Exhibition

Kampala’s Open Studio returns on 30 August 2026, bringing DROOP Canvas’s evolving programme of art, performance and creative exchange to The Emin Pasha Hotel in Nakasero. Rather than operating as a conventional exhibition, Open Studio has developed around participation. Previous editions have combined pop-up exhibitions and live painting with workshops, poetry, artist conversations, music and

At ORMS School of Photography, a Women’s Month exhibition brings together 20 artists to explore femininity through joy, beauty, performance, tenderness and excess — proposing softness not as the opposite of power, but as one of its many forms. In conversations around womanhood, seriousness has often been associated with struggle: questions of inequality, representation, violence,

At the Stefan Gierowski Foundation in Warsaw, Polish abstraction is being placed within a considerably wider geography. Curated by Nigerian curator Azu Nwagbogu, AETHER COMMONS: Refracted Cosmologies brings the paintings of Stefan Gierowski into conversation with artists including El Anatsui, Esther Mahlangu, Andile Dyalvane, Zizipho Poswa, Modupeola Fadugba, Satch Hoyt, Mona Hatoum, Olafur Eliasson and

Nigerian-American artist Obi Agwam is rapidly emerging as one of the most compelling voices of a new generation of figurative painters redefining contemporary Black portraiture. In his recent exhibition, Love Letters to You and Me, presented at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 1 to 24 May 2026, Agwam transformed personal memory into

Currently on view at Fondation Blachère in Bonnieux, France, Afroblue is a major group exhibition bringing together 36 artists from across Africa and its diasporas to examine the emotional, spiritual, symbolic, and political dimensions of the color blue in contemporary artistic practices. Opened on April 9 and running through September 19, 2026, the exhibition unfolds

In a significant moment for both contemporary African art and the broader global art landscape, Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo will present his first solo exhibition in Italy, It Doesn’t Have to Always Make Sense, opening on May 6, 2026 at Museo di Palazzo Grimani. Running through November 22, the exhibition is produced by Gagosian in

A new exhibition by acclaimed Egyptian artist Youssef Nabil has opened in Chicago, offering a deeply introspective exploration of time, memory, and the enduring influence of cinema. Titled No one Knows but the Sky, the show runs from April 8 through May 23, 2026, marking the artist’s first solo presentation with Mariane Ibrahim Gallery. Bringing together works spanning two

Kenyan artist Kaloki Nyamai has unveiled a striking new installation at Sprengel Museum Hannover, introducing audiences to a body of work that continues to expand his material and conceptual language. Opened on 10 April 2026, the presentation takes over the museum’s Calder Hall with three towering textile works, each reaching up to six metres high.

At LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery, a space long committed to advancing some of the most compelling voices in contemporary African art, Nigerian artist Prosper Aluu presents Fragments of Knowledge, a deeply introspective solo exhibition on view from March 26 to May 9, 2026. Marking the artist’s first solo presentation in Côte d’Ivoire, the exhibition unfolds as