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 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?'.

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.

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.

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'. 

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.

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'.