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The.Cultured Contemporary Art
Not just for collectors. Not just for insiders. For anyone who wants to connect with great art.
Discover. Connect. Celebrate: artists from Africa and its diaspora.
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Monthly Spotlights
Each month showcasing three contemporary artists of African heritage.
Exhibitions to Visit
- 3 July – 29 August 2025
- 10 July – 30 August 202510 July – 30 August 2025Gallery 1957, London, 1 Hyde Park Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5EW, UKFree Admission. In Othello’s Countrymen (The Krio Enigma), Ghanaian-born British-Sierra Leonean artist Arthur Timothy explores race, identity and belonging through the lens of Sierra Leone’s Krio people and their parallels with Shakespeare’s Othello.
- 30 May – 7 September 2025
- 8 August – 11 September 20258 August – 11 September 2025198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, 198 Railton Rd, London SE24 0JT, UKFree Admission. Witnesses is a two-person exhibition featuring London-based artists Ihsan Saad Ihsan Tahir and Amida Deen, exploring visibility, self-definition, and the politics of the gaze. Taking inspiration from the writing of Audre Lorde, the exhibition considers witnessing as both an intimate
- 5 June – 20 September 2025Virginia Chihota: Munoonei kana makaditarisa nhai Mwari?/What do you see when you look at me ohh God? /Tiwani Contemporary, London5 June – 20 September 2025Tiwani Contemporary, London, 24 Cork St, London W1S 3NG, UKFree Admission. In Munoonei kana makaditarisa nhai Mwari?, Virginia Chihota delves into the complexities of self-perception and divine observation, using symbolic forms and gestural figuration to render her inner world visible.
- 20 Sept 2025, 10:00 – 18 Jan 2026, 18:00Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD, UKRA Members Free / Standard £23 The largest UK survey of American painter Kerry James Marshall, this landmark exhibition brings together 70 works that reframe the tradition of Western painting by centring Black figures and narratives.
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