ART X Lagos is the premier international art fair in West Africa, and a dynamic platform created to showcase and support contemporary culture from Africa and its diaspora. Since its launch in 2016, the fair has emerged as a global destination, drawing artists and galleries from over 70 countries, with attendees and participants from 170 nations worldwide, thus significantly expanding Lagos' global cultural positioning.

ART X Lagos transcends conventional art fairs, through its ambitious programme which features immersive experiences spanning music, film, design and art, that centre the continent and diaspora’s exceptional talent..

For further information at ART X Lagos website.

AKAA - Also Known As Africa - France’s first and leading contemporary art fair centered on African art scenes, stands for a multi-faceted Africa, which transcends borders and whose voices resonate in the four corners of the world, carried by the vision of each artist.

For further information at AKAA website.

INTERTEX TUNISIA - undisputedly number 1 exhibition of textile industry of North Africa - is going to bring thousands of sector professionals together between 17 - 19 October 2024 at Foire Internationale de Sousse, Tunisia. Covering the whole textile values chain, Intertex Tunisia showcases latest trends and technologies while offering unique export opportunities along with new network and business collaborations.

For further information at Intertex Tunisia website.

Cairo Fashion & Tex is the first and only international exhibition specialized in yarn, textile, garment and it’s trimming supplies and accessories in Egypt.

Cairo Fashion & Tex is an approved event by UFI (The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry). An exhibition identified as an “UFI event” is a proof of high quality, thus providing exhibitors and visitors alike with the assurance of making a sound business investment.

For further information at Cairo Fashion & Tex website.

A business oriented market place for the textile and fashion industry combining African creativity, design and manufacturing with International sourcing options.

For further information at the official website.

The theme of the international exhibition of the 15th Dakar Biennale  « The Wake : Awakening, Xàll wi ».

In an immersive journey, carried by an intimate, powerful and serious scenography, visitors will discover the works of 58 artists from Africa and the diaspora. The artistic selection of this edition illustrates the extraordinary African creativity with a variety of mediums, techniques and artistic worlds. From illustration art to virtual reality, from sound design to sculpture and photography, the selection process was guided by a commitment to inclusion, in search of a balance that transcends the boundaries of matter, expression and thought.

For further information at Dakar Biennale website.

This exhibition presents these sometimes conflicting visions of modernity proposed by designers of home environments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela between 1940 and 1980. For some, design was an evolution of local and Indigenous craft traditions, leading to an approach that combined centuries-old artisanal techniques with machine-based methods. For others, design responded to market conditions and local tastes, and was based on available technologies and industrial processes. In this exhibition, objects including furniture, appliances, posters, textiles, and ceramics, as well as a selection of photographs and paintings, will explore these tensions.

For further information at MoMA website.

Through the language of colour and form, the exhibition charts Dr Esther Mahlangu’s contribution to contemporary art, spanning over seven decades. More than 100 artworks have been loaned from international collections, carefully curated alongside historic photographs and a short film.

Included in the exhibition is Mahlangu’s BMW 525i Art Car, which makes its historic return to South Africa for the first time in more than 30 years.

The retrospective pays homage to her unique approach to art, which intersects African cultures with modernity and the contemporary.

For more information at the Iziko South African National Gallery website.

Bringing together a group of artists from different generations, this exhibition will address how photography, film, audio, and more have been used to reimagine Africa’s diverse cultures and historical narratives.

Moving beyond a traditional photography exhibition, the show seeks to explore the many ways images travel across histories and geographies. Using themes of spirituality, identity, urbanism and climate emergency, the exhibition will guide the viewer through dream-like utopias and bustling cityscapes viewed from the artists’ perspectives.

For further information at Tate Modern website.

New Photography 2023: Kelani Abass, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Yagazie Emezi, Amanda Iheme, Abraham Oghobase, Karl Ohiri, Logo Oluwamuyiwa. On view exhibition explores the photographic work of seven artists, all at various stages in their careers, who are united by their critical use of photographic forms and their ties to the artistic scene in the port city of Lagos (Èkó), Nigeria. 

For further information at The Museum of Modern Art website.

Led by Farid Belkahia alongside Mohammed Chabâa, Mohamed Melehi and others, this pioneering school paved the way for a new generation of socially engaged modern artists who formed an influential avant-garde network.

Works by 21 artists will be brought together to demonstrate the wide variety of the Moroccan ‘new wave’, from vibrant abstract paintings and urban murals to applied arts, typography, graphics and interior design.

The exhibition will also include a selection of rarely-seen print archives, vintage journals, documentary photographs and films.

For further information at Tate St Ive website.

The exhibition is organized in three thematic sections that unite Mofokeng’s and Goldblatt’s works: Earthscapes, Edifices and Sociality.

Both men set out to picture everyday life and experience in South Africa during Apartheid and its aftermath. But where they are often positioned in contrast to one another, with Goldblatt understood as the insightful social documentarian and Mofokeng as the visionary poet, this exhibition aims to question such a separation and to allow the images to traverse preconceived labels and patterns of perception. By combining their works in novel ways the exhibition seeks to draw out the distinctiveness of each while questioning the binaries through which they are customarily viewed.

For further information at The Walther Collection website.

Ceremonial umbrellas have been a documented part of Asante custom since at least the 18th century. As early as 1701, a Dutch emissary was versed enough in their importance to come bearing one as a gift on his first visit to the Asante king. A form of regalia reserved only for chiefs, they represented power, prestige and control. To sit beneath their shade was to display the qualities of ‘coolness and inner spiritual peace’, regarded as essential attributes for a ruler. 

For further information at Gallery 1957 website.

This exhibition brings together an exhaustive selection of works of this self-taught artist, whose rise to fame started off in a small studio in Bamako (Mali), which at the time was the capital of former French Sudan. The inventiveness of the mise en scene, the modernity of the photographs and the fresh approach to the subjects photographed, made Keïta a celebrity in his own country: thousands of Malians and travelers from West Africa came to have their photographs taken by Seydou Keïta between 1948 and 1962. 

For further information at Galerie Nathalie Obadia website.

The Encounter: Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti explores the common ground between two sculptors who looked to the past in order to reimagine the art of their time.

In their sculptures, Chase-Riboud and Giacometti both returned again and again to the human form. Giacometti often started with clay, modeling his works by hand before casting them in plaster. Chase-Riboud, who also became an acclaimed poet and novelist, favored the ancient lost-wax casting method for her bronzes, combining them with knotted and braided fiber, wool, or silk. 

For further information at The Museum of Modern Art website.

Since its emergence in the Bronx in the 1970s, hip hop has grown into a global phenomenon, driving innovations in music, fashion, technology, and visual and performing arts.

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century captures the extraordinary influence hip hop has had on contemporary society through more than 90 works of art and fashion by some of today’s most important and celebrated artists and iconic brands.

For further information at The Baltimore Museum of Art website.

an overview of the work of South African photographer Ernest Cole. The photographer is celebrated for his tireless documentation of Black lives in South Africa under apartheid: a regime of institutionalised racial segregation that was in effect from 1948 to the early 1990s. The exhibition includes parts of his archive, which had long been considered lost.

For further information at FOAM website.

Before Nollywood . . . The Ideal Photo Studio is a living exhibition and an on- going research and photography project that explores the lives of patrons from the Ideal Photo Studio and a history of Benin City and its community through the photographs of Solomon Osagie Alonge.

For further information atSmithsonian National Museum of African Art website.

The exhibition brings to the fore how multiple generations of Black artists have revelled and critically engaged in projecting various notions of Blackness and Africanicity that are self-reflective and that challenge the gaze imposed on Black cultures. 

When We See Us highlights the artistic lineages, art schools and movements from the Nsukka School in Nigeria, Ecole de Dakar in Senegal, the Kumasi School in Ghana and the British Black Arts Movement to the Department of Fine Arts at Makerere University in Uganda and the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) in South Africa, to name a few.

For further information at Zeitz MOCAA website.

Destination Africa is an annual international pan-African B2B sourcing event for the textile industries in Egypt. It brings together the African Textile, Apparel and Home Textiles manufactures in ONE place with the international buyers to strengthen the business opportunities and trade activities on a global level.

For further information at Destination Africa website.

Southern Guild presents uBuhle boKhokho (Beauty of Our Ancestors), a solo exhibition by Zizipho Poswa, from 17 November 2022 to 2 February, 2023. This new series of ceramic and bronze sculptures draws inspiration from the elaborate art of hairstyling practised by Black women across the African continent and diaspora.

Almost a year in the making, uBuhle boKhokho marks the beginning of another ambitious chapter for the artist. Poswa continues the exploration of her own cultural story as a Xhosa woman through the making of her sculptural works. Hair, with its profound symbolic relationship to Blackness, remains a relevant source of inspiration and dialogue within contemporary cultural discourse.

For further information at Southern Guild website.

L’art Vodoun, un voyage sur le chemin de l’art brut dans les traces de Duchamp et de Lacan.

For further information at Galerie Art-Z website.

Our Story: Africa’s Climate, a group exhibition of emerging African artists from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania.

This exhibition seeks to highlight the impact of the climate emergency in Africa through photography, illustration, and collage. Using storytelling as a vehicle, artists Antoinette Oni, Chioma Ince, Mihayo Kallaye, and Ngadi Smart give honest and thought-provoking insight into environmental colonialism, waste management, and historical activism.

For further information at The Africa Centre website.

“Do not visit the colonial exhibition”: reacting to the opening of the Paris Colonial Exhibition in Vincennes in 1931, the members of the Surrealist group denounced France's imperialist policy. The “Unframing Colonialism” exhibition proposes to review this unique episode and the visual images generated at the time through photography.

For further information at Centre Pompidou website.

Africa‘s fashion and manufacturing industry meets with international Investors, brands, whole sale and retail.

For further information at Africa Sourcing and Fashion Week website.

The New Black Vanguard features 15 international Black photographers contributing to a new vision of the Black figure and reframing representation in art and fashion. This exhibition is a celebration of Black creativity both in-front of and behind the camera. Featured works include Black stylists, models, make-up artists and creative directors who are bringing a radically new set of references and experiences to image making.

For further information at Saatchi Gallery website.

The exhibition will showcase an Egyptian Rodin, inspired by an Egypt he dreamed up, fantasised and then collected.

The exhibition features over 400 items, all restored for the occasion, which include Auguste Rodin's personal collection of Egyptian art, his own sculptures and drawings, as well as archives and photographs to put into context his "friends of the last hour", as the artist liked to call the antiques he cherished. 

It also evokes the echo of Egyptian art in Rodin's work, through his research on the representation of the human body, the simplification of forms, fragmentation and monumentality. For instance, the Monument to Balzac (1898) of which he said "Balzac is the Sphinx of France".

For further information at Musée Rodin website.

African Cosmologies: Redux is a large-scale group exhibition that examines the complex relationships between contemporary life in Africa, the African diaspora, and global histories of colonialism, photography, and rights and representation. The exhibition considers the history of photography as one closely tied to a colonial project and Western image production, highlighting artists who confront and challenge this shortsighted, albeit canonized lineage.

Rotimi Fani-Kayode (Nigeria)
leo with Shobun Baile (Brazil/United States)
Mónica de Miranda (Angola/Portugal)
Santu Mofokeng (South Africa)
Sethembile Msezane (South Africa)
Eustáquio Neves (Brazil)
Nyaba L. Ouedraogo (Burkino Faso/France)
Rosana Paulino (Brazil)
Dawit L. Petros (Eritrea/United States/Canada)
Zina Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria/United States)
Aida Silvestri (Eritrea/UK)
Lindokuhle Sobekwa (South Africa/United States)
Wilfred Ukpong (Nigeria/France)
Lyle Ashton Harris (United States)
Samson Kambalu (Malawi/UK)
Faisal Abdu’Allah (UK)

Akinbode Akinbiyi (Nigeria/UK)
Hélène A. Amouzou (Togo/Belgium)
Sammy Baloji (Congo/Belgium)
James Barnor (Ghana/UK)
Bruno Boudjelal (France/Algeria)
Edson Chagas (Angola)
Ernest Cole (South Africa)
Jamal Cyrus (United States)
Jean Depara (Angola/Congo)
Laura El-Tantawy (Egypt/UK)
Samuel Fosso (Cameroon/France)
Rahima Gambo (Nigeria)
Eric Gyamfi (Ghana)
Lyle Ashton Harris (United States)
Samson Kambalu (Malawi/UK)

For further information at FotoFest International Biennal website.

The 5th edition of Biennale Internationale de Casablanca‘s new proposed dates will take place 22 September - 5 November 2022.

For further information at the Biennale Internationale de Casablanca website.