Highlights of the month
A selection of this month’s stories, articles, events, and news about African Contemporary Art that you can’t miss.

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SAAM’s groundbreaking exhibition, featuring 82 artworks created between 1792 and 2023, examines for the first time the ways in which sculpture has shaped and reflected attitudes and understandings about race in the United States.
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Vielmetter Los Angeles is pleased to present Tuning the Signals, New York-based artist Nate Lewis’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view from February 8 to March 29, 2025.
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Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance.
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A World in Common presents twenty-three African and African diaspora artists from different generations and geographical contexts.
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L'exposition "Dévoreuses d’âmes" à la Galerie CHRISTOPHE PERSON du 6 février au 15 mars, rend hommage à ces femmes marginalisées, perçues à travers le prisme de la suspicion et de la peur.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ouattara Watts: A Distant Conversation represents the final chapter in the Currier’s ongoing series of “Distant Conversations,” pairing the works by artists who share artistic and intellectual affinities across time and space.
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The Nigerian designer is one of the rising stars of his generation. His Ayo Bench got international attention and was included in the Wallpaper* Class of ’24 exhibition at the Milan Triennale during last year’s Design Week.
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Goodman Gallery New York presents Landing (again), a group presentation showcasing eight leading 20th and 21st century artists who have been instrumental in shaping the course of art history from the African continent and its diaspora.
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Galerie 208 and Mandarin Oriental, Marrakech are honoured to present ‘Silent Elevations’, an exclusive exhibition devoted to the internationally renowned Moroccan artist Mahi Binebine.
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Nil Gallery is proud to present a curated group exhibition at 1-54 Marrakech, featuring the works of Sara Benabdallah (Morocco), Girma Berta (Ethiopia), Joel Bigaignon (Mauritius), and Abdallah El Hariri (Morocco).
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L’Atelier 21 has been selected to participate in the 6th edition of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which will take place from January 30 to February 2, 2025, at La Mamounia, Marrakech.
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Naomi Beckwith, the deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, has been appointed to curate the 16th edition of Documenta, the sprawling contemporary art exhibition that takes place in the German city of Kassel every five years.
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So Art Gallery is delighted to announce its participation in the upcoming edition of the 1-54 Marrakech Contemporary African Art Fair, which will take place from January 30 to February 2, 2025, at the prestigious La Mamounia Hotel.
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Access to the talks programme is exclusively available to 1-54 ticket holders. With limited capacity and high demand, we recommend arriving early to secure your seat.
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Entitled "Lignes", the exhibition invites us to explore individual and collective journeys through complex forms and narratives, at the frenetic pace of these ever-changing African cities.
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AFIKARIS Gallery is delighted to come back to artgenève, unveiling a solo presentation of Hervé Yamguen's latest works and a group show featuring pieces by Salifou Lindou, Ozioma Onuzulike and Mouhcine Rahaoui.
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is pleased to announce the return of its Marrakech edition, scheduled to take place from January 30 – February 2, 2025, at la Mamounia and DaDa in Marrakech.
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Inspired by the vibrancy of African diasporic barbershops —spaces that extend beyond businesses and serve as theatres of both safety and ambition, solidarity and personal transformation, the exhibition is an exploration and celebration of masculinity through a female gaze.
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Developed in collaboration with Maison Gacha, in Paris, and with the Fondation Jean-Félicien Gacha, Cameroun, the exhibition presents 129 textile pieces that seek to stimulate new perceptions about Africa in the Brazilian public, from a diverse perspective on a continent populated by knowledge, traditions and artistic contributions.
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Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) presents One Must Be Seated, a solo exhibition by Ghanaian-American artist Rita Mawuena Benissan.
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For his first exhibition in Korea, Adeniyi-Jones has created a new series of paintings that respond to the context of Seoul, and mark a new development in his exploration of the interplay between figure, environment and motion.
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Rita Mawuena Benissan, a Ghanaian-American interdisciplinary artist, is on a mission to reimagine the royal umbrella, transforming it from a mere protective object into a potent symbol of Ghanaian identity.
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In “Third World – the discovered dimension”, the exhibition gallery of the Pina Contemporânea building transforms into the immersive universe created by artist Gabriel Massan, with his sculptures, unevenness and textures that refer to the experience inside the canvases.
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Vielmetter Los Angeles is pleased to present Tuning the Signals, New York-based artist Nate Lewis’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view from February 8 to March 29, 2025.
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Naomi Beckwith, the deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, has been appointed to curate the 16th edition of Documenta, the sprawling contemporary art exhibition that takes place in the German city of Kassel every five years.
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