Intersection

From July 13 to September 22, 2018, Tyburn Gallery, London will present Intersection, a group exhibition featuring works by Gabriel Choto, Gabrielle Kruger and Neo Matloga. Gabriel Choto creates mixed media works on paper by combining the disciplines of printmaking and painting, finding new pathways into the painted image by taking cues from the surface quality produced by the […]

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Wallen Mapondera: Emergency Exit

From May 18 to July 4, 2018, Tyburn Gallery, London will present Emergency Exit, an exhibition of recent work by contemporary Zimbabwean artist Wallen Mapondera. The title of the exhibition resonates with the material conditions in Zimbabwe, the artist’s country of birth, describing how the failure of the state to provide for its citizens, and the […]

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Benin, Hair and a Quest For Identity

Taiye Idahor graduated from Yaba College of Technology in Lagos with a Higher National Diploma in fine arts, specialising in sculpture. Using collage, drawing, sculpture, and mixed media, Idahor explores layers of themes at once expansive and deeply intimate, expressing identity both female and African within the broader contexts of history, tradition, memory and globalisation. […]

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Taiye Idahor: Òkhùo

From February 9 to May 9, 2018, Tyburn Gallery, London will present Òkhùo, a solo exhibition of recent work by contemporary Nigerian artist Taiye Idahor. Using collage, drawing, sculpture, and mixed media, Idahor explores layers of themes at once expansive and deeply intimate, expressing identity both female and African within the broader contexts of history, […]

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Victor Ehikhamenor: In The Kingdom of this World

Tyburn Gallery, London is pleased to present In the Kingdom of this World, a solo exhibition by Victor Ehikhamenor. Hailing from Edo State, the historic seat of the Benin Empire, Ehikhamenor is a multi-disciplinary artist whose signature patterning, a mélange of gestural abstraction and stylised forms, adorns everything from paintings to photographs to immersive installations, producing a […]

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If You Keep Going South, You’ll Meet Yourself

From September 29 to November 15, 2017, Tyburn Gallery, London will present If You Keep Going South You’ll Meet Yourself, a solo exhibition by Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, her first at the gallery. Hwami draws inspiration from her collection of family photographs, using experimental techniques to paint figures and scenes that evoke the nostalgia and […]

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Must-See Exhibitions this September

The month of September offers a selection of highly anticipated exhibitions at Africa’s leading art galleries. Here’s a list of some of the most exciting. Kitso Lynn Lelliott I Was Her and She Was Me and those We Might Become ROOM Gallery September 2 – October 14, 2017   From September 2 to October 14, […]

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Untitled

From July 19 to September 15, 2017, Tyburn Gallery will present Untitled, a group exhibition by Joël Andrianomearisoa, Edson Chagas, Victor Ehikhamenor, Mouna Karray and Mónica de Miranda. The summer group show pairs photographic work with sculptural paper pieces, to create a vision of desolation and minimalism, a nameless, placeless space of slow urban decay and shifting […]

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Michele Mathison: States of Emergence

From July 8 to August 19, 2017, WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery will present States of Emergence, an exhibition of recent work by leading South African contemporary artist, Michele Mathison. Earth Formations and the impact of human economic activity on the terrestrial landscape are at the heart of Michele Mathison’s new exhibition The extraction and transportation of gigantic […]

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