Exhibitions

Collective Joy – Learning Flamboyance! is still on view at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France until May 11, 2025

Collective Joy – Learning flamboyance! is an exhibition that looks at popular cultures of gathering and group dynamics, conducive to the experience and learning of joy in our daily lives. The exhibition brings together a French and international scene of artists and initiatives inspired by ways of occupying public space: whether they be festive, social, musical, aesthetic, recreational, political or even utopian. By bringing together practices that are often collaborative and relational, and imbued with the principles of cultural rights and social justice, Collective Joy – Learning flamboyance! celebrates ways of creating togetherness and organising collectively. Through interactive situations and an open mic programme, the exhibition takes the form of a place of sociability that values the participation and creative expression of artists and the public.

Archives and Memories is still on view at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria until May 31, 2025

Archives and Memories is a group exhibition featuring works by prominent Nigerian artists to commemorate the passing of CCA Lagos founder, Bisi Silva, 6 years ago. The exhibition features artists whose practices intersect with Bisi Silva’s curatorial archive. Drawing from her curatorial projects between 2008 and 2018, Archives and Memories reactivates works that explore themes of migration, identity, colonialism, patriarchy, and cultural preservation, offering fresh perspectives on their relevance today. Through archival materials, personal histories, and artworks, Archives and Memories interrogates the interplay of personal and collective memory, examining how memory is revisited, reconstructed, and transformed over time.

Emma Prempeh: Belonging In-Between is still on view at Tiwani Contemporary in Lagos, Nigeria until May 24, 2025

Belonging In-Between continues the latest body of works which finds Prempeh pictorially considering landscape as physical and emotionally charged sites, drawing together the matrilineal experiences and memories of her grandmother and mother Carmen, of whom the latter features very prominently. The series documents Carmen’s return to St. Vincent last year with the artist, 40 years after migrating to London. It was Prempeh’s first time in St. Vincent, visiting the homes and spaces that her Mother lived in or were a feature of her childhood and early teens, and for the artist the process of witnessing her Mother revisiting these locations, enacted a reckoning with the present state of those sites and their changes over the years, to the stories her Mother shared with her whilst growing up.

Biennials

14th Mercosul Biennial is still open at various locations in Porto Alegre, Brazil until June 1, 2025

With the idea of Estalo (Snap) as its central concept, the main objective of this edition is to deal with the notion of transformation. In the blink of an eye and in a brief fragment of time, our bodies and nature, for example, undergo transformations of varying magnitudes. From the metamorphoses that silently emerge in our organisms to sudden and noisy movements – living is synonymous with never being in a stable and safe place. For 66 days, the biennial will spread throughout the city, bringing together works by 76 artists from different regions of the world, believing in exchanges between different social contexts and artistic languages to approach the diversity of experiences between art and life.

Art Fairs

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair will open at various locations in New York, United States from May 8-11, 2025

With three editions per year, in London, New York, and Marrakech and pop-ups in Paris and Hong Kong, 1-54 is the first and only international art fair dedicated exclusively to contemporary African art. As the fair enters its second decade, this year’s New York edition underscores its commitment to diversity, discovery, and diasporic dialogue, spanning artists and exhibitors from 17 countries across five continents. This year’s fair sees 15 first-time participants and 18 exhibitors showing in New York for the first time, affirming its ongoing mission to support galleries both emerging and established across Africa. The event will also boast a dynamic series of Special Projects that deepen the fair’s engagement with cultural memory and contemporary discourse.