THK Gallery and Trevor Stuurman present Your Beauty Is Our Concern, an exhibition concerned with the act of making oneself beautiful – a state of being sometimes required…
WHATIFTHEWORLD presents The Unspoken Landscape, a group exhibition featuring works by nine Southern African artists spanning three generations: Mia Chaplin, Wezile Harmans, Dale Lawrence, Strauss Louw, Maja Marx, Michele Mathison, Ben Orkin, Chris Soal, Inga Somdyala and Pierre Vermeulen.…
Peal Lam Galleries presents Be My Guest a group exhibition featuring four African artists: Cornelius Annor (b. 1990, Ghana), Kingsley Dzade (b. 1989, Ghana), Wilfried Mbida (b. 1990,…
When 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns to New York in May 2025, from the 8th to the 11th, it brings with it a slew of Special Projects…
Entries are now officially open for the 2025 Sasol New Signatures Visual Arts Competition, South Africa’s leading platform for emerging visual artists. Now in its 35th year of Sasol’s…
The University of Manchester has appointed award-winning poet, playwright, and performer Inua Ellams as an Honorary Research Fellow, signaling a bold intersection of creative research, public engagement, and…
Goodman Gallery presents Ravelle Pillay’s American debut with Sanctum (The Light and the Shade), the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery’s New York location. The exhibition features a…
Cassi Namoda to transform the iconic floor-to-ceiling windows of the Sunley Gallery overlooking Margate’s beaches and the North Sea at Turner Contemporary. Marking Namoda’s first institutional project in…
Kevin Young has reportedly stepped down as the head of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) amid a politically charged atmosphere surrounding the…
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) has announced the addition of nine prominent figures to its Global Council. Zeitz MOCAA (Image credits: Iwan Baan) The new…
Yancey Richardson presents Sawubona, an exhibition bringing together work from five different series made between 2002–2013 by South African visual artist and activist Zanele Muholi. Their fifth exhibition with…
The Rele Arts Foundation has opened applications for the 2026 edition of its Young Contemporaries program, running from April 4 to May 2, 2025. Now in its ninth…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…