Bili Bidjocka, Last Supper: “Do not take it, do not eat it, this is not my body…”, 2016. 13 public performances and installations which take place in different events and cities around the world. Dak’Art 2016 international exhibition, Installation view, Palais de Justice © C&

DAK'ART 2018 

Dakar Biennale Reveals List of Artists

LIST OF SELECTED ARTISTS “IN”: 1. Yasmina Alaoui,  Morocco 2. Ghada Amer and Reza Farkondeh,   ...
Theresah Ankomah, Untitled, 2022. Courtesy of Savvy Contemporary.

News 

1-54 London: Exhibitors, Artists and Special Projects

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair will return to Somerset House for its eleventh edition from 12 – 15 Octob ...
(left) Poster of the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible © Nontsikelelo Mutiti / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo; (right): Study for closing of the second pavement for the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible © Vão / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

News 

35th Bienal de São Paulo Announces Participants and Architecture Projects

Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announces the full list of 120 participants of the 35th Bienal de São Paulo. ...
Ibrahim El-Salahi, The Last Sound, 1964 (detail). Oil on canvas, 47 7/8 × 47 7/8 inches. © Collection of Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah.

Exhibition 

Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s – Group Show

The touring exhibition Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s at the McMullen Museum of ...
John Akomfrah. Mimesis: African Soldier, 2018. Three channel HD colour video installation, 7.1 sound Dimensions variable. Co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW, New Art Exchange, Nottingham and Smoking Dogs Films, with additional support from Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo © IWM / Film © Smoking Dogs Films

Venice Biennale 2019 

African Perspectives at Venice 2019

The 58th Venice Biennale is entitled “May You Live in Interesting Times” and is curated by Ralph Rugoff, ...
Gathering of Sharjah Biennial 11 attendees, 2013. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation.

Conferences 

Active Forms : Sharjah Art Foundation March Meeting 2018

Sharjah Art Foundation announced additional highlights and participants for March Meeting 2018 (MM 2018), an a ...
Malick Sidibé, Christmas evening. 1963.

Exhibition Histories 

The Short Century

The exhibition The Short Century. Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 opened in 2001 in ...
From the movie WEST INDIES, 1979 by Med Hondo

Events 

Cours, cours, camarade, le vieux monde est derrière toi – The Cinema of Med Hondo

“Run, comrade, the old world is after you” is the English translation of the title of this program ...
1:54 London 2016 © Victor Raison

Gallery list announced 

The 5th London edition of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

The fifth London edition of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair is taking place at Somerset House, 5 – 8 Octo ...
Whose surrealism?

On 'When Art Becomes Liberty' 

Whose surrealism?

A recent exhibition in Cairo, When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938 – 1965), raised cruci ...
Modernity and the Making of Identity in Sudan: Remembering the Sixties and Seventies

Conferences 

Modernity and the Making of Identity in Sudan: Remembering the Sixties and Seventies

Sharjah Art Foundation and the Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, are organising the i ...
IN SEARCH OF EUROPE? EQUALS IN AN UNEQUAL WORLD

Exhibition 

IN SEARCH OF EUROPE? EQUALS IN AN UNEQUAL WORLD

On 1 November 2013, Berlin’s art venue Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien will open the exhibition IN SEARCH O ...

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