27 June 2025 - 12 January 2026
Penny Siopis in Santa Fe
Penny Siopis is among the artists selected for the 12th SITE SANTA FE International: Once Within A Time, curated by Cecilia Alemani. Through more than 300 artworks made from 1926 to the present, this edition aims to 'probe the power of storytelling'.
27 April - 27 July 2025
Viviane Sassen at Collezione Maramotti
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.
1 March - 25 May 2025
Portia Zvavahera in Edinburgh
Fruitmarket presents Zvakazarurwa, a solo exhibition by Portia Zvavahera. Curated by Tamar Garb - in collaboration with Kettle's Yard, Cambridge - the presentation traces Zvavahera's 'visually beguiling personal cosmology' since 2012.
Call Me When You Get There by Mame-Diarra Niang features in On View, Encounters with the Photographic at Pinakothek der Moderne. For the first time, the Collection of Photography and Time-Based Media and the Ann and Jürgen Wilde Foundation jointly present key photographic works from their holdings.
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'.
Morphologie du rêve #6 by Mame-Diarra Niang features in Out of focus, another vision of art from 1945 to the present day, a group exhibition at Musée de l'Orangerie focusing on artists that make use of the blur, opting for 'the indeterminate, the indistinct and allusion'.
A solo exhibition by Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi takes place at Tri-Star Arts, held inside Tennessee's historic Candoro Marble building.
As the winner of the SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography, Frida Orupabo presents a solo exhibition at Sprengel Museum. The exhibition, accompanied by a book, elucidates how Orupabo 'overwrites the “blind spots” of history with painfully poetic montages and collages'.
Good Mom/Bad Mom – Unraveling the Mother Myth featuring works by Frida Orupabo, takes place at Centraal Museum. Drawing from the museum's collection, the exhibition aims to deconstruct myths surrounding motherhood by presenting perspectives that have long been invisible.
Moshekwa Langa exhibits in New New Babylon: Visions for Another Tomorrow at Kunstmuseum Den Haag. Curated by Zippora Elders and Yasmijn Jarram, the show brings together works that foreground 'the power, the beauty and the necessity of radical thought'.
Robin Rhode is among forty artists included in Corps et âmes, a group exhibition at Bourse de Commerce exploring the significance of the body in contemporary thought.
Frida Orupabo is included in Uncanny at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The group exhibition comprises painting, sculpture, photography, and video oriented around surreal imaginings, unsafe spaces, and the uncanny valley.
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'.
Meleko Mokgosi and Portia Zvavahera feature in Mirror of the Mind: Figuration in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection at El Espacio 23. Divided into six sections, the show presents a broader conversation on the complexities of the self.
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.