In the sixth part of our continuing series on artists in the diaspora who promote Black identity and pride through their work, we present emerging Canadian artist Sara Golish. Previous features include Philippe Attie, Tim Okamura, T.S Abe, Patrick Earl Hammie and Mario Henrique. Golish specialises in figurative drawing and...
From July 11 till August 25, 2018, WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Cape Town will present Dead Centre, an exhibition of recent work by contemporary South African artist Rowan Smith. With this latest body of work, Smith executes a number of strategies intended to exoticise the idea of whiteness in contemporary South Africa, removing the...
Gallery 1957, Accra presents motionEmotion, an exhibition of paintings, installation and performance by contemporary Nigerian artist Chidi Kwubiri. motionEmotion is the culmination of a lifelong dream of Chidi Kwubiri’s, in which he speaks to the power of music on the creative soul. The exhibition which features large canvases and two conceptual...
From July 13 to September 22, 2018, Tyburn Gallery, London will present Intersection, a group exhibition featuring works by Gabriel Choto, Gabrielle Kruger and Neo Matloga. Gabriel Choto creates mixed media works on paper by combining the disciplines of printmaking and painting, finding new pathways into the painted image by taking cues from the...
From July 19 to Sept 2, 2018, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery will present Common Place, a joint exhibition featuring recent works by Brazilian painter Sergio Lucena and South African pluridisciplinary artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. It begins with a gaze of an inescapable faith— solitude. The artist succumbs to the emptiness of the matter despite a...
On Wednesday, June 27th, the 2018 ART X Prize with Access consisting of a grant of N1,000,000 and a solo presentation at the ART X Lagos art fair this November, was awarded to Bolatito Aderemi-Ibitola. Her project, Scraps from Mama’s Floor was selected from three finalists including multi-disciplinary artist Ayo Akinwande and...
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg presents Narrative Means, a group exhibition of works by African artists Alfredo Jaar, Broomberg and Chanarin, David Goldblatt, Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh, Kendell Geers, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Mikhael Subotzky, Misheck Masamvu, mounir fatmi, Samson Kambalu, William Kentridge and Hank Willis Thomas. The life of an artwork is...
The South African photographer David Goldblatt has died aged 87. The Randfontein-born artist, who began photographing in 1948, was one of South Africa’s leading documentarians of the apartheid era, capturing in stark detail life on both sides of the racial divide. ‘During those [early] years my prime concern was with...
From June 22 to July 18, 2018, Jack Bell Gallery, London will present Djoly Du Mogoba, an exhibition of recent works by Ivorian artist Aboudia. Born in Abidjan in 1983, Aboudia is noted for his large-scale, heavily layered, brutally energetic paintings that combine an innocence and spontaneity with the portrayal of...
From June 21 to July 28, 2018, October Gallery, London will present Les Maîtres du Temps (Masters of Time), an exhibition of recent works by Algerian artist Rachid Koraïchi. Born in Ain Beida, Algeria, in 1947, Rachid Koraïchi now lives and works in Tunisia and France. In 2011, he won the prestigious Jameel Prize at the...
From June 7 to July 14, 2018, Gallery Momo, Cape Town will present Transmissions, a group exhibition featuring Stephané E. Conradie, Quaid Heneke, Jabu Nadia Newman, Roberta Rich, Claire Meekel, Riley Pam-Grant, and Abi Meekel. Here, five young local artists challenge the conventions of traditional video art. A (drag) queen’s mirror is a photo...
The largest film industry in Africa is the Nigerian cinema, better known as Nollywood. Having grossed revenue of NGN1.72 trillion (US$10 billion) in 2013, it is rated the third most valuable film industry in the world, behind India and the United States. In terms of the number of annual film...
