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With surprisingly limited local media coverage, 2022 marked some extraordinary moments for Black women artists from South Africa.

Dora Dalila Cheffi, a Finnish-Tunisian artist, belongs nowhere. We meet at the artists studio at the Cape Town Art Residency to discuss her self-portraits. A tall mirror is a striking studio tool. There, reversed, the artist sees herself.

The Swiss-English artist, Lawrence Calver, is in love with Rothko, though he is no painter. Sewing, dyeing, bleaching, are the integral elements in the creation of his art.

When Norwegian-based Zambian Artist Victor Mutelekesha began to conceive of a space that would function as a repository of the arts, it naturally followed that LuCAC would become a station that highlights the multiplicity of cultural identities present in the capital city.

It is somewhat of an old-school notion that art must keep us in tune with the times. Art has equal value and sway when it channels utopias, and idylls. 

RMB Latitudes CuratorLab is a practice-based, online curatorial residency for emerging curators in Africa. In 2023, 10 aspiring curators will be guided through a facilitated online residency, designed to offer practical experience in the industry and to hone their curatorial skills.

With Covid lockdowns over for vast majority of the art world, Art Basel Miami Beach hosted its largest edition yet, expanding to the entirety of the Convention Centre and taking over the top floor for the expansive Collector Lounge and talks area.

Adesola Yusuf (Arclight) is a 25-year-old multidimensional artist from Lagos, Nigeria. His visually expressive work takes inspiration through the ages, from renaissance art, to modern minimalist, pop and internet art.

Winifrid Luena's latest body of work is a self-reflection on Winifrid’s continued shifting of states, perceptions, and ideas of living in response to adapting to changes in culture, reality and self-identity after moving from Tanzania to South Africa.

"I spent a lot of time thinking about what it meant for artists to make, in a continuously disorienting world that is hungry for things that are bigger, better, faster, newer and shinier..." - Nkgopoleng Moloi

The book Mihloti ya Ntsako – Journeys with the Bongi Dhlomo Collection, is both a chronicling of a collection and a biography of its collector, the accomplished artist, curator and arts administrator, Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa, better known as Ma Bongi Dhlomo.

Nabeeha Mohamed was born in Cape Town in 1988. Her paintings and prints confront the contradictions of her position in post-Apartheid South African society.

Based in Cape Town and entirely self taught, South African artist Jono Dry has worked for the last thirteen years on creating a practice centred around his large-scale hyperrealist graphite works.

Latitudes is thrilled to share our latest collaboration between Munich Re, Waldman Studios, David Krut Projects and artist, Pebofatso Mokoena.

The Social Impact Arts Prize awards artists who situate their practices in socially concerned conditions ranging from the environment and climate change to human relations and social pressures of an unequal society. Read about the 2022 winners.

Liza Grobler explores Norman O’Flynn's solo exhibition.

Nine percent of the world’s most valued ‘Ultra-contemporary’ artists are from Africa, according to a new art market report

The Melrose Gallery presents Jean-David Nkot's solo show Corps de P@ges. Jean-David Nkot is above all, at least for the moment, a painter. His work, even when it contains elements of abstraction, is essentially figurative, obsessed with the body and its representation.

Catch Stephen Welz & Co's auction from 21 - 24 November 2022.

David Mann explores the benefits writers gain from the collaborative and generative act of welcoming visual art into their narratives.