Our Members
Founded in 2002, Afriart Gallery has since become a leading contemporary art gallery in Africa with a presence in two locations in Kampala. The gallery focuses on original forms of expression and dialogue with the public. It provides an environment where collectors can find powerful contemporary artistic ideas and discussions.
Afriart Gallery was founded by Daudi Karungi a trained artist who understands the difficulties, young artists, on the African continent face. The team is committed to creating a fair playing field for artists continuously implementing projects that foster mentorship, visibility, and information archiving such as workshops, exhibitions, internships, and residencies. Afriart artists have been to major platforms like museums, biennales, important exhibitions and the gallery participates in major art fairs such as 1:54 art fair NY/London, Abu Dhabi Art fair, Cape Town Art Fair, Joburg Art, ArtX Lagos, AKAA Paris and ARCO Lisbon. |
African Arty is an art gallery and a cultural watch platform dedicated to the Art of the continent. African Arty offers tailor-made support to artists in their careers in order to promote their work and develop their opportunities through exhibitions and internation art fairs.
With a network developed over the years on different continents, African Arty sets up partnerships with institutions and curators in order to connect the different cultural actors and make people discover the talents we represent. If you have a project to submit or if you would like to collaborate with us, do not hesitate to contact us! |
Operating as a platform for the promotion of the artist and his works of art, we seek to assist artists with their projects in technical consultancy, shopping, production, in addition to promoting workshops and cultural exchanges.
One of the main objectives is to explore art in a global perspective and to challenge emerging talents and established artists through different curator concepts to look conceptually and practically different approaches in the production, research and promotion of their works of art in the professional domains. The gallery is experienced in making exhibitions with the curatorial concept of "specimen of art" that brings together visual artists for the gallery, with multiform appearance and forms of artistic practice. With this attitude, we intend to trust the possible diversity of artistic practices and the moment of the "specimen" that encompasses the artist's aura, whether through the material explored, the evident personality or the aesthetic choice, as unique samples. |
This is Not a White Cube (TINAWC) is a contemporary art gallery focusing on the representation of contemporary African and diaspora artists through its annual exhibit program and participation in international art fairs.
It also develops a platform for experimentation, affirmation and launch of projects, exhibitions, artists’ commissions, artistic residency projects, archives, workshops, lectures, films, research, symposiums and publications through its non profit project THE CUBE. |
In 2015 we opened our permanent gallery space, Circle Art Gallery, in Nairobi, now the foremost exhibition space in East Africa.
We exhibit carefully curated, challenging and thought-provoking contemporary art. We also have a private viewing room for our collectors. Circle collaborates with a diverse group of contemporary artists across East Africa. We participate in international art fairs and engage with the art community by providing a venue for presentations from local and international artists, curators, art critics and collectors. |
EBONY/CURATED was established in 2007 in Franschhoek and in 2011 a second gallery was opened in Loop Street, Cape Town. The Cape Town space is dedicated to exhibiting a program of contemporary and modern African art representing a core group of emerging and established artists. These artists are either from the continent or have historic links to the greater African Diaspora. In 2017 a third gallery was opened in Franschhoek which focuses on both Contemporary Works and Masters from the continent. EBONY/CURATED has held a number of significant solo and group exhibitions and regularly participates in local and international art fairs. Gallery artists are included in notable private and public collections
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Guns & Rain works with contemporary visual artists from seven African countries, including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland and Nigeria. Most of our artists are young and emerging.
Founded online in 2014 to address the under-representation of African artists online and on the international art scene, we now have a permanent space in Parkhurst, Johannesburg. For those across the oceans, we offer prompt and informed advisory to help you find African art that you love, and we deliver it anywhere you like. We also assist art lovers with custom searches based on their interests and requirements, which goes beyond what’s just on the website. The name ‘Guns & Rain’ is used with acknowledgement and thanks. It comes from the acclaimed work of South African-born British anthropologist and playwright David Lan, who wrote about guerrillas and spirit mediums in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle — for its reference to nature, culture, identity, land, struggle, change, and many other important African themes. Guns & Rain is committed to fair, mindful and ethical trade. |
Kalashnikovv Gallery was founded in 2013 in direct response to the traditional white cube gallery system by envisioning an alternative operational model for the visual arts. It is administered and curated by two of Johannesburg's deep-rooted cultural instigators, M.J Turpin and Matthew Dean Dowdle who prioritize a collaborative exchange in working with the artists they partner with.
Kalashnikovv currently represents a range of artists with emerging to established careers. The gallery and its staff work in conversation with these artists to build networks, exposure and foster personal growth through exhibitions, residencies and exchanges. The gallery is both a commercial art space as well as a project space for experimentation with an ethos of socio-political engagement and accessibility. This sentiment operates at all levels of the gallery structure in order to facilitate new benchmarks of value for artists, collectors and visitors from within, and outside of, the existing art ecosystem. Kalashnikovv is a South African based gallery that is constantly expanding its scope to partner with creators and communities across the world. These interactions with local and international networks continually help to deconstruct and interrogate the idea of what a contemporary art platform can be in order to facilitate the changing role of art in modern society |
Mashrabia Gallery is a contemporary art gallery established in Cairo in the mid 70’s. Since the 1990’s and under the new management of the director Stefania Angarano, the gallery has played a pioneering role in the diffusion of Plastic Arts through the presentation of non-Egyptian artists in Egypt and the promotion of young Egyptian talents on both the local and the foreign scene.
Breaking with the dominant artistic tradition, the preference for innovative languages free from any decorative components as well as originality and power of the art pieces have always been the criteria for the rigorous selection of the artists and their works. The continuous promotion of established artists and the search for new talents has enabled the creation of a rich and diversified permanent collection. This includes a service of art advising both for private clients and companies. |
The MOVART project was born in 2015 with the purpose of promoting experimental and itinerant exhibitions, in and around the city of Luanda. In 2017, it was installed in a permanent space on the Luanda Marginal.
MOVART’s mission is to ensure that the world gets to know contemporary art that is produced in countries on the African continent and by artists from the African and Portuguese-speaking diasporas. The gallery represents IHOSVANNY, KEYEZUA, KWAME SOUSA, MÁRIO MACILAU, RITA GT and THÓ SIMOES, develops projects and regular collaborations with other artists. At the end of 2020, MOVART opens a new space in Lisbon and develops a program that aims to articulate the two galleries and continents. MOVART Luanda is now focused on artistic residency projects and talent discovery and MOVART Lisboa is dedicated to promoting exhibition projects that allow new names to be presented and support the internationalisation of the gallery’s program. |
Selma Feriani Gallery was established in 2013 in Tunis and represents artists from the MENA region and around the globe. Over the past years, the gallery has set up critically and publicly successful exhibitions, installed public interventions internationally and participated at the 2015 and 2017 Venice Biennale. Selma Feriani Gallery aims to discover exceptional young artists and support their career development over the long term run. We see our gallery as a space where artists and their body of work can be discovered, investigated, nurtured and then placed.
The body of artists’ work represented is predominantly concept-based. These young artists represent an attitude, and an ethos concerning the role of art in a wider intellectual, cultural, social and political context. The guiding principles in selecting an artist have been an instinctive conviction about the importance or potential of their work and a perception that within their chosen field of endeavour they are leaders. Thus there is no stylistic or generational thread running through the program but strong elements of aesthetic and intellectual stimulation. Our goal is also working closely with museums and non-commercial institutions in developing long-term critical appreciation of our artists’ body of work. |
StArt Art Gallery was established in 2017 in Windhoek, Namibia with a view to create a supportive environment for contemporary artists, exposing their work to a wider local and international audience. StArt Art Gallery was founded by Helen Harris and Gina Figueira, whose approach to curation is influenced by their backgrounds in sculpture and art history. Since 2017 StArt Art Gallery has held a dynamic programme of exhibitions at the former premises as well as at the Goethe-Institut, the National Art Gallery of Namibia and various pop-up locations.
Since 2019 StArt Art Gallery has functioned primarily as an online gallery with a strong focus on generating a meaningful record of contemporary art from Namibia. The artists we work with come from diverse backgrounds and work across a variety of media, including painting, textiles, sculpture, printmaking and photography. We work with a mixed pool of artists who are emerging, mid-career and well established. These artists are constantly engaging with and pushing their creative practice in order to further develop their concepts and techniques. We value the connections we make with collectors and particularly enjoy facilitating commissions of new work with our artists. |
