South African Decor and Design is the theme at Southern Guild’s curated showcase return to Design Miami this December. Running from the 3rd until the 8th of December 2024 at Convention Centre Drive and 19th Street, Miami Beach. Southern Guild is exhibiting in booth G28. This new show features…
Nigerian contemporary artist Osa Seven unveiled his groundbreaking exhibition, 1897: An Urban Contemporary Representation of Historic Benin Art, at the Muhcab Museum of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture. Minister of Arts, Culture, Tourism, and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa and Osa Seven (Image courtesy: Artist) The exhibition commemorated the 1897…
Wycliffe Mundopa and Southern Guild Gallery present ‘Mbare Opera’, a collection of major works produced over the past several years, articulating the spectrum of Mundopa’s prolific visual vocabulary. Focusing on the symbolic value of images and their contextual references to the sub-culture of Harare’s notorious high-density neighbourhood, Mbare,…
A banana duct tape painting by Maurizio Cattelan sold for $5 Million at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art auction. This is nothing new; we have consistently observed absurd creations labeled as “artworks” selling for exorbitant sums in Western markets. We feel compelled to explore this phenomenon by debunking the “buyer…
The Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź is pleased to announce the 18th edition of the International Triennial of Textile. The 18th edition marks fifty years since the Triennial was founded in 1975 in Łódź, Poland. Since then, the Triennial has remained one of the world’s premier events…
They say, “do not judge a book by its cover,” but when has that ever spared a book of our judgement? Consequently, the cover art of a book goes a long way in enticing readers to explore its content. The relatively young African book cover art scene has had quite a number of trends since the rise of written African literature.
Southern Guild Los Angeles is pleased to present ‘Methods of Flight’, a dual presentation of mixed-media paintings by Zimbabwean artists Amanda Shingirai Mushate and Grace Nyahangare. The exhibition platforms the artists’ distinct visual languages, each emerging from the exploration of self and art-making to reimagine modes of being…
Meriem Bennani presents ‘For My Best Family’ a new exhibition commissioned by Fondazione Prada. Combining a new site-specific, large-scale installation with an art film co-directed with Orian Barki, this project explores ways of being together in public and intimate socio-political settings. This project is the most ambitious work…
Southern Guild Los Angeles is pleased to present ‘Like a Fish in the Water’, a solo exhibition by South African artist Terence Maluleke. Marking his first solo exhibition in the United States, this series of new paintings is a vivid development of Maluleke’s personal and religious symbology, exploring themes of…
In contemporary African art, textiles are far more than materials; they are powerful symbols woven with identity, memory, and cultural significance. Across the continent, fabric has long held a unique place as a form of visual storytelling, where patterns, colors, and textures transmit ancestral knowledge, social status, and…