Contemporary African art is an expression commonly used to defined the sum of styles and national productions of the African continent, the production of African artists, the production of Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

 analyzed as a hole, the artistic, cultural and institutional dynamics of the African continent, the contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

 so-called African or a contemporary artistic production linked to Africa.

The very concept of contemporary African art has very different meanings according to its use. Magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

s, exhibition

Exhibition

An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within museums, galleries and exhibition halls, and World's Fairs...

s, publication

Publication

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s and institution

Institution

An institution is any structure or mechanism of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given human community...

s, together with the artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

s themselves, have enriched through time the definition of this expression.

Exhibitions

1962

• Art from the Commonwealth, Commonwealth Institute, London, 1962.

1966

• Tendances et Confrontations. Musée Dynamique, Dakar (01-24/04/1966), within the World Festival of Black Arts
  World Festival of Black Arts
  The World Festival of Black Arts, also known as FESMAN, is a month-long culture and arts festival that takes place in Africa. The festival features poetry, sculpture, painting, music, cinema, theatre, fashion, architecture, design and dance from artists and performers from around the African...
  
  .

1967

• Contemporary African Art. Transcription Centre, London, 1967.

1969

• Contemporary African Art, Studio International, London & New York, 1969. Camden Arts Centre, London, 1969.
• Contemporary African Art. Otis Institute, Los Angeles, 1969.

1974

• African Art Today: Four Major Artists. African-American Institute, New York, 1974.
• Contemporary African Art, Museum of African Art, Washington D.C., 1974.
• Contemporart African Arts, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1974. Curated by Maude Wahlman, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (20/04-03/11/1974).

1977

• African Contemporary Art, The Gallery, Washington D.C, 1977. Curated by Kojo Fasu, The Gallery of Art, Howard University
  Howard University
  Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States...
  
  , Washington D.C. (30/04-31/07/1977).

1978

• Christliches Africa: Kunst und Kunsthandwerk in Schwarzafrika, (Curated by) Josef Thiel, Haus Völker und Kulturen, St. Augustine, 1978.

1979

• Moderne Kunst aus Afrika: Horizonte '79 Festival der Weltkulturen, Ausstellung der Berliner Festspiele mit Unterstützung der Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, 1979 (title on the cover Kunst aus Africa). Curated by Sabine Hollburg & Gereon Sievernnich, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin (24/06-12/08/1979); Art from Africa, Commonwealth Institute, London (1981).

1980

• Moderne Kunst in Afrika, Terra, Zutphen, 1980. Curated by Harrie M. Leyten e Paul Faber, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (1980)

1984

• L'art en Afrique est la vie: Paul Ahyi & El loko aus Togo, Galerie Altana, Hamburg, 1984 (03-18/11/1984).
• Sanaa: Contemporary Art from East Africa. Curated by Fatmah Abdellah, Mordecai Buluma, Elimo Njau, Commonwealth Institute, London (1984).

1985

• Tributaries: A View of Contemporary Southern African Art, BMW Communications Department, 1985. Curated by Richard Burdett, Africana Museum, Johannesburg; Germania.

1986

• From Two Worlds. Co-curator Nicholas Serota, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1986).

1987

• L'art Naïf Africain, Musée d'Art Naïf Max Fourny, Paris, 1987. In collaboration with Le Centre Culturel Français d'Abidjan, Musée d'Art Naïf Max Fourny, Paris (11/09-11/11/1987).
• Ethnicolor, Paris, 1987. Curated by Bruno Tilliette & Simon Njami
  Simon Njami
  Simon Njami is an independent lecturer, art critic, novelist and essayist. He lives in France, and has Cameroonian roots....
  
  . Ethnicolor, Autrements, Paris, 1987. Catalogue with essays by Bruno Tilliette, Simon Njami
  Simon Njami
  Simon Njami is an independent lecturer, art critic, novelist and essayist. He lives in France, and has Cameroonian roots....
  
  , Jean-Loup Pivin, Pierre Gaudibert.

1988

• Art pour l'Afrique: Exposition internationale d'art contemporain. Musée National des Arts Africains et Océaniens, Paris (08/06-25/07/1988).
• Kunst uit een andere wereld [Art from another world], Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Rotterdam, 1988. Curated by Paul Faber, Museo di Etnologia, Rotterdam (04/11/1988-13/02/1989).
• Art contemporain arabe: collection du Musée du l'Institut du Monde Arabe, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 1988. Curated by Brahim Alaoui, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (1988).

1989

• Bild/konst i södra Afrika [Art/Images in Southern Africa], edited by Christina Bjork, Kerstin Danielson & Bengt Serenander, Riksutställninger, Kulturhuset, Stoccolma, 1989. Curated by Kerstin Danielsson, Kulturhuset & Kulturhuset, Stoccolma (19/05-24/09/1989); itinerant in Sweden and in Scandinavian countries until May 1990.
• Magiciens de la terre
  Magiciens de la terre
  Magiciens de la Terre was a contemporary art exhibit at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Grande Halle at the Parc de la Villette in 1989.-Background:...
  
  , Editions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1989. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, in collaboration with Jacques Soulillou, André Magnin, Aline Luque, Centre Pompidou, Paris (18/05–14/08/1989).
• Croisement de Signes, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 1989. Curated by Mohamed Métalsi (24/04-15/08/1989).
• The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, 1989. Curated by Rasheed Araeen
  Rasheed Araeen
  Rasheed Araeen is a London-based conceptual artist, sculptor, painter, writer, and curator. He graduated in civil engineering from the University of Karachi in 1962, and has been working as a visual artist since his arrival in London from Pakistan in 1964.- Art career :He began working as an...
  
  , Hayward Gallery
  Hayward Gallery
  The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre, part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings and also the Royal National Theatre and British Film Institute...
  
  , South Bank Centre, London (1989).

• Contemporary Art from the Islamic World, (edited by) Wijdan Ali
  Wijdan Ali
  Princess Wijdan Ali was born in Baghdad, Iraq. She is the ex-wife of Prince 'Ali bin Naif of Jordan.She received her B.A. in history from Beirut University College in 1961, while studying art privately. She received a Ph.D...
  
   in collaboration within collaboration with Suhail Bisharat, Scorpion Publishing on behalf of the Royal Society of Fine Arts, Amman, London, 1989. Curated by Wijdan Ali, Barbican Concourse Gallery, London.

1990

• Lotte or the Transformation of the Art Object, Grazer Kunstverein e Accademia d'Arte, Vienna, 1990. Curated by Clémentine Deliss
  Clémentine Deliss
  Clémentine Deliss was born in 1960 in London. She is a curator, researcher and publisher.- Biography :Clémentine Marie Deliss is born in 1960 in London from French-Austrian parents. She studies art in Vienna and she holds a B.A. in Social Anthropology and a Ph.D...
  
  .
• Art from the Frontline: Contemporary Art from South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzanian, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Frontline States-Karia Press, London, 1990. Curated by Peter Sinclair e Emma Wallace, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum (esposizione itinerante in Gran Bretagna).
• Contemporary African Artists: Changing Traditions, El Anatsui, Youssouf Bath, Ablade Glover, Tapfuma Gutsa, Rosemary Karuga, Souleymane Keita, Nicholas Mukomberanwa, Henry Munyaradzi, Bruce Onobrakpeya
  Bruce Onobrakpeya
  Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya is a Nigerian printmaker, painter and sculptor. He has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C...
  
  , The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1990. Curated by Grace Stanislaus, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
• Wegzeichen: Kunst aus Ostafrika 1974-89 [Signs: Art From East Africa 1974-1989], Museum für Völkerkunde, Frankfurt-an-Main, 1990. Curated by Johanna Agthe.

1991

• Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art, Center for African Art, New York & Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1991. Curated by Susan Vogel in collaboration with Ima Ebong, The Centre for African Arts, New York (1991); University Art Museum di Berkeley; Dallas Museum of Art; Saint Louis Art Museum; Mint Museum of Art di Charlotte; The Carnegie Museum of Art di Pittsburgh; The Corcoran Gallery of Art di Washington D.C.; The Center for Fine Arts di Miami; Lüdwig; Forum für Internationale Kunst di Aachen, Germania (1993); Fundació Antoni Tàpies di Barcellona (1993); Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain di Lyon (1994); Tate Gallery, Liverpool (1994).
• Africa Hoy/Africa Now: Jean Pigozzi Collection. Curated by André Magnin, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (17/09-17/11/1991); Groningen Museum, Groningen, Olanda (07/12-09/02/1992), Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (20/02-07/06/1992); Out of Africa, Saatchi Gallery
  Saatchi Gallery
  The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art, opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985 in order to exhibit his collection to the public. It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the South Bank by the River Thames and currently in Chelsea. Saatchi's collection, and...
  
  , London, 1993.
• Art and Ambiguity: Prospectives on the Brenthurst Collection of Southern African Art, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, 1991.
• Mit Pinsel und Meissel, Zeitgenössische afrikanische Kunst [Signs of the Time: New Art from Africa], Museum für Volkerkunde, Frankfurt am Main, 1991. Curated by Joanna Agthe e Christina Mundt, Museum für Völkerkunde, Frankfurt am Main (26/04/1991-19/04/1992).
• A Grain of Wheat. Curated by Leroi Coubagy, Commonwealth Institute, London (1991). In sostegno ai programmi dell'UNICEF.
• Il Sud del Mondo: L'altra arte contemporanea, Mazzotta, Milano, 1991. Curated by Pierre Gaudibert e Wijdan Ali (in collaboration with Umberto Melotti), Galleria civica d'arte contemporanea "Francesco Pizzo", Marsala (14/02.14/04/1991).
• Contemporary Bushmen art of Southern Africa, Kuru Cultural Project, Botswana, 1991. Curated by Kuru Cultural Project of D'Kar, Botswana in collaboration with Namibian Arts Association.
• Desplazamientos, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
• Transmission, Rooseum, Malmö, Svezia.

1992

• The Jean Pigozzi Contemporary African Art Collection at the Saachi Collection, The Saatchi Gallery, London, 1992.
• Home and the World: Architectural Sculpture by Two Contemporary African Artists, The Museum for African Art, Collana Focus on African Art, New York, 1992.
• La naissance de la peinture contemporaine en Afrique centrale, 1930-70, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrele, Tervuren, 1992. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrele, Tervuren, Bruxelles (1992).
• Paris Connections: African and Caribbean Artists in Paris, (edited by) Asake Bomani & Belvie Rooks, Q.E.D. Press, San Francisco, 1992, pp 56.

1993

• Fusion: West African Artists at the Venice Biennale, Museum for African Art, New York, 1993. Curated by Thomas McEvilly e Susan Vogel, all'interno della Biennale di Venezia, 1993.
• La grande vérité, les astres africains, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, 1993. Curated by Henry-Claude Cousseau, André Magnin, Jonas Storsve (25/06-25/09/1993).
• Creative Impulses/Modern Expressions-Four African Artists: Skunder Boghossin, Rashid Diab, Mohammed Omer Khalil, Amir Nour, African Studies and Research Center, Institute for African Development, Council for the Creative and Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, 1993. Curated by Salah Hassan.

1994

• F.R.A.C. Réunion, Lieux De Mémoire, Curated by Antonio Picariello, artisti: Jack Beng-Thi, Michael Elma, Alain Padeau, Eric Pongérard, Edouard Rajaona, Alì M'roivili dit Napalo, Malla Chummun Raymyead.
• Otro Païs: Escalas Africanas (Another Century: African Stepovers), Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Les Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1994. Curated by Simon Njami
  Simon Njami
  Simon Njami is an independent lecturer, art critic, novelist and essayist. He lives in France, and has Cameroonian roots....
  
   e Joëlle Busca (coordinamento generale di Orlando Britto Jinorio), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (15/11/1994-15/01/1995); Palma de Mallorca Fundacion “La Caixa” (15/02-16/04/1995).
• Rencontres Africaines: Exposition d'Art Actuel, Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, 1994. Curated by Brahim Alaoui e Jean-Hubert Martin, Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe (06/04-15/08/1994).
• Around Around. Curated by Peter Herrmann e Achim Kubinski, Galerie Peter Herrmann, Stuttgart (1994); Douala (1995); Berlin (1999); Stuttgart (1999). http://galerie-herrmann.com/arts/art2/around_and_around/index.htm

1995

• Black Looks, White Masks, Ministerio de Asuntos Exterioires, Tabapress, Madrid, 1995. Curated by Octavio Zaya e Tumelo Mosaka.
• Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa, Flammarion, New York, 1995. Curated by Clémentine Deliss
  Clémentine Deliss
  Clémentine Deliss was born in 1960 in London. She is a curator, researcher and publisher.- Biography :Clémentine Marie Deliss is born in 1960 in London from French-Austrian parents. She studies art in Vienna and she holds a B.A. in Social Anthropology and a Ph.D...
  
   & Salah Hassan, David Koloane
  David Koloane
  The artist David Nthubu Koloane was born on June 5, 1938 in the township of Alexandra, a suburb of Johannesburg in South Africa. In his drawings, paintings and collages he explores actual questions about political injustice and human rights...
  
  , Catherine Lampert, Chika Okeke, El Hadji Sy, Wanjiku Nyachae, Everlyn Nicodemus, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (27/09-26/11/1995), in the frame of Africa95; Malmö, Svezia (27/01-17/03/1996); Gugghenheim Museum, New York (1996).
• Seen/Unseen. Curated by Olu Oguibe
  Olu Oguibe
  Olu Oguibe is an artist and public intellectual. Professor of Art and African-American Studies and interim Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Oguibe is a senior fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New...
  
  , Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (18/06-23/07/1994), all'intero di Africa95.
• Vital: Three Contemporary African Artists (Cyprien Tokoudegba, Touhami Ennadre & Farid Belkahia). Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, 1995 (13/09-10/12/1995), all'interno di Africa95.
• Big City: Artists from Africa, Serpentine Gallery
  Serpentine Gallery
  The Serpentine Gallery is an art gallery in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, central London. It focuses on modern and contemporary art. The exhibitions, architecture, education and public programmes attract approximately 750,000 visitors a year...
  
  , London, 1995. Curated by Jean Pigozzi
  Jean Pigozzi
  Jean Pigozzi is a businessman, art collector, philanthropist and photographer. He was born in Paris as the son of Henri Pigozzi, founder of the French car maker Simca. Pigozzi studied in Paris and at Harvard University before working for the Gaumont Film Company and 20th Century Fox...
  
   & Julia Peyton-Jones (20/09-05/12/1995), all'intero di Africa95.
• An inside story: African Art of Our Time, (edited by) Yukiya Kawaguchi, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan Association of Art Museums, Tokyo, 1995. Curated by Yukiya Kawaguchi, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo (23/09-19/11/1995); Tokushima Modern Art Museum (20/01-17/03/1996); Himeji City Museumm of Art (06/04-06/05/1996); Koriyama City Museum of Art (18/05-23/06/1996); Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame Inokuma (07/07-01/09/1996); The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu (13/09-27/10/1996).
• Sign Traces Calligraphy: Five contemporay artists from North Africa. Curated by Rose Issa, London-Barbican Centre&Amsterdam-Treoenmuseum Kit, 1995.
• Persons and Pictures: the Modernist Eye in Africa, Newtown Galleries, Newtown, Johannesburg, 1995. Newtown Galleries, Newtown, Johannesburg (27/09-10/11/1995).
• New Visions: Recent Works by Six African Artists, (edited by) Salah Hassan & Okwui Enwezor
  Okwui Enwezor
  Okwui Enwezor is an Igbo Nigerian-born American curator, art critic, writer, poet, educator, and specializing in art history. He lives in New York.- Biography :...
  
  , Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, Eatonville, 1995. Curated by Salah Hassan & Okwui Enwezor.

1996

• Archetyp'Art Italia-Africa, Premio Termoli 1996, curated by Antonio Picariello (presentazione di Omar Calabrese), Electa Na, 1996. Artisti: Mimmo Paladino, Massimo Pulini, Gilberto Zorio, Santolo De Luca, Roberto Nottoli, Roberto Lucca Taroni, Ngwenya Valente Malangatana, Mickael Elma, Alain Padeau, Thierry Fontaine, Alim'Roivili dit Napalo, Sandile Zulu.
• Colours: Kunst aus Südafrika, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 1996.
• In/Sight: African Photographers: 1940 to the Present, Solomon Guggenheim, 1996. Curated by Okwui Enwezor
  Okwui Enwezor
  Okwui Enwezor is an Igbo Nigerian-born American curator, art critic, writer, poet, educator, and specializing in art history. He lives in New York.- Biography :...
  
  , Octavio Zaya
  Octavio Zaya
  Octavio Zaya is an art critic and curator, born in Las Palmas , and living in New York City since 1978. He is Director of Atlántica, a bilingual quarterly magazine published by CAAM ; he is Curator at Large and Advisor of MUSAC ;and a member of the Advisory Board of Performa...
  
  , Clare Bell
  Clare Bell
  Clare Bell is an author in the U.S. best known for her Ratha series of young adult fantasy novels about prehistoric big cats. These books, also called the Named series, are about intelligent self-aware large cats who have puma, cheetah and lion characteristics, and are based on fossil creatures...
  
   & Danielle Tilkin, Guggenheim Museum (24/05-29/09/1996).
• Neue Kunst aus Afrika, Edition Braus, Heidelberg, 1996. Curated by Alfons Hug
  Alfons Hug
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  , Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 1996.
• Die Andere Reise: Afrika und die Diaspora [The Other Journey: Africa and Diaspora], Holzhausen, Vienne, 1996.
• Gendered Visions: The Art of Contemporary Africana Women Artists, (edited by) Salah Hassan, Africa World Press, 1997. Curated by Salah Hassan (1996).
• Africana, Sala 1, Roma & Adriano Parise Editore, Verona, 1996. A cura Francesca Capriccioli, Sala 1, Roma (01-02/1996). Artisti partecipanti: El Anatsui, Theo Eshetu, Fathi Hassan
  Fathi Hassan
  Fathi Hassan is an Egyptian-born artist known for his installations involving the written word. He lives and works in Italy.-Childhood:...
  
  , Ali Kichou, Bertina Lopes, Kivuthi Mbuno, Kwesi O. Owusu-Ankomah, Hadjira Preure, Twins Seven Seven, Panga Wa Panga, George Zogo. Testi in catalogo: Mary Angela Schroth, Gianni Baiocchi, Olu Oguibe.

1997

• Veilleurs de Monde: Gbedji Kpontolè – Une aventure béninoise, Editions CQFD, Paris, 1998. Exhibition and residency project, Centre Culturel Français du Benin (12/08-09/09/1997).
• Die Anderen Modernen: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika, Editions Braus & Hauses der Kulturen des Welt, Berlin, 1997. Curated by Alfons Hug
  Alfons Hug
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  , Hauses der Kulturen des Welt, Berlin (08/05-27/07/1997).
• Cross-ing: Time, Space, Mouevment. Curated by Olu Oguibe
  Olu Oguibe
  Olu Oguibe is an artist and public intellectual. Professor of Art and African-American Studies and interim Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Oguibe is a senior fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New...
  
   & Okwui Enwezor
  Okwui Enwezor
  Okwui Enwezor is an Igbo Nigerian-born American curator, art critic, writer, poet, educator, and specializing in art history. He lives in New York.- Biography :...
  
  , University of South Florida, Miami (04/09-18/10/1997); Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica (28/02-24/04/1998); Indianapolis (07/08/1999).
• Modernities & Memories. Curated by Brahim Alaoui, Pia Alisjahbana, Suhail Bisharat, Clifford Chanin, Salima Hashmi, Salah Hassan, Hasan-Uddin Khan, Beral Madra, Toeti Heraty Noerhadi, A.D. Pirous, Zenobio Institute, in contemporanea con la XLVII Biennale di Venezia, 1997.
• Suites Africaines. Curated by Revue Noire, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris (05/03-16/04/1997).
• Lumière noire: Art contemporain, Château de Tanlay-Yonne, Yonne, Francia, 1997. Curated by Michel Nuridsany, Centre d'Art de Tanlay, Yonne (07/06-05/10/1997).
• Image and Form: Prints, Drawings and Sculpture from Southern Africa and Nigeria, (edited by) John Picton, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, 1997. Curated by Robert Loder
  Robert Loder
  Robert Beauclerk Loder is an English businessman and art collector. He has been particularly concerned in developing Contemporary African Art....
  
  , Lisa Muncke, John Picton.
• Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean artistis in Britain, 1966-1996, (edited by) Franklin Sirmans & Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, the Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora, New York, 1997.
• Inklusion: Exklusion. Kunst im Zeitalter von Postkolonialismus und globale Migration, Köln, Germania 1997.

1998

• Africa Africa: Vibrant New Art from a Dynamic Continent. Curated by Rajae Benchemsi, Rob Burnet, Yacouba Konaté
  Yacouba Konaté
  - Biography :Yacouba Konaté is a curator, a writer, an art critic and a professor of Philosophy at the University of Cocody in Abidjan, Ivory Coast....
  
  , Toshio Shimizu, Jean-Hubert Martin, Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo (11/09-24/11/1998).
• Body & Soul. Curated by Anke van der Laan, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Olanda (04/04-14/06/1998).
• Transatlantico. Curated by Octavio Zaya
  Octavio Zaya
  Octavio Zaya is an art critic and curator, born in Las Palmas , and living in New York City since 1978. He is Director of Atlántica, a bilingual quarterly magazine published by CAAM ; he is Curator at Large and Advisor of MUSAC ;and a member of the Advisory Board of Performa...
  
  , Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Les Palmas de Gran Canaria (15/04-14/06/1998).
• Transforming the Crown: African, Asian & Caribbean Artists in Britain 1966-1996. Curated by M. Franklin Sirmans e Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, New York 1998.
• Snap me one! Studiofotografen in Afrika, Münchner Stadtmuseum, 1998. Curated by Tobias Wendl & Heike Behrend, Münchner Stadtmuseum (1998); Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, Germania; National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., US (1999).

1999

• Africa by Africa: A Photographic View. Curated by the Barbican Art Gallery in collaboration with "Revue Noire
  Revue Noire
  Revue Noire is a specialist publisher of books and web material relating to African contemporary art and culture, based in France. From 1991 to 2001, Editions Revue Noire published the printed quarterly magazine Revue Noire...
  
  " & Autograph, Barbican Centre, London (29/01-28/03/1999).
• Trafique. Curated by Piet Vanrobaeys, S.M.A.K. extra muros, Gent (04/04-16/05/1999).
• Contemporary African Art from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Sotheby's, London, 1999. Asta presso Sotheby's (24/06/1999).
• South meets West, Berna, 2000. Curated by Bernhard Fibicher, Yacouba Konaté
  Yacouba Konaté
  - Biography :Yacouba Konaté is a curator, a writer, an art critic and a professor of Philosophy at the University of Cocody in Abidjan, Ivory Coast....
  
   & Yuonre Vera, Accra (10/11-05/12/1999); Berna (06/04-25/06/2000).
• Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa. Curated by Michael D. Harris, Ackland Art Museum (12/12/1999-26/03/2000); Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution (21/05-03/09/2000); Chicago, DuSable Museum of African American History (07/10-31/12/2000).
• Tagewerke: Bilder zur Arbeit in Afrika [All in a day's work: images of work in Africa], Museum für Völkerkunde, Frankfurt am Main, 1999. Curated by Joanna Agathe, Museum für Völkerkunde, Galerie 37, Frankfurt am Main.
• Amabhuku: Illustrations d'Afrique/Illustrations from Africa, La Joie par les Livres AJPL, Clamart, Francia, 1999. Curated by Marie Laurentin, Viviana Quiñones & Cécile Lebon, Fiera Internazionale del Libro per l'Infanzia, Bologna (08-11/04/1999).

2000

• TransAfricana: Artisti contemporanei, Edizione Lai Momo, Bologna, 2000. Curated by Mary Angela Schroth, Bologna (15/01-24/02/2000).
• Il ritorno dei Maghi: Il Sacro nell'arte africana contemporanea, Edizioni Skira, Milano, 2000. Curated by Sarenco ed Enrico Mascelloni (Orvieto 08/04-30/06/2000).
• Partage d'Exotisme: Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lione, 2000. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin.
• Insertion: Self and Other. Curated by Salah Hassan. Apexart, New York (18/04-20/05/2000).
• Continental Shift: A Voyage Between Cultures. An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Modo Verlag Freiburg, 2000. Contemporaneamente in quattro spazi espositivi: Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen; the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (exhibition on Africa curated by Marjorie A. Jongbloed); the National Gallery, Heerlen; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Liége (21/05-21/09/2000). http://www.continentalshift.org
• La Cour Africaine: Mobiliers et objets contemporains. Curated by Ibrahim Loutou, L'Afrique en créations, Salle des Malades, Lille (23/10-30/11/2000).
• Dreierkonferenz: Aboudramane, Owusu-Ankomah, Lawson Oyekan
  Lawson Oyekan
  Lawson Oyekan , is a contemporary ceramic sculptor and the first recipient of the Grand Prix Award for the 1st World Ceramic Biennale 2001 in Korea.-Overview:...
  
  . Curated by Peter Herrmann, Galerie Peter Herrmann, Stuttgart (04/11-24/12/2000).
• Mostra Africana de Arte Contemporânea. Curated by Solange Oliveira Farkas, Fundação Cultural Palmares e Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brasile (16/08-17/09/2000).
• El Tiempo de Africa. Curated by Simon Njami
  Simon Njami
  Simon Njami is an independent lecturer, art critic, novelist and essayist. He lives in France, and has Cameroonian roots....
  
  , Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (12/12/2000-04/02/2001); Madrid, 19/04-31/05/2001.
• EXITCONGOMUSEUM, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, 2000. Curated by Toma Muteba Luntumbue, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgio.
• Blick-Wechsel: Afrikanische Videokunst, Ifa Gallery, Bonn. Curated by Marcel Odenbach, Ifa Galleries Bonn, Stuttgart, Berlin (2000–01).

2001

• Authentic/Ex-Centric, Forum For African Arts, Ithaca (NY), 2001. Curated by Salah Hassan and Olu Oguibe
  Olu Oguibe
  Olu Oguibe is an artist and public intellectual. Professor of Art and African-American Studies and interim Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Oguibe is a senior fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New...
  
  , exhibition "a latere" 49ª Biennale di Venezia (09/06-30/09/2001).
• Africas: The Artist and the City – A Journey and an Exhibition, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2001. Curated by Pep Subiros (29/05-11/09/2001).
• African Styles: Kleidung und Textilien aus Afrika, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germania. Curated by Kerstin Bauer (21/10/2001-31/03/2002).
• Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading, (edited by) Salah Hassan e Iftikhar Dadi, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen e NAI Publishers, Rotterdam, 2001. Curated by Salah Hassan e Iftikhar Dadi in collaboration with Chris Dercon e Patricia Pulles, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (13/12/2001-24/02/2002).
• Art populaire. Curated by Hervé Chandès in collaboration with Hélène Kelmachter e André Magnin, Fondation Cartier pour l'art, Paris, (21/06-04/11/2001).
• The Short Century: Indipendence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994, (edited by) Owkui Enwezor, Prestel, Munich-New York, 2001. Curated by Okwui Enwezor, Villa Stuck, Munich (15/02-22/04/2001); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (18/05-22/07/2001); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (08/09-30/12/2001); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center & The Museum of Modern Art, New York (10/02-05/05/2002).

2002

• Afrikanische Reklamekunst, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germania. Curated by Otto Frick (24/10/2002-16/02/2003).
• Die Welt ist ein Maskentanz: Afrikanische Künstler in der Sammlung Greiffenberger, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germania. Curated by Sigrid Horsch-Albert (09/05-31/08/2002).
• africa apart _ Afrikanische Künstlerinnen und Künstlern konfrontieren Aids. Curated by Arbeitsgruppe Unterbrochen Karrieren, Thomas Michalak, Torsten, Neuendorff, Beate M. Sauer-Dolezal, Sabine Schlenker, Ingo Taubhorn, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germania (14/12/2002-09/02/2003).
• Flash Afrique: Photography from West Africa, Steidl, 2002. Curated by Thomas Miessgang, Gerald Matt, Barbara Schröder, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2002.

2003

• A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis - USA, 2003. Curated by Shannon Fitzgerald, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA (20/09/03-03/01/04).
• Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Museum for African Art, New York. Curated by Laurie Ann Farrell, Museum for African Art, New York (14/11/2003-01/03/2004); Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (27/03-18/07/2004); Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (12/09-28/11/2004); Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa (01-03/2005); Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco (03/2006).
• Transferts. Curated by Toma Muteba Luntumbue, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles (21/06-14/09/2003), all'interno di Africalia 03.
• Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art Shifting Landscapes, inIVA, London, 2003. Curated by Gilane Tawadros e Sarah Campbell, all'interno della 50ª Biennale di Venezia (15/06-02/11/2003).
• Iwalewa Reload, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germania (15/10/2003-22/02/2004).
• Roots & Routes: Afrikaner in Oberfranken, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germania (14/11/2003-22/02/2004).
• Correspondances Afriques, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germania. Curated by Artur Elmer (24/04/2003-24/08/2003).
• Fuoriluogo 8 / Afritalia. Curated by Mary Angela Schroth, Chiesa San Bartolomeo e Galleria Limiti inchiusi, Campobasso (29/8-20/9/2003)
• NEXT FLAG.Reexistencia cultural generalizada: Exposition d'art contemporain africain - Collection Hans Bogatzke (il titolo della pubblicazione è Next Flag: The African Sniper Reader, (edited by) Fernando Alvim, Heike Munder & Ulf Wuggenig, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, 2005). Curated by Fernando Alvim e Simon Njami
  Simon Njami
  Simon Njami is an independent lecturer, art critic, novelist and essayist. He lives in France, and has Cameroonian roots....
  
  , Site de l'Université du Travail Paul Pastur, Charleroi, Belgio (14/03-18/05/2003).

2004

• Africa Remix. Curated by Simon Njami
  Simon Njami
  Simon Njami is an independent lecturer, art critic, novelist and essayist. He lives in France, and has Cameroonian roots....
  
   in collaboration with Els van der Plas, David Elliott
  David Elliott
  David Elliott is a British-born art gallery and museum curator and writer about modern and contemporary art.After studying history at the University of Durham, and History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art Elliott worked as an exhibitions officer at the Arts Council of Great Britain, after...
  
  , Jean-Hubert Martin, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Roger Malbert, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (24/07-07/11/2004); Hayward Gallery, London (10/02-17/04/2005); Centre Georges Pompidou
  Centre Georges Pompidou
  Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...
  
  , Paris (25/05-15/08/2005); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (02-05/2006).
• Africa Screams: The Evil in Cinema, Art and popular Culture. Curated by Thomas Miegang e Tobias Wendl, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (04/11/04-30/01/05); Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germania (29/04-12/09/2004); Kunstverein Aalen (03/04-12/07/2005); Museum der Weltkulturen in Frankfurt (08/07/2005-15/01/2006).
• Black Box: Les Afriques. Curated by Laurent Jacob, Espace 251 Nord asbl, 2004; Tri Postal, Lille, Francia (31/03-08/08/2004) durante Lille 2004.
• Les Afriques: 36 artistes contemporains, Editions Autrement, Paris, 2004. Curated by Olivier Sultan, Musée des Arts derniers/Jean-Marc Patras Galerie/Espace CPP, Paris. In occasione della Foire internationale des Arts derniers.
• L'Afrique à venir. Curated by Peter Herrmann, Galerie Peter Herrmann, Stuttgart (24/04-20/06/2004).
• Africani in Africa. Palazzo Pazzi-Ammanti, Firenze (29/12/2004-06/03/2005).
• Escape and Memory, Curated by Enrico Mascelloni e Virginia Ryan, Camera dei deputati, Roma, giugno 2004.
• New Identities. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Südafrika. Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany (31/07/-07/11/2004).
• Insights: Selections from the contemporary collection. Curated by Kinsey Katchka & Allyson Purpurra, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (febbraio-novembre 2004). http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/insights
• Der Black Atlantic. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germania (17/09/-15/11/2004).
• L'arte africana dall'Algeria al Sudafrica. Curated by “Oltre l'Africa”-Centro Studi e Documentazione Africana in collaboration with la SUI-Sviluppi Umani Immaginati, Toscana (15/09/2004-)

2005

• Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika und Europa im Dialog. Curated by Dany Keller, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germania (28/04-04/09/2005).
• Plakate in Afrika. Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germania (20/10/2005-26/02/2006).
• Gleichzeitig in Afrika... [Meanwhile in Africa...]. Curated by Christian Hanussek, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg (03-17/06/2005); Universität der Künste, Berlin (18-28/01/2006).
• Mostra Pan-Africana de Arte Contemporânea. Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Brasile (18/03-17/04/2005).
• Africa Urbis: Perspectives urbaines, (edited by) Olivier Sultan, Musée des arts derniers, Paris, 2005. Curated by Olivier Sultan, Musée des arts derniers, Paris.
• TEXTures: word and symbol in contemporary African art. Curated by Elizabeth Harney, Smithsonian Museum of African art, Washington D.C. (02-09/2005).
• African American vernacular photography. Curated by Brian Wallis, International Center of Photography, New York (09/12/2005-26/02/2006).
• Arts of Africa: Jean Pigozzi's Contemporary Collection, Skira, Milano, 2005. Curated by André Magnin, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco.
• Mostra Pan-Africana de Arte Contemporanea, Associação Cultural Videobrasil, 2006. Curated by FundaCAo Cultural Palmares, Museu de Arte Moderna Da Bahia, Mam E Sala Walter Da Silveira, Salvador-Ba (18/03-17/04/2005).

2006

• Olvida quién soy/Erase me from who I am, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spagna, 2006. Curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose in collaboration with Tracy Murinik, Gabi Ngcobo and Khwezi Gule, CAAM, Isole Canarie (23/02-30/04/2006).
• Africa Nera: Protagonisti dell'arte africana. Curated by Enrico Mascelloni, Franco Riccardo & Sarenco, Castel dell'Ovo, Napoli (18/05-13/06/2006).
• Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, International Center of Photography, New York, 2006. Curated by Okwui Enwezor
  Okwui Enwezor
  Okwui Enwezor is an Igbo Nigerian-born American curator, art critic, writer, poet, educator, and specializing in art history. He lives in New York.- Biography :...
  
  , International Center of Photography, New York (10/03-28/05/2006), Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida (30/06-27/08/2006).
• 100% Africa. Curated by André Magnin, The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spagna (Ottobre 2006-Febbraio 2007).
• Des Hommes sans Histoire: Histoire et spoliation des biens culturels à travers les œuvres d'artistes contemporains. Curated by Olivier Sultan, Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris (29/06-31/07/2006).
• Distant Relatives/Relative Distance. Curated by Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, Sudafrica (08/06-12/08/2006).
• There & Back: Africa, La Casa Encendida, Obra Social Caja Madrid, 2006. Curated by Danielle Tilkin.

2007

• Africa Today - The dark side of the art. Curated by Luca Faccenda e Marco Parri, La Vetrina di Roma, Roma, Italia, 2007.
• Check List Luanda Pop. Curated by Fernando Alvim e Simon Njami
  Simon Njami
  Simon Njami is an independent lecturer, art critic, novelist and essayist. He lives in France, and has Cameroonian roots....
  
  . 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (06/-07/2007).
• Why Africa? La Collezione Pigozzi, Fondazione Pinacoteca del Lingotto Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Mondadori Electa, Milano, 2007. Curated by André Magnin, Pinacoteca del Lingotto, Torino, 06/10/2007-03/02/2008.
• AfriqueEurope: Reves croises in Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels, Belgium. Group exhibition curated by Yacouba Konaté
  Yacouba Konaté
  - Biography :Yacouba Konaté is a curator, a writer, an art critic and a professor of Philosophy at the University of Cocody in Abidjan, Ivory Coast....
  
  . Artists included: El Anatsui
  El Anatsui
  El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria.Anatsui was born in Anyako, and trained at the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, in central Ghana...
  
  , Nu Barreto, El Berry Bickle and Luis Basto, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
  Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
  Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, also known as Cheik Nadro , is an Ivorian artist.Bouabré was born in Zéprégüé, and was among the first Ivorians to be educated by the French colonial government. On March 11, 1948, he received a vision, which directly influenced much of his later work...
  
  , Dilomprizulike
  Dilomprizulike
  Dil Humphrey-Umezulike, better known as Dilomprizulike is a contemporary artist working in sculpture, performance and painting who has adopted the moniker 'The Junkman From Afrika'...
  
  , Mustapha Dime, El Loko, Tapfuma Gutsa
  Tapfuma Gutsa
  Tapfuma Gutsa is a Zimbabwean sculptor.A native of Harare, Gutsa was studied sculpture with Cornelius Manguma at the Driefontein Mission School, later becoming the first Zimbabwean recipient of a British Council award...
  
  , Annie Haloba, Jak Katarikawe, Jems Robert Koko Bi
  Jems Robert Koko Bi
  Jems Robert Koko Bi is an Ivorian sculptor.He was born in 1966, in Sifra, Ivory Coast. He studied Spanish History between 1986-1988 in University of Abidjan. Between 1988-1995 he studied at Institut National Supérieur des Arts et de l'Action Culturelle in Abidjan. In 1997 he won the DAAD...
  
  , Abdoulaye Konaté
  Abdoulaye Konaté
  Abdoulaye Konaté is a Malian artist. He was born in DIré and lives and works in Bamako. He is an artist of national fame who is now making a mark on the international scene. Konaté studied painting in Bamako and then Havana, Cuba.-Career:...
  
  , Bill Kouelany, Siriki Ky, Ndary Lo, Toyin Loye, Churchill Madikida, Joel Mpah Dooh, Francis Mampuya, Ingrid Mwangi, Robert Hutter, Serigne Niang, Babacar Niang, Samuel Olou, Freddy Tsimba, and Guy Bertrand Wouété.

2008
2009
2010

• L'Africa nei loro occhi: Cheri Cherin, Pierre Bodo, Amani Bodo ,Jean Paul Mika Nsimba (Repubblica democratica del Congo); George Lilanga
  George Lilanga
  George Lilanga was a Tanzanian artist. He was of the Makonde tribe and lived in Dar es Salaam. His work was exhibited in international expositions of African contemporaries including Africa Remix in Düsseldorf, Paris, London and Tokyo...
  
   (Tanzania); Almighty God (Ghana); Bruce Onobrakpeya, Prince Twins Seven Seven, (Nigeria); Kivuthi Mbuno (Kenia); Ester Mahlangu , Churchill Songezile Madikida (Sud Africa). Curated by Antonella Pisilli, Ex Convento dei Carmelitani Scalzi per la settima edizione di Vitarte, Viterbo, (12- 15 marzo 2010)
• Africa, Assume Art Position! Primo Marella Gallery, Milano, 2010. By Primo Giovanni Marella, curated by Yacouba Konaté
  Yacouba Konaté
  - Biography :Yacouba Konaté is a curator, a writer, an art critic and a professor of Philosophy at the University of Cocody in Abidjan, Ivory Coast....
  
   with Mounir Fatmi, Cameron Platter, Soly Cissé, Barthélémy Toguo
  Barthélémy Toguo
  Barthélémy Toguo, is a Cameroonian painter born in 1967. He lives in Paris and Bandjoun. He has also worked with photographs, sculpture, videos....
  
  , Abdoulaye Konaté
  Abdoulaye Konaté
  Abdoulaye Konaté is a Malian artist. He was born in DIré and lives and works in Bamako. He is an artist of national fame who is now making a mark on the international scene. Konaté studied painting in Bamako and then Havana, Cuba.-Career:...
  
  , Joel Andrianomearisoa, Peter Eastman, Nandipha Mntambo, Moridja Kitenge Banza, Stuart Bird, Athi Patra Ruga, Vitshios Mwilambwe Bondo, Primo Marella Gallery, Milano (12/11/2010-30/01/2011).
• Who Knows Tomorrow: El Anatsui
  El Anatsui
  El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria.Anatsui was born in Anyako, and trained at the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, in central Ghana...
  
  , Zarina Bhimji
  Zarina Bhimji
  Zarina Bhimji is a Ugandan Asian photographer and film maker, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007.-Life and work:...
  
  , Antonio Ole, Yinka Shonibare
  Yinka Shonibare
  Yinka Shonibare, MBE, is a British-Nigerian artist living in the UK. He readily acknowledges physical disability as part of his identity but creates work in which this is just one strand of a far richer weave.-Life and career:...
  
  , Pascale Marthine Tayou. Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Curated by Chika Okeke-Agulu
  Chika Okeke-Agulu
  Chika Okeke-Agulu is an Igbo-Nigerian artist, art historian, and art curator specializing in African and African Diaspora art history. He lives in , New Jersey.- Biography :Chika Okeke-Agulu was born in Umuahia in Nigeria in 1966...
  
  , Britta Schmitz, Udo Kittelmann (June 2-September 23).

By country

• Art in Cameroon
• Art in Egypt
• Art in Kenya
• Art in Morocco
• Art in Nigeria
• Art in Senegal
• Art in South Africa, Art of South Africa
  Art of South Africa
  South African art is the creative output of human beings from South Africa.The oldest art objects in the world were discovered in a South African cave. Dating from 75,000 years ago, these small drilled snail shells could have no other function than to have been strung on a string as a necklace....