Addis Fine Art joins forces with James Cohan Gallery and Esther Schipper to help Ethiopian artist Merikokeb Berhanu go global. One of the greatest quandaries for smaller and mid-size galleries is spending years working with an artist, and not being able to help them progress to the next…
Gasworks London presents “throwers,” a landmark exhibition marking the UK solo debut of Johannesburg-based artist, Nolan Oswald Dennis. From April 24 to June 22, 2025, in Gasworks London at 155 Vauxhall Street, this visionary showcase will challenge our perceptions, inviting us to reexamine our place within the world.…
For more than forty years, María Magdalena Campos-Pons’ deeply personal and interdisciplinary practice hasexplored nature, spirituality, and the interconnectedness across cultures and geographies. An exhibition of hernew work, I Am Soil. My Tears Are Water, curated by Faridah Folawiyo (14 April – 25 May 2025) inaugurates EfieGallery’s new…
The upcoming Aichi Triennale 2025, set from the 13th of September to the 30th of November in Japan, promises a reformative global dialogue on contemporary art. Under the evocative theme A Time Between Ashes and Roses—a nod to Adonis’s 1970 poem—the festival goes beyond mere traditional national narratives, inviting…
Evans Mbugua (b. 1979, Kenya) will present Reconstructed Identities at La La Lande gallery, France, from 28th April to 10th May 2024. This expansive exhibition explores the transformative journey of selfhood, rooted in the artist’s own experiences after relocating to Paris at 19. Through vivid portraiture and symbolic fragmentation, Mbugua underscores the…
311 East Broadway (NADA Exhibition Space), 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10002, April 10th to May 3rd, 2025 Water is boundless. It echoes continuity and the vastness of existence. It distorts, reflects, and reveals. In Tides of Being, Sungi explores the fluid relationship between body and water—between expanse…
The 2025 Ellipse Prize has unveiled its five finalists, celebrating Ghana’s dynamic and evolving contemporary art scene. Finalists exhibition (Photo credit: Africa foto fair) After careful deliberation a jury of esteemed curators and art professionals selected the following five finalists: Sena Burgundy, Reginald Boateng, Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, Nana…
A landmark exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Black Paris (Paris Noir) traces the influence of artists of African descent in the city from the 1950s to 2000. Featuring 150 artists – many of whom have been largely overlooked in France – it explores themes of migration, identity, and…
Bozar (Centre for Fine Arts of Brussels) presents the exhibition ‘When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting’, a collection of Black figurative paintings from the past one hundred years, seen through the lens of joy. Presented in Brussels, at the heart of Europe, the…
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has appointed Tandazani Dhlakama as its new Curator of Global Africa, marking a significant step in the institution’s ongoing commitment to African art and culture. Tandazani Dhlakama (Image credits: Lunghelo Mlati) A Zimbabwean-born curator with 15 years of experience, Dhlakama has worked extensively…