When Tina Knowles needed a portrait for her memoir Matriarch, she didn’t look to Hollywood or Harlem. She looked to Mushin, a dense neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, where rising artist Kelani Fatai Oladimeji was quietly building a name through color, texture, and sheer focus. Kelani Fatai, The Nigerian…
Jack Shainman Gallery and Toyin Ojih Odutola present Ilé Oriaku, an exhibition of multimedia drawings and works on paper, Ojih Odutola’s seventh solo show with the gallery. Building upon her inclusion in the Nigerian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and her solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel, both…
Exhibition Dates: 3 July – 30 August 2025Location: dot.ateliers | South Labadi, Accra dot.ateliers is pleased to present some things just don’t wash off, a group exhibition featuring works by Christopher Samuel Idowu, Chukwumereogo Okeke, and Nobel Koty, developed during their residencies at dot.ateliers | South Labadi. Opening…
In a groundbreaking fusion of art and motorsport, Nigerian-British contemporary artist Olaolu Slawn has brought his graffiti-inspired creativity to the world of Formula One. Through a bold collaboration with Red Bull’s Racing Bulls F1 team, Slawn has introduced a dynamic new visual identity that merges urban street culture…
The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, has announced that it will officially open to the public on the 11th of November 2025. Initially announced in 2020, the MOWAA campus is designed as a 15-acre complex that will feature the MOWAA Institute for research…
Yinka Shonibare has been announced as one of the key contributors to the Queen Elizabeth II National Memorial in central London. His involvement marks a bold and also thoughtful addition to a landmark that aims to honour the late monarch’s legacy with depth and nuance. Rendering of Foster…
Adaobi Oraijiaku is the founder of Atsur. Atsur has been created to leverage web3 technologies to ensure and build the preservation of artwork and its information in Nigeria and Africa. With this, the goal is to equip African art ecosystem with the capacity for higher levels of investment…
Emmanuel Idowu, the 2023 Absa L’Atelier Ambassador, brings his solo exhibition Echoes of Innocence to Alliance Française. The show reflects on how childhood memories shape personal identity. Using symbolic imagery such as ropes, books, and baskets as well as drawing inspiration from Yoruba folklore, Idowu explores themes of…
For its new flagship store in Lagos, Adidas commissioned two pieces from Osoranna Mojekwu (b. 1999, Nigerian). The new store which just opened is the first of its kind in West Africa. Located on a prime waterfront site along Lekki Admiralty, it marks Adidas’s largest retail space in…
Gallery 1957 London and Arthur Timothy present Othello’s Countrymen (The Krio Enigma). In this latest work, Ghanaian-born British-Sierra Leonean artist explores the complex intersections of race, identity and belonging through the lens of the Krio people of Sierra Leone and their historical parallels with the figure of Othello…