December 02, 2020 - December 09, 2020FairDecember 02, 2020December 09, 2020Europe/LondonART X LagosOnline: Online
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.
American Indian & Ethnographic Art
63 Park Plaza: Boston, United States
December 14, 2020 - December 14, 2020AuctionDecember 14, 2020December 14, 2020Europe/LondonAmerican Indian & Ethnographic Art63 Park Plaza: Boston, United States
Dorotheum Tribal Art
Palais Dorotheum, 1010 Wien, Dorotheergasse 17: Vienna, Austria
December 15, 2020 - December 15, 2020AuctionDecember 15, 2020December 15, 2020Europe/LondonDorotheum Tribal ArtPalais Dorotheum, 1010 Wien, Dorotheergasse 17: Vienna, Austria
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.
Ancestors in Stone
NOMA, One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park: New Orleans, United States
August 16, 2019 - December 31, 2020ExhibitionAugust 16, 2019December 31, 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
October 06, 2020 - January 03, 2021ExhibitionOctober 06, 2020January 03, 2021Europe/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.
A Perfect Power: Motherhood and African Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, MD, 21218: Baltimore, United States
June 01, 2020 - January 17, 2021ExhibitionJune 01, 2020January 17, 2021Europe/LondonA Perfect Power: Motherhood and African ArtThe Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, MD, 21218: Baltimore, United States
Across central Africa’s matrilineal belt, the most important artworks were those that depicted the female body. In these 19th and early 20th century communities, group identity and familial responsibility flowed through the maternal line. Artists responded to this reality by sculpting visual markers of motherhood onto a range of objects associated with status and authority. In these societies, mothers not only created life and nurtured families but also stood at the centre of the moral order, ensuring the continuity of entire communities. From monumental headdresses of elderly mothers to sculptures that represent mythic female ancestors, this exhibition brings together nearly 40 objects from public and private collections to demonstrate how artists have represented the power of African mothers and used maternal imagery to signal moral, cultural, and spiritual authority.
Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS: London, United Kingdom
August 11, 2020 - January 24, 2021ExhibitionAugust 11, 2020January 24, 2021Europe/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.
Akan, the Values of Exchange
Monnaie de Paris 11, quai de Conti: Paris, France
September 08, 2020 - February 28, 2021ExhibitionSeptember 08, 2020February 28, 2021Europe/LondonAkan, the Values of ExchangeMonnaie de Paris 11, quai de Conti: Paris, France
The Akan peoples, Ashanti in particular, used gold as a means of payment until colonial currencies were imposed at the beginning of the 20th century. Kept in powder in small boxes, this gold was weighed with scales and weights. Over 2,000 of these weights are kept in the collection of Monnaie de Paris, thanks to various legacies and donations, the last of which occurred in 2018. Through a selection, the 11 Conti Museum explains the origins and unexpected originalities of these small bronze figures that immerse us in the daily life of this region of Africa. The visitor will discover that beyond the gold weighed to trade, the weights say much more than a simple price! This universe - far removed from Western metrology - is recontextualised within the rich Akan culture and the relations which linked Africa - and in particular the Gold Coast - with the West.
Zanele Muholi
Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG: London, United Kingdom
November 05, 2020 - March 07, 2021ExhibitionNovember 05, 2020March 07, 2021Europe/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.
Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art
11150 East Boulevard: Cleveland, United States
November 01, 2020 - March 14, 2021ExhibitionNovember 01, 2020March 14, 2021Europe/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.
Not Visible to the Naked Eye: Inside a Senufo Helmet Mask
1717 North Harwood, Texas: Dallas, United States
November 23, 2019 - March 21, 2021ExhibitionNovember 23, 2019March 21, 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.
100 x Congo: A Century of Congolese Art in Antwerp
MAS | Museum aan de Stroom, Hanseatic city 1: Antwerp, Belgium
October 02, 2020 - March 29, 2021ExhibitionOctober 02, 2020March 29, 2021Europe/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).
PAD Paris
Jardin des Tuileries: Paris, France
April 07, 2021 - April 11, 2021FairApril 07, 2021April 11, 2021Europe/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.
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.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG: London, United Kingdom
November 18, 2020 - May 09, 2021ExhibitionNovember 18, 2020May 09, 2021Europe/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.
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.
Zanele Muholi
The European House of Photography, 5/7 Rue de Fourcy, 75004: Paris, France
March 28, 2021 - June 27, 2021ExhibitionMarch 28, 2021June 27, 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.
Masterpiece London
South Grounds, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, SW3 4LW: London, United Kingdom
June 24, 2021 - June 30, 2021FairJune 24, 2021June 30, 2021Europe/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.
Tribal Art London
The Mall Galleries: London, United Kingdom
September 01, 2021 - September 05, 2021FairSeptember 01, 2021September 05, 2021Europe/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.
PAD London
Berkeley Square: London, United Kingdom
October 04, 2021 - October 10, 2021FairOctober 04, 2021October 10, 2021Europe/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 07, 2021 - October 10, 2021FairOctober 07, 2021October 10, 2021Europe/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.
Frieze London
Regent’s Park: London, United Kingdom
October 07, 2021 - October 10, 2021FairOctober 07, 2021October 10, 2021Europe/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.
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.
BRAFA
Tour & Taxis: Brussels, Belgium
January 23, 2022 - January 30, 2022FairJanuary 23, 2022January 30, 2022Europe/LondonBRAFATour & Taxis: Brussels, Belgium
Brafa is one of the leading European art and antiques fairs. Here, all art works on show are for sale and quality and authenticity are two of the key requirements exhibitors face. Brafa is an eclectic fair which encompasses a variety of specialities, from antiquity to the 21st century, including archaeology, Oceanic art, African art...
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