Raphael Ogoe is a New York-based Ghanaian architect, artist, designer and entrepreneur. He earned a Master’s in construction management and a Bachelors in architecture from New Jersey Institute of Technology, where his senior comprehensive project received recognition. Prior to establishing his practice, he trained with renowned architect Robert A.M. Stern and contributed to the project […]
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The Guggenheim Museum has shortlisted Bouchra Khalili, Simone Leighs, Teresa Margolles, Emeka Ogboh, Frances Startk and Wu Tsang as finalists for the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize, which honours one artist every two years. The prize honours outstanding achievement in contemporary art, celebrating the work of remarkable artists whose practices are among the most innovative and influential of […]
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Souls of Azania, a solo exhibition of work by internationally acclaimed South African artist Nelson Makamo, is currently running at the Gallery of African Art (GAFRA). The exhibition highlights Makamo’s admiration for his homeland and its future dreamers – the children. When people think of South Africa, they may conjure up dreamy thoughts of its breath-taking […]
Everard Read Gallery presents Being Human, a solo exhibition of paintings by South African artist, Heather Gourlay-Conyngham, most of which have been completed in the last four years. The exhibition also includes earlier works, a number of which have been loaned from permanent collections. One of these paintings is A Young Man, winner of the inaugural Sanlam Portrait Competition in […]
From August 15 to September 3, 2017, KZNSA Gallery will present Re-membering: Memory, Intimacy, Archive, a group exhibition featuring work by South African artists Reshma Chhiba, Sharlene Khan and Jordache A. Ellapen, from their projects titled Kali (2008) and The Two Talking Yonis (2013); When the Moon Waxes Red (2016); and Queering the Archive: Brown Bodies in Ecstasy (2016) respectively. In these projects, through the […]
Peter Akinwumi is one of the few artists taking that bold step to defy conventionalism as he develops his own ideas, sets his goals, and builds the courage to run them on forms that are uniquely his. In October 2013 to be precise, Nigerian-born artist, Peter Akinwumi was preparing for his first solo exhibition at […]
From August 3 to 19, 2017, 99 Loop Gallery will present We Came at a Time, a solo exhibition of paintings by South African artist, Katrine Claassens. This collection by Claassens is inspired by her recent trip to Antarctica as the official artist accompanying the latest SA Agulhas II scientific research venture. With Antarctica birthing one of the largest icebergs […]
From July 26 to August 13, 2017, the KZNSA Gallery and National Lotteries Commission will present a group exhibition by iQhiya Collective, a network of young black female artists based in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and South Africa. These artists specialise in a broad range of disciplines including performance art, video, photography, and sculpture. Members include […]
Bag Factory Artists’ Studios presents Atomic Peace, a group exhibition of work by emerging South African artists namely, Bonolo Kavula, Lebohang Kganye, Malik Ntone Edjabe, Duduestang Lamola, Mmabatho Grace Mokalapa, Simphiwe Buthelezi, Sifiso Temba and Pebofatso Mokoena. Chumisa Ndakisa is the curator of the exhibition. Atomic Peace discusses the meeting of spiritual unrest and mental […]
From August 4 to 18, 2017, Omenka Gallery will present Where Do We Go from Here? an exhibition of recent paintings by leading contemporary artist, Ebenezer Akinola. Born in 1968, Akinola is well known for his large-scale portraits. He graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Benin, Nigeria (1989). […]