SOTO Gallery, a Lagos-based art space renowned for its dedication to community-centered contemporary art, made a striking debut at ART SG 2025, Asia’s largest and most prestigious art fair. Held from January 17–19 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, the gallery showcased works by two acclaimed Nigerian artists, Uchay…
Southern Guild debuts FOG Design + Art 2025 with collectible design and contemporary art by leading artists from across Africa, including a selection of photographic portraits from Zanele Muholi’s seminal Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail, the Dark Lioness) series and ceramic sculpture by Andile Dyalvane. The gallery will also show specially commissioned paintings by Manyaku…
Zanele Muholi presents ‘Faces and Phases’ , an exhibition of over 260 photographs presenting the full breadth of their career to date. As a visual activist, Muholi has documented and celebrated the lives of South Africa’s Black lesbian, gay, trans, queer and intersex communities since the early 2000s. In…
The Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust, in partnership with the European Union (EU) Delegation to Zimbabwe, has awarded grants totaling USD $62,589 to eight innovative projects across the country’s arts and culture sector. The grants, ranging between USD $4,000 and USD $10,000 are part of the ongoing CreativeACTIONs2 initiative, which…
Tizta Berhanu presents her first solo exhibition, ‘Agape’, which opened at Addis Fine Art’s Addis Ababa Gallery on the 5th of January and will run until the 9th of March 2025. The title of the exhibition comes from the Ancient Greek word which refers to the highest form of…
Pearl Lam Galleries presents ‘Where I Belong’, an exhibition by Nigerian contemporary artist Deborah Segun. Her series of works are drawn from focusing on the idea of change and adaptability and share her nostalgic experience of moving back to the United Kingdom, a place the artist once considered…
Lois Selasie Arde-Acquah and Gallery 1957 present ‘In Echoes of Mundane Mindfulness’ an exhibition that seeks to reclaim the quiet power of repetition by elevating the seemingly mundane gestures of mark-making, cutting and stitching. Arde-Acquah’s mesmerising, monochromatic works are both abstract and topographical, meditating on the intersections of…
Pan-Africanism, first named and theorised around 1900, is commonly regarded as an umbrella term for political movements that have advanced the call for both individual self-determination and global solidarity among people of African descent. As the first major exhibition to survey Pan-Africanism’s cultural manifestations, ‘Project a Black Planet: The…
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will culminate its landmark exhibition, The Mask and the Cross, with a grand closing ceremony dedicated to the trailblazing Prof. Bruce Onobrakpeya from January 10 to 12, 2025. Portrait of Bruce Onobrakpeya at his home studio, 2021, Photography by Stephen Tayo,…