No Twilight Too Mighty presents a selection of over 70 paintings and charcoal drawings from Lynette Yiadom-Boakye 2020 to 2023 on display for the first time at the Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition thus provides a rich opportunity to observe the continuum in the artist’s practice of creating evocative paintings that relate to the human experience. Yiadom-Boakye […]
Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art presents the first major solo exhibition by British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong. Working in film, sculpture, installation, sound, collage, music and performance, Achiampong draws on his shared and personal heritage to explore class, gender, the intersection between popular culture and the residues of colonisation. His work examines digital identities and constructions […]
Akinbode-Akinbiyi,-Bar-Beach,-Victoria-Island-Lagos,-1999 The Museum of Modern Art announces New Photography 2023: Kelani Abass, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Yagazie Emezi, Amanda Iheme, Abraham Oghobase, Karl Ohiri, Logo Oluwamuyiwa. On view from May 28 through September 16, 2023, the exhibition explores the photographic work of seven artists, all at various stages in their careers, who are united by their critical use […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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, […]
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 […]
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