Portia Zvavahera in Open Space

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.

Mame-Diarra Niang in Paris

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.

Read .info issue 18 here

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.

Viviane Sassen at Foam

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. 

Frida Orupabo in Stockholm

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.

Penny Siopis in Athens

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.

Chagas at OFF Bratislava

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 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'.   

Jo Ratcliffe at AIC 24

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 at Kettle's Yard

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.

Giants at the High Museum of Art

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 at Market Photo Workshop

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'.

Meschac Gaba at the Ashmolean Museum

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 Nkosi at Museum Hilversum

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 Nkosi at the New Taipei City Art Museum

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'.

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.

Cian-Yu Bai in Taiwan

Cian-Yu Bai features in Old School, New Expression, a group exhibition at Pingtung Art Museum. 

When we see us in Basel

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 in Switzerland

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 at Hyères

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. 

Nkosi at the  Carnegie Museum of Art

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'.

Nazareth in Brumadinho

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. 

Nkosi wins the Helgaard Steyn Prize

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'.

Nitegeka, Nkosi and Toguo at The Africa Centre

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'.