The Gathering
Art
Galleries, biennales, studios and the work itself.
ArtThrob
South Africa
Non-profit South African contemporary art publication running since the 1990s. It pays its writers and it shows in the prose.
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29 Oct
‘Honeymoon. The happily ever after?’: Sabelo Mlangeni at the KZNSA Gallery
Sabelo Mlangeni’s ‘Honeymoon. The happily ever after?’ is a body of work built over five years, inspired by a honeymoon trip to eThekwini (Durban). The work…
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19 Oct
Johannesburg Art Gallery: Independent members resign
All four independent members resign from Johannesburg Art Gallery Committee, urge end to legal battle as Gallery and collection deteriorate All four independent, non-governmental members of…
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29 Sep
Mau: A Forest Imaginarium
A new exhibition centers young people living around the Mau Forest to create rewilded visions for 2099. ‘Mau: A Forest Imaginarium’, opening in Nairobi on 17th…
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22 Sep
Bienal de Yucatán: The 1st International Contemporary Art Biennial in Mexico
From November 26, 2026, to February 28, 2027, the Bienal de Yucatán will launch the first international contemporary art festival in Mexico. The first edition of…
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4 Sep
Three artists, Three weeks: ARTTHROB + KRONE Group Artist Residency
Three artists · Three weeks Twee Jonge Gezellen, Tulbagh 5–25 July 2027 A programme hosted by Krone, in partnership with ArtThrob and developed with Sue Williamson.…
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13 Aug
Constellations: An interview with Alexander Richards and Igshaan Adams on Peter Clarke’s solo ‘The Departure’.
Stevenson’s Alexander Richards and artist Igshaan Adams co-curated the exhibition, ‘The Departure’ by Peter Clarke. Drawing from a 1955 short story written by Clarke, the exhibition…
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12 Aug
A New Chapter: Zeitz MOCAA announces Elvira Dyangani Ose as Artistic Director
On Wednesday, 12 August, Zeitz MOCAA announced Spanish curator Elvira Dyangani Ose as artistic director. Elvira Dyangani Ose served as the director of the Museu d’Art…
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5 Aug
Staying Close to our Roots: A Conversation with the Inaugural KZN Art Fair
The inaugural KZN Art Fair is set to take stage in the second weekend of August (7-9). As the team finalises plans to welcome tens of…
nkgopoleng
7 min
Art Index Africa
Pan-African
Short critical essays on African art writing and exhibitions. Young and sparse, so a supplement rather than a spine.
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20 Sep
The art of refusal: saying no has become the ultimate statement in African art
Across the African continent and throughout its global diaspora, the act of refusal has quietly emerged as one of the most decisive tools in an artist’s…
Art Index Africa
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13 Sep
The grandchildren of the moment.
The generation defining African art today did not inherit a blank canvas. They inherited a question, and they are still answering it.When Ghana lowered the Union…
Art Index Africa
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26 Jul
Afloat, But Not Anchored
Four artists spent two weeks on Tarkwa Bay Island. What they brought back is a record of an island. In one case, a portrait of Lagos…
Art Index Africa
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28 Jun
Art Writing as Activism in Africa
This digest is brought to you by Patrons MCAA. Think African art, think Patrons. Patrons is Africa’s leading art advisory and dealership firm with deep expertise…
Art Index Africa
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14 Jun
Heat, Dust, Water: Climate as Creative Force
This digest is brought to you by Patrons MCAA. Think African art, think Patrons. Patrons is Africa’s leading art advisory and dealership firm with deep expertise…
Art Index Africa
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7 Jun
The Emotional Intelligence of African Abstraction
This digest is brought to you by Patrons MCAA. Think African art, think Patrons. Patrons is Africa’s leading art advisory and dealership firm with deep expertise…
Art Index Africa
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31 May
African Art After the Online Algorithm
This digest is brought to you by Patrons MCAA. Think African art, think Patrons. Patrons is Africa’s leading art advisory and dealership firm with deep expertise…
Art Index Africa
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24 May
Why African Art Needs More Editors, Not Just Curators
This digest is brought to you by Patrons MCAA. Think African art, think Patrons. Patrons is Africa’s leading art advisory and dealership firm with deep expertise…
Art Index Africa
5 min
Africanah
Netherlands · edited abroad
A curator-edited arena for African, African-American and Caribbean art. Monthly and argumentative rather than promotional.
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28 Aug
GIRMACHEW GETNET Circle – Humans / ‘I Am Because We Are’
“From both an artistic and a scientific perspective, all humans belong to a single species, Homo sapiens, and share almost the same DNA. Despite this common…
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16 Aug
False trail, smokescreen, witches’ brew: how personal is a figurative painting?
Artist and writer Dineke Blom visited the exhibition Bitches Brew at the Bonnefanten museum (Maastricht, the Netherlands) and wrote an impassioned essay exploring the role of…
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6 Jul
My Own Past: A Maroon Genealogy of Afrodescendant Cuban Art
The exhibition functions as a window into a neglected area of Cuban art. It makes it possible to recognize interconnected artistic trajectories, lives, and aspirations that…
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30 Jun
Networks of Belonging: A Series of Artistic Exhibitions across East Africa
Networks of Belonging: A Series of Artistic Exhibitions across East Africa The Goethe-Institut supports Sudanese artists in the region by fostering local artistic networks, professional exchange,…
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6 Apr
The Shape of Memory: Jessica Ajuyah on Transformation, Womanhood and the Fluid-Self
Her work situates her within a new generation of artists engaging memory, identity, and selfhood with nuance and introspection. It is a trajectory that signals both…
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23 Mar
Patrick Chuka: Afrophilia
PATRICK CHUKA A BOOKPRJECT BY CHU Chu is a Nigerian-American creative and technologist building meaningful experiences from Los Angeles. I left Lagos at 17 with…
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8 Mar
Claiming space: Female voices reinventing contemporary art in Angola
In the contemporary context of Luanda, these artists incorporate critical subjectivities that transform the artistic space. They rewrite narratives about gender, nature, memory, and power. Their…
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