11 May - 27 October 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.
11 February - 11 August 2024
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi at the Hammer Museum
Hammer Projects: Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi takes place as a site-specific mural and installation in the museum's lobby, demarcating 'a portal into a world where dynamics of power, nationalism, patriarchy, and excellence are as much on display as the athletes themselves'.
16 November 2023 - 7 July 2024
Mame-Diarra Niang in Cape Town
Zeitz MOCAA presents Self as a Forgotten Monument, a survey of Mame-Diarra Niang's work. Featuring sound, installation and Niang's key photographic trilogies, the exhibition is conceptualised as 'an invitation to embrace the artist’s notion of the 'plasticity of territory''.
Paulo Nazareth presents PEDAGOGIA at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. The project combines an overview of his existing works with those made during Nazareth's stay at the institution. PEDAGOGIA includes performances, open classes, screenings, workshops and an occupation of the university premises, with emphasis on the library.
Frida Orupbo features in an exhibition of works from the Verbund collection at the Albertina Museum, held in celebration of the collection’s twentieth anniversary. This showing places emphasis on 'new acquisitions in the context of ‘Gender, Identity & Diversity'.
Portia Zvavahera features in Revered and Feared: Feminine Power in Art and Belief at CaixaForum, Barcelona. Travelling from Madrid, the exhibition 'traces the spiritual influence of women throughout history and across six continents, providing a dialogue with sculptures, sacred objects and contemporary works of art'.
Meleko Mokgosi, Odili Donald Odita and Frida Orupabo feature in Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, taking place at the Brooklyn Museum. The presentation spotlights works by Black diasporic artists, part of the museum's ongoing efforts to expand the art-historical narrative.
Mame-Diarra Niang features in Glitch: The Art Of Interference at Pinakothek de Moderne. The exhibition pays attention to the ways, '“glitch art” specifically draws attention to the productive side of the flawed' through the work of 50 international artists.
Pieter Hugo features in Man & Mining at the Museum der Arbeit. The show aims to 'connect the asymmetries of global resource extraction and the concrete consequences for people in the Global South with a discussion of consumer behavior'.
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'.
Paulo Nazareth is included in Hands: 35 Years of the Afro-Brazilian Hand, held across the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM) and the Emanuel Araujo Afro Brazil Museum. The exhibition celebrates and revisits the legacy of A Mão Afro-Brasileira (The Afro-Brazilian Hand), an exhibition held at MAM in 1988—the centenary year of slavery abolition in Brazil—with curatorship by Emanoel Araujo and which marked the history of art in the country.
Bronwyn Katz has been awarded the second Spirit Now London Acquisition Prize, in collaboration with Frieze London. As part of the prize, work by the artist is donated to the Hepworth Wakefield, becoming a permanent part of the museum's collection.
Paulo Nazareth and Jo Ractliffe feature in the second chapter of The Struggle of Memory by the Deutsche Bank Collection. This iteration features 'artworks that explore in different ways the traces of history all around us while proposing alternative, sometimes subversive strategies of looking at the past'.
Mame-Diarra Niang features in UNBOUND: PERFORMANCE AS RUPTURE at the Julia Stoschek Foundation. The show 'examines how different generations of artists have called upon the body in relation to the camera to refuse oppressive ideologies' from the 1960s to today.
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi exhibits in Resistance Training: Arts, Sports, and Civil Rights at the Broad Museum of Art, Michigan State University. The show focuses on the 'shared values between artists and athletes in the advancement of social justice-related issues'.
Jo Ractliffe is awarded a 2022 honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society, recognising 'exceptional and innovative work'. This year's awards celebrate practitioners who 'incite change and bring about personal, social, and cultural wellbeing'.
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'.