The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, has announced that it will officially open to the public on the 11th of November 2025. Initially announced in 2020, the MOWAA campus is designed as a 15-acre complex that will feature the MOWAA Institute for research…
Sudan Art Archive seeks to preserve Sudanese visual arts following a time where Sudan’s cultural memory has long been under attack through decades of state censorship and the effects of the devastating ongoing war that began in April 2023. As museums are looted and studios destroyed, the Sudan…
Kaloki Nyamai (b. 1985, Kenya), founder of Kamene Cultural Center, and Michael Armitage (b. 1984, U.K./Kenya), founder of NCAI, are the newest additions to MOWAA’s inaugural artist council. They join West African artists Nengi Omuku (b. 1987, Nigeria), Victor Ehikamenor (b. 1970, Nigeria), Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (b.…
Prudence Chimutuwah presents The Artist’s Journey, a compelling documentary celebrating her work. On the 29th of June 2025, a powerful moment for Zimbabwean contemporary art unfolded at the screening of Prudence Chimutuwah: The Artist’s Journey, a new documentary celebrating the work of one of the country’s most compelling…
For its new flagship store in Lagos, Adidas commissioned two pieces from Osoranna Mojekwu (b. 1999, Nigerian). The new store which just opened is the first of its kind in West Africa. Located on a prime waterfront site along Lekki Admiralty, it marks Adidas’s largest retail space in…
STEVENSON presents Appellations and Speculations on Drawing by Meleko Mokgosi, taking place across the gallery’s Cape Town and Johannesburg spaces, jointly marking the artist’s third exhibition with the gallery. Where Mokgosi’s previous exhibitions in these cities formed part of Democratic Intuition (2013-19), an eight-chapter project examining the ways…
Tatenda Chidora (b.1988) was born in Zimbabwe and is based in South Africa. He is a commercial, fine art and fashion photographer whose contemporary style is representative of the global movement hailed as ‘new African photography’. Chiodora studied photography at the Tshwane University of Technology and graduated with…
Gallery 1957 London and Arthur Timothy present Othello’s Countrymen (The Krio Enigma). In this latest work, Ghanaian-born British-Sierra Leonean artist explores the complex intersections of race, identity and belonging through the lens of the Krio people of Sierra Leone and their historical parallels with the figure of Othello…
Zeitz MOCAA presents Cosmic Creatures and Constellations – a four day workshop series inspired by Zeitz MOCAA’s latest exhibitions including: UNDERSTUDIES, Selections from the Collection, Sala, and The Other Side of Now by artists such as Nolan Owald Dennis, Frances Goodman, Jody Paulsen, Cyrus Kabiru and Tuan Andrew…
Buhlebezwe Siwani presents Remember Our United Beginning, a monument commemorating The Hague’s Translantic Slavery. The Hague, Netherlands hosts the International Court of Justice and is therefore known as the global capital of justice. With that said, this monument serves as a long-overdue act of remembrance. On the 30th…