17 October 2024 - 3 March 2025
Portia Zvavahera in Open Space
For her first institutional solo exhibition in France, Portia Zvavahera presents a monumental painting at Fondation Louis Vuitton. Her multi-panel, site-responsive work marks the 15th installation in the museum's Open Space series.
9 October 2024 - 5 January 2025
Mame-Diarra Niang in Paris
Remember to Forget, Mame-Diarra Niang's first institutional solo show in Europe takes place at Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson. The exhibition features Niang's most recent photographic series with her latest, Æther (2024), being shown for the first time.
October 2024 - January 2025
Read .info issue 18 here
Issue 18 of .info features Kim Jones' reflections on working with Hylton Nel, a Q&A with Mame-Diarra Niang, excepts from the catalogue accompanying Portia Zvavahera's exhibition at Kettle's yard, our next Collect Call, a calendar of exhibitions and more.
20 September onwards
Viviane Sassen at Foam
PHOSPHOR: Art & Fashion, Vivane Sassen's mid-career survey show, travels to the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, marking her first large-scale retrospective in the Netherlands. Previous locations include Fotografiska Shanghai and MEP, Paris.
28 August - 10 November 2024
Frida Orupabo in Stockholm
On Lies, Secrets and Silence, Frida Orupabo's first institutional solo exhibition in Sweden takes place at Bonniers Konsthall. The show comprises new collages, sculpture and film and will travel to Oslo's Astrup Fearnley Museet in 2025.
17 May 2024 - 12 January 2025
Penny Siopis in Athens
Penny Siopis's first retrospective in Europe takes place at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens. Curated by Katerina Gregos, the exhibition brings together the entirety of her practice while highlighting her mark on a generation of younger artists.
Edson Chagas features in OFF Bratislava's 15th edition. Titled PERSONA INCOGNITA, this iteration of the photo festival includes his Tipo Passe works as part of its concept of delving into 'the complexity of veiled identities and hidden characters'.
Meleko Mokgosi features in The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, the sixth edition of Prospect New Orleans, curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson. This edition posits the Louisiana city as a 'point of departure for examining our collective future'.
Jo Ractliffe is among 15 artists showing in After the End of the World: Pictures from Panafrica at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition asks, 'What meanings has Earth held for people of African descent, and what can an environmental consciousness grounded in Pan-Africanist perspectives teach all of humanity today?'.
Portia Zvavahera presents Zvakazarurwa, a survey show spanning early and recent works at Kettle's Yard at the University of Cambridge. The exhibition is curated by Tamar Garb, travelling to Edinburgh's Fruitmarket in 2025.
Meleko Mokgosi, Odili Donald Odita and Frida Orupabo feature in Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys at the High Museum of Art. First shown at the Brooklyn Museum, the exhibition aims to 'illuminate the renown and impact of legendary and canon-expanding artists'.
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi features in Reflections: On Black Girlhood at Market Photo Workshop curated by Danielle Bowler. 'Through sound, image, video and sculpture, the artists ask for our own reflections on Blackness and girlhood, as they present theirs'.
Bank or Economy by Meschac Gaba is among the works selected for Money Talks: Art, Society and Power at Ashmolean Museum. The exhibition features over a 100 objects and artworks, spanning Roman coins to NFTs, exploring the relationship between art and currency.
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi is among ten artists featured in Movements at Museum Hilversum, curated by Rose Ieneke van Kalsbeek. The exhibition focuses on those who 'not only overcome physical and mental obstacles through their sport, but also resist prevailing norms and initiate social change'.
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi exhibits in In Terms of Sports at the New Taipei City Art Museum. The show integrates indoor and outdoor activities in an effort to 'dismantle and challenge contemporary society’s mainstream perceptions of sports'.
Issue 17 is titled 'the purpose is discourse', looking through this lens at recent and upcoming projects by gallery artists; plus an interview with Robin Rhode, Collect Call featuring Moshekwa Langa, a calendar of exhibitions and more.
Cian-Yu Bai features in Old School, New Expression, a group exhibition at Pingtung Art Museum.
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, featuring the works of Neo Matloga, Meleko Mokgosi and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, travels to Kunstmuseum Basel. Spanning 120 works, the exhibition offers 'a kaleidoscope of Black figurative painting over the last 100 years'.
Deborah Poynton is included in Dream with Open Eyes at the Foundation WhiteSpace-BlackBox. Poynton's tripych, To Be Alone, features in the group exhibition to further its exploration of how dreams 'need no statics, no laws, no borders'.
Frida Orupabo is included in The Infinite Woman at Foundation Carmignac. The exhibition seeks to 'conjure up new fantasies and give life to new female narratives, imbued with power', with the work of over sixty artists from different historical periods and places.
The Same Track by Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi features in the 2024 Carnegie Museum of Art Film Series curated by Astria Suparak. Her film forms part of Power Plays, a section addressing 'the political and economic forces driving the global sports-media complex'.
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.
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi receives the 2023 Helgaard Steyn Prize - this iteration for painting - on the basis of her work Ceremony, described by the judges as 'laden with rich nuanced and multifaceted meanings around notions of race, gender, identity and class'.
The Africa Center launches its new permanent collection with an exhibition featuring works by Serge Alain Nitegeka, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi and Barthélémy Toguo. The collection aims to stand 'against reducing contemporary African art to a single story'.