Festivals and Films
Cape Town What's on
11 February-11 March 2011. The Iziko Planetarium hosts this event both for adults and teenagers, which investigates on the Cosmic Egg, an ancient mythological concept, which was resurrected by modern...
Nairobi What's on
Conversations in Silence Exhibition
19 February-11 March 2011. This exhibition brings together four Kenyan artists and four Bauhaus University Alumni, who deal together with public space and commemoration in Kenya.
After five month of...
Lagos What's on
Fashion and Art Fair: Valentine's Edition
13 February 2011. To celebrate St Valentine
Accra What's on
9-26 February 2011. This exhibition displays work by the Accra-based Togolese wood sculptor Ray Claver Agbo. Agbo, who is also a member of the Foundation for Contemporary Art Ghana, is inspired in his...
Nairobi What's on
31 January-28 February 2011. This exhibition entitled Circles of Life, features a collection of glass etchings and paintings by the Kenyan artist Patrick Kariuki as well as other works by Bonface Main...
Cairo What's on
Liberated Spatiality by Thaier Helal
25 January-28 April 2011. This exhibition by the Syrian painter Thaier Helal displays a new series of mixed media canvases, made of lines and markings liberated from spatial bounds.
His paintings a...
Cairo What's on
25 January-9 February 2011. Paintings by the Egyptian abstract painter and minister of culture Farouk Hosny. Hosny has held exhibitions worldwide and won the Japanese Soka Gakai International Universi...
Cairo What's on
25 January-7 February 2011. This group exhibition displays the paintings by several Egyptian artists such as Ayman El-Semary, Effat Hosni, Farouk Wahba, Maye Refqy, Myriam Gohar and Reda Abdel-Salam....
Cape Town What's on
23 February-30 April 2011. This exhibition pays homage to the South African photographer Ernest Cole with a selection of extremely rare and unpublished photographs from the Swedish Hasselblad Foundati...
Nairobi What's on
Elaine Kehew’s The Sugar Canes
23 January-24 February 2011. This exhibition, entitled The Sugar Canes (Sweet Ruminations), shows the recent series of paintings by the Nairobi-based, American painter Elaine Kehew for the first tim...
Cape Town What's on
Gerhard Marx at the Goodman Gallery
22 January-12 February 2011. This exhibition entitled Cumulus by Gerhard Marx inaugurates the new Goodman Gallery. On display is a series of new works, which were created thanks to several processes d...
Cairo What's on
22 January-19 February 2011. This retrospective exhibition pays homage to the Egyptian artist Huda Lufti and her 20-year long artistic career.
Lufti began as a mediaeval historian, later became a...
Accra What's on
19 January-5 February 2011. This exhibition entitled Enhili features the works by the Acrra-based artist from Burkina Faso Dao Mamadou, better known as Daoma. Daoma
Addis Ababa What's on
Ants and Ceramicists Art Exhibition
16 January-14 February 2011. This art exhibition showcases the last series of stitched canvases by the Ethiopian artist Elias Sim
Cairo What's on
16 January-7 February 2011. This exhibition pays homage to the Paris-based Egyptian artist Georges Bahgory, considered the grandfather of Egyptian caricature, with a great selection of paintings....
Cairo What's on
Liberated Spatiality by Thaier Helal
25 January-15 March 2011. This exhibition by the Syrian painter Thaier Helal displays a new series of mixed media canvases, made of lines and markings liberated from spatial bounds.
His paintings a...
Cairo What's on
10-26 January 2011. This exhibition brings together a selection of paintings by the famous Egyptian artist Hafez El-Raay. El-Raay specialises in oil and acrylic paintings of Egyptian daily life.
Cape Town What's on
Collection of Stamps on Beadwork
1 January-30 June 2011. The South African Post Office have collaborated with Iziko Art and Social History Collections departments for seven years on this project and exhibition entitled 8th Definitive...
Cairo What's on
30 December 2010-15 January 2011. The Hungarian Cultural Office dedicates this exhibition to Hungary and displays a series of panels created by Hungarian artists.
Accra What's on
25 January-7 February 2011. This exhibition shows how our daily waste can be turned into useful products after the idea of Tei Mensah Huagie, a dynamic Ghanaian painter, sculptor and designer, who inv...
