The Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI) presents Notes on Friendship – Breaking Bread in partnership with the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Accra, Ghana. This exhibition aims to bridge cultural dialogues between West and East Africa. It serves as a cross-cultural platform for kinship, hospitality, and shared cultural resonance between the…
Needs a Frame”. The exhibition will run at Alliance Française, from April 16 to April 27, 2025. This expansive exhibition accompanies the documentary Every Picture Needs a Frame, directed by Lucy Chodota. Together, the film and exhibition delve into the complex relationship between the late renowned American photographer Peter Beard and eight Kenyan…
Standard Bank Young Artist Awards (SBYA) has announced its 2025 recipients, celebrating four decades of championing emerging South African talent. The 2025 Standard Bank Young Artists are, from left to right: Modise Sekgothe, Nyakallo Maleke, Siya Charles, Asanda Ruda, and Muneyi. Seated: Calvin Ratladi. (Image Credits: Standard Bank…
Gallery 1957 presents the second iteration of Kwesi Botchway’s solo exhibition, The Sun Must Come Down Part II. Following the monumental success of The Sun Must Come Down at the French Protestant Church of London in October 2024, this now expanded body of work pushes the narrative presented in part 1…
Afriart Gallery presents The Quiet Weight of Thoughts by Ugandan artists Daniel Atenyi and Richard Atugonza. The exhibition is based on aspects such as the following: Feeling that a weight has been lifted off one’s shoulders for overcoming a burden, butterflies in the stomach for being in love…
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life, a new site-specific commission in the Museum’s main lobby, which opened on the 8th of April and will be on view through 2025. For this project, Odita and his team worked from February to April to…
Black Rock Senegal, the artist-in-residence program founded by Kehinde Wiley, has opened its annual call for applications. Artwork by Micaela Tabaton-Osbourne (Image courtesy: Black Rock Senegal) Established in 2019, the residency invites international artists to live and work in Dakar, Senegal, for a period of one to three…
As galleries and museums prepare for their spring programming, an exciting wave of publications has risen. These new book releases celebrates the rising global prominence of African figuration. From Nairobi to Harare, São Paulo to Los Angeles, artists are releasing groundbreaking books that document their evolving practices .Moreover,…
British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA presents his first major solo exhibition on the African continent with Safiotra [Hybridities] at Fondation H in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Yinka Shonibare (Image credit: Fondation H) From April 11, 2025, to February 28, 2026, Fondation H grants Shonibare carte blanche, transforming its 2,200-square-meter…
French Riviera-inspired La Petite Maison (LPM) partnered with Pearl Lam Galleries for a restaurant exhibition, Blooming Shields, showcasing Nigerian artist Ayobola Kekere-Ekun during Art Basel Hong Kong. Celebrating shared joys of food, art, and culture, the exhibition ran from the 17th of March until the 16th of April at…