From May 27 to June 9, 2017, The Temple Management Company will present It’s Not Furniture by Marcellina Akpojotor, Logo Oluwamuyiwa, Ken Nwadiogbu, Fola David, John Madu and Jeiken Lato-Unah, at the Omenka Gallery. The exhibition is meant to show that art is not furniture but a representation of the life,...
From July 7 to 21, 2017, Jack Bell Gallery will present Ubuntu Ngabantu by South African artist Bambo Sibiya. Rich stylistic detail and textures mark BaJack Bell Gallerymbo Sibiya’s linocuts and drypoint works, which seem to give insight into masculine identity and community on the streets of Johannesburg. Sibiya has found...
It’s one month to the end of the year, and it has been one of positive focus on the African art scene. This November, Omenka brings to you a guide on the exhibitions and shows across Africa. In Lagos, the sixth edition of the LagosPhoto Festival continues with the event...
The Program of African Studies’ Nollywood Working Group and Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art will cosponsor a Nollywood film festival which will highlight the works of Nollywood filmmaker, Femi Odugbemi in October. Recognised as a film industry thought leader, Odugbemi served as president of the Independent Television Producers Association...
On April 30, 2015, the Gallery of African Art (GAFRA) opened Seven Decades of Artistic Production, a curated exhibition of pencil works, paintings and sculptures by celebrated artist, Ben Enwonwu, regarded as one of the pioneers of modern African art. Providing a glimpse into the artist’s oeuvre, the exhibition also serves as...
“A map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realization of Utopias.”...
Here are a selection of shows this May you shouldn’t miss. Under – Song for a Cipher May 3 to September 3, 2017 New Museum will present Under – Song for a Cipher by Ghanaian artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. This exhibition brings together a selection of works by the artist, a...
Arthouse Contemporary will hold its third annual Affordable Art Auction on March 3, 2018, at the Kia Showroom, in Victoria Island, Lagos. The auction preview, ‘Art Night Out’, will take place on March 1, at the same venue, and will feature art, music and live performances. The Affordable Art Auction...
WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to present Passage – a new body of work by Mohau Modisakeng, consisting of performance, photography and film. Passage, is a three-channel video projection and photographic series that meditates on slavery’s dismemberment of African identity and its enduring erasure of personal histories. In each of the artwork’s...
The 5th QDance Session took place at Freedom Park, Lagos Island on recently. It was planned for the Lagos Book and Art Festival and featured dance, music, improvisation and jam sessions. The session is a performance lab, which is a semi-curated gathering of people from all walks of life for...
SMAC Gallery is proud to present Knot I: I Knot, a new exhibition of paintings and ceramic sculptures by Marlene Steyn. Here, her characteristically elongated, distorted figures bend and twist in yoga-like positions, often writhing and transmuting into the sporting goods by which their actions are accompanied. Pale, slender arms embrace the...
From March 24 to May 4, 2018, Stevenson Johannesburg will present The Human Abstract, a solo exhibition of new paintings by South African artist Deborah Poynton. This body of work is titled after a poem by William Blake, from his Songs of Experience, published in 1794. Poynton writes: In this poem,...
