Solo Exhibitions

Nana Bruce: In the Name of Love – Introspection is still on view at Gallery 1957 in Accra, Ghana until September 11, 2025

In this exhibition, Nana Bruce steps into this space of tension, where outward appearance and inner truth meet, resist, and reshape one another. He invites the viewer to join him there, not only to observe, but to begin their own introspection and embark on the uncertain but deeply worthwhile journey of learning to love oneself. That journey is rarely linear. It unfolds in fragments—raw, fractured, and shifting but always with the potential to move forward. Bruce’s figures mirror this unfolding, caught in moments between revelation and quiet collapse; they embody the difficulty and joys of self-examination. Some hover on the edge of clarity, others drift in states of denial. But all are in motion, navigating however slowly, the layered terrain of the self.

Zohra Opoku: We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight will be on view at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, South Africa from September 11 to October 4, 2025

Tracing a decade of quiet revolutions in cloth, memory, and self, the exhibition brings together textured expressions of personal history and cultural inheritance, revealing an artistic journey in constant motion. For Opoku, this dialogue becomes a form of visual storytelling—an evolving, textured archive of identity that is both intimate and quietly powerful. Trained in fashion design and photography in Germany, Opoku extends her command of textiles into a layered visual language, moving fluidly between photography, printmaking, and textile-based installation. Fabric emerges as a generative medium through which questions of identity, memory, and ancestral lineage are thoughtfully explored. These themes unfold across the breadth of her practice, as she turns to printmaking, photography, and sculpture as complementary mediums for reflecting on selfhood and lived experience.

Remy Jungerman: Blue Obia will be on view at the Fridman Gallery in New York, United States from September 12 to October 12, 2025

This exhibition features a new body of work that deepens Jungerman’s long-standing engagement with the visual and spiritual ties among Surinamese Maroon culture, West Africa, and 20th century Modernism. Employing materials deeply rooted in the Afro-Surinamese religion Winti – cotton textile, kaolin clay (pimba), and wood – Jungerman’s panels, cubes, and free-standing sculptures feature richly layered yet minimalist compositions. Invoking the African diasporic practice of Obia (or Obeah or Obiya)—a term associated with healing, protection, and ancestral guidance—this new body of work reflects on the power of ritual to connect the seen and the unseen, the past and the present.

Group Exhibitions

To Improvise a Mountain is still on view at the Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, United Kingdom until October 5, 2025

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, one of the most important figurative painters today, selects an exhibition of works critical to her way of seeing and thinking, inviting audiences on a personal journey through art past and present. Developed by the artist in collaboration with Hayward Gallery Touring, To Improvise a Mountain will bring Yiadom-Boakye’s work into conversation with an eclectic range of historical and contemporary artists, illuminating her creative process. The exhibition’s curatorial spirit stems from a fragment of poetry within Miles Davis’s Inamorata (1971), which asks: Who is this music that which description may never justify? / Can the ocean be described? For Yiadom-Boakye, poetry’s ability to translate the intangible into images the mind can hold, and to think through rhythm and feeling, is similar to the act of painting.

Biennials

36th Bienal de São Paulo will be open at various locations in São Paulo, Brazil from September 6, 2025 to January 11, 2026

The 36th Bienal de São Paulo opens with 125 individual and collective artistic positions, after a year and a half of curatorial engagements and encounters in different parts of the world. This edition is inspired by the poem “Da calma e do silêncio” [Of Calm and Silence] by poet Conceição Evaristo, and has active listening, encounter, negotiations, and respect as foundations of humanity as a practice. The metaphor of the estuary —a meeting place between different currents, site of manifestation and coexistence of different beings, space of exuberance— permeates an exhibition divided into six chapters, conceived as fractals and connected by constant flows and dialogues. The public program, entitled Conjugations, will include debates, performances, and meetings, most of them held in partnership with institutions from different continents. Another highlight of this edition is the Apparitions project, which will use augmented reality to present works in specific locations around the world, chosen by the artists.