Bringing a refined essence to the global stage, ART X Lagos underscores African culture and redefines perceptions of its art. Running from the 31st of October to the 3rd of November, 2024, ART X Lagos aims to deliver an exceptional experience, highlighting both emerging talents and established visionaries,…
As expected, ART X Lagos 2024 promises to be a feast for the senses. It is happening at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island in Lagos.
ARTSPLIT, the leading African art trading platform, is excited to announce the launch of 202 Gallery, a private art gallery and advisory service dedicated to promoting modern and contemporary African art to a global audience. The gallery’s debut exhibition, Vessels, will feature 37 works, including paintings, drawings, and…
Nengi Omuku’s impressionistic landscapes and vibrant colour palettes create immersive spaces where her fluid, loosely rendered portraits of individuals and groups come to life. By blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior, figure and background, Omuku delves into themes of refuge and tranquility. Her work weaves together personal…
ART X Lagos, West Africa’s leading art fair, returns with a bold vision for its ninth edition, running from October 31 to November 3, 2024. Fred Ebami, Kaper Jesse Legacy (detail), 2024. (Image credit: Galerie Mam.) With the theme “Promised Lands,” this year’s fair dares to reimagine African…
Art in the City is pleased to announce “SOUGH,” the debut exhibition of Adetola Odunlami, opening on Monday, 28th October 2024. “SOUGH,” explores spaces defined by their emptiness—vacant buildings that resonate with a quiet, almost murmuring presence. In these works, silence becomes an active force, much like the…
The African Female Artist Mentorship Program (AFAMP) is calling on prospective mentees to submit their applications. Exclusive to African female artists aged 19 to 40 years, the mentorship is aimed at those in the early stages of their careers as professional artists. With regards to the application deadline,…
Kehinde Wiley and Stephen Friedman Gallery present ‘Fragments from the treasure house of darkness,’ Wiley’s first solo exhibition in London in three years following ‘The Prelude’ at The National Gallery. Wiley is known for his vibrant and highly naturalistic portrait paintings of contemporary African American and African Diasporic men and women,…
Artists Andile Dyalvane, King Houndekpinkou, Chuma Maweni, Nandipha Mntambo, Zanele Muholi and Zizipho Poswa currently have works featured in the Museum of the African Diaspora’s (MoAD) group exhibition, ‘Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors and Radical Black Joy,’ on until 2 March 2025. Curated by Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs at MoAD Key Jo Lee, the exhibition presents designs,…