Featuring a new, panoramic collage made from hand-stitched silk, the exhibition challenges the historical stereotypes used to objectify and exploit Black women. Zangewa’s autobiographical yet universal work contrasts melancholy with hope, strength with disdain, and independence with prejudice. As well as a new commission made especially for the exhibition, also featured is a selection of […]
John Hansard Gallery presents Show Me The World Mister, an exhibition by Ayo Akingbade featuring two new film commissions: The Fist and Faluyi. Both films were shot in Nigeria and explore Akingbade’s interest in history, placemaking, legacy, and power. The Fist studies the first Guinness brewery built outside of the UK and Ireland, located […]
Emmanuel Awuni has titled his solo show with Copperfield after Maya Angelou’s autobiography, ‘I know why the caged bird sings.’ Like Angelou, Awuni is a poet. His first notes on the exhibition are in the form of lyrics or poetry. Angelou was known for her resistance and her realisation of self through expression. Inspired […]
Installation view of Avuleka AmaZulu by Sethembile Msezane—image courtesy of JCAF Otherscapes proposes surveying the scene of contemporary South Africa through the artistic practices of four contemporary South African artists whose installations can be viewed as ‘scapes’. These address a local context by interrogating the tension between utopia and failure. Four contemporary South African artists: Siemon […]
Maureen Paley is pleased to present Chioma Ebinama’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and her first at Morena di Luna, Hove. Nigerian-American artist Chioma Ebinama draws from an array of visual and cultural references, employing myth and cosmology as a guide for examining her inner life. Her practice centres around watercolours on paper, a […]
Bringing together a group of artists from different generations, this exhibition will address how photography, film, audio, and more have been used to reimagine Africa’s diverse cultures and historical narratives. Participating artists: Kelani Abass; Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou; Malala Andrialavidrazana; Atong Atem; Sammy Baloji; James Barnor; Edson Chagas; Kudzanai Chiurai; Ndidi Dike; Andrew Esiebo; Em’kal Eyongakpa; […]
‘Nzulu Yemfihlakalo’ is a fresh collection of oil paintings by South African artist Cinga Samson, which is proudly on display at White Cube Mason’s Yard. Dreamlike large-scale tableaux and portraits draw from his environment and metaphysical concerns, prompting the viewer to confront the epistemological boundaries of our collective understanding. The title of the show, Nzulu yemfihlakalo, […]
Michael Armitage is one of the most important painters of the present day. He gained recognition with large-scale paintings that depict figures in somnambulistic landscapes. In them, paint is applied in several layers, scraped off, and reworked anew. Armitage’s motifs are marked by history and current political events. He studies local rituals and political demonstrations, […]
Oluwaferanmi Okeowo, Chrono Odyssey, 2023 || 44" X 60"|| Acrylic, Pastel on Canvas Nomadic Art Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, Transtemporal Travel – a group show that plays on the relationship between human behaviour and time. Transtemporal travel refers to the concept of traveling through time to visit different periods in history or […]
Inzalo Yelanga, 2023, Hand-carved super wood block mix, 184 x 136 x 4 cm Courtesy of Unit London Unit London announces Inzalo Ye Langa: Birthplace of the Sun, a new solo show with one of South Africa’s young emerging artists, Sthenjwa Luthuli, opening July 25th. Inspired by African history and culture, Luthuli’s second solo exhibition […]
LEGAKWANALEO MAKGEKGENENE Mofenyi (Sethuthuntshwane IV), 2023 Digital Photograph on True Fibre Matte 100 × 67 cm Edition of 1/ 5 This exhibition showcases female and non-binary artists that engage Incantations as a methodology in their various practices to create and formulate their own bodies of work. Pertinent in these works is how each artist intervenes […]
Bwo gallery is pleased to present as its inaugural exhibition The Defiant Ones, Sesse Elangwe’s debut solo exhibition in his home country, Cameroon. Elangwe, a self-taught artist based in San Antonio (Texas, USA), creates disarming and elevating portraits of Black figures that investigate themes related to self-development and empowerment within Black communities. The Defiant Ones, which opens on […]
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