African Cosmologies—Photography, Time, and the Other
2000 Edwards Street, Building C, Suite 2, Texas: Houston, United States
March 08, 2020 - April 19, 2020FairMarch 08, 2020April 19, 2020Europe/LondonAfrican Cosmologies—Photography, Time, and the Other2000 Edwards Street, Building C, Suite 2, Texas: Houston, United States
The FotoFest Biennial 2020 marks the first time in its 37-year history that the Biennial’s central exhibition will focus on artists of African origin. African Cosmologies will feature over 30 artists from across the continent and its diaspora, making it one of the world’s largest exhibitions of African photography.
Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara
1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028: New York, United States
January 30, 2020 - May 10, 2020ExhibitionJanuary 30, 2020May 10, 2020Europe/LondonSahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028: New York, United States
From the first millennium, the Sahel—a vast area in Africa just south of the Sahara Desert that spans what is today Senegal, Mali, Mauretania, and Niger—was the birthplace of a succession of influential polities. Fueled by a network of global trade routes extending across the region, the empires of Ghana (300–1200), Mali (1230–1600), Songhay (1464–1591), and Bamana (1640–1861) cultivated an enormously rich material culture. Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara will be the first exhibition of its kind to trace the legacy of those mighty states and what they produced in the visual arts. The presentation will bring into focus transformative developments—such as the rise and fall of political dynasties, and the arrival of Islam—through some 150 objects, including sculptures in wood, stone, fired clay, and bronze; objects in gold and cast metal; woven and dyed textiles; and illuminated manuscripts.
Contemporary African Art
118 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008: Paris, France
May 14, 2020 - May 14, 2020AuctionMay 14, 2020May 14, 2020Europe/LondonContemporary African Art118 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008: Paris, France
10th sale of contemporary African art at PIASA.
Public exhibition: May 11, 2020 from 10:00 to 18:00, May 12, 2020 from 10:00 to 18:00, May 13, 2020 from 10:00 to 18:00, May 14, 2020 from 10:00 to 12:00
Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present
Rice University, 6100 Main Street, MS-480, Texas: Houston, United States
January 24, 2020 - May 16, 2020ExhibitionJanuary 24, 2020May 16, 2020Europe/LondonRadical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and PresentRice University, 6100 Main Street, MS-480, Texas: Houston, United States
Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present features works by artists from Africa and the Diaspora who problematize Eurocentric tropes of race, representation and prevailing colonial narratives. The exhibition addresses the violent erasure of marginalised histories and the ways in which artists reinterpret familiar themes through contemporary, Afrocentric lenses. As the rich resources of the African continent continue to be coveted by powers around the globe, the selected works, including photography, mixed media, virtual reality, sculpture, and a site-specific installation, speak to the ways in which outside interventions have deeply affected both the people and the landscape. Featured artists include Sammy Baloji, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Omar Victor Diop, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Zanele Muholi, Robin Rhode, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Mary Sibande, and Pascale Marthine Tayou.
PAD Paris
Jardin des Tuileries: Paris, France
May 12, 2020 - May 17, 2020FairMay 12, 2020May 17, 2020Europe/LondonPAD ParisJardin des Tuileries: Paris, France
PAD, pioneering event for Art and Design aficionados and collectors, has been reinventing for the past 20 years the Cabinet d’Amateur and the notion of eclecticism, anticipating the aesthetic aspirations of its time. Season after season, it offers an intimate cocoon to those who have made decorative arts and design the core of their collection, driven by passion and heritage. Every edition evolves in aim to create an unprecedented dialogue between modern art, historical and contemporary design and jewellery. This year will give greater room to Primitive Art, and will highlight the vitality of raising such perspectives. The engaging aspect of PAD is its invitation to enter a personal collection, conceived by a selection of local and international art dealers – all of whom are leaders in their fields, eager to address each passionate collector in a unique manner. In this salon, mind is enlivened and imagination is exhilarated, as entering a place where the contemporary taste for 20th and 21st Century decorative art is born.
Now with us! Voodoo
Steine 1-2, D-31134: Hildesheim, Germany
October 19, 2019 - May 17, 2020ExhibitionOctober 19, 2019May 17, 2020Europe/LondonNow with us! VoodooSteine 1-2, D-31134: Hildesheim, Germany
The voodoo religions surround a touch of mysticism and exoticism. Many people associate voodoo with needle puppets and zombies. The reality is much more complex. In fact, the voodoo religions are centuries old and have a comprehensive and abstract theological foundation. They can be traced back to the Yoruba religion in Nigeria and possibly even further back to the ancient civilizations in the northeast of the African continent. Today, as the religion is called in Africa, Vodun is mainly distributed in Benin, Ghana and Togo. Through the slave trade, West Africans arrived in the Caribbean and on the American mainland and with them their beliefs, which in the colonies mingled with Christianity and indigenous religions of America. Especially in Haiti, a separate voodoo variant was formed. But also in Cuba, Brazil and the US there are African-American religions, which are strongly influenced by Vodun and Yoruba. The exhibition is a world premiere and shows for the first time these religions on both sides of the Atlantic in their entirety. On two floors, we present almost 1,200 objects.
African Brilliance: A Diplomat’s Sixty Years of Collecting
Palmer Museum of Art, Curtin Road, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802-2507: Pennsylvania, United States
February 08, 2020 - May 24, 2020ExhibitionFebruary 08, 2020May 24, 2020Europe/LondonAfrican Brilliance: A Diplomat’s Sixty Years of CollectingPalmer Museum of Art, Curtin Road, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802-2507: Pennsylvania, United States
'African Brilliance: A Diplomat’s Sixty Years of Collecting' presents a wide-ranging selection of African art from the notable collection amassed by Ambassador Allen Davis. His long career with the U.S. State Department afforded him the opportunity to build an outstanding collection representing many of the key cultures of East, Central, and West Africa. The exhibition features eighty-three objects by twentieth-century African artists from a variety of cultures across the continent, including the Dan people of Liberia, the Mossi and Lobi peoples of Burkina Faso, the Dogon and Bamana peoples of Mali, the Akan peoples of Ghana, and the Kuba peoples of Democratic Republic of the Congo, among others. The works include carved and decorated wooden sculptures, natural fibre and beaded textiles, metalwork, and ceramic pots that represent household, community, and ritual practices.
Christie’s Art d’Afrique, d’Océanie et d’Amérique du Nord
9 Avenue Matignon: Paris, France
June 01, 2020 - June 01, 2020AuctionJune 01, 2020June 01, 2020Europe/LondonChristie’s Art d’Afrique, d’Océanie et d’Amérique du Nord9 Avenue Matignon: Paris, France
Highlights from this season’s curated Arts of Africa, Oceania and North America sale in Paris include works of art from the Collection of James and Marilynn Alsdorf featuring African masterpieces, such as a newly discovered Akan terracotta head and North American art. The Oceanic section of our April 8th sale is highlighted by a gope board and agipa hook both collected by Thomas Schultze-Westrum in Papua New Guinea. The African art section includes works from an Important European Private Collection, including a major Urhobo statue from Nigeria, a museum-quality Igbo couple and beautiful masks from the Fang, Chokwe and Punu. From a Belgian collection, an important Songye kifwebe masks will be offered at auction, as well as a rare Songye power figure with a turned head.
Sotheby’s Arts d’Afrique, d’Océanie, d’Indonésie et des Amériques
76, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré: Paris, France
June 04, 2020 - June 04, 2020AuctionJune 04, 2020June 04, 2020Europe/LondonSotheby’s Arts d’Afrique, d’Océanie, d’Indonésie et des Amériques76, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré: Paris, France
The pieces selected for the auction have the potential to attract broad competition, and we have extensive experience engaging new potential buyers in all of our African and Oceanic art auctions in Paris, with our team of international experts based in Paris, London and New York, as well as our colleagues in cross-over collecting fields who will personally be on hand to promote these sales.
BRUNEAF
17 Impasse Saint-Jacques: Brussels, Belgium
June 10, 2020 - June 14, 2020FairJune 10, 2020June 14, 2020Europe/LondonBRUNEAF17 Impasse Saint-Jacques: Brussels, Belgium
The BRUNEAF (Brussels Non European Art Fair) has now become one of the leading exhibitions on African tribal art in the world. BRUNEAF developed from the first unified public presentation of a handful of tribal antique dealers in 1983 in the Sablon area. It is now one of the leading such fairs in Europe. Since 1996, the fair has included international galleries, including France, Italy, Spain, the UK, Netherlands, and the US. Today, it includes African, Oceanian, Indonesian, pre-Columbian, Asiatic, and Australian Aboriginal art.
Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
February 15, 2020 - June 14, 2020ExhibitionFebruary 15, 2020June 14, 2020Europe/LondonMigrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim CollectionPeggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Dorsoduro 701, I-30123: Venice, Italy
Peggy Guggenheim challenged boundaries as a patron and collector and is celebrated for her groundbreaking European and American modern art collection. Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection focuses on a lesser-known, but crucial episode in Guggenheim’s collecting: her turn in the 1950s and ’60s to works created by artists in Africa, Oceania, and the indigenous Americas. Migrating Objects represents a remarkable occasion to view 35 rarely seen non-Western artworks Guggenheim collected, shown at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection as a cohesive whole for the first time.
Adorned: African Women & the Art of Identity
The Baltimore Museum of Art 10 Art Museum Drive, MD, 21218: Baltimore, United States
December 11, 2019 - June 19, 2020ExhibitionDecember 11, 2019June 19, 2020Europe/LondonAdorned: African Women & the Art of IdentityThe Baltimore Museum of Art 10 Art Museum Drive, MD, 21218: Baltimore, United States
Across sub-Saharan Africa, a strict gendered division of artistic labour existed throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries. Men worked in wood and metal, carving and casting works that glorified leaders and paid homage to deities, while women created works in clay, cloth, and beads, stitching and firing the art of everyday life. This exhibition brings together two dozen works from the BMA's collection to demonstrate the critical role of women in shaping and maintaining social identities across 20th-century Africa.
Helena Rubinstein. Madame’s Collection
37 Quai Branly, 75007: Paris, France
November 19, 2019 - June 28, 2020ExhibitionNovember 19, 2019June 28, 2020Europe/LondonHelena Rubinstein. Madame’s Collection37 Quai Branly, 75007: Paris, France
An extraordinary figure, the first 20th-century businesswoman, a self-made and emancipated woman, a visionary... There is no shortage of superlatives to describe the incredible rise to fame of Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965), dubbed the Empress of beauty by Cocteau, but her role as an experienced collector and a pioneer in the recognition of African and Oceanic arts in Europe and North America is often overlooked. Primarily amassed in Paris through her various encounters, "Madame’s collection", now dispersed, comprised over 400 pieces of non-European art including precious Kota and Fang reliquary guardians, exceptional Baoulé, Bamana, Senoufo and Dogon pieces. The exhibition places the spotlight on her passion for non-Western arts - primarily African art - through sixty pieces, as well as her fascination for their expressive intensity and character.
Dak’Art – Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain
19 Avenue Hassan II: Dakar, Senegal
May 28, 2020 - June 28, 2020FairMay 28, 2020June 28, 2020Europe/LondonDak’Art – Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain19 Avenue Hassan II: Dakar, Senegal
The Dakar Biennale, or Dak'Art - Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Dakar, Senegal. The Dakar Biennale was conceived in 1989 as a biennale alternating between literature and art. The biennale has been created thanks to the will of both the Senegalese state which assumes the supervision and the local artists who since the seventies, have been organising regular annual art exhibitions which bring to light the different shapes of the evolution of contemporary art creation. The aim was to make of it a show-window of art and literature in Africa.
Masterpiece London
South Grounds, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, SW3 4LW: London, United Kingdom
June 25, 2020 - July 01, 2020FairJune 25, 2020July 01, 2020Europe/LondonMasterpiece LondonSouth Grounds, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, SW3 4LW: London, United Kingdom
Masterpiece London is the unmissable art fair at which visitors can view and buy the finest works of art, design, furniture and jewellery - from antiquity to the present day. The Fair offers an unparalleled opportunity for new and established collectors to discover exceptional works for sale across a range of price points from 160 international exhibitors and across every major market discipline.
I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue: Washington, D.C., United States
June 20, 2019 - July 05, 2020ExhibitionJune 20, 2019July 05, 2020Europe/LondonI Am… Contemporary Women Artists of AfricaSmithsonian National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue: Washington, D.C., United States
Taking its name from a 1970’s feminist anthem, I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa draws upon a selection of artworks by women artists from the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art’s permanent collection to reveal a more contemporary feminism that recognizes the contributions of women to the most pressing issues of their times. With experimental and sophisticated use of diverse media, the 27 featured artists offer insightful and visually stunning approaches to matters of community, faith, the environment, politics, colonial encounters, racism, identity, and more.
Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde—From Signac to Matisse and Beyond
The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street: New York, United States
March 22, 2020 - July 25, 2020ExhibitionMarch 22, 2020July 25, 2020Europe/LondonFélix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde—From Signac to Matisse and BeyondThe Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street: New York, United States
The Museum of Modern Art announces Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde—From Signac to Matisse and Beyond, the first exhibition devoted to the influential French art critic, editor, publisher, dealer, and collector Félix Fénéon (1861–1944), on view from March 22 through July 25, 2020. Though largely unknown today and always discreetly behind the scenes in his own era, Fénéon played a key role in the careers of leading artists from Georges Seurat and Paul Signac to Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse, each of whom is featured prominently in the exhibition. Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde—From Signac to Matisse and Beyond traces Fénéon’s career through approximately 150 works that highlight his initiatives to help artists via his reviews, exhibitions, and acquisitions; his commitment to anarchism; his literary engagements; and his contributions to the recognition of non-Western art. Bringing together a selection of major works that Fénéon admired, championed, and collected, alongside contemporary letters, documents, and photographs, the exhibition underscores the tremendous impact he had on the development of modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS: London, United Kingdom
March 26, 2020 - July 26, 2020ExhibitionMarch 26, 2020July 26, 2020Europe/LondonToyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing TheoryBarbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS: London, United Kingdom
The first-ever UK exhibition by Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, this epic cycle of new work will explore an imagined ancient myth, with an immersive soundscape by artist Peter Adjaye. Toyin Ojih Odutola, recognising the pen as a ‘writing tool first’, plays with the idea that drawing can be a form of storytelling. Working exclusively with drawing materials including pastel and charcoal, she approaches her process of drawing as an investigative practice. Ojih Odutola proposes speculative fictions, inviting the viewer to enter her vision of an uncannily familiar yet fantastical world. Drawing on an eclectic range of references, from ancient history to popular culture to contemporary politics, Ojih Odutola encourages the viewer to piece together the fragments of the stories that she presents.
Ancestors in Stone
NOMA, One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park: New Orleans, United States
August 16, 2019 - July 27, 2020ExhibitionAugust 16, 2019July 27, 2020Europe/LondonAncestors in StoneNOMA, One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park: New Orleans, United States
Among African cultures, deceased ancestors remain important members of the community who are revered in the afterlife. They are venerated by surviving family and community members who ask for divine intercession from their forebears in matters related to wealth, fertility, and agricultural prosperity. This exhibition focuses on NOMA’s recently acquired akwanshi stone monolith from the Cross River region of Nigeria, supported with figures and objects rendered in part or whole in stone from other regions of West Africa. The show speaks to the significance of stone as both a natural element and a significant material in the veneration of ancestors. Although carved stones represent ancestors, uncarved stones may also represent ancestors. Such characteristics suggest the importance of stone to this and other African cultures.
Summer Exhibition 2020
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD: London, United Kingdom
June 09, 2020 - August 16, 2020ExhibitionJune 09, 2020August 16, 2020Europe/LondonSummer Exhibition 2020Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD: London, United Kingdom
The Summer Exhibition has run without interruption since 1769 and we don’t intend to break that streak in 2020. It is the world’s largest open submission art show, and anyone can apply to enter. Each year, a committee of diverse artists choose an array of art in all mediums – prints and paintings, film and photography, sculpture, architectural works and more – for everyone and anyone to enjoy. You’ll see work by leading artists, Royal Academicians and household names, as well as new and emerging talent you might not know. So, explore art you love, art you hate, and art that simply puts a smile on your face.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG: London, United Kingdom
May 19, 2020 - August 31, 2020ExhibitionMay 19, 2020August 31, 2020Europe/LondonLynette Yiadom-BoakyeTate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG: London, United Kingdom
The first major survey of the celebrated London-based painter. Widely considered to be one of the most important painters of her generation, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British artist and writer acclaimed for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people. Her paintings often allude to historic European portraiture – notably Francisco de Goya, John Singer Sargent and Édouard Manet – yet in subject matter and technique, her approach is decidedly contemporary. Through her focus on the depiction of imagined black characters, Yiadom-Boakye’s paintings raise important questions of identity and representation. This exhibition will bring together over 80 paintings and works on paper from 2003 to the present day in the most extensive survey of the artist’s career to date.
Tribal Art London
The Mall Galleries: London, United Kingdom
September 02, 2020 - September 06, 2020FairSeptember 02, 2020September 06, 2020Europe/LondonTribal Art LondonThe Mall Galleries: London, United Kingdom
Tribal Art London is the only Tribal Art Fair of its kind in the UK, showcasing a select group of exhibitors displaying tribal art from around the world. Each piece has been chosen for its quality and authenticity.
Parcours des Mondes
Saint-Germain-des-Prés: Paris, France
September 08, 2020 - September 13, 2020FairSeptember 08, 2020September 13, 2020Europe/LondonParcours des MondesSaint-Germain-des-Prés: Paris, France
Parcours des Mondes is widely recognized as the world’s most important tribal art fair due to the quality and diversity of its participants. Since 2002, each year it has brought together some sixty galleries specializing in the arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
PAD London
Berkeley Square: London, United Kingdom
October 05, 2020 - October 11, 2020FairOctober 05, 2020October 11, 2020Europe/LondonPAD LondonBerkeley Square: London, United Kingdom
Set in the vibrant heart of Mayfair, PAD is London’s leading fair for 20th Century art, design and decorative arts. Inspiring a unique spirit of collecting, PAD epitomises how modern art, photography, design, decorative and tribal arts interact to reveal astonishing combinations and create the most individual and staggering interiors. Prominent international galleries from major cities across Europe, North America and Asia come together to offer an exceptional panorama of the most coveted and iconic works available on the market today. PAD is a place to discover and acquire pieces of museum quality with a distinct history. PAD cultivates eclecticism, authenticity and connoisseurship with passion and flair.
Frieze Masters
Regent’s Park: London, United Kingdom
October 08, 2020 - October 11, 2020FairOctober 08, 2020October 11, 2020Europe/LondonFrieze MastersRegent’s Park: London, United Kingdom
Frieze Masters features more than 130 leading modern and historical galleries from around the world, showcasing art from the ancient era and Old Masters to the late 20th century.
1-54 London
Somerset House, South Wing Strand: London, United Kingdom
October 08, 2020 - October 11, 2020FairOctober 08, 2020October 11, 2020Europe/London1-54 LondonSomerset House, South Wing Strand: London, United Kingdom
1-54 is the first leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. Founding by Touria El Glaoui, the fair holds annual editions in London since 2013, New York since 2015 and Marrakech since 2018. Drawing reference to the fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent, 1-54 is a sustainable and dynamic platform that is engaged in contemporary dialogue and exchange.
Frieze London
Regent’s Park: London, United Kingdom
October 08, 2020 - October 11, 2020FairOctober 08, 2020October 11, 2020Europe/LondonFrieze LondonRegent’s Park: London, United Kingdom
Frieze London features more than 160 of the world’s leading galleries. View and buy art from over 1,000 of today’s leading artists, and experience the fair’s critically acclaimed curated sections and Talks programme.
Zanele Muholi
Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG: London, United Kingdom
April 29, 2020 - October 18, 2020ExhibitionApril 29, 2020October 18, 2020Europe/LondonZanele MuholiTate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG: London, United Kingdom
Tate Modern presents the first major mid-career survey of visual activist Zanele Muholi in the UK. Born in South Africa, Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that sought to envision black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives beyond deviance or victimhood. Muholi’s work challenges hetero-patriarchal ideologies and representations, presenting the participants in their photographs as confident and beautiful individuals bravely existing in the face of prejudice, intolerance and, frequently, violence. While Muholi’s intimate photographs of others launched their international career, their intense self-portraits solidified it. This exhibition will present the full breadth of Muholi’s photographic and activist practice.
El Anatsui. Triumphant Scale
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Avenida Abandoibarra, 2 48009 : Bilbao, Spain
The practice of El Anatsui (b. 1944, Anyako, Ghana), possibly the most prominent African artist today, exemplifies a neverending search for models that offer an alternative to the modernist canons of purity. This retrospective will be the most ambitious ever presented of Anatsui’s career and will cover all the series and mediums used by the artist over five decades of work. The exhibition pays special attention to the most monumental aspect of Anatsui’s sculptures, through emblematic pieces created over the past twenty years with plastic bottle caps as a fundamental component.
TEFAF New York Fall
Park Avenue Armory: New York, United States
October 31, 2020 - November 04, 2020FairOctober 31, 2020November 04, 2020Europe/LondonTEFAF New York FallPark Avenue Armory: New York, United States
As the world's most buoyant art market, New York City provides the ideal context for a TEFAF Fair outside Maastricht, and allows a vital, transatlantic meeting ground for a global community of dealers, collectors, curators, interior designers and art-and-antiques enthusiasts. We are proud to present TEFAF New York Fall, with a focus on fine and decorative arts from antiquity to 1920.
ART X Lagos
The Civic Centre, Victoria Island: Lagos, Nigeria
November 06, 2020 - November 08, 2020FairNovember 06, 2020November 08, 2020Europe/LondonART X LagosThe Civic Centre, Victoria Island: Lagos, Nigeria
ART X Lagos is West Africa’s premier international art fair, designed to showcase the best and most innovative contemporary art from the African continent and its Diaspora. Launched in 2016, the art fair has since become a cornerstone of the Lagos art calendar, drawing local patrons and a host of international collectors, curators, and critics annually.
100 x Congo: A Century of Congolese Art in Antwerp
MAS | Museum aan de Stroom, Hanseatic city 1: Antwerp, Belgium
June 19, 2020 - November 11, 2020ExhibitionJune 19, 2020November 11, 2020Europe/London100 x Congo: A Century of Congolese Art in AntwerpMAS | Museum aan de Stroom, Hanseatic city 1: Antwerp, Belgium
In 2020 it will be exactly one hundred years ago that Antwerp, in full colonial time, acquired its Congolese museum collection. What are the stories behind the Congolese objects? And how did they end up in the port city? The exhibition focuses on a hundred unique Congolese works and examines their significance for various Congolese peoples. You learn about the impact of Christian missions on Congolese culture and about the view of Congolese people on the 'white' (global).
African Arts—Global Conversations
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn: New York, United States
February 14, 2020 - November 15, 2020ExhibitionFebruary 14, 2020November 15, 2020Europe/LondonAfrican Arts—Global ConversationsBrooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn: New York, United States
African Arts—Global Conversations puts African arts where they rightfully belong: within the global art historical canon. It brings those works into greater, meaningful art historical conversations and critiques previous ways that encyclopedic museums and the field of art have or have not included them. African Arts—Global Conversations presents thirty-three works, including twenty by African artists. Highlights include a celebrated eighteenth-century Kuba sculpture, fourteenth- to sixteenth-century Ethiopian Orthodox processional crosses, and a mid-twentieth-century Sierra Leonean Ordehlay or Jollay society mask. Also featured are recent works by Atta Kwami, Ranti Bam, Magdalene Odundo OBE, and Taiye Idahor, which are paired with artworks by Māori, Seminole, Spanish, American, Huastec, and Korean artists.
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue: Washington, D.C., United States
April 11, 2020 - November 29, 2020ExhibitionApril 11, 2020November 29, 2020Europe/LondonCaravans of Gold, Fragments in TimeSmithsonian National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue: Washington, D.C., United States
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa is the first major exhibition addressing the scope of Saharan trade and the shared history of West Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe from the eighth to sixteenth centuries. Weaving stories about interconnected histories, the exhibition showcases the objects and ideas that connected at the crossroads of the medieval Sahara and celebrates West Africa’s historic and under-recognised global significance. Presenting more than 250 artworks spanning five centuries and a vast geographic expanse, the exhibition features unprecedented loans from partner institutions in Mali, Morocco, and Nigeria, many of which will be seen in North America for the first time.
Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art
11150 East Boulevard: Cleveland, United States
July 11, 2020 - November 29, 2020ExhibitionJuly 11, 2020November 29, 2020Europe/LondonSecond Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art11150 East Boulevard: Cleveland, United States
Second Careers explores the connections between historical African art and contemporary practices through a selection of exemplary highlights from the museum’s African collection and loaned works. CMA objects from nine cultures in Central and West Africa—male and female figures and masks, masquerade costume, a hunter’s tunic, and a prestige throne—are juxtaposed with large-scale installations, sculptures, and photographs by six leading contemporary African artists. The exhibition considers the status of canonical African art objects when they begin their “second careers” upon entering museum collections.
Wo ist Afrika?
Linden-Museum, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Hegelplatz 1: Stuttgart, Germany
March 16, 2019 - December 31, 2020ExhibitionMarch 16, 2019December 31, 2020Europe/LondonWo ist Afrika?Linden-Museum, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Hegelplatz 1: Stuttgart, Germany
The Linden-Museum Stuttgart presents its new permanent exhibition "Wo ist Afrika?" from 16 March 2019. "Wo ist Afrika?" invites the visitor to critically explore and re-evaluate contexts and narratives associated to Linden-Museum Stuttgart’s collection of artefacts from the African continent. The exhibition shows how the collections were established, how they developed over time, and which rules of classification they adhered to. A large part of the objects on display were acquired from Cameroon, the Congo basin, Mozambique, Nigeria and Tanzania between the end of 19th and the first half of the 20th, at the height of the European "Scramble for Africa". "Wo ist Afrika?" examines stories and histories inscribed into these objects and what they can mean for us today. The exhibition opens up a space of cultural creativity, which allows the visitors to near themselves to a wider understanding of culture. "Wo ist Afrika?" has a process-oriented approach, questioning the authority of the museum by showing a multitude of parallel narratives and asking important questions addressed to our contemporary societal cohabitation.
Not Visible to the Naked Eye: Inside a Senufo Helmet Mask
1717 North Harwood, Texas: Dallas, United States
November 23, 2019 - January 03, 2021ExhibitionNovember 23, 2019January 03, 2021Europe/LondonNot Visible to the Naked Eye: Inside a Senufo Helmet Mask1717 North Harwood, Texas: Dallas, United States
The DMA’s Conservation and Arts of Africa departments, in an exciting and cutting-edge collaboration with UT Southwestern Medical Center, will present CT scans of a Senufo helmet mask from the Museum’s African art collection. This kind of mask is worn like a helmet by a medium at initiations, funerals, harvest celebrations and secret events conducted by the powerful male-only Komo society, which has traditionally maintained social and spiritual harmony in Senufo villages in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Burkina Faso. Visible attachments on the mask include a female figure, cowrie shells, and imported glassware. The CT-scans reveal unexpected materials beneath the surface and objects contained in the attached animal horns that empower the mask.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Avenida Abandoibarra, 2 48009 : Bilbao, Spain
Widely considered to be one of the most important painters of her generation, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British artist and writer acclaimed for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people. In order to capture the unique moment of the flow of consciousness, each one is completed in a single sitting. Yiadom-Boakye’s paintings often allude to historic European portraiture – notably Thomas Gainsborough, Francisco de Goya, John Singer Sargent and Édouard Manet – yet in subject matter and technique her approach is decidedly contemporary. This exhibition will bring together over 80 paintings and works on paper from 2003 to the present day in the most extensive survey of the artist’s career to date.
Zanele Muholi
The European House of Photography, 5/7 Rue de Fourcy, 75004: Paris, France
November 04, 2020 - February 14, 2021ExhibitionNovember 04, 2020February 14, 2021Europe/LondonZanele MuholiThe European House of Photography, 5/7 Rue de Fourcy, 75004: Paris, France
After the Tate Modern in London, the MEP will present the first major retrospective in France devoted to the work of the South African "visual activist" Zanele Muholi. Born in South Africa, Zanele Muholi began to distinguish themselves at the dawn of the 2000s with photos seeking to document the life of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or intersex people, far from the representation that is usually made between deviance and victimisation. The work of Zanele Muholi defies ideology and hetero-patriarchal representations, presenting their subjects as confident, beautiful beings, who dare to exist with courage despite prejudice, intolerance and very often violence towards them.
1-54 New York
The Caldwell Factory, 547 West 26th Street: New York, United States
May 07, 2021 - May 07, 2021FairMay 07, 2021May 07, 2021Europe/London1-54 New YorkThe Caldwell Factory, 547 West 26th Street: New York, United States
1-54 is the first leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. Founding by Touria El Glaoui, the fair holds annual editions in London since 2013, New York since 2015 and Marrakech since 2018. Drawing reference to the fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent, 1-54 is a sustainable and dynamic platform that is engaged in contemporary dialogue and exchange.
Bourgogne Tribal Show
Galerie Bruno Mory, Besanceuil F-71460: Bonnay, France
May 20, 2021 - May 23, 2021FairMay 20, 2021May 23, 2021Europe/LondonBourgogne Tribal ShowGalerie Bruno Mory, Besanceuil F-71460: Bonnay, France
The Burgundy Tribal Show is the first international tribal art fair to be held in the countryside. In a rural setting, and a relaxed atmosphere conducive to discovery, the Burgundy Tribal Show offers its audience a distinctly different experience.
Clay—Modeling African Design
University Collections Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street: Cambridge, United States
November 17, 2018 - November 14, 2021ExhibitionNovember 17, 2018November 14, 2021Europe/LondonClay—Modeling African DesignUniversity Collections Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street: Cambridge, United States
This exhibition highlights artistic innovation and creativity in Africa as seen primarily through the traditions of ceramic arts from across the continent and over its long history. Countering the assumption that African arts and societies are largely unchanging and bound to traditions and customs, the remarkable diversity of objects and styles on display here tells a different story. A selection of more than 50 works on loan from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, including those by newly discovered Nigerian artist Alice Osayewe, are shown alongside works from the Harvard Art Museums permanent collections, such as a recently acquired contemporary photograph by Afro-futurist artist Alexis Peskine.
Heroes: Principles of African Greatness
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue: Washington, D.C., United States
November 13, 2019 - November 14, 2021ExhibitionNovember 13, 2019November 14, 2021Europe/LondonHeroes: Principles of African GreatnessSmithsonian National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue: Washington, D.C., United States
Be your best. This is the quest that the greatest of heroes model for us. Through their journeys, struggles, and triumphs, exceptional individuals exemplify values that we celebrate in tales of heroic accomplishment.
Through art, artists tell such stories—stories of the world’s current complexity, but also visions of a world that could yet be. Heroes: Principles of African Greatness features artworks from the National Museum of African Art’s permanent collection that tell the story of key heroic principles and personages in Africa’s arts and history. Throughout, core values are considered as each artwork is paired with a specific historic African individual who embodies the value expressed in the selected work.
Discover Africa’s heroes—some well-known, others perhaps surprising—and see artworks in new ways.
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