Solo Exhibitions

Miryam Charles: Atlas for the Disappeared is still on view at Basis e.v. in Frankfurt, Germany until December 14, 2025

The first solo exhibition by Miryam Charles presents the moving and haunting works of the haitian-canadian filmmaker as expansive installations. For the exhibition spaces, the artist has revisited her film cette maison alongside several short films, interweaving them through sound. What emerges are polyphonic soundscapes which make central themes of her work tangible: grief, memory, identity, and exile. Atlas for the disappeared traces complex cartographies of listening and remembering. Voices and sounds from the artist’s personal archive accompany, open up, and counterpoint the visual layers of the films on display. Emphasis is placed on the cracks, gaps, and openings that lie beyond bounded narrative forms. Accompanying songs, echoes, and resonances weave together fragmented experiences. With empathy and attentiveness, they affirm a sense of community and connection.

Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe: Where the Waters Meet is sill on view at Gallery 1957 in Accra, Ghana until January 4, 2026

In Where the Waters Meet, Otis Quaicoe returns to Ghana with a body of work that celebrates black leisure, joy, and the radical act of rest. Marking his first solo exhibition in his country of birth, this homecoming is also a meditation on water—its capacity to hold us, to offer respite, and its particular significance for black bodies navigating histories of exclusion and belonging. Here, pools and oceans become sites of reclamation, spaces where pleasure is not only possible but essential. Currently based in the United States, Quaicoe describes Ghana as his peace — a space of clarity, lightness, and deep connection. Here, surrounded by family, friends, and familiar rhythms, his creative process shifts. It becomes weightless, instinctive, and free. This new body of work embraces that feeling: an exploration of imagined spaces of play, rest, and ease.

Billie Zangewa: Breeding Ground is still on view at the Norval Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa until January 11, 2026

Breeding Ground invites audiences into the intimate, multifaceted realm of motherhood, growth, care, creation, community, and transformation. Through her iconic silk collages, Zangewa explores both literal and symbolic forms of nurturing, reflecting on the cycles of life – from birth and infancy to development, maturity, and decay – and often reflects her own experiences as a Black woman in a globalised world, addressing issues of race, gender, and personal freedom. Her work has been exhibited internationally, garnering recognition for its unique style and its ability to merge fine art with textile traditions. Silk, the artist’s primary medium, plays a vital role in conveying the exhibition’s theme. The delicate yet resilient fabric serves as a metaphor for both the fragility and strength of the identities and experiences depicted in Zangewa’s work. Each piece, created through meticulous layering and stitching, reflects the complexities of personal and collective history.

Athi-Patra Ruga: Lord, I gotta keep on (movin’) is still on view at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York, United States until January 18, 2026

The multidisciplinary practice of Athi-Patra Ruga centers on myths i.e. their creation, their unraveling, and their relationship to power and liberation. Through performance, film, painting, textile, and glass, Ruga creates allegorical figures using craftsmanship as a strategy of re-embodiment. His figures move through utopic and dystopic realms, aspects of which in turn draw from Xhosa history and legend as well as post-apartheid South Africa. Since 2012, many of Ruga’s projects have centered on the imagined realm of Azania, an ancient Greek reference to a southeastern region of Africa. Azania was taken up by activists in the struggle to end apartheid, invoking both a precolonial Black homeland and a decolonized, liberated South Africa.

Group Exhibitions

Between Distance and Desire: African Diasporic Perspectives is still on view at The Soloviev Foundation Gallery in New York, United States until December 31, 2025

The Soloviev Foundation Gallery features eight contemporary artists alongside works from its collection in an exhibition that challenges the colonial frameworks that have historically shaped views of African art. By revisiting these complex histories, the artists and curator utilize modes of play and fantasy to offer alternative perspectives about the past, present, and future of Black aesthetics. Between Distance and Desire rethinks traditional African art within today’s global political and cultural context. The contemporary works included in the exhibition pursue a range of formal strategies, from figurative painting and assemblage to monumental sculpture and performance. By blending materials and references from various geographies and temporalities, these works create a paradoxical space of syncretic grandeur. They invite dialogue between African masks and the social issues facing the continent today, from urbanization and environmental crises to gender inequality and neocolonialism.