STEVENSON presents Appellations and Speculations on Drawing by Meleko Mokgosi, taking place across the gallery’s Cape Town and Johannesburg spaces, jointly marking the artist’s third exhibition with the gallery. Where Mokgosi’s previous exhibitions in these cities formed part of Democratic Intuition (2013-19), an eight-chapter project examining the ways…
Wangechi Mutu is now the first living female artist to exhibit at The Galleria Borghese, Rome with her new show Black Soil Poems. The Galleria Borghese is a sumptuous proudly Roman 17th-century villa built for the Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli Borghese that today overflows with one of the world’s great…
Lagos, Nigeria – Absa Group, in partnership with the South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA), proudly presents “Echoes of Innocence”, a solo exhibition by Nigerian artist Emmanuel Idowu, one of the 2023 Absa L’Atelier Ambassador Award winners. The exhibition is currently on view at Alliance…
What if Africans stopped waiting for Western museums to return their stolen artifacts, and took them back instead? That’s the premise behind Relooted, a bold new video game by Johannesburg-based studio Nyamakop. Players form a stealth crew, infiltrate guarded museums, and reclaim looted African artifacts-each based on real…
Standard Bank has opened a new space for contemporary visual arts in the heart of Sandton. Called The Standard Bank Art Lab, the space sits at Nelson Mandela Square and aims to bring together artists, audiences, and the wider creative community. Nandipha Mntambo, Jos Snyders, Dr Same Mdluli,…
Akademie Schloss Solitude, in partnership with the National Art Gallery of Namibia and the Goethe‑Institut Namibia, has opened applications for its 2025 residency program. The initiative seeks to foster meaningful artistic exchange between Namibia and Baden‑Württemberg. Image courtesy of Akademie Schloss Solitude Starting March 1, 2026, the program…
The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) is proud to announce a groundbreaking collaboration with the Art in Black Foundation to present The South African Collective — a debut curatorial art exhibition spotlighting five dynamic visual artists from South Africa. Curated by Allana Foster Finley of Cur8Afsrica, The South African Collective is…
This September, Accra will host the 6th edition of the Festival of African Arts and Culture (FESTAC Africa 2025), a week-long celebration expected to draw over 100,000 visitors from across Africa and the diaspora. The Black Star Square Ghana) The highly anticipated event will take place from September…
L’Atelier 21 presents the third solo exhibition by visual artist M’barek Bouhchichi titled What I Am, What We Are. This exhibition consists of a series of portraits painted directly onto sheets of rubber. With this practice, M’barek Bouhchichi continues his exploration where art, memory and politics intertwine to create…
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye presentsTo Improvise a Mountain: Curated by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, a touring exhibition of a selection of works critical to her way of seeing and thinking, inviting audiences on a personal journey through art past and present. Featured artists include: Samuel Fosso, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Toyin Ojih…