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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Safaa Erruas: “Inhabiting the Interstice” (29 September - 7 November 2026). Safaa Erruas’s latest body of work continues her exploration of crossings and borders.
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Park Nights 2026 presents Ebun Sodipo and Rosa-Johan Uddoh’s Atlantic Cruises: The Sex Tour, a journey through histories of gender, sexual dimorphism, fetish and the libidinal economy of race.
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An immersive space created by Tyreis Holder and local communities, inspired by the five senses and Black British Caribbean heritage.
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Spanning four decades of work, Among People is a major survey of internationally renowned documentary and portrait photographer Jillian Edelstein.
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WORLDART is pleased to present In Order of Appearance, a solo exhibition by Sotiris Moldovanos, opening Saturday 29 August 2026 at the gallery's Long Street premises in Cape Town.
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Buthelezi’s multidisciplinary practice is rooted in material exploration, cultural continuity, and spiritual enquiry, drawing on Indigenous knowledge systems as frameworks through which to consider contemporary existence.
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In 2024, Abdus Salaam entered a period of sustained research and making during his six-week residency at the NIROX Foundation in South Africa. Set within the profound landscape of the Cradle of Humankind, and taking place during the month-long fast of Ramadan, this residency culminated in Insaan: Human Being—a body of work exploring humanity, spirituality, ecology, and our relationship to the natural world through sculpture, painting, sound, and poetry.
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Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) presents We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight, the first museum survey exhibition of Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku. Tracing a decade of quiet revolutions in cloth, memory, and self, the exhibition brings together textured expressions of personal history and cultural inheritance, revealing an artistic journey in constant motion.
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Angeline Meitzler, Josèfa Ntjam, Natalie Paneng, Rebeca Romero, Kinnari Saraiya, Skawennati and Wendi Yan.
SLIPSTREAM: Uncharted Realities & the Eternal Now is a dreamlike threshold.
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This spring, the Norton will present Danielle Mckinney: Shelter, a survey exhibition of paintings spanning the last six years of the artist’s practice. As the tenth artist to be exhibited as part of the Recognition of Art by Women (RAW) exhibition series, Danielle Mckinney (American, born 1981) creates artworks that depict her female subjects in private moments of solitude.
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Turn the volume up! examines how artists, activists, and everyday people have used their voices to challenge injustice, build communities, and shape public life, inviting visitors to consider how we might do the same.
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On the occasion of his second solo exhibition at AFIKARIS gallery, Hervé Yamguen presents Nos géographies intimes (Our Intimate Geographies), a body of drawings, paintings, bronze sculptures and wooden masks that continues a central line of enquiry in his practice: the visible and invisible forces that shape the ways in which we inhabit the world.
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October Gallery presents selected photographic works by South African artist Zana Masombuka, which bring together compelling works from different series deeply rooted in her Ndebele culture. In the gallery's second space, a Spotlight is placed on poignant works by award-winning photographer and multi-disciplinary artist Benji Reid.
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Book free general admission tickets to see this in-depth installation of Jean-Michel Basquiat that features works by the artist, including Untitled (1981) and Beef Ribs Longhorn (1982).
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Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee foregrounds Beverly Buchanan and Dionne Lee’s explorations of the myths, majesty, and dispossessions embedded in the American landscape. The exhibition is the second in a series organized by Senior Curator Rebecca Matalon to bring together artists across generations as a way to open up new interpretations of their work.
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Park Nights 2026 presents Ebun Sodipo and Rosa-Johan Uddoh’s Atlantic Cruises: The Sex Tour, a journey through histories of gender, sexual dimorphism, fetish and the libidinal economy of race.
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For the past 40 years, McArthur Binion, who describes himself as a “Rural Modernist,” has been producing unconventional, deeply autobiographical abstract compositions, through which he has been complicating and broadening the traditional idioms of abstraction and Modernism.
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