October Gallery was founded in 1979 and was the first gallery in the UK to present contemporary art from all around the world. Over the years, it has supported some of the most innovative and exciting artists from the Middle East, Oceania, Asia and Africa, where it has built a...
“A total city, tailor made for adventure.” –Odia Ofeimun The scribe and social commentator, Odia Ofeimun has said a lot of other things too, but there’s no arguing with his description of West Africa’s most vibrant metropolis. Many others have had even more romantic notions of the city, whether their opinions are based on being...
According to the latest ArtTactic Photography Market Confidence Survey published in December 2013, the overall confidence in the international Modern and Contemporary Photography market, increased by 7% in the last 6 months. The Indicator currently stands at 75 (a reading above 50 implies that there is more positive market sentiment than negative). After a 38%...
Okwui Enwezor, Director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich and designated Director of the 56th Biennale in Venice (2015), curated the first exhibition of the Walther Collection, Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity in Neu-Ulm. He also edited the accompanying exhibition catalogue. Events of the Self was the beginning of a series of exhibitions covering...
“Any monkey can use a digital camera, you press a button, you play. You don’t need proper skill to practice digital camera because you are not printing. You only take pictures so you are not as controlled.” Photographer, ‘Okhai Ojeikere was born in 1930 in Ovbiomu-Emai, Edo State and is...
For just three short days at the end of February this year, the international art fair, Art14 rolled into the United Kingdom’s capital for its second run. Situated inside the behemoth of an exhibition venue, London’s Olympia Grand Hall, the fair featured 180 of the world’s most dynamic contemporary galleries,...
The Cape Town Art Fair took place at the Pavilion, V&A Waterfront and was judged to be a resounding success by gallerists, artists, visitors and international art commentators. International art curator, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, who is considered to be one of the most powerful and influential people in art in the world,...
Elvira Dyangani Ose has been Curator International Art at Tate since November 2011 when she was appointed and took up the dedicated curatorial post at Tate Modern created to focus on African art as part of a partnership between Tate and the Nigerian Guaranty Trust Bank. Born in 1974 in...
With buyers’ increasing interest in acquiring contemporary and vintage African art, the Spring auction season is peppered with African-themed sales and manifests a strong appetite for African works. On March 19 this year, a very successful South African Sale was held as every year at Bonhams in London. The sale had several...
Duality, a noteworthy exhibition of 35 paintings on board and canvas by emerging artist, Isaac Iken Emokpae, opens to the public at The Wheatbaker on April 6. Emokpae, son of late modern artist, Erhabor Emokpae (1934-1984, is best known for his photography and studied Fine Art under the tutelage of...
On March 14, 2014, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA) opened to the public, El Anatsui, Playing with Chance to mark the 70th birthday anniversary of one of African’s most iconic sculptors. The exhibition charts Anatsui’s professional career through an expressive display of archival material including sketchbooks, drawings, letters,...
Chief Zacheus Olowonubi Oloruntoba (b.1919) passed away in Marietta, Georgia, on Thursday, March 13. According to his son, Patrick, and daughter, Abiola, the cause of death was a stroke. Oloruntoba was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, October 1, 1919 and began painting when he was 15 years old to explain the...
