knife River, 2024. Yarn, buckskin, artificial sinew, and willow on Astroturf, 160 x 271.8cm. Acquired through the generosity of the Acquisitions Circle. The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) is presenting ‘An Indigenous Present’, a thematic exhibition examining one hundred years of
- [Kapwani Kiwanga: ‘BLEED’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem](https://artafricamagazine.org/kapwani-kiwanga-bleed-at-the-studio-museum-in-harlem/) - A new site-specific textile installation examines coded knowledge, resistance, and memory through quilting traditions and natural-dye processes. Kapwani Kiwanga. Photographer: Angela Scamarcio The Studio Museum in Harlem will present ‘BLEED’, a new site-specific commission by French-Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga, opening on 11 March 2026. Installed in the museum’s second-floor project gallery, the work draws on
- [Armen Agop to Represent Egypt at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.](https://artafricamagazine.org/armen-agop-to-represent-egypt-at-the-61st-international-art-exhibition-la-biennale-di-venezia/) - The Cairo-born artist will present a contemplative new body of work at the National Pavilion of Egypt, exploring silence, material memory and the spiritual dimensions of form. Armen Agop. Photographer: Bob Bagley The Egyptian Ministry of Culture has announced that Egyptian artist Armen Agop will represent Egypt at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La
- [Nigeria Announces Return to the 62nd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2028](https://artafricamagazine.org/nigeria-announces-return-to-the-62nd-international-art-exhibition-la-biennale-di-venezia-2028/) - Richard Vedelago appointed curator as the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy positions the pavilion within its ‘Nigeria Everywhere’ cultural diplomacy framework Honourable Minister Hannatu Musa Musawa and Curator Richard Vedelago at Windsor Gallery, Abuja, as Nigeria announces its return to the 62nd Venice Biennale (2028) under the Nigeria Everywhere platform.
- [Biennale Arte 2026: 111 Artists Announced for ‘In Minor Keys’ Curated by Koyo Kouoh](https://artafricamagazine.org/biennale-arte-2026-111-artists-announced-for-in-minor-keys-curated-by-koyo-kouoh/) - The 61st International Art Exhibition brings together invited participants from across geographies, foregrounding relational affinities and transnational dialogue. Koyo Kouoh. Photographer: Mirjam Kluka La Biennale di Venezia has announced the 111 invited participants for the 61st International Art Exhibition, ‘In Minor Keys’, curated by Koyo Kouoh. The exhibition will run from 9 May to 22
- [‘of us [minna | منا]’ at PARTICIPANT INC and SALMA Examines Queer Belonging, Refusal and Transmission](https://artafricamagazine.org/of-us-minna-منا-at-participant-inc-and-salma-examines-queer-belonging-refusal-and-transmission/) - Curated by RIDIKKULUZ, with a text by Edwin Nasr, the group exhibition convenes artists engaging lineage, decolonial archives and futurity across two New York spaces Alex Khalifa, Bust, 2023-2026. Alabaster. Photography: Studio Kukla ‘of us [minna | منا]’ is currently on view at PARTICIPANT INC and SALMA in New York. Co-organised by both institutions and
- [ifa crafted Exhibition at Art&About, Sandton Showcases Rural KwaZulu-Natal Artisans and Heritage-Led Design](https://artafricamagazine.org/ifa-crafted-exhibition-at-artabout-sandton-showcases-rural-kwazulu-natal-artisans-and-heritage-led-design/) - KZNSA and the FirstRand Foundation present a collaborative craft initiative rooted in legacy, co-design and sustainable rural enterprise, on view until 30 April 2026 ifa Crafted Art. The ifa crafted heritage collection is currently on display at Art&About in Merchant Place, Sandton. Hosted by the KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA) in partnership with the FirstRand Foundation, the
- [Dubai Culture Concludes ‘Al Marmoom: The Living Wild’ and Launches Virtual Edition Highlighting Desert Conservation](https://artafricamagazine.org/dubai-culture-concludes-al-marmoom-the-living-wild-and-launches-virtual-edition-highlighting-desert-conservation/) - More than 10,000 visitors attended the drive-through exhibition; the virtual experience remains accessible until 18 March 2026 Al Marmoom Exhibition. Courtesy of Dubai Culture. Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) has concluded ‘Al Marmoom: The Living Wild’, a drive-through photography exhibition organised in collaboration with His Excellency Ali Khalifa bin Thalith, Secretary General of
- [The Diriyah Biennale Foundation Expands the Horizon of the Islamic Arts Biennale 2027](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-diriyah-biennale-foundation-expands-the-horizon-of-the-islamic-arts-biennale-2027/) - From periodic exhibition to year-round global platform, the third edition deepens institutional collaboration, curatorial experimentation, and the living study of Islamic heritage. The 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale at the Western Hajj Terminal of King Abdulaziz International Airport, image courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation. The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has announced the dates and expanded vision
- [Desert X AlUla 2026: Art Without Horizon](https://artafricamagazine.org/desert-x-alula-2026-art-without-horizon/) - Across sandstone valleys and ancient oases, eleven artists reimagined scale, sound and sustainability in a landscape shaped by wind, water and geological time. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Imole Red. © Suzette Bell-Roberts I had long hoped to experience Desert X AlUla in person, so travelling to the oasis town for its fourth edition felt like a
- [Oliewenhuis Art Museum Invites Solo Exhibition Proposals from South African Artists](https://artafricamagazine.org/oliewenhuis-art-museum-invites-solo-exhibition-proposals-from-south-african-artists/) - Selected artists will be shortlisted for placement on the Museum’s exhibition calendar over the next four years; deadline 29 May 2026 Oliewenhuis Art Museum, a satellite of the National Museum in Bloemfontein, has issued an open call for solo exhibition proposals from South African visual artists. Successful applicants will be shortlisted for potential placement on
- [1952 Africa Foundation Launches Inaugural Chizi Wigwe Prize for African Futurism](https://artafricamagazine.org/1952-africa-foundation-launches-inaugural-chizi-wigwe-prize-for-african-futurism/) - $15,000 award invites artists aged 18–45 to imagine ‘Africa in 2100’; deadline 31 March 2026 Image from the Chizi Wigwe Prize Launch. The 1952 Africa Foundation, in partnership with the HOW Foundation, has announced the launch of the inaugural Chizi Wigwe Prize for African Futurism. The new award offers $15,000 to an exceptional African artist
- [New Art Exchange Launches CURATE 2026 Development Programme for Emerging Curators in the Midlands](https://artafricamagazine.org/new-art-exchange-launches-curate-2026-development-programme-for-emerging-curators-in-the-midlands/) - Eight Global Ethnic Majority curators will participate in a residency, placement and pitching programme in Nottingham; deadline 19 March 2026 New Art Exchange (NAE), Nottingham, has opened applications for CURATE 2026, a co-curated professional development programme for emerging Global Ethnic Majority curators based in the Midlands, United Kingdom. The programme, which launches in Spring 2026,
- [Hyundai Artlab Opens 2026 Editorial Fellowship for Global Art Writers](https://artafricamagazine.org/hyundai-artlab-opens-2026-editorial-fellowship-for-global-art-writers/) - Two writers will receive $10,000 each to produce web-based essays exploring contemporary art through critical empathy; deadline 9 March 2026 Screenshot of Thomas Merceron, The Stirring of Sight, 2026. Commissioned by Hyundai Artlab, © Thomas Merceron. Hyundai Artlab has launched an open call for its 2026 Artlab Editorial Fellowship, inviting applications from art writers at any
- [Henrike Grohs Art Award 2026 Announces 20-Artist Shortlist.](https://artafricamagazine.org/henrike-grohs-art-award-2026-announces-20-artist-shortlist/) - Goethe-Institut and Grohs Family reveal shortlisted candidates for the fifth and final edition of the biennial prize. The Goethe-Institut and the Grohs Family have announced the 20 shortlisted candidates for the Henrike Grohs Art Award 2026. A total of 490 applications were received from 29 countries across Africa, marking the highest level of participation since
- [GUS Gallery Open Call 2026 Invites Exhibition and Public Programme Proposals in Stellenbosch](https://artafricamagazine.org/gus-gallery-open-call-2026-invites-exhibition-and-public-programme-proposals-in-stellenbosch/) - Submissions open for socially engaged exhibitions, workshops and events at the Grade II listed heritage site; deadline 28 February 2026 Background artwork by Anna Van Pletsen. GUS Gallery has launched its Open Call 2026, inviting proposals for exhibitions, workshops, film screenings and public programmes to take place between 28 April and 18 July 2026 at
- [In Interludes and Transitions](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-interludes-and-transition/) - Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026 positions procession as a methodology of movement, memory and transformation in a rapidly shifting Saudi Arabia Yussed Agbo-Ola (Olaniyi Studio), AGBA:8 Stone Cave. © Suzette Bell-Roberts The 2026 edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, titled In Interludes and Transitions, opened in Riyadh on 30 January with a gesture that
- [C.I.A Don’t Teach Me Nonsense: Avant-Garde, Kitsch, and the Dop System](https://artafricamagazine.org/c-i-a-dont-teach-me-nonsense-avant-garde-kitsch-and-the-dop-system/) - Adilson De Oliveira on Abstraction Without the Alibi, in the work and practice of Thokozani Mthiyane. Thokozani Mthiyane, Flesh: sould out III, 2025. Oils and mixed media on canvas, 110 x 170cm. Courtesy of the artist. I distrusted abstraction long before I understood why. We were told it was freedom. We were told it was
- [Tuwaiq Sculpture 2026](https://artafricamagazine.org/tuwaiq-sculpture-2026/) - Material Evolution and the Civic Language of Form in Riyadh Seddek Wassil, Glory is. © Suzette Bell-Roberts Since its launch in 2019 under Riyadh Art, the Tuwaiq Sculpture Symposium has established itself as one of the most visible public art initiatives in the Gulf region. Conceived as a live production platform rather than a temporary
- [Portia Zvavahera: ‘Tanda rima’ at Norval Foundation, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/portia-zvavahera-tanda-rima-at-norval-foundation-south-africa/) - New paintings by the Zimbabwean artist explore prayer, care and spiritual illumination in Cape Town. Portia Zvavahera, Gamuchirai minamato, 2026. Courtesy of Stevenson and David Zwirner. Norval Foundation presents ‘Tanda rima’, an exhibition of works by leading contemporary Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera. Opening in February 2026 in Cape Town, the exhibition forms part of the
- [Africa–Europe Partnerships for Culture Launches Mobility Grants for Sub-Saharan Artists and Cultural Professionals](https://artafricamagazine.org/africa-europe-partnerships-for-culture-launches-mobility-grants-for-sub-saharan-artists-and-cultural-professionals/) - Goethe-Institut–led programme invites individual practitioners to apply for €4,000 mobility grants supporting intra-African and Africa–Europe exchange; deadline 15 March 2026 The Africa–Europe Partnerships for Culture programme has opened a call for proposals under its Sub-Saharan Africa, Connect & Create component, offering mobility grants for individual artists and cultural professionals based in Sub-Saharan Africa and the
- [Qatar Museums Launches Rubaiya Qatar, a New Contemporary Art Quadrennial Anchored by ‘Unruly Waters’](https://artafricamagazine.org/qatar-museums-launches-rubaiya-qatar-a-new-contemporary-art-quadrennial-anchored-by-unruly-waters/) - The inaugural edition, opening in November 2026, positions Doha as a transnational cultural hub through multi-site exhibitions examining water, ecology and global exchange LEFT TO RIGHT: Ruba Katrib, Mark Rappolt, Tom Eccles, and Shabbir Hussain Mustafa. Courtesy of Qatar Museums. Qatar Museums has announced the launch of Rubaiya Qatar, a new nationwide contemporary art quadrennial
- [Suzanne Jackson: Six Decades of Painting, Experimentation and Radical Care in ‘What Is Love’ at SFMOMA, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/suzanne-jackson-six-decades-of-painting-experimentation-and-radical-care-in-what-is-love-at-sfmoma-united-states/) - The first major museum retrospective of the American artist surveys a practice spanning painting, poetry, performance and suspended acrylic structures at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Suzanne Jackson, Grandparents, 1970. Acrylic wash, gesso, and graphite on canvas, 116.3 x 81.3cm. Collection of Tina and Larry Jones, New York. Photo: David Kaminsky The San
- [Trina Michelle Robinson: Migration, Memory and Material Archive in ‘Open Your Eyes to Water’ Across 500 Capp Street and Root Division](https://artafricamagazine.org/trina-michelle-robinson-migration-memory-and-material-archive-in-open-your-eyes-to-water-across-500-capp-street-and-root-division/) - A two-venue exhibition in San Francisco traces Black lineage, movement and collective remembrance through installation, film and printmaking. Trina Michelle Robinson, A still from Transposing Landscapes - A Requiem for Charles Young, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and 500 Capp Street Foundation. 500 Capp Street and Root Division present ‘Open Your Eyes to Water’, a
- [Michael Armitage, Maria Lassnig and Chelenge Van Rampelberg in Intergenerational Dialogue at NCAI](https://artafricamagazine.org/michael-armitage-maria-lassnig-and-chelenge-van-rampelberg-in-intergenerational-dialogue-at-ncai/) - A travelling exhibition, presented in collaboration with Kunsthaus Bregenz, brings drawing, lithography, and sculpture into conversation in Nairobi. LEFT TO RIGHT: Michael Armitage, Vision II (detail), 2022. Lithograph on paper, 70 x 59cm. Maria Lassnig, Shooted Star (detail), 1996. Pencil on paper, 44 x 60.3cm. © Maria Lassnig Foundation, photo: Roland Krauss. Chelenge Van Rampelberg,
- [Art of Contemporary Africa Opens in San Francisco with Inaugural Exhibition ‘Afropop’](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-of-contemporary-africa-opens-in-san-francisco-with-inaugural-exhibition-afropop/) - The city’s first Pan-African contemporary art gallery launches at Minnesota Street Project, presenting artists from across the continent and its diasporas. Vusi Beauchamp, Tempest, 2022. Mixed Medium on Canvas, 200 x 300cm. Courtesy of the artist and The Melrose Gallery. Art of Contemporary Africa (AOCA) has opened at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco’s Dogpatch
- [Morocco Announces Its First National Pavilion at the Arsenale for the 61st Venice Biennale](https://artafricamagazine.org/morocco-announces-its-first-national-pavilion-at-the-arsenale-for-the-61st-venice-biennale/) - Amina Agueznay and Meriem Berrada present Asǝṭṭa, a monumental installation exploring craft, memory and transmission at the Arsenale. From the exhibition 'Ankabouth' 2015-2016. Courtesy Fondation Société Générale Morocco © Yasmina Bouzid The Kingdom of Morocco will participate in the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2026 with a national pavilion at
- [Pitseolak Qimirpik: Shapeshifting Forms and Contemporary Inuit Visual Language at Fort Gansevoort](https://artafricamagazine.org/pitseolak-qimirpik-shapeshifting-forms-and-contemporary-inuit-visual-language-at-fort-gansevoort/) - Drawing, sculpture and cultural hybridity in a first New York solo exhibition engaging Kinngait traditions and global visual culture Pitseolak Qimirpik, Dancing Shaman I, 2022. Colored pencil on paper, 23.25 x 15 in. Copyright: Copyright The Artist. Courtesy of Fort Gansevoort Pitseolak Qimirpik’s exhibition ‘Shapeshifter’ marks the artist’s first presentation with Fort Gansevoort, bringing together
- [The Asante Ewer: Medieval Craft, Trans-Saharan Trade and Colonial Afterlives](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-asante-ewer-medieval-craft-trans-saharan-trade-and-colonial-afterlives/) - A medieval English bronze jug, its trans-Saharan journey, and the afterlives of empire—from fourteenth-century England to the royal court of Asantehene Prempeh I The Asante Ewer, c. 1340–1405. England. Leaded bronze. H. 62 cm. British Museum, 1896,0727.1. © 2025 The Trustees of the British Museum, courtesy the Department of Photography and Imaging. The Asante Ewer
- [Rememory: The 25th Biennale of Sydney Opens a Living Archive of Global Histories](https://artafricamagazine.org/rememory-the-25th-biennale-of-sydney-opens-a-living-archive-of-global-histories/) - Under the artistic direction of Hoor Al Qasimi, the 25th Biennale of Sydney brings together global, First Nations and diasporic practices to examine memory as an active force shaping history, land and collective responsibility Gabriel Chaile, Los Jóvenes Recordaron sus Canciones (detail), 2025. Adobe brick and metallic structure, charcoal, 4000 x1800 x 2500cm. Fundación Cervieri
- [Women’s Month 2026: Open Call for African Women Photographers](https://artafricamagazine.org/womens-month-2026-open-call-for-african-women-photographers/) - An exhibition opportunity foregrounding empowerment, representation and lived experience Unpublished Africa invites African women photographers to submit work for its Women’s Month 2026 exhibition, building on earlier research and exhibitions focused on empowerment and visibility in African photography. The exhibition seeks photographic stories that centre women’s lives, labour, creativity and agency across diverse social and
- [Bakashimika Photography Festival 2026: Call for Submissions](https://artafricamagazine.org/bakashimika-photography-festival-2026-call-for-submissions/) - An exhibition opportunity for Creative Business Studio alums at a regional photography festival in Zambia Unpublished Africa invites Creative Business Studio alums to submit work for consideration in an exhibition at Bakashimika International Photography Festival 2026, to be held in Zambia. The festival is co-founded and curated by Creative Business Studio alums and forms part
- [Coffee Culture 2026: Photography, Ritual and Community in Ethiopia](https://artafricamagazine.org/coffee-culture-2026-photography-ritual-and-community-in-ethiopia/) - An open call for Ethiopian photographers to contribute to an online exhibition exploring coffee as a cultural practice Ethiopian photographers are invited to submit work for Coffee Culture 2026, an online group photography exhibition exploring coffee as a site of ritual, community, labour and everyday exchange. The exhibition invites visual stories that move beyond commodity
- [Here: Pride, Belonging and Queer Presence in African Art at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/here-pride-belonging-and-queer-presence-in-african-art-at-the-smithsonians-national-museum-of-african-art/) - A major exhibition situating LGBTQ+ artists within African and diasporic art histories through collaboration, joy and lived experience Tobi Onabolu, Dear Black Child, 2021. Video, 18 min. 41 sec. Courtesy of the artist. ‘Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art’ brings together nearly sixty works by LGBTQ+ artists from Africa and its diasporas, presented at
- [Africa Basel 2026: Depth, Dialogue and a Focused Fair Format](https://artafricamagazine.org/africa-basel-2026-depth-dialogue-and-a-focused-fair-format/) - A focused fair platform for contemporary African art within Art Basel Week October Gallery Booth at Africa Basel 2025 with works by Zana Masombuka, LR Vandy, Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, Xanthe Somers, and Alexis Peskine. Courtesy of Africa Basel. Africa Basel makes a dynamic return for its second edition in June 2026, coinciding with Art Basel
- [Ahaad Alamoudi: Speculation, Satire and the Image of Development at Sharjah Art Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/ahaad-alamoudi-speculation-satire-and-the-image-of-development-at-sharjah-art-foundation/) - ‘Sunkissed’ examines visual culture in a rapidly transforming Gulf Ahaad Alamoudi, Those Who Don’t Know Falcons Grill Them (still), (2018). Image courtesy of the artist. Ahaad Alamoudi’s exhibition ‘Sunkissed’, presented at Sharjah Art Foundation, unites recent and newly commissioned works that probe how collective identity and visual expression evolve amid rapid transformation in the Gulf.
- [At the Horizon of Displacement: Migration, Geography and the Politics of Looking at Remai Modern](https://artafricamagazine.org/at-the-horizon-of-displacement-migration-geography-and-the-politics-of-looking-at-remai-modern/) - Photography, borders and historical movement across ‘From the Edge of the Horizon I’ and its companion exhibition at the University of Saskatchewan Installation view of 'Dawit L. Petros: From the Edge of the Horizon I', 2025, Remai Modern, Saskatoon. Photo: Carey Shaw. ‘Dawit L. Petros: From the Edge of the Horizon’ unfolds as a two-part
- [Sikka Art & Design Festival 14: Public Art, Memory and Urban Space in Al Shindagha](https://artafricamagazine.org/sikka-art-design-festival-14-public-art-memory-and-urban-space-in-al-shindagha/) - Murals and installations across a historic neighbourhood in Dubai Courtesy of Dubai Culture & Arts Authority. The 14th edition of Sikka Art & Design Festival transforms Al Shindagha Historic Neighbourhood into an open-air site for public art, with murals and installations distributed across courtyards, façades and communal spaces. Presented under the patronage of Her Highness
- [Against Erasure: Colour, Memory and Sudan’s Second Generation at Almas Art Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/against-erasure-colour-memory-and-sudans-second-generation-at-almas-art-foundation/) - Karen Dabrowska on an exhibition reframing post-independence Sudanese art beyond images of war © Bakri Bilal Vibrant colours that radiate positivity, hope and inspiration characterise the works of Sudan’s second generation of artists. These artists rose to prominence during the 1970s and 1980s. Their art is showcased by the Almas Art Foundation in central London,
- [Open Call: Contributing to a Digital Queer Archive Across Africa and the Diaspora](https://artafricamagazine.org/open-call-contributing-to-a-digital-queer-archive-across-africa-and-the-diaspora/) - Artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners are invited to help build a living archive of queer, trans*, and gender-diverse histories rooted in African and diasporic contexts A new digital archive is inviting contributors to participate in a long-term project dedicated to documenting queer, trans*, non-binary, feminist, and alternative gender histories across Africa and its diaspora. The
- [Space Without Measure: Desert X AlUla 2026](https://artafricamagazine.org/space-without-measure-desert-x-alula-2026/) - An institutional overview of the fourth edition of the open-air exhibition in AlUla Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Imole Red, Desert X AlUla 2026. Courtesy of Lance Gerber. Desert X AlUla returned for its fourth edition in January 2026, presenting a series of site-responsive installations across the desert landscapes of north-west Saudi Arabia. Organised by Arts AlUla
- [WHEN ART IS SILENCED: An OPEN LETTER to President Cyril Ramaphosa](https://artafricamagazine.org/when-art-is-silenced-an-open-letter-to-president-cyril-ramaphosa/) - In response to the recent proposed censorship and subsequent cancellation of artist Gabrielle Goliath’s nomination as the artist to represent South Africa at the 61st Venice Biennale, ART AFRICA respectfully calls upon the President to address the nation on the country’s constitutional commitments and the importance of safeguarding independent cultural governance—to rebuild confidence that freedom
- [MOWAA: Museum of Antiquities or Iniquities](https://artafricamagazine.org/mowaa-museum-of-antiquities-or-iniquities/) - Ayọ̀ Akínwándé examines restitution, spiritual provenance, and the unresolved tensions between royal authority, state power, and museum-making in Benin City. Interior and gallery views of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), Benin City, 2025. Photo: Bolaji Alonge. It is appropriate to begin any inquiry into Benin's history with reverence, and so I gesture toward
- [Abel Rodríguez — Mogaje Guihu: The Tree of Life and Abundance at MASP, Brazil](https://artafricamagazine.org/abel-rodriguez-mogaje-guihu-the-tree-of-life-and-abundance-at-masp-brazil/) - A posthumous exhibition honouring Indigenous knowledge, ecological memory, and the living intelligence of the Amazon Installation view of ‘Abel Rodríguez — Mogaje Guihu: The Tree of Life and Abundance’ at MASP. Courtesy of MASP. The Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) opened ‘Abel Rodríguez — Mogaje Guihu: The Tree of Life and
- [Arts & Culture Trust Opens Expressions of Interest for Community Arts Centres in 2026](https://artafricamagazine.org/arts-culture-trust-opens-expressions-of-interest-for-community-arts-centres-in-2026/) - A national call to strengthen community-based arts education, skills development, and creative infrastructure across South Africa The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) has opened Expressions of Interest (EOIs) for Community Arts Centres across South Africa, inviting organisations to apply for inclusion in a national initiative to strengthen grassroots arts development. The 2026 programme seeks to
- [Fahamu Pecou Reimagines Flight and Freedom at Montresso Art Foundation, Morocco](https://artafricamagazine.org/fahamu-pecou-reimagines-flight-and-freedom-at-montresso-art-foundation-morocco/) - Through painting, performance and diasporic myth-making, Fahamu Pecou reframes the figure of Icarus as a symbol of Black resilience, ancestry and transcendence in his exhibition ‘What if Icarus no longer fell...’. Fahamu Pecou in atelier Jardin Rouge. Credit: Mourad Boulhana In his exhibition ‘What if Icarus no longer fell...’, Fahamu Pecou reclaims a classical myth
- [‘Rhythm & Soul’ Brings Brazilian and Indigenous Cosmologies into Dialogue in Berlin](https://artafricamagazine.org/rhythm-soul-brings-brazilian-and-indigenous-cosmologies-into-dialogue-in-berlin/) - A Group Exhibition at Kornfeld Galerie Exploring Rhythm as Memory, Resistance, and Cultural Transmission Ehuana Yaira Yanomami, This is how we women adorn ourselves. This is how we look when we celebrate the reahu feast. And when we dress up like this, we dance with each other and also with the men. This is how
- [Sharjah Art Foundation Opens UAE’s First Public Photography Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundation-opens-uaes-first-public-photography-gallery/) - New venue in Al Manakh expands the Foundation’s long-term commitment to photography, heritage architecture, and public access to the arts. The Photography Gallery, 2025. Photo by Danko Stjepanovic Sharjah Art Foundation inaugurated its new Photography Gallery in November 2025, marking the first public gallery in the United Arab Emirates dedicated exclusively to the photographic medium.
- [Unpublished Africa: Building Sustainable Pathways for Creative Entrepreneurship](https://artafricamagazine.org/unpublished-africa-building-sustainable-pathways-for-creative-entrepreneurship/) - Founded by Anesu Chikumba, Unpublished Africa’s Creative Business Studio responds to a critical gap in Africa’s creative economy, equipping photographers and visual storytellers with the business skills, digital tools, and community networks needed to build long-term, sustainable careers across the continent. Jos Photo Walk led by Gil Dachomo, Nigeria. Courtesy of Unpublished Africa. As Africa’s
- [South African Pavilion for the Venice Biennale Cancelled: Selling the Nation, Silencing the Artist](https://artafricamagazine.org/south-africas-venice-pavilion-cancelled-selling-the-nation-silencing-the-artist/) - South Africa's cancellation of its Venice Pavilion underscores the ongoing struggle between artistic independence and government interference, highlighting concerns about cultural autonomy and political control. Gabrielle Goliath, Elegy – Noluvo Swelindawo, 2017. ICA Live Art Festival, Cape Town. Courtesy Institute for Creative Arts. By the time South Africa's participation in the 61st Venice Biennale collapsed
- [Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026 Announces Full Artist List](https://artafricamagazine.org/diriyah-contemporary-art-biennale-2026-announces-full-artist-list/) - Opening 30 January 2026 in JAX District, In Interludes and Transitions brings together more than 65 artists from over 37 nations, tracing shared histories of movement, exchange, and transformation across the Arab region and beyond. Image of the JAX District, the site of the 2026 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale. Courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation.
- [Casino Games That Offer Exciting Gameplay](https://artafricamagazine.org/casino-games-that-offer-exciting-gameplay/) - Casino games have long been a popular form of entertainment, offering players a mix of chance, strategy, and immersive experiences. In recent years, game developers have focused heavily on creating titles that go beyond traditional mechanics, delivering exciting gameplay that keeps players engaged and entertained. From fast-paced action to interactive features, these casino games stand
- [Where Opacity Holds the Light: Shapeshifters, Decolonial Imagination and Institutional Transformation at Framer Framed](https://artafricamagazine.org/where-opacity-holds-the-light-shapeshifters-decolonial-imagination-and-institutional-transformation-at-framer-framed/) - Head of Research at Framer Framed Emily Shin-Jie Lee reflects on how 'Shapeshifters' rethinks museological conventions, foregrounds opacity and care, and gathers artists whose practices challenge inherited colonial frameworks. Installation view of 'Shapeshifters: On Wounds, Wonders and Transformation' (2025) at Framer Framed. Photo by Maarten Nauw 'Shapeshifters: On Wounds, Wonders and Transformation' brings together years
- [DADA Gallery Opens Permanent Lagos Space with ‘The Beautyful Ones’](https://artafricamagazine.org/dada-gallery-opens-permanent-lagos-space-with-the-beautyful-ones/) - A group exhibition brings diasporic perspectives into dialogue around identity, return, and collective presence. Sahara Longe, Green and Purple Nude, 2025. Oil on Jute, 90 x 1845cm. Courtesy of the artist and DADA Gallery. DADA Gallery inaugurates its permanent Lagos home with ‘The Beautyful Ones’, a group exhibition that marks both a physical and conceptual homecoming.
- ['PROXIMITIES' Brings Contemporary Art from the United Arab Emirates to Seoul, South Korea](https://artafricamagazine.org/proximities-brings-contemporary-art-from-the-united-arab-emirates-to-seoul-south-korea/) - A landmark exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art explores nearness, movement, and cultural negotiation through the work of more than forty UAE-based artists. Dialogue. © Farah al-Qasimi Opening at the Seoul Museum of Art, ‘PROXIMITIES’ presents a wide-ranging survey of contemporary art from the United Arab Emirates, bringing together more than forty artists across
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- [Sadikou Oukpedjo: Awakening the 7 Billion Witnesses](https://artafricamagazine.org/sadikou-oukpedjo-awakening-the-7-billion-witnesses/) - At the 36th São Paulo Bienal, Togolese artist Sadikou Oukpedjo presents 7 Billion People, a provocative installation that blends painting, sculpture, and mythology to confront passivity, injustice, and the human capacity for change. Sadikou Oukpedjo infront of his work 7 Billion People at the 36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads
- [Christopher Cozier: Carnival, Cricket, and the Caribbean Imagination](https://artafricamagazine.org/christopher-cozier-carnival-cricket-and-the-caribbean-imagination/) - At the 36th São Paulo Bienal, Brendon Bell-Roberts speaks with Cozier about After the Appeal Will Be the Next Delivery, a work that layers sound, colour, and memory to explore Caribbean histories, celebration, and vigilance. Installation view of After the Appeal Will Be the Next Delivery by Christopher Cozier at the 36th Bienal de São Paulo –
- [Paraboles, A Hertzian Odyssey: Hiba Baddou and the Frequencies of the Invisible in Morocco](https://artafricamagazine.org/paraboles-a-hertzian-odyssey-hiba-baddou-and-the-frequencies-of-the-invisible-in-morocco/) - At MACAAL in Marrakech, Moroccan artist Hiba Baddou transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, exploring how unseen waves shape memory, intimacy, and imagination Installation view of 'Paraboles, A Herzian Odyssey' at the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL). Photo: Ayoub El Bardii In 'Paraboles, A Hertzian Odyssey', on view at the Museum of
- [Clay as Lineage: Jareh Das on the Matrilineal Histories Shaping ‘Body Vessel Clay’](https://artafricamagazine.org/clay-as-lineage-jareh-das-on-the-matrilineal-histories-shaping-body-vessel-clay/) - Jareh Das, curator of ‘Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art’, discusses the forthcoming U.S. debut at the Ford Foundation Gallery and the living matrilineal traditions of clay shaped by Black women over generations. William Alfred Ismay (W. A. Ismay) (United Kingdom, 1910-2001), Photograph of Ladi Kwali at a pottery demonstration in England,
- [Rooted in Myth and Matter: Cloé Perrone on Curating Wangechi Mutu’s ‘Black Soil Poems’](https://artafricamagazine.org/rooted-in-myth-and-matter-cloe-perrone-on-curating-wangechi-mutus-black-soil-poems/) - At the Galleria Borghese, Mutu reimagines the weight of classical tradition through suspension, hybridity, and the generative force of black soil. Installation view with Throned, Wangechi Mutu. © Galleria Borghese The Galleria Borghese presents ‘Black Soil Poems’, the first solo exhibition in the museum dedicated to Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu. Curated by Cloé Perrone, the
- [Bearing Witness: Gabrielle Goliath on ‘a quiet rush’ at the PinchukArtCentre, Ukraine](https://artafricamagazine.org/bearing-witness-gabrielle-goliath-on-a-quiet-rush-at-the-pinchukartcentre-ukraine/) - In her first solo exhibition in Ukraine, the South African artist collaborates with LGBTQIA+ soldiers and civilians to create a powerful cycle of testimonies that transform survival into an everyday politics of hope. Gabrielle Goliath, Personal Accounts, 2024-. 'Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere', La Biennale di Venezia (2024). Photo: Luc Meneghel The PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv
- [Richard Mudariki’s Art World Passport: A Document for a Borderless Future](https://artafricamagazine.org/richard-mudarikis-art-world-passport-a-document-for-a-borderless-future/) - Presented at the inaugural Africa Basel, the project reimagines mobility, belonging, and the role of art in challenging exclusion. Courtesy of Africa Basel. Conceived by Zimbabwean artist and artHARARE founder Richard Mudariki, the Art World Passport is a poetic act of resistance: a symbolic document that reimagines the global art world as a borderless space
- [Rooted and Radiant: Africa's Artistic Legacies Reframed at The Met](https://artafricamagazine.org/rooted-and-radiant-africas-artistic-legacies-reframed-at-the-met/) - Alisa LaGamma on architecture, digital innovation, and new narratives in The Met’s renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Installation View of the Arts of Africa Galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Brigit Beyer On 31 May 2025, The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
- [The Table Remembers: Jonah Batambuze on Ritual, Refusal and the Left Hand](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-table-remembers-jonah-batambuze-on-ritual-refusal-and-the-left-hand/) - As The Hands of Gods makes its European debut at Art Basel, the artist reflects on food as archive, the politics of gesture, and building a table that doesn’t ask for permission. Promotional still for The Hands of Gods — a short film and ritual installation exploring surveillance, refusal, and the remnants of empire. Credit: Jonah
- [Where Power Flows: Curator Nav Haq on Infrastructure as a Site of Imagination and Resistance](https://artafricamagazine.org/where-power-flows-curator-nav-haq-on-infrastructure-as-a-site-of-imagination-and-resistance/) - From new Silk Roads to satellite networks, M HKA’s latest exhibition reveals how artists are mapping the fault lines—and future dreams—of a world in motion. Köken Ergun and Fetra Danu, China, Beijing, I Love You! (still), 2024. Single-channel video, 34:55min. Courtesy the artists As global infrastructures stretch and strain under the weight of climate collapse, technological
- [Reckoning with a Visionary: Jack Whitten’s Legacy at MoMA, New York](https://artafricamagazine.org/reckoning-with-a-visionary-jack-whittens-legacy-at-moma-new-york/) - Michelle Kuo, Chief Curator at Large and Publisher at MoMA, reflects on bringing Whitten’s prophetic, genre-defying legacy into full focus – where spirit, struggle, and radical abstraction converge. Installation view of Jack Whitten: The Messenger, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from March 23 through August 2, 2025. Photo: Jonathan Dorado. Visionary,
- [Of Estuaries and Echoes: Reimagining Humanity at the Upcoming 36th Bienal de São Paulo](https://artafricamagazine.org/of-estuaries-and-echoes-reimagining-humanity-at-the-upcoming-36th-bienal-de-sao-paulo/) - Ahead of the 36th edition, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung speaks on framing humanity as a verb, curating through conversation, and listening across waters—from Guadeloupe to Tokyo. Conceptual team for the 36th São Paulo Biennial, from left to right: Keyna Eleison, Alya Sebti, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Henriette Gallus, Anna Roberta Goetz and Thiago de Paula
- [Still We Rise: Ifa Lethu Foundation and SABC Art Collections Unite for Landmark Exhibition](https://artafricamagazine.org/still-we-rise-ifa-lethu-foundation-and-sabc-art-collections-unite-for-landmark-exhibition-2/) - Koulla Xinisteris, curator of 'Still We Rise', reflects on remembrance, resistance, and the enduring power of art in this collaborative exhibition bringing together works from the Ifa Lethu Foundation and the SABC Art Collection, Johannesburg Installation view of 'Still We Rise'. Photo: Nocwaka Sinxadi, Kwanda Photography Now on view at The Atrium, Keyes Art Mile,
- [Have No Doubt of the Omnipotence of a Free People: A Dialogue Between Romania and Zimbabwe Opens at POINT, Bucharest](https://artafricamagazine.org/have-no-doubt-of-the-omnipotence-of-a-free-people-a-dialogue-between-romania-and-zimbabwe-opens-at-point-bucharest/) - A landmark satellite exhibition tracing Romania’s overlooked role in Zimbabwe’s liberation and the enduring politics of artistic solidarity Paul Gwichir, Untitled, 1970. Green Serpentine, 43 x 16 x 28cm. Courtesy of Gunter Péus Collection. Catinca Tabacaru Gallery has opened the satellite exhibition 'Have No Doubt of the Omnipotence of a Free People' at POINT, Bucharest, expanding upon
- [Sheroes: Comic Art from Africa Opens at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt](https://artafricamagazine.org/sheroes-comic-art-from-africa-opens-at-the-weltkulturen-museum-in-frankfurt/) - A landmark exhibition celebrating African women, storytelling, and the rise of the continent’s comic art movement The Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt has opened 'Sheroes: Comic Art from Africa', a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating Africa’s vibrant comic art scene and the power of women at its centre. On view from 31 October 2025 to 30 September 2026,
- [Nigerian Modernism: Tracing the Birth of a National Aesthetic at Tate Modern](https://artafricamagazine.org/nigerian-modernism-tracing-the-birth-of-a-national-aesthetic-at-tate-modern/) - Osei Bonsu, Senior Curator of International Art, Africa and Diaspora at Tate Modern, on how artists redefined modernism in Nigeria through independence, imagination, and cultural synthesis Installation view of 'Nigerian Modernism' at Tate Modern, 8 October 2025-10 May 2026. © Tate Photography (Jai Monaghan) Now open at Tate Modern, 'Nigerian Modernism' is the first major
- [Sonia Gomes: Ó Abre Alas at Storm King Art Center, New York](https://artafricamagazine.org/sonia-gomes-o-abre-alas-at-storm-king-art-center-new-york/) - The Afro-Brazilian artist's first institutional exhibition in the United States pairs a new outdoor work on Museum Hill with a gallery survey of tactile sculptures that reflect on resilience, memory, and reclamation. Sonia Gomes, Ó Abre Alas, 2025. Courtesy the artist, Mendes Wood DM, and Pace Gallery. Installation view at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville,
- [Javett-UP and the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives Announce the 2025/2026 Tlhagella Incubation Programme](https://artafricamagazine.org/javett-up-and-the-canada-fund-for-local-initiatives-announce-the-2025-2026-tlhagella-incubation-programme/) - Now in its second year, the Tlhagella Incubation Programme continues to empower underrepresented artists in Gauteng through professional training, exhibition opportunities, and entrepreneurial development. Following the success of its inaugural edition earlier this year, the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP), in partnership with the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI), has
- [Serge Alain Nitegeka: Returning to Wits Art Museum with 'Black Subjects'](https://artafricamagazine.org/serge-alain-nitegeka-returning-to-wits-art-museum-with-black-subjects/) - In his first institutional solo exhibition in Johannesburg, Nitegeka explores movement, displacement, and resilience through large-scale installation, painting, and film. ©️ Serge Alain Nitegeka. Courtesy of the artist and Stevenson, Cape Town & Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. Photo credit: Nina Lieska Wits Art Museum is currently presenting 'Black Subjects', an exhibition by South African-based
- [Sharjah Art Foundation Opens 'Image Keepers', the Inaugural Exhibition of Its New Photography Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundation-opens-image-keepers-the-inaugural-exhibition-of-its-new-photography-gallery/) - Bringing together over fifty works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, 'Image Keepers' traces six decades of artistic experimentation and engagement through the lens of photography. Rula Halawani, From ‘The Bride is Beautiful, But She is Married to Another Man’, 2017. Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Photo: Ivan Erofeev The Sharjah Art Foundation opens 'Image Keepers',
- [Lavar Munroe and John Beadle to Represent The Bahamas at the 61st Venice Biennale](https://artafricamagazine.org/lavar-munroe-and-john-beadle-to-represent-the-bahamas-at-the-61st-venice-biennale/) - Under the curatorial vision of Dr Krista Thompson, the Bahamian Pavilion will present a posthumous collaboration between the late John Beadle and contemporary artist Lavar Munroe at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Portrait of Lavar Munroe. Photo: Roy Cox The Bahamas in Venice Committee has announced that Lavar Munroe and
- [From France to Brazil: Frac Poitou-Charentes and the Tomie Ohtake Institute Present 'Groundwater: Narratives of Confluences'](https://artafricamagazine.org/from-france-to-brazil-frac-poitou-charentes-and-the-tomie-ohtake-institute-present-groundwater-narratives-of-confluences/) - Presented as part of the France-Brazil Season 2025, the exhibition explores water as a living archive that connects histories, ecologies, and futures across continents. Installation view of 'Groundwater: Narratives of Confluences' at Frac Poitou-Charentes. Courtesy of Frac Poitou-Charentes. The Tomie Ohtake Institute and Frac Poitou-Charentes have partnered to present 'Groundwater: Narratives of Confluences', a significant
- [Still We Rise: Ifa Lethu Foundation and SABC Art Collections Unite for Landmark Exhibition](https://artafricamagazine.org/still-we-rise-ifa-lethu-foundation-and-sabc-art-collections-unite-for-landmark-exhibition/) - Opening 30 October at the Atrium, Keyes Art Mile, 'Still We Rise' commemorates South Africa’s artistic resilience and cultural defiance during Apartheid, coinciding with the G20 Summit in Johannesburg. Dan Rakgoathe, Duality, 1973. Courtesy of the SABC Art Collection. The Ifa Lethu Foundation and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) have joined forces to present
- [Henrike Grohs Art Award 2026: Celebrating Contemporary African Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/henrike-grohs-art-award-2026-celebrating-contemporary-african-art/) - The Goethe-Institut Subsahara Africa announces the fifth and final edition of the Henrike Grohs Art Award, continuing its legacy of honouring artistic excellence across the African continent. The Goethe-Institut Subsahara Africa has announced the launch of the 5th and final edition of the Henrike Grohs Art Award, a biennial pan-African prize recognising exceptional contemporary art
- [Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Opens New Season with Nja Mahdaoui Retrospective](https://artafricamagazine.org/bassam-freiha-art-foundation-opens-new-season-with-nja-mahdaoui-retrospective/) - Abu Dhabi's Bassam Freiha Art Foundation launches its Autumn 2025 season with 'Nja Mahdaoui: The Choreographer of Letters'—a landmark retrospective celebrating one of the Arab world's most influential modern artists. Nja Mahdaoui, Untitled – Calligrams on vellum 2, 2011. Indian ink and acrylic on vellum, 85 x 85cm. Courtesy of the Bassam Freiha Art Foundation.
- [Modern & Contemporary African and Middle Eastern Art at Olympia Auctions](https://artafricamagazine.org/modern-contemporary-african-and-middle-eastern-art-at-olympia-auctions/) - A cross-cultural celebration coinciding with major African art exhibitions in London and the announcement of Frieze Abu Dhabi Lot 5: Oluwole Omofemi (Nigerian b. 1988), I See It. Estimate: £15,000 - £20,000. At a time of unprecedented global interest in Middle Eastern and African art, Olympia Auctions presents an opportunity to buy into this dynamic
- [Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica Opens at MACBA, Barcelona](https://artafricamagazine.org/project-a-black-planet-the-art-and-culture-of-panafrica-opens-at-macba-barcelona/) - Curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose, Antawan Byrd, Adom Getachew, and Matthew S. Witkovsky, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the visual, sonic, and political legacies of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to today, uniting 100 artists across four major international institutions. Simone Leigh, Dunham, 2017. The Art Institute of Chicago, purchased with funds provided by Marilyn and Larry
- [Ken Gonzales-Day: History's "Nevermade" at the USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles](https://artafricamagazine.org/ken-gonzales-day-historys-nevermade-at-the-usc-fisher-museum-of-art-los-angeles/) - Curated by Amelia Jones, 'History's “Nevermade"' presents the first mid-career survey of Los Angeles–based artist, scholar, and educator Ken Gonzales-Day, tracing three decades of work that reimagines the relationship between race, memory, and visibility in American history. Ken Gonzales-Day, 41 Objects Arranged by Color, 2016) from the Profiles (c. 2009–ongoing) series. Digital image printed on vinyl, ~2.7
- [Ed Young Wins the 2025 Helgaard Steyn Prize for Sculpture](https://artafricamagazine.org/ed-young-wins-the-2025-helgaard-steyn-prize-for-sculpture/) - Cape Town artist Ed Young has been awarded the 2025 Helgaard Steyn Prize for his haunting sculptural work Other People’s Tears Are Only Water (2024), receiving R675 000 in recognition of his conceptual and technical achievement. Ed Young, Other People's Tears Are Only Water, 2024. Photo: Nina Lieska, Repro Pictures Cape Town-based artist Ed Young
- [Bana Kattan to Curate the National Pavilion UAE at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia](https://artafricamagazine.org/bana-kattan-to-curate-the-national-pavilion-uae-at-the-61st-international-art-exhibition-of-la-biennale-di-venezia/) - Bana Kattan, Curator and Associate Head of Exhibitions at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, will lead the UAE's participation at Biennale Arte 2026, marking the nation's ninth presentation at the International Art Exhibition in Venice. Portrait of Bana Kattan. Courtesy of United Arab Emirates Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Photo: Dahlia Dandashi The National Pavilion UAE
- [More than Meets the Eye: Ousseynou Wade on Reframing a Century of African Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/more-than-meets-the-eye-ousseynou-wade-on-reframing-a-century-of-african-art/) - Senegalese curator Ousseynou Wade discusses the making of 'More than Meets the Eye', a landmark exhibition of the CBH Bank Collection at the Musée Rath in Geneva, tracing the breadth of African modernism and contemporary expression. Installation view of 'More than Meets the Eye', selections from CBH Bank Collection, at Musée Rath selections from CBH
- [Grounds of Return: Pippa Hetherington's Dialogues of Land and Memory](https://artafricamagazine.org/grounds-of-return-pippa-hetheringtons-dialogues-of-land-and-memory/) - Curator and writer Clare Patrick reflects on Pippa Hetherington's transcontinental practice, tracing how her photography, textile and embodied research practice instigates a dialogue between South Africa and the United Kingdom. Pippa Hetherington and Alice Kettle, Installation view of 'Soft Power', 2025. Courtesy RWA Bristol and AlastairBrookes - KoLABStudios A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that
- [Weaving Memory: Dhaqan Collective on The Aqal (House of Weaving Songs)](https://artafricamagazine.org/weaving-memory-dhaqan-collective-on-the-aqal-house-of-weaving-songs/) - In conversation with Somali artists Ayan Cilmi and Fozia Ismail, art writer Mark Sheerin explores a travelling home for nomadic culture, community, and song. Dhaqan Collective, House of Weaving Songs, British Textile Biennial 2025. Photo: Matt Savage Bringing weaving and song to the heart of the art world, Dhaqan Collective is achieving global recognition for the
- [Samuel Olayombo: Before the Scroll — Memory, Childhood, and the Politics of Touch](https://artafricamagazine.org/samuel-olayombo-before-the-scroll-memory-childhood-and-the-politics-of-touch/) - In 'Canter Days: When Gallop Was the Scroll', the Nigerian artist reimagines the rider not as a symbol of conquest, but as a child sovereign — a bearer of memory, tenderness, and return. Samuel Olayombo, On the Road To Jamestown, 2025. Acrylic on Canvas, 144 x 196cm. Courtesy of the artist and Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery. Currently
- [Performing the Invisible: Hoda Afshar at the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac](https://artafricamagazine.org/performing-the-invisible-hoda-afshar-at-the-musee-du-quai-branly-jacques-chirac/) - Curated by Annabelle Lacour, ‘Performing the Invisible’ marks the first solo exhibition in France of Iranian-Australian artist Hoda Afshar, bringing together two major works that interrogate visibility, power, and the colonial gaze. Hoda Afshar, Speak the Wind, 2015 - 2020. Inkjet photographic prints. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Milani, Brisbane, Australia Now on view
- [32° East Opens Applications for 2026 Self-Funded Residencies](https://artafricamagazine.org/32-east-opens-applications-for-2026-self-funded-residencies/) - Kampala-based arts centre invites artists, researchers, and architects to engage with sustainable construction and community-led design through a new self-funded residency programme. 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust has announced the launch of its first-ever self-funded residencies, inviting applications for 2026. The new programme offers artists, researchers, architects, and curators the opportunity to rent studio
- [Brazil Announces Curatorial Team for the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia](https://artafricamagazine.org/brazil-announces-curatorial-team-for-the-61st-international-art-exhibition-la-biennale-di-venezia/) - Curator Diane Lima will lead Comigo ninguém pode (With Me Nobody Can), featuring artists Rosana Paulino and Adriana Varejão for the Brazilian Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. LEFT TO RIGHT: Diane Lima, Rosana Paulino, and Adriana Varejão. Credits: Wallace Domingues, Rodrigo Ladeira, and Tinko Czetwertynski. Fundação Bienal de
- [Kunstenfestivaldesarts Announces Job and Internship Opportunities for 2026 Edition](https://artafricamagazine.org/kunstenfestivaldesarts-announces-job-and-internship-opportunities-for-2026-edition/) - The Brussels-based contemporary arts festival is opening applications for an Audience Engagement position and several internships ahead of its 2026 programme. Festival team 2025 © Bea Borgers Kunstenfestivaldesarts has announced new job and internship opportunities as preparations begin for the 2026 festival edition. The Brussels-based festival, which presents multidisciplinary works by artists from around the
- [Tuwaiq Sculpture 2026 Open Call: Traces of What Will Be](https://artafricamagazine.org/tuwaiq-sculpture-2026-open-call-traces-of-what-will-be/) - Artists are invited to apply for the 2026 edition of the Tuwaiq Sculpture Symposium and Exhibition in Riyadh, responding to a site shaped by transformation and renewal. Courtesy of Riyadh Art. The Tuwaiq Sculpture Symposium and Exhibition has opened applications for its 2026 edition, which will take place in Tahlia, Riyadh. Under the theme Traces
- [Coco Fusco: Art as a Site of Resistance at MACBA, Barcelona](https://artafricamagazine.org/coco-fusco-art-as-a-site-of-resistance-at-macba-barcelona/) - Balancing unflinching critique with poetic precision, Coco Fusco’s 'I Learned to Swim on Dry Land' at MACBA, Spain, traces the intersections of art, politics, and resistance—where performance becomes protest, and storytelling becomes a tool of liberation. Installation view of 'I Learned to Swim on Dry Land' at MACBA. Photo: Roberto Ruiz For more than three
- [Qatar Foundation to Open Lawh Wa Qalam: M. F. Husain Museum in November 2025](https://artafricamagazine.org/qatar-foundation-to-open-lawh-wa-qalam-m-f-husain-museum-in-november-2025/) - The museum will be the first and largest institution dedicated to the life and work of Maqbool Fida Husain, one of the world's most celebrated modernist artists. Aerial shot of Lawh Wa Qalam M.F. Husain Museum, 2025. Courtesy of Qatar Foundation. Qatar Foundation will open Lawh Wa Qalam: M. F. Husain Museum on 28 November
- [The Shape of Things to Come: A Global Conversation on Art and Change at Efie Gallery, Dubai](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-shape-of-things-to-come-a-global-conversation-on-art-and-change-at-efie-gallery-dubai/) - Featuring El Anatsui, Iman Issa, Abdoulaye Konaté, Adam Pendleton, Yinka Shonibare and Carrie Mae Weems Installation view of 'The Shape of Things to Come' at Efie Gallery, Dubai, 2025. Courtesy of Efie Gallery. Now open at Efie Gallery in Dubai, ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ brings together a formidable group of international artists whose
- [Tears Now But Heaven Tomorrow: Honouring Githan Coopoo’s Legacy at Norval Foundation, Cape Town](https://artafricamagazine.org/tears-now-but-heaven-tomorrow-honouring-githan-coopoos-legacy-at-norval-foundation-cape-town/) - A celebration of creativity, vulnerability, and transformation in clay Githan Coopoo. Photo: Paige Fiddes Opening on 15 October 2025 at the Norval Foundation in Cape Town, ‘Tears Now But Heaven Tomorrow’ pays tribute to the late Githan Coopoo (1994–2025), one of South Africa’s most distinctive artistic voices. The exhibition brings together a selection of sculptures,
- [Rainbow Nation Comics: Young Nelson at Wits Art Museum, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/rainbow-nation-comics-young-nelson-at-wits-art-museum-south-africa/) - A reflection on youth, creativity, and renewal through South Africa’s comic culture Courtesy of Rainbow Nation Comics. From September 30 to November 22, 2025, the Wits Art Museum presents an exhibition by Rainbow Nation Comics, South Africa’s first creator-owned comic book publisher and youth culture brand. Founded in 2018 by brothers Phemelo and Omphile Dibodu,
- [Pavilion of Zimbabwe Announces Exhibition for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2026](https://artafricamagazine.org/pavilion-of-zimbabwe-announces-exhibition-for-the-61st-international-art-exhibition-of-la-biennale-di-venezia-2026/) - Curated by Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa and commissioned by Raphael Chikukwa, the Pavilion of Zimbabwe presents ‘Second Nature | Manyonga’, featuring artists Gideon Gomo, Eva Raath, Franklyn Dzingai, Felix Shumba and Pardon Mapondera. Announcement of Pavilion of Zimbabwe at the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia The Pavilion of Zimbabwe has announced its participation
- [Fak’ugesi 2025: Power Surge](https://artafricamagazine.org/fakugesi-2025-power-surge/) - Braamfontein’s digital arts circuit powers up with immersive domes, XR showcases, an AI bootcamp, and continent-wide collaborations, 7–12 October. Courtesy of Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival. Johannesburg’s Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival returns from 7 to 12 October with Power Surge, a program that positions African creators at the centre of today’s digital transformation. Now
- [Beyond the Gallery Walls: Solo Studios 2025 Transforms the Riebeek Valley into a Living Canvas, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/beyond-the-gallery-walls-solo-studios-2025-transforms-the-riebeek-valley-into-a-living-canvas-south-africa/) - From open studios and curated exhibitions to music, food, and conversation, Solo Studios returns from 24–26 October for a weekend of art and community across the Riebeek Valley. Laurel Heritage, By the Light of the Moonflower. Courtesy of the artist. Later this month, the Riebeek Valley will come alive with Solo Studios 2025, a weekend
- [Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026: Interludes and Transitions Explore Movement, Memory, and Exchange in Saudi Arabia](https://artafricamagazine.org/diriyah-contemporary-art-biennale-2026-interludes-and-transitions-explore-movement-memory-and-exchange-in-saudi-arabia/) - The third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, curated by Nora Razian and Sabih Ahmed, gathers over seventy artists to explore processions, migrations, and cultural connections across mediums and geographies. Image of the JAX District, the site of the 2026 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale. Courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation. Opening on 30 January
- [Post-Colonial Reclamations: Rethinking Benghazi’s Architectural Heritage at Barah Gallery, Libya](https://artafricamagazine.org/post-colonial-reclamations-rethinking-benghazis-architectural-heritage-at-barah-gallery-lybia/) - Curated by Jawad Elhusuni and Mohamed Shembesh, the exhibition reflects on Libya’s colonial past and the role of architecture in shaping its future. Entrance to the gallery, with work by Jawad Elhusuni Architects. Photo: Sanad Egrima ‘Post-Colonial Reclamations: Between Al-Berka and Sidi Hussein’ revisits Benghazi more than a decade after the renovation of Shajara Square,
- [Open Call: dot.ateliers Artist Residency 2026](https://artafricamagazine.org/open-call-dot-ateliers-artist-residency-2026/) - Applications are now open until October 12, 2025, for the Accra-based residency, supporting both emerging and established artists. dot.ateliers has announced the open call for its 2026 Artist Residency Program, inviting applications from both emerging and established practitioners who are ready to push their creative boundaries and engage with a dynamic community of peers. The
- [Autograph’s Small Stories of Diasporic Experience Projects Diasporic Identities into Public Space, London](https://artafricamagazine.org/autographs-small-stories-of-diasporic-experience-projects-diasporic-identities-into-public-space-london/) - Exploring narratives of belonging, memory, and identity, the exhibition brings together photographers from around the world, with their works displayed both online and on London’s most prominent digital billboard. Alex Paganelli, KIAMI. Courtesy of the artist and Autograph. Autograph has launched ‘Small Stories of Diasporic Experience’, a new exhibition that amplifies the voices of artists
- [Albany Institute Marks BDA’s 50th Anniversary with Major Exhibition and Jacob Lawrence Prints, New York](https://artafricamagazine.org/albany-institute-marks-bdas-50th-anniversary-with-major-exhibition-and-jacob-lawrence-prints-new-york/) - Two landmark exhibitions celebrate the legacy of Black Dimensions in Art and the vision of Jacob Lawrence. Roy De Carava, Catsup bottles tables and coat. Courtesy of the artist and the Albany Institute.For Liberation and For Life The Albany Institute of History & Art is currently presenting two major exhibitions that celebrate Black art, history,
- [Kara Walker: Burning Village at Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), Spain](https://artafricamagazine.org/kara-walker-burning-village-at-institut-valencia-dart-modern-ivam-spain/) - IVAM presents the most comprehensive European survey of Kara Walker’s career to date, drawn from the Michael Jenkins and Javier Romero Collection at MACA Kara Walker, The Katastwóf Karavan (maquette), 2017. MACA. Michael Jenkins & Javier Romero Collection. The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) presents 'Kara Walker. Burning Village’, an exhibition that offers a comprehensive overview
- [The Inaugural LagosPhoto Biennial: Incarceration as Image and Inquiry](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-inaugural-lagosphoto-biennial-incarceration-as-image-and-inquiry/) - Under the artistic direction of Azu Nwagbogu, the African Artists’ Foundation launches the Biennial with a focus on the role of photography in systems of confinement and resistance. Geremew Tigabu, Push Pull. Addis Ababa, 2021. From the series Eye of the Storm, 2023. Courtesy of the artist, AAF and LagosPhoto. After fifteen years as an
- [421 Open Call for Exhibition Proposals](https://artafricamagazine.org/421-open-call-for-exhibition-proposals/) - 421 invites curators and collectives to propose exhibitions for Winter/Spring 2027 in Abu Dhabi, with a focus on critical inquiry and contemporary practices across Arabic-speaking geographies. 421 has announced an open call for exhibition proposals, inviting curators and curatorial collectives to submit ideas for a project to be developed and presented at the centre during
- [421 Graduate Internship Program 2026: Applications Now Open](https://artafricamagazine.org/421-graduate-internship-program-2026-applications-now-open/) - 421 launches its six-month internship program in Abu Dhabi, offering early career creatives the chance to gain hands-on experience across key cultural fields. 421 has opened applications for its 2026 Graduate Internship Program, a six-month paid opportunity designed to support emerging creative professionals as they transition from higher education into careers in the cultural sector.
- [Witnessing Colour Across the Atlantic: Atlanta Art Week’s Special Projects Curator Presents’ Persistent Colour’](https://artafricamagazine.org/witnessing-colour-across-the-atlantic-atlanta-art-weeks-special-projects-curator-presents-persistent-colour/) - Aida Esi Hayfron-Benjamin brings Caribbean abstraction to Atlanta, spotlighting Kenwyn Crichlow in a landmark presentation at The Works. Aida Esi Hayfron-Benjamin. Photographer: Kibwe Braithwaite Atlanta Art Week (AAW) returns this October for its fourth edition, affirming the city’s growing role as a cultural hub within the United States and across the African diaspora. For the
- [It Resonates: 50 GOLBORNE Opens Trans-African Dialogue on Art and Environment in Nairobi, Kenya](https://artafricamagazine.org/it-resonates-50-golborne-opens-trans-african-dialogue-on-art-and-environment-in-nairobi-kenya/) - At Heltz House, Ngara Creative District, nine artists explore resonance, heritage, and ecological consciousness Installation view, Martin Jakaila, It Resonates, Heltz House, N'gara, Nairobi 2025. Courtesy of 50 GOLBORNE X Freddie Odede. Copyright ©the Artist. ‘It Resonates’, presented by 50 GOLBORNE in collaboration with NBST, brings together nine artists from five African countries at Heltz House
- [Amazônia: Creations and Indigenous Futures at the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac](https://artafricamagazine.org/amazonia-creations-and-indigenous-futures-at-the-musee-du-quai-branly-jacques-chirac/) - A major exhibition foregrounds Amazonian creation myths, contemporary voices, and ecological knowledge © Paulo Desana The musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac presents ‘Amazônia: Creations and Indigenous Futures’, a landmark exhibition that gives prominence to the perspectives of Indigenous peoples from the Amazon. Moving beyond stereotypes of the rainforest as an untouched wilderness, the
- [Refracting Resilience: Tesfaye Urgessa’s Dialogues with Memory and Flesh](https://artafricamagazine.org/refracting-resilience-tesfaye-urgessas-dialogues-with-memory-and-flesh/) - At the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, painting bears witness to trauma, displacement and the slow work of healing. Tesfaye Urgessa, The Fragile Mind, 2025. Oil and lacquer on canvas. Copyright of the artist. Tesfaye Urgessa’s Roots of Resilience is not only an exhibition, it is a reckoning. In his newest canvases, shown at the Sainsbury Centre
- [Art with Soul: Abel Beyene at OOA Gallery, Spain](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-with-soul-abel-beyene-at-ooa-gallery-spain/) - An OOA Gallery exhibition in Barcelona, weaving together historical and contemporary voices Abel Beyene Ethiopia, b. 1995, Behind the cover, 2025. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 119 x 149cm. Courtesy of the artist and OOA Gallery. OOA Gallery presents ‘My Inner World’, a dual exhibition featuring Ethiopian artist Abel Beyene and London-based artist and designer Simone Brewster, on
- [Studio Museum in Harlem Opens Applications for 2025–26 Artist-in-Residence Program](https://artafricamagazine.org/studio-museum-in-harlem-opens-applications-for-2025-26-artist-in-residence-program/) - A Studio Museum in Harlem initiative in New York, weaving together historical and contemporary voices Jeffrey Meris, 2022–23 Artist-in-Residence, in his studio at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Courtesy of the Studio Museum in Harlem. The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced that applications are now open for the 2025–26 Artist-in-Residence program. For more than
- [The Three-Legged Cat: 18th Istanbul Biennial Opens on 20 September 2025](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-three-legged-cat-18th-istanbul-biennial-opens-on-20-september-2025/) - An Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) exhibition in Beyoğlu-Karaköy, weaving together historical and contemporary voices 18th Istanbul Biennial Opening Reception. Photo: Muhenna Kahveci The 18th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Christine Tohmé and titled The Three-Legged Cat, will open to the public on 20 September 2025. Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and
- [Sharjah Art Foundation Opens Call for 13th Vantage Point Sharjah](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundation-opens-call-for-13th-vantage-point-sharjah/) - A Sharjah Art Foundation exhibition in Al Manakh, weaving together historical and contemporary voices Mosfiqur Rahman Johan, Memories of underdevelopment, 2017–2023. Image courtesy of the artist. Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the open call for the 13th edition of Vantage Point Sharjah (VPS), its annual photography exhibition. Established in 2013 to encourage public engagement with
- [What the Mountain Has Seen: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Voices in Cameroon and Liverpool](https://artafricamagazine.org/what-the-mountain-has-seen-colonial-legacies-and-contemporary-voices-in-cameroon-and-liverpool/) - An Exhibition Research Lab exhibition at Liverpool John Moores University, weaving together historical and contemporary voices Yvon Ngassam, View of Mount Mbanga. Bikoka, Lolodorf, 2021. Courtesy the Artist and Bikoka Art Project. Exhibition Research Lab (ERL) presents ‘What the Mountain Has Seen’, an exhibition curated by Dr Christine Eyene, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at
- [To Improvise a Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates a Major Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition](https://artafricamagazine.org/to-improvise-a-mountain-lynette-yiadom-boakye-curates-a-major-hayward-gallery-touring-exhibition/) - A Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery, weaving together historical and contemporary voices Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, To Improvise a Mountain, 2024. Charcoal and conte on paper, variable dimensions (unfinished). Courtesy of the artist. Hayward Gallery Touring presents ‘To Improvise a Mountain’, a group exhibition curated by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, one of today’s leading figurative painters.
- [Vênus: Val Souza Reclaims the Image at MEP Studio](https://artafricamagazine.org/venus-val-souza-reclaims-the-image-at-mep-studio/) - A solo exhibition at MEP Studio questioning histories of representation and opening space for self-determination Val Souza, Vênus (detail), 2022. Instituto Moreira Salles Collection. Courtesy of the artist and Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP). On 4 September 2025, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) opened Vênus, a solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Val
- [Without Blinking: Canon Griffin Rumanzi’s Unflinching Look at Uganda’s Past](https://artafricamagazine.org/without-blinking-canon-griffin-rumanzis-unflinching-look-at-ugandas-past/) - A solo exhibition at the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI) tracing history through digital collage and archival intervention Canon Griffin, Abaddu Working; We Are All Slaves, 2020. Digital photomontage with archival images and found photographs. What does it mean to face history without blinking? For Canon Griffin Rumanzi, it means refusing neat stories and instead
- [A New Chapter for Videobrasil: From Biennial to Living Platform](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-new-chapter-for-videobrasil-from-biennial-to-living-platform/) - With a history of four decades, the Brazilian institution is reframing its actions by proposing a continuous program of activities focused on the Global South and declaring the end of its biennial event. Videobrasil headquarters. © Videobrasil Archive Artists from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Oceania have a meeting spot in Brazil.
- [Death of a Salesman: FNB Art Joburg and the End of the Fairytale](https://artafricamagazine.org/death-of-a-salesman-fnb-art-joburg-and-the-end-of-the-fairytale/) - When commerce masquerades as culture, South Africa’s art fairs reveal their obsolescence. bART Man-G © Adilson De Oliveira There is something tragically comic about watching a man believe his dreams long after they’ve curdled. Willy Loman, Arthur Miller’s haunted salesman, did not simply die because he was irrelevant. He died because he mistook irrelevance for
- [Living the Bienal: Performances, Voices, and Rituals at the 36th São Paulo Bienal](https://artafricamagazine.org/living-the-bienal-performances-voices-and-rituals-at-the-36th-sao-paulo-bienal/) - An Auditory and Performative Journey Through Humanity as Practice Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Untitled from the series The Rise of the Butterflies, 2021. Mixed media: archival digital inkjet prints, watercolor, ink, gouache, gum arabic, BFK archival paper, 10 panels at 104,1 x 73,7 cm each. Image courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin. The 36th
- [A New Home for the Image: The Roger Ballen Centre for Photography Opens in Johannesburg](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-new-home-for-the-image-the-roger-ballen-centre-for-photography-opens-in-johannesburg/) - Exploring AI, the Unconscious, and the Future of Photography Alsoguppyme (Singapore), Twisted Mirrors, 2025. Promptography, co-created using Krea.AI Flux. This September, Johannesburg takes a bold step onto the global stage of contemporary art with the opening of the Roger Ballen Centre for Photography. Situated in Forest Town, this new cultural institution marks one of the
- [From Testimony to Transformation: Reverend Joyce McDonald’s ‘Ministry’ Opens at The Bronx Museum](https://artafricamagazine.org/from-testimony-to-transformation-reverend-joyce-mcdonalds-ministry-opens-at-the-bronx-museum/) - Ceramic sculpture, spirituality, and resilience converge in McDonald’s first solo museum exhibition. Reverend Joyce McDonald, Untitled, 2021. Collection of Christine Meleo Bernstein and Armyan Bernstein. Photo: Ryan Page. On September 5, 2025, The Bronx Museum opens ‘Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald’, the first museum exhibition dedicated to the extraordinary sculptural practice of the Brooklyn-born artist and ordained minister.
- [Cycles of the Mind: Juandré van Eck Wins the 2025 Sasol New Signatures Visual Arts Competition](https://artafricamagazine.org/cycles-of-the-mind-juandre-van-eck-wins-the-2025-sasol-new-signatures-visual-arts-competition/) - Interactive ceramics, resilience in paint, and new directions in South African art take centre stage at the Pretoria Art Museum. Sasol New Signatures Overall Winner Juandré van Eck with his winning work Cycles of the mind. Courtesy of Sasol New Sigantures. The 2025 Sasol New Signatures Visual Arts Competition has named Juandré van Eck (25),
- [Between Distance and Desire: African Diasporic Perspectives at the Soloviev Foundation Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/between-distance-and-desire-african-diasporic-perspectives-at-the-soloviev-foundation-gallery/) - Curated by Tumelo Mosaka, this landmark exhibition reimagines African art and diasporic aesthetics through play, fantasy, and critical dialogue. Robert Pruitt, A Fantastic Saga Through Space and Time, 2021. © Robert Pruitt. Courtesy Collection of Pamela Thomas Graham. Africa, Dan, Mask (19th–20th century). Europe, Cycladic, Head and neck of figure (Period: Cycladic II, Spedos variety).
- [Naomi Beckwith names curatorial team for documenta 16](https://artafricamagazine.org/naomi-beckwith-names-curatorial-team-for-documenta-16/) - Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng join Beckwith in shaping the 2027 edition of the landmark exhibition The documenta 16 artistic team: Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, Xiaoyu Weng, Carla Acevedo-Yates, and Naomi Beckwith (from left to right), Kassel 2025. © documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, Photo: Nicolas Wefers
- [When War Dries Colors: Mohammed Mustafa and Sudan’s Resilience](https://artafricamagazine.org/when-war-dries-colors-mohammed-mustafa-and-sudans-resilience/) - In this piece, curator and researcher Rahiem Shadad reflects on how one artist sustains creativity despite the destruction of Khartoum’s cultural heart. Photo collage on layers of fabrics, from the collection - Geography of A Dream. Courtesy of Mohammed Mustafa. It was early Monday morning, as I was packing a bag for a trip, that
- [Parliament of the Wild: Re-imagining the Archive, Reclaiming the Image](https://artafricamagazine.org/parliament-of-the-wild-re-imagining-the-archive-reclaiming-the-image/) - ART AFRICA recently donated hundreds of back issues of the magazine to universities, residencies, and arts organisations across Johannesburg and Pretoria, making parts of our archive more accessible to local audiences in the region. © Parliament of the Wild We didn’t anticipate that, a month later, we would be presented with a wide range of
- [Stone Portraits Arrives in Chennai: A Multisensory Journey of Stone, Art, and Culture](https://artafricamagazine.org/stone-portraits-arrives-in-chennai-a-multisensory-journey-of-stone-art-and-culture/) - Chennai hosts StoneX’s multisensory journey of art, culture, and craftsmanship. Courtesy of StoneX. Chennai will play host to an evening where stone becomes story, and story transforms into memory. On 29 August 2025, under the expansive banyan at the iconic Cholamandalam Artists’ Village, StoneX presents ‘Stone Portraits’—a multisensory celebration of art, craftsmanship, and culture. From
- [Contra.Joburg 2025: The Festival That Moves With the City](https://artafricamagazine.org/contra-joburg-2025-the-festival-that-moves-with-the-city/) - A weekend of exhibitions, competitions, and new ways of collecting art across Johannesburg. In just two days, the streets, studios, and galleries of Johannesburg will be transformed into a city-wide celebration of art, fashion, and creative expression. Contra.Joburg returns on Saturday, 30 August and Sunday, 31 August 2025, bringing together exhibitions, performances, workshops, and collaborations
- [Augury After Autogogues: Miné Kleynhans’ first solo exhibition opens at Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/augury-after-autogogues-mine-kleynhans-first-solo-exhibition-opens-at-pretoria-art-museum-south-africa/) - Sasol New Signatures 2024 winner explores speculative mysticism through sculptural inventions and interactive devices. Miné Kleynhans, Orbea kako-occultus. 3D printed object, resin, hot glue, fabric, Perspex, marbles and weed eater trimmer line, 85 x 180 x 180cm. Courtesy of the artist and Sasol New Signatures. The Association of Arts Pretoria and Sasol present ‘Augury After
- [When Surfaces Speak: La Motte exhibition opens a tactile journey into texture and memory](https://artafricamagazine.org/when-surfaces-speak-la-motte-exhibition-opens-a-tactile-journey-into-texture-and-memory/) - From weaving to candle-making, the show celebrates the intimacy of materials and offers hands-on workshops that allow visitors to experience the process firsthand. Installation view of 'When Surfaces Speak' at La Motte Ateljee. Courtesy of La Motte. La Motte’s Ateljee opened ‘When Surfaces Speak’ on July 12 2025, presenting an exhibition that invites audiences to
- [Zeitz MOCAA presents ‘We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight’](https://artafricamagazine.org/zeitz-mocaa-presents-we-proceed-in-the-footsteps-of-the-sunlight/) - The first museum survey of Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku traces a decade of textured reflections on identity, memory and belonging. Zohra Opoku, I have brought to pass…, 2023. Photo: Aurélien Mole. Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim. Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) will open ‘We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight’, the first
- [The 36th Bienal de São Paulo: Expanding Encounters Across Borders](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-36th-bienal-de-sao-paulo-expanding-encounters-across-borders/) - Opening September 6, the Bienal unfolds inside the Pavilion and beyond, with global public programs and augmented reality interventions. Apparitions, Juliana dos Santos, Bienal de São Paulo and WAVA. The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo opens the 36th Bienal de São Paulo Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice on September 6
- [Restless Circle: Afra Al Dhaheri at Sharjah Art Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/restless-circle-afra-al-dhaheri-at-sharjah-art-foundation/) - The artist’s first institutional solo exhibition explores tension, repetition and the quiet weight of time. Afra Al Dhaheri, To Preserve (no. 2), 2017, Private collection. Courtesy of the artist and Olivier Georges Mestelan. Image Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo: Shanavas Jamaluddin. Sharjah Art Foundation opens its autumn 2025 programme with Restless Circle, Abu Dhabi-based
- [Opening Wings: Sonia Gomes at Storm King Art Centre, New York](https://artafricamagazine.org/opening-wings-sonia-gomes-at-storm-king-art-centre-new-york/) - With bold gestures and bound threads, the Afro-Brazilian artist redefined material memory and monumental scale in her first central U.S. outdoor installation. Sonia Gomes, ÓAbre Alas, 2025. Installation view at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY. Courtesy the artist, MendesWood DM, and Pace Gallery. Photo: Jacob Vitale From May to November 2025, Storm King Art
- [Tasweer 2025 Single Image Award: Capture Your Story](https://artafricamagazine.org/tasweer-2025-single-image-award-capture-your-story/) - Open call for photographers across the WANA region to submit a single image that reflects their personal experience and narrative. Bashar Shglila, Ride. Courtesy of the artist. Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar announces the 2025 Single Image Award, inviting photographers across Western Asia and North Africa (WANA) to submit a single photographic image that best represents
- [Ideas of Africa: Photography, Identity, and Transnational Solidarity at MoMA, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/ideas-of-africa-photography-identity-and-transnational-solidarity-at-moma-united-states/) - MoMA’s upcoming exhibition traces how photographic portraiture shaped transnational solidarity and cultural identity across Africa and its diaspora. Sanlé Sory. Traveller (Le Voyageur), 1970–85. Gelatin silver print. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Photography Fund, 1102.2018. © 2024 Sanlé Sory, courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York. The Museum of Modern Art announces ‘Ideas
- [Indigenous Epistemologies Take Centre Stage in Delhi](https://artafricamagazine.org/indigenous-epistemologies-take-centre-stage-in-delhi/) - TAKE on Art and Arthshila host a landmark two-day international symposium This weekend in Delhi, TAKE on Art brings together some of the most compelling voices in contemporary art and Indigenous thought for a groundbreaking symposium. Titled Indigenous: Resistant Epistemologies and the Normative Frame of the Contemporary, the two-day event runs on Friday, August 22,
- [Curatorial Voices Converge: The Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026](https://artafricamagazine.org/curatorial-voices-converge-the-diriyah-contemporary-art-biennale-2026/) - An expanded international team sets the stage for Saudi Arabia’s third edition, opening January 30, 2026 The curatorial team of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026. From left to right: Maan Abu Taleb, May Makki, Kabelo Malatsie, Lantian Xie (Curators) and Sammy Zarka (Associate Architect and Exhibition Designer). Courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation The
- [Embroidery of Cultures: Amoako Boafo and Glenn DeRoche Reimagine Space at Wooyang Art Museum, South Korea](https://artafricamagazine.org/embroidery-of-cultures-amoako-boafo-and-glenn-deroche-reimagine-space-at-wooyang-art-museum-south-korea/) - For his first solo exhibition in Asia, the Ghanaian artist collaborated with architect Glenn DeRoche on a site-specific pavilion that stitched together portraiture, memory, and craft traditions from Ghana and Korea. Courtesy of Wooyang Art Museum. Photo: Gyu Taek Han In July 2025, the Wooyang Art Museum in Gyeongju opened ‘I Have Been Here Before’,
- [Attuning the Eye: Marina Perez Simão Opens Her First Major Institutional Exhibition in Brazil](https://artafricamagazine.org/attuning-the-eye-marina-perez-simao-opens-her-first-major-institutional-exhibition-in-brazil/) - With immersive design, sensory depth, and a chromatic sweep of new works, ‘Tuning Fork’ transforms Instituto Tomie Ohtake into a site of visual resonance. Marina Perez Simão, Sem título, 2024. Oil on linen, 200 x 246cm. Photo: Guilherme Gomes From August 15 to October 19, 2025, Instituto Tomie Ohtake presents ‘Marina Perez Simão – Tuning
- [Access as Practice: MAM Rio’s Incluir Residency Champions Inclusive Cultural Work](https://artafricamagazine.org/access-as-practice-mam-rios-incluir-residency-champions-inclusive-cultural-work/) - Welcoming two new residents, the museum deepens its commitment to inclusion at the heart of artistic and educational practice. In July 2025, the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) will launch the Incluir residency—a pioneering initiative created exclusively for individuals with physical, mental, intellectual, sensory, or multiple disabilities. The program welcomes
- [Where the Flesh Remembers: ‘Corps et Âmes’ at the Bourse de Commerce](https://artafricamagazine.org/where-the-flesh-remembers-corps-et-ames-at-the-bourse-de-commerce/) - Spanning centuries and sensibilities, this major exhibition delved into the mystery and materiality of the body in art. Courtesy of Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection. From March 20 to August 25, 2025, the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection in Paris staged the ambitious group exhibition ‘Corps et Âmes’ (‘Bodies and Souls’), offering a
- [Dream City 2025: Art as Resistance, Memory, and Celebration in the Heart of Tunis](https://artafricamagazine.org/dream-city-2025-art-as-resistance-memory-and-celebration-in-the-heart-of-tunis/) - From gestures born in everyday life to exhibitions shaped by sonic memory, Dream City returns with its most expansive edition yet. Tarek Abou El Fetouh. Courtesy of L'Art Rue. From October 3 to 19, 2025, the city of Tunis once again became a living stage for Dream City — the multidisciplinary arts festival produced by
- [Reclaiming the Fort: Cheryl Haines on the Impact of ‘Black Gold: Stories Untold’](https://artafricamagazine.org/reclaiming-the-fort-cheryl-haines-on-the-impact-of-black-gold-stories-untold/) - Cheryl Haines, FOR-SITE’s Founding Executive Director and Chief Curator, reflects on how Fort Point has been transformed into a site where contemporary Black narratives and untold histories resonate. Umar Rashid, By Land. By Sea. By Star., 2025. Mixed-media installation. Courtesy of the artist and commissioned by FOR-SITE. On June 6, 2025, FOR-SITE opened ‘Black Gold:
- [A Century Through the Senses: MAM Rio Honoured Gilberto Chateaubriand with Landmark Retrospective](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-century-through-the-senses-mam-rio-honoured-gilberto-chateaubriand-with-landmark-retrospective/) - Celebrating one of Brazil’s most passionate collectors, the exhibition marked the reopening of MAM Rio’s Bloco Expositivo and explored five decades of a singular collecting vision. Installation view of ‘Gilberto Chateaubriand: uma coleção sensorial’ at MAM Rio. Photo: Fabio Souza In August 2025, the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) opened
- [Songs from Life: Odili Donald Odita’s Monumental MoMA Commission](https://artafricamagazine.org/songs-from-life-odili-donald-oditas-monumental-moma-commission/) - Blending rhythm, colour, and cultural memory, the artist reimagined MoMA’s lobby as a democratic space of emotion and encounter. Installation view of 'Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life', on view at The Museum of Modern Art from April 8, 2025 – April 2026. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Digital Image © 2025 The Museum
- [Re:assemblages Symposium 2025: Call for Papers Now Open](https://artafricamagazine.org/reassemblages-symposium-2025-call-for-papers-now-open/) - A global invitation to explore African and Afro-diasporic archives as living, contested, and future-shaping spaces What does it mean to think with African and Afro-diasporic art archives as living, contested, and future-shaping spaces? This is the provocation at the heart of the Re:assemblages Symposium 2025, which has just launched its call for papers and proposals.
- [A New Era Begins: Studio Museum in Harlem to Open 82,000-Square-Foot Home](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-new-era-begins-studio-museum-in-harlem-to-open-82000-square-foot-home/) - Public celebrations kick off on 15 November with free programming and exhibitions Dawoud Bey, A Boy in Front of the Loews 125th Street Movie Theater (from the series "Harlem U.S.A."), 1976. Silver print, 8 1/2 × 5 3/16 in. Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of the artist 1979.1.12 © Dawoud Bey After years of planning, building, and
- [East African Artists: Apply Now for a 12-Week Residency at Delfina Foundation, London](https://artafricamagazine.org/east-african-artists-apply-now-for-a-12-week-residency-at-delfina-foundation-london/) - Eligibility extends across 19 countries—submit by 10 August 2025 The Delfina Foundation, a London-based organisation renowned for its international artist residencies and thought-provoking public programming, has announced its latest open call, inviting visual artists from East Africa to apply for a fully funded 12-week winter residency in London. The residency will take place from January
- [UJ Arts & Culture Opens Applications for 2025–2026 CATHSSETA Internships](https://artafricamagazine.org/uj-arts-culture-opens-applications-for-2025-2026-cathsseta-internships/) - 17 paid internship opportunities now open in copywriting, multimedia, hospitality, and performing arts administration The University of Johannesburg’s Arts & Culture division is now accepting applications for the 2025–2026 cycle of its internship programme, which is funded by the Culture, Arts, Tourism, Hospitality, and Sport Sector Education and Training Authority (CATHSSETA). Designed to support recent
- [Intimate Worlds and Collective Memory at Oliewenhuis Art Museum](https://artafricamagazine.org/intimate-worlds-and-collective-memory-at-oliewenhuis-art-museum/) - Three new exhibitions open during the Vrystaat Arts Festival, exploring storytelling, identity, and transformation Sonya Rademeyer. Courtesy of Oliewenhuis Art Museum. As part of the Vrystaat Arts Festival 2025, Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein presents three distinct exhibitions that foreground the poetic, political, and deeply personal practices of South African artists Bronwen Findlay, Sonya Rademeyer,
- [Museums as Agents of Change: Zeitz MOCAA’s Commitment to Community and Curatorial Ethics](https://artafricamagazine.org/museums-as-agents-of-change-zeitz-mocaas-commitment-to-community-and-curatorial-ethics/) - Bongo Mei explores how Dr Greer Valley’s curatorial vision positions the museum as a catalyst for cultural belonging and critical dialogue. Dr Greer Valley. Senior Curator, Head of Curatorial Affairs, Zeitz MOCAA, 2025. Courtesy of Zeitz MOCAA. In the evolving landscape of African contemporary art, the museum is no longer a passive space of collection
- [Soul Revue: Nathaniel Sheppard III’s Radical Archive of Tender Resistance](https://artafricamagazine.org/soul-revue-nathaniel-sheppard-iiis-radical-archive-of-tender-resistance/) - Adilson De Oliveira unpacks how Sheppard transforms printmaking’s logic into a conceptual language of reclamation, rupture, and quiet defiance. Nathaniel Sheppard III, Salt Water (Detail), 2025. Watercolour on 300gsm Hahnemuhle. Courtesy of the artist and Flood House. ‘Soul Revue’ is not a quiet show. It’s composed, intentional—but its restraint is loaded. Like the uncle at
- [Baring the Self: Daniel Oruwhone’s Poetic Reclamation of the Black Male Nude](https://artafricamagazine.org/baring-the-self-daniel-oruwhones-poetic-reclamation-of-the-black-male-nude/) - Tanlume Enyatseng unpacks how the Lagos-based painter uses the nude as a site of emotional resistance and existential inquiry. Daniel Oruwhone, Untitled (Finding Us), 2024. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist. In the Lagos-based studio of Nigerian painter Daniel Oruwhone, the male body is neither heroic nor hidden. It is not adorned
- [MoAD’s ‘UNBOUND’ Merged Art, Cosmology, and Diasporic Thought](https://artafricamagazine.org/moads-unbound-merged-art-cosmology-and-diasporic-thought-2/) - Timed with its 20th anniversary, the museum’s ambitious group show challenged perceptions of Blackness through metaphysics and science fiction. Mikael Owunna, The Resurrection of Eke-Nnechukwu, 2021. Courtesy of the artist. From October 1, 2025, to August 16, 2026, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco presents ‘UNBOUND: Art, Blackness, and the Universe’,
- [‘Inscriptions’ by Said Dokins Turns Light, Bacteria and Space into Acts of Resistance](https://artafricamagazine.org/inscriptions-by-said-dokins-turns-light-bacteria-and-space-into-acts-of-resistance/) - At Mexico City’s Art Alameda Laboratory, writing becomes a luminous language of presence, memory, and transformation. Opening of Said Dokins ‘Inscriptions’ at the Art Alameda Laboratory. Photo: Leo Luna What happens when writing sheds ink for light, and paper for skin, walls, or petri dishes? In ‘Inscriptions’, on view through October 26, 2025, at Mexico
- [Art Unearths Hidden Histories at Fort Point in ‘Black Gold’](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-unearths-hidden-histories-at-fort-point-in-black-gold/) - New commissions and historical works explore the untold stories of Black Californians during the Gold Rush and Reconstruction eras. Yinka Shonibare, CBE, Man Moving Up, 2022. Courtesy of FOR-SITE. On view through November 2, 2025, ‘Black Gold: Stories Untold’ is the latest site-specific exhibition from FOR-SITE, activating the historic Fort Point in San Francisco with
- [Ezequiel Mabote Reflects on Belonging in ‘Songs of the Self’](https://artafricamagazine.org/ezequiel-mabote-reflects-on-belonging-in-songs-of-the-self/) - The NWU Gallery in Potchefstroom presents an expressive solo show celebrating the self in relation to land, culture, and community. Ezequiel Mabote (1979 - ), Talk to my Soul I, 2024. Woodblock on paper, 79.8 x 74.9cm. Ed: 5 of 10. Courtesy of the artist and NWU Gallery. The North-West University (NWU) Gallery in Potchefstroom
- [‘Routed West’ at BAMPFA Illuminated African American Quilt Traditions and Migration Histories](https://artafricamagazine.org/routed-west-at-bampfa-illuminated-african-american-quilt-traditions-and-migration-histories/) - The landmark exhibition brought together over 100 quilts to trace Black cultural heritage and the westward movement. Sherry Ann Byrd and Irene Bankhead’s 1990 quilt made in Oakland is part of the BAMPFA 'Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California' exhibition. Courtesy of BAMPFA. From June 8 through November 30, 2025, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- [Entangled Legacies: Isaac Julien’s ‘A Marvellous Entanglement’ at MASP, Brazil](https://artafricamagazine.org/entangled-legacies-isaac-juliens-a-marvellous-entanglement-at-masp-brazil/) - Curator Matheus de Andrade on presenting Julien’s landmark installation in Lina Bo Bardi’s museum, and how it reactivates her radical vision for art, space, and society. Installation view of Isaac Julien 'Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement’ at MASP. Courtesy of MASP Now on view at Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Isaac
- [Seeing Beyond the Visible: Hoda Afshar at musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac](https://artafricamagazine.org/seeing-beyond-the-visible-hoda-afshar-at-musee-du-quai-branly-jacques-chirac/) - The acclaimed Iranian-Australian artist’s first solo exhibition in France opens this September Hoda Afshar (b. 1983), Speak the wind, 2015-2020. Inkjet photographic prints. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia. This autumn, the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac presents ‘Hoda Afshar: Performing the Invisible’, the first exhibition in France dedicated to
- [Undoing the Frame: Charlene Komuntale and Sarah Waiswa at Afriart Gallery, Kampala](https://artafricamagazine.org/undoing-the-frame-charlene-komuntale-and-sarah-waiswa-at-afriart-gallery-kampala/) - A layered meditation on womanhood, power, and the politics of visibility Sarah Waiswa, Wild Fires II. Collage, 29.7 x 42cm. Courtesy of the artist and Afriart Gallery. From 26 July to 6 September 2025, Afriart Gallery in Kampala presents ‘Undone’, a joint exhibition by Charlene Komuntale and Sarah Waiswa. Through photography and mixed media, the two artists
- [Voyager: Lisa Reihana’s First Major Australian Exhibition Lands at Ngununggula](https://artafricamagazine.org/voyager-lisa-reihanas-first-major-australian-exhibition-lands-at-ngununggula/) - A bold, multisensory survey of the acclaimed Aotearoa artist’s work opens this September Lisa Reihana, Māramatanga, 2024. Commissioned by the University of Auckland Art Collection. Image courtesy of Lisa Reihana and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney, Australia. This spring, Ngununggula – the Southern Highlands’ first regional art gallery – presents ‘Voyager’, the first major Australian exhibition
- [The Histories: Kerry James Marshall at the Royal Academy of Arts, England](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-histories-kerry-james-marshall-at-the-royal-academy-of-arts-england/) - Europe’s largest survey of the American master opens in London this September Kerry James Marshall, School of Beauty, School of Culture, 2012. Acrylic and glitter on unstretched canvas, 274.3 x 401.3 cm. Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Museum purchase with funds provided by Elizabeth (Bibby) Smith, the Collectors Circle for Contemporary Art,
- [The Architecture of Loss: Toyin Ojih Odutola’s ‘Ilé Oriaku’ at Jack Shainman, New York](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-architecture-of-loss-toyin-ojih-odutolas-ile-oriaku-at-jack-shainman-new-york/) - Through intricate multimedia drawings, the artist explores the limits of language, grief, and ancestral memory. Courtesy of Jack Shainman. At Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, Toyin Ojih Odutola’s latest exhibition ‘Ilé Oriaku’ transforms drawing into a deeply spiritual act. Taking its title from a blend of Yoruba and Igbo—‘Ilé’ meaning ‘house’ or ‘home’, and
- [Istanbul Biennial 2025: City as Canvas in the First Leg of ‘The Three-Legged Cat’](https://artafricamagazine.org/istanbul-biennial-2025-city-as-canvas-in-the-first-leg-of-the-three-legged-cat/) - Christine Tohmé’s itinerant edition invites audiences to discover overlooked architectural gems in the heart of Istanbul. Courtesy of Istanbul Biennial. The 18th edition of the Istanbul Biennial, titled ‘The Three-Legged Cat’, is set to run from 20 September to 23 November 2025. Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) with support from
- [Boston Launches Its First Public Art Triennial](https://artafricamagazine.org/boston-launches-its-first-public-art-triennial/) - A city-wide celebration explores Indigeneity, climate, health, and shared humanity through bold new commissions. Nicholas Galanin, I Think It Goes Like This, 2025. Photo: Faith Ninivaggi On May 22, Boston opened its first-ever city-wide public art triennial with Triennial 2025: The Exchange, transforming 21 public sites across Boston and Cambridge into platforms for dialogue, creativity,
- [Wael Shawky Leads: Art Basel Qatar Debuts with Ambitious Regional Focus](https://artafricamagazine.org/wael-shawky-leads-art-basel-qatar-debuts-with-ambitious-regional-focus/) - New thematic format to spotlight artists and galleries across MENA, South Asia, and beyond. Wael Shawky, Artistic Director, Art Basel Qatar. Courtesy of Art Basel. Art Basel has unveiled its newest venture: a forward-looking fair in Doha that reimagines the traditional art fair format. Set to run from February 5 to 7, 2026, with preview
- [Embroidering Resistance: The Arpilleras of MAB at MASP](https://artafricamagazine.org/embroidering-resistance-the-arpilleras-of-mab-at-masp/) - Brazilian women use textile art to document the impact of dams and fight for socio-environmental justice. Coletivo Nacional de Mulheres do MAB, Tratores famintos, 2014. Photo: Filipe Berndt From April 11 to August 3, 2025, the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) presents ‘Women Affected by Dams: Embroidering Our Rights’, an exhibition of 34
- [Memory, Mourning, and Fabric as Protest at The Africa Center, New York](https://artafricamagazine.org/memory-mourning-and-fabric-as-protest-at-the-africa-center-new-york/) - Sarah Elawad’s When the War is Over creates a space for reflection on Sudan’s conflict through textiles and cultural resilience Installation view of Sarah Elawad's When the War is Over on the windows of The Africa Center, New York. Courtesy of The Africa Center. In June 2025, British Sudanese artist Sarah Elawad transformed the windows
- [Care and Complexity: Motherhood Reimagined at Iziko South African National Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/care-and-complexity-motherhood-reimagined-at-iziko-south-african-national-gallery/) - Spanning generations and media, this landmark exhibition challenges the myths and realities of maternal experience. Bringing together over 70 artists across periods and media, ‘Motherhood: Paradox and Duality’ explores what it means to mother—and be mothered—in a world marked by change, crisis, and contradiction. From tenderness to tenacity, the exhibition charts the full spectrum of
- [Seeing and Being Seen: A Century of Women in Art at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada](https://artafricamagazine.org/seeing-and-being-seen-a-century-of-women-in-art-at-the-art-gallery-of-alberta-canada/) - Featuring works by Aïda Muluneh, Mary Cassatt, Paula Rego and Meryl McMaster, the exhibition reconsiders how women have looked—and been looked at—across more than a century of artmaking Aïda Muluneh, Rules of Engagement, 2016. Art Gallery of Alberta Collection, gift of Viviane Mehr and Jay Mehr. Courtesy of the artist and the Art Gallery of Alberta.
- [The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition 2025 Opens with a Bold Conversation on Art and Society](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-royal-academys-summer-exhibition-2025-opens-with-a-bold-conversation-on-art-and-society/) - El Anatsui, Lubaina Himid, Frank Bowling, and Yinka Shonibare are among the major artists in this expansive showcase of contemporary dialogue and cross-cultural creativity. Gallery view of the Summer Exhibition 2025, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 17 June - 17 August 2025. © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry The Royal
- [Spring Is Rebellious: Albie Sachs and the Art of Liberation](https://artafricamagazine.org/spring-is-rebellious-albie-sachs-and-the-art-of-liberation/) - Zeitz MOCAA traces the intertwined histories of art, justice, and struggle in Southern Africa through the life and legacy of freedom fighter and former judge Albie Sachs. Albie Sachs in front of the Dulcie September mural at Dulcie September Hall in Athlone. Photo: Carolyn Parton At Zeitz MOCAA this season, art and activism converge in
- [Two Visions of Legacy and Light: Betty Kuntiwa Pumani and David Sequeira at Bundanon, Australia](https://artafricamagazine.org/two-visions-of-legacy-and-light-betty-kuntiwa-pumani-and-david-sequeira-at-bundanon-australia/) - Bundanon’s Season 2 program pairs Pumani’s intergenerational reflections on Antara with Sequeira’s meditative explorations of colour, geometry and sound. Betty Kuntiwa Pumani with her major work Antara commissioned for malatja-malatja at Bundanon, 2025. Courtesy the artist and Mimili Maku Arts. Bundanon has launched its Season 2 exhibition program with two major solo presentations from acclaimed
- [Fragments and Futures: Sammy Baloji’s Congo and the Afterlife of Empire](https://artafricamagazine.org/fragments-and-futures-sammy-balojis-congo-and-the-afterlife-of-empire/) - Presented at EMST in Athens, this exhibition essay by Nektarianna K. Saliverou explores Baloji’s robust engagement with memory, colonial legacy, and cultural resilience through photography, sculpture, film, and installation. The crucial individuality of contemporary artistic expression perceives and essentialises the historical condition, its continuities and discontinuities as a significant formulation that collaborates with the indisputable,
- [Views in the Interior of Guiana: Ann Gollifer’s Dialogue Across Time](https://artafricamagazine.org/views-in-the-interior-of-guiana-ann-gollifers-dialogue-across-time/) - In a powerful intervention at the Royal Geographical Society, Ann Gollifer reframes colonial narratives through watercolour, memory, and ancestral reflection. Ann Gollifer, Hosororo Hill, 2016. Topographical watercolour on 300gsm Arches paper. Framed size: 1010 x 720mm. Courtesy of the artist and Guns & Rain Gallery. This summer and until August 31, 2025, paintings and lithographs
- [When East Meets West: ‘Breaking Bread’ at NCAI](https://artafricamagazine.org/when-east-meets-west-breaking-bread-at-ncai/) - NCAI and SCCA Tamale present a cross-continental exhibition exploring kinship, memory, and the political potential of artistic collaboration. Daniel Quarshie, Benediction, 2023. Charcoal on board, 216 x 108 inches. Image courtesy of Gallery 1957 and the artist. From 29 April to 27 July 2025, the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI) and the Savannah Centre for
- [Javett-UP Opens Ambitious New Exhibition ‘One and the Many’](https://artafricamagazine.org/javett-up-opens-ambitious-new-exhibition-one-and-the-many/) - A landmark exhibition at Javett-UP brings contemporary artists into dialogue with historic South African collections, exploring the relationship between the self and the collective. Installation view, Goldendean (b. 1976, South Africa), Soft Vxnxs, 2021. Inflatable sculpture, 250 x 500 x 450 x 250cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photography by Anthea Pokroy. The Javett Art Centre
- [Building a Home for Memory: The AgaMotse Centre and the Future of Botswana’s Visual Archives](https://artafricamagazine.org/building-a-home-for-memory-the-agamotse-centre-and-the-future-of-botswanas-visual-archives/) - In Gaborone’s suburb of Partial, writer Tanlume Enyatseng explores how the AgaMotse Centre is redefining archival practice in Botswana—rooting memory in community, care, and creative reimagination. LEFT: Unidentified woman. Courtesy of the AgaMotse Centre. RIGHT: On the back is the stamp of the photographic studio: KAMERA KRAFT STUDIO Photographers, 9 Jan 154 Phone 27681 Durban
- [Sharjah Architecture Triennial Announces Theme and Curatorial Team for Third Edition](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-architecture-triennial-announces-theme-and-curatorial-team-for-third-edition/) - ‘Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures’ to launch in November 2026 Lunchtime recreation at Horniman Circle Garden, Mumbai. Photo: Rajesh Vora. The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) has announced the curatorial direction and theme for its third edition, which is scheduled to open in November 2026. Titled ‘Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective
- [Silvia Cirelli <br> Curator at Officine dell'Immagine <br> on Maïmouna Guerresi](https://artafricamagazine.org/silvia-cirelli-director-at-officine-dellimmagine-on-maimouna-guerresi/) - Silvia Cirelli / Curator at Officine dell'Immagine on Maïmouna Guerresi ABOUT ART AFRICA spoke to Silvia Cirelli of Officine dell'Immagine at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2018 about the work of featured SOLO artist, Maïmouna Guerresi.
- [HUMANLY POSSIBLE: Rethinking Ecology Through Art and Matter](https://artafricamagazine.org/humanly-possible-rethinking-ecology-through-art-and-matter/) - Ashraf Jamal examines the intricate interplay between precarious, reparative, and biological ecologies through the lens of ‘Imminent and Eminent Ecologies’, the groundbreaking exhibition curated by Leora Farber and Brenton Maart at the FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg Janneke de Lange, Display Collection, 2024. Wood, glass, bacteria, projector, 13 x 24 x 82cm; Projection dimensions variable. Courtesy of
- [Saïdou Dicko’s ‘Tracing Shadows’ Opens at The Photographers’ Gallery, London](https://artafricamagazine.org/saidou-dickos-tracing-shadows-opens-at-the-photographers-gallery-london/) - A poetic meditation on memory, identity and the quiet power of shadow Saïdou Dicko, LOVE OF NATURE, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and The Photographers’ Gallery. The Photographers’ Gallery presents ‘Tracing Shadows’, a new exhibition by self-taught Burkinabè artist Saïdou Dicko. Featuring a series of striking mixed-media works, the exhibition explores themes of memory, visibility,
- [From Bizana to the canvas: Siyabonga Mlambi’s ‘Khanda Art’](https://artafricamagazine.org/from-bizana-to-the-canvas-siyabonga-mlambis-khanda-art/) - At Ellis House Gallery, a rising artist transforms grief, memory and culture into a textured journey of identity and interconnectedness. Courtesy of Ellis House Gallery. In his deeply evocative debut solo exhibition, 'Khanda Art', Siyabonga Mlambi presents an enchanting body of work that pulses with heart, harmony, and heritage. Rooted in the rich cultural soil
- [William Humphreys Art Gallery opens the 2025 Northern Cape Artists Exhibition, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/william-humphreys-art-gallery-opens-the-2025-northern-cape-artists-exhibition-south-africa/) - Annual showcase affirms WHAG’s Youth Month commitment to inclusive representation and emerging talent Macduff Valashiya, Inkwenkwe, 2025. Digital print, 42 x 60cm. Image courtesy of the artist. © Macduff Valashiya Opening in July 2025, the William Humphreys Art Gallery (WHAG) presents the latest edition of its Bi-annual Northern Cape Artists Exhibition—a vibrant showcase celebrating the breadth
- [Sharjah Art Foundation Appoints Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento as Curators of Sharjah Biennial 17](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundation-appoints-angela-harutyunyan-and-paula-nascimento-as-curators-of-sharjah-biennial-17/) - The 17th edition of the Sharjah Biennial will open in January 2027, led by two internationally recognised curators. Angela Harutyunyan (left) and Paula Nascimento. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced that Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento have been appointed as the curators of Sharjah Biennial 17, set to open
- [Guest Artists Space Foundation announces ambitious 2025–26 programme exploring African art archives](https://artafricamagazine.org/guest-artists-space-foundation-announces-ambitious-2025-26-programme-exploring-african-art-archives/) - Launched by Guest Artists Space Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation, the new edition of ‘Re:assemblages’ reimagines archival stewardship through a pan-African network of artists, librarians and cultural practitioners. Courtesy of Yinka Shonibare Foundation Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) have announced the 2025–26 edition of ‘Re:assemblages’, a far-reaching programme that centres
- [Wellcome Collection opens a new exhibition exploring the life-giving and life-threatening power of freshwater](https://artafricamagazine.org/wellcome-collection-opens-a-new-exhibition-exploring-the-life-giving-and-life-threatening-power-of-freshwater/) - ‘Thirst: In Search of Freshwater’ traces our complex relationship with water, from ancient Mesopotamia to modern-day Nepal, revealing how access to this vital resource shapes health, ecosystems, memory and survival. M’hammed Kilito, Before it's gone. Photographic print. © M’hammed Kilito. Courtesy of the artist. 'Thirst: In Search of Freshwater' at Wellcome Collection, 26 June 2025-1
- [POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT: Jeffrey Gibson’s Expansive Celebration of Identity and Indigenous Creative Power at MASS MoCA](https://artafricamagazine.org/power-full-because-were-different-jeffrey-gibsons-expansive-celebration-of-identity-and-indigenous-creative-power-at-mass-moca/) - From November 3, 2024, to August 2026, the monumental Building 5 gallery at MASS MoCA will be transformed into a radiant, immersive space for collective imagination, storytelling, and celebration. Installation view of Jeffrey Gibson: 'POWER FULL BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT'. Made with MASS MoCA. As installed in 'POWER FULL BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT' at MASS MoCA, North
- [Structures: Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation’s 2025 Exhibition Explores the Architecture of the Global South](https://artafricamagazine.org/structures-joburg-contemporary-art-foundations-2025-exhibition-explores-the-architecture-of-the-global-south/) - The Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF) continues its Worldmaking trilogy with an exhibition on how we build, dwell, and remember in a world shaped by histories of displacement, resilience and invention. Following ‘Ecospheres’ (2024), which reflected on the natural world and our entanglement with it, the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF) now turns its attention
- [Children of the Light: JSE Art Share and Of Soul & Joy Spotlight Youth Photography for Economic Inclusion](https://artafricamagazine.org/children-of-the-light-jse-art-share-and-of-soul-joy-spotlight-youth-photography-for-economic-inclusion/) - Curated by Refilwe Nkomo, the new exhibition at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange brings together art, mentorship, and market access to empower a new generation of visual storytellers. © Life Ngubeni In celebration of Youth Month, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and Of Soul & Joy proudly present ‘Children of the Light’, a stirring photographic exhibition
- [Sharjah Architecture Triennial Announces Curators for 2026 Edition](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-architecture-triennial-announces-curators-for-2026-edition/) - Anthropologist and curator Vyjayanthi Rao is appointed curator of SAT03, joined by long-time collaborator Tau Tavengwa as associate curator. Vyjayanthi Rao (photo by Alfonse Chiu) and Tau Tavengwa (photo by Samer Moukarzel) The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) has announced the appointment of anthropologist, writer, artist, and curator Vyjayanthi Rao as curator of its third edition
- [The 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art Announces Its Title](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-13th-berlin-biennale-for-contemporary-art-announces-its-title/) - Titled ‘passing the fugitive on’, the exhibition opens this June across four Berlin venues, presenting more than 170 works by over 60 artists KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2025, Image: Raisa Galofre The 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art has announced its title: passing the fugitive on. Curated by Zasha Colah, the Biennale opens to the public
- [The 36th Bienal de São Paulo Announces Participants](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-36th-bienal-de-sao-paulo-announces-participants/) - Titled ‘Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice’, the exhibition opens in September 2025 with over 120 artists Julianknxx, Still from Shifting Spirit Time, 2025. Shown at Buro Stedelijk, Amsterdam. Courtesy of the artist and Studioknxx. © Studioknxx The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo has announced the list of participants for its
- [to carry: SHARJAH BIENNIAL 16](https://artafricamagazine.org/to-carry-sharjah-biennial-16/) - to carry, the theme of Sharjah Biennale 16 presents a multifaceted and interpretive concept. This edition introduced a departure from past formats, with five curators from diverse national backgrounds curating the expansive exhibition. The curators of Sharjah Biennale 16 with Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo: Brendon & Suzette Bell-Roberts The
- [Charting a Path to Paris: Undare Mtaki and the Rebirth of Tanzanian Identity Through Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/charting-a-path-to-paris-undare-mtaki-and-the-rebirth-of-tanzanian-identity-through-art/) - Undare Mtaki’s textured, soul-infused paintings are redefining Tanzanian identity through ritual, soil, and silence. Writer Anastasia Popova follows his journey from self-built studio to international recognition — and a path that leads, intentionally, to Paris. Undare Mtaki, Fitanda Boy, 2020. Acrylics, sand and fitanda leaves on linen fabric, 180 x 280cm. Courtesy of the artist. In
- [Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku Wins 2025 ellipse prize](https://artafricamagazine.org/emmanuel-aggrey-tieku-wins-2025-ellipse-prize/) - The fifth edition celebrates emerging Ghanaian artists under the theme’ Butterfly Effect’ Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, winner of the ellipse 2025 Prize © Courtesy ellipse art projects - 2025 ellipse prize Multidisciplinary artist Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku has been announced as the winner of the fifth edition of the ellipse prize, dedicated this year to Ghana’s emerging contemporary
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- [Malcolm in the Winter: Theaster Gates at White Cube, Bermondsey. ](https://artafricamagazine.org/malcolm-in-the-winter-theaster-gates-at-white-cube-bermondsey/) - In this exhibition by Theaster Gates, the past and current are addressed and the future is translated. Theaster Gates, '1965: Malcolm in Winter: A Translation Exercise', White Cube Bermondsey, London. 7 February – 6 April 2025. © Theaster Gates. Photo © White Cube (Ollie Hammick) A museum inside of a museum and a life inside
- [Virulent Strain: Zak Ové](https://artafricamagazine.org/virulent-strain-zak-ove/) - Brendon Bell-Roberts catches up with Zak Ové at the Louvre in Adu Dhabi to discuss the early influences on his work, his retrospective exhibition at Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno and some recent projects Zak Ové, detail from the exhibition ‘Virulent Strain’, 2025, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM). Courtesy of Zak Ové and CAAM. As
- [Art Basel Qatar: Charting a New Map for Modern and Contemporary Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-basel-qatar-charting-a-new-map-for-modern-and-contemporary-art/) - A significant new chapter for the region’s cultural future, in partnership with QSI and QC+ Courtesy of Art Basel. In a landmark announcement that underscores the Gulf’s growing stature on the global art map, Art Basel has confirmed the launch of Art Basel Qatar, a new fair set to debut in Doha in February 2026.
- [Marking Time with Ana Bidart: ‘Long Before the Walls’ at Delfina Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/marking-time-with-ana-bidart-long-before-the-walls-at-delfina-foundation/) - Tracing invisible histories through drawing, space and memory Ana Bidart, Long Before the Walls, 2025. Installation view. Photo: Tim Bowditch. Delfina Foundation recently presented the first European solo exhibition by Mexico-based Uruguayan artist Ana Bidart, titled ‘Long Before the Walls’. Staged across the rooms of Delfina’s London house, the show formed a constellation of newly commissioned,
- [Of Soul & Joy brings Photography Workshop to Casablanca’s Dar Al Atfal Sidi Bernoussi Orphanage](https://artafricamagazine.org/of-soul-joy-brings-photography-workshop-to-casablancas-dar-al-atfal-sidi-bernoussi-orphanage/) - Led by Jabulani Dhlamini, the initiative empowers Moroccan youth to explore storytelling through the lens Courtesy of Of Soul & Joy. Of Soul & Joy (OSJ), the Johannesburg-based photography programme dedicated to empowering youth has extended its reach beyond South Africa with a recent workshop in Morocco. The initiative introduced photography to children at Dar
- [Studio Senzeni Marasela and Imba Ya Sarai Gallery Open the Doors to Artistic Process in Johannesburg](https://artafricamagazine.org/studio-senzeni-marasela-and-imba-ya-sarai-gallery-open-the-doors-to-artistic-process-in-johannesburg/) - A collaborative studio-based exhibition offers rare public access to the creative spaces of Ellis House, bridging private practice and public engagement Amohelang Mohajane, Untitled, 2025 . Mixed media, dimensions variable. Installation. Courtesy of the artist. There is a quiet intensity to a working artist’s studio—the scent of oil paint, the scattered sketches, the traces of
- [Where Memory Lives: Glenn DeRoche on Building with Emotion, Ritual and the Spirit of Amoako Boafo’s ‘I Do Not Come to You by Chance’](https://artafricamagazine.org/where-memory-lives-glenn-deroche-on-building-with-emotion-ritual-and-the-spirit-of-amoako-boafos-i-do-not-come-to-you-by-chance/) - From a courtyard in Accra to Gagosian Mayfair in London, Glenn DeRoche and Amoako Boafo reimagine space as memory, blending personal history, ancestral craft, and collective presence into a living, breathing exhibition. DeRoche Projects. Installation view of Amoako Boafo, 'I Do Not Come to You by Chance' at Gagosian Mayfair. Photo: Julien Lanoo. Designer and
- [Lindokuhle Sobekwa wins 2025 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize](https://artafricamagazine.org/lindokuhle-sobekwa-wins-2025-deutsche-borse-photography-foundation-prize/) - Awarded for his poignant photobook, I carry Her photo with Me, Sobekwa transforms personal loss into a powerful meditation on memory, grief and South Africa’s fractured past. Lindokuhle Sobekwa, I carry Her photo with Me, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa has been awarded the 2025 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
- [Rooted Futures: Diriyah Art Futures Showcases Visionary Architecture at Venice Biennale of Architecture](https://artafricamagazine.org/rooted-futures-diriyah-art-futures-showcases-visionary-architecture-at-venice-biennale-of-architecture/) - ‘The Light Footprint’ exhibition explores sustainable design and cultural identity through a new Saudi landmark ‘The Light Footprint’ exhibition in Venice. Photo: Antoine Horenbeek As the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture opens its doors, Diriyah Art Futures (DAF) — the MENA region’s first hub dedicated to New Media Arts — debuts its architectural vision in
- [‘When We See Us’: A Joyful Rewriting of Black Art History at Bozar, Belgium](https://artafricamagazine.org/heres-when-we-see-us-a-joyful-rewriting-of-black-art-history-at-bozar-belgium/) - Bozar in Brussels hosts the landmark exhibition celebrating a century of Black figuration in painting Zandile Tshabalala (b.1999, Soweto, South Africa), Two Reclining Women, 2020. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the Maduna Collection. © Zandile Tshabalala Studio Brussels’ Bozar (Centre for Fine Arts) is hosting ‘When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in
- [Portraits of Power: Basoeki Abdullah’s Legacy in Postcolonial Southeast Asia](https://artafricamagazine.org/portraits-of-power-basoeki-abdullahs-legacy-in-postcolonial-southeast-asia/) - National Gallery Singapore’s ‘Diplomacy and Desire’ reconsiders beauty, nationhood and artistic influence through the lens of the Indonesian master Installation view of 'Diplomacy and Desire: Basoeki Abdullah' in Singapore, National Gallery Singapore, 2025. National Gallery Singapore presents ‘Diplomacy and Desire: Basoeki Abdullah in Singapore’, a focused exhibition exploring the influential painter’s relationship with Singapore and
- [Weaving Collaboration and Culture in Northern Ghana at the Nubuke Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/weaving-collaboration-and-culture-in-northern-ghana-at-the-nubuke-foundation/) - ‘Woori Festival 2025’ returns to Loho with expanded programming and an international exchange of ideas Courtesy of Nubuke Foundation. Nubuke Foundation’s ‘Woori: A Festival of our Weaving Tradition’ returns to Loho in Ghana’s Upper West Region from 6 March to 30 June 2025, marking the festival’s fifth anniversary. Organised by the Nubuke Foundation Centre for
- [The Potter Museum of Art Reopens with Landmark Indigenous Exhibition](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-potter-museum-of-art-reopens-with-landmark-indigenous-exhibition/) - ‘65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art’ brings together over 400 works and six new commissions in a bold act of truth-telling and cultural celebration Billy Benn Perrurle (Alyawarr, 1943–2012), Artetyerre, 2008. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 150 x 300cm. National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri / Canberra. The Potter Museum of Art at the
- [The Watchers: Ali Cherri Reimagines the Museum as a Living Archive](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-watchers-ali-cherri-reimagines-the-museum-as-a-living-archive/) - At Marseille’s [mac], the Lebanese artist stages a poetic confrontation between past and present, myth and memory Ali Cherri, Lucie, 2023. Glass ocular prosthetics, wood, brass, epoxy putty, plaster © Ali Cherri Studio. Private collection. Courtesy of the artist. The [mac] Museum of Contemporary Art in Marseille presents ‘The Watchers’, a significant exhibition by Ali
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- [In Memoriam: Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025)](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-memoriam-koyo-kouoh-1967-2025/) - Honouring a trailblazing curator who redefined contemporary art through critical vision, global influence, and unwavering dedication. TOP: Koyo Kouoh. Photo: Mirjam Kluka BOTTOM: © Mehdi Benkler, BAK, © Antoine Tempé, © Mehdi Benkler, BAK. With profound sorrow, we share news of the passing of Koyo Kouoh, a visionary curator and cultural leader whose impact on contemporary art was
- [Amoako Boafo Returns to His Roots in First London Solo Show at Gagosian](https://artafricamagazine.org/amoako-boafo-returns-to-his-roots-in-first-london-solo-show-at-gagosian/) - ‘I Do Not Come to You by Chance’ transforms Grosvenor Hill with new paintings and a full-scale re-creation of the artist’s childhood courtyard in Ghana. Amoako Boafo, 'I Do Not Come to You by Chance', 2025, installation view. Artwork © Amoako Boafo. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Courtesy of Gagosian. Gagosian Grosvenor Hill is presenting
- [Radical Love and Resilience: María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak at Tate Modern, London](https://artafricamagazine.org/radical-love-and-resilience-maria-magdalena-campos-pons-and-kamaal-malak-at-tate-modern-london/) - A powerful live performance blending music, ritual, and ancestral memory invites reflection and healing on 11 May 2025. © María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak On Sunday, 11 May, Tate Modern will host a compelling live performance by acclaimed interdisciplinary artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons, collaborating with musician, academic, and former Arrested Development member Kamaal Malak.
- [The Matter of Now: Seven Nigerian Artists Reimagine the Present in Freetown, Sierra Leone](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-matter-of-now-seven-nigerian-artists-reimagine-the-present-in-freetown-sierra-leone/) - unx-art’s latest group exhibition brings powerful new voices from Nigeria to Sierra Leone, exploring identity, memory, and cross-cultural dialogue through contemporary art. Olasunkanmi Oyelusi, Sisters Love. Mixed media (Acrylic, oil pastel and charcoal), 100 x 100cm. Courtesy of the artist and unx-art. unx-art, the curatorial and editorial platform dedicated to contemporary African art, is pleased
- [Modern and Contemporary African and Middle Eastern Art: Olympia Auctions’ Largest Sale to Date](https://artafricamagazine.org/modern-and-contemporary-african-and-middle-eastern-art-olympia-auctions-largest-sale-to-date/) - Pioneering Nigerian artists, renowned Egyptian modernists, South African classics and vibrant Botswanan works on paper feature in landmark London auction on 7th May 2025 Lot 6: Henry James (NIGERIAN B.1996), NEW FASHION. Estimate: £700 - £900 Olympia Auctions will showcase paintings, works on paper and sculpture from Arab nations and African countries in their biggest auction yet
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- [Project Loop Launches with ‘F=ma’: A Forceful Debut of Rhythm, Motion and Materiality](https://artafricamagazine.org/project-loop-launches-with-fma-a-forceful-debut-of-rhythm-motion-and-materiality/) - The new gallery opens with a two-person exhibition by Emmanuel Awuni and Fungai Benhura, exploring art as energy, movement and layered emotion. Emmanuel Awuni, Days Spent In The Sun, 2023. Polyurethane, rosewood, glazed clay, oil paint, thread, mixed media fabric, pins, 120 x 166 x 12 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo:
- [I Am Soil, My Tears Are Water: María Magdalena Campos-Pons at Efie Gallery, Dubai](https://artafricamagazine.org/i-am-soil-my-tears-are-water-maria-magdalena-campos-pons-at-efie-gallery-dubai/) - Memory, Spirit, and Resistance to Nature's Language resonate in Campos-Pons' inaugural exhibition at the launch of Efie Gallery's new premises in the vibrant art hub of Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Mar Pacífico del Jardín de Amparo, 2025. Watercolour, ink and gouache on arches archival paper, 228.6 x 113.03 cm. Courtesy of the artist
- [Maria Yolanda Liebana Returned to Kravets Wehby with ‘The Venus Crusades’, New York](https://artafricamagazine.org/maria-yolanda-liebana-returned-to-kravets-wehby-with-the-venus-crusades-new-york/) - An ecstatic, maximalist ode to identity, motherhood, and the mythology of Venus Maria Yolanda Liebana, The Farce of Venus’s Efflorescence (detail), 2024. Acrylic and mixed media collage on wood panel. Courtesy of the artist and Kravets Wehby. Timed to Frieze Week, Kravets Wehby Gallery in New York unveils ‘The Venus Crusades’, a solo exhibition by
- [Turner Prize 2025: A Bold and Diverse Shortlist for Bradford’s Year in the Spotlight](https://artafricamagazine.org/turner-prize-2025-a-bold-and-diverse-shortlist-for-bradfords-year-in-the-spotlight/) - The UK’s most celebrated contemporary art prize heads to Cartwright Hall during Bradford’s City of Culture year LEFT TO RIGHT: Nnena Kalu. Courtesy of the Artist and ActionSpace. Zadie Xa by Charles Duprat. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery. Rene Matić by Diana Pfammatter. Mohammed Sami by Sarel Jansen. Tate has announced the four artists shortlisted for
- [Art Dubai 2025: Centering the Global South in Modern and Contemporary Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-dubai-2025-centering-the-global-south-in-modern-and-contemporary-art/) - Framed by Dubai's unique synthesis of heritage and futurism, Art Dubai's latest edition foregrounds global conversations on transformation, uncertainty, and cultural possibility — anchored by its pioneering talks and conference series. Art Dubai 2025. Credit: Spark Media Art Dubai 2025 brought together over 120 galleries from more than 50 countries, cementing its status as a
- [Digging Deep into Digital: ‘Maknana’ Unearths the Arab World’s New Media Pioneers](https://artafricamagazine.org/digging-deep-into-digital-maknana-unearths-the-arab-worlds-new-media-pioneers/) - Diriyah Art Futures spotlights decades of innovation with its bold new exhibition in Riyadh Muhannad Shono, On Losing Meaning V04, 2024. 'Maknana' Exhibition 2025. Courtesy of Diriyah Art Futures At the heart of Saudi Arabia’s UNESCO World Heritage site of Diriyah, a new kind of archaeology is taking place—not with shovels, but with screens, sound,
- [American Sublime: Amy Sherald Makes Landmark Debut at the Whitney, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/american-sublime-amy-sherald-makes-landmark-debut-at-the-whitney-united-states/) - The celebrated portraitist’s first New York museum solo show brought nearly fifty works to the Whitney, capturing the depth and dignity of Black American life Amy Sherald, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, 2018. Oil on linen, 183.1 x 152.7 x 7cm). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the following lead
- [Tsedaye Makonnen’s ‘Sanctuary’ at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/tsedaye-makonnens-sanctuary-at-the-smithsonians-national-museum-of-african-art-united-states/) - A powerful exhibition honoured Black lives and explored sisterhood, resilience, and spiritual legacy through light-filled sculpture. Photo by Brad Simpson, 2024. National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. The National Museum of African Art opened ‘Tsedaye Makonnen — Sanctuary’ on December 13, 2024, presenting a deeply moving and visually striking exhibition by Washington, D.C.-based Ethiopian
- [1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Returns to New York with 30+ Global Exhibitors](https://artafricamagazine.org/1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair-returns-to-new-york-with-30-global-exhibitors/) - New venue, new voices, and a dynamic Caribbean spotlight at the 2025 edition Ayogu Kingsley, Pink Anlogwu, 2024. Oil and nets on canvas, 98 x 152cm. Courtesy of The African Art Hub. 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is pleased to announce details for its upcoming New York edition, taking place for the first time at Halo, 28
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- [The Spiritual World of Haiti: Myrlande Constant’s Luminous Legacy at Fort Gansevoort, New York](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-spiritual-world-of-haiti-myrlande-constants-luminous-legacy-at-fort-gansevoort-new-york/) - In her final week on view in New York, Myrlande Constant’s intricate drapo Vodou works illuminate the intersections of spirituality, resilience, and fine art. Myrlande Constant, Ceromine Bois Caiman, Date unknown. Beads and sequins on fabric, 52 x 82 in. Courtesy of the artist and Fort Gansevoort. This is the last week to experience ‘The Spiritual World
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- [Weaving Heritage and Innovation: ‘The Soul of a Rug’ Exhibition at Bahia Palace](https://artafricamagazine.org/weaving-heritage-and-innovation-the-soul-of-a-rug-exhibition-at-bahia-palace/) - Experience the artistry of Taznakht’s weavers through immersive VR and a unique blend of tradition and contemporary design. Courtesy of the artist. Dutch-Moroccan textile designer Mina Abouzahra brings the artistry of Taznakht’s weavers to the heart of Marrakech with her latest exhibition, 'The Soul of a Rug'. In partnership with the Conservation of the Palais
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- [Sharjah Art Foundation announces the dates for March Meeting 2025 and more details on Sharjah Biennial 16 events and programmes](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundation-announces-the-dates-for-march-meeting-2025-and-more-details-on-sharjah-biennial-16-events-and-programmes/) - Sharjah Biennial 16 Opens in February 2025 with Over 140 Artists, followed by March Meeting and the Inaugural April Acts Programme Courtesy of the Sharjah Art Foundation. From 6 to 9 February 2025, Sharjah Art Foundation will launch the 16th edition of Sharjah Biennial, curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala and
- [What the Water Left Behind: Agnes Waruguru's Immersive New Exhibition at Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya](https://artafricamagazine.org/what-the-water-left-behind-agnes-warugurus-immersive-new-exhibition-at-circle-art-gallery-nairobi-kenya/) - Exploring memory, spirituality, and human connection with the earth through multi-media works spanning textiles, glass, ceramics, and installation. Agnes Waruguru, Marmalade Skies (Pelagia), 2024. Natural pigment, acrylic paint, acrylic ink on watercolour paper, 150.2 x 180.7cm. Courtesy of the artist and Circle Art Gallery. Waruguru's second solo presentation at Circle brings together a series of works
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- [Koyo Kouoh Appointed Director of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia](https://artafricamagazine.org/koyo-kouoh-appointed-director-of-the-61st-international-art-exhibition-of-la-biennale-di-venezia/) - Renowned Curator and Zeitz MOCAA Executive Director to Lead the Visual Arts Sector of La Biennale di Venezia in 2026 Koyo Kouoh. Photographer: Mirjam Kluka The Board of La Biennale di Venezia met on Tuesday, November 5th and, upon the recommendation of President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, appointed Koyo Kouoh as Director of the Visual Arts Department, with the specific task of curating the 61st International Art Exhibition to
- [Videobrasil Meets Moscow: Four Decades of Global South Video and Performance](https://artafricamagazine.org/videobrasil-meets-moscow-four-decades-of-global-south-video-and-performance/) - A groundbreaking exhibition at GES-2 House of Culture uniting Videobrasil’s archive with Russian video art, exploring the evolution of identity, culture, and performance across continents. Bakary Diallo, Volume (still), 2012. Videobrasil Collection. Courtesy of Videobrasil. The upcoming exhibition ‘Videobrasil. Needs No Translation: Four Decades of Video and Performance’ will debut at the GES-2 House of
- [Wake Up the Senses: Hassan Hajjaj’s ‘Fiq!’ Celebrates Moroccan Acrobatics](https://artafricamagazine.org/wake-up-the-senses-hassan-hajjajs-fiq-celebrates-moroccan-acrobatics/) - A vibrant fusion of photography, pop art, and movement at L’Atelier 21, showcasing the dynamic collaboration between Hassan Hajjaj and the Acrobatic Group of Tangier. Hassan Hajjaj, Manon Rouillard, 2019. Lambda Metal Print, Wooden Frame and Luncheon Preserves, ed.1/5, 94.5 x 130 x 6.3cm. Courtesy of the artist and L'Atelier 21. L'Atelier 21 is pleased
- [Fourteen First Nations Ancestors returned home from California, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/fourteen-first-nations-ancestors-returned-home-from-california-united-states/) - On Thursday, November 7, the Fowler Museum hosted a ceremony for the return of 14 Indigenous Australian ancestral remains from the Fowler Museum, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Oakland Museum of California. Major Sumner (Uncle Moogy), Ngarrindjeri Elder and Community Representative, performing a smoking ceremony. Courtesy
- [The Time is Always Now: The Philadelphia Museum of Art Reframes Black Identity](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-time-is-always-now-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art-reframes-black-identity/) - A Bold Celebration of Black Figuration and History Featuring 26 Visionary Artists Installation view of 'The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure'. Godfried Donkor, St Bill Richmond, the black terror, 2019, Oil, acrylic and gold leaf on linen, 185 x 185 cm. Courtesy of The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photography by Sarah Croop The
- [Proper Love: Amoako Boafo at Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria](https://artafricamagazine.org/proper-love-amoako-boafo-at-belvedere-museum-vienna-austria/) - The Belvedere is staging Europe’s first museum exhibition on the art of Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo, 'Proper Love'. As one of the most important voices from a new generation of Black artists, Boafo portrays his friends, acquaintances, and people from public life, presenting a contemporary image of Black self-empowerment and self-perception. Installation view of 'Proper Love'. Courtesy
- [born on the earth.: Muzae Sesay at Tiwani Contemporary, London, England](https://artafricamagazine.org/born-on-the-earth-muzae-sesay-at-tiwani-contemporary-london-england/) - Tiwani Contemporary presents the debut solo exhibition by Muzae Sesay, 'born on the earth.' Muzae Sesay, Building Nowhere, 2024, Oil and oil pastel on canvas, 230 x 160 x 5cm. Courtesy of the artist, pt.2 gallery, Oakland and Tiwani Contemporary. Photographer: Deniz Güzel 'born on the earth.' is an ongoing, psycho-geographic assessment of the Earth we
- [Quilombo: Weaving Freedom and Consciousness at Centre d'art Waza, Congo](https://artafricamagazine.org/quilombo-weaving-freedom-and-consciousness-at-centre-dart-waza-congo/) - Exploring Art as a Space for Transformation and Solidarity Across Brazil, Switzerland, and the Congo 'Quilombo, fabric of consciousness' is a project that explores the dynamics of cultural and societal awakening through the work of artists from Brazil, Switzerland and the Congo. Inspired by the historical concept of quilombos – autonomous communities founded by escaped slaves
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- [Met exhibition to explore how black artists have engaged with Ancient Egypt over the last 150 years](https://artafricamagazine.org/met-exhibition-to-explore-how-black-artists-have-engaged-with-ancient-egypt-over-the-last-150-years/) - 'Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now' presents nearly 200 works of art that demonstrate the many ways in which ancient Egypt has been a source of inspiration and identity for Black artists and other cultural figures Fred Wilson (American, born 1954), Grey Area (Brown Version), 1993. Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of William K. Jacobs,
- [(R)Silence: Alun Be at LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery, Côte d’Ivoire](https://artafricamagazine.org/rsilence-alun-be-at-louisimone-guirandou-gallery-cote-divoire/) - LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery is pleased to announce Alun Be's first solo exhibition in Côte d’Ivoire, entitled, '(Re)Silence' Alun Be, Life line, 2023. Archival pigments on FineArt paper, 120 x 80cm. Courtesy of the artist and LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery. Alun Be is first and foremost an architect. Born in Dakar (Senegal) in 1981, to a Senegalese father
- [Wayfinder: Sahej Rahal at the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, Kenya](https://artafricamagazine.org/wayfinder-sahej-rahal-at-the-nairobi-contmeporary-art-institute-kenya/) - The Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI) presents 'Wayfinder', a solo exhibition by Mumbai-based artist Sahej Rahal. This exhibition is Rahal's first presentation in Kenya and East Africa, and it opens on 21st November 2024. Sahej Rahal, DMT: Distributed Mind Test (DMT), 2023. Multiplayer video game. Wayfinder welcomes viewers into Rahal’s world, where myth, narrative, imagination, and technology intertwine to challenge conventional understandings of reality
- [Henry ‘Mzili’ Mujunga: 25 Years of Indigenous Expressionism](https://artafricamagazine.org/henry-mzili-mujunga-25-years-of-indigenous-expressionism/) - A Pan-African Retrospective Exploring Identity, Heritage, and Artistic Experimentation at Afriart Gallery Henry 'Mzili' Mujunga, Salvator Mundi, 2024. Oil on Canvas. Courtesy of Afriart Gallery. Afriart Gallery is thrilled to present a landmark exhibition celebrating Henry 'Mzili' Mujunga’s extensive body of work, which spans an impressive 25 years of artistic practice. This exhibition features never-before-seen new
- [Lionel Smit unveils 'MORPHOUS' in Union Square, New York](https://artafricamagazine.org/lionel-smit-unveils-morphous-in-union-square-new-york/) - MORPHOUS, a double-headed bronze sculpture by South African artist Lionel Smit, will be installed in Union Square, New York from June 13, 2016 through April 30, 2017. Brought together in collaboration with Cynthia Reeves, NYC Parks, the Union Square Partnership, and Art Miami / Art New York, this will be the artist’s first public art
- [Reclaiming Royalty: Rita Mawuena Benissan's 'One Must Be Seated' at Zeitz MOCAA](https://artafricamagazine.org/reclaiming-royalty-rita-mawuena-benissans-one-must-be-seated-at-zeitz-mocaa/) - Step into the Splendour of Ghanaian Heritage as Benissan's Installations Celebrate Chieftaincy, Tradition, and the Power of Ancestral Connection Detail of installation. Image courtesy of Brendon Bell-Roberts. Last night, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa unveiled Ghanaian-American interdisciplinary artist Rita Mawuena Benissan's first solo museum exhibition, 'One Must Be Seated', a captivating display spanning
- [An immersive collage of sound and colour, Sonia Boyce's 'Feeling Her Way' opens in Toronto this fall](https://artafricamagazine.org/an-immersive-collage-of-sound-and-colour-sonia-boyces-feeling-her-way-opens-in-toronto-this-fall/) - A vibrant installation centred on the vocal performances of four Black female musicians, 'Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way' opens on Sept. 19, 2024, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in partnership with the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Sonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way, 2022. Commissioned by the British Council for the British Pavilion for the 59th International Art
- [Film Lab Africa Shines at FilmAfrica 2024: A Catalyst for African Cinema's Global Rise](https://artafricamagazine.org/film-lab-africa-shines-at-filmafrica-2024-a-catalyst-for-african-cinemas-global-rise/) - FilmAfrica’s 2024 Festival Highlights the Transformative Impact of Film Lab Africa’s Programmes in African Filmmaking and Creative Economy FLA24 Moderator & Panelists, Peter Macjob, Julian Alcantara, Collette Otusheso, Olasunkanmi Adebayo, Don Omope. Courtesy of African Pictures International. Film Lab Africa took center stage at this year’s FilmAfrica festival with a groundbreaking panel, “Unleashing the Potential of the
- [Ithokoo Masuiluni: Kaloki Nyamai’s Immersive Journey through Kenya’s Past and Future at Norval Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/ithokoo-masuiluni-kaloki-nyamais-immersive-journey-through-kenyas-past-and-future-at-norval-foundation/) - The Norval Foundation announces the opening of an exhibition featuring the works of Kenyan painter, Kaloki Nyamai. Titled 'Ithokoo masuiluni', this exhibition takes inspiration from quotidian life in Nairobi, the capital city where the artist was raised and is now based. 'Kaloki Nyamai: Ithokoo masuilini', 2024. Courtesy of the Norval Foundation. Kaloki Nyamai (b. 1985,
- [Sharjah Art Foundation announces the programme of screenings and talks for its annual independent film festival](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundation-announces-the-programme-of-screenings-and-talks-for-its-annual-independent-film-festival/) - Running from the 15th to the 24th of November 2024, the seventh edition of Sharjah Film Platform brings together nearly 30 international films, all UAE premieres Screening of Goodbye Julia, 2023. Director: Mohamed Kordofani. Sharjah Film Platform 6, Mirage City Cinema, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah, 2023. Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo: Shanavas Jamaluddin Sharjah Art
- [Heritage in Motion: Palais de Lomé Launches Africa’s First Architecture Encounters to Reimagine Conservation and Transformation](https://artafricamagazine.org/heritage-in-motion-palais-de-lome-launches-africas-first-architecture-encounters-to-reimagine-conservation-and-transformation/) - Exploring Togo’s Architectural Heritage and Future Through Talks, Exhibitions, and City Tours Led by African Visionaries Courtesy of Palais de Lomé. Palais de Lomé announces its first Architecture Encounters (Les Rencontres Architecturales de Lomé) curated by Studio NEiDA. This inaugural edition will feature two days of talks and events, alongside an exhibition presenting Togo’s most iconic architecture
- [Sammy Baloji at Goldsmiths CCA: Uncovering Congo’s Colonial Past and its Global Ecological Legacy](https://artafricamagazine.org/sammy-baloji-at-goldsmiths-cca-uncovering-congos-colonial-past-and-its-global-ecological-legacy/) - Through new commissions and recent works, Baloji examines the environmental, cultural, and political scars of colonial extraction and the hidden ties between Belgian Art Nouveau and Congo's resources. Sammy Baloji, Aequare. The Future that Never Was, 2023. Still. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Imane Farès. Goldsmiths CCA presents a solo exhibition by Sammy Baloji.
- [How to Hold a Moonbeam; How Do You Hold Memory?: IyunOla Sanyaolu at Rele Lagos, Nigeria](https://artafricamagazine.org/how-to-hold-a-moonbeam-how-do-you-hold-memory-iyunola-sanyaolu-at-rele-lagos-nigeria/) - Rele Lagos presents 'How to Hold a Moonbeam; How Do You Hold Memory?' the second solo exhibition by IyunOla Sanyaolu. IyunOla Sanyaolu, 21st Sept 2022. (detail) Oil, charcoal, and acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 Inches. Courtesy of the artist and Rele Lagos. Sanyaolu’s practice is primarily informed by an exploration of texture and sculptural possibilities. As
- [North Star: Kambui Olujimi at San José Museum of Art, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/north-star-kambui-olujimi-at-san-jose-museum-of-art-united-states/) - San José Museum of Art (SJMA) presents 'Kambui Olujimi: North Star', an immersive exhibition that invites us to imagine a different way of being in the universe. Kambui Olujimi, When You Find Me, 2021. Watercolour, ink, and graphite on paper, 51 x 77 inches. Courtesy of the artist. 'North Star' is Olujimi’s first solo museum exhibition on the West Coast
- [Narrative Wisdom: Exploring the Power of African Storytelling Through Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum](https://artafricamagazine.org/narrative-wisdom-exploring-the-power-of-african-storytelling-through-art-at-the-saint-louis-art-museum/) - An exhibition of 150+ works tracing African heritage, resilience, and identity from the 13th century to today Cheri Samba, Congolese, born 1956; Hommage aux anciens createurs, 1994. Acrylic and glitter on canvas, 31 1/2 x 39 3/8inches. Collection of B. de Grunne, Brussels 2024. © Cheri Samba The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) presents 'Narrative
- [Reimagining Public Space: Kinfolk's AR Monuments project presents Wangechi Mutu](https://artafricamagazine.org/reimagining-public-space-kinfolks-ar-monuments-project-presents-wangetchi-mutu/) - Idris Brewster on Kinfolk’s AR Monuments, the Power of Digital Storytelling and the Vision Behind Bibi Bahari. He also touches on Wangechi Mutu's impact on Augmented Reality and the celebration of Black and Brown Narratives. Wangechi Mutu, NOLA. Courtesy of Kinfolk. Kinfolk's latest groundbreaking collaboration with celebrated artist Wangechi Mutu brings the augmented reality (AR)
- [Imba Yerumbidzo: Portia Zvavahera at Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France](https://artafricamagazine.org/imba-yerumbidzo-portia-zvavahera-at-foundation-louis-vuitton-paris/) - In her debut solo exhibition in France, Zvavahera unveils an expansive 17-meter canvas that transforms Open Space #15 into a realm of ethereal visions. Inspired by prophetic dreams, her work merges Christian and indigenous Zimbabwean iconography, capturing the fluid boundaries between the material and spiritual worlds, love and solitude. Portia Zvavahera, Imba Yerumbidzo (Maison de
- [Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam](https://artafricamagazine.org/unravel-the-power-and-politics-of-textiles-in-art-at-the-stedelijk-museum-amsterdam/) - In 'Unravel', artists from around the world present extraordinary artworks, from large-scale, colourful and expressive installations, to delicate and intimate pieces about love, resilience, power, and resistance. The group show features over a hundred works by 45 artists, including such famous names as Louise Bourgeois, Sheila Hicks, and Tracey Emin, but also younger artists. Installation view 'Unravel
- [Jewel of Africa: Global Icon Dr Esther Mahlangu shines Bright in London](https://artafricamagazine.org/jewel-of-africa-global-icon-dr-esther-mahlangu-shines-bright-in-london/) - Over the years, the media has narrowly described Dr Esther Mahlangu—affectionately known as Mam Esther—as a Ndebele artist, an African artist, and a cultural icon. However, from painting Iman Bowie’s nude body and a BMW art car in the early 1990s to tackling mediums that include motorbikes, bicycles, skateboards, canvas, mannequins, AI—and the latest colour
- [ART X Lagos 2024: West Africa's Premier Art Fair Explores ‘Promised Lands’ Through a Bold Celebration of African and Diasporic Creativity](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-x-lagos-2024-west-africas-premier-art-fair-explores-promised-lands-through-a-bold-celebration-of-african-and-diasporic-creativity/) - Returning for its ninth edition, ART X Lagos presents a transformative showcase of African art, culture, and visionary dialogues, exploring aspirations and possibilities within the theme ‘Promised Lands.’ Fred Ebami, Kaper Jesse Legacy, 2024. Presented by Galerie Mam. ART X Lagos, West Africa’s leading international art fair, returns for its highly anticipated ninth edition from
- [Power of 'Kuma': Igo Diarra on Bamako Encounters and the Dialogue Between Word and Image in African Photography](https://artafricamagazine.org/power-of-kuma-igo-diarra-on-bamako-encounters-and-the-dialogue-between-word-and-image-in-african-photography/) - Igo Diarra, Artistic Director of Bamako Encounters, discusses the interplay between Visual Narratives and Oral Traditions, the impact of AI on photography and the Biennale's visual legacy. La traversée, Les re-enchanteresses. © Arnold Tagne Fokam Bamako Encounters, the prestigious Biennale of African photography, returns this year under the thematic focus of “Kuma,” meaning “the word.”
- [Diriyah Art Futures: Groundbreaking Saudi New Media Arts institute invites established artists and scholars to apply for three-month residency](https://artafricamagazine.org/diriyah-art-futures-groundbreaking-saudi-new-media-arts-institute-invites-established-artists-and-scholars-to-apply-for-three-month-residency/) - Located in Diriyah, Diriyah Art Futures (DAF) pioneers the MENA region’s first New Media Arts hub, featuring the Mazra’ah Media Art Residency, a three-month program offering access to world-class facilities from February to April 2025, with works showcased through exhibitions and scholarly publications. Courtesy Schiattarella Associati. Photographer: Hassan Ali Al-Shatti Diriyah Art Futures (DAF), the
- [Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2025 Shortlist: Four Visionary Artists Illuminate Stories of Migration, Memory, and Identity](https://artafricamagazine.org/deutsche-borse-photography-prize-2025-shortlist-four-visionary-artists-illuminate-stories-of-migration-memory-and-identity/) - The four international artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025 are revealed as Cristina De Middel, Rahim Fortune, Tarrah Krajnak and Lindokuhle Sobekwa. TOP ROW: Cristina De Middel “Inocente Pobre Amigo” from the series "Journey to the Center" 2021 © Cristina De Middel / Magnum Photos. Rahim Fortune "Praying Cowboy", Gladewater Texas,
- [Exploring Africa’s Legacy and Modern Influence: 'THE TRUE SIZE OF AFRICA' at the Historic Blower Hall in Saarlouis, Germany](https://artafricamagazine.org/exploring-africas-legacy-and-modern-influence-the-true-size-of-africa-at-the-historic-blower-hall-in-saarlouis-germany/) - “Here rests in God my dear n***, Chim Bebe, deceased 1912 at the age of 26 years.” This epitaph on the gravestone of a man born in the West African colony of Togo at the old cemetery in Saarlouis illustrates just how close Africa is to Germany, also here in Saarland. Carrie Mae Weems, The
- [A Narrative Unfolds: Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum's 'It Will End in Tears' at Barbican](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-narrative-unfolds-pamela-phatsimo-sunstrums-it-will-end-in-tears-at-barbican/) - Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s 'It Will End in Tears' weaves a narrative of identity, homecoming, and resistance, blending personal history with cinematic elements and minimalist set designs, as explored in this feature by Vamika Sinha. 'Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It Will End in Tears' installation view at Barbican Art Gallery. 19 September 2024 - 5 January 2025.
- [36th Bienal de São Paulo Unveils Title, Curatorial Concept, Global Initiatives, and Visual Identity](https://artafricamagazine.org/36th-bienal-de-sao-paulo-unveils-title-curatorial-concept-global-initiatives-and-visual-identity/) - With Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung as chief curator, the 36th Bienal de São Paulo announces its title, curatorial concept, partners and visual identity, as well as an important change in its exhibition period Conceptual team for the 36th São Paulo Biennial, from left to right: Keyna Eleison, Alya Sebti, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Henriette Gallus,
- [Beyond the Wall: Esther Mahlangu and Ndebele Culture between Tradition and Contemporaneity](https://artafricamagazine.org/beyond-the-wall-esther-mahlangu-and-ndebele-culture-between-tradition-and-contemporaneity/) - Black Liquid Art will inaugurate its new venue in Rome with an exhibition dedicated to Esther Mahlangu, one of the most iconic representatives of contemporary African art. This event provides an opportunity to engage with the work of one of the most powerful voices in South African art, blending Ndebele tradition with modernity and taking
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- [The Norm Queer Agency and AKAA Present 'Queer Black & Loved': Celebrating African LGBTQ+ Culture Through Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-norm-queer-agency-and-akaa-present-queer-black-loved-celebrating-african-lgbtq-culture-through-art/) - An exclusive exhibition at AKAA 2024, featuring a powerful collaboration with photographer Leslie Kee and actor Billy Porter, celebrating queer African identities and self-love. Photographs by Leslie Kee featuring Billy Porter. The Norm Queer Agency has been commissioned by AKAA (Also Known As Africa), France's premier contemporary art fair focused on African art, for its
- [Sharjah Art Foundation Talks and Film Screenings at Asia Now Paris Asian Art Fair](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundation-talks-and-film-screenings-at-asia-now-paris-asian-art-fair/) - Attend talks and screenings, featuring Sharjah Art Foundation speakers and collection films, at Asia Now Paris Asian Art Fair CAMP, From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf (Still), 2009-2013. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundartion. Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Image courtesy of the artist. From 17 to 20 October, Sharjah Art Foundation speakers are part of the Asia Now Paris Asian Art Fair programme of talks alongside screenings of three Sharjah Art Foundation Collection films as part of Prameya Art Foundation’s curated film programme, Poetics of
- [Sounding Pictures: The Centre for the Less Good Idea explores the Medium of Silent Films](https://artafricamagazine.org/sounding-pictures-the-centre-for-the-less-good-idea-explores-the-medium-of-silent-films/) - From 31 October to 2 November 2024, The Centre for the Less Good Idea hosts Sounding Pictures: Live Scores to Short Silent Films, the second iteration of its COLLATIONS project – a short, focused series of performance-based events around a central theme, method or point of interest – which focuses on the medium of Silent Films. Photographer: Zivanai Matangi “We are immersed in visual culture. Films and moving images have become such
- [R+V New York presents a new show by Cesar Santos, 'Manuscripts'](https://artafricamagazine.org/rv-new-york-presents-a-new-show-by-cesar-santos-manuscripts/) - Following a sell-out show in Milan in 2023, Robilant+Voena is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Cuban-American artist Cesar Santos. Cesar Santos, Unconstrained, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States since moving beyond figuration in 2022, and will present his unique and intuitive aesthetic approach to
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- [A Timeless Dialogue: Global Artists Converge for Forever Is Now.04](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-timeless-dialogue-global-artists-converge-for-forever-is-now-04/) - Global Artists Unite for the Fourth Edition of Forever Is Now – A Fusion of Tradition and Innovation Photographer: Hesham El Saif The fourth edition of Forever Is Now, Egypt’s landmark art exhibition, returns under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and under the
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- [A Nation in Flux: Barbican Examines Art from India’s Critical 1975-1998 Era](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-nation-in-flux-barbican-examines-art-from-indias-critical-1975-1998-era/) - From 5 October 2024, the Barbican presents 'The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998', the world’s first exhibition to explore and chart this period of significant cultural and political change in India. Nalini Malani, Remembering Toba Tek Singh, 1998. Installation view, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, 1998 © Nalini Malani. Featuring nearly 150 works of art across painting, sculpture, photography, installation and film, this landmark
- [Nature Morte: Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga at October Gallery, United Kingdom](https://artafricamagazine.org/nature-morte-eddy-kamuanga-ilunga-at-october-gallery-united-kingdom/) - October Gallery presents 'Nature Morte', a new solo exhibition by Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, one of the most exciting contemporary artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, Energie Red, (Red Energy), 2024. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 188 x 203cm. © Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga. Courtesy the artist and October Gallery, London. In Kamuanga’s fourth solo
- [Lahore Biennale LB03: A Convergence of Art, Ecology, and Global Collaboration](https://artafricamagazine.org/lahore-biennale-lb03-a-convergence-of-art-ecology-and-global-collaboration/) - The Lahore Biennale Foundation (LBF) announces Of Mountains and Seas, the third edition of the Biennale, curated by John Tain. LB03 builds on the success of the inaugural Lahore Biennale in March 2018 and the second edition in early 2020, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, by showcasing groundbreaking contemporary art from around the world centred
- [emajendat: Lauren Halsey at Serpentine South, United Kingdom](https://artafricamagazine.org/emajendat-lauren-halsey-at-serpentine-south-united-kingdom/) - Serpentine presents the first-ever UK exhibition of the LA-based artist who will transform the gallery into an immersive funk garden with a site-specific installation responding to Kensington Gardens. Lauren Halsey, land of the sunshine wherever we go II (detail), 2021, white cement, wood, and mixed media, 209.6 x 200.7 x 195.6cm. Courtesy Lauren Halsey. Serpentine
- [Reviving History Through the Lens: Nyaba Léon Ouedraogo and the Forgotten Théâtre Populaire](https://artafricamagazine.org/reviving-history-through-the-lens-nyaba-leon-ouedraogo-and-the-forgotten-theatre-populaire/) - From a Cultural Landmark to an Abandoned Ruin, Photographer Nyaba Léon Ouedraogo Brings Burkina Faso's Théâtre Populaire Back into Focus Nyaba Léon Ouedraogo, THÉÂTRE POPULAIRE 8, 2019. Print on Hahnemühle William Turner paper, 50 x 50 cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP. Courtesy of the artist and Christophe Person Gallery. On 29 July 1986,
- [Walking on a Dream: UJUZI Mentorship Program Exhibition at Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, Kenya](https://artafricamagazine.org/walking-on-a-dream-ujuzi-mentorship-program-exhibition-at-nairobi-contemporary-art-institute-kenya/) - A Showcase of Evolving Creative Processes by Elias Mung'ora, Jared Onyango, and Sandra Wauye Sandra Wauye, Collectively Composting, 2024. Oil and chalk on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Sandra Wauye. UJUZI Mentorship, a collaboration between Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI), and Untethered Magic, is proud to announce an exhibition showcasing the evolving artistic journeys
- [Traces in The Still Air: A new installation by Lerato Motaung, Johannesburg, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/traces-in-the-still-air-a-new-installation-by-lerato-motaung-johannesburg-south-africa/) - 'Traces In The Still Air' delves into the themes of memory and grief, revealing how they shape our identities. At the heart of the exhibition is an installation featuring 33 swings – each representing a year of Lerato’s life. Suspended from the roof, these swings serve as a symbols of life's journey and the intertwined
- [Unearthing Creativity: The Hazendal Festival Celebrates Art, Culture, and the Spirit of Soil](https://artafricamagazine.org/unearthing-creativity-the-hazendal-festival-celebrates-art-culture-and-the-spirit-of-soil/) - Exploring the Rich Tapestry of Land, Heritage, and Art Through Multidisciplinary Performances, Exhibitions, and Culinary Delights Courtesy of Hazendal Wine Estate An exciting addition to the art scene is the inaugural Hazendal Festival in Stellenbosch this weekend. This curated art festival is dedicated to the life-fostering organic material – soil. The comprehensive programme includes a
- [Rabbit hole runs deep: A Solo exhibition by 2024 Cassirer Welz Award recipient, Tawanda Takura](https://artafricamagazine.org/rabbit-hole-runs-deep-a-solo-exhibition-by-2024-cassirer-welz-award-recipient-tawanda-takura/) - Bag Factory presents 'Rabbit hole runs deep', a solo exhibition by Tawanda Takura, comprising mixed-media, found object sculpture and painting. In his first solo presentation in South Africa, this year’s Cassirer Welz Award winner, explores the complex co-existence of dualities like freedom and dependence; novelty and recurrence; destiny and accountability; disillusionment and hope; the self
- [Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual photography exhibition Vantage Point Sharjah returns for its 12th edition](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundations-annual-photography-exhibition-vantage-point-sharjah-returns-for-its-12th-edition/) - Work by four emerging photographers presented with production support from the Foundation Mosfiqur Rohan, Memories of Underdevelopment, 2017–2023. Image courtesy of the artist. Vantage Point Sharjah (VPS) is an annual exhibition that spotlights emerging photographers from the region and beyond. Opening this month, the 12th edition derives its title, If I Were Another, from a
- [Antonio Dias’ first solo exhibition in the UAE opens at Sharjah Art Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/antonio-dias-first-solo-exhibition-in-the-uae-opens-at-sharjah-art-foundation/) - 'The Search for an Open Enigma' presents dynamic works that follow the Brazilian artist’s trajectory from the 1960s until the late 1990s Antonio Dias, Heart to Crush, 1966. Collection Nina Dias. Courtesy of Nina Dias. 'The Search for an Open Enigma' presents work by Antonio Dias (1944–2018), an artist who relentlessly transgressed material and conceptual boundaries,
- [Esther Mahlangu’s Monumental Mural Unveiled at Serpentine: A Celebration of Unity and Ndebele Tradition](https://artafricamagazine.org/esther-mahlangus-monumental-mural-unveiled-at-serpentine-a-celebration-of-unity-and-ndebele-tradition/) - The monumental painting, which will be on view in the garden at Serpentine North from 4 October 2024 to 28 September 2025, will celebrate concepts of community and unity. Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, which translates directly from Ndebele as 'I am because you are', will mark her first public artwork in the UK. Esther Mahlangu. Photographer:
- [Bridging Continents: A conversation on expanding the Bienal de São Paulo to Africa and Beyond](https://artafricamagazine.org/bridging-continents-a-conversation-on-expanding-the-bienal-de-sao-paulo-to-africa-and-beyond/) - Andrea Pinheiro, president of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, and the Curators of the 35th Bienal de São Paulo Discuss the Historic Expansion to Africa and the Power of Underrepresented Voices © Stelio Macedo e Sander Telo / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo The world's second-oldest Biennial after Venice, the Bienal de São Paulo
- [Bringing Shadows to Light: Tarek Abou El Fetouh on Curating William Kentridge’s First Middle Eastern Exhibition](https://artafricamagazine.org/bringing-shadows-to-light-tarek-abou-el-fetouh-on-curating-william-kentridges-first-middle-eastern-exhibition/) - 'William Kentridge: A Shadow of a Shadow' delves into the renowned South African artist’s innovative use of drawing, theatre, and film. Curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh in collaboration with Hoor Al Qasimi, this exhibition at Sharjah’s Bait Al Serkal marks Kentridge’s first solo showcase in the Middle East. William Kentridge, Ubu Tells the Truth,
- [Rage Against the Dying of the Light: Hanna Noor Mahomed at WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/rage-against-the-dying-of-the-light-hanna-noor-mahomed-at-whatiftheworld-cape-town-south-africa/) - WHATIFTHEWORLD presents 'Rage Against the Dying of the Light', a solo exhibition by Hanna Noor Mahomed. Hanna Noor Mahomed, Do not go gentle into that good night (Imane Khelif), 2024. Oil on canvas, 90 x 70.4 x 4.6cm. Courtesy of the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD. “For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the
- [421 Arts Campus Presents Traveling edition of the Arts Festival Colomboscope ‘Way of the Forest’ Featuring 19 Artists from the Global South](https://artafricamagazine.org/421-arts-campus-presents-traveling-edition-of-the-arts-festival-colomboscope-way-of-the-forest-featuring-19-artists-from-the-global-south/) - Opening on September 22, the exhibition is an intricate study of our eroding ecological histories, of lost environmental wisdoms, monstrous developmental agendas, and ghosts of extraction MTF Rukshana, Kiduhu I, 2023. Mixed media on calico fabric showcased at Colomboscope, Sri Lanka. Courtesy of Colomboscope. Photographer: Ruvin de Silva 421 Arts Campus, Abu Dhabi’s independent platform
- [Visions of Abundance: Unpacking the Cultural and Aesthetic Impact of Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology's 'Black Ancient Futures' Exhibition](https://artafricamagazine.org/visions-of-abundance-unpacking-the-cultural-and-aesthetic-impact-of-museum-of-art-architecture-and-technologys-black-ancient-futures-exhibition/) - Curators João Pinharanda and Camila Maissune discuss the vision behind the innovative exhibition Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology's Installation images, 'Black Ancient Futures', at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon. Photographer: Pedro Pina. 'Black Ancient Futures', which opened on the 18th of September, 2024, at the Museum of Art, Architecture and
- [How the leopard got his claws: Yussif Musah at Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne](https://artafricamagazine.org/how-the-leopard-got-his-claws-yussif-musah-at-akademie-der-kunste-der-welt-cologne/) - Not Afraid of Art - under this title, the academy members and international artists are collaborating with the Cologne art scene as part of a three-year project. The aim is to create a space for shared learning and to cultivate an understanding of the social and political potential of art. 'How the Leopard got his Claws'
- [Points of Resonance: Contemporary African Photography at the Africa Center, New York, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/points-of-resonance-contemporary-african-photography-at-the-africa-center-new-york-united-states/) - The Africa Center is pleased to present 'Points of Resonance: Contemporary Photography in Africa', an exhibition that brings together the work of twelve artists living and working in Africa and the diaspora. Hashim Nasr, Ecstacy of Joy, 2022. From the series: A Leap into a Dream. Courtesy of the artist. Employing the language and tools of
- [Dream City at Festival d'Automne, Paris, France](https://artafricamagazine.org/dream-city-at-festival-dautomne-paris-france/) - The multi-disciplinary Tunisian festival Dream City is moving to Aubervilliers at the joint invitation of the Festival d'Automne and La Commune, with the shared desire to make this area rustle, resonate and dream through a dozen creations by international performing and visual artists. Hebron - Martin Argyroglo An artistic crossroads between the Arab world, Africa
- [Afterimages and Perspectives of Colonial Enslavement: MANIFEST presents an immersive exhibition with 22 international artists](https://artafricamagazine.org/afterimages-and-perspectives-of-colonial-enslavement-manifest-presents-an-immersive-exhibition-with-22-international-artists/) - Co-funded by the European Commission under the Creative Europe Programme, MANIFEST: New artistic perspectives on memories of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people aims to contribute to and enhance the re-imagination of Europe’s collective memory of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people. The Doors, On a Slamé sur la Lune 1. Courtesy of the artist and MANIFEST.
- [In Brilliant Light: Reframing African Art through Contemporary Lenses](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-brilliant-light-reframing-african-art-through-contemporary-lenses/) - Reclaiming African Histories through Artistic Expression and Visions of Hope at Wereldmuseum Leiden, curated by Azu Nwagbogu. Installation view of 'In Brilliant Light'. Photographer: Aad Hoogendoorn Azu Nwagbogu is the curator and the creative force behind the exhibition ‘In Brilliant Light’ at the Wereldmuseum in Leiden. Known for his work with the African Artists’ Foundation
- [Ethiopia Through Time: A Journey from Antiquity to Digital Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/ethiopia-through-time-a-journey-from-antiquity-to-digital-art/) - Sophie Ong on Curating Ethiopia's Artistic Dialogues Across Millennia and Its Resonance in the Digital Age Courtesy of Toledo Museum of Art Focusing on Ethiopia's ancient artistic traditions through the lens of contemporary art, the exhibition highlights Ethiopia's role as a cultural hub at the crossroads of Africa, Asia, and Europe. Sophie Ong, the Assistant
- [Reinterpreting the Myth of Europa: Exploring Gender Equality through Playfulness and Poetry at the Lebanese Pavilion](https://artafricamagazine.org/reinterpreting-the-myth-of-europa-exploring-gender-equality-through-playfulness-and-poetry-at-the-lebanese-pavilion/) - Mounira Al Solh Challenging Traditional Depictions of Women in Mythology at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, entitled 'Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere' and curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Pavilion of Lebanon, A Dance with her Myth. 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo by: Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La
- [Born Free: A new exhibition at the Apartheid Museum takes the viewer on a visual journey narrated by post-apartheid youth, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/born-free-a-new-exhibition-at-the-apartheid-museum-takes-the-viewer-on-a-visual-journey-narrated-by-post-apartheid-youth-south-africa/) - A partnership between Ilvy Njiokiktjien, the Apartheid Museum, and the Nelson Mandela Foundation © Ilvy Njiokiktjien In recognition of three decades of South Africa’s democracy, the Apartheid Museum is partnering with the Nelson Mandela Foundation to present 'Born Free: Generation of Hope', a photographic exhibition by Dutch photographer Ilvy Njiokiktjien, in which she explores the lives of
- [Imminent and Eminent Ecologies: A group exhibition at FADA Gallery, Univeristy of Johannebsurg, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/imminent-and-eminent-ecologies-a-group-exhibition-at-fada-gallery-univeristy-of-johannebsurg-south-africa/) - The Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg has announced their forthcoming exhibition of leading African and international bio- and eco-artists. Russell Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson: Film still from Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness 2023. Single channel HD video. Duration: 8:24. Projection dimensions variable.
- [Tandabantu Nathaniel Jongikhaya Matola: Runner-up for the Sasol New Signatures 2024 Art Competition](https://artafricamagazine.org/tandabantu-nathaniel-jongikhaya-matola-runner-up-for-the-sasol-new-signatures-2024-art-competition/) - Exploring Endurance and Persistence Through Ceramics in Ukuncikelela (To Hold On) Tandabantu Nathaniel Jongikhaya Matola with his work, Ukuncikelela (to hold on/endure). Underglaze, clay and dishcloths, 5-Part: (5) 195 x 30cm. Courtesy of the artist and Sasol New Signatures. Tandabantu Nathaniel Jongikhaya Matola, Runner-up for the Sasol New Signatures Art Competition 2024, was born in
- [Miné Kleynhans: Overall Winner of Sasol New Signatures Art Competition 2024](https://artafricamagazine.org/mine-kleynhans-overall-winner-of-sasol-new-signatures-art-competition-2024/) - Exploring the Depths of Emotion through Meditations on Resentment – A Conversation with the 2024 Sasol New Signatures Winner, Miné Kleynhans Miné Kleynhans with her artwork Meditations on Resentment. Cherrywood, brass, sand and found objects, 70 x 43 x 74cm. Courtesy of the artist and Sasol New Signatures. Miné Kleynhans is the overall winner of
- [Forging an Afro-Asian Cultural Exchange: An Interview with Retro Africa’s Dolly Kola-Balogun](https://artafricamagazine.org/forging-an-afro-asian-cultural-exchange-an-interview-with-retro-africas-dolly-kola-balogun/) - Through participation in Art Basel Hong Kong and, most recently, Tokyo Gendai, Retro Africa’s founder, Dolly Kola Balogun, is discovering a growing market for African Art Retro Africa Booth at Tokyo Gendai, (front) Yusuff Aina, Eniyan Bronze (limited), 2023. Bronze, 11 4/5 × 7 9/10 × 5 9/10 in. (back)Samuel Nnorom, We Keep Sticking and
- [Sharjah Art Foundation premieres the first major survey exhibition of Senior Māori artist Emily Karaka](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundation-premieres-the-first-major-survey-exhibition-of-senior-maori-artist-emily-karaka/) - 'Emily Karaka: Ka Awatea, A New Dawn' brings together selected works from public and private collections alongside new commissions. Emily Karaka, Pandemic, 2021. Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Courtesy of the artist. This September, Sharjah Art Foundation unveils 'Emily Karaka: Ka Awatea, A New Dawn', the first major survey of the work
- [Institute for Creative Arts’s 2024 Live Art Festival ushers in Spring to Cape Town](https://artafricamagazine.org/institute-for-creative-artss-2024-live-art-festival-ushers-in-spring-to-cape-town/) - The Mother City’s art enthusiasts are in for four jam-packed days of immersive and provocative culture with the University of Cape Town’s Institute for Creative Arts (ICA)’s prestigious Live Arts Festival (LAF) from 4 to 7 September 2024. The festival will be held at the centrally located UCT Hiddingh Campus in Gardens, Cape Town. Renowned
- [Bloemfontein Sculptor Miné Kleynhans Wins 2024 Sasol New Signatures Art Competition](https://artafricamagazine.org/bloemfontein-sculptor-mine-kleynhans-wins-2024-sasol-new-signatures-art-competition/) - Miné Kleynhans (34), a project manager at the University of the Free State Art Gallery, has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Sasol New Signatures Art Competition for her installation piece titled Meditations on Resentment. Kleynhans takes home a cash prize of R100 000 and an opportunity to hold a solo exhibition at the Pretoria
- [The Psychogeography of Mikhael Subotzky’s Cityscapes](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-psychogeography-of-mikhael-subotzkys-cityscapes/) - Julia Snowball reviews Subotzky’s approach to depicting marginalised individuals and his reflections on image-making ethics. Mikhael Subotzky, Cape Town Landscape - B-Side IV, 1800-2024. J-Lar tape mounted to canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery. Johannesburg-based artist and photographer Mikhael Subotzky has long been exploring the interplay between landscape, structure, and time – delving
- [Figuro-Abstro: An interview with Alioune Diagne on Senegal's debut at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia](https://artafricamagazine.org/exploring-figuro-abstro-an-interview-with-alioune-diagne-on-senegals-debut-at-the-60th-international-art-exhibition-la-biennale-di-venezia/) - Alioune Diagne discusses his unique artistic style, socially engaged themes, and Senegal's debut in 'Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere', curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Installation view. Photographer: Laurent Edeline. © Courtesy of the artist and TEMPLON, Paris —Brussels — New York Alioune Diagne, a trailblazing artist from Senegal, has earned international acclaim for his innovative "figuro-abstro"
- [The Other Side of Now: Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn at Zeitz MOCAA, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-other-side-of-now-tuan-andrew-nguyen-at-zeitz-mocaa-south-africa/) - Zeitz MOCAA presents 'The Other Side of Now', a solo exhibition of film and sculpture by Vietnamese American artist Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn. The exhibition opens on Thursday, 22 August 2024 and runs until Sunday, 20 July 2025. Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, Because No One Living Will Listen / Người Sống Chẳng Ai Nghe, 2023. Two channel, 4K video, stereo,10 min. Film
- [The Toledo Museum of Art Transports Visitors to the Horn of Africa with Summer Exhibition](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-toledo-museum-of-art-transports-visitors-to-the-horn-of-africa-with-summer-exhibition/) - 'Ethiopia at the Crossroads' traces 1,750 years of artistic traditions Yatreda: ያጥሬዳ, Ethiopian, established 2021. Mother of Menelik, 2023. Non-fungible token of single-channel video. Courtesy of 776. Private Collection. Courtesy of the artist and Toledo Museum of Art. Traverse 1,750 years of Ethiopia’s artistic traditions and experience the nation’s rich history, cultural heritage and global
- [Studio Museum in Harlem's Annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition at MoMA PS1](https://artafricamagazine.org/studio-museum-in-harlems-annual-artist-in-residence-exhibition-at-moma-ps1/) - 'Pass Carry Hold' features new work by sonia louise davis, Malcolm Peacock, and Zoë Pulley LEFT TO RIGHT: Artists in residence Malcolm Peacock, Zoë Pulley, and sonia louise davis. Photo: Courtney Sofiah Yates The Studio Museum in Harlem will present 'Pass Carry Hold: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2023–24', the latest edition of its annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition, from
- [60 Years: Celebrating East Africa's Artistic Heritage at Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute](https://artafricamagazine.org/60-years-celebrating-east-africas-artistic-heritage-at-nairobi-contemporary-art-institute/) - Curator Don Handa presents Modern and contemporary East African artists to develop an appreciation and understanding of the region Josephine Alacu, The Legend, 1980. Oil on board, 92 x 163cm. Courtesy of the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute. Since its inception, the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI) has been at the forefront of documenting and celebrating
- [Curating Quiet Ground: Curator Portia Malatjie on Land and Blackness at the South African Pavilion](https://artafricamagazine.org/curating-quiet-ground-curator-portia-malatjie-on-land-and-blackness-at-the-south-african-pavilion/) - Portia Malatjie discusses the curatorial journey and collaboration with MADEYOULOOK for the South African Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, entitled ‘Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere’, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. MADEYOULOOK, Dinokana, 2024. Courtesy MADEYOULOOK. Photo by Bubblegum Club. Portia Malatjie, the curator of the South African Pavilion at
- [Moulding Change: Sasol New Signatures Winner 2023 Nosiviwe Matikinca's Vision](https://artafricamagazine.org/moulding-change-sasol-new-signatures-winner-2023-nosiviwe-matikincas-vision/) - From Clay to Canvas, How One Artist Conveys the Struggles of South Africa's Students Nosiviwe Matikinca, 2023 Sasol New Signatures Winner. Courtesy of Sasol New Signatures Art Competition. Nosiviwe Matikinca, the 2023 Sasol New Signatures Art Competition winner, delves deep into the theme of educational inequality through her evocative artwork. Her solo exhibition, 'Ukungalingani Kwezemfundo,'
- [African Artists' Foundation presents 'If Hives Could Dance in Colors', a solo exhibition of Nigerian artist Kingsley Ayogu](https://artafricamagazine.org/african-artists-foundation-presents-if-hives-could-dance-in-colors-a-solo-exhibition-of-nigerian-artist-kingsley-ayogu/) - Nigerian artist Kingsley Ayogu’s solo show in Lagos, Nigeria, explores themes of release, freedom, identity, and visibility through a vibrant series of mixed media artworks. Kingsley Ayogu, If the Ubendy Could Bend. Courtesy of the African Artists’ Foundation and SOTO Gallery. Lagos-based African Artists’ Foundation (AAF), in collaboration with SOTO Gallery, is proud to announce
- [The Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize Foundation continues to change the lives of young, emerging visual artists.](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-blessing-ngobeni-art-prize-foundation-continues-to-change-the-lives-of-young-emerging-visual-artists/) - Founded by Tzaneen born South African celebrated visual artist, art patron and benefactor, Blessing Ngobeni, the Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize (BNAP), aims to among other things create a pathway for young, emerging visual artists to break into to the notoriously difficult art scene by ensuring they have much needed resources and ecosystem support. Kaebetswe Seema,
- ['In the Blood' at Tiwani Contemporary, London, United Kingdom](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-the-blood-at-tiwani-contemporary-london-united-kingdom/) - The group show, 'In the Blood', features represented, and associate artists inspired and committed to painting. This exhibition is a review of their approaches defining their representations of life and emotions, and how those impulses and reflections are translated gesturally and materially, in figuration and abstraction. Joy Labinjo, Sandcastle, 2023. Oil on canvas, 180 x 200cm.
- ['On the Vastness of our Identities' at Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, Arles, France](https://artafricamagazine.org/on-the-vastness-of-our-identities-at-manuel-rivera-ortiz-foundation-arles-france/) - From July 1st to September 29th, 2024, Institute Contemporary presents its inaugural exhibition, 'On the Vastness of our Identities', at Les Rencontres d’Arles, featuring diverse perspectives on Afro-European identities through photography. Join for the accompanying panel discussion with the artists and the Allianz Foundation network. © Delali Ayivi, Venavi(twins), From the series: Denim Dreams (detail), 2023
- [Exploring Memory and Landscape Through Art: A Conversation with Curator Tarek Abou El Fetouh](https://artafricamagazine.org/exploring-memory-and-landscape-through-art-a-conversation-with-curator-tarek-abou-el-fetouh/) - Unveiling the artistic journeys of Abdullah Al Saadi at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, entitled 'Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere' and curated by Adriano Pedrosa. 'Abdullah Al Saadi: Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia'. Image Courtesy of National Pavilion UAE – La Biennale di Venezia. Photo by Ismail Noor of
- [Voices of the Desert: A Collaborative Journey in the Saudi Arabia Pavilion](https://artafricamagazine.org/voices-of-the-desert-a-collaborative-journey-in-the-saudi-arabia-pavilion/) - Exploring Identity, Media, and Collective Expression at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia Manal AlDowayan, Shifting Sands: A Battle Song, 2024. Multimedia installation, Tussar silk, ink, acrylic paint. Dimensions variable. Sound, multichannel, 30’48”. Photography by venicedocumentationproject. Courtesy of the Visual Arts Commission, the Commissioner for the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia.
- [Showcasing Zimbabwe: Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa on Bridging Cultures through Contemporary Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/showcasing-zimbabwe-fadzai-veronica-muchemwa-on-bridging-cultures-through-contemporary-art/) - An Interview with Curator Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa on the Country's Participation at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, entitled 'Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere' and curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Pavilion of Zimbabwe, 'Undone'. 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo by: Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
- [PinchukArtCentre announces artist shortlist and upcoming exhibition for the 7th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize](https://artafricamagazine.org/pinchukartcentre-announces-artist-shortlist-and-upcoming-exhibition-for-the-7th-edition-of-the-future-generation-art-prize/) - The exhibition opens in Fall 2024 and runs until February 2025 Dana Kavelina, It can't be that there's nothing that can't be returned. Photographs provided by the PinchukArtCentre © 2022. Photographer: Sergey Illin. PinchukArtCentre announces the artist shortlist for the 7th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize with newly commissioned works by the artists
- [Residency open call for artists based in Central Africa at Gasworks London](https://artafricamagazine.org/residency-open-call-for-artists-based-in-central-africa-at-gasworks-london/) - Application deadline: 27 August 2024, 1pm (UK time) Odur Ronald, Gasworks Open Studios, March 2024. This residency open call is for an artist based in Central Africa (Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tomé and Principe), who has already presented their
- [ditshwantsho, dipalo, digopotso: Refiloe Namise debut solo exhibition at Bag Factory Artists' Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/ditshwantsho-dipalo-digopotso-refiloe-namise-debit-solo-exhibition-at-bag-factory-artists-studios-johannesburg-south-africa/) - Bag Factory is pleased to present 'ditshwantsho, dipalo, digopotso', a debut solo presentation by Refiloe Namise, comprising re-placed archive prints, video, performance, remembrances and readings. Refiloe Namise, When I was thirsty my tongue tasted dust, 2022. Digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist and Bag Factory Artists' Studios. Namise’s work explores the making and preserving of
- [Nubuke Foundation presents 'AFTER LIFE', featuring artists from the WOORI festival, Ghana](https://artafricamagazine.org/nubuke-foundation-presents-after-life-featuring-artists-from-the-woori-festival-ghana/) - 'AFTER LIFE' features artists who have previously participated in WOORI, an annual festival in the Upper West region of Ghana hosted by the Nubuke Foundation. The festival showcases indigenous cultures, knowledge and practices on textile weaving. Katesi Jacqueline Kalange, Badere Process, 2024. Courtesy of Nubuke Foundation From catastrophic cyclones to record breaking heat waves, the force
- [GREENHOUSE: A Radical Garden at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia](https://artafricamagazine.org/greenhouse-a-radical-garden-at-the-60th-international-art-exhibition-la-biennale-di-venezia/) - Portugal's Pavilion Unveils a Dynamic Intersection of Nature, History, and Identity LEFT TO RIGHT: Mónica de Miranda (Courtesy of Jahmek Contemporary Art), Sónia Vaz Borges (Photographer: Argenis Apolinario), and Vânia Gala Rui (Photographer: Sergio Afonso). Portugal is represented at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia by the collective project GREENHOUSE, led
- [Over-Incarceration: Ellie Buttrose on curating Archie Moore's 'kith and kin' at the Australia Pavilion](https://artafricamagazine.org/over-incarceration-ellie-buttrose-on-curating-archie-moores-kith-and-kin-at-the-australia-pavilion/) - Exploring Over-Incarceration, Language Decline, and Shared Ancestry through Art at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, entitled 'Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere' and curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Archie Moore and Ellie Buttrose with kith and kin 2024. Australia Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2024. Photographer Andrea Rossetti. The Australia Pavilion at the Biennale
- [Disrupting Narratives in African Contemporary Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/disrupting-narratives-in-african-contemporary-art/) - For almost 4 decades, Craig Mark, has chartered new territories in the South African arts, culture, and heritage spaces. His valuable contribution to these sectors cannot be questioned as he continues to provide valuable platforms for the promotion of Pan African Contemporary Art and for our artists to narrate their stories in contemporary ways. Craig
- [Fundação Bienal de São Paulo is traveling to Bolivia for the first time](https://artafricamagazine.org/fundacao-bienal-de-sao-paulo-is-traveling-to-bolivia-for-the-first-time/) - For the first time, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo's traveling exhibitions program is coming to the city of La Paz, Bolivia, with a selection of the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible. Exhibition view of the work of Colectivo Ayllu during the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible .©
- [Bridging Worlds: Tesfaye Urgessa's Vision of Displacement and Cultural Fusion at the First Ethiopian Pavilion](https://artafricamagazine.org/bridging-worlds-tesfaye-urgessas-vision-of-displacement-and-cultural-fusion-at-the-first-ethiopian-pavilion/) - How Ethiopian heritage and European Modernism shape Urgessa's powerful commentary on displacement and belonging at the Ethiopian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, entitled 'Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere' and curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Tesfaye Urgessa. Courtesy of Tesfaye Urgessa and Saatchi Yates. Photographer: Kameron Cooper Tesfaye Urgessa, an
- [Nurturing Ghana's Creative Future: An Interview with Chantel Akworkor Thompson](https://artafricamagazine.org/nurturing-ghanas-creative-future-an-interview-with-chantel-akworkor-thompson/) - Exploring the Inspiration and Impact of the Young Artists Series at La Foundation for the Arts Chantel Akworkor Thompson with Jude Lartey. Photographer: Ernest Nana Ampofo Aquaye La Foundation for the Arts has launched an exciting initiative called the Young Artists Series, designed to uplift and empower young artists in Ghana. Spearheaded by Chantel Akworkor
- [Exploring Takapau: Bridging Tradition and Innovation in Māori Art with Mataaho Collective](https://artafricamagazine.org/exploring-emtakapau-em-bridging-tradition-and-innovation-in-maori-art-with-mataaho-collective/) - An in-depth conversation on the inspirations, processes, and cultural significance behind the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia installation Mataaho Collective, Takapau, 2022. Installation (polyester hi-vis tiedowns, stainless steel buckles and j-hooks). Site specific reconfiguration Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa. 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 'Stranieri
- [Eugenio Viola announced as curator of the 24th Bienal de Arte Paiz in 2025](https://artafricamagazine.org/eugenio-viola-announced-as-curator-of-the-24th-bienal-de-arte-paiz-in-2025/) - Fundación Paiz para la Educación y la Cultura has announced the appointment of Eugenio Viola as the curator of the 24th Bienal de Arte Paiz in 2025. The Biennial, which will take place in Guatemala City and Antigua Guatemala from November 2025 to February 2026, has been Central America’s most important art event since its
- [Songs about Roses: Ibrahim Mahama at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, Scotland](https://artafricamagazine.org/songs-about-roses-ibrahim-mahama-at-fruitmarket-edinburgh-scotland/) - The first-ever solo exhibition in Scotland of the work of Ibrahim Mahama; a Ghanaian artist critically acclaimed for his evocative large-scale, site-specific installations that speak to the cultural and social effects of post-colonialism and global migration. Courtesy of the artist and Fruitmarket. Born in Tamale in 1987, Mahama burst onto the international art scene at
- [The Prince Claus Fund and Open Society Foundations present the event Art for Climate Justice - Reimagining Sustainable Futures](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-prince-claus-fund-and-open-society-foundations-present-the-event-art-for-climate-justice-reimagining-sustainable-futures/) - In collaboration with the Open Society Foundations, the Prince Claus Fund presents the Art for Climate Justice — Reimagining Sustainable Futures: an event that integrates artistic practices and ancestral knowledge to foster connections, exchanges and inspiration for exploring alternative solutions to the Climate Crisis. Image from project Secret Sarayaku, 2020. Courtesy of Misha Vallejo Prut. The one-week event, taking
- [Sharjah Architecture Triennial 02: The Beauty of Impermanence](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-architecture-triennial-02-the-beauty-of-impermanence/) - Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023, Edition 02, titled The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability, was presented in six venues: AL QASIMIYAH SCHOOL, OLD AL JUBAIL VEGETABLE MARKET, OLD SLAUGHTERHOUSE, INDUSTRIAL AREA 5, SHARJAH MALL and AL MADAM across Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. The inaugural edition of the Triennial, Rights of the Future
- [Art for Humanity presents 'Un(scene)' from the Cedric Nunn Archive](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-for-humanity-presents-unscene-from-the-cedric-nunn-archive/) - Exhibition showcases iconic documentary photography by Cedric Nunn and launches the African Documentary Photography Archive Initiative. Cedric Nunn, Wentworth Township. Durban. 1986. Copyright © 2024 AFH, All rights reserved. Acclaimed documentary photographer Cedric Nunn unveils a new retrospective exhibition along with the launch of the African Documentary Photography archive (ADPAI), marking a pivotal moment in the preservation of South Africa's visual
- [Stronger Together: Barthélémy Toguo at Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rabat, Morocco](https://artafricamagazine.org/stronger-together-barthelemy-toguo-at-mohammed-vi-museum-of-modern-and-contemporary-art-rabat-morocco/) - The Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art once again celebrates African creativity with the exhibition 'Stronger Together' by Cameroonian artist Barthélémy Toguo, opening to the public on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Barthélémy Toguo, Hands on head, 2024. Acrylique, encre de Chine sur toile| Acrylic, Chinese ink on canvas, 200 x 200cm. Courtesy of Bandjoun
- [Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology presents 'Black Ancient Futures': a collective exhibition that brings together artists of the African diaspora](https://artafricamagazine.org/museum-of-art-architecture-and-technology-presents-black-ancient-futures-a-collective-exhibition-that-brings-together-artists-of-the-african-diaspora/) - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology’s fall programme on 18 September 2024, 'Black Ancient Futures' brings together a group of African artists and members of the African diaspora to Portugal's capital for an exhibition that reimagines the past, present, and future of the black artistic experience on a transcontinental scale. Participating artists are invited to speculate on
- [ECOSPHERES: A Journey Through WATER, AIR & EARTH at Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/ecospheres-a-journey-through-water-air-earth-at-joburg-contemporary-art-foundation/) - Suzette Bell-Roberts takes us through ‘Ecospheres’ and talks to Clive Kellner to learn more about the exhibition’s curation and development. Rebecca Potterton, The Other Side of Dreaming (2024). Mural. Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation embarks on its new three-year research theme called “Worldmaking” with an exhibition titled ‘Ecospheres’. The exhibition comprises three sub-areas or Atmospheres: Water: Narrative and Myth
- [9999: Cameron A. Granger at the Queens Museum, New York](https://artafricamagazine.org/9999-cameron-a-granger-at-the-queens-museum-new-york/) - In 9999, Cameron A. Granger uses the framework of video games and magic to imagine an alternative method of liberation for Black communities from the compounding effects of racist urban planning. Cameron A. Granger, Here & there along the echo, (Film Still) 2024. Film. Courtesy the artist. In early role playing video games, due to low
- [Nairobi National Museum celebrates 60 years of diplomacy between South Korea and Kenya](https://artafricamagazine.org/nairobi-national-museum-celebrates-60-years-of-diplomacy-between-south-korea-and-kenya/) - The exhibition unites three international artists, Oh Myung Hee, Prina Shah, and Nadia Wamunyu Nadia Wamunyu, Body double I, 2024. Coffee, ink, bleach, charcoal and gold leaf on paper, 120 x 150cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nairobi National Museum. Celebrating 60 years of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Kenya, the eagerly awaited exhibition Dance
- [MoMA announces 'Otobong Nkanga: Cadence', a site-specific commission opening in the Marron Atrium in October 2024](https://artafricamagazine.org/moma-announces-otobong-nkanga-cadence-a-site-specific-commission-opening-in-the-marron-atrium-in-october-2024/) - The monumental installation will be the artist’s first solo presentation in New York Otobong Nkanga with textile in progress for 'Otobong Nkanga: Cadence'. Courtesy of the artist. © Otobong Nkanga. Photographer: Wim van Dongen The Museum of Modern Art announces 'Otobong Nkanga: Cadence', a new, site-specific commission by the Nigerian-Belgian artist Otobong Nkanga (b. 1974) opening
- [Rencontres de Bamako 14 announces the 30 artists for the 2024 edition](https://artafricamagazine.org/rencontres-de-bamako-14-announces-the-30-artists-for-the-2024-edition/) - On behalf of the curatorial team, Rencontres de Bamako has announced the selection of the 30 artists who will participate in La Panafricaine, the group exhibition of the 14th edition of the Bamako Photographic Biennale. TOP LEFT TO RIGHT: Lassana Igo Diarra (Mali), General Commissioner & Artistic Director; Nadine Hounkpatin (Benin), Commissioner; Manthia Diawara (Mali),
- [Contemporary African Photography Prize 2024 has announced the winners](https://artafricamagazine.org/contemporary-african-photography-prize-2024-has-announced-the-winners/) - These five winning projects have been selected by a panel of 20 international judges. The winning artists are Lina Geoushy, Ahmed Khirelsid, Tshepiso Moropa, Kriss Munsya, and Farren Van Wyk. Over the last 13 years, the CAP Prize has become the world's leading platform showcasing Contemporary African Fine Art Photography. The CAP Prize celebrates contemporary African photography and
- [Di Gopo Tsa Merafong / Belly of the Beast: Piet Tohlang Khabo at CHURCH projects, Cape Town, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/di-gopo-tsa-merafong-belly-of-the-beast-piet-tohlang-khabo-at-church-projects-cape-town-south-africa/) - This intervention explores the relationship between land and Basotho culture. The artist interrogates these interests within the context of the South African industrial mining complex. Courtesy of CHURCH. Piet Tohlang Khabo's work explores the relationship between land and Basotho culture. In this exhibition, he interrogates these interests within the context of the South African industrial
- [60 Years: Selections from the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute Collection, Kenya](https://artafricamagazine.org/60-years-selections-from-the-nairobi-contemporary-art-institute-collection-kenya/) - The Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI) is pleased to announce "60 Years," an upcoming exhibition showcasing a selection of artworks from its permanent collection. Fabian Mpagi, Untitled (Portrait of the artist's mother and younger brother), 1977. Oil on board, 92 x 68.7cm. Courtesy of Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute. Since its establishment, NCAI has assembled a collection of
- [On Site: Berni Searle at Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/on-site-berni-searle-at-zeitz-mocaa-cape-town-south-africa/) - Zeitz MOCAA welcomes Berni Searle to the museum’s Atelier programme as its sixth resident in an eight-month residency. Entitled On Site, the residency will include selections from previous bodies of work by the artist, as well as sketches, objects, and publications, which will be on view while she develops new ideas in-situ. On Site opens on Thursday, 20
- [A celebration of Greek and Egyptian cultural synergies at the Acropolis Museum, Athens](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-celebration-of-greek-and-egyptian-cultural-synergies-at-the-acropolis-museum-athens/) - 'Tale of Two Cities' is an exhibition that seeks to rekindle the profound historical and cultural relationship between Greece and Egypt, reconnecting these two pillars of civilisation that have withstood the test of time and have borne witness to a timeless dialogue. Omar tousson's artwork at Acropolis Museum, Athens. Courtesy of CulturVator / Art D’Égypte.
- [Simone Leigh national touring exhibition opens at California African American Museum (CAAM), United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/simone-leigh-national-touring-exhibition-opens-at-california-african-american-museum-caam-united-states/) - The traveling exhibition is accompanied by the first monograph of Leigh’s work. Simone Leigh, Cupboard, 2020 (detail). Bronze, 88 1/2 × 85 × 44 7/8 in. Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. 'Simone Leigh', a traveling exhibition organised by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) and co-presented in Los Angeles by the California African American Museum (CAAM)
- [In and Out of Africa: Foreigners Everywhere or Are They?](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-and-out-of-africa-foreigners-everywhere-or-are-they/) - The Venice Art Biennale celebrates its 60th anniversary. There have been times, particularly over the last 10 years, that this illustrious event has reacted to globalisation with the feel of a thematic art project. And yet, this year's international presentation of art and culture has a Latin American curator (the first!) Brazilian Adriana Pedrosa. His
- [Gutter Pop II: Elize Vossgätter at Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/gutter-pop-ii-elize-vossgatter-at-everard-read-cape-town-south-africa/) - “Humankind possesses an ingenious ability to shape and reshape nature. We ceaselessly innovate and imitate, propelled forward by the forces of capitalism, aspiring to the ever-more, ever-new, and ever-better. Courtesy of Everard Read Gallery. In so doing, we have manufactured materials far abstracted from nature which are forced to integrate with the organic processes of
- [In Brilliant Light: Azu Nwagbogu curates the African art collection of Wereldmuseum Leiden, Netherlands](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-brilliant-light-azu-nwagbogu-curates-the-african-art-collection-of-wereldmuseum-leiden-netherlands/) - The contemporary artworks of 32 artists showcase the richness and diversity of art from Africa and its diaspora. 'In Brilliant Light' at Wereldmuseum Leiden. Photographer: Aad Hoogendoorn Guest curator Azu Nwagbogu combines masterpieces from the museum’s art collection with recent work by contemporary artists outside the museum’s collection. 'In Brilliant Light' shows how artists from Africa and
- [transfeminism Chapter III: Fragile Archives at Mimosa House, London](https://artafricamagazine.org/transfeminism-chapter-iii-fragile-archives-at-mimosa-house-london/) - Mimosa House presents the third chapter of transfeminisms, a major survey touring exhibition, that brings to light a multiplicity of urgent, pressing and ongoing issues faced by women, queer and trans people across the globe. The third chapter will feature works by Victoria Cantons, Elsa James, Yuki Kihara, Myriam Omar Awadi, Irene Antonia Diane Reece
- [An Alchemy of opposites: Ahmed Hajoubi at So Art Gallery, Morocco](https://artafricamagazine.org/an-alchemy-of-opposites-ahmed-hajoubi-at-so-art-gallery-morocco/) - Through a unique artistic alchemy, Ahmed Hajoubi transforms raw materials into striking works of art, whether through bas-reliefs or wall sculptures. The artist's creative process transcends notions of recycling to reach a level of unique artistic expression, where the qorchâl, a symbol of painful childhood memories, metamorphoses into an aesthetic object. Ahmed Hajoubi, Untitled, 2023.
- [LABO*R: AN INVITATION TO ACTION... A BASIS FOR HOPE at SAVVY Contemporary](https://artafricamagazine.org/labor-an-invitation-to-action-a-basis-for-hope-at-savvy-contemporary/) - SAVVY Contemporary’s yearlong TRANSITIONS programme takes colonial heritage and decolonisation as facts and practices of transition. Joy Gregory, Alongside Matron Bell, 2020. Photography, variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist. The second of its four chapters is the research, exhibition and laboratory project 'LABO*R: AN INVITATION TO ACTION… A BASIS FOR HOPE'. It reflects on the work
- [National Museum of African Art Presents 'Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross'](https://artafricamagazine.org/national-museum-of-african-art-presents-bruce-onobrakpeya-the-mask-and-the-cross/) - The exhibition highlights celebrated printmaker and his legacy in Nigeria Bruce Onobrakpeya, b. 1932, Nigeria, Station VI: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus (detail), 1969, linoleum block print on rice paper, gift of Mr. George A. Naifeh, collection of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will showcase works
- [Artists in Nairobi create exhibition that challenges the idea of Utopia ](https://artafricamagazine.org/artists-in-nairobi-create-exhibition-that-challenges-the-idea-of-utopia/) - The Nairobi based arts futurist collective, Kairos Futura, proudly presents its new immersive exhibition entitled 'Hakuna Utopia: In Search of Micro-Utopias' on July 20th, 2024 at its warehouse exhibition space in Nairobi. Ajax Axe, Utopia Chair #1, 2024. Mixed media sculpture. Axe transformed school chairs, a symbol of systemic suffering for young people in Kenya,
- [Eye Me: Zanele Muholi at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/eye-me-zanele-muholi-at-san-francisco-museum-of-modern-art-sfmoma-united-states/) - The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces the first major exhibition on the West Coast of South African artist Zanele Muholi. On view at SFMOMA from January 18–August 11, 2024, Zanele Muholi: Eye Me brings together over 100 of the artist’s photographs from 2002 to the present alongside paintings, sculpture and video. The exhibition provides
- [Lounging Workshop: Exploring the politics of posing and bodies at rest](https://artafricamagazine.org/lounging-workshop-exploring-the-politics-of-posing-and-bodies-at-rest/) - On the final day of Coalescence: Sometime Later, Harold Offeh proposes a performance and discussion called Lounging Workshop. Harold Offeh. Sync Lounging performance, Coalesce 20 Year Party at The Showroom. Courtesy of the Showroom. The lecture performance will explore the history, cultural context, power dynamics and politics of adopting the lounging pose. Drawing on the structure and conventions of the ancient
- [Shaping Together: National Arts Festival celebrates 50 years](https://artafricamagazine.org/shaping-together-national-arts-festival-celebrates-50-years/) - With just 7 days to go – there’s lots to look forward to at the 50th National Arts Festival! The sociable weaver nest grows bigger and stronger each day as hundreds of birds work together to co-create their home. As South Africa’s longest-running and most diverse arts festival, the National Arts Festival provides a platform
- [Art Institute of Chicago Returns Pilaster to Phanom Rung Temple in Thailand](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-institute-of-chicago-returns-pilaster-to-phanom-rung-temple-in-thailand/) - The Art Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the Kingdom of Thailand, announced today that it has initiated the return of an object—a fragment of a pilaster with Krishna lifting Mount Govardhana—to its place of origin in Thailand. The museum is committed to ongoing provenance research of our collection, and after conducting new research on this
- [Material Girl/ All that you touch: Jota Mombaça at Centre d'Art Contemporain Genéve](https://artafricamagazine.org/material-girl-all-that-you-touch-jota-mombaca-at-centre-dart-contemporain-geneve/) - The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève is pleased to announce 'MATERIAL GIRL/ ALL THAT YOU TOUCH', a solo exhibition devoted to Brazilian artist Jota Mombaça which traces a nonlinear path within the artist’s multidisciplinary practice, highlighting the conceptual/formal nexus in the early works—centered on the body, gesture, and the spoken and written word—and the evolution of that nexus
- [In communion a group exhibition by SEPTIEME Gallery and 31Project Gallery, France](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-communion-a-group-exhibition-by-septieme-gallery-and-31project-gallery-france/) - SEPTIEME Gallery and 31 Project are delighted to present an exhibition conceived and curated in collaboration, combining the work of four artists. The exhibition will take place in the Parisian space of SEPTIEME Gallery. Kwaku Yaro, Earth Is Our Home, 2024. Woven nylon and burlap on polymer, 153 x 219cm. Courtesy of the artist and
- [Nobel Koty Receives 2024 ellipse Prize](https://artafricamagazine.org/nobel-koty-receives-2024-ellipse-prize/) - This year dedicated to the Beninese art scene, the French art prize goes to Nobel Koty, who creates intimate self-portraits. LEFT TO RIGHT: Nobel Koty, winner of the ellipse Prize 2024, Courtesy of ellipse art projects. Nobel Koty, 02 - Serie Voile, 2024. 130 x 110cm. A painter exploring the art of self-portrait, Nobel Koty will benefit
- [Studio Museum in Harlem announces Summer and Fall exhibitions and programmes, including launch of first-ever podcast series](https://artafricamagazine.org/studio-museum-in-harlem-announces-summer-and-fall-exhibitions-and-programmes-including-launch-of-first-ever-podcast-series/) - The Studio Museum in Harlem today announced its dynamic roster of summer and fall exhibitions and programs, including the launch of New Additions, the institution’s first podcast; the presentation of Something in the Water: Expanding the Walls 2024; and the annual exhibition for the Museum’s cornerstone Artist-in-Residence program. From left to right: Malcolm Peacock, Zoë Pulley, and sonia louise
- [Interstellar: A Tribute to Beninese Sculpture at SEPTIEME Cotonou, Benin](https://artafricamagazine.org/interstellar-a-tribute-to-beninese-sculpture-at-septieme-cotonou-benin/) - SEPTIEME Cotonou is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition 'Interstellar, A Tribute to Beninese Sculpture' a group show by Eliane Aïsso, Sebastien Boko, Charly D'Almeida, Marius Dansou, Euloge Glèlè, Elise Tokoudagba and Zinkpe. Interstellaire: Hommage a la sculpture du Benin at SEPTIEME Gallery Cotonou. Copyright: Carlos Sodokpa Interstellaire (Interstellar) is a curatorial journey through an ethereal, endless canvas,
- [Except this time nothing returns from the ashes: Asmaa Jama and Gouled Ahmed at the Africa Center, New York](https://artafricamagazine.org/except-this-time-nothing-returns-from-the-ashes-asmaa-jama-and-gouled-ahmed-at-the-africa-center-new-york/) - The Africa Center is pleased to present 'Except this time nothing returns from the ashes', the North-American premiere of the short film and exhibition by East African artists Asmaa Jama (United Kingdom/Somalia) and Gouled Ahmed (Ethiopia). Asmaa Jama and Gouled Ahmed. Except this time nothing returns from the ashes, 2023. Film Still. Courtesy of Africa Center.
- [MoMA announces projects: Tadáskía, opening in May 2024, and acquisition of the artist's work](https://artafricamagazine.org/moma-announces-projects-tadaskia-opening-in-may-2024-and-acquisition-of-the-artists-work/) - The exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Studio Museum in Harlem, will be the artist’s first solo presentation in the United States Installation view of Projects: Tadáskía, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from May 24 through October 14, 2024. Photo: Jonathan Dorado. The Museum of Modern Art announces Projects: Tadáskía,
- [Museum of West African Art to inaugurate its 15-acre campus in November with the MOWAA Institute Building](https://artafricamagazine.org/museum-of-west-african-art-to-inaugurate-its-15-acre-campus-in-november-with-the-mowaa-institute-building/) - Dedicated to advancing heritage management and fostering creative collaborations and connection, MOWAA Institute to celebrate opening with 'Museum in the Making: Rediscovering a West African Identity and Practice', A Two-Day Event View of the MOWAA Institute. Courtesy of Museum of West African Art. The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) today announced that the MOWAA
- [National Nordic Museum organises unprecedented traveling exhibition: Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century](https://artafricamagazine.org/national-nordic-museum-organises-unprecedented-traveling-exhibition-nordic-utopia-african-americans-in-the-20th-century/) - The exhibition reveals the untold stories of African American visual and performing artists who sought new possibilities and inspiration in the Nordic countries. Walter Williams, Sunflowers, n.d.. Mixed media. Loan courtesy of The Johnson Collection. Courtesy of the National Nordic Museum. The National Nordic Museum announces the premiere of 'Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the
- [Cassirer Welz Award 2024 winner announced](https://artafricamagazine.org/cassirer-welz-award-2024-winner-announced/) - Bag Factory Artists' Studios, in collaboration with Strauss & Co. Education and Fine Art Auctioneers, proudly announces Tawanda Takura (Zimbabwe) as the winner of the 13th Cassirer Welz Award. Tawanda Takura. Courtesy of Cassirer Welz Award. Established in 2011 by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer in honour of her husband Reinhold Cassirer's passion for the arts,
- [Exploring the artistry of Wangechi Mutu at the New Orleans Museum of Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/exploring-the-artistry-of-wangechi-mutu-at-the-new-orleans-museum-of-art/) - Amanda M. Maples delves into thematic continuities, outdoor installations, and the influence of African myths in Mutu's sculptural work Wangechi Mutu, Yo Mama, 2003. Ink, mica flakes, acrylic, pressure-sensitive film, cut-and-pasted printed paper, and painted paper on paper, diptych, overall 150.2 × 215.9cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary
- [Tanzanian heritage at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia](https://artafricamagazine.org/exploring-tanzanian-heritage-at-the-60th-la-biennale-di-venezia/) - A journey through history and artistic expression in 'A Flight of Mirrors' Pavilion of TANZANIA, 'A Flight in Reverse Mirrors', 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photograph: Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia The United Republic of Tanzania makes its debut at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale
- [Sharjah Art Foundation announces open call opportunities for filmmakers, photographers and comic book illustrators](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundation-announces-open-call-opportunities-for-filmmakers-photographers-and-comic-book-illustrators/) - Sharjah Art Foundation announces open calls for three of its annual programmes in film, photography and comic publication. Committed to supporting the work of artists and art practitioners, the Foundation continues to provide opportunities that contribute to the production and presentation of contemporary art in the UAE, region and beyond. Courtesy of the Sharjah Art
- [E-WASTE IN GHANA: Tracing Transboundary Flows](https://artafricamagazine.org/e-waste-in-ghana-tracing-transboundary-flows/) - The 13th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is dedicated to Ghana and the ecological and human challenges associated with the transboundary flow of electronic waste. LEFT TO RIGHT: Muntaka Chasant, Photo: Gérald Anderson. Bénédicte Kurzen, Photo: Robin Maddock. Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Photo: Muntaka Chasant The award was granted to a team made up of
- ['Woven Sanctuaries' at Rele, Los Angeles, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/woven-sanctuaries-at-rele-los-angeles-united-states/) - Rele Los Angeles announces 'Woven Sanctuaries', a group exhibition bringing together the work of seven female artists from Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zambia, which together document complex personal and social landscapes that textiles make possible. Elfreda Fakoya, Seeds of Serenity, 2023. Courtesy of Rele Utilising found materials as well as symbolically-laden fabrics such as
- [ellipse Prize 2024 announces the finalists of the edition dedicated to Benin](https://artafricamagazine.org/ellipse-prize-2024-announces-the-finalists-of-the-edition-dedicated-to-benin/) - The 2024 selection committee of the ellipse Prize met on Thursday, May 23. The ellipse Prize is glad to present the 5 finalists of this fourth edition dedicated to emerging artists living in Benin and to Beninese living in the African continent. LEFT TO RIGHT: Marcel Kpoho, Métamorphose, 2021. Tyre straps, 183 x 110 x
- [Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announces the conceptual team for the 36th Bienal de São Paulo](https://artafricamagazine.org/fundacao-bienal-de-sao-paulo-announces-the-conceptual-team-for-the-36th-bienal-de-sao-paulo/) - The conceptual team assembled by chief curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is made up of five professionals. The team is currently working on the curatorial project, which will be unveiled in the second half of this year 36th Bienal de São Paulo Conceptual team: Keyna Eleison, Anna Roberta Goetz, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Alya Sebti,
- [Two weeks to go until submissions for Sasol New Signatures Art Competition 2024](https://artafricamagazine.org/two-weeks-to-go-until-submissions-for-sasol-new-signatures-art-competition-2024/) - The countdown is on! With just two weeks remaining, the closing dates for submissions for the 2024 Sasol New Signatures Art Competition is rapidly approaching. This prestigious competition offers an exciting opportunity for emerging artists to showcase their talents and gain significant recognition and exposure within the art world. Winner 2024: Nosiviwe Matikinca. Courtesy of
- [LEGACIES OF OTHERNESS: Inside 'Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere', the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia](https://artafricamagazine.org/legacies-of-otherness-inside-stranieri-ovunque-foreigners-everywhere-the-60th-international-art-exhibition-of-la-biennale-di-venezia/) - New York-based journalist, editor and producer Maurita Cardone returned to her country of birth to review 'Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere', a complex and multi-layered experience in which she also recounts her own experiences as a female Italian native establishing her own identity in the world. MAKHU (Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin), Kapewe Pukeni [Bridgealligator],
- [Artcurial offers artists from the Africa First collection at auction](https://artafricamagazine.org/artcurial-offers-artists-from-the-africa-first-collection-at-auction/) - On 6th June, Artcurial will hold its Twenty One Contemporary auction, including creations by major international living artists alongside fifteen exceptional works from the Africa First collection (lots 31 to 45). Lot 43: Sadikou Oukpedjo (Togolese - Born in 1975), Armure 1, 2018. Mixed media on canvas; signed and dated on the reverse. 52.75 × 48.82 in. Estimate: 12
- [Nigeria Imaginary: A journey through history and dreams with curator Aindrea Emelife](https://artafricamagazine.org/nigeria-imaginary-a-journey-through-history-and-dreams-with-curator-aindrea-emelife/) - Aindrea Emelife, curator of the Nigerian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, entitled 'Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere' and curated by Adriano Pedrosa, discusses this edition's theme and inspirations Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Celestial Gathering, 2024. Installation view, 'Nigeria Imaginary' at the Nigerian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition –
- [Exploring Resilience and Regeneration: An interview on Brazil's participation in the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia](https://artafricamagazine.org/exploring-resilience-and-regeneration-an-interview-on-brazils-participation-in-the-60th-international-art-exhibition-la-biennale-di-venezia/) - Arissana Pataxó, Denilson Baniwa and Gustavo Caboco Wapichana, the curators for the Hãhãwpuá Pavilion highlight Indigenous perspectives on art, culture, and resistance in 'Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere', curated by Adriano Pedrosa Glicéria Tupinambá, Tupinambá Community of Serra do Padeiro, Okará Assojaba, 2024. Installation using tarrafa nets, feather mantles, and letters. © Rafa Jacinto / Fundação Bienal de
- [Photographic Legacy Project, Cape Town, selected as 2024 Bank of America Art Conservation Project Grant Recipient](https://artafricamagazine.org/photographic-legacy-project-cape-town-selected-as-2024-bank-of-america-art-conservation-project-grant-recipient/) - Photographs from the Alfred Duggan-Cronin archives in the McGregor Museum, Kimberley Zulu Women, Kwa-Zulu Natal, circa 1930. Glass plate negatives, 4 x 5 inches. Duggan-Cronin Collection, McGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa. © Duggan-Cronin Museum The Cape Town-based Photographic Legacy Project (PLP) has been selected to receive a Bank of America Art Conservation Project 2024 grant.
- [ARCOlisboa announces programme for 7th edition at Cordoaria Nacional](https://artafricamagazine.org/arcolisboa-announces-programme-for-7th-edition-at-cordoaria-nacional/) - ARCOlisboa, the international contemporary art fair organised by IFEMA MADRID and the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, will hold its 7th edition from 23 to 26 May at the Cordoaria Nacional, where it has been held in the past, making the Portuguese capital once again one of the most attractive and interesting centres of art and
- [The Enigma of the Gaze: Tewodros Hagos at Kristin Hjellegjerde, Berlin, Germany](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-enigma-of-the-gaze-tewodros-hagos-at-kristin-hjellegjerde-berlin-germany/) - Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin is delighted to present 'The Enigma of the Gaze', a solo exhibition of all new paintings by the Ethiopian artist Tewodros Hagos. Tewodros Hagos, Enigma of the Gaze 4, 2024. Oil on canvas, 120 x 100cm. Courtesy of the artist and Kristin Hjellegjerde. Hagos has long been fascinated by how portraiture can simultaneously
- [MANAWA: Armand Boua at OOA Gallery, Spain](https://artafricamagazine.org/manawa-armand-boua-at-ooa-gallery-spain-2/) - Armand Boua highlights the struggles of Abidjan's street children Armand Boua, Manawa II, 2024. Mixed media on canvas, 207 x 150cm. Courtesy of the artist and OOA Gallery. OOA GALLERY is delighted to present the highly anticipated solo exhibition of Armand Boua, titled 'Manawa', running from May 18th to June 30th. This groundbreaking exhibition showcases
- [GROOT GAT: Lady Skollie at Norval Foundation, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/groot-gat-lady-skollie-at-norval-foundation-south-africa/) - The Norval Foundation is pleased to present 'GROOT GAT', an exhibition dedicated to the works of South African artist Lady Skollie, the winner of the 2022 Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art. The exhibition opens on the 22nd of May 2024, and will run until the 15th of September 2024. Lady Skollie, SOMETHING SWEET,
- [Kaleidoscope: Benigno Mangovo at THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE, Luanda, Angola](https://artafricamagazine.org/kaleidoscope-benigno-mangovo-at-this-is-not-a-white-cube-luanda-angola/) - 'Kaleidoscope: Portraits of a Traveler' (Caleidoscópio: Retratos de um Viajante) is curated by Jamil (Parasol) Osmar. It features a series of eleven completely unpublished painting works that portray the intricate web of human experience woven through the perspective of Benigno Mangovo as a traveller immersed in the unique reality of Luanda Island. Benigno Mangovo, Retratos
- [Inhotim presents exhibitions by Grada Kilomba and Paulo Nazareth](https://artafricamagazine.org/inhotim-presents-exhibitions-by-grada-kilomba-and-paulo-nazareth/) - In April, Inhotim recently launched O Barco | The Boat by Grada Kilomba and 'Esconjuro' by Paulo Nazareth Courtesy of Inhotim. The institution, known for its long-term exhibitions and innovative curatorial approach, hosted individual exhibitions by the artists at Galerias Galpão and Praça, along with a group show at Galeria Lago. Grada Kilomba unveiled her acclaimed work O Barco |
- [Ubumbano/Unite Collaboration: Artcollab studio, in partnership with the Keiskamma Art Trust](https://artafricamagazine.org/ubumbano-unite-collaboration-artcollab-studio-in-partnership-with-the-keiskamma-art-trust/) - The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum is hosting a collaborative project and exhibition by the Keiskamma Art Project and Artcollab Studio. The project brings attention through the voices of artists to the impact of Gender Based Violence in our society. Courtesy of Artcollab Studio. This project brought five resident artists - Anelisa Nyongo, Nombulelo Paliso,
- [These Stones Will Speak by StartArt Gallery, Windhoek, Namibia](https://artafricamagazine.org/these-stones-will-speak-by-startart-gallery-windhoek-namibia/) - 'These Stones Will Speak' is an exhibition of photography exploring contemporary and historical expressions of freedom with work by Delight Namene, Zabeth Philander, Phoenix Johannes, Rachel Sakeus, Iiyambo Gabriel Iitembu, Papakhi Mburuu, Sage and Tamarah Strauss. Zabeth Philander, Deliverance. Courtesy of StartArt Gallery. This project was initiated by The Embassy of Portugal in Windhoek and
- [Gavin Jantjes: To Be Free! A Retrospective 1970–2023](https://artafricamagazine.org/gavin-jantjes-to-be-free-a-retrospective-1970-2023/) - Exploring the Multifaceted Artistic Practice of Gavin Jantjes: Printmaking, Painting, Activism, and Institutional Influence The premiere of Gavin Jantjes' retrospective in Sharjah marks a significant milestone in his career, showcasing his enduring influence as an artist, activist, and advocate for social liberation. This retrospective delves into Jantjes' artistic evolution, from his figurative representations of the
- ['School of Casablanca' at ifa-Galerie, Berlin, Germany](https://artafricamagazine.org/school-of-casablanca-at-ifa-galerie-berlin-germany/) - 'School of Casablanca' highlights a pivotal moment in Moroccan art history that had wide-ranging implications for the entire region: the beginning of modern art in the now independent country (1956). With contributions by: Bik Van der Pol, Céline Condorelli, Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa and Gilles Aubry, Manuel Raeder, Marion von Osten, Peter Spillmann, Abdeslam Ziou Ziou with Grocco-Trick
- [Olidde Mupipa: Xenson at the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, Kenya](https://artafricamagazine.org/olidde-mupipa-xenson-at-the-nairobi-contemporary-art-instituten-kenya/) - Opening on 4th April 2024, Olidde Mupipa will be Xenson’s first-ever solo exhibition in Nairobi and his first institutional exhibition in East Africa. With an emphasis on sculpture and installation, this exhibition will bring together six newly produced works which broaden Xenson’s exploration of objects and materials, and the stories they tell about the specific
- [Arctic Circle 1982-88: Rasheed Araeen at The Showroom, London, England](https://artafricamagazine.org/arctic-circle-1982-88-rasheed-araeen-at-the-showroom-london-england/) - This new presentation of Rasheed Araeen's seminal work Arctic Circle, 1982-88 was originally conceived and exhibited as part of the artist's solo exhibition 'When The Innocent Begins To Walk The Earth' at The Showroom from October 26th to November 20th 1988. Rasheed Araeen, Arctic Circle, 1982-88 installation at The Showroom, London 2024. Photographer: Dan Weill Rasheed Araeen was commissioned by David
- [OM234 presents 'Oliver Enwonwu: A Continued Legacy' at Mall Galleries, London, England](https://artafricamagazine.org/om234-presents-oliver-enwonwu-a-continued-legacy-at-mall-galleries-london-england/) - This May, OM234 is proud to present 'Oliver Enwonwu: A Continued Legacy', a joint exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sculpture by Oliver Enwonwu and his father, Prof. Ben Enwonwu, MBE, NNOM (1917 – 1994) at Mall Galleries. Oliver Enwonwu painting Agbogho Mmuo (2020). Courtesy of OM234. To coincide with the 30th anniversary of Ben Enwonwu’s
- [An Open Letter to Jochen Zeitz & Mark Coetzee from Matthew Blackman](https://artafricamagazine.org/an-open-letter-to-jochen-zeitz-and-mark-coetzee-matthew-blackman/) - In an open letter to Jochen Zeitz and Mark Coetzee of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), Cape Town, Matthew Blackman addresses a number of critical concerns. From the comments on the original article (which appears on ArtThrob), it would appear that this kind of direct address might be long overdue. Artist's
- [10 things to expect At Comic Con Cape Town](https://artafricamagazine.org/10-things-to-expect-at-comic-con-cape-town/) - It’s Comic Con Cape Town this weekend, and tickets are moving fast! With the first two days already sold out, fans from across the country are coming together to experience pop culture and gaming from Saturday (27 April) to the public holiday next week Wednesday (1 May). Here are ten things to expect from Comic Con Cape Town this weekend. One: International Celebs
- [Entries open for Sasol New Signatures 2024](https://artafricamagazine.org/entries-open-for-sasol-new-signatures-2024/) - Entries are now officially open and the search has begun for South Africa’s new artistic talent in the annual Sasol New Signatures Art Competition 2024. For 34 years, the competition has served as a symbol for unrestricted creativity and artistic exploration in the country's visual arts community. The theme for Sasol New Signatures 2024 campaign
- [Abu Dhabi Art’s Beyond Emerging Artists to exhibit in Venice during Biennale Arte 2024](https://artafricamagazine.org/abu-dhabi-arts-beyond-emerging-artists-to-exhibit-in-venice-during-biennale-arte-2024/) - This will mark the programme’s fourth international presentation of works for Beyond Emerging Artists, and the second iteration of the programme in Venice LEFT TO RIGHT: Latifa Saeed, Almaha Jarrala and Samo Shalaby. Abu Dhabi Art announced that the programme’s Beyond Emerging Artists will be shown during this year’s Venice Biennale. The artists, Almaha Jaralla,
- [Sharjah Art Foundation presents the exhibition 'Drawing Time: Duets'](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundation-presents-the-exhibition-drawing-time-duets/) - New and rarely seen art from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection explores the expanded practice of drawing, delving into the concept of the double Baya, Femme et enfant au paon, 1947. Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photographer: Shafeek Nalakath 'Drawing Time: Duets' presents new and historical works from the Sharjah
- [I Heard the Spirits’ Voices: María Magdalena Campos-Pons at Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany](https://artafricamagazine.org/i-heard-the-spirits-voices-maria-magdalena-campos-pons-at-galerie-barbara-thumm-berlin-germany/) - Born in Matanzas province, Cuba, the renowned interdisciplinary artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons works with performance, painting, photography, video, music, and sculpture. Campos-Pons explores themes of identity, race, gender, diaspora, and spirituality in her work, impulsed by her transcultural Nigerian, Chinese, and Spanish heritage. María Magdalena Campos-Pons, My Mother Told Me I Am Chinese: China Porcelain
- [La Biennale di Venezia 60th International Art Exhibition announces Golden Lion Recipients](https://artafricamagazine.org/la-biennale-di-venezia-60th-international-art-exhibition-announces-golden-lion-recipients/) - The Jury of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, comprising Julia Bryan-Wilson (USA), President of the Jury, Alia Swastika (Indonesia), Chika Okeke-Agulu (Nigeria), Elena Crippa (Italy), María Inés Rodríguez (France/Colombia), has decided to present the following awards: Photographer: Andrea Avezzu Golden Lion for Best National Participation AUSTRALIAkith and kinCommissioner: Creative AustraliaCurator:
- [Turner Prize marks its 40th anniversary with 2024 shortlist announcement](https://artafricamagazine.org/turner-prize-marks-its-40th-anniversary-with-2024-shortlist-announcement/) - Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2024: Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas. Tate Britain. Photographer: Rikard Osterlund An exhibition of their work will be held at Tate Britain from 25 September 2024 to 16 February 2025. This marks the prize’s 40th
- [Olympia Auctions: Modern and Contemporary African and Middle Eastern Art Auction](https://artafricamagazine.org/olympia-auctions-modern-and-contemporary-african-and-middle-eastern-art-auction-2/) - The Modern & Contemporary African and Middle Eastern Art Auction, which will take place on May 1st, will feature celebrated artists and emerging talent from across Africa and the Middle East. Baya Mahieddine (Algerian 1931-1998), L'Aube et le poisson. Gouache and watercolour on paper. Property from a Private Collection, UAE. Estimate: £10,000-£15,000 Since May 2023,
- ['A Home for Something Unknown' at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-home-for-something-unknown-at-neuer-berliner-kunstverein-n-b-k/) - With the exhibition 'A Home for Something Unknown', Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and Haus am Lützowplatz present works by 27 international artists living in Berlin who were awarded the Berlin Senate 2023 visual arts work stipend. © Emeka Okereke The twofold increase in the number of artists receiving this scholarship, as well as the heightened international
- [Lost Threads: Lubaina Himid at The Holburne Museum, England](https://artafricamagazine.org/lost-threads-lubaina-himid-at-the-holburne-museum-england/) - Born in Zanzibar in 1954, Lubaina Himid is a British artist who has dedicated her four-decades-long career to uncovering marginalised and silenced histories, figures, and cultural expressions. Lubaina Himid, Lost Threads, 2024. Dutch wax print fabric. Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London. Photographer: Jo Hounsome In a practice that includes paintings, prints, drawings
- [Obumu (Unity): Leilah Babirye at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England](https://artafricamagazine.org/obumu-unity-leilah-babirye-at-yorkshire-sculpture-park-england/) - On display in the Chapel, Leilah Babirye’s exhibition 'Obumu (Unity)' features new sculptures made at YSP specifically for this exhibition, largely from materials found onsite. Photographer: Jonty Wilde Babirye spent the summer of 2023 at YSP making a clan of seven larger-than-life-size figures in wood and five coloured ceramics. Supported by YSP’s technical team, the seven sculptures
- [Tate launches new programme to increase the representation of Indigenous artists in its collection](https://artafricamagazine.org/tate-launches-new-programme-to-increase-the-representation-of-indigenous-artists-in-its-collection/) - Tate announced a new initiative dedicated to bringing more work by Indigenous artists into its collection. Building on the success of recent acquisitions and custodianship agreements, this strategy seeks to create a step-change in the number of contemporary artists from Indigenous communities around the world whose work is represented at Tate. Installation view of Outi
- [Celebrating Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)](https://artafricamagazine.org/celebrating-faith-ringgold-1930-2024/) - Faith Ringgold (1930-2024): Championing Art, Activism, and Equality Faith in her studio. Photographer: Brad Matthews Faith Ringgold's artistic journey is a vibrant tapestry woven with threads of activism, feminism, and a profound commitment to social justice. Born in 1930 in Harlem, Ringgold received classical training as a painter and sculptor at the City College of
- [1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair announces gallery list for 2024 New York edition](https://artafricamagazine.org/1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair-announces-gallery-list-for-2024-new-york-edition/) - Moving across town to Chelsea, this year’s edition of the fair will see over 30 galleries and 70 artists of the African diaspora coalesce once again in New York City Jared McGriff, Pilots of Machines of Place, 2023. Oil on canvas, 162 x 161cm. Courtesy of Spinello Projects. 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is pleased
- [60th Venice Biennale Collateral Event: The Endless Spiral](https://artafricamagazine.org/60th-venice-biennale-collateral-event-the-endless-spiral/) - Among the official collateral events of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, is the comprehensive exhibition and research project of the Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero, entitled 'The Endless Spiral', organised by the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) from Long Beach. CA and curated by Argentine Gabriela Urtiaga, art historian and researcher,
- [60th Venice Collateral Event: Cosmic Garden](https://artafricamagazine.org/60th-venice-collateral-event-cosmic-garden/) - The Chanakya Foundation and Karishma Swali presents 'Cosmic Garden', a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia Madhvi Parekh, Flying Goddess, 2022. Acrylic on Canvas, 153 x 183cm. Photographer: Abner Fernandes. Private Collection. Courtesy the artist and Chanakya Foundation.© Madhvi Parekh The exhibition ‘Cosmic Garden’ emerges from an ongoing fertile exchange between Indian artists Madhvi Parekh,
- [Africell Luanda Feira de Arte / Luanda Art Fair is Angola’s first art fair](https://artafricamagazine.org/africell-luanda-feira-de-arte-luanda-art-fair-is-angolas-first-art-fair/) - With five exhibitors, a solo show, live art and a talks programme, it will offer a platform for artists through galleries, collectors, curators, critics and journalists in Luanda to structure, add value and create connections at the forefront of contemporary art. Palácio de Ferro. With an intimate experience at the Palácio de Ferro of one
- [African Art in Venice Forum 2024 announces programme](https://artafricamagazine.org/african-art-in-venice-forum-2024-announces-programme/) - The African Art in Venice Forum (AAVF) is a public and free discursive event presented every other year in Venice, Italy during the opening week of the Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte di Venezia. The project provides a new platform to present and discuss topics related to contemporary art from Africa and its diasporas in the cultural,
- [Diriyah Art Futures: Pioneering New Media Arts in the MENA region](https://artafricamagazine.org/diriyah-art-futures-pioneering-new-media-arts-in-the-mena-region/) - A significant cultural renaissance has swept through Saudi Arabia and other countries across the MENA and North African regions in recent years. This revival underscores a growing acknowledgement of art and culture’s profound impact on society, not merely for their inherent value but also for their potential to drive economic prosperity and diversification. Courtesy Schiattarella
- [Barbican’s Lakeside Terrace to be transformed with monumentalnew public commission by Ibrahim Mahama](https://artafricamagazine.org/barbicans-lakeside-terrace-to-be-transformed-with-monumentalnew-public-commission-by-ibrahim-mahama/) - The Barbican is pleased to announce the first large-scale public commission to be presented in the UK by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama (b.1987), opening in April 2024. Transforming the Barbican’s famous Lakeside Terrace, which sits at the heart of the brutalist complex, the site-specific artwork will dramatically envelop the building’s iconic concrete exterior with approximately
- [The Walking House: Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi at UJ Art Gallery, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-walking-house-mmakgabo-helen-sebidi-at-uj-art-gallery-south-africa/) - The University of Johannesburg Art Gallery in partnership with Everard Read Gallery and the Embassy of Sweden Pretoria, proudly presents: ‘Ntlo E Etsamayang’ (The Walking House), a compelling exhibition co-curated by Gabriel Baard and Prof. Kim Berman. This exhibition honours the remarkable artistic journey and commitment to Indigenous Knowledge Systems of Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi. Opening
- [60th Venice Biennale Collateral Event: In Praise of Black Errantry](https://artafricamagazine.org/venice-collateral-event-in-praise-of-black-errantry/) - Unit presents an exhibition that celebrates the radical Black imagination during the 60th Venice Biennale Romare Bearden, Seance, 1984-86. Watercolour and gouache on paper, 74.3 x 54.93cm. Courtesy of Unit. During the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, Unit will present 'In Praise of Black Errantry '(17 April–29 June), a group exhibition celebrating the radical Black
- [60th Venice Biennale Collateral Event: The Gwangju Biennale opens a communal forum in Venice](https://artafricamagazine.org/venice-collateral-event-the-gwangju-biennale-opens-a-communal-forum-in-venice/) - ‘Madang: Where We Become Us’, Gwangju Biennale Foundation’s 30th-anniversary special archive exhibition, highlights the Biennale’s role in the contemporary art scene as an open forum dedicated to the values of democracy, human rights, and community. Nam June Paik, Dolmen, Installation View, 1995. Courtesy Gwangju Biennale Foundation. Gwangju Biennale Foundation (President Yang-Woo Park) is pleased to announce the
- ['Taste of a Distant Paradise' by Douglas Knesse](https://artafricamagazine.org/taste-of-a-distant-paradise-by-douglas-knesse-david-altman-cape-town-art-residency/) - Between Chaos and Paradise Installation view of 'Taste of a Distant Paradise' by Douglas Knesse at Cape Town Art Residency. Photographer: Julia Neves For many, art is more than just strokes on a canvas; it's a medium through which the soul speaks, a conduit for emotions too profound for words. Such is the case for
- [Spier Light Art 2024](https://artafricamagazine.org/spier-light-art-2024/) - Brighten your senses at the 6th iteration of the festival A visit to Stellenbosch's wine country is indeed a feast for the senses, but throwing a light art show into the mix becomes an unforgettable experience. Moreover, the university's presence adds a dynamic element to the experience, fostering a space for intellectual exchange and dialogue.
- [‘Personal Structures - Beyond Boundaries’ presented by the European Cultural Centre at the 60th Venice Biennale](https://artafricamagazine.org/personal-structures-beyond-boundaries-presented-by-the-european-cultural-centre-at-the-60th-venice-biennale/) - The European Cultural Centre (ECC) presents the seventh edition of 'Personal Structures' which will open in Venice, Italy, on the 20th of April and run until the 24th of November, 2024. Lunita-July Dorn, Occhio, Malocchio, Prezzemolo e Finocchio (Auge, böses Auge, Petersilie und Fenchel), 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Destinee Ross-Sutton “Delving into the
- [MTN SA Foundation and the Imbali Visual Literacy Project launch new Adventuring Into Art content, revolutionising art education across South Africa and the world](https://artafricamagazine.org/mtn-sa-foundation-and-the-imbali-visual-literacy-project-launch-new-adventuring-into-art-content-revolutionising-art-education-across-south-africa-and-the-world/) - The MTN SA Foundation and the Imbali Visual Literacy Project celebrate their enduring partnership with the launch of new video content for the Adventuring Into Art website. This partnership, spanning over 23 years, has received recognition from the Business & Arts South Africa (BASA) Awards more than once, for its contributions to increasing access to
- [The Non-Art Crowd: Eclectica Contemporary presents artists from different corners of the African continent](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-non-art-crowd-eclectica-contemporary-presents-artists-from-different-corners-of-the-african-continent/) - African matters, in this case its art, is a fraught wager, given the burden of history, immoral expediency, fetishism, and a greater range of prejudicial and projected perceptions as to what Africa, a benighted continent, might mean for the world. Here, I must show my hand, and return to Steve Bantu Biko’s prophecy, that Africa
- [60th Venice Biennale Collateral Event: All African People’s Consulate](https://artafricamagazine.org/60th-venice-biennale-collateral-event-all-african-peoples-consulate/) - Cristin Tierney Gallery has announced Dread Scott’s conceptual artwork, the All African People’s Consulate, as a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Dread Scott, All African People’s Consulate (detail of passport interior), 2024. Participatory installation. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York. This project is organised by
- [60th Venice Biennale Collateral Event: swell of spæc(i)es](https://artafricamagazine.org/60th-venice-biennale-collateral-event-swell-of-spaecies/) - LAS Art Foundation announced a major new commission by artist, performer and writer Josèfa Ntjam. Josèfa Ntjam, swell of spæc(i)es, 2024. Film render. Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation. Courtesy the artist; LAS Art Foundation; Galerie Poggi, Paris; and NıCOLETTı, London © ADAGP, Paris, 2024 The itinerant foundation’s first project to be presented outside of Berlin,
- [Venice Collateral Exhibition: Passengers in Transit](https://artafricamagazine.org/venice-collateral-exhibition-passengers-in-transit/) - The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos), founded by Bisi Silva - is pleased to announce ‘Passengers in Transit’, an exhibition bringing together five Afrodescent female artists from Africa, the Caribbean and the USA, as a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. © Joanna Choumali The selected
- [Reverberações: Mudi Yahaya at MUNCAB - National Museum of Afro-Brazilian Culture](https://artafricamagazine.org/reverberacoes-mudi-yahaya-at-muncab-national-museum-of-afro-brazilian-culture/) - For the exhibition 'Reverberações - Reflecting The African Impression Of Memory', contemporary artist Mudi Yahaya uses photography as a means of artistic research. With it, he traces the question of how African societies, which were at the centre of the transatlantic slave trade, were, directly and indirectly, influenced over the centuries in ways that affected
- [The Lebanese Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-lebanese-pavilion-at-the-60th-venice-biennale/) - The Lebanese Ministry of culture has entrusted Mrs. Nada Ghandour, Heritage Curator, with the project of Lebanon's participation in the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Mounira Al Solh, 2023. Photo by Whitten Sabatini © Whitten Sabatini The Lebanese Pavilion has invited Mounira Al Solh (Beirut, 1978) to create a bridge between
- [Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung appointed chief curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo](https://artafricamagazine.org/bonaventure-soh-bejeng-ndikung-appointed-chief-curator-of-the-36th-bienal-de-sao-paulo/) - Fundação Bienal de São Paulo is pleased to announce that Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung will be the chief curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, scheduled for the second half of 2025 Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung © Jana Edisonga / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo Born in 1977 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is
- [The United Republic of Tanzania at the 60th Venice Biennale](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-united-republic-of-tanzania-at-the-60th-venice-biennale/) - The four artists who will occupy the four mirrored "imaginary rooms" within the location of the "Fabbrica del Vedere" – already a syncretic place of encounter between stories, arts, people, and cultures – will interpret, through their particular sensibilities, the themes of travel, encounter, re-definition of the self, and comprehensive mediation. Haji Chilonga, Lutengano (Lute)
- [The Absa L'Atelier Ambassdors 2023](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-absa-latelier-ambassdors-2023/) - The Absa L'Atelier art competition is a leading Pan-African art competition. The competition, which has been running for 37 years this year, is hosted annually by Absa in partnership with the South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA). We speak to this year's winners. Edward Lawerh (Group A, Ghana) Edward Lawerh is a
- ['Introspection as Resistance' by Mehdi Moutashar](https://artafricamagazine.org/introspection-as-resistance-by-mehdi-moutashar/) - Exploring themes within geometric abstraction © Suzette Bell-Roberts The exhibition at the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, curated by Amin Alsaden, is Mehdi Moutashar's first solo show in Qatar. It showcases new and existing works by the artist in various mediums, exploring themes within geometric abstraction and connecting these to memories of 'home', all while
- ['Counting Fingers' by Hana El-Sagini](https://artafricamagazine.org/counting-fingers-by-hana-el-sagini/) - An intimate perspective on trauma © Suzette Bell-Roberts In this major solo exhibition at 421, Abu Dhabi, Hana El-Sagini presents a newly commissioned large-scale installation rooted in the instability and fragility of the human experience. The installation showcases over 200 fantastical ceramic objects envisioning a strange world where humans, animals, plants, and inanimate objects blend
- [MAGNIN-A Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of Moke's historical works](https://artafricamagazine.org/magnin-a-gallery-presents-the-first-solo-exhibition-of-mokes-historical-works/) - In Kinshasa in the 60s, the arts were the preserve of students trained at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. From the 70s onwards, critics discovered a particular genre of painting that the 'Art Partout' exhibition revealed to the general public. Moke, Untitled, 1977. Oil on flour sack from the matadi flour mill, 96 x 88.5cm. Photo
- [Wael Shawky to represent Egypt at the 60th Venice Biennale](https://artafricamagazine.org/wael-shawky-to-represent-egypt-at-the-60th-venice-biennale/) - The Alexandrian-born artist Wael Shawky (b. 1971) will represent Egypt at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Wael Shawky, 2022. © Lien Wevers for M Leuven. Courtesy of Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Lisson Gallery, Galleria Lia Rumma, and Barakat Contemporary A natural storyteller, Shawky takes historical and literary references as starting points for his
- [1-54 presents 'Coalescent Lights' at Christie's Hong Kong](https://artafricamagazine.org/1-54-presents-coalescent-lights-at-christies-hong-kong/) - Coalescent Lights curated by Kami Gahiga celebrates distinguished luminaries who share a history of showcasing at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Ouattara Watts, Intercessor #5, 2022. Mixed media on canvas, 122 x 122cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Cécile Fakhoury (Abidjan, Dakar, Paris). This third iteration of the 1-54 Presents series marks its inaugural
- [Artworks to be auctioned as fund-raiser for Vusi Beauchamp](https://artafricamagazine.org/artworks-to-be-auctioned-as-fund-raiser-for-vusi-beauchamp/) - Kalashnikovv Gallery and Aspire Art will host an exhibition to help pay for Beauchamp's heart operation Studio Portrait of Vusi Beauchamp, 2022. Photographer: Amé Bell One of SA’s most critically acclaimed artists, Vusi Beauchamp, is suffering severe heart failure. With his organs shutting down, 44-year-old Beauchamp needs urgent surgery, which will be performed by the
- [Open Call: Fourth edition of the ellipse Prize dedicated to Benin](https://artafricamagazine.org/open-call-fourth-edition-of-the-ellipse-prize-dedicated-to-benin/) - The endowment fund launches the new edition of the ellipse Prize, dedicated to African artists living in Benin and to Beninese artists living on the African continent. Courtesy of ellipse art projects Initiated in 2021, the ellipse Prize is an itinerant visual art competition that highlights emerging artists from a different territory each year. After
- [Get us to the Venice Biennale 2024](https://artafricamagazine.org/get-us-to-the-venice-biennale-2024/) - Support ART AFRICA's trip to the Venice Biennale 2024 to cover African and diasporic participation in this prestigious event. Gabriel Chaile at the Arsenale. The ART AFRICA team will visit the Biennale from the 16th until the 23rd of April during the media opening period. Our mission is to cover the event with insightful video
- [Contemporary Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Urgessa selected for the first Pavilion of Ethiopia at the 60th Venice Biennale](https://artafricamagazine.org/contemporary-ethiopian-artist-tesfaye-urgessa-selected-for-the-first-pavilion-of-ethiopia-at-the-60th-venice-biennale/) - Contemporary artist Tesfaye Urgessa will represent Ethiopia at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024, marking the country’s inaugural participation. Award-winning author and broadcaster Lemn Sissay OBE FRSL has been appointed as the curator for this historical moment. Portrait of Tesfaye Urgessa. Courtesy of Tesfaye Urgessa and Saatchi Yates. Photographer:
- [The Republic of Cameroon returns to the spotlight at the 60th Venice Biennale](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-republic-of-cameroon-returns-to-the-spotlight-at-the-60th-venice-biennale/) - After its debut in 2022, the Republic of Cameroon returns to the spotlight at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, with the project “Nemo propheta in patria,” which invites 5 Cameroonian artists and 8 international artists from Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Colombia, and China. Hako Hankson, Days of celebration. Acrylic
- [Sutha Ke Fete: The Art of the Basotho Blanket at the Sanlam Art Gallery, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/sutha-ke-fete-the-art-of-the-basotho-blanket-at-the-sanlam-art-gallery-south-africa/) - Sutha ke Fete means ‘make way so I may pass’ in Sesotho; an invitation to make way for an imagined passerby, wrapped in a richly decorated heritage blanket. This is the title of the first-ever exhibition of the globally iconic Basotho blankets in the Western Cape, presented by Sanlam in collaboration with the National Museum
- [Lady in Blue: Tschabalala Self pays homage to metropolitan woman of colour](https://artafricamagazine.org/lady-in-blue-tschabalala-self-pays-homage-to-metropolitan-woman-of-colour/) - American artist Tschabalala Self has been named the next artist to showcase her sculpture on London's Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Set for unveiling in 2026, Self's installation promises to ignite the imagination and stir the soul of onlookers from across the globe. A maquette of the work that will be placed on the Fourth
- [Woori Festival 2024: Weaving a Sustainable Future for the Next Generation at Nubuke Foundation, Ghana](https://artafricamagazine.org/woori-festival-2024-weaving-a-sustainable-future-for-the-next-generation-at-nubuke-foundation-ghana/) - The city of Wa in the Upper West region of Ghana is set to host the Woori 2024 Festival, an annual event that celebrates the rich heritage of Ghanaian weaving and textiles. Courtesy of Woori Festival Organised by the Nubuke Foundation Centre for Textiles and Clay in Loho, Wa, this year’s festival is themed Weaving a Sustainable
- [Projecting Congo: Pan-African Arts and Archives at CIVA, Brussels, Belgium](https://artafricamagazine.org/projecting-congo-pan-african-arts-and-archives-at-civa-brussels-belgium/) - Congolese rumba and Lumumba as an international icon of resistance are some of the best-known examples of the Congolese addition to pan-African thought. However, the country’s contributions to feminism and quilombismo, an emancipatory philosophy that originated in Afro-Brazilian communities, are less recognised. Nelson Louis, Je peux pas j’ai indépendance, 2022. Collection Neirinck This one-day conference
- [Open Call: 14th Bamako Encounters – African Biennial of Photography](https://artafricamagazine.org/open-call-14th-bamako-encounters-african-biennial-of-photography/) - The 14th Bamako Encounters – African Biennial of Photography will be held from 16 November 2024 to 15 January 2025 in Bamako, Mali. This call is open to African and Diaspora artists, photographers, and videographers, amateurs, or professionals, individuals or collective, with no limit of age or nationality. This 14th edition celebrates the 30th anniversary of the
- [Unlocking Creative Futures: Apply for the innovative Emerging New Media Artists Programme](https://artafricamagazine.org/unlocking-creative-futures-apply-for-the-innovative-emerging-new-media-artists-programme/) - In the heart of the Middle East, where the sands of time meet the cutting-edge of technology, a beacon of creative exploration is emerging. Diriyah Art Futures (DAF), Saudi Arabia’s pioneering arts, research and education centre, invites the next generation of artistic visionaries to embark on a transformative journey through its Emerging New Media Artists
- [Political Theorist Achille Mbembe named 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate](https://artafricamagazine.org/political-theorist-achille-mbembe-named-2024-holberg-prize-laureate/) - The Holberg Prize – one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology – named Cameroonian scholar Achille Mbembe as its 2024 Laureate. Professor Achille Mbembe. Photographer: Chanté Schatz, University of the Witwatersrand. Achille Mbembe is research professor of history and politics at the
- [Make Do and Mend: Lubaina Himid at The Contemporary Austin, Texas, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/make-do-and-mend-lubaina-himid-at-the-contemporary-austin-texas-united-states/) - Lubaina Himid (b. 1954, Zanzibar; lives and works in Preston, UK) is the recipient of the 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, which is envisioned as a transformative award for the artist and the community in Austin. Lubaina Himid, Pointless Heroism, 2023. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 183 x 183cm. Courtesy the artist and Hollybush
- [Igshaan Adams creates a new, site-specific installation for the ICA/Boston’s Art Wall opening February 13, 2024 ](https://artafricamagazine.org/igshaan-adams-creates-a-new-site-specific-installation-for-the-ica-bostons-art-wall-opening-february-13-2024/) - The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) unveils a monumental, site-specific commission by multidisciplinary artist Igshaan Adams. Installation view of Samesyn, by Igshaan Adams during the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible © Levi Fanan / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo Adams’s woven tapestries point to the interconnectedness of the artist’s spirituality, familial
- [The traveling exhibitions program of the 35th Bienal de São Paulo will win over Brazil and the world, launching internationally in Argentina](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-traveling-exhibitions-program-of-the-35th-bienal-de-sao-paulo-will-win-over-brazil-and-the-world-launching-internationally-in-argentina/) - After critical and public success in São Paulo in 2023, Fundação Bienal takes choreographies of the impossible to over ten cities, with its first international foray in Buenos Aires at Malba and Palacio Pereda Exhibition view of the work of Manuel Chavajay during the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible. © Levi Fanan / Fundação
- [Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940 at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/surrealism-and-us-caribbean-and-african-diasporic-artists-since-1940-at-the-modern-art-museum-of-fort-worth-texas-united-states/) - Organised by curator María Elena Ortiz, 'Surrealism and Us' is inspired by the history of Surrealism in the Caribbean with connections to notions of the Afro-surreal in the United States. Representing a global perspective, this exhibition is the first intergenerational show dedicated to Caribbean and African diasporic art presented at the Modern. Bony Ramirez, Clean Up, After the Storm, 2020.
- [Amina Agueznay wins the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2024 Grand Prize](https://artafricamagazine.org/amina-agueznay-wins-the-norval-sovereign-african-art-prize-2024-grand-prize/) - Norval Foundation and The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF) have announced the latest winner for the 2024 iteration of the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, crowning Amina Ageuznay the Grand Prize Winner. Portrait of Amina Ageuznay. © Hazem Treasure During the private exhibition opening dedicated to the finalists for the NSAAP, the Moroccan artist was pronounced the grand
- [Kingdom of Morocco Named as Qatar’s 2024 Years of Culture Partner](https://artafricamagazine.org/kingdom-of-morocco-named-as-qatars-2024-years-of-culture-partner/) - Year long Cultural Initiative to Strengthen the Relationship between the Nations and their People with Program of Major Art Exhibitions, Festivals, Educational Partnerships, and More 100 - HUNDRED BEST ARABIC POSTERS, Taken in Abu Dhabi, UAE at 421, by Regina Rammelt, February 2023. Years of Culture, which spearheads long-term cultural exchanges between Qatar and other nations,
- [In the Desert Garden: Ahmed Yasser at Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art, Egypt](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-the-desert-garden-ahmed-yasser-at-mashrabia-gallery-of-contemporary-art-egypt/) - Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art presents Ahmed Yasser’s first solo exhibition, 'In The Desert Garden'. Ahmed Yasser, In The Desert Garden, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art. 'In the Desert Garden' follows the relationship between various places and their events through a trip that starts at home and passes through the street, the city, and
- [First major international survey of artist and activist Lala Rukh premieres at Sharjah Art Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/first-major-international-survey-of-artist-and-activist-lala-rukh-premieres-at-sharjah-art-foundation/) - 'Lala Rukh: In the Round' reflects on three decades of the artist’s work produced against a backdrop of political and feminist movements in Pakistan Lala Rukh, River in an ocean: 6, 1993. Image courtesy of the Estate of Lala Rukh and Grey Noise, Dubai This February, Sharjah Art Foundation unveils 'Lala Rukh: In the Round',
- [On the Edge of Past Future: Aïda Muluneh at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany](https://artafricamagazine.org/on-the-edge-of-past-future-aida-muluneh-at-fotografie-forum-frankfurt-germany/) - With vibrant colours and an extraordinary visual language, the artist Aïda Muluneh focuses on the unequal distribution of existential resources such as water, food and education, the abuse of power and human rights and the empowerment of women. Aida Muluneh, Star Shine, Moon Glow from the series 'Water Life', 2018. Commissioned by WaterAid and supported
- [Toni Morrison Symposium at The Africa Hall, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates](https://artafricamagazine.org/toni-morrison-symposium-at-the-africa-hall-sharjah-united-arab-emirates/) - The Africa Institute, Global Studies University (GSU) (Sharjah, UAE) – a center for research, documentation, and study of Africa and its diaspora – will host a two-day symposium celebrating the life and legacy of literary icon Toni Morrison on February 28-29, 2024, at The Africa Hall, in Sharjah. The program will also be recorded and
- [Intertwined: Wangechi Mutu at New Orleans Museum of Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/intertwined-wangechi-mutu-at-new-orleans-museum-of-art/) - This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan–American artist’s multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. Wangechi Mutu, Lizard Love, 2006. Mixed media, ink, spray paint, and collage on Mylar, 63.5 x 54.6cm and 71.8 x
- [Art Dubai announces gallery line-up for 17th edition](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-dubai-announces-gallery-line-up-for-17th-edition/) - Art Dubai announced the list of participating exhibitors for its 2024 edition, which will take place at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai from 1-3 March 2024, with previews on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 February. Courtesy of Art Dubai. Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister
- ['Only Ruins To Be Found' at La Boîte, Tunisia](https://artafricamagazine.org/only-ruins-to-be-found-at-la-boite-tunisia/) - In January 2024, architect Chacha Atallah and La Boîte – an alternative art platform in Tunis – will present their programming surrounding the Villa Baizeau, an illustrious residence in Carthage, designed by the renowned architect Le Corbusier. Only Ruins To Be Found / Seules Les Ruines Demeurent. Credit: FLC ADAGP The villa was built in
- ['Feed me not' at ARTCO Gallery, Germany](https://artafricamagazine.org/feed-me-not-at-artco-gallery-germany/) - 'Feed me not' is an exhibition, that brings together a diverse group of artists and designers questioning the relationship to materials, information and emotions that we are confronted with beyond our personal choice. Maurice Mbikayi, Mask of Heterotopia 3, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and ARTCO Gallery. By processing these both subjectively and critically, they offer
- [Mark of Cane: Kat Anderson at Nunnery Gallery, United Kingdom](https://artafricamagazine.org/mark-of-cane-kat-anderson-at-nunnery-gallery-united-kingdom/) - Bow Arts presents a solo exhibition by Kat Anderson, winner of the inaugural East London Art Prize, at the Nunnery Gallery. Kat Anderson, Las, Fiya’ (‘Last, Fire’), 2024. DoP: Edward PG Tucker. Colourist: Lulu Colour Anderson will premiere a fictional short film and new paperworks which explore the impact of sugar on the African-Caribbean Diaspora.
- [Global opportunities for Young Artists: Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Culture opens applications for 'Emerging New Media Artists' educational programme](https://artafricamagazine.org/global-opportunities-for-young-artists-saudi-arabias-ministry-of-culture-opens-applications-for-emerging-new-media-artists-educational-programme/) - The exciting educational programme will be hosted in the soon-to-open Diriyah Art Futures centre, the region’s first facility dedicated to New Media Arts The Saudi Ministry of Culture has announced a call for applications for its ‘Emerging New Media Artist’ Programme, set to take place at the soon-to-open Diriyah Art Futures (DAF) centre. The programme, which is targeted at emerging creatives from within the region and beyond,
- [GREENHOUSE to represent Portugal at the 60th Venice Biennale](https://artafricamagazine.org/greenhouse-to-represent-portugal-at-the-60th-venice-biennale/) - GREENHOUSE, the collective project by Mónica de Miranda, Sónia Vaz Borges, and Vânia Gala, will represent Portugal at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The theme of this edition is "Foreigners Everywhere," and the exhibition will be open to the public from April 20 to November 24, 2024, at Palazzo Franchetti
- [Ojuelegba: Emeka Ogboh at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/ojuelegba-emeka-ogboh-at-cantor-fitzgerald-gallery-united-states/) - 'Ojuelegba' is a new multi-sensory installation from renowned Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh. Inspired by the district Ojuelegba in the heart of Lagos, Nigeria, Ogboh’s installation envisions an immersive experience where sight and sound entwine. Ojuelegba, 2023. © Emeka Ogboh. Visual elements drawn from random selections of Ojuelegba’s environment synchronise with the rhythmic cadences of Ogboh’s album 6°30′33.372″N
- [Palais de Tokyo presents 'Dislocations'](https://artafricamagazine.org/palais-de-tokyo-presents-dislocations/) - The 'Dislocations' exhibition brings together fifteen artists from different generations and backgrounds (Afghanistan, France, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Myanmar, Palestine, Syria and Ukraine) whose work is marked or informed by the experience of exile, of being torn between here and there, between past and present. Bissane Al Charif, "Pianola" series, 2022-23. Mixed media on paper,
- ['Seeds and Souls' at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen](https://artafricamagazine.org/seeds-and-souls-at-kunsthal-charlottenborg-copenhagen/) - The exhibition 'Seeds and Souls' proposes new explorations into the connections between botanical histories, colonial legacies and diasporic experiences. Sonia Boyce, Crop Over, 2007, Shaggy Bear, 2021. Installation view, 'Seeds and Souls', Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2023, curated by Christine Eyene. Photography: David Stjernholm. Presented at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, which was built in the late 19th century on the grounds of Copenhagen’s then botanical
- [March Meeting 2024: Tawashujat explores the role of collective artistic practice](https://artafricamagazine.org/march-meeting-2024-tawashujat-explores-the-role-of-collective-artistic-practice/) - Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual convening generates dialogue around collaborative efforts to create more inclusive, equitable and sustainable futures The 2024 edition of March Meeting (MM 2024) examines how art collectives interweave artmaking and forms of collaboration. The expanded format features more than 80 global artists, art professionals and academics who will gather for discussions of
- [transfeminism: Chapter 1 at Mimosa House, United Kingdom](https://artafricamagazine.org/transfeminism-chapter-1-at-mimosa-house-united-kingdom/) - Mimosa House presents the first chapter of 'transfeminisms', a major survey touring show, that brings to light a multiplicity of urgent, pressing and ongoing issues faced by women, queer and trans people across the globe. Zainab Fasiki, VAGINISMUS, 2021. Courtesy of Mimosa House. The first chapter (8 March–20 April 2024) will feature works by Zainab Fasiki,
- [The 2024 South African Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-2024-south-african-pavilion-at-the-60th-international-art-exhibition-la-biennale-di-venezia/) - The South African Pavilion is readying for the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (20 April- 24 November 2024), where the country will present an exhibition with a bold message for the world today. LEFT TO RIGHT: Dr. Portia Malatjie, MADEYOULOOK (Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho) Titled Quiet Ground, is curated by Portia
- [Dhai Dubai illuminates Al Wasl Plaza](https://artafricamagazine.org/dhai-dubai-illuminates-al-wasl-plaza/) - 'Dhai Dubai' brings an exciting burst of cultural vibrancy to Dubai's cultural calendar. Curators Amna Abulhoul, a fervent advocate for Dubai's culture, and Australian luminary Anthony Bastic AM create an installation that blends light, texture, and narrative, echoing the essence of Dubai's heritage. "Here, I orchestrate symphonies of sight and sound that transport audiences to
- [Choreographies of the Impossible: Bienal de São Paulo](https://artafricamagazine.org/choreographies-of-the-impossible-bienal-de-sao-paulo/) - "Understood in the context of the 35th Bienal de São Paulo these choreographies of returns, movements of the impossible, are as temporalities that are realised in episteme at each movement that seeks to escape the rigidity of this world torn apart by the daily life of the rites and practices of total violence and which
- [Sharjah Art Foundation in collaboration with The Africa Institute and Sharjah Museums Authority presents major solo exhibition of Telsem Art by Henok Melkamzer](https://artafricamagazine.org/sharjah-art-foundation-in-collaboration-with-the-africa-institute-and-sharjah-museums-authority-presents-major-solo-exhibition-of-telsem-art-by-henok-melkamzer/) - Exhibition features over 100 works showcasing the Ethiopian art form, many on view for the first time Henok Melkamzer working in his studio, 2023. Photographer: Michael Tsegaye Sharjah Art Foundation, in collaboration with The Africa Institute, Global Studies University (GSU), and Sharjah Museums Authority, presents Henok Melkamzer’s first international solo exhibition of Ethiopian telsem art
- [60th Venice Biennale announces over 300 artists for the 2024 Edition, Titled ‘Foreigners Everywhere’](https://artafricamagazine.org/60th-venice-biennale-announces-over-300-artists-for-the-2024-edition-titled-foreigners-everywhere/) - The 60th International Art Exhibition, titled 'Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere', will open to the public from Saturday April 20 to Sunday November 24, 2024, at the Giardini and the Arsenale; it will be curated by Adriano Pedrosa and organised by La Biennale di Venezia. The pre-opening will take place on April 17, 18 and
- [The Saudi Arabia Pavilion announces curators for the 60th Venice Biennale Arte 2024](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-saudi-arabia-pavilion-announces-curators-for-the-60th-venice-biennale-arte-2024/) - Curators Jessica Cerasi and Maya El Khalil and assistant curator Shadin AlBulaihed will work with artist Manal AlDowayan on the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia for the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2024 LEFT TO RIGHT: Maya El Khalil, 2023. Photo: Tash Nellist. Courtesy of the curators and the Visual
- [MTN SA Foundation and the Voices of Women (VoW) Museum celebrate another partnershipmilestone with the launch of the VoW Museum website.](https://artafricamagazine.org/mtn-sa-foundation-and-the-voices-of-women-vow-museum-celebrate-another-partnershipmilestone-with-the-launch-of-the-vow-museum-website/) - Now in its twelfth year, the Voices of Women Museum (VoWM) established by Voices of Women is a small but significant initiative featuring narratives and textiles, exhibitions, concepts, and ideas by, for, and of women. The body of work forms a collective voice of untold stories and women less heard; and is situated within the
- [Royal Museum for Central Africa presents 'ReThinking Collections, Belgium](https://artafricamagazine.org/royal-museum-for-central-africa-presents-rethinking-collections-belgium/) - How do we trace the origin of collections? What new insights can be gleaned from these provenances? And what should become of such collections, within and beyond museum walls? 'ReThinking Collections', a new temporary exhibition on provenance research, opened its doors at the AfricaMuseum. 'ReThinking Collections' is a new temporary exhibition devoted to provenance research. Most
- [Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art at Barbican, United Kingdom](https://artafricamagazine.org/unravel-the-power-and-politics-of-textiles-in-art-at-barbican-united-kingdom/) - Textiles weave through our everyday lives yet remain one of the most under-examined mediums in art history and contemporary practice. The universality of fabric has made it a potent messenger across global contexts – whether communicating personal stories or conveying hidden messages. Embedded in a single thread is the material history of the medium, revealing
- [Lesley Lokko Receives Royal Gold Medal 2024 for Architecture](https://artafricamagazine.org/lesley-lokko-receives-royal-gold-medal-2024-for-architecture/) - One of the world’s highest honours in architecture goes to architect, educator, author and curator Lesley Lokko. Professor Lesley Lokko, Royal Gold Medallist 2024. Credit: Murdo Macleod Professor Lesley Lokko, acclaimed Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, author and curator, will receive this year’s Royal Gold Medal 2024, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture. Given in
- [Then I Knew I was Good at Painting: Esther Mahlangu at Iziko Museums of South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/then-i-knew-i-was-good-at-painting-esther-mahlangu-at-iziko-museums-of-south-africa/) - Curated by Nontobeko Ntombela, the exhibition highlights Dr Esther Mahlangu’s over 50-year long career and her meteoric rise as a contemporary artist, earning her global acclaim. Esther Mahlangu, Ndebele Abstract, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 180cm diameter. Image courtesy of the artist and The Melrose Gallery The monumental retrospective will be open to the public at
- [Expo City Dubai to launch first ever Dhai Dubai light art festival in January 2024](https://artafricamagazine.org/expo-city-dubai-to-launch-first-ever-dhai-dubai-light-art-festival-in-january-2024/) - The Dhai Dubai light art festival is set to launch in Expo City Dubai and illuminate Al Wasl Plaza in January 2024. Running from January 26 to February 4, 2024, the festival will unveil a radiant cultural experience that bridges art, culture, and the profound influence of light. Organised by Expo City Dubai, in strategic
- [1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair announces expansion to Marrakech Medina for their biggest fair to date on the African continent](https://artafricamagazine.org/1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair-announces-expansion-to-marrakech-medina-for-their-biggest-fair-to-date-on-the-african-continent/) - 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, the world’s leading platform for contemporary art from Africa and the African diaspora, is delighted to announce details of the upcoming Marrakech edition from 8-11 February 2024 (Press preview 8 February). For the first time, 1-54 will take place both at La Mamounia hotel and multidisciplinary art space DaDa in
- [Giro: Luana Vitra at Instituto Inhotim, Brazil](https://artafricamagazine.org/giro-luana-vitra-at-instituto-inhotim-brazil/) - Luana Vitra inaugurates the new vocation of the Marcenaria Gallery, which will now host temporary exhibitions Luana Vitra. © Suzette Bell-Roberts Luana Vitra grew up in Contagem, a mining town in the region of Minas Gerais, a state of Brazil rich in natural mineral resources. Throughout her childhood, she took careful note of the stories
- [Spaces of Subjection: Meleko Mokgosi at Jack Shainman](https://artafricamagazine.org/spaces-of-subjection-meleko-mokgosi-at-jack-shainman/) - Jack Shainman Gallery presents an exhibition of recent work by Meleko Mokgosi for his ongoing project 'Spaces of Subjection' (2020-present). Comprised of paintings and prints, this project examines the notions of space outside of the confines of figuration and perspectival representation. Meleko Mokgosi, Spaces of Subjection: Black Painting III, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman. 'Spaces of Subjection' brings
- [SFMOMA announces major commission by artist Kara Walker](https://artafricamagazine.org/sfmoma-announces-major-commission-by-artist-kara-walker/) - Site-specific installation created for museum’s expansive, admission-free Roberts Family Gallery Kara Walker. Photographer: Ari Marcopoulos. Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) today announced that it has commissioned artist Kara Walker to create the first site-specific installation for its admission-free, street-level Roberts Family Gallery. Walker has long been recognised
- [Pacita Abad at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/pacita-abad-at-the-san-francisco-museum-of-modern-art/) - Experience vibrant works by a daring artist who traveled the world. Pacita Abad with her trapunto painting Ati-Atihan, 1983, wearing garments and jewelry collected on her travels; courtesy Pacita Abad Art Estate The first retrospective of Pacita Abad (born 1946, Basco, Philippines; died 2004, Singapore) features more than 40 works including her signature trapunto paintings: stuffed, quilted canvases Abad
- [In the Presence of Light: Melaku Ayele at Addis Fine Art, Ethiopia](https://artafricamagazine.org/in-the-presence-of-light-melaku-ayele-at-addis-fine-art-ethiopia/) - Addis Fine Art presents Melaku Ayele's solo exhibition. Melaku Ayele, Bronze Tip, 2019. Mixed Media, 71 x 71cm. Courtesy of the artist and Addis Fine Art. The works in 'In the Presence of Light' were produced in the past six years, inspired by Melaku's lived experiences and his perspective on modern society. Each piece is intentional and precise,
- [Anozero’24 - Bienal de Coimbra unveils the title of its fifth edition ](https://artafricamagazine.org/anozero24-bienal-de-coimbra-unveils-the-title-of-its-fifth-edition/) - Curators Ángel Calvo Ulloa and Marta Mestre are delighted to announce THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY as the title for the forthcoming edition of Anozero - Bienal de Coimbra. The exterior of the Mosteiro de Santa Clara-a-Nova in Coimbra, Portugal, one of the sites for the Anozero'24-Bienal de Coimbra. Courtesy of Anozero–Bienal de Coimbra. ©Jorge das Neves The Bienal is set to unfold across the
- [A Glimpse of the Extraordinary: 'Woven Sensibilities' Revealed by the 2022 Absa L’Atelier Ambassadors](https://artafricamagazine.org/a-glimpse-of-the-extraordinary-woven-sensibilities-revealed-by-the-2022-absa-latelier-ambassadors/) - Art enthusiasts have the opportunity to witness a memorable showcase of creative minds as the 2022 Absa L’Atelier Ambassadors come together for a unique exhibition entitled 'Woven Sensibilities'. The exhibition opened at the Absa Gallery in Johannesburg on Thursday, 2 November and will run to 24 January 2024. Taofeek Badru and Chelsea Selvan. Courtesy of
- [The Standard Bank Young Artist Award winners for 2023 have been announced](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-standard-bank-young-artist-award-winners-for-2023-have-been-announced/) - 2023 Standard Bank Young Artist Awards winners highlight art’s role as a progressive force for growth LEFT TO RIGHT: Darren English (Jazz), Lorin Sookool (Dance), Stephané Conradie (Visual Art), Zoe Modiga (Music), Kgomotso ‘MoMo’ Matsunyane (Theatre), Angel Ho (Performance Art) The 2023 Standard Bank Young Artist (SBYA) Award winners have been announced: they collectively represent
- [The Brooklyn Museum Presents 'Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys'](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-brooklyn-museum-presents-giants-art-from-the-dean-collection-of-swizz-beatz-and-alicia-keys/) - Exhibition features over 100 major artworks by important Black American, African, and African diasporic artists including Gordon Parks, Kehinde Wiley, Hassan Hajjaj, Barkley L. Hendricks, Lorna Simpson, and Amy Sherald. A promised gift of significant works from the Dean Collection will enter the Museum’s permanent collection in celebration of the exhibition. Ebony G. Patterson (born
- [Soon I Weave You All: Madame Zo at Fondation H, Madagascar](https://artafricamagazine.org/soon-i-weave-you-all-madame-zo-at-fondation-h-madagascar/) - Fondation H is devoting its inaugural exhibition to Zoarinivo Razakaratrimo, known as 'Madame Zo' (1956 – 2020), an icon of the Malagasy art scene. This exceptional weaver has devoted her life to weaving, an ancestral tradition still alive in Madagascar, where lamba, a wild silk or cotton fabric, accompanies every moment of life, from birth to death.
- [Art Basel Miami Beach presents 'Art of Transformation: AFRICA GLOBAL'](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-basel-miami-beach-presents-art-of-transformation-africa-global/) - Ten North Group presents art from the African Diaspora and highlights Black scholars in a series of programs coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 and Miami Art Week 2023 Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo, La reine Rwej, 2019. Acrylic and collage on linen, 190 x 190 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Opa-locka, FL—Ten North Group is pleased
- [The Africa Institute Conference on the Indian Ocean region explores feminism, cinema, art making, and more](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-africa-institute-conference-on-the-indian-ocean-region-explores-feminism-cinema-art-making-and-more/) - Multi-disciplinary conference of panels and performances aims to bring the complex history, and rich cultural heritage of the Indian Ocean rim to an international audience, December 14-16, 2023 in Sharjah, UAE Naiza Khan, The City Soaks Up Like a Sponge and Expands, 2011. Ink and Watercolour on Arches. Photographer: Mehmood Ali This December, The Africa
- [From the written word to culinary workshops and talks, Serendipity Arts Festival 2023 is a celebration of creative diversity](https://artafricamagazine.org/from-the-written-word-to-culinary-workshops-and-talks-serendipity-arts-festival-2023-is-a-celebration-of-creative-diversity/) - South Asia’s biggest interdisciplinary art festival will kick off in Panjim, Goa on December 15 with eclectic programming Epicentre. Commissioned by Serendipity Arts Foundation for Serendipity Arts Festival 2023 The 6th physical edition of Serendipity Arts Festival, scheduled between the 15th to 23rd of December 2023 in Panjim, Goa will once again bring together a
- [The 2023 edition of Serendipity Arts Festival’s programming reimagines folk and marries traditional with contemporary (Part I)](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-2023-edition-of-serendipity-arts-festivals-programming-reimagines-folk-and-marries-traditional-with-contemporary-part-i/) - The Festival’s performing and visual arts and crafts sections offer a deep dive into the cultural idiom of the Indian subcontinent The sixth physical edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival, scheduled between December 15 to December 23 at Panjim, Goa has announced its eclectic programming across diverse disciplines of the Performing, Visual, Culinary and Performance
- [Égrégore: Ange Dakouo at LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/egregore-ange-dakouo-at-louisimone-guirandou-gallery/) - LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery is pleased to announce 'Égrégore', the first solo exhibition of Ange Dakouo in the Ivory Coast, scheduled from November 30, 2023 to January 6, 2024. Ange Dakouo, Yélen #6, 2023. Mixed media: cardboard, newspaper cotton thread and acrylic, 260 x 260cm. Courtesy of the artist and LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery. Through a rich
- [The Norval Foundation opens exhibition dedicated to sculptural works of Walter Oltmann](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-norval-foundation-opens-exhibition-dedicated-to-sculptural-works-of-walter-oltmann/) - The Norval Foundation announces the opening of a new exhibition of sculptural works by South African artist Walter Oltmann. Entitled 'Metamorphosis', the exhibition will open on 16 November 2023 with an evening opening event, and will run until 14 August 2024. Walter Oltmann, Instar II, 2023. Anodized aluminium wire, brass rods and plastic beads. Courtesy
- [Manar Abu Dhabi Transforms Abu Dhabi’s Natural Vistas into an Experiential Citywide Light Art Exhibition](https://artafricamagazine.org/manar-abu-dhabi-transforms-abu-dhabis-natural-vistas-into-an-experiential-citywide-light-art-exhibition/) - Public light art exhibition Manar Abu Dhabi runs until 30 January 2024 with new site-specific commissions, light sculptures, projections, and immersive artworks installed across key locations in the city including Corniche Road and Beach, the Eastern Mangroves, Fahid Island, Jubail Mangrove Park, Lulu Island, Saadiyat Island and Al Samaliyah Island. Jim Denevan, Self Similar, 2023.
- [Zeitz MOCAA ushered in two new exhibitions for the summer](https://artafricamagazine.org/zeitz-mocaa-ushered-in-two-new-exhibitions-for-the-summer/) - Two new exhibitions focused on lens-based practices mark the start of summer at the museum Mame-Diarra Niang, Morphologie du rêve #6, 2021. Archival ink on photorag metallic paper, 110 x 110cm. Courtesy of the artist and Stevenson Cape Town, Johannesburg and Amsterdam. Zeitz MOCAA unveils two new exhibitions for summer, marking the start of an
- [The 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale announces dates and curatorial team](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-2024-diriyah-contemporary-art-biennale-announces-dates-and-curatorial-team/) - The Diriyah Biennale Foundation (DBF) announced the appointment of its international core curatorial team for the 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, led by Artistic Director Ute Meta Bauer. The 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale curatorial teamTOP LEFT TO RIGHT: Ana Salazar, Dian Arumningtyas, Ute Meta Bauer, Wejdan Reda, Anca Rujoiu; BOTTOM LEFT TO RIGHT: Alanood
- [More than 100 local and international artists will create over 120 public light pieces for Noor Riyadh 2023, the biggest annual festival of light and art in the world](https://artafricamagazine.org/more-than-100-local-and-international-artists-will-create-over-120-public-light-pieces-for-noor-riyadh-2023-the-biggest-annual-festival-of-light-and-art-in-the-world/) - Under the theme ‘The Bright Side of The Desert Moon’, Noor Riyadh will showcase more than 120 artworks by over 100 artists from around 35 nationalities, including prominent pieces by Ange Leccia, Bruno Ribeiro, Carsten Höller, Chris Levine, Christopher Bauder, Dana-Fiona Armour, Diana Thater, Drift, Janet Echelman, Iván Argote, Laurent Grasso, Muhannad Shono, Philippe Parreno,
- [Fourth Act – Quilombismo: Documents of a Pan-Africanist Militancy](https://artafricamagazine.org/fourth-act-quilombismo-documents-of-a-pan-africanist-militancy-2/) - Abdias Nascimento at the Mata Gallery, Inhotim, Brazil. The title of this fourth act of the program, 'Abdias Nascimento and the Museu de Arte Negra' (Abdias Nascimento and the Black Art Museum) features an important part of the intellectual and political legacy of Abdias Nascimento. While working as curator of the Black Arts Museum project,
- [American People: Faith Ringgold at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/american-people-faith-ringgold-at-the-museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago-united-states/) - Artist, author, educator, and organiser Faith Ringgold is one of the most influential cultural figures of her generation, with a career linking the multidisciplinary practices of the Harlem Renaissance to the political art of young Black artists working today. Faith Ringgold (b. 1930, New York, NY), American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent
- [The Met to Present First Major Exhibition on the Connections between African and Byzantine Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-met-to-present-first-major-exhibition-on-the-connections-between-african-and-byzantine-art/) - 'Africa & Byzantium' will feature nearly 200 artworks, including many that have never before been exhibited in the United States Mosaic Panel of Preparations for a Feast, Tunisia, Carthage, late 2nd century CE. Marble, limestone, molten glass, 94 1/2 x 88 5/8 in. (240 x 225 cm). Paris, Musée du Louvre, Department of Greek, Roman, and
- [ART X Lagos solidifies its position as a catalyst for the African arts ecosystem](https://artafricamagazine.org/art-x-lagos-solidifies-its-position-as-a-catalyst-for-the-african-arts-ecosystem/) - ART X Lagos’s 2023 physical edition closed on Sunday, 5 November, with an online extension continuing on Artsy.com until 9 November. LEFT TO RIGHT: Professor Bruce Onabrakpeya (Artist), Tokini Peterside-Schwebig (Founder of ART X Lagos) Taking place from 2 - 5 November, 2023 at The Federal Palace, Lagos, the physical fair ended amidst reports of
- [Pneumacity: Lagos: A multi-locational art exhibition that explores the life cycle of tyres and their crucial role in urban life](https://artafricamagazine.org/pneumacity-lagos-a-multi-locational-art-exhibition-that-explores-the-life-cycle-of-tyres-and-their-crucial-role-in-urban-life/) - 'Pneumacity: Lagos', a groundbreaking art exhibition, is set to captivate audiences globally as it unveils the extraordinary journey of second life-tyres within the heart of Lagos. This one-of-a-kind exhibition, curated by Inês Valle, is brought to life by the renowned Nigerian artist Andrew Esiebo and promises to revolutionise how we perceive urban sustainability and contemporary
- [John Akomfrah at SCHRIN KUNSTHALLE, Frankfurt, Germany](https://artafricamagazine.org/john-akomfrah-at-schrin-kunsthalle-frankfurt-germany/) - John Akomfrah (b. 1957) creates thoughtful video works of haunting audiovisual intensity. He tells of radical changes and crises of the present and past on characteristic large-format screens. John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea (Detail), 2015. Three channel HD colour video installation, 7.1 sound,48 minutes 30 seconds. Courtesy of SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE The SCHIRN is presenting for the
- [Past a Surpassing Disaster: From Film Through Performance Towards Photography at Motormond, Amsterdam, Netherlands](https://artafricamagazine.org/past-a-surpassing-disaster-from-film-through-performance-towards-photography-at-motormond-amsterdam-netherlands/) - 'Past a Surpassing Disaster: From Film Through Performance Towards Photography' is an exhibition that looks behind itself, searching for joy around a multi-fold tragic tipping point. In the world of the surpassing disaster, the dust hasn’t settled. We are waiting to feel what has been made to overflow. The contributing artists are: Rafiki Opti (they/them), Devin Allen, Siomara Bochove, Ifebusola
- [New commissions by artists Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska debut at Sharjah Art Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/new-commissions-by-artists-lubaina-himid-and-magda-stawarska-debut-at-sharjah-art-foundation/) - The artists’ first exhibition in the region includes four new commissions – including a collaborative multimedia installation – and recent works spanning painting, sound and more Lubaina Himid, In Your Dreams, 2021/2022. Image courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London. Photographer: Andy Keate This October, Sharjah Art Foundation debuts an exhibition showcasing the work
- [Midas Touch: Khanyi Mawhayi at CHURCH Projects, South Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/midas-touch-khanyi-mawhayi-at-church-projects-south-africa/) - Every day for 100 days Khanyi Mawhayi painted a gold sticker, gilding smallrewards for the daily work of living. Khanyi Mawhayi, Midas Touch, 28/100. One gold sticker for asking for help (detail), 2022. Courtesy of the artist and CHURCH Projects. Every day for 100 days in the winter of 2022, Khanyi Mawhayi painted a circle
- [Minneapolis Institute of Art is seeking a new Chair of the Arts of Global Africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/minneapolis-institute-of-art-is-seeking-a-new-chair-of-the-arts-of-global-africa/) - Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) seeks a Chair of the Arts of Global Africa, whose role is to enhance, interpret and publish Mia’s collection of African art and to promote understanding and appreciation of African art through its collection, making it accessible to the largest possible audience. Minneapolis Institute of Art The Arts of Global
- [Anna Maria Maiolino and Nil Yalter receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the Biennale Arte 2024](https://artafricamagazine.org/anna-maria-maiolino-and-nil-yalter-receive-the-golden-lion-for-lifetime-achievement-of-the-biennale-arte-2024/) - The Italian-born Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino and the Paris-based Turkish artist Nil Yalter are the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia - Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere (Giardini and Arsenale, April 20 - November 24, 2024). LEFT TO RIGHT: Nil Yalter. Photographer: Oliver Abraham. Anna Maria Maiolino. Photographer: Maycon Lima The decision was approved
- [The Brazil Pavilion announces curators and artist for the 60th edition of La Biennale di Venezia](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-brazil-pavilion-announces-curators-and-artist-for-the-60th-edition-of-la-biennale-di-venezia/) - Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture announce the curators and artist for Brazil’s national participation at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia Glicéria Tupinambá. Courtesy Fundação Bienal de São Paulo. This year, a new evaluation system has been adopted for the selection
- [Jacolby Satterwhite’s expansive multimedia installation for The Met’s Great Hall is now on view](https://artafricamagazine.org/jacolby-satterwhites-expansive-multimedia-installation-for-the-mets-great-hall-is-now-on-view/) - For the second in a series of commissions for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall, interdisciplinary artist Jacolby Satterwhite (born Columbia, South Carolina, 1986) has transformed the historic space with a site-specific multimedia installation. Titled A Metta Prayer, the project fuses choreography, video, animation, lighting, and music to reimagine a kaleidoscopic, computer-generated world within The
- [New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching at The Museum of Modern Art, United States](https://artafricamagazine.org/new-ground-jacob-samuel-and-contemporary-etching-at-the-museum-of-modern-art-united-states/) - This Collection-Based Exhibition Highlights Samuel’s Collaborations with Artists Including Mona Hatoum, Rebecca Horn, Jannis Kounellis, Wangechi Mutu, Barry McGee, and Christopher Wool Charline von Heyl. Untitled from Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby, 2013. One from a portfolio of eight etchings with drypoint, roulette, aquatint, and chine collé. Plate: 7 13/16 × 6
- [The sixth (Physical) edition of Serendipity Arts Festival will kick off in Panjim, Goa on December 15](https://artafricamagazine.org/the-sixth-physical-edition-of-serendipity-arts-festival-will-kick-off-in-panjim-goa-on-december-15/) - South Asia’s biggest interdisciplinary art festival brings together a diverse array of creative energies and dynamic programming Once Upon A Time, Curated By Mayuri Upadhya for the Serendipity Arts Festival 2019. Spanning across disciplines of the Performing, Visual, Culinary and Performance Arts and Craft, Serendipity Arts Festival 2023 is a showcase of India’s multifaceted cultural
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- [PRINTMAKING](https://artafricamagazine.org/product-category/printmaking/)
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- [INDUSTRIAL DESIGN](https://artafricamagazine.org/product-category/industrial-design/)
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- [WATERCOLOUR](https://artafricamagazine.org/product-category/watercolour/)
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- [POLITICAL](https://artafricamagazine.org/product-category/political/)
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- [BYT ARCHIVE](https://artafricamagazine.org/product-category/byt-archive/)
- [BYT 2017](https://artafricamagazine.org/product-category/byt-2017/)
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- [ART TAKEOVER](https://artafricamagazine.org/product-category/social-media/art-takeover/)
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- [OPEN CALL](https://artafricamagazine.org/product-category/open-call/)
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- [Venice Biennale](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/venice-biennale/)
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- [murals](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/murals/)
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- [Photography Exhibition](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/photography-exhibition/)
- [Katya Berger.](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/katya-berger/)
- [Politics of Power](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/politics-of-power/)
- [Namibian Landscape](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/namibian-landscape/)
- [Documentary Photography](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/documentary-photography/)
- [German Colonial Occupation](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/german-colonial-occupation/)
- [Iconotexts](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/iconotexts/)
- [Denise Lim](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/denise-lim/)
- [Nicola Brandt](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/nicola-brandt/)
- [Nathaniel Shepherd III](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/nathaniel-shepherd-iii/)
- [Hong Kong](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/hong-kong/)
- [Johannesburg Based Collective](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/johannesburg-based-collective/)
- [Innovative Innovative Printmaking](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/innovative-innovative-printmaking/)
- [Danger Gevaar Ngosi](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/danger-gevaar-ngosi/)
- [DGN](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/dgn/)
- [Oil on Paper](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/oil-on-paper/)
- [Land Scape](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/land-scape/)
- [Fragmented Memories](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/fragmented-memories/)
- [Investec Cape Town Art Fair](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/investec-cape-town-art-fair/)
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- [Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/pamela-phatsimo-sunstrum/)
- [Lhola Amira](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/lhola-amira/)
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- [Buhlebezwe Siwani](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/buhlebezwe-siwani/)
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- [Januário Jano](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/januario-jano/)
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- [David Altman](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/david-altman/)
- [Right at the Equator](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/right-at-the-equator/)
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- [Barnard Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/barnard-gallery/)
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- [Lawrence Abu Hamdam](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/lawrence-abu-hamdam/)
- [Yuri Pattison](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/yuri-pattison/)
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- [globalisation](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/globalisation/)
- [Usha Seejarim](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/usha-seejarim/)
- [Keepers of the Common](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/keepers-of-the-common/)
- [Fried Contemporary](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/fried-contemporary/)
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- [Barthélémy Toguo](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/barthelemy-toguo/)
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- [Henrike Groh](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/henrike-groh/)
- [Henrike Groh Award](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/henrike-groh-award/)
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- [Bevan de Wet](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/bevan-de-wet/)
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- [monotype](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/monotype/)
- [Siwa Mgoboza](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/siwa-mgoboza/)
- [Semaphore Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/semaphore-gallery/)
- [MIA Photo Fair](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/mia-photo-fair/)
- [Restone Maambo](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/restone-maambo/)
- [ODA](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/oda/)
- [Sindika Dokolo](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sindika-dokolo/)
- [Erik Laubscher](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/erik-laubscher/)
- [Still Life with Coffee Pot and Fruit](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/still-life-with-coffee-pot-and-fruit/)
- [Daniel Stompie Selibe](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/daniel-stompie-selibe/)
- [Infinity Awards](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/infinity-awards/)
- [Centre of Photography](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/centre-of-photography/)
- [Books](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/books/)
- [Auction House](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/auction-house/)
- [Andrew Lamprecht](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/andrew-lamprecht/)
- [Ishara](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/ishara/)
- [Concrete](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/concrete/)
- [Plagiarism](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/plagiarism/)
- [Black Panther](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/black-panther/)
- [Lina Iris Viktor](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/lina-iris-viktor/)
- [Amar Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/amar-gallery/)
- [ASPIRE](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/aspire/)
- [event. absa](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/event-absa/)
- [Henrike Grohs Art Award](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/henrike-grohs-art-award/)
- [Global Art Forum](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/global-art-forum/)
- [Shuman Basar](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/shuman-basar/)
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- [UNFOLD](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/unfold/)
- [UNFOLD Art Xchange](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/unfold-art-xchange/)
- [YSWARA](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/yswara/)
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- [Theresa Sweetland](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/theresa-sweetland/)
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- [12th edition Art Dubai 2018](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/12th-edition-art-dubai-2018/)
- [Selma Feriani Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/selma-feriani-gallery/)
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- [Art Dubai 2018](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/art-dubai-2018/)
- [UBUNTU Art Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/ubuntu-art-gallery/)
- [Ahmed Eldabaa](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/ahmed-eldabaa/)
- [Samir Rafi](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/samir-rafi/)
- [Alexandra Karakashian](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/alexandra-karakashian/)
- [SMAC gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/smac-gallery/)
- [GROUND](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/ground/)
- [Lloyd Pollak](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/lloyd-pollak/)
- [politics](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/politics/)
- [Lawrence Abu Hamdan](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/lawrence-abu-hamdan/)
- [abraaj goup prize](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/abraaj-goup-prize/)
- [Karim Francis Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/karim-francis-gallery/)
- [Karim Frances](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/karim-frances/)
- [Egypt](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/egypt/)
- [Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/abdel-hadi-el-gazzar/)
- [Hamed Nada](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/hamed-nada/)
- [Contemporary Art Group](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/contemporary-art-group/)
- [Cairo](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/cairo/)
- [Hussein Youssef Amin](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/hussein-youssef-amin/)
- [UNFOLD: Art Beyond the BRICS](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/unfold-art-beyond-the-brics/)
- [Marcello Cabezas](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/marcello-cabezas/)
- [placemaking](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/placemaking/)
- [terrorism](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/terrorism/)
- [avant-garde](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/avant-garde/)
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- [UNOSAT](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/unosat/)
- [Blood Antiquities](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/blood-antiquities/)
- [Al Jazeera](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/al-jazeera/)
- [pillaged artworks](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/pillaged-artworks/)
- [UAE](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/uae/)
- [ceramic](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/ceramic/)
- [sculpture](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sculpture/)
- [Elif Uras](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/elif-uras/)
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- [gif](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/gif/)
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- [The Future is Present](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/the-future-is-present/)
- [ruby onyinyechi amanze](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/ruby-onyinyechi-amanze/)
- [iziqhaza](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/iziqhaza/)
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- [Natalie Field](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/natalie-field/)
- [Dundo Museum](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/dundo-museum/)
- [Dundo Museum Collection](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/dundo-museum-collection/)
- [Angola Diamond Company](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/angola-diamond-company/)
- [collections](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/collections/)
- [indigenous art](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/indigenous-art/)
- [Open Call](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/open-call/)
- [Stellenbosch University Museum](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/stellenbosch-university-museum/)
- [Stellenbosch](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/stellenbosch/)
- [Rhinoceros](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/rhinoceros/)
- [sudan](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sudan/)
- [white rhino](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/white-rhino/)
- [Vance Kovac](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/vance-kovac/)
- [cybernatic](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/cybernatic/)
- [Tabita Rezaire](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/tabita-rezaire/)
- [Exotic Trade](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/exotic-trade/)
- [Cultural Imperialism](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/cultural-imperialism/)
- [Decolonisation](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/decolonisation/)
- [internet](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/internet/)
- [Lebohang Kganye](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/lebohang-kganye/)
- [Bright Young Thing](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/bright-young-thing/)
- [Fantasy](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/fantasy/)
- [Memory](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/memory/)
- [AFRONOVA Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/afronova-gallery/)
- [AFRONOVA](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/afronova/)
- [Archive](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/archive/)
- [Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/zeitz-museum-of-contemporary-african-art/)
- [LOVE?](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/love/)
- [Zeitz MOCAA Curatorial Lab](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/zeitz-mocaa-curatorial-lab/)
- [Curatorial Lab](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/curatorial-lab/)
- [Festival Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/festival-gallery/)
- [Daniel Hewson](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/daniel-hewson/)
- [Grahamstown National Arts Festival](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/grahamstown-national-arts-festival/)
- [Looking-](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/looking/)
- [Lady Skollie](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/lady-skollie/)
- [Lady $kollie](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/lady-kollie/)
- [Laura Windvogel](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/laura-windvogel/)
- [watercolour](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/watercolour/)
- [Winnie Madikizela Mandela](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/winnie-madikizela-mandela/)
- [obituary](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/obituary/)
- [Bronwyn Katz](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/bronwyn-katz/)
- [Palais de Tokyo](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/palais-de-tokyo/)
- [SAM Art Projects](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sam-art-projects/)
- [SAM artist-in-residence](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sam-artist-in-residence/)
- [Esther Mahlangu](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/esther-mahlangu/)
- [Ndebele](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/ndebele/)
- [pattern](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/pattern/)
- [decorative](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/decorative/)
- [Beadwork](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/beadwork/)
- [African traditions](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/african-traditions/)
- [Zulu](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/zulu/)
- [Xhosa](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/xhosa/)
- [Pedi](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/pedi/)
- [Museum Collections](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/museum-collections/)
- [Wits Art Museum](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/wits-art-museum/)
- [Standard Bank African Art Collection](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/standard-bank-african-art-collection/)
- [Invisible Borders Trans-African Project](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/invisible-borders-trans-african-project/)
- [apexart](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/apexart/)
- [Curatorial grant](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/curatorial-grant/)
- [Borders Within Road Trips](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/borders-within-road-trips/)
- [Nigeria](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/nigeria/)
- [BMW 525i Sedan](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/bmw-525i-sedan/)
- [MBW Art Car](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/mbw-art-car/)
- [BMW Individual Manufaktur](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/bmw-individual-manufaktur/)
- [Ndebele Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/ndebele-art/)
- [Friez art fair](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/friez-art-fair/)
- [Dr. Esther Mahlangu](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/dr-esther-mahlangu/)
- [Honorary Degree](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/honorary-degree/)
- [UJ](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/uj/)
- [University of Johannesburg](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/university-of-johannesburg/)
- [ICP](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/icp/)
- [Dakar](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/dakar/)
- [Dak'Art 2018](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/dakart-2018/)
- [AMirah Tajdin](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/amirah-tajdin/)
- [middle east](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/middle-east/)
- [cinema](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/cinema/)
- [Q/A](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/q-a/)
- [Angel-Ho](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/angel-ho/)
- [queerness](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/queerness/)
- [intolrence](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/intolrence/)
- [Amie LH Soudien](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/amie-lh-soudien/)
- [Bricks](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/bricks/)
- [brick](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/brick/)
- [Mitchell Gilbert Messina](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/mitchell-gilbert-messina/)
- [David Goldblatt](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/david-goldblatt/)
- [Paul Edmunds](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/paul-edmunds/)
- [PPC Imaginarium](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/ppc-imaginarium/)
- [2018 PPC Imaginarium](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/2018-ppc-imaginarium/)
- [Chris Soal](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/chris-soal/)
- [Aleks Ashton](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/aleks-ashton/)
- [Gabrielle Foulis](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/gabrielle-foulis/)
- [Goivannie Zambri](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/goivannie-zambri/)
- [Cristiano Mangova](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/cristiano-mangova/)
- [Bouvy Enkobo](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/bouvy-enkobo/)
- [Mapopa Hussein Manda](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/mapopa-hussein-manda/)
- [Shamilla Aasha](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/shamilla-aasha/)
- [Angola](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/angola/)
- [DRC](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/drc/)
- [Zambia](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/zambia/)
- [Zimbabwe](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/zimbabwe/)
- [Sam Nhlengethwa](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sam-nhlengethwa/)
- [Rorke's Drift](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/rorkes-drift/)
- [SAAFCA](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/saafca/)
- [Robyn Sassen](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/robyn-sassen/)
- [Interdisciplinary Incubator Space](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/interdisciplinary-incubator-space/)
- [Black Chronicles IV](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/black-chronicles-iv/)
- [Black Chronicles program](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/black-chronicles-program/)
- [Autograph ABP](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/autograph-abp/)
- [Hulton Archive](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/hulton-archive/)
- [London Stereoscopic Company](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/london-stereoscopic-company/)
- [London National Portrait Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/london-national-portrait-gallery/)
- [Kendrick Lamar](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/kendrick-lamar/)
- [Pulitzer Prize](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/pulitzer-prize/)
- [DAMN.](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/damn/)
- [Damn album](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/damn-album/)
- [music](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/music/)
- [OPENLab 2018](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/openlab-2018/)
- [OPENLab](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/openlab/)
- [Program for Innovation in Artform Development](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/program-for-innovation-in-artform-development/)
- [PIAD](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/piad/)
- [UFS](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/ufs/)
- [University of the Free State](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/university-of-the-free-state/)
- [Vrystaat Arts Festival](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/vrystaat-arts-festival/)
- [SImon Njami](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/simon-njami/)
- [Revue Noir](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/revue-noir/)
- [Dunya Contemporary Art Prize](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/dunya-contemporary-art-prize/)
- [Sophia Al-Maria](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sophia-al-maria/)
- [Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago/)
- [Art Brussels](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/art-brussels/)
- [Georgina Gratrix](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/georgina-gratrix/)
- [SMAC](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/smac/)
- [Discovery Prize](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/discovery-prize/)
- [Norval Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/norval-foundation/)
- [South African Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/south-african-art/)
- [Steenburg](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/steenburg/)
- [Gerard Sekoto Foundation](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/gerard-sekoto-foundation/)
- [Edoardo Villa Estate Collection](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/edoardo-villa-estate-collection/)
- [Alexis Preller Archive](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/alexis-preller-archive/)
- [Bonaventure Ndikung](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/bonaventure-ndikung/)
- [13th edition](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/13th-edition/)
- [Turbine Art Fair](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/turbine-art-fair/)
- [Candice Berman Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/candice-berman-gallery/)
- [The Turbine Art Fair](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/the-turbine-art-fair/)
- [United Arab Emirate](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/united-arab-emirate/)
- [UNESCO](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/unesco/)
- [Iraq](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/iraq/)
- [ISIS](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/isis/)
- [al-Habda Minaret](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/al-habda-minaret/)
- [The Red Hour](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/the-red-hour/)
- [Dak'Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/dakart/)
- [Leopold Sedar Senghor](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/leopold-sedar-senghor/)
- [al-Nouri Mosque](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/al-nouri-mosque/)
- [Whose south is it anyway](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/whose-south-is-it-anyway/)
- [Cape Town](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/cape-town/)
- [Rhodes Memorial](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/rhodes-memorial/)
- [Kim Gurney](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/kim-gurney/)
- [Simpiwe Ndzude](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/simpiwe-ndzude/)
- [Greatmore Studios](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/greatmore-studios/)
- [Sethembile Msezane](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sethembile-msezane/)
- [iQhiya](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/iqhiya/)
- [Sasol New Signatures Art Competition 2018](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sasol-new-signatures-art-competition-2018/)
- [call for entries](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/call-for-entries/)
- [Millicent Fawcett statue](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/millicent-fawcett-statue/)
- [female statues](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/female-statues/)
- [Strauss & Co Fine Art Auctioneers](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/strauss-co-fine-art-auctioneers/)
- [Freddy Tsimba](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/freddy-tsimba/)
- [Beaux Arts London](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/beaux-arts-london/)
- [Mayfair](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/mayfair/)
- [Awards](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/awards/)
- [ppc imaginarium 2019](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/ppc-imaginarium-2019/)
- [sotuh africa](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sotuh-africa/)
- [Ramadan](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/ramadan/)
- [Alserkal Avanue](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/alserkal-avanue/)
- [INKED](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/inked/)
- [OPEN TENT](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/open-tent/)
- [Lawrie Shabibi](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/lawrie-shabibi/)
- [Childish Gambino](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/childish-gambino/)
- [Daniel Glover](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/daniel-glover/)
- [This Is America](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/this-is-america/)
- [representation](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/representation/)
- [Hiro Murai](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/hiro-murai/)
- [Sam Nzima](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sam-nzima/)
- [Hector Peterson](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/hector-peterson/)
- [Museum of Egyptian Art and Culture](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/museum-of-egyptian-art-and-culture/)
- [Giza](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/giza/)
- [Atelier Bruckner](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/atelier-bruckner/)
- [Mark Coetzee](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/mark-coetzee/)
- [Resign](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/resign/)
- [Executive Director](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/executive-director/)
- [Chief Curator](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/chief-curator/)
- [Gabrielle Raaff](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/gabrielle-raaff/)
- [Amber Moir](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/amber-moir/)
- [Georgina Berens](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/georgina-berens/)
- [Natasha Norman](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/natasha-norman/)
- ['Endless'](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/endless/)
- [Sotheby's](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sothebys/)
- [Puff Daddy](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/puff-daddy/)
- [Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sean-puff-daddy-combs/)
- [Sean Combs](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/sean-combs/)
- [Past TImes](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/past-times/)
- [Kerry James Marshall](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/kerry-james-marshall/)
- [African American](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/african-american/)
- [Grammy Award Winning](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/grammy-award-winning/)
- [The Hague](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/the-hague/)
- [Court of Arbitration for Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/court-of-arbitration-for-art/)
- [William Charron](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/william-charron/)
- [Milko den Leeuw](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/milko-den-leeuw/)
- [Authentication in Art](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/authentication-in-art/)
- [Netherlands Arbitration Institute](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/netherlands-arbitration-institute/)
- [Repatriation](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/repatriation/)
- [African artefacts](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/african-artefacts/)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/saudi-arabia/)
- [Biennale de Venezia](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/biennale-de-venezia/)
- [South African architecture](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/south-african-architecture/)
- [architecture](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/architecture/)
- [Peter Rich Architects](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/peter-rich-architects/)
- [Yvonne Farrell](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/yvonne-farrell/)
- [Shelley McNamara](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/shelley-mcnamara/)
- [Dr Sumayah Al-Solaiman](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/dr-sumayah-al-solaiman/)
- [Lalela Project](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/lalela-project/)
- [Andrea Kerzner](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/andrea-kerzner/)
- [post-colonial](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/post-colonial/)
- [democracy](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/democracy/)
- [neo expressionist](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/neo-expressionist/)
- [healing through art](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/healing-through-art/)
- [recycled materials](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/recycled-materials/)
- [NIROX](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/nirox/)
- [NIROX Sculpture Park](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/nirox-sculpture-park/)
- [NOT A SINGLE STORY](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/not-a-single-story/)
- [Yoko Ono](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/yoko-ono/)
- [Chimamanda Adichie](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/chimamanda-adichie/)
- [Fragile](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/fragile/)
- [Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/institut-für-auslandsbeziehungen/)
- [tour](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/tour/)
- [German](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/german/)
- [artist](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/artist/)
- [Johannesburg Art Gallery](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/johannesburg-art-gallery/)
- [Wolfgang Tillmans](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/wolfgang-tillmans/)
- [DESTINATION HAPPINESS](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/destination-happiness/)
- [Toufic Beyhum](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/toufic-beyhum/)
- [Amoji Masks](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/amoji-masks/)
- [Emoji](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/emoji/)
- [amoji](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/amoji/)
- [Victor Ehikamenor](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/victor-ehikamenor/)
- [State for Happiness](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/state-for-happiness/)
- [Robyn Denny](https://artafricamagazine.org/tag/robyn-denny/)
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