Highlights of the month
A selection of this month’s stories, articles, events, and news about African Contemporary Art that you can’t miss.
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From April 11, 2025 to February 28, 2026, Fondation H invites British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare for a carte blanche entitled Safiotra [Hybridités/Hybridities], marking his first major showcase on the African continent. The exhibition occupies the 2,200-square-meter Fondation H building in downtown Antananarivo.
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In her first solo exhibition at Southern Guild, Usha Seejarim interrogates the domestic sphere as a site of servitude, subversion and resilience through an intersectional lens.
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A curator at the Palais de Tokyo since 2023, Amandine Nana is also an author, poet and researcher.
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Renowned for his dynamic fusion of contemporary portraiture, fashion, and pop culture, Hajjaj brings his signature aesthetic to a striking series that turns its focus to an unexpected yet evocative subject: legs and feet.
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Délio Jasse has been a dedicated archival researcher for artistic purposes. He has delved into various kinds of visual and textual colonial and postcolonial archives to examine the complex ways in which the histories of European colonialism have left enduring legacies in their wake. Fascinated by the material, mechanical and chemical processes of analogic photography and other printing techniques like silkscreen, Jasse has also been highly committed to thinking about the manifold histories of the photographic medium itself.
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Pour sa première participation à Art Paris, la galerie CHRISTOPHE PERSON présentera une exposition intitulée Sangs mêlés : se révéler dans l’hybridation, s’articulant autour du thème de l’hybridation et du métissage.
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"DOUBLE V GALLERY presents artists Maty Biayenda, Maximilien Pellet and Ugo Schildge at Art Paris".
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AFRONOVA GALLERY presents a dialogue between three young South African artists—Vuyo Mabheka, Dimakatso Mathopa, and Mashudu Nevhutalu—focused on the Archive as a resistant cultural practice.
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From 3 to 6 April 2025, Art Paris, the leading spring event for modern and contemporary art, is back with a bang at the Grand Palais, whose entirely renovated nave and balcony spaces will allow the fair to host 170 exhibitors from 25 different countries (34 more than in 2024).
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Goya & Africa is a digital-first exhibition bridging the visions of great artists working centuries, continents, and cultures apart.
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Stephen Friedman Gallery returns to Art Basel Hong Kong with a dynamic group exhibition that delves into themes of identity, memory, and human connection.
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For our second presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery 1957 is proud to present a dynamic group exhibition featuring acclaimed West African artists.
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Our Hong Kong fair features premier galleries from Asia and beyond.
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Perrotin presents FEMMES, a group exhibition curated by Pharrell Williams, showcasing nearly 40 artists.
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A star-studded international jury – including Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koyo Kouoh, and Elena Filipovic – will honor 36 Medalists across nine categories
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What meanings has Earth held for people of African descent, and what can an environmental consciousness grounded in Pan-Africanist perspectives teach all of humanity today?
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How have artists from Africa and its vast diaspora depicted daily life over the past century? Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, and her team have sought to answer this question with a landmark exhibition.
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Eclectica Contemporary is pleased to present Swirl and Conquer, a solo show by Ebenezer Samuel Akinola.
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Pan-Africanism, first named and theorized 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 peoples of African descent. It has yet to be fully examined as a worldview that takes its force from art and culture.
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After the resounding success of Alioune Diagne’s Senegalese pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale international art exhibition, TEMPLON New York unveils the very first show of this rising star of the African art scene on American soil.
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Ghanaian artist Adjei Tawiah highlights themes of community, family, and influential public figures in his art. He employs a unique technique known as "Sponge Martial," which uses nylon sponges to represent cleansing and regeneration. His colorful and dynamic works capture the sense of light and energy that follows challenging times.
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Mouhcine Rahaoui (1990, JERADA, Morroco) graduated from the Tetouan School of Fine Arts in 2017. His art delves into the history and experiences of miners in the Oriental region, especially in his hometown of Jerada.
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In her first solo exhibition at Southern Guild, Usha Seejarim interrogates the domestic sphere as a site of servitude, subversion and resilience through an intersectional lens.
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A curator at the Palais de Tokyo since 2023, Amandine Nana is also an author, poet and researcher.
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