The 2025 cohort of the RMB Latitudes CuratorLab has been announced, highlighting 11 emerging curators from across Africa. Diarietou Diop, Eyimofe Ideh, Maureen Douabou, Muyon Mafulu, Nafkot Gebeyehu, Onke Ngcuka, Palesa Ngwenya, Phumelele Kunene, Reem Aljeally, Sinki Makubu and Zandile Makroti. (Image Credit: RMB Latitudes) The program, now…
Rangi (Colors) Gallery TZ, is set to open the 4th Wise Man exhibition on the 28th of August, 2025. The exhibition features three artists from Mukuru Art Collective, including its founder, Adam Masava. Exploring the intersections of space in the East African contemporary landscape, the show celebrates the…
Gallery 1957 presents In the Name of Love: Introspection, a solo exhibition by Nana Bruce. This new body of work marks Bruce’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and continues his intimate inquiry into the complexities of self-love and the turbulent journey toward it. Through figures caught in states…
After more than a decade in exile, Timbuktu’s celebrated manuscripts have returned to their desert home, restoring one of Africa’s most treasured legacies. On August 11, Malian authorities oversaw the first phase of their repatriation from the capital, Bamako, to the historic city where they originated. Ancient Timbuktu…
Gallery 1957 has announced the fifth edition of The Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize, the first-ever prize exclusively for Ghanaian women artists, living either in Africa or across the diaspora. Named after the prominent Ghanaian Queen Mother of Esiju in Ashanti Empire, Yaa Asantewaa, the Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize…
Police in South Africa are investigating a major art heist after thieves stole seven sculptures valued at more than R1 million ($55,000) from a gallery in the seaside town of Pringle Bay. Seven sculptures vanished in the heist: six by Anton Smit and one by Janko de Beer.…
Afriart Gallery, a leading hub for contemporary art in East Africa, announced a new opportunity for artists across the continent. The gallery now invites submissions of high-quality editioned artworks for inclusion in its Curated Editions Collection. Since its founding in 2002, Afriart has championed African creativity by hosting…
Kenyan activist and photojournalist Boniface Mwangi has been released on bail after being arrested on July 19. His arrest came in connection with the alleged unlawful possession of ammunition, in a case that has drawn national and international attention. Boniface Mwangi appears at the Kahawa Law Courts in…
Date: September 27 – October 1, 2025Venue: Red Door Gallery, Lagos In the Beginning, There Was Cloth is less an exhibition, and more a quiet reckoning and a cultural restoration. From September 27 to October 1, 2025, Afrikstabel, Nigeria’s leading textile production house, will present In the Beginning, There Was Cloth – an…