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We provide new insights and a fresh perspective of what African creativity and art look like today.

07/01/2026

oWesbili (2025) and oWesthathu (2025) by South African artist Njabulo Hlophe embody the ancestral presence of African belief systems, reinterpreted through contemporary visual languages of deities and gods.

Currently on view in Accra, Hlophe’s works move between memory and imagination. He describes his practice as storytelling through a series of conversations that operate both inwardly and outwardly, shaped by lived experience and surrounding worlds.

This body of work traces echoes of ancestral faiths, reimagining African cultural objects as vessels of divine presence.
Through surreal reinterpretations, Hlophe reflects on how belief systems shift, endure, and transform across time.

Title: oWesbili, 2025
Medium: Acrylic Paint on Archival Canvas
Size: 90cm x 110cm
Price: $3000

Title: oWesthathu, 2025Medium: Acrylic Paint on Archival Canvas
Size: 90cm x 110cm
Price: $3000

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05/01/2026

Introducing works by Njabulo Hlope 🇿🇦, currently on view in Accra 🇬🇭 at as part of the group exhibition The Last Frontier.

Hlope’s practice moves between memory and imagination. He describes his work as storytelling through conversations that operate both inwardly and outwardly, shaped by his lived experience and surroundings.

This series traces echoes of ancestral faiths, reimagining African cultural objects as vessels of divine presence. Through surreal reinterpretations of deities and gods, Hlope reflects on the shifting expressions of belief across time.

His work contributes powerfully to the exhibition’s exploration of cultural continuity, transformation, and the creative momentum that bridges analogue histories with digital futures.

Title: isiKhalo sika Malume 2024
Medium: Acrylic, pastel on canvas
Size:80 x 120 cm

Title: isiKhalo so MfeloKazi 2024
Medium: Acrylic, pastel on canvas
Size:80 x 120 cm

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29/12/2025

is proud to co-curate The Last Frontier, an exhibition hosted by and celebrating a generation that bridges the digital divide between analogue and digital worlds.

Honouring those who carry both memory and momentum, the exhibition shines a light on creatives with one foot grounded in physical, lived culture and the other reaching boldly into the limitless digital realm. This generation stands as a living archive preserving stories, sounds, and experiences while actively shaping the future.

Warm congratulations to the exhibiting artists: Ezra Appiah, Kweku Abeiku, P Kofuma, Njabulo Hlope, Afronite Stoic, and Di Omande Assane. ✨🎉

22/10/2025

visual language unfolds in a dream-like manner, with figures often appearing confined within vessels or pressed against the edges of her painted surfaces, evoking a sense of tension and transformation.

Her work explores themes of identity, generational trauma, dreams, and manifestations—offering both a deeply personal reflection and a broader commentary on the cultural inheritance of South African women.

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22/10/2025

is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings reimagine luxury as a form of cultural reclamation. The political and personal merges through Tlabela’s work.

Tlabela’s practice has solely focused on painting and depicting fictional scenes of the Black Elite, also paying tribute to historically prominent Black artists within his works.

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19/10/2025

Rhythm & Roots solo exhibition from pioneering Black British photographer Jennie Baptiste.

Spanning over three decades, the show brings together both iconic and never-before-seen photographs that chronicle the evolution of Black British style, sound, and identity. From the high-chroma heat of London’s dancehall scenes to early hip hop and R&B influences, captures a generation defining itself in real time.

The exhibition also presents Black Chains of Icon, a powerful conceptual series layering archival materials, historic text, and experimental print techniques to reflect on legacy, resistance, and the aesthetics of self-determination.

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19/10/2025

works are a dialogue between tradition and contemporary expression. Critically engaging with themes of history, identity, memory, and belonging, examining how individual and collective experiences inform the construction of self and place.

Through his nuanced exploration of these intersections, Natnael crafts compelling visual narratives that bridge personal reflection and broader sociocultural inquiry in his bold and colourful surreal paintings.

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19/10/2025

works deploy Ndebele cultural lore, symbolism, and material in a bid to undertake a radical re-examination of the self. Masombuka’s photographic series, “Proudly South African,” conjures a medley of national symbols, intense colours, and emblems of her Ndebele homeland.

For her solo exhibition at October Gallery, “Nges’rhodlweni: A Portal for Black Joy”, Masombuka used photography, film, sculpture, and performance to portray initiation ceremonies that engage the healing powers of nature and community, using joy as the dominant emotion.

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08/10/2025

🎟️✨ We’re thrilled to share .ch ticket give away to the powerful solo performance by Ivorian choreographer Nadia Beugré, a deeply moving return to her ancestral village, Yikakou.

In this evocative work titled Épique! (for Yikakou), Beugré revisits a place that no longer exists, a village once deemed cursed, to explore its forest through myth, memory, and the lingering voices of her ancestors.

Together with Charlotte Dali, Beugré embodies generations of women in a performance that unfolds like a ritual: raw, poetic, and full of life. With rhythm and emotion, they channel the presence of those who came before, reminding us that the past still breathes within us.

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Show Times: Sun, Oct.12, 7pm at Kaserne Basel

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28/08/2025

For her solo exhibition, ‘Even God Misses Things’ Ibtisam Tasnim Zaman is a striking body of work that reflects on surveillance culture and its aspiration to emulate divine omniscience through mobile technologies and the growing presence of militarisation.

The exhibition draws connections between religion and contemporary society, through work, which reaches into her own layered experience as a Muslim child, constant traveller, and New Yorker. Her imagery moves fluidly through deconstructed train stations, airplane windows, handheld objects, moving bodies, and the symbolic veil—a fragile membrane between perception and reality.

Zaman is a self-taught artist and a le***an woman of African-Native (Indigenous American) and European descent. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, she grew up in the UAE, spent her adolescence in India, and eventually settled in New York City, where she is currently based.

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25/08/2025

with Njabulo Hlope in his Johannesburg studio. It’s always a pleasure catching up with whose artistic approach continues to evolve and challenge visual culture through imagination.

His Pap Culture series introduces quirky and peculiar (yet deeply familiar) characters and symbols drawn from his own ever-expanding visual language. The word Pap recontextualises Pop (or Popular) within a framework of uniquely local stories.

Through this lens, Hlope reminds us that African narratives are central to the global conversation. This is why Pap Culture amplifies South African voices, young and old, and imagines new possibilities for how we see and represent ourselves.

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