Lux & Umbra a survey of Vivane Sassen's work takes place at the Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa as part of the 29th edition of PhotoEspana. Here, three decades of the artist's work will be reinterpreted thematically in dialoge with the festival's theme, A New Imagination.

Thato Toeba's site-specific installation is included in A Kind of Order at the Toronto Union Station, which 'considers transit as more than physical travel, framing it as an emotional, intellectual, and imaginative state shaped by lived experience, history, and identity.'

Mahesh Baliga participates in the 26th edition of the Drawing Biennale in London. This year's focus features a strong group of artists with ties to India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. 

The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto presents Suspension by Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi as part of the institution's sound programme. The video, which reflects the athletes' 'immense training and sacrifice' is installed in the museum's South Stairwell. 

Pieter Hugo features in HAIR – Stories of Power and Passion at Kunsthalle München. The exhibition, spanning across 200 works from antiquity to present, invites visitors on a 'journey through three millennia of the art and cultural history of hair.'

Simphiwe Ndzube is included in Space is the Place: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection at the Hammer Museum, which considers 'space as a conceptual framework, through the themes of afro-futurism, belonging, placemaking, and the act of taking up space.'

Robin Rhode features in Dessins san limite at Centre Pompidou, a group exhibition tracing the reinvention of drawing from the 20th century to now. The exhibition collates works from the collection, 'organised around four modalities: studying, recounting, tracing and animating.'

For the inaugural exhibition of the New Museum's expanded building, Portia Zvavahera features in New Humans: Memories of the Future, which explores artists who have an 'enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes.'

Pieter Hugo features in Fashion_The Image presented across the Roger Ballen Centre for Photography and the Inside Out Centre for the Arts. The exhibition traces how fashion imagery has been produced, circulated and understood over the past five decades.

Tanda rima, Portia Zvavahera's first institutional exhibition in South Africa, takes place at Norval Foundation. The show features new and recent works, under a title which translates from Shona as 'Chase away the darkness'.

Robin Rhode presents a new body of work at Nirox Foundation that extends this language into sculptural, painted wall reliefs. 'These works translate the immediacy of performance into material permanence: gestures once fleeting become etched into surface, thickened into depth, and stilled as form.'

Neo Matloga and Barthélémy Toguo feature in Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection at the Palmer Museum of Art. Focusing on figuration, the exhibition highlights 'the enduring usefulness of depicting the human figure for artists keen on affirming the humanity of Africans and those critical of postcolonial governments'.  

Meschac Gaba and Viviane Sassen feature in Seeing Words, Reading Images at the PalaisPopulaire in Berlin. The show highlights the historicity of writing in art, and the subsequent 'contemporary network that makes global perspectives and new cultural references visible.'

Moshekwa Langa is featured in In Interludes and Transitions, the third edition of the Diriyah Biennale. Langa presents new 'plastic works', speaking to the biennale's curatorial focus of engaging with 'processions that entangle humans with planetary, multi-species, spiritual, and technological currents.'

Steven Cohen: Long Life, a career-spanning retrospective of the artist's work takes place at the Iziko South African National Gallery. Curated by Anthea Buys, the exhibition spans early textile works, uninvited public interventions and performances for stage. 

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. 

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 conversation between South African practitioners who 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.'

Thato Toeba is the recipient of the 15th FNB Art Prize, the jury noting, 'what set Toeba apart was the clarity of vision, the formal maturity of the work and the considered pace of their trajectory'. As part of the prize, they will present a solo exhibition at the JAG in 2026. 

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'.  

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.