Works from Pieter Hugo, Viviane Sassen and Guy Tillim were selected for the 44th anniversary exhibition at Daimler Contemporary Berlin, titled Friendship. Nature. Culture. The collection's 3 000 works span 100 years, '[forming]  networks and [exploring] the interplay between art and human coexistence'.

Paulo Nazareth and Frida Orupabo feature in Though it's dark, still I sing, the 34th Bienal de São Paulo. The exhibition includes the work of over 90 artists 'claiming the need for art as a field of encounter, resistance, rupture and transformation'. 

Neo Matloga has been selected as one of 30 artists to participate in Watou 2021, a festival coordinated by a trio of curators Benedicte Goesaert, Chantal Pattyn and Peter Verhelst. 'The 40th edition represents movement, harmony, humanity and intensity.' 

Zanele Muholi discusses the evolution and impact of Somnyama Ngonyama and their current projects with Cummer Museum on Zoom.

Our 8th issue centres dialogue, including a conversation on collaboration by Joost Bosland and Sadie Coles, reflections on shame from Penny Siopis and Griselda Pollock, musings on Morija by Lerato Bereng and thoughts on our next group show from Sinazo Chiya and Sisipho Ngodwana.  

Portia Zvavahera features in The Power of My Hands at Musée d’Art Moderne. This exhibition of works by women artists forms part of Africa2020 Season, examining the relationships between 'memory, family, tradition, religion and imagination'.

Zanele Muholi features in Daimler Art Collection's newest show, 31:Women. In homage to Marcel Duchamp's New York exhibitions, Exhibition by 31 Women, (1943), and The Women, (1945), Daimler Contemporary 'takes its lead from these important founding documents of feminist art history' in assembling the offering. 

Odili Donald Odita exhibits a new mural in New Grit: Art & Philly Now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For this show, artists with a strong relationship to the city are asked to explore ideas of being and belonging. Odita will present a discussion of the work. 

Frida Orupabo exhibits in Mother! at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. This large-scale exhibition revolves around motherhood, viewed through changing notions of art and culture, primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Zanele Muholi's internationally touring exhibition curated by Renée Mussai, now shows at the Cummer Museum. This is the final venue for this exhibition in the United States.

In recognition for his 'compositional acuity and his vibrant, powerful and spirited work', Neo Matloga has won the 10th ABN AMRO Art Award. The prize includes an exhibition at the Hermitage Amsterdam museum, which will be accompanied by a catalogue.

Barthélémy Toguo presents Craving For Humanity at the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac. The exhibition follows the 'angle of intimate and collective experiences' with works by the artist hung alongside antiquities from the museum. 

Simphiwe Ndzube features in Lineages: Works from the Collection at the NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale. The exhibition brings together works which speak to the museum's current show on Eric N Mack, highlighting 'contemporary artists whose work shares affinities with Mack’s poetic arrangements and thematic concerns'. 

Meschac Gaba, Zanele Muholi and Barthélémy Toguo feature in THIS IS NOT AFRICA – UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED, taking place across ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark and Red Clay in Ghana. The exhibition seeks to 'disrupt a conventional and stereotypical western narrative of Africanness'.

Dada Khanyisa and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi feature in Mixed Company at the Norval Foundation. The group exhibition explores 'the act of gathering, pictured through the eyes of eleven modern and contemporary artists from southern Africa'. 

Robin Rhode exhibits in FIRE IN MY BELLY at the Julia Stoschek Collection. Comprising film, video, photography, painting, sculpture and poetry, the exhibition seeks to examine the ways in which experiences of violence and loss are enacted, witnessed and transformed. 

Frida Orupabo exhibits in Toronto's historic garment district as part of the city's Public Art programme, ArtworxTO. The mural is the first in a two-part project, with the second work launching at the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in May

Moshekwa Langa, Simphiwe Ndzube, Frida Orupabo, Penny Siopis, Barthélémy Toguo and Portia Zvavahera exhibit in Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M Pérez Collection at El Espacio 23. The show features over 100 works by artists from the region and its diaspora. 

Pieter Hugo, Zanele Muholi, Odili Donald Odita, Robin Rhode, Guy Tillim and Portia Zvavahera are included in Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M Pérez Collection at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. 'Collapsing national borders, the artists in the exhibition ally with power, representing a kaleidoscope of voices that declare their authority.'

The Art Institute of Chicago presents Drives, the first US survey exhibition of Jo Ractliffe's work. The show brings together more than 100 artworks, from early photographs of the 1980s through to her Angolan and Borderlands series and most recent work. 

Meleko Mokgosi's Your Trip to Africa references Peter Kubelka's 1966 Unsere Afrikareise ('Our Trip to Africa'). Mokgosi adds 'a new emotional force, reversing the desensitized tone that often accompanies modernist aesthetic treatments of non-Western subjects'.

Dada Khanyisa is among the artists included in Heroes: Principles of African Greatness at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. 'The exhibition invites visitors to consider the core values of leadership —justice, integrity, generosity, and empathy among them—embodied in selected art works'.

Pan-African Pulp, a commission by Meleko Mokgosi, is on view at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. His installation features large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and 70s, a mural examining the complexity of blackness, and posters from pan-African movements around the world.