Critique

Eva Obodo, Nightmare, 2020. Jute cloth, thread 235 x 206 x 46cm. Courtesy the artist and kó gallery.

Art Education

The New Nsukka Art School: Between Continuity and Change

The kó art gallery in Lagos is presenting a series of exhibitions of…

Rashid Johnson, Antoine’s Organ, 2016. Black steel, grow lights, plants, wood, shea butter, books, monitors, rugs, piano, 189 x 338 x 126 3/4 in (480 x 858.5 x 322 cm). © Rashid Johnson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Okwui Enwezor's last exhibition

Black Grief and White Grievance

At New York’s New Museum, the last exhibition conceived by Okwui Enwezor functions…

Ibrahima Thiam, Untitled, Maam Njare series, 2020. Photo Courtesy Ibrahima Thiam & RAW Material Company, Dakar.

Partcours in Dakar

Art in the Year of the Biennale That Was Not

Amina Lawal Agoro looks on the event that reinvigorated Dakar’s art scene during…

Makhosazana Xaba's poetry in the book. Courtesy of Natal Collective

Book Review: There are mechanisms in place

Place-making in the World of Sunstrum’s Paintings

The Johannesburg-based curator Boitumelo Tlhoaele writes on the figurative artist’s Sunstrum’s works and…

Installation View

L’ESPACE

In Kigali a New Art Space Sets an Example

Andrew I. Kazibwe visited the newly launched L’ESPACE, which aims to redeem the…

Thebe Phetogo, blackbody Composite (In Protest), 2020.
Oil, acrylic, shoe polish and collage on canvas 45 x 60 in
114.3 x 152.4 cm

Thebe Phetogo: Blackbody Composites

The Blackbody Against the Green Screen

In his blackbody series, the Botswana artist Thebe Phetogo pulls references from his…

Mupfure Church Hand, courtesy of the artist.

Marechera’s The House of Hunger

The Novel that Almost Shaped a Postmodern Postcolonial Africa

Artist Santiago Mostyn revisits The House of Hunger by Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera…

Emeka Okereke, Light Switch, 2015. Printed on Canson rag photographic 40 x 60 cm © Emeka Okereke

Lumières d’Afriques

Light in Times of Growing Uncertainty

The touring exhibition Lumières d’Afrique stops off in Johannesburg amid a global pandemic…

Josiah Tongogara as a young activist in Zambia. Installation view at Zimbabwe National Art Gallery. Photo: Tinashe Muchuri

Freedom in the Eyes of Josiah Tongogara

Portrait with Missing Childhood

The exhibition Freedom in the eyes of Josiah Tongogara at Zimbabwe’s National Gallery…

Sola Olulode, Close To You, 2019.

Digital Strokes

Depictions of Queer Black Love for the Digital Age

A new generation of young painters in Europe are using internet languages to…

Reshma Chhiba, Mother Tongues, 2020. Photo: Ashraf Jamal

Tomorrow There Will Be More Of Us

The Materiality of South Africa’s Stellenbosch Triennale

For its inaugural edition, the Stellenbosch Triennale in South Africa invited 20 artists…

David Koloane, Installation View at Iziko South African National Gallery.

A Resilient Visionary

The Visual Journey of David Koloane through History’s City

Last summer the Iziko South African National Gallery hosted a retrospective of the…