Events

Abdelkader Laâraj, The Passion of Colors, 2025. Courtesy of L’Atelier 21

Exhibition

Abdelkader Laâraj: The Passion of Colors

L’Atelier 21
Casablanca, Morocco
15 Apr 2025 - 17 May 2025

Tristany Mundu, City and community, 2025. Courtesy of Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian

Exhibition

Tristany Mundu: City and community

Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
Lisbon, Portugal
12 Apr 2025 - 03 May 2025

CasimirBationo, Mon coeur balance (detail), mixed media and acrylic on canvas 2023. Courtesy of Gallery Soview

Exhibition

INTO THE BLUE – Group Show

Gallery Soview
Accra, Ghana
05 Apr 2025 - 31 May 2025

Lorraine O'Grady, Rivers, First Draft: A Little Girl with Pink Sash memorizes her Latin lesson, 1982/2015. Courtesy of the Lorraine O’Grady Trust and Mariane Ibrahim (Chicago, Paris, Mexico City) © 2025 Lorraine O’Grady/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Exhibition

Lorraine O’Grady

Mariane Ibrahim
Paris, France
03 Apr 2025 - 31 May 2025

Wura-Natasha Ogunji, space comma space comma space (detail), 2025. Courtesy of Tiwani Contemporary

Exhibition

Wura-Natasha Ogunji: space comma space comma space

Tiwani Contemporary
London, United Kingdom
03 Apr 2025 - 24 May 2025

Elom 20ce, »Umoja Ni Nguvu«, 2020, video, film still © courtesy of the artist

Exhibition

Beat the Silence: Sonic Chronicles – Group Show

M.Bassy e.V.
Hamburg, Germany
30 Mar 2025 - 21 Jun 2025

Jacobleau, Ritual 3, 2023. Courtesy off OOA Gallery

Exhibition

Memories and dreams of a destiny – Group Show

OOA Gallery
Barcelona, Spain
29 Mar 2025 - 27 Apr 2025

Bonikta, Kurumins do rio, 2021. Foto: Divulgação

Exhibition

Mercosul Biennial

Various Venues
Porto Alegre, Brazil
27 Mar 2025 - 01 Jun 2025

Hannelore Nenning, fließen, 2025. Courtesy of TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle

Exhibition

Hannelore Nenning: fließen x C& Center of Unfinished Business

TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle
Tyrol, Austria
15 Mar 2025 - 27 Apr 2025

Yoma Emore, My Dear Oleghenju, 2024. Courtesy of Release Gallery

Exhibition

Yoma Emore: There Was Once a Traveller…

Rele Gallery
Lagos, Nigeria
08 Mar 2025 - 19 Apr 2025

Emanuel Tegene, Until the Mockingbird Stops to Sing, installation view, 2025.

Exhibition

Emanuel Tegene: Until the Mockingbird Stops to Sing

BWO Gallery
Douala, Cameroon
06 Mar 2025 - 26 Apr 2025

Jeremiah Quarshie, Memories of Yellow: A Game of Power & Chance, 2025. Courtesy of Gallery 1957

Exhibition

Jeremiah Quarshie: Memories of Yellow: A Game of Power & Chance

Gallery 1957
Accra, Ghana
06 Mar 2025 - 26 Apr 2025

Emma Prempeh, To Nene and Carrie, I'm here again (detail), 2024 Oil, Acrylic and Schlag metal on Canvas. 200 x 160 cm 78 3/4 x 63 in

Emma Prempeh: Belonging In-Between

Tiwani Contemporary
Lagos, Nigeria
06 Mar 2025 - 24 May 2025

ISAAC NABWANA, STANDING AT CENTER, WITH HIS CREW IN “ONCE UPON A TIME IN UGANDA.” CREDIT: MATT PORWOLL/YELLOW VEIL PICTURES/DRAFTHOUSE FILMS

Exhibition

Wakaliga Uganda: If Uganda Was America

The Renaissance Society
Chicago, United States
01 Mar 2025 - 27 Apr 2025

Julianknxx, Still from Shifting _ Spirit _ Time, BURO Stedelijk, 2025, © Studioknxx

Exhibition

Julianknxx: Manifestation #54: Shifting / Spirit / Time

Buro Stedelijk
Amsterdam, Netherlands
27 Feb 2025 - 24 Apr 2025

Theaster Gates, A libation in Uncertain Times, 2024.

Exhibition

Theaster Gates: The Ever-Present Hand

Albuquerque Foundation
Sintra, Portugal
22 Feb 2025 - 31 Aug 2025

Lorraine O'Grady, Art Is. . . (Troupe Front), 1983/2009. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim (Chicago, Paris, Mexico City) © 2023 Lorraine O’Grady/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Exhibition

Collective Joy – Learning Flamboyance! – Group Show

Palais de Tokyo
Paris, France
21 Feb 2025 - 11 May 2025

Julien Creuzet, Attila cataracte, ta source aux pieds, des pitons verts, finira dans la grande mer, gouffre bleu, nous nous noyâmes, dans les larmes marées, de la lune, Neptune Palazzo Dogale (Attila cataract, your source at the feet, of the green peaks, will end up in the great sea, blue abyss, we drowned, in the tidal tears, of the moon, Neptune Palazzo Dogale), 2024. HD video (still), color, no sound, 15 minutes. Produced by Institut français for the France Pavilion during the Biennale Arte 2024.

Exhibition

Julien Creuzet: Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss where we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon

The Bell
Providence, United States
20 Feb 2025 - 01 Jun 2025

Archives and Memories – Group Show

Exhibition

Archives and Memories – Group Show

The Centre for Contemporary Art
Lagos, Nigeria
12 Feb 2025 - 31 May 2025

Elias Sime: Echo የገደል ማሚቶ

Exhibition

Elias Sime: Echo የገደል ማሚቶ

Kunstpalast
Düsseldorf, Germany
12 Feb 2025 - 01 Jun 2025

 

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