Two very different Frieze Week shows by southern African women artists explore ‘how we might break apart knowledge’

This show was selected as part of London Oomph—a curated roundup of the best contemporary art exhibitions and events held by galleries, museums, and institutions in town during Frieze Art Fair, Oct...

“Rudiments” continues the artist’s exploration of various forms of world-making, delving into how diverse cultures construct and interpret their origins while also drawing attention to how conditio...

Kapwani Kiwanga is not a name necessarily associated with sure-fire commercial artworks. Her thoughtful, heavily researched practice seems, in some ways, to be in defiance of commerciality. But as ...

From the technological to the corporeal, London is rolling out a slate of powerful exhibitions just in time for the fair. Here CULTURED rounds up what the gallery scene’s biggest players have on vi...

South Africa has a very distinctive photographic flavour and its titans include Santu Mofokeng, Sabelo Mlangeni, and Ernest Cole to name a few. All of whom were either mentors or influences for Lin...

It Will End in Tears, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum The Barbican Curve (September 18, 2024 to January 5, 2025)

Jo Stella-Sawicka, senior director of Goodman Gallery, said that “there are a lot of doom-and-gloom views on the market right now,” but that works priced in line with their quality would sell. The ...

Yinka Shonibare CBE wears that title, pointedly, as part of his name. The artist declares himself a Commander of the British Empire in full knowledge of the historical legacy and contemporary frict...

Lindokuhle Sobekwa has made a moving attempt to retrace the steps of a sibling, now dead, whose decade-long absence left a hole at his family’s heart

A few years ago, the French Moroccan artist Yto Barrada visited MoMA PS1, in Queens, following an invitation to create a site-specific work for the museum’s courtyard. As soon as she entered the sp...

Marginalised identities – black, brown, indigenous, femme, queer, non-binary and trans individuals – have found ways to affirm their bodily presence in the world and “survive”, or even thrive in an...