1 March - 25 May 2025
Portia Zvavahera in Edinburgh
Fruitmarket presents Zvakazarurwa, a solo exhibition by Portia Zvavahera. Curated by Tamar Garb - in collaboration with Kettle's Yard, Cambridge - the presentation traces Zvavahera's 'visually beguiling personal cosmology' since 2012.
7 February - 27 April 2025
Orupabo in Oslo
On Lies, Secrets and Silence, Frida Orupabo's 'most extensive exhibition to date' takes place at Astrup Fearnley Museet. Having debuted at Bonniers Konsthall, this iteration adds new elements to her collages, sculptural works and video installations.
1 February - 27 April 2025
Paulo Nazareth in Brussels
Patuá/Patois, Paulo Nazareth's first institutional exhibition in Belgium takes place at Wiels. This survey, comprising new and existing works that represent over two decades of his practice, investigates how language and objects can operate as tools for survival.
Frida Orupabo is included in Uncanny at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The group exhibition comprises painting, sculpture, photography, and video oriented around surreal imaginings, unsafe spaces, and the uncanny valley.
Jane Alexander, Wim Botha, Steven Cohen, Simon Gush, Pieter Hugo, Mawande Ka Zenzile, Moshekwa Langa, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Deborah Poynton and Penny Siopis feature in We, the People: 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa at the Norval Foundation. Curated by Liese van der Watt, the exhibition frames the country's democratic journey as a 'an ongoing process'.
Meleko Mokgosi and Portia Zvavahera feature in Mirror of the Mind: Figuration in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection at El Espacio 23. Divided into six sections, the show presents a broader conversation on the complexities of the self.
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?'.
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.
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.
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'.