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Reset filtersCape Town · South Africa
A selection from Zeitz MOCAA’s permanent collection brings together contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, including work by Zanele Muholi, Isaac Julien and Kudzanai Chiurai. The museum presents painting, photography, sculpture and other media across interconnected themes.
Zeitz MOCAA, Level 2
Cape Town · South Africa
Norval Foundation honours South African artist Githan Coopoo through ceramic works that connect ornament, humour and personal identity. Moving between jewellery and larger sculptural forms, the exhibition considers fragility, memory and the expressive possibilities of clay.
Norval Foundation, Atrium, 4 Steenberg Road, Tokai
Cape Town · South Africa
Lerato Shadi and Robin Rhode respond to the lives and work of Gerard Sekoto, Bessie Head and Don Mattera. Curated by Khanyi Mawhayi, the exhibition connects painting, installation, photography and film through questions of exile, memory and belonging.
Zeitz MOCAA
Cape Town · South Africa
Curated by Karel Nel, this survey brings together more than eighty sculptures across four decades of Brett Murray’s practice. Animal figures and imagined hybrids become vehicles for satire, empathy and reflection on human behaviour, tracing the South African artist’s sculptural development.
Norval Foundation, Galleries 2–8, 4 Steenberg Road, Tokai
Venice · Italy
Gallery 1957 announces Godfried Donkor’s participation in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale, curated by Koyo Kouoh. His paintings and works on paper examine histories of migration, trade and cultural memory. This is a Biennale presentation, not a Gallery 1957 venue in Venice.
La Biennale di Venezia, Central Pavilion, Giardini
Cape Town · South Africa
The South African painter’s first museum solo exhibition brings together new and earlier works. Her unsettled domestic and imaginative spaces explore how memories, emotions and relationships shape identity, with figures often appearing between familiarity and uncertainty.
Norval Foundation, Gallery 1, 4 Steenberg Road, Tokai
Kampala · Uganda
Sanaa Gateja brings paper-bead works, banana fibre and found roots into a shared exploration of memory and transformation. Curated by Daudi Karungi, the exhibition considers how materials that are often discarded can hold histories and renewed value.
Afriart Gallery
Dubai · United Arab Emirates
Maggie Otieno assembles weathered railway sleepers, timber and metal into sculptures attentive to the histories of labour and movement carried by reclaimed materials. The exhibition traces memory through surfaces, joins and the physical endurance of objects.
Efie Gallery, Warehouse 61, Alserkal Avenue
Accra · Ghana
Cornelius Annor brings family photographs into dialogue with painting, textile transfers, furniture and sculpture, exploring how memories and cultural inheritance remain present in everyday life.
Gallery 1957, Gallery II, Accra
New York · United States
Derriann Pharr, Simonette Quamina and Taylor Simmons present work made as the first residency cohort in the Studio Museum’s new building. Their approaches to figuration span painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture and other media, engaging memory and storytelling.
Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street
San Francisco · United States
Ceramic work by PJ Anderson, Jacqueline Bishop and Sharon Norwood explores how cultural memory travels and changes across the Jamaican diaspora. Presented through a partnership with Toronto’s BAND and Gardiner Museum, the exhibition considers ornament, migration and inherited histories.
Museum of the African Diaspora, Floor 3
San Francisco · United States
Paintings and newly commissioned kinetic works trace Dewey Crumpler’s continuing exploration of Black consciousness, memory and time across five decades.
MoAD, 685 Mission Street, San Francisco
San Francisco · United States
Dorian Reid uses cats as figures through which to explore community, freedom and Black history. The exhibition draws on her multidisciplinary practice and the Black Cat Revolution project.
MoAD, 685 Mission Street, San Francisco
London · United Kingdom
Godfried Donkor brings paintings, paper embroideries and an installation into dialogue with archival photographs, newspaper pages and auction catalogues. The exhibition considers how people, images and objects circulate between Africa, Europe and the Caribbean.
Gallery 1957, London
Cape Town · South Africa
Zeitz MOCAA hosts Cape Town publishing collectives (B)andWi(d)th, Medupi Publishing and Creative Knowledge Resources in an atelier exploring independent publishing and artists’ books. The museum describes a programme of changing six-month residencies within the overall display period.
Zeitz MOCAA, Level 2 Elevator Side
Cape Town · South Africa
Norval Foundation presents paintings Irma Stern made in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and Eswatini alongside charcoal drawings and sculptures from her archive. The second exhibition in a four-part series explores a formative period in her practice. Temporary closures apply on 28 and 30 October 2026.
Norval Foundation, Gallery 9, 4 Steenberg Road, Tokai, Cape Town
London · United Kingdom
Romuald Hazoumè transforms repurposed plastic containers and found materials into sculptural masks. A predominance of blue draws together references to Picasso and the Blues within the artist’s reflections on contemporary power, movement and belonging.
October Gallery
Rome · Italy
Black Liquid Art Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Mauritian artist Nirveda Alleck, curated by Antonella Pisilli. The Rome presentation brings the video Insular Variations II – Arise together with seven paintings made between 2017 and 2024. The exhibition explores memory and identity through the artist’s work.
Black Liquid Art Gallery
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