Africa Art, architecture and travel

Tate Modern announces El Anatsui as artist for 2023 Hyundai commission

As Tate Modern announces El Anatsui for its 2023 Hyundai commission (taking over the Turbine Hall from 10 October 2023-14 April 2024), we revisit our 2019 profile of the leading Ghanaian artist, published ahead of his survey exhibition at Doha's Arab Museum of Modern Art

By Ayodeji Rotinwa • Last updated 22 February 23

‘The Art of Advocacy’: Aïda Muluneh’s vivid photographs are forces for change

At Efie Gallery, Dubai, Aïda Muluneh’s upcoming show, ‘The Art of Advocacy’ (12 January – 24 February 2023) surveys the photographer’s art as a tool for change, and debuts a new work, revealed exclusively here

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Published 4 January 23

Kéré Architecture’s Uganda community centre provides safety and opportunity

A Uganda community centre created by Kéré Architecture was designed with development in mind

By Martha Elliott • Published 5 November 22

Reflections & Opportunities: Design, Cities and The World Cup

By Lauren Ho • Last updated 31 October 22

Cover story: Michael MacGarry designs limited edition cover for April 2020

Each month Wallpaper* offers a leading creative figure carte blanche to design a limited-edition cover, available exclusively to our subscribers. Here, Johannesburg-based artist Michael MacGarry reveals the inspiration behind his digital illustration for the April 2020 issue, arriving in post boxes anytime now

By Oyin Akande • Last updated 31 October 22

African queen: we dip a regal toe in the rising tribal art market

By Daniel Scheffler • Last updated 28 October 22

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s modern-pop portraits frame gender, sexuality and race

The Zimbabwean-born artist, who explores identity through vivid cartoon-inspired collages, headlines our January 2021 Next Generation issue. Writer Amah-Rose Abrams interviewed Hwami ahead of today's announcement that she has joined the roster of Victoria Miro Gallery

By Amah-Rose Abrams • Last updated 28 October 22

Fondation Louis Vuitton throws into sharp relief the raw energy of African art

By Emma O'Kelly • Last updated 28 October 22

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair: the eye of modern Mali and more

By Grace Banks • Last updated 27 October 22

Manuel Herz wins Senegal hospital project in Tambacounda

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 26 October 22

Jiamini’s powerful jewellery pieces celebrate the strength of Kenyan women

Jennifer Mulli, creative director and founder of Jiamini, brings a modern take to Kenyan artisanal jewellery

By Mazzi Odu • Last updated 26 October 22

A new Marrakech museum is bringing Africa’s flourishing art scene home

By Jessica Klingelfuss • Last updated 21 October 22

The winners of the inaugural Africa Architecture Awards announced

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 20 October 22

Mariam Issoufou Kamara to design Bët-bi museum in Senegal

Mariam Issoufou Kamara, founder of Atelier Masōmī in Niger, has been selected by a jury to lead the design of the new Bët-bi museum in the Senegambia region of West Africa

By Hannah Silver • Last updated 20 October 22

Home proud: surveying the work of African architect Francis Kéré

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 17 October 22

What to see at FNB Joburg Art Fair 2018

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated 14 October 22

Ibrahim Mahama explores bats, Ghana, and new beginnings at White Cube

Ibrahim Mahama’s ‘Lazarus’, a new exhibition at White Cube (until 7 November 2021), sees the Ghanaian artist explore the hidden life of Nkrumah Volini, a brutalist grain silo from Ghana’s immediate postcolonial era

By Tom Seymour • Last updated 13 October 22

A virtual tour of Houston FotoFest: ‘Africa is everywhere'

Our digital review of the festival explores photography's historic link to colonialism and resistance, surveyed by 33 global African artists

By Tom Seymour • Last updated 13 October 22

Sub set: a new exhibition traces African modernist architecture

By Stephanie Murg • Last updated 13 October 22

Last chance to see: Studio NYALI's Venice pavilion on African futures

ArchiAfrika Pavilion by Studio NYALI traverses historic and contemporary architectural design coming from practitioners in Africa and its diaspora

By Nasra Abdullahi • Last updated 12 October 22

A Marrakech exhibition takes a radical view of identity and social unrest

Following an international descent of visitors for 1-54 art fair, a group exhibition at MACAAL surveys the politics of identity through 12 global voices

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated 12 October 22

San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora reopens with Billie Zangewa and Amoako Boafo

Reopening for the first time since the onset of Covid-19, San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora is staging epic exhibitions by Amoako Boafo and Billie Zangewa

By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated 12 October 22

African art and design celebrated at the Xigera Safari Lodge

Located in Botswana's impressive Okavango Delta and immersed in nature, the Xigera Safari Lodge features a remarkable collection of African art and design pieces curated by South African gallery Southern Guild

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 11 October 22

Andile Dyalvane honours Xhosa culture in clay

Andile Dyalvane presents ‘iThongo’, a collection of ceramic pieces showcased through an exhibition at Friedman Benda, until 22 May 2021, and a documentary film following the designer back to his hometown

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 10 October 22