Festivals and Films
Maputo What's on
20-31 October 2009. Jean-Paul Vermeulen is a Belgian photographer who was born in South Africa and spent part of his formative years in Rwanda, where he developed his love of wildlife and photography....
Cairo What's on
13 Oct-5 Nov 2009. This group exhibition brings together the work of 15 international photographers, who portray their country of origin. The artists highlight various aspects of daily life in Egypt t...
Cairo What's on
10 Oct-7 Nov 2009. This exhibition features work by 12 artists who explore their relationship with bread. Each artist focuses on a different aspect of the culture of bread and its significance for soc...
Cairo What's on
29 Sept-24 Oct 2009. For the first time since 2006 a solo show is dedicated to the young Egyptian artist Wael Shawky. The Factory and first-floor gallery spaces contain recent videos and drawings show...
Maputo What's on
2009 World Press Photo exhibition in Maputo
3-22 Oct 2009. The Dutch embassy in Maputo presents the World Press Photo exhibition in Fortaleza de Maputo. The 196 photographs included in this travelling exhibition have been selected by an indepen...
Cape Town What's on
23 Sept-16 Oct 2009. This group show by nine contemporary artists examines how artists build up historical narratives and sometimes manipulate them through their creativity. Like historians who use so...
Accra What's on
20 Sept-10 Oct 2009. This exhibition displays work by the renowned painter and musician Agorsor. His style has been described by critics as
Accra What's on
Accra to Maputo photo exhibition at the Goethe-Institut
22 Sept-2 Oct 2009. The Goethe-Institut celebrates the award-winning photography of Kwabena Danso (a.k.a. JaHWi) with an exhibition of his work. Danso
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Paintings by Soud Seif and Hamza M. Ausiy
25 Sept-10 Oct 2009. Two Zanzibar artists, Soud Seif and Hamza M. Ausiy, present a joint exhibition of their work at the Alliance Fran
Nairobi What's on
Until 25 Oct 2009. UK-based wildlife charity Born Free Foundation and Wild in Art present Pride of Kenya!, an exhibition of 50 life-size adult male lion sculptures in public spaces throughout Nairobi....
Cairo What's on
15 Sept-30 Oct 2009. Original works by Atta El Sayed, a talented and promising young artist, made using recycled newspaper, cardboard and photographs.
Cairo What's on
13 Sept-13 Oct 2009. This is the first solo exhibition dedicated to the Egyptian artist Deena Fadel.
On this occasion Fadel brings together a great number of mixed-media paintings, enriched by the u...
Cairo What's on
9-30 Sept 2009. This exhibition features the work of Hana Ibrahem, a young and promising Egyptian painter who first explored different painting techniques before abandoning brush and canvas for graphi...
Cape Town What's on
Jo Noero architecture exhibition.
9 Sept-30 Nov 2009. This exhibition focuses on the cultural, social and political changes that have taken place in South Africa over the past three decades through the projects and designs of Professo...
Cairo What's on
1-10 Sept 2009. This is the first solo exhibition held in Cairo by the artist Amr Ali, who presents two series of work which are a combination of collage and drawing, mixing and overlapping different...
Cairo What's on
1-30 Sept 2009. This exhibition pays homage to El-Hussein Fawzy (1905-1990), an Egyptian painter who was also well known in the Middle East for his pioneering work in the field of graphic art.
In fa...
Cape Town What's on
Cross-Pollination: South African Art 1930-1950.
9 June-25 Oct 2009. On display are paintings, sculptures and works on paper, which testify to the great diversity of style and technique in South African art between the 1930s and 1950s. The works ran...
Nairobi What's on
23 - 27 September 2009. Nairobi's Sarit Centre presents the 12th annual International Book Fair in its exhibition hall. Hosting poetry readings, debates and narrations from guest speakers, the centre...
Lagos What's on
All is Not Lost: A National Treasure Worth Preserving.
This ongoing exhibition of Nigerian art and antiquities is part of the important intervention by the Ford Foundation West Africa to assist in the modernisation of Nigeria
