Portia Zvavahera (1985, Zimbabwe) is currently showcasing a new body of work titled Zvakazarurwa at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. Zvakazarurwa explores the complexities of the female experience, placing emphasis on her vivid emotions, which often appear in her dreams and everyday encounters. Portia exalts her emotional force as a guide in…
British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA presents his first major solo exhibition on the African continent with Safiotra [Hybridities] at Fondation H in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Yinka Shonibare (Image credit: Fondation H) From April 11, 2025, to February 28, 2026, Fondation H grants Shonibare carte blanche, transforming its 2,200-square-meter…
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…
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…
The Center for Photography in Ethiopia (CPE) is launching its first-ever mentorship program exclusively for women photographers in Ethiopia. In collaboration with Johannesburg-based Through The Lens Collective (TTLC), this initiative aims to cultivate emerging talent through structured guidance and also critical engagement. Ethiopian Women’s Photography Mentorship (Image credit:…
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…
Addis Ababa will host the highly anticipated second edition of the East Africa Art and Culture Festival from March 20 to 24, 2025. Minister for Culture and Sport, Nafisa Almahdi at press briefing (Image credits: Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) Bringing together cultural representatives from nine East African nations,…
Lubaina Himid, a distinguished British artist whose career skyrocketed after her Turner Prize win in 2017, is set to lead the British Pavillion for the 2026 Venice Biennale. Himid, born in Zanzibar, Tanzania and now residing in Preston, England, has been a pivotal figure in the British Black…