Pieter Hugo, Sosa Joseph and Jo Ractliffe feature in Column Rota / Broken Column at Museo de la Ciudad de México. The exhibition takes its name from Frida Kahlo's painting Broken Column (1944), which is included in the show.

Portia Zvavahera features in Magical Women at Draiflessen Collection. The exhibition 'explores how female artists in particular engage with the image of the feminine, drawing on various aspects of the magical to question and reinterpret clichés'.

Meleko Mokgosi features in Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, the first major international exhibition to examine the cultural manifestations of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to the present. A previous iteration of the exhibition took place at the Arts Instituite of Chicago. 

Meleko Mokgosi features in ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought at Palais de Tokyo, curated by Naomi Beckwith, which 'explores the history of the transatlantic circulation of forms and ideas.'

Frida Orupabo features in The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present at mumok, Vienna. Alongside other artists, Orupabo was invited to select works of classical modernism from the Collection, entering into a new dialogue with them.

On her mind by Frida Orupabo features in GIRLS. On Boredom, Rebellion and Being In-Between at MoMu, Fashion Museum Antwerp. The exhibition interrogates girlhood as 'more than just a theme, but a way of seeing – of remembering and imagining.'

Robin Rhode features in A Protea Is Not a Flower at Zeitz MoCAA. Curated by Khanyi Mawhayi, the exhibition centres around Don Mattera, becoming a multigenerational conversation between South African artists and writers whose lives and works contend with the complexity of the exilic experience.

Jo Ractliffe features in Into the Unseen – The Walther Collection, at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. 'The exhibition unfolds a poetics of the unseen through artistic works and vernacular photographs that focus on spirituality, trauma, transformation, and multisensory perception.'

As Terras do Fim do Mundo by Jo Ractliffe features in Histoires en séries, at Musée d'art contemporain in Charleroi, spotlighting the photographic collection of the A foundation, which comprises some '6000 photographs collected over the last thirty years.'

Thato Toeba is among 13 artists featuring in I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies at Autograph. Curated by Bindi Vora, the exhibition examines 'how photographs can be deconstructed and reassembled through the idea of collage, offering new perspectives on complex histories and contested social realities'.

Jo Ractliffe features in Histoires en séries. Astrid Ullens de Schooten Whettnall’s collection at the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, bringing together the work of almost 40 photographers with areas of focus spanning social documentary, architecture and life stories.

Simphiwe Ndzube features in Personal Stories / Political Realities, at Musée d'art contemporain in Lyon, highlighting how 'art can often provide key insights into the political, social and cultural changes of an era'.  

Jane Alexander and Robin Rhode feature in Global Fascisms at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, an exhibition which 'critically examines the aesthetic, social, and political dynamics of fascism, questioning its appeal and ideological mechanisms.'

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Frida Orupabo's acclaimed exhibition, travels to the 19th edition of the MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain. Titled In Praise of the Missing Image, this edition prizes 're-establishing the voice of the Other and the memory of different knowledges'. 

Odili Donald Odita features in Global Icons, Local Spotlight: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer at the Portland Art Museum, showcasing some of today's leading artists with local Portland audiences.

Viviane Sassen's retrospective exhibition Phosphor: Art & Fashion 1990-2023, encompassing 30 years of creative development, travels to Fotografiska Stockholm. Bringing together Sassen's fine art and fashion photography, the show features almost 200 works from a variety of series, several never-before-seen works and video installations.

Thato Toeba forms part of Manifestation #52: To Be Determined at Buro Stedelijk. Taking place as a collaboration with other artists, the project is presented as an open-studio with interventions that challenge modes of ‘exhibiting’, interaction and museological practices. 

Black Subjects, Serge Alain Nitegeka's first institutional solo show in Johannesburg, takes place at the Wits Art Museum. The exhibition features monumental sculptural installations, foregounding his engagment with movement and migration.

Deborah Poynton features in Microcosm - The World in a Wunderkammer at Drents Museum. The exhibition is conceptualised as 'an ode to a world in which wonder, beauty and curiosity are central'. 

Robin Rhode presents Der Botanische Garten, his largest mural to date, in the historic city of Potsdam. The mural combines representations of indigenous South African plants with Potsdam's cultural heritage, creating a dialogue between local history and global perspectives.

Mame-Diarra Niang features in What Is Parasite and What Is Kin? at the Museum of Modern Art. This showing, forming part of the museum's permanent collection displays, combines artworks that reimagine the portrait format to 'describe human and nonhuman forms of selfhood'.  

In recognition of her 'innovative contributions to contemporary painting', Ruth Ige has been awarded the 2025 Rydal Art Prize. The prize is presented by the seeds trust and Te Uru Contemporary Art Gallery, where she present a solo exhibition in 2026.

Penny Siopis is included in Afrosonica - Soundscapes at Geneva’s Museum of Ethnography. Co-curated by Madeleine Leclair and Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape, the exhibition aims to highlight the 'power of sound as a tool for memory, connection and change'. 

Jane Alexander and Serge Alain Nitegeka are included in VILLA + the Next Generation, taking place across the Nirox Sculpture Park and indoor galleries. The show plays tribute to the influence of Edoardo Villa, offering a conversation rooted in sculptural mastery, innovation and cultural diversity.

Georgina Gratrix, Deborah Poynton and Penny Siopis are included in Motherhood: Paradox and Duality at the Iziko South African National Gallery. Bringing together the works of over 70 artists, the exhibition aims to challenge, redefine, and expand understandings of motherhood in a rapidly changing world.  

Viviane Sassen presents This Body Made of Stardust at Collezione Maramotti as part of the 20th Fotografia Europea festival. This solo exhibition comprises over fifty photographs and video created over 20 years, alongside new works made specifically for the occasion. 

Odili Donald Odita presents Songs From Life at the Museum of Modern Art. The site specific installation, created over six weeks, envelops the entirety of the museum's lobby. For the first time in the artist’s unfolding process, music serves as the primary source of inspiration. 

Jane Alexander, Wim Botha, Steven Cohen, Simon Gush, Pieter Hugo, Mawande Ka Zenzile, Moshekwa Langa, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Deborah Poynton and Penny Siopis feature in We, the People: 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa at the Norval Foundation. Curated by Liese van der Watt, the exhibition frames the country's democratic journey as a 'an ongoing process'. 

Paulo Nazareth presents Esconjuro (Conjuration) at Inhotim Museum. He occupies various parts museum over the course of 18 months, divided into seasons, as a way of highlighting new ways of relating to the earth, its cycles.