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Bonolo Kavula is awarded the 2022 Norval Sovereign African Art Prize

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South African artist Bonolo Kavula was named as the Grand Prize Winner of the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize for her artwork Tswelopele, a textile-based sculptural piece crafted from a red shweshwe dress. Bonolo is the first artist to receive this annual award for contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora, which was launched in 2021 as […]

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Osinachi’s work to be first NFT auction for an African artist

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Nigerian crypto-artist Osinachi’s NFT series Different Shades of Water will be the first NFT by a contemporary African artist to be sold by Christie’s, London, with an online-only auction taking place from 5-19 October. In collaboration with Christie’s, the series will be also shown on screens at the 1-54 London fair at Somerset House from 14-17 October.  Osinachi (born

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Thinking Through Materials, Objects, and the Theatrical: A Conversation between Al Hassan Issah and Baerbel Mueller

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From Left: Artist Al Hassan Issah, Architect Baerbel Mueller.

In this expansive and reflective dialogue, artist Al Hassan Issah and architect Baerbel Mueller come together to explore the fertile intersections between materiality, objecthood, architecture, and artistic practice. Moving fluidly between Kumasi and Accra, studio and city, canvas and construction, their exchange reveals how materials—whether bamboo, concrete, metal, or found urban fragments—serve not merely as

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