The library by movement and school
Movements and schools
Where the style comes from: the art schools, workshops and movements of Africa, from the first modern masters to the artists working now, region by region. Each one has its story, what to look for, its masters, and its works on Oxi shops.
9 movements and schools in 5 countries.
West Africa
3 movements and schools
2000s onwards · NigeriaContemporary
Lagos contemporary
Lagos and the Nigerian diaspora
The galleries, fairs, festivals and art spaces of Lagos today, among them the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (2007), LagosPhoto (2010) and Art X Lagos (2016), and…
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Peju Alatise, Victor Ehikhamenor, Nnenna Okore
2010s onwards · GhanaContemporary
Accra new figuration
Accra and abroad
Painters from Accra, many trained at Ghanatta College of Art and Design, whose portraits of Black sitters found a worldwide market from the late 2010s.
Amoako Boafo, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Kwesi Botchway, Cornelius Annor
2015 onwards · GhanaContemporary
blaxTARLINES Kumasi
Department of Painting and Sculpture, KNUST, Kumasi
A contemporary art collective grown from the painting and sculpture department at KNUST, led by the teacher and artist kąrî'kạchä seid'ou.
kąrî'kạchä seid'ou, Ibrahim Mahama, Bernard Akoi-Jackson
Central Africa
1 movement and schools
East Africa and the Horn
1 movement and schools
Southern Africa
1 movement and schools
Across Africa and the diaspora
3 movements and schools
1990s onwardsContemporary
Contemporary African art
Africa and the diaspora
African art made now, across painting, photography, sculpture, installation, film and new media, at home and in the diaspora.
El Anatsui, Yinka Shonibare, Julie Mehretu, Wangechi Mutu
1990s onwardsContemporary
Contemporary African photography
Across Africa and the diaspora
African photographers working since the first Rencontres de Bamako (1994): staged self-portraits, documentary, archives and fashion.
Samuel Fosso, J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Zanele Muholi, Aïda Muluneh
1990s onwardsContemporary
Found and recycled materials
Across Africa
Artists across the continent who turn what is thrown away, bottle tops, jerrycans, jute sacks, decommissioned weapons, into sculpture and installation about trade,…
El Anatsui, Romuald Hazoumè, Ibrahim Mahama, Gonçalo Mabunda