2 November 2024 – 2 February 2025
Meleko Mokgosi at Prospect 6
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'.
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.
7 - 29 September 2024
Edson Chagas at Biennale Images Vevey
Tipo Passe by Edson Chagas is shown as an outdoor installation at Biennale Images Veyey, now in its eighth edition. This year's theme, (dis)connected explores 'the divide created by digital technologies between past and present'.
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.
June - September 2024
Read .info issue 17 here
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.
17 May - 10 November 2024
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'.
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?'.
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'.
Neo Matloga features in Licked by the Waves: New Bathers in Art at Museum MORE. Through the work of over 70 modern and contemporary artists, the exhibition aims to offer 'unexpected perspectives' on the classical theme.
Ruth Ige features in Aotearoa Contemporary at the Auckland Art Gallery. Set to occur every three years, the group exhibition functions as a survey for what is new and significant in the region's cultural environment.
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'.
Viviane Sassen presents PHOSPHOR: Art & Fashion 1990-2023 at Fotografiska Shanghai. Travelling from the Kyotographie international photography festival, this retrospective brings together 200 works across three decades.
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'.
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.
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'.
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'.
Simphiwe Ndzube is among the artists featured in Singular Views: 25 Artists at the Rubell Museum DC. Drawn entirely from the Rubells' collection, the show is structured as a group exhibition of solo presentations that 'excavate cultural history while addressing contemporary concerns'.
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'.