Exhibitions

Betty Ogundipe: Love/Fight is still on view at Tache in London, United Kingdom until October 23, 2025

This exhibition presents new and recent works by London-based multidisciplinary artist Betty Ogundipe. Running for a month, the show features large-scale paintings, photography, textile, sculpture and video, exploring Black womanhood through the intersecting perspectives of militant femininity, new wave feminisms, and feminine resilience, portraying scenes that reflect both strength and struggle. Ogundipe’s works are defined by their expressive and vibrant colour palettes, evocative textures, and themes with strong cultural resonance. Her artistic practice sits at the intersection of documentary and abstraction, guided by a quest to understand how cultural, collective and personal histories shape contemporary lived experience.

Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Echoes From Copeland is still on view at Gagosian in New York, United States until October 25, 2025

In this exhibition, the artist explores themes of familial dysfunction, hope, aspiration, and redemption, inspired by Alice Walker’s debut novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970). As part of a continued meditation on his own creative influences, which include Francis Bacon and Romare Bearden, Quinn situates figures in different environments including interiors, a cityscape, and natural settings. These complex paintings combine intricate line work with detailed backgrounds, further contextualizing an increased narrative scope. Captivated by the pursuit of self-realization and recovery from ancestral trauma that color Walker’s text, which tells the story of an African American family in rural Georgia over three generations, Quinn renders both real and imagined scenes and characters from the author’s somber narrative through a hopeful lens.

Canon Griffin Rumanzi: Mad Eye of History without Blinking is still on view at the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute in Nairobi, Kenya until November 2, 2025

Running for 7 weeks, the exhibition confronts the turbulent and fragmented narratives of Uganda’s past and their ongoing echoes in the present. Through digital collage and archival intervention, Griffin layers colonial records, state symbols, family portraits, and everyday images to create a visual language of fracture, one that refuses easy containment or simplified stories. His work challenges us to look directly, without blinking, at the contradictions of history and the unresolved complexities that shape our collective memory. Griffin is also the co-founder of History in Progress Uganda (HIP Uganda), a long-term archival project dedicated to digitizing and reinterpreting Uganda’s visual past. Exhibited both regionally and internationally, his practice continues to spark urgent conversations about how African histories are remembered, contested, and retold.

Festivals

Fak’ugesi 2025 will take place at the Tshimologong Precinct in Johannesburg, South Africa from October 7-12, 2025

This year, Fak’ugesi 2025 #PowerSurge will ignite the streets of Braamfontein with a defiant call to Africa’s digital creators: take control of the grid, spark new systems, and route power on your own terms. Now in its twelfth edition, Fak’ugesi has become a catalyst for the continent’s digital renaissance – a meeting ground where the next wave of African innovators, artists, and technologists gather to experiment, collaborate, and rewire what’s possible. From its home base at the Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct, the festival will convert the city into a living power circuit of ideas and action, where ancestral intelligence fuses with artificial intelligence, climate justice drives sustainable futures, and immersive tech lights the way for bold new creative economies.

Art Fairs

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair will open at Somerset House in London, United Kingdom from October 16-19, 2025

For its 13th consecutive year across four days, the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, 1-54 London 2025, will welcome more than 50 international galleries based across 13 countries. Both new and returning exhibitors will present over 100 artists working across an array of mediums from painting, photography and sculpture, performance to mixed media, textile and ceramics. Renowned artists such as Hassan Hajjaj, Ibrahim El Salehi, Lakwena Maciver, and Seydou Keita will be exhibited alongside young and emerging talents including Joël Bigaignon, Zenaéca Singh, Khadija El Abyad, and Afeez Onakoya.