The Goethe-Institut has officially opened applications for the 2026 Project Space (GPS) Grant, calling on artists in South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini to submit proposals. The programme will award seed funding of up to R100,000 to three projects, which will take place between February and November 2026 in…
Nthabiseng Kekana (b. 1999) stands at the intersection of contemporary art and ancient wisdom. Born and raised in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Kekana has emerged as a distinctive voice in South African art, weaving together her roles as artist and initiated sangoma into a unified practice of spiritual and cultural…
Afriart Gallery presents Undone by artists Charlene Komuntale and Sarah Waiswa, a powerful meditation on the layered negotiations of womanhood in the face of cultural, historical and systemic constraints. Their practices, distinct yet in deep dialogue, offer slow, deliberate responses to entrenched ideologies —responses that unravel the myths, aesthetics and expectations…
THK Gallery presents I Seek Your Softness, a group exhibition bringing together four painters. Kay-Leigh Fisher (b. 1998) works primarily in monotype printmaking. Through texture, layered colour and absence, her work evokes emotional atmospheres tied to belonging, care and the complexities of domestic space. The second artist is…
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…
Anna Boghiguian and Turner Contemporary present The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories, an exhibition which creates large-scale installations that combine personal narrative, historical research and political commentary. Her distinctive visual language—combining painting, drawing, collage, paper-mâché, glass, bronze and fabric—confronts viewers with questions about colonialism, trade, migration…
Taiwo Adeyemi is a Nigerian curator, cultural strategist, and advisor whose work reimagines how art can shape public memory, popular culture, and social change. His practice spans large-scale collaborative projects, experimental art spaces, and advisory work with emerging and established artists navigating global opportunities. Taiwo’s curatorial work bridges…
kó is presents The Secret Place, a solo exhibition by Christopher Samuel Idowu. Rooted in personal reflection and collective memory, this exhibition explores Idowu’s experiential connection to the divine. His visual language bridges the temporal and the eternal, the solitary and the communal, drawing on spirituality as a…
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…
STEVENSON presents an exhibition by Tumelo Mtimkhulu at the gallery’s Amsterdam space. The exhibition, titled I, one drop plus one drop makes a bigger drop, not two, is drawn from Mtimkhulu’s recent residency project at De Ateliers, with programming curated by the artist himself. With this exhibition, Tumelo…