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.

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 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?'.

Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi features in Get in the Game: Sports, Arts, Culture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The exhibition spotlights the influence of sports on contemporary culture, and highlights the way contemporary artists respond to the compounding factors of emotional drama, fan enthusiasm, and the implicit and explicit codes of governing within athletic competition.

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.

Luzia, Paulo Nazareth's first institutional show in Mexico, takes place at Museo Tamayo. Spanning decades of work, the exhibition is conceptualised as 'historiographical speculation' that challenges scientific discourse while navigating Latin American identity.

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'. 

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. 

Frida Orupabo receives the 2025 SPECTRUM Internationaler Preis für Fotografie, which includes a solo exhibition at the  Sprengel Museum Hannover in Germany in early 2025 and a publication. 

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'.

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'.