Africa

Film London announced the shortlist for the 2025 Jarman Award, which includes Silver Lion-winning artist Karimah Ashadu.

Filmmaker and editor Aryan Kaganof ruminates on Antonin Artaud, the sound of language rotting and why he would be alive if he had no debt.

Des/astres is Rezaire's first solo institutional exhibition in Paris. The show features the concluding work in a trilogy that explores the links that humankind has forged with the cosmos.

Discover Karimah Ashadu's first US solo exhibition at Canal Projects, New York, featuring her video installation Machine Boys, winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale.

The African Film and Media Arts Collective will gather artists to negotiate issues of political, cultural, and historical identity. It was founded as part of Mehretu's BMW Art Car project.

Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles is presenting the US premiere of Shawky's film installation Drama 1882. It debuted in the Egyptian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

DAF is the first regional hub dedicated to new media and digital art in the Middle East and North Africa. The inaugural exhibition is Art Must Be Artificial: Perspectives of AI in the Visual Arts.

This year's list includes four moving image artists among the top 10: Steve McQueen, Forensic Architecture, Wael Shawky and John Akomfrah.

Abyssinian Queen by the web3 artist collective Yatreda ያጥሬዳ was acquired using the stablecoin USDC. The work is a homage to the legendary queens of ancient Ethiopia.