From 9 to 30 November, Everard Read Cape Town and 16 on Lerotholi will present a collaborative exhibition by Ricky Dyaloyi across both galleries, titled Impilo ifun’abomeleleyo (Living Requires Strength), which the artist describes as “a collective tale of strength in the face of life’s trials”. The title makes Dyaloyi’s...
From 9 to 30 November, Everard Read will present a solo exhibition by Cape Town artist Nicola Bailey. ‘A Gentle Entanglement’ features sculptures – from delicate and embryonic to monumental – as well as figurative yet supple paintings, all exploring our deep connections with others. Lucienne Bestall comments: “To say...
Bola Asiru is the founder of Red Door Gallery in Lagos, as well as a keen art collector and patron of contemporary African art. Alongside his preoccupation supporting and mentoring young Nigerian artists, he serves as the principal for MasterCard Advisors, Middle East & Africa with a primary focus on...
Independent curator and arts advisor Lucy Macgarry is the co-director of Latitudes Online: a new marketplace for contemporary art from Africa. She holds a Master of fine art from WITS, a Bachelor of Commerce honours in business management from UCT, and a Bachelor of Arts in visual studies from UCT....
South African-based American artist, Gary Stephens works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography. He portrays women in head scarves or men in hats to focus attention on the power of these everyday symbols of African life, and to capture a sense of contemporary African style and...
WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to present Midden, a solo exhibition by Dale Lawrence. Due to stratification on the water column, where dense saltwater below and freshwater at the top can never mix – the black sea is anoxic. Considered the largest ‘dead zone’ on the planet, the inert semi-enclosed sea is devoid...
Running presently at WHATIFTHEWORLD is Backrooms, Bookstores, Balconies, Meatracks and Tearooms, a solo exhibition by Ben Orkin. Queens never build their own cities, but meet on the periphery of the men’s ones. They find each other in Backrooms, Bookstores, Balconies, Meatracks and Tearooms. To the men, the names of these...
Stevenson Johannesburg is pleased to present the work of Moshekwa Langa and John Muafangejo in the third iteration of Juxtapositions, the gallery’s series of idiosyncratic two-person exhibitions. The phrase ‘I was lonelyness’, seen first in John Muafangejo’s print Zimbabwe House (1975) and used as the title of his catalogue raisonné of graphic works,...
Running presently at Omenka Gallery is The Thread That Binds, a group exhibition featuring recent work by leading contemporary artists Wallace Ejoh, Emeka Okoye, Derek Jombo, Olubankole Olabode, Olufemi Oyewole, and Jimmy Nwanne. The exhibition aims to highlight the universal human experience of interconnectedness while exploring the multifaceted concept of...
Running presently at Stevenson, Johannesburg is Sanctuary, a solo exhibition of new works on paper by Moshekwa Langa. Titled after places such as The homestead and The orchard, and moments in time including Midnight and Past Midnight, these paintings mark a new chapter for Langa of grappling with familiarity and estrangement. Continuing his process of self-chronicling, the works in Sanctuary were...
Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a new body of paintings on canvas by contemporary artist Jean David Nkot. In his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Nkot continues to address themes surrounding trans-African migration. His works combine detailed portraits with layers of complex cartographic information. Jean-David Nkot draws...
Running presently at WHATIFTHEWORLD is In The End, by Michael Taylor. Handel darts off just as the man with the face like a puppy approaches. You’re disappointed to see how easily he is willing to abandon your conversation about cultural appropriation at parties, where to draw the line etc. You value...
