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Reset filtersAccra · Ghana
Larry Otoo’s solo exhibition brings together paintings centred on music, movement and gathering crowds, translating the energy of shared performance into colour and gesture.
TIGA Art Gallery, Crystal Homes, Fourth Circular Road, Cantonments
Paris · France
At Backslash in Paris, Fahamu Pecou presents paintings that explore Black self-perception and the freedom to imagine oneself beyond external expectations. According to the gallery, contemporary figures appear alongside African sculptural forms in works concerned with identity, pleasure, rest and possibility.
Backslash, 29 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris, France
Accra · Ghana
Okai reworks Ghanaian and West African ceramic traditions through sculptural forms that consider memory, inheritance and repair. Curated by N’Goné Fall, the exhibition forms part of Nubuke Foundation’s twentieth-anniversary programme.
Nubuke Foundation, Lome Close, East Legon
Paris · France
Amoako Boafo’s solo exhibition at Mariane Ibrahim in Paris presents portraiture within a setting conceived as a home. The gallery brings together recent paintings incorporating embroidery and earlier works dating to 2016. The presentation considers community and belonging through people close to the artist.
Mariane Ibrahim
Accra · Ghana
Following an eight-month residency with Gallery 1957 in Accra, Theresah Ankomah presents work exploring motherhood, care and knowledge passed between generations. The gallery describes her multidisciplinary practice as engaging locally sourced and repurposed materials, craft economies, material histories and labour.
Gallery 1957, Gallery I, Accra
Athens · Greece
William Kentridge’s exhibition at Athens’ Hellenic National Archaeological Museum brings contemporary sculpture and moving images into conversation with ancient objects. Curated by Burcu Fikretoğlu, the presentation includes steel figures, paper silhouettes and a diorama using reflected projections. Its exploration of Orpheus and Eurydice connects with Kentridge’s staging of Monteverdi’s opera, while extending into themes of displacement, memory and transformation. The museum lists the public exhibition run from 30 October 2026 to 24 January 2027.
Hellenic National Archaeological Museum, 44 28th October Street (Patission), Athens 10682
Lagos · Nigeria
O’DA Art Gallery presents Mobolaji Ogunrosoye’s solo exhibition of photographic collages. According to the gallery, conversations with women in Lagos and France inform works exploring home, belonging and finding a voice. Layers of paper and textured materials give the portraits physical depth, while shadows shift with the viewer’s position. The exhibition connects Ogunrosoye’s architectural background with her developing approach to portraiture.
O’DA Art Gallery, 10 Sir Samuel Manuwa Street, Victoria Island, Lagos
Lagos · Nigeria
Rele Gallery’s Lagos presentation brings together paintings and an installation by Tonia Nneji. Inspired by her observations of Goriola Street in Ajegunle, the exhibition examines freedom and the social expectations placed on women. The gallery describes a project that reflects on the artist’s own assumptions as well as how visitors encounter the people and places represented in her work.
Rele Gallery Lagos, 32 Thompson Avenue, Ikoyi, Lagos
Accra · Ghana
Gallery 1957 brings together artists from Ghana, elsewhere in Africa and the diaspora for a group exhibition exploring memory, inheritance and place. Presented at Galleria Mall in Accra, the show includes work by Ibrahim Mahama, Gideon Appah, Amoako Boafo, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Rita Mawuena Benissan and other artists represented in the gallery’s programme.
Galleria Mall, Third Floor, Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast
Lagos · Nigeria
Tony Nsofor presents paintings shaped by travel and return in Eje Ayó – The Homecoming at Lagos’s National Museum. According to the artist’s announcement and catalogue essay by Ike Francis Okoronkwo, the exhibition considers memory, migration and belonging through works brought into conversation with his return to Nigeria.
National Museum, Onikan
San Francisco · United States
MoAD offers free evening access to its current exhibitions of African-diaspora art, including Dewey Crumpler, Dorian Reid and After the Island. A related 18:00 conversation explores migration and cultural memory through the Jamaican-diaspora ceramics exhibition; separate programme registration is linked by the museum.
Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission Street, San Francisco
Tokyo · Japan
Space Un presents Sierra Leone-born artist Julianknxx’s first solo exhibition in Japan, curated by Ekow Eshun. Drawing on oral traditions, his moving-image practice explores African and diasporic histories and the ways personal and collective narratives take shape. The public exhibition runs from 5 November; a separate opening programme is scheduled for 4 November.
space Un, KLO Minami-Aoyama Building 1F, 2-4-9 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku
Lagos · Nigeria
The eleventh ART X Lagos brings African and diaspora galleries, artists and audiences together under the theme A New Chapter, A New Decade. The fair combines contemporary visual art with film, conversations and other programmes. This listing covers the ticketed public days, not the earlier preview period.
Federal Palace, Lagos
Lagos · Nigeria
CCA Lagos and Third Space Art Foundation have announced a November 7 panel examining how performance can challenge colonial archives and recover marginalized histories. Part of 1922 Revisited, the discussion will take Jelili Atiku’s artistic work as a starting point. Participants include Atiku, Taiwo Aiyedogbon, Tolulope Ami-Williams, Akin Oladimeji and Jumoke Sanwo, with Oyindamola Faithful moderating. The event is scheduled at CCA Lagos from 10:30am to 12:15pm.
Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos, 9 McEwen Street, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
Cape Town · South Africa
Zeitz MOCAA presents artworks developed by Cedar High School learners in workshops at its BMW Centre for Art Education. Taking inspiration from Julie Mehretu’s approach to mapping, participants explored connections between home, memory and everyday movement in Mitchell’s Plain. The exhibition brings these personal maps into dialogue with the city’s unequal geographies, offering a view of place through young people’s experiences.
Zeitz MOCAA, Silo District, South Arm Road, V&A Waterfront
Paris · France
AFIKARIS presents a second solo exhibition by Mouhcine Rahaoui. His practice engages with mining histories and lived experience in Jerada, Morocco; the gallery has announced the dates, with further exhibition information to follow.
AFIKARIS
Cape Town · South Africa
Six Cape Town artists revisit work connected to their residencies in the museum’s Koyo Kouoh Atelier. The exhibition brings installation, tapestry, sculpture and photography together, offering a view of artistic development and the sustained studio work behind public exhibitions.
Zeitz MOCAA, Level 3
San Francisco · United States
MoAD presents an artist-led afternoon with Dorian Reid alongside Calling All Cats. Participants make signs inspired by her work, followed by a neighbourhood march with songs and chants. The programme connects her visual practice with ideas of belonging and care for people and animals.
Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission Street
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