News & Updates
The latest additions to African Contemporary — new artists, new works and new essays on contemporary African art.
Almighty God
Obama, Alcoholism and Stop Smoking join the available collection.
New WorkNovember 1, 2026Alberto Chissano
Intertwined Heads, a sandalwood sculpture from 1989, is now available.
New WorksOctober 30, 2026Moke
Five oil paintings on canvas join the available collection.
New WorksOctober 29, 2026Ernesto Shikhani
Two paintings on paper from 1993 and 1992 join the available collection.
New WorkOctober 28, 2026Edward Saidi Tingatinga
Savannah Life (1968), ex Merete Teisen Collection and exhibited at Nationalmuseet in 1974, is now available.
New WorksOctober 28, 2026Chéri Samba
Sirène and Mami Wata, two paintings from 1978 in oil on flour sack, are now available.
New WorkOctober 28, 2026Kivuthi Mbuno
Elephant and Serpent (1988) is now available from the gallery.
New EssayOctober 27, 2026Modern African Art
Schools, workshops and individual visions across the continent, including the modern stone sculpture of Zimbabwe.
New WorksOctober 26, 2026Jimoh Buraimoh
Reclining Figure (1978) and An Animal II (1977) are available from the gallery.
New WorksOctober 26, 2026Kivuthi Mbuno
Two drawings from the early 1990s join the available collection.
New WorkOctober 20, 2026Joseph Bertiers
What a Man Can Do a Woman Can Also Do, circa 1990, joins the available collection.
New WorkOctober 18, 2026Mestre Paulo Kapela
Dancers, a work from 1971, joins the available collection.
New WorkOctober 16, 2026Akin Fakeye
Female Figure with Fish, a wood sculpture, joins the available collection.
New WorksOctober 15, 2026Alberto Chissano
Two sandalwood sculptures from 1974.
New WorksOctober 14, 2026Malangatana
Woman in Profile, an ink drawing from 1970.
New WorksOctober 14, 2026Ernesto Shikhani
Two ink drawings from 1992 and 1998.
New WorksOctober 14, 2026George Lilanga
A painting from 1996 joins the available collection.
New WorksOctober 14, 2026Kivuthi Mbuno
Eight drawings from 2013.
New EssayOctober 9, 2026Lamidi Fakeye and the Fakeye Family
Yoruba wood sculpture, family apprenticeship and individual authorship, with an introduction to Akin and Gani Fakeye.
New ArtistSeptember 23, 2026Tchalé Figueira
Cape Verdean painter, poet and musician (b. 1953).
New ArtistSeptember 16, 2026Marcel Gotène
One of the best-known painters of the Poto-Poto School (1939-2013) joins the gallery.
New EssaySeptember 16, 2026The Poto-Poto School
The story of the painting movement founded by Pierre Lods in Brazzaville in 1951.
New ArtistSeptember 9, 2026Ihosvanny
Angolan painter, video and installation artist (b. 1975).
New EssaySeptember 9, 2026A New Generation of Contemporary African Artists
The artists who came after the founding movements of modern African art.
New ArtistSeptember 2, 2026Koffi Kouakou
Ivorian sculptor (1962-2008) known for painted-wood miniatures of everyday objects.
New EssaySeptember 2, 2026Contemporary Art in Mozambique
Nearly a century of Mozambican art, from Maputo's Núcleo de Arte onward.
New ArtistAugust 26, 2026Louis Kakudji
Congolese-American collage artist (b. 1978) joins the gallery.
New EssayAugust 26, 2026The Modern Makonde Sculpture Movement
From Mueda Plateau ritual masks to the shetani and ujamaa genres of 1950s-60s Dar es Salaam.
New ArtistAugust 19, 2026Asiru Olatunde
Nigerian repoussé panel artist (1918-1993) associated with the Oshogbo school.
New EssayAugust 19, 2026The Ndebele Wall Painting Tradition
From a nineteenth-century response to war and dispossession to the murals of Esther Mahlangu.
New ArtistAugust 12, 2026Joseph Amedokpo
Painter from Togo (1946-2024) working on recycled flour sacks.
New EssayAugust 12, 2026Congolese Popular Painting
Kinshasa's sign painters and comic-strip illustrators, and the movement they built.