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. 

Edson Chagas, Frida Orupabo and Moshekwa Langa feature in From the surrounds, we build the present at Galeria do Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional. Curated by Cindy Sissokho, 'the exhibition explores everyday realities and moments of freedom that people generate within the environments they inhabit'. 

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.

Mame-Diarra Niang and Viviane Sassen feature in Memento. Photography, interrupted at Huis Marseille. The exhibition highlights key works collected by the museum over 25 years, reflecting 'the important changes that have taken place in society and art practice in particular'.

Zander Blom, Wim Botha and Ian Grose feature in A Beast with Two Backs at the AVA gallery. Showing the works of artists alongside that of their partners, the exhibition asks 'how love might exist as a corporeal presence among artists who create jointly'.

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.

Meleko Mokgosi features in The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home: Selections from Prospect.6 New Orleans at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, this showing is the first time in Prospect’s history that an excerpt from the triennial has traveled outside of New Orleans. 

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.  

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'.

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 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.