The 2025 edition of the RMB Latitudes Art Fair will continue to deepen the Fair’s commitment to foster meaningful engagement on the continent by hosting a Botswana exposé as part of the International Galleries Platform. Where costs to participate in fairs have become prohibitive in an increasingly globalised art market, the International Galleries Platform offers an accessible means…
Zeitz MOCAA presented Otobong Nkanga with the 2025 Zeitz MOCAA Honorary Award for Artistic Excellence in February. This award recognises an art industry luminary who has made exceptional contributions to the art ecology and the museum. The Zeitz MOCAA Honorary Awards are a tribute to visionaries whose contributions…
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…
The Wits Art Museum (WAM) presents the work of South Africa’s cultural icon Dr Esther Mahlangu titled ‘Then I Knew I Was Good at Painting: Esther Mahlangu, A Retrospective’. The exhibition spans seven decades and features over 100 artworks, including the iconic BMW Art Car, beadwork, painted mannequins…
Art Basel prepares to launch an annual series of awards honouring artists, curators, museums and patrons. The Art Basel Awards will debut in May, with 36 medals awarded to artists across three categories: emerging, established and “icons”. Curators, museums and institutions, patrons, “allies” like fabricators or conservators, collaborators…
FEBRUARY 2025 – As one of the Mother City’s most vibrant cultural destinations, Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel, Cape Town continues to champion the arts with a bold new exhibition in partnership with the Norval Foundation, curated by RESERVOIR. ‘Disrupting the Dream: Surreal Narratives’ brings together some of the most…
Cape Town, South Africa – Norval Foundation and The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF) announce Gadi Ramadhani (b. 1986, Tanzania) as the Public Vote Prize Winner of The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2025, sponsored by Schroders. Ramadhani will receive a cash prize of US$2,000 for his work ‘If…
The MTN SA Foundation, in collaboration with the UJ Art Gallery, has appointed Amogelang Maledu as the curator for the 2025-2026 MTN x UJ New Contemporaries Award (NCA) programme. Selected by the NCA Legacy Panel, Maledu’s appointment is the latest milestone in her career as an emerging figure…
Lungiswa Gqunta (b.1990; Gqeberha, South Africa) is an artist working in performance, printmaking, sculpture and installation. Lungiswa Gqunta deconstructs spatial modes of exclusion and oppression by addressing the access to and ownership of land, unravelling multisensory experiences that highlight persistent social imbalances which are legacies of both patriarchal…