Kairos Futura, a Nairobi-based collective, has won the prestigious Grand Prize at the 2025 S+T+ARTS Prize Africa for The Wild Future Lab, a visionary project that reimagines Nairobi in 2045 as an ecologically rewilded city. The Wild Future Lab / Kairos Futura; photo: The Wild Future Lab, Ajax…
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku is the winner of the 2025 Ellipse Prize, a prize focused on Ghana’s emerging art scene. Tieku was selected by an independent jury from five finalists—Reginald Boateng, Sena Burgundy, Nana Frimpong Oduro and Dela Anyah— who were selected out of 82 applicants. The jury included…
Selebe Yoon presents Tell me about your dream mosque, an exhibition by Fredj Moussa following a six-week residency in Senegal. The exhibition comprises paintings, drawings, sculptures and a video installation. Fredj Moussa began his research with a story of Mohamed Gorgui Seyni Gueye, known as Sangabi, and the…
Cécile Fakhoury Gallery Dakar presents Cour intérieure, a group exhibition bringing together the works of artists Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux, Rachel Marsil and Kassou Seydou. The vibrant color palettes and recurring motifs in Rachel Marsil’sand Kassou Seydou’s works create a particular rhythm, which Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux’s pastel tones gently…
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has been recognized in the ‘Established Artists’ category at the inaugural Art Basel Awards 2025, celebrating his significant contributions to contemporary art through monumental installations and also community-driven initiatives. Ibrahim Mahama (Image credit: Art Basel) Mahama, born in Tamale in 1987, creates large-scale installations…
The 61st International Art Exhibition, titled In Minor Keys, produced by La Biennale di Venezia, with the contributions of professionals selected and directly involved by Curator Koyo Kouoh, is set to follow Kouoh’s vision. In Minor Keys marks a return to the sensory, affective and subjective dimensions of art.…
Each June, Basel transforms into the beating heart of the global art scene. From world-renowned fairs like Art Basel to exciting new contenders, these 10 must-see events highlight the very best of contemporary art in 2025. Whether you’re a seasoned collector or an art lover exploring for the…
Efie Gallery has just opened its latest exhibition, Time Heals, Just Not Quick Enough, curated by Ose Ekore. Framing time as a partner in the process of becoming, Ose spoke with ANA on curating contemporary African art and the creation of “Time heals, Just Not Quick Enough”. Moreover,…
Tiwani Contemporary presents Virginia Chihota’s Munoonei kana makaditarisa nhai Mwari?/What do you see when you look at me ohh God? and For want of a horse, a button was lost by Felix Shumba, this June. Virginia Chihota uniquely visualises her inner world as an emotionally shifting, symbolic terrain—a reconnaissance marked…
Southern Guild Cape Town presents Thresholds, a group exhibition welcoming the multidisciplinary work of 18 contemporary artists. The exhibition abstracts notions of place, documenting the body’s precarious negotiation with land, and questions our architectures – both physical and ideological – that contain, shape, root, liberate and define us.…