Goodman Gallery presents ‘Editions & Works on Paper’, a group exhibition that celebrates the art ...
Gathering Fragments brings together the work of nine contemporary artists who explore abstraction...
Goodman Gallery is delighted to present part one of a three-part exhibition between the UK, Europ...
Oude Leeskamer and Goodman Gallery are pleased to present in situ', a group exhibition with work ...
Goodman Gallery is pleased to present ‘Prelude to Mountains’, featuring a selection of early work...
The Johannesburg Art Gallery, in collaboration with Goodman Gallery, is proud to present ‘Umkhond...
Oh To Believe in Another World Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona 18 – 19 October
BOTTEGA VENETA PRESENTS “PORTRAITS OF FATHERHOOD”, A PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES BY CARRIE MAE WEEMS WITH A$AP ROCKY.
Revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through rarely exhibited and lesser- known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. ...
We are delighted to present Faith Ringgold’s installation, The Wake and Resurrection of the Bicentennial Negro, in collaboration with Goodman Gallery.
Marking 40 years at Art Basel, South Africa’s Goodman Gallery presents a comprehensive survey of works by the major artists on its roster alongside more emerging names that are quickly making a mar...
The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents the first comprehensive institutional solo exhibition in Germany by the internationally renowned artist, author, and thinker Grada Kilomba with an eng...
KM21 proudly presents artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s (b. 1980, Botswana) first solo museum show in Europe. The exhibition will include an overview of recent drawings and paintings that have neve...
For its 40th time at Art Basel, South Africa’s leading gallery is showing several never-before-seen works such as a tapestry by El Anatsui that was created specifically for the fair. South African ...
This summer, ICP will present a solo exhibition of work by internationally acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist, Yto Barrada. Part-Time Abstractionist celebrates 10 years of Barrada’s investigations...
South Africa-based Goodman Gallery is now representing Beninese artist Pélagie Gbaguidi. The gallery made the announcement on Instagram on 22 May, noting that they will share representation of the ...
Over the years, 60 Canadian artists have won the honour of showing their work in a small, angular, wood-and-glass pavilion that sits on the end of the Venice lagoon.
As the British-Nigerian artist’s new Serpentine Gallery show opens he talks about the long arm of colonialism, why art needs to engage, and why the Benin Bronzes should be sent home.
We are pleased to announce the representation of the estate of late Ghanaian painter Atta Kwami, in partnership with London’s Beardsmore Gallery.
The Franco-Algerian artist uses classic movies to evoke complex political and cross-cultural ideas.
“It’s a kind of lifestyle for myself, I think grounding is essential for the human nature but I guess I’m grounded but I’m not grounded at the same time. And I’m choosing that. This traveling aspec...
Episode 25 meets artist Misheck Masamvu who considers Zimbabwe’s post-independence character through painting, drawing and sculpture. Sensitive to the country’s economic and political turmoil, he u...
Featuring Grada Kilomba, Kiluanji Kia Henda and Sue Williamson, have a listen here
Grada Kilomba speaks to Ben Luke on the occasion of the São Paulo biennial.
For those of us whose histories are interrupted, transformed, lost, and remade through the legacies of violence, slavery, and colonialism, home is often a loaded notion. Approaching the concept its...
Ahead of her largest European show to date, the artist tells us why her early work focused on her family and how she grew to embrace large-scale installation
An antenna, absorbing the impact of his surroundings, Leonardo Drew converts the Global South’s plight into a display of our collective vigour and infallible joy. “It’s inescapable and I’m glad tha...
Composer Wang Xilin recalls his painful past in China’s Cultural Revolution in Wang Bing’s unusual documentary
In A Candid Interview, Leonardo Drew Discusses His Latest Art Installation And Why Art Matters -
International Women’s Day is an annual celebration of the achievements of women. This year’s campaign theme is Embrace Equality, drawing attention to the fight for equal opportunities across all ge...
Ernest Cole was born in 1940, in Eersterust, a township near Pretoria, and went on to become South Africa’s first black freelance photographer and one of the great chroniclers of the black experien...
In “The world is not what exists but what happens”, 34-year-old Mozambican artist Cassi Namoda paints an almost folkloric image of a small trail of people moving along a formless waterscape, united...
In 2022, we witnessed a rise in neo-surrealist art, NFTs, and textile-based art practices. These were trends that were bubbling to the surface by the end of 2021, but weren’t fully realized until t...
Goodman Gallery presents a new suite of allegorical paintings by Peruvian-born, Berlin-based artist Paolo Salvador in partnership with Peres Projects. The artist continues to draw on a developing v...
Listen to the full conversation between Dor Guez and art critic Ben Luke, Contributing Editor and podcast host at The Art Newspaper, on Guez’s latest exhibition, Knowing The Land at Goodman Gallery...
Introducing the 2022 Artnet Innovators List: 35 Game-Changers, Dreamers, and Mavericks Transforming the Art Industry
Aimee Dawson, The Art Newspaper’s acting digital editor, speaks to Shirin Neshat, the artist whose work expressing solidarity with women in Iran was recently installed outside the Neue Nationalgale...
The exhibition iHubo – Whispers with its two complementary facets, is built around memories which resurface – past and present, in colour and in black and white – the traces of personal stories whi...
In conversation with Michael Berkeley, William Kentridge talks about the importance of music in his work, and brings a playlist that reflects a lifetime of listening. We hear a famous 1937 recordin...
Mucem, fort Saint-Jean — Bâtiment Georges Henri Rivière From 2 December 2022 to 16 April 2023
The Setouchi Triennale takes place within the framework of Art Setouchi which continues every year. Art Setouchi has forged lasting connections with local communities and generated unique initiativ...
Remy Jungerman was awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 2022. The jury praises the artist for the way he interweaves the cultures of the countries that define him: Suriname, the Netherlands, ...
The second edition of the Hacer Noche art festival in Oaxaca opened on 3 September across 20 cultural institutions and unconventional sites, including a radish field and the Monte Albán archaeologi...
Self Portrait as a Coffee Pot Written and Directed by William Kentridge
Curated by Sumayya Vally and Josh Ginsberg A4 Arts Foundation On view until 24 September
Hank Willis Thomas The Un-Private Collection: Hank Willis Thomas + Robin D. G. Kelley 2pm – 3pm, Oculus Hall, The Broad 17 July 2022
Wits Art Museum, Wits University On view until 12 August WAM’s Kentridge collection covers a period of 40 years. This exhibition marks the centenary of Wits University and Wits Art Museum turnin...
Misheck Masamvu has been included in the 8th Biennial of Painting at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. The exhibition, titled the ‘t’ is silent, is curated by Gabi Ngcobo & Oscar Murillo. 26 June to 2 ...
Misheck Masamvu is participating in The Show is Over currently on view at South London Gallery (on view until 4 September 2022). Curated by Gabi Ngcobo, in dialogue with Oscar Murillo, this interna...
A fire circle for a public hearing June 28, 29 & 30, 2022 Starting daily at 7pm
Idris exhibition at Cosmo, Piazza di Sant’Apollonia 13, Rome Participating artists: Dor Guez, Mai Daas, Samah Shihadi, Tigist Yoseph Ron Exhibition dates: 11.06.22-03.07.22
William Kentridge has been awarded The Queen Sonja Lifetime Achievement Award, one of the world’s most important prizes for printmaking.
Friday 22–Sunday 24 April 2022, Barbican Theatre Press performance: Friday 22 April 2022, 7.45pm
The first solo exhibition in Switzerland of South African artist Gabrielle Goliath (b. 1983, Kimberley, ZA), whose work has won numerous awards. In her extensive video and sound installations, she ...
Art21 new film Nicholas Hlobo: Drifting Free premiers on April 6 at 12:00 PM ET. The second 2022 release of Art21’s digital film series, Extended Play, Nicholas Hlobo: Drifting Free offers a look i...
Goodman Gallery congratulates Alfredo Jaar on his participation in the 2022 Whitney Biennial. Titled Quiet As It’s Kept, the exhibition presents works by 63 artists, and will be held from April 6 t...
Phaidon has launched an A-Z survey of the work of over 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based in Africa on 17 October. The publication features Goodman Gallery artists ruby onyinyechi am...
Tell It to the Mountains is an exhibition by Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Mikhael Subotzky in A4’s gallery. Postponed by a fire that damaged A4’s gallery in December 2020, Tell It to the Mountains also m...
Ubuntu, a lucid dream, curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi, serves as a calls for revolt, as well as for wisdom and healing comprising five exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo which foreground artists whose ...
Perimeters is an exhibition of new and site-specific work by Israeli born, New York-based artist Naama Tsabar. Offering the potential for activation and performance throughout, the exhibition cente...
Inyoka Yobhedu is a site-specific installation consisting of intertwined copper pipes with bronze serpent heads inspired by Nehushtan. First described in the Book of Numbers, Nehushtan was a bronze...
In association with Art Joburg, Goodman Gallery Johannesburg is pleased to present an evening of artist films. Join us for an outdoor screening of films by Kudzanai Chiurai, William Kentridge, Pame...
Alfredo Jaar has been awarded the Hasselblad Award, which honours major achievements in photography within various genres and expressions, offering a nuanced view of the field of photography.
Clive van den Berg is the subject of a survey exhibition of paintings, prints and sculptures at the Kwa-Zulu Natal Society of Art Gallery. The exhibition sees van den Berg’s work return to the gall...
O Barco/The Boat is an installation by artist Grada Kilomba, composed of 140 blocks which form the silhouette of the bottom of a ship and carefully draw the space created to accommodate the bodies ...
Kapwani Kiwanga: The Sand Recalls the Moon’s Shadow, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Houston, consists of two new site-specific installations and a video work. Focusing on aspects of two nati...
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum is included in Greater Toronto Art 2021 (GTA21), which brings together twenty-one of the most energizing artists and art collectives working in Toronto or intensely connect...
Paul Maheke has been included in The British Art Show, a landmark touring exhibition that celebrates the vitality of recent art made in Britain. Organised every five years by Hayward Gallery Tourin...
Alfredo Jaar is included in a solo exhibition at Museum of Applied Arts, Austria. In his exhibition at Red Vienna, Alfredo Jaar addresses socio-political and urban planning developments of the city...
Nolan Oswald Dennis is included in the 2021 Boras Biennial. The Biennial has invited Swedish and international artists to consider what new forms of collective action might look like in today’s wor...
Samson Kambalu: New Liberia_ is a solo exhibition of work by the artist at Modern Art Oxford in the UK. For his largest solo exhibition to date, Kambalu’s powerful installation creates the atmosphe...
Talbot Rice Gallery presents The Normal, a group exhibition developed in response to the “wake-up call” of Covid-19. Exploring the profound re-orientation in relation to planetary health, ideas abo...
“Heroines, Birds and Monsters” is the first solo exhibition of Grada Kilomba in the United States, presenting her unique form of storytelling. Working with theory, performance, film, and literature...
We are delighted to announce the opening of Goodman Gallery’s seasonal Gallery in East Hampton opening 15 May and running throughout the summer. Joining our esteemed colleagues with summer seasonal...
We are delighted to announce the opening of Goodman Gallery’s seasonal Gallery in East Hampton opening 15 May and running throughout the summer. Joining our esteemed colleagues with summer seasonal...
We are delighted to announce the opening of Goodman Gallery’s seasonal Gallery in East Hampton opening 15 May and running throughout the summer. Joining our esteemed colleagues with summer seasonal...
“Yinka Shonibare CBE. End of Empire” is a retrospective exhibition, which brings together around 60 works from the last 30 years. The exhibition is on view until 12 September 2021.
Candice Breitz’s Labour (2017-ongoing) is on view as part of Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency, a group exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Photography that explores the psychological, physi...
Gabrielle Goliath and Kapwani Kiwanga are part of the group exhibition The Power of My Hands at Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (until 30 May). The exhibition explores how artists can use their person...
This song is for… by Gabrielle Goliath is currently on view at Konsthall C. The video and text installation is based on the tradition of dedicating songs to someone. The selected songs are dedicate...
Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, on view at The Modern (28 February – 16 May), surveys approximately 30 years of the artist’s video works and photography, investigating her passionate eng...
More Sweetly Play the Dance is currently on view at Mudam in Luxembourg. Conceived for Mudam as part of Luxembourg’s red bridge project, the exhibition presents new and recent works including drawi...
Yinka Shonibare CBE & Yto Barrada are featured in When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University until 31 May. In this era of mass...
Following its successful debut run at Goodman Gallery London earlier this year, Alfredo Jaar’s The Rwanda Project 1994-2000 will be on view at Zeitz MOCAA from 18 November to 23 May 2021. The exhib...
Candice Breitz: Labour is the second volume of Breitz’s catalogue raisonné (the first appeared in 2010). This volume is bilingual (English/German) and was published by the Kunstmuseum Bonn. The boo...
unFlagging_, an outdoor exhibition featuring Hank Willis Thomas and Naama Tsabar, is currently showing at Ballroom Marfaeid=e5ae20aaaf. The exhibition reconsiders flags and their symbolic meaning i...
Haroon Gunn-Salie is currently producing an exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA through an open residency. Titled Line in the Sand (until 10 January 2021), the project draws together a decade of site-specifi...
Kapwani Kiwanga has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Prix Marcel Duchamp. Facilitated by the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the ADIAF, the prize has been given annually to an artist working in Franc...
Kendell Geers has designed a football jersey for A.S. Velasca, an amateur football team in Milan. Geers is one of several artists over the years who have been invited to design a shirt for the team...
Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, a solo exhibition of work by Kiluanji Kia Henda, opens at Galerias Municipais from 3 November to 10 January 2021. The exhibition features a series of sculpt...
Recent paintings by Lisa Brice will be exhibited at the GEM Museum from 21 November to 5 April 2021. Following Brice’s acclaimed solo presentation at Tate Britain in 2018, Lisa Brice: Smoke and Mir...
As part of Christie’s= annual Middle Eastern Modern and Contemporary Art sale week taking place this November in London, mounir fatmi will be on the group exhibition Matters of Material taking plac...
Staged Bodies, a group exhibition at Musée L featuring Shirin Neshat, highlights the many ways in which the human body has been represented through photography since 1970. The exhibition (until 24 ...
Premium Connect, a video work by Tabita Rezaire, is included in the group exhibition Goddesses of Healing at M.Bassy. The exhibition explores the black body as a vessel for addressing cultural woun...
Films by William Kentridge and Shirin Neshat currently form part of the Threshold: Art in Times of Crisis, an online exhibition hosted on Performa’s Radical Broadcast platform. The exhibition, whic...
Following its acclaimed presentation at Zeitz MOCAA last year, William Kentridge’s exhibition Why Should I Hesitate? is travelling to Deichtorhallen Museum (Until 18 April 2021). The exhibition foc...
Yinka Shonibare CBE is included in the annual Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. Held without interruption since 1769, the Summer Exhibition displays works in a variety of mediums an...
Goodman Gallery congratulates Grada Kilomba on the recent acquisition by the Tate of her works Illusions Vol. I, Narcissus and Echo (2017) and Illusions Vol. II, Oedipus (2018), made possible by th...
Goodman Gallery congratulates Kapwani Kiwanga on being awarded the prestigious 2020 Prix Marcel Duchamp.
This Is America | Art USA Today (26 September – 3 January 2021) at Kunsthal Kade in Netherlands presents the work of forty artists including Alfredo Jaar and Hank Willis Thomas whose works address ...
Alfredo Jaar, Kapwani Kiwanga and Kiuanji Kia Henda have been nominated for the High Line’s prestigious plinth commission in New York. Eighty artists from 40 countries were selected by an internati...
Candice Breitz’s I’m Your Man (A Portrait of Leonard Cohen) (2017) recently opened at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and runs until 11 April 2021. Breitz’s work is a nineteen-channel video i...
FARSA (29 September – 31 January), a group exhibition at SESC Pompéia featuring Grada Kilomba, brings together 160 works produced since the 1960s, by mostly women artists from Brazil and Portugal. ...
Following its critically-acclaimed debut at the Portland Art Museum, Thomas’ first major retrospective, All Things Being Equal… is now on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum until 8 November. The exh...
Kapwani Kiwanga, new work (20 September – 17 January 2021) at Centre for Contemporary Art Rotterdam presents Kiwanga’s research on how to create a visible narrative that presents and embodies the d...
A solo exhibition of work by Kendell Geers, titled OrnAmenTum’EtKrimMen, opens at M77 Gallery on 21 September. The exhibition takes its name from the 1908 essay Ornament and Crime by Austrian archi...
Work by sixty artists predominantly from the Global South, including Kiluanji Kia Henda, David Koloane, Mikhael Subotzky and Sue Williamson, is currently on view at the Centre Pompidou as part of t...
Several photographs by Mikhael Subotzky are included in Certain Disorder. Works from the Antoine de Galbert Collection, an exhibition being held at the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (5 September – ...
Work from Shirin Neshat’s photographic series Book of Kings and Soliloquy is included in Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South, the innaugural exhibition to open at the Joburg Contempo...
After Silence – Women and the Art of Crisis 1920 – 2020, an exhibition currently on at SMK, presents political art from the past century. Screenings of Shirin Neshat’s films Rapture (1999) and Turb...
Radical Hybridity marks the Chinese premiere of Yinka Shonibare CBE’s films, Odile and Odette (2005-2006) and Addio del Passato (2011) at M WOODS. The films are currently being screened in the muse...
CABLE CLUB is a series of artist films from the British Council Collection. Each month, from June – August 2020, a film will be posted on its website for audiences to enjoy around the world. This m...
Goodman Gallery Johannesburg has reopened for viewings by appointment.
Following its successful debut run at Goodman Gallery London earlier this year, Alfredo Jaar’s The Rwanda Project 1994-2000 will be on view at Zeitz MOCAA later this year. The exhibition features a...
Work by Misheck Masamvu will be included in the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (14 March – 8 June). The biennale’s theme, NIRIN, is an indigenous word belonging to the Wiradjuri people of western New Sout...
Candice Breitz’s multi-channel video installations Love Story (2016), TLDR (2017) and Profile (2017) will be shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art from 15 March to 12 July. Titled Candice Breitz: To...
El Anatsui’s acclaimed exhibition, El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, travels to the Kunstmuseum Bern (13 March – 21 June). This extensive exhibition reveals how the artist’s monumental body of work dev...
Kiluanji Kia Henda’s proposed sculpture Plantation – Prosperity and Nightmare_, has been chosen as the winning bidu1IgKGLnFHcToEkGLj4qf8TgZsac1w4 for a public memorial to the victims of slavery in ...
Work by William Kentridge forms part of Among the Trees, an exhibition opening this week at the Hayward Gallery (4 March – 17 May). The exhibition brings together sculpture, painting, installation,...
Kapwani Kiwanga’s installation Rumours that Maji was a lie… (2014), will be included in Things Entangling at The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, a curatorial collaboration with KADIST (17 March –...
Tabita Rezaire’s video installation Deep Down Tidal (2017) and a work by Kiluanji Kia Henda will feature as part of Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories at Migros Museum (7 March – 31 May). The e...
Vehicle, a performance and sculpture by Gerhard Marx created in collaboration with Shane Cooper, Kyle Shepherd and Toast Coetzer, forms part of the programme for Woordfees 2020 (12 – 14 March). For...
Work by Hank Willis Thomas features in Object Lessons at the Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center (20 March to 14 June). Thomas’s film Winter in America (2006) – made by in collaboration wit...
Two photographic series by Kiluanji Kia Henda will feature in China – Africa at the Centre Pompidou (4 March – 18 May). The exhibition forms part of the Pompidou’s ongoing exploration of the histor...
Works by Samson Kambalu and Carrie Mae Weems form part of African Cosmologies at this year’s Fotofest Biennial (8 March – 19 April). Curated by Mark Sealy MBE, Director of Autograph ABP, the photog...
Work by Shirin Neshat, Carrie Mae Weems and Sue Williamson will be included in Push the Limits at Fondazione Merz (19 March – 20 September). The exhibition’s title refers to the organising principl...
Mikhael Subotzky has been selected to participate in Live Lab, a residency and exhibition organised by Magnum and held at the High Museum of Art (14 – 26 March). The residency involves the selected...
Candice Breitz’s second German survey titled Labour will be on view at Kunstmuseum Bonn from 20 February to 3 May. This comprehensive solo exhibition will comprise early and recent works, including...
Following a successful 2019 run at the Kunstmuseum in Basel, William Kentridge: A Poem That Is Not Our Own will now be on view at Lille Métropole Museum of Modern Art until 5 July. Kentridge’s firs...
Kapwani Kiwanga’s solo exhibition runs at the Kunsthaus Pasquart in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland until 5 April. The exhibition features significant works from throughout the artist’s career as well as ...
To mark the opening of Land of Dreams – the UK premiere of Shirin Neshat’s most recent body of work – at Goodman Gallery London, the artist will be in conversation with National Portrait Gallery di...
Work by Mikhael Subotzky, Hank Willis Thomas and Kiluanji Kia Henda’s forms part of Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography, a group exhibition showing at The Barbican from 20 February to 17 ...
Alfredo Jaar’s The Ashes of Pasolini features prominently on the group exhibition, titled Pier Paolo Pasolini: Subversive Poet at Neuberger Museum of Art, from 12 February to 31 May. The exhibition...
Grada Kilomba’s Illusions Vol.II: Oedipus will be on view as part of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions until 23 February at the Tokyo Photographic Museum. The festival...
Work by Hank Willis Thomas forms part of To The Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art, on at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina until 7 June. The exhibition explores basketba...
Major and recent installation, sculptural and photographic works by Kiluanji Kia Henda will be on display as part of a solo exhibition by the Angolan artist at M Leuven Belgium from 21 February to ...
Work by Shirin Neshat and mounir fatmi features in Our World is Burning at the Palais de Tokyo from 21 February – 17 May. The exhibition seeks to address human disasters generated by conflicts in t...
Tabita Rezaire and Kapwani Kiwanga have been selected to participate in the 2020 Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh, themed ‘Seismic Movements’, which runs from 7 to 15 February. DAS 2020 aims to recon...
Have You Seen A Horizon Lately?, a group exhibition featuring work by Kapwani Kiwanga and Kiluanji Kia Henda opens at MACAAL on 25 February. Curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi, and taking its title from a ...
Afterlife and Woe from Wit by Broomberg and Chanarin are featured in Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie in Germany from 29 February to 26 April. The biennale is taking place in six museums across thr...
Work by Alfredo Jaar is on view as part of A Year in Art: 1973, a collections display at Tate Modern running until 18 October 2020. Using the overthrow of South America’s first democratically elect...
Bone from 4000 BC by Broomberg & Chanarin is on view on MELTDOWN: Visualising Climate Change at Horniman Museum and Gardens until 12 January 2020. Commissioned by environmental charity Project Pres...
All the Boys by Carrie Mae Weems and Twilight of the Idols by Kendell Geers feature on Risk, a group exhibition currently on view at A4 Arts Foundation until 9 January 2020. Curated by Josh Ginsbur...
Hank Willis Thomas will be speaking at the Arts Funders Forum (AFF), an annual event taking place during Art Basel Miami Beach. The AFF is a platform which brings together philanthropists, artists,...
A work by Kapwani Kiwanga forms part of Leave No Stone Unturned, a group exhibition currently on at Le Cube in Morocco. The exhibition, which runs until 24 January 2020, is centred around the conne...
Work by mounir fatmi and Kendell Geers will feature on Fonction Critique 2 at Aperto in Montpellier from 17 January to 7 February 2020. Curated by Manuel Fadat, the exhibition forms part of Aperto...
Kiluanji Kia Henda’s first major solo exhibition in a European museum opens at the MAN Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro on 31 January 2020. Titled Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, the exhibi...
mounir fatmi has work included in Cut Up/Cut Out, a touring exhibition featuring artists who explore methods of decorative piercing and cutting, using a wide range of media from paper and plastic t...
Opening on 23 January at PEER, Postcards from the Last Century is a solo presentation by Samson Kambalu. The exhibition features Kambalu’s ‘Nyau’ cinema films, which were shot during his recent re...
Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, the inaugural exhibition at El Espacio 23, features over 100 works by artists including William Kentridge, Alfredo Jaar, Kil...
Following his acclaimed 2015 production of Lulu, William Kentridge returns to the Metropolitan Opera in New York with his celebrated rendition of Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck. The opera, which premie...
On 15 November Alfredo Jaar is delivering an artist talk at the Tate entitled ‘It is Difficult’. Jaar will be discussing some of his recent projects dealing with various social and political issues...
The Writing on the Wall, a collaborative installation by Hank Willis Thomas, Baz Dreisinger, and MASS Design Group, is being shown on the High Line from 1 to 10 November. The exhibition is comprise...
Shirin Neshat and Alfredo Jaar are included on the 2019 Biennale Arcipelago Mediteranneo in Palermo, Italy. Neshat will be screening Sarah and Turbulent at the biennale, which this year reflects on...
Shirin Neshat is curating an exhibition in association with The Center for Human Rights in New York featuring 13 contemporary Iranian women artists. The exhibition, titled A Bridge Between You and ...
Work by Sue Williamson is being shown at the 5th International Biennial of Casablanca. The exhibition, curated by Christine Eyeyeye, includes existing and newly created works by established and eme...
The sixth edition of the Lubumbashi Biennial, which runs until 24 November, includes work by Grada Kilomba and Kiluanji Kia Henda. This year’s edition, entitled Future Genealogies, stories from Ecu...
‘Five Photographers: A tribute to David Goldblatt’, a travelling exhibition which includes work by Jabulani Dhlamini, is part of the programme for the 12th edition of the Rencontres de Bamako – Bie...
A World of Illusions, a solo exhibition by Grada Kilomba opens at the Bildmuseet in Sweden on October 11. Alongside Illusions Vol.I, Narcissus & Echo, and Illusions Vol. II, Oedipus, Kilomba will p...
The largest exhibition to date of Iranian-born, New York-based artist Shirin Neshat opens at The Broad in Los Angeles on 19 October. Titled Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, the exhibition...
Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal, the first major retrospective of the acclaimed American artist’s work will be on view at the Portland Art Museum from 12 October to 12 January 2020. The ...
Work by Tabita Rezaire is part of the group exhibition Cosmopolis #2 at Centre Pompidou from 23 October to 23 December. Established as a platform focusing on contemporary art practices based on res...
Work by Yinka Shonibare CBE will form part of When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration Through Contemporary Art, a group exhibition at ICA Boston responding to the migration, immigration and displac...
Nolan Oswald Dennis is one of more than 40 artists, designers, architects, art historians, curators, art critics and others featured on this year’s Young Congo Biennale , running from 20 October to...
William Kentridge’s new multimedia operatic project, Waiting for the Sybil premieres at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (10 – 15 September). The performance, which runs over the course of six nights,...
Congratulations to Kiluanji Kia Henda on winning the 2019 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair courtyard sculptural commission.
Kapwani Kiwanga features on the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art (21 September – December). Featuring 39 Canadian and international artists, the exhibition takes place across ten venues along the ...
Work from Sue Williamson’s From the Inside series is on United by AIDS—An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, a group show at the Migros Museum in Zurich (...
Why Should I Hesitate?, a two-part William Kentridge exhibition opens simultaneously at Zeitz MOCAA (25 August – 23 March) and Norval Foundation (24 August – 23 March) in Cape Town. The exhibition ...
Sugar Walls Teardom, an installation by Tabita Rezaire, is on Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000 at the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) (23 August – 17 November). The exhibition brings together ...
Today we #RememberMarikana. Newly installed at at the Norval Foundation (open view from 16 August), Senzenina by Haroon Gunn-Salie, was created in response to the 2012 Marikana massacre. The 17 gho...
Work by Hank Willis Thomas forms part of Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance at the Rubin Museum of Art (16 August to 6 January). The exhibition examines social, cultural, and politica...
Candice Breitz’s Love Story, a meditation on the refugee crisis and attention spans in the celebrity age, features on the Aichi Triennale (1 August – 14 October). Billed as one of the largest conte...
Sam Nhlengethwa has launched Leeto, an exhibition catalogue which accompanies his Wits Art Museum print retrospective of the same name. The publication is edited by Boitumelo Tlhoaele and features ...
Gabrielle Goliath’s powerful, transcendent and hauntingly immersive, sonic installation, This song is for…, created in collaboration with survivors of abuse and several musical ensembles, is on vie...
An installation by Kapwani Kiwanga is shown as a solo exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG) (13 July – 15 September). For the work, titled Sunlight by Fireside: The Ash Annals, Kiwa...
Sweat by Candice Breitz features on REAL WORK, a major exhibition at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool (12 July – 6 October). Featuring Breitz and one other artist, the...
Work by Shirin Neshat and William Kentridge features on Bodies of Knowledge at the New Orleans Museum of Art (28 June – 13 October). The exhibition brings together eleven international contemporary...
Kapwani Kiwanga is the winner of the 2018 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s most prestigious prize given annually to artists aged 40 or younger. Kiwanga’s work often deals with what she calls ‘multipliciti...
Two very different Frieze Week shows by southern African women artists explore ‘how we might break apart knowledge’
This show was selected as part of London Oomph—a curated roundup of the best contemporary art exhibitions and events held by galleries, museums, and institutions in town during Frieze Art Fair, Oct...
“Rudiments” continues the artist’s exploration of various forms of world-making, delving into how diverse cultures construct and interpret their origins while also drawing attention to how conditio...
Kapwani Kiwanga is not a name necessarily associated with sure-fire commercial artworks. Her thoughtful, heavily researched practice seems, in some ways, to be in defiance of commerciality. But as ...
From the technological to the corporeal, London is rolling out a slate of powerful exhibitions just in time for the fair. Here CULTURED rounds up what the gallery scene’s biggest players have on vi...
South Africa has a very distinctive photographic flavour and its titans include Santu Mofokeng, Sabelo Mlangeni, and Ernest Cole to name a few. All of whom were either mentors or influences for Lin...
It Will End in Tears, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum The Barbican Curve (September 18, 2024 to January 5, 2025)
Jo Stella-Sawicka, senior director of Goodman Gallery, said that “there are a lot of doom-and-gloom views on the market right now,” but that works priced in line with their quality would sell. The ...
Yinka Shonibare CBE wears that title, pointedly, as part of his name. The artist declares himself a Commander of the British Empire in full knowledge of the historical legacy and contemporary frict...
Lindokuhle Sobekwa has made a moving attempt to retrace the steps of a sibling, now dead, whose decade-long absence left a hole at his family’s heart
A few years ago, the French Moroccan artist Yto Barrada visited MoMA PS1, in Queens, following an invitation to create a site-specific work for the museum’s courtyard. As soon as she entered the sp...
Marginalised identities – black, brown, indigenous, femme, queer, non-binary and trans individuals – have found ways to affirm their bodily presence in the world and “survive”, or even thrive in an...
The enormity of Yinka Shonibare CBE’s work cannot be overstated. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in both 2004 and 2008. He has exhibited across the globe with works held in the permanent coll...
Faith Ringgold, The Wake and Resurrection of Bicentennial Negro (1976)
Finding favour were artists with concurrent institutional shows, notably at this year’s Venice Biennale. At Goodman Gallery, Yinka Shonibare’s astronaut sculpture (2024, £250,000), Kudzanai Chiurai...
The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, featuring Trinket, an installation by Canadian French artist Kapwani Kiwanga and curated by Gaëtane Verna, has been widely praised. Frieze’s critic descr...
Kapwani Kiwanga talks to Ben Luke about the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work.
Zineb Sedira talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work.
Her exhibition for the Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale lets raw material speak for itself in a subtle yet powerful comment on global commerce.
Presence is persuasion, and for more than a decade Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar has been an irrefutable presence in South Africa. The respect he has long commanded elsewhere has been achieved l...
Artist Zineb Sedira records cultural and postcolonial connections between Algeria, France, Italy, and the UK from the 1960s, featuring films, rugs, and radical magazines from her personal archive. ...
Remy Jungerman, born in 1959, resides and works in Amsterdam. Initially, he pursued his education at the Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural Studies in Paramaribo, Surinam, and later continued his...
Paris-based, Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga draws on her anthropological training for pieces that criss-cross a multitude of mediums at the Venice Biennale 2024. From performance and embroidery to...
Mythology often serves as a form of cosmogony, depicting the origins and structure of the universe. Deriving from the Greek words “kosmos” (world or universe) and “gonia” (origin), cosmogony refere...
One of the major themes Brazilian contemporary artist Laura Lima emphasises is time — and how important it is to her work.
“The heart of history is a critical discourse that is antithetical to spontaneous memory. History is perpetually suspicious of memory, and its true mission is to suppress and destroy it.” – Pierre ...
In her second solo exhibition with Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg-based artist Ravelle Pillay shows new paintings of a particular world wrought by colonialism. Pillay was born in the port city of Du...
n this episode, we delve into the inner workings of the Artist’s Studio, exploring it as both a physical space and a conceptual framework. Joining us are artists Penny Siopis and Nolan Oswald Denni...
Writing on the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, in a review for The Guardian seven years ago, Adrian Searle spoke of a surface that “gives the world it reflects (and swallows) a kind of hard, filmic ...
Curating, simplified to its barest bones, is an act of pairing. But is it meaningful to see an Angolan artist and a Saudi-Palestinian artist use a similar methodology to discuss distinct political ...
In her latest solo exhibition, ‘How To Eat The Sun and The Moon’ at Goodman Gallery, Brazillian artist Laura Lima presents large-scale assemblages suspended from the ceiling — wispy cloudscapes spu...
The Norval Foundation in Cape Town is, through most of 2024, showing three concurrent and museum-quality art exhibitions, all focused on quite different SA artists — painters Alexis Preller and Cin...
Walk into the Whitechapel Gallery and you are plunged straight into a bar. The bottles are lined up and mirror balls dangle overhead. A tango plays and a couple are on the dancefloor. What begins t...
Explore the full conversation into the vibrant world of artists from South Africa and the Global South more broadly, unpacking the significance of representing artists that inspire social change.
From the ‘horizontal’ methodology of the 35th São Paulo Biennial to Suki Seokyeong Kang’s immersive landscapes in Seoul
QR codes are everywhere now and it’s how many of us access a press release when entering a gallery. Ghada Amer takes the pattern of these codes to produce textiles with powerful quotes such as ‘you...
Many bore witness to the horrors of apartheid in South Africa, but few recorded them with the clarity and precision that the photographer David Goldblatt did.
Sam Nhlengethwa’s latest show heralds albinism and fashion, with print and paint works that veer away from his usual collages, writes Tymon Smith
The renowned artist talks about inspiration, ideas, history and his new exhibition
Born in Botswana in 1980, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, now rooted in a new studio in the Hague, embodies the essence of a multidisciplinary artist. Her creative domain spans the realms of drawing, pai...
Upstairs at the Goodman Gallery in London hang large-scale black-and-white photographs of women. Look closer at their naked bodies, parts of which are symbolically covered, and these women of vario...
Shirin Neshat tells us about ‘The Fury’, a culmination of art and activism, on show at Goodman Gallery, London
London’s Frieze fairs opened in characteristic style this week, with VIP visitors ranging from actress Florence Pugh to the UK’s former chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne (now chair of the ...
The 20th anniversary edition of Frieze London sees kites, is open at The Regent’s Park until Sunday, 15 October.
A more recent newcomer is the South African Goodman Gallery, which has championed some of the continent’s best-known artists, like William Kentridge and El Anatsui. Owner and director Liza Essers h...
The fever of modern art is shining passionately in Seoul. ’ FRIEZE Seoul ’ , held for the second time this year, will be held at COEX in Samseong-dong from September 6th to 9th. Frieze Seoul is est...
South Africa’s leading gallery is making its first permanent inroads in the US
The American artist’s first major UK museum show is breathtaking
Curator Giovanni Carmine walks us through some of his favourites for this edition
Declaratory, vibrant, violent – media images have a way of offering the fleeting satisfaction of keeping us in the loop, and then the next story flashes in before we can ask any questions, but what...
At the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, the two South African artists present multi-media works that memorialize anti-Apartheid resistance
Zineb Sedira’s ‘obsession’ with the sea manifests in a personal and political exhibition exploring its symbolism, from geopolitical issues to migration
It has been five years since The Head and the Load, William Kentridge’s ambitious project about the experiences of Africans in World War 1, debuted on a 75m stage in the Turbine Hall at London’s Ta...
Pillay’s paintings have a washy tranquillity beneath which violence lurks, as she explores the legacies of colonialism and the contradictory nature of historical memory
The novelist Petina Gappah on a group of writers who put a fresh, modern vision of Africa out into the world, portraits by artist Jabulani Dhlamini
Cassi Namoda – «I feel pregnant with work: all these ideas want to have a birth»
Zimbabwean artist Misheck Masamvu has been exploring the sociopolitical and economic turmoil of post-independence Zimbabwe through his artwork which he has been exhibiting across the world since 1999.
‘A Different Now is Close Enough to Exhale on You’ A feature by Vusumzi Nkomo in ArtThrob
“I wanted to bring together artists whose works I have deeply admired, especially because their works are framed between the polarities of poeticality and politicality. What they all have in common...
This group show in three parts (at both South African Goodman Galleries with a satellite show of photographs at Umhlabathi Collective in Johannesburg) – curated by incoming director of Berlin’s HKW...
Dor Guez’s exhibition looks at the contentious area of the Levant through the land itself with a look at how flora native to both sides has flourished in an area abandoned due to a minefield, and b...
South African artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Emily Edwards spoke with Amadour to discuss Chorus, Goliath’s first institutional exhibition in the United States.
For Dor Guez’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in London, the artist was in conversation with the author Ben Luke. This gave an important biographical context to the works shown. Guez was bo...
In the first of LUX Magazine’s series of online dialogues, Liza Essers of Goodman Gallery and South South speaks with philanthropist Durjoy Rahman about the western eye on art, and the future of cu...
A Group of Iranian Artists Teamed Up With For Freedoms to Bring a Public Art Show About the Protest Movement to New York City
Zineb Sedira’s Can’t You See The Sea Changing? is currently on view at De La Warr Pavillion at Bex-Hill-on-Sea. This marks Sedira’s first solo exhibition in a UK institution for over 12 years.
A new exhibition of work by South African Artist Jabulani Dhlamini and Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo at PhotoSaintGermain festival will mark the initiative’s 10th anniversary.
Cultural Capital talks to William Kentridge about his chamber opera and film work SIBYL, opening tonight at the Barbican
Namoda and Neshat both contributed self-portraits to the issue focused around women in art.
The South African artist talks about his new animation City Deep, now on show at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.
’At the heart of my work,’ says Mikhael Subotzky, ‘is a fixation with revealing the gap between what is presented (and idealised) and what is hidden.’
An interview with Kilomba in the latest issue of Art Review, speaking about her publication ‘Plantation Memories’ and new work, ‘The Boat’.
South Africa is one of the world’s most unequal countries – and the inequalities have only grown starker during Covid-19. In ‘the everyday waiting’ photographer Jabulani Dhlamini sheds light on the...
How can we understand violence? Over six decades and an extraordinary body of work, the legendary late photographer David Goldblatt sought to understand forms of violence—structural and primordial,...
By investigating classical myths, Calida Rawles, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and Harmonia Rosales are seeking more nuanced ways of depicting the interior lives of Black women.
Titled Near Distant, this is Marx’s fifth solo show at The Goodman, his most recent being the 2019 exhibition Ecstatic Archive, also at the Johannesburg branch of the gallery, and also dealing with...
The photographer created a nuanced chronicle of South Africa from the dawn of apartheid through its collapse and up to today. One enlightening image from his long-running Soweto series shows a side...
David Koloane, who died last year at the age of 81, produced work that shines with a rare glow of truth which will stand the test of time. Some of it can be seen in the exhibition of his work curre...
The photographer David Goldblatt, the great chronicler of the apartheid era in South Africa, is to be celebrated by one of the first London art galleries to re‑open this month.
“I’m very reluctant to talk about what’s happening now—the hot topic, the outrage of the moment. It seems necessary to ask: how did we get here?” The speaker, artist Kapwani Kiwanga, was in Paris; ...
Alfredo Jaar, the Chilean-born information artist and New Yorker who in March won the 2020 Hasselblad Award (the world’s most prestigious photography prize), has a strict morning ritual. During a r...
Webster’s latest solo show wrestles with a number of conflicting ideas and interpretations around painting and perception alike, largely communicated through her use of material. Labour and leisure...
VISI chats to amanze about creativity, collaborations and how dance, architecture and design influence her work.
For South African photographer Jabulani Dhlamini, social engagement is at the heart of his work. When Covid-19 arrived, South Africa underwent one of the world’s strictest lockdowns, with closely-m...
’The Female Century’ issue highlights 56 remarkable women who have changed the art world – painters, sculptors, photographers, collectors, curators, gallery directors, museum founders and philanthr...
On the 44th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto Uprising — when several thousand Soweto students protested against the introduction of mandatory Afrikaans-language instruction in their township schools ...
Alfredo Jaar’s provocative work begins with photography, but rarely ends there. The Chilean born artist talks to Apollo about the danger of taking images at face value.
In an artistic tradition made famous by Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg, Jaar’s videos force viewers to consider the ef-fects of their incessant exposure to horrific images. They also highlight ...
It’s no surprise to learn that the great South African artist, maestro of multimedia effects, should be thanking Pepper for some of the magic worked in his short film Mayakovsky: A Tragedy, which w...