Review

'Fallen Crucifix' (Detail), Variable Dimension _Paul Wade ©Nyadzombe Nyampenza

Reintroducing Paul Wade

At National Gallery of Zimbabwe, the Retrospective of Paul Wade Marks Another Milestone

Nyadzombe Nyampenza looks at the exhibition that reflects his unstoppable interest in making art and his ongoing influence on the country’s art scene.

Installation view of

Erotic Empiricism

Ranti Bam Is Searching for Common Ground

In her first solo show the artist displays her delicate and tender clay hearths, and here she offers her insights on the commons and spirituality.

Gerard Sekoto, Song of the Pick, 1947, huile sur carton, Courtesy South 32 Collection, dépôt à Javett Arts Centre, Pretoria © ADAGP, Paris 2022

Globalisto: A Philosophy in Flux

Mo Laudi’s Take on Pan-Africanism

The exhibition Globalisto: A Philosophy in Flux at MAMC+ shares observations on translocality and cultural hybridity.

Performance by Azazou Show. Photo: Costa Tshinzam

2nd Yango Biennial of Kinshasa

Toko zela lobi te: A Biennale Fed Up with Waiting for Tomorrow

Costa Tshinzam has attended the second edition of a long-awaited biennial that has managed to put itself back on the world map of artistic events.

Setting Up The Scott House for the event, Credit : Daakpe Studios

ARCHITECTURE IS A PARTY

Challenging the Perception of Preservation in Accra’s Architecture

A event night in Ghana’s capital addressed issues of public spaces and architectural history from unconventional perspectives.

Gideon Appah’s Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes: Remembering and Remaking

Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

Gideon Appah’s Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes: Remembering and Remaking

Gideon Appah paints between memory and fantasy, referencing a Ghana of the 1950s to 1980s, helping us – perhaps – to imagine a new vision.

DOXANTU. Performing arts Precy Numbi, Mucyo, Peintre Obu, Laura Nsengiyumva. Production : Isabelle N’diaye.

Dak’art Biennale 2022

Out of the Fire: The Postcolony Will Rise

Isabelle N’diaye on the biennial that aims to create the conditions to forge realms out of fire and in action.

Alberta Whittle, Purebred Monkel, Installation view  at the Scottish pavilion in the 59th Venice biennale

Venice Biennale

Unpacking the Milk of Dreams

Mia Harrison on how the exhibition became a platform for womxn artists to articulate, build, and contextualize their individual and collective dreams.

Les ateliers de la Pensée @ Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations. Photo: Guillaume Bassinet

Les Ateliers de la Pensée

Forging Ecologies of Knowledge, in Between Arts and Sciences

The 4th Les ateliers de la Pensée brought together artists and intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora at the Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations

Carrie Mae Weems, The Push, The Call, The Scream, The Dream, 2020. Installation View at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2022. Photo: Hans D. Christ

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Carrie Mae Weems Investigates US History through James Baldwin

The US artist’s first solo and retrospective exhibition in Germany takes the name of a Baldwin essay and features a variety of media.

Installation View

When Rain Clouds Gather

Archives of Womanhood and Blackness in South Africa

This exhibition at Norval Foundation shows a detailed history of pioneering Black South African female artists from 1940 to 2000.

Tamary Kudita, That evening sun goes down, 2020. Courtesy the artist.

ArtHARARE 2021

The Particularities of a Place

This edition of artHARARE, navigating through the city and diasporic experiences, allowed reflections on the possibilities of presenting art online.


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