Jo Ractliffe and Pieter Hugo are included in Animal Model: 200 Years of Photography at Musée de l'Elysée, Switzerland, as part of Rencontres d'Arles. The show examines how photography has shaped our view of animals and 'profoundly influenced the ways we love, exploit, or defend them'. Opens 6 July 2026

Baby in belly by Frida Orupabo features in Labouring Bodies at Museum Tinguely, Basel. The exhibition 'explores the relationship between the body, labour and technology from a feminist perspective.'

Odili Donald Odita presents Freedom is... at Broad Street Love community centre as part of What Now: 2026 festival in Philadelphia. 'This site-specific installation commemorates Philadelphia as the "birthplace of America” and as a sanctuary city.'

Serge Alain Nitegeka, Neo Matloga and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi feature in Reframing Freedom: 50 Years On at Johannesburg Art Gallery. The exhibition brings together artists who 'aim to add further dialogue around autonomy, civil liberties and attitudes toward artmaking' in South Africa today. 

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. 

Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi presents Notes on Falling, a site-specific installation at Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg for Playing Field. Sports & Art, where the museum becomes a 'playing field' and visitors explore the social, cultural and societal dimensions of sport. 

Portia Zvavahera presents Like Flowers We Fade at Fondazione Memmo. For her first institutional solo exhibition in Italy, the artist presents a new site-specific installation alongside a body of paintings developed following a period of residency in Rome. 

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. 

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.'

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.'

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'.

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.'

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.'

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.

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.