Past
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Emma Prempeh
Wandering Under a Shifting Sun 4 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Tiwani Contemporary is proud to feature the first of two solo presentations (the second in Lagos early 2025) by Emma Prempeh where pictorially she considers for the first time, landscape, and its relevance as an expansion of her hyperreal perceptions of home, belonging and memory. Her paintings depict events, people,... Read more -
In the Blood
Rita Alaoui, Virginia Chihota, Miranda Forrester, Heloisa Hariadne, Joy Labinjo, Claude Lawrence, Tessa Mars, Amanda Mushate, Emma Prempeh 27 Jun - 14 Sep 2024 Our group show, In the Blood, features represented, and associate artists inspired and committed to painting. This exhibition is a review of their approaches defining their representations of life and emotions, and how those impulses and reflections are translated gesturally and materially, in figuration and abstraction. In the Upper Gallery... Read more -
In Focus: Heloisa Hariadne
30 May - 15 Jun 2024 'My painting is an investigation of memories in my body, in which I question the temptations and intentions in a portrait of the intimate - a memory of records of looks, people and constructions, of small shapes, environmental themes, habits, the rescue of the knowledge of native peoples - all... Read more -
Gareth Nyandoro
Pfumvudza 23 Apr - 15 Jun 2024 We are delighted to open our spring solo exhibition with Gareth Nyandoro: Pfumvudza. Living in Ruwa, a town 30 minutes’ drive from Harare, Nyandoro has been observing and documenting the everyday lives, and informal entrepreneurship of its residents in small to large-scale mixed-media drawings and installations, in his inimitable kuchecka-cheka... Read more -
As Feeling Births Idea
Virginia Chihota, Rita Alaoui, Ranti Bam, Euridice Kala, Paula Do Prado and Wura-Natasha Ogunji 22 Feb - 6 Apr 2024 Tiwani Contemporary proudly presents, As Feeling Births Idea a group show featuring: Virginia Chihota, Rita Alaoui, Ranti Bam, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Paula Do Prado, and Wura-Natasha Ogunji. The exhibition gathers together a reflection on each artist's poetics of interiority and engagement: the phenomena, live, or recollected encounters that inform and... Read more -
Délio Jasse
Caducado 2 Feb - 1 Jun 2024 Tiwani Contemporary Lagos is pleased to open the 2024 programme with artist Délio Jasse, and the exhibition Caducado. Six years ago, Jasse was a participating artist in the first edition of the Lagos Biennial: Living on the Edge, and we proudly align our selected solo survey during the fourth edition... Read more -
Leo Robinson, Ivan Forde, Richard Ayodeji Ikhide
Polymythologies 18 Jan - 17 Feb 2024 Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to open its 2024 London programme with the group exhibition Polymythologies, featuring Leo Robinson, Ivan Forde and Richard Ayodeji Ikhide. Polymythologies introduces how each artist draws upon a wide constellation of references to a globalized collective unconscious, classical allegory, science fiction, and gaming to explore and... Read more -
Samuel Nnorom
Emotional Catch 25 Nov 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 Tiwani Contemporary Lagos is pleased to present the first solo exhibition, Samuel Nnorom: Emotional Catch, featuring a series of variable scaled sculptures that are visual metaphors exploring and speaking texturally to a multitude of social conditions that are topically shaping our lived experiences. Inherent to Nnorom's practice and discernible in... Read more -
Miranda Forrester
Arrival 23 Nov 2023 - 6 Jan 2024 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Miranda Forrester's first solo exhibition at the gallery's new space in Cork Street, titled 'Arrival'. The exhibition focuses on the domestic intimacy of the artists’ relationship and anticipation of her new-born baby and growth of Forrester’s family. The joy of parenthood is met and... Read more -
Joy Labinjo
Beloved, Take What You Need 12 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce Joy Labinjo: Beloved, Take What You Need, its inaugural exhibition at its new 24 Cork Street, Mayfair gallery. This new body of work focuses on everyday Black life, and reflects the personal and professional changes Labinjo has been through in the five years since... Read more -
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Lalala ha! 16 Sep - 5 Nov 2023 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce its forthcoming autumn exhibition in its Lagos gallery, lalala ha!. This solo presentation of paintings, drawings and performance by Wura-Natasha Ogunji ebbs, flows and accumulates over time. Conceptualised as a series of changing vignettes with a non-linear narrative, lalala ha! considers the characteristics of... Read more -
Dawit L. Petros
Recollections 5 - 29 Jul 2023 Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to announce our forthcoming presentation, Dawit L. Petros: Recollections. The exhibition continues Petros’ inquiries into the complex relationship between African and European histories of colonialism and modernity. The Strangers Notebook (2016-2017) the project which formed Petros’ debut solo show with Tiwani Contemporary, in 2016, emerged from... Read more -
Andrew Pierre Hart
The Listening Sweet - 3 - Lagos 24 Jun - 5 Aug 2023 TIWANI CONTEMPORARY 13 Elsie Femi Pearse Street Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria Please join us for the opening event: Saturday 24 June | 12 pm - 6 pm - Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce The Listening Sweet - 3 - Lagos, an exhibition of new works by London-based artist,... Read more -
Your Presence Does Not Escape Me
Charmaine Watkiss, Delita Martin and Tessa Mars 10 May - 3 Jun 2023 TIWANI CONTEMPORARY Gallery 6 Cromwell Place 4 Cromwell Place London, SW7 2JE Please join us for the opening event: Tuesday 9 May | 6 pm - 8 pm Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to announce the group presentation, Your Presence Does Not Escape Me , featuring gallery artist Charmaine Watkiss... Read more -
Umar Rashid
The Undiscovered Genius of the Niger Delta. An Unexpected Journey Into Chaos Told From The Perspective of Someone That Was Not There, 1799. 12 Mar - 13 May 2023 Currently undertaking a residency in Lagos as part of Tiwani Contemporary’s artist residency partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation [G.A.S.], Tiwani will present Umar Rashid’s new body of work in its Lagos space this February, developed by the artist in response to his time in Africa’s largest city. For the... Read more -
Joy Yamusangie
Remember Me 8 Mar - 1 Apr 2023 Location: Gallery 6. Cromwell Place 4 Cromwell Place, London, SW7 2JE Please join us for the opening event: Tuesday 14 March | 5 pm - 8 pm Tiwani Contemporary is proud to present Joy Yamusangie’s first solo show with the gallery, Remember Me. Yamusangie's new paintings, vignette moments and events... Read more -
Abigail Lucien & Emma Prempeh
With Tenderness 3 Mar - 1 Apr 2023 Location: Gallery 1, Frieze, No.9 Cork Street London, W1S 3LL Please join us for the opening event: Thursday 9 March | 6 pm - 8 pm Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to announce the dual presentation With Tenderness, featuring gallery artist Emma Prempeh and introducing Haitian-American artist Abigail Lucien in their... Read more -
Virginia Chihota
Chibereko chakaramba kuudzirwa (The womb refused to be told) 17 Jan - 11 Feb 2023 FORTHCOMING CROMWELL PLACE Gallery 6 4 Cromwell Pl. London, SW7 2JE Opening Event: Tuesday 17 January | 5pm - 7.30pm We open our 2023 London exhibition programme with gallery artist Virginia Chihota's series, Chibereko Chakaramba Kuudzirwa (The Womb Refused To Be Told), 2022. Made in the same year as the... Read more -
I See You
Virginia Chihota, Gideon Gomo, Masimba Hwati, Gareth Nyandoro and Portia Zvavahera 4 Nov 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 Tiwani Contemporary is very pleased to present the group exhibition, I See You featuring new and recent works by artists Virginia Chihota, Gideon Gomo, Masimba Hwati, Gareth Nyandoro and Portia Zvavahera. The artists studied at the National Gallery School of Visual Arts and Design (formerly B.A.T. Visual Arts School), National... Read more -
Penny Siopis
For dear life 5 - 29 Oct 2022 CROMWELL PLACE Gallery 7 4 Cromwell Pl. London, SW7 2JE Opening Event: Tuesday 4 October | 5pm - 8pm Book Viewing Slot Tiwani Contemporary is very pleased to present in collaboration with Stevenson Gallery, South Africa, the London solo exhibition, For Dear Life with Penny Siopis. For Dear Life... Read more -
Emma Prempeh
You were, you are, and you always will be 10 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 TIWANI CONTEMPORARY LAGOS 13 Elsie Femi Pearse Street Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria Opening times: Tue - Sat: 10am - 6pm and by appointment ' You were, you are, and you always will be, is a recent body of works representing my exploration of interior spaces pictorially colliding with aspects... Read more -
Forever Etched On My Mind
Gareth Nyandoro & Mostaff Muchawaya | London 19 Jul - 13 Aug 2022 CROMWELL PLACE Gallery 6 4 Cromwell Pl. London SW7 2JE Private View: Tuesday 19 July, 5-8pm Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present the duo exhibition, Forever Etched On My Mind: Gareth Nyandoro and Mostaff Muchawaya. The exhibition is a psychogeographical portrait of the town Ruwa, in Harare Province, Zimbabwe where... Read more -
When Cosmologies Meet
Andrew Pierre Hart & Alexandria Smith | London 7 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 FORTHCOMING - CROMWELL PLACE Gallery 6 4 Cromwell Pl. London SW7 2JE Private View: Tuesday 7 June, 5-8pm Book Viewing Slot Tiwani Contemporary is very pleased to present When Cosmologies Meet. The exhibition is a manifestation of an ongoing conversation between gallery artist Andrew Pierre Hart and artist Alexandria Smith.... Read more -
The Company She Keeps
Chioma Ebinama, Miranda Forrester, Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Nengi Omuku, and Charmaine Watkiss | Lagos 28 May - 13 Aug 2022 FORTHCOMING - TIWANI CONTEMPORARY, LAGOS 13 Elsie Femi Pearse Street Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria Opening times: Tue - Sat: 10am to 6pm Tiwani Contemporary is very pleased to present The Company She Keeps, a group show bringing together five artists who work internationally. Materially and... Read more -
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
The Sweetest Taboo 31 Mar - 26 Apr 2022 NO.9 CORK STREET Gallery 3 9 Cork St London W1S 3LL Private View: Thursday 31 March, 5-8pm Opening times: Tue - Sat: 10am to 6pm Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present The Sweetest Taboo, our second solo exhibition with Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Recently the artist has been thinking about the priorities... Read more -
Joy Labinjo
Full Ground 25 Feb - 7 May 2022 TIWANI CONTEMPORARY, LAGOS 13 Elsie Femi Pearse Street Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria Opening times: Tue - Sat: 10am to 6pm To mark the opening of Tiwani Contemporary in Lagos, the gallery is delighted to present its inaugural exhibition: a suite of new, monumental works by acclaimed British-Nigerian artist Joy Labinjo... Read more -
Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson
Everything Go Scatter 25 Jan - 6 Mar 2022 CROMWELL PLACE Gallery 8 4 Cromwell Pl. London SW7 2JE Private View: Tuesday 25 January: 10am - 6pm Book Viewing Slot Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Everything Go Scatter - a solo exhibition of new works on canvas and drawings by American artist Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson. On first impressions... Read more -
Charmaine Watkiss
The Seed Keepers 16 Nov - 5 Dec 2021 CROMWELL PLACE Room 3 & 4 4 Cromwell Place London SW7 2JE Private View: Tuesday 16 November: 10am - 6pm Book Viewing Slot Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of British artist Charmaine Watkiss at the gallery. The Seed Keepers (2021) is a new... Read more -
Pierre Mukeba
Transcend 12 - 17 Oct 2021 Cromwell Place: Viewing Rooms 3&4 Cromwell Place, 4 Cromwell Place, London SW7 2JE Opening hours VIP day Tuesday 12 October, 9am-8pm Open to the public: Wednesday 13 - Saturday 16 October: 10am-6pm Sunday 17 October: 10am-4pm BOOK VIEWING SLOT ---- Guidance/grace flows through like a stream of holy water /as... Read more -
Poetic Sustenance
Ryan Christopher, Miranda Forrester, Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson 15 Jul - 21 Aug 2021 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present a three-person exhibition of work by a group of new, emerging voices in contemporary art including Ryan Christopher (UK), Miranda Forrester (UK) and Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson (USA). Poetic Sustenance marks the debut showing of these artists at the gallery. Ryan Christopher considers faith, ephemera,... Read more -
Alicia Henry
To Whom It May Concern 27 May - 3 Jul 2021 Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of work in the United Kingdom by American artist Alicia Henry. During the past twenty years, the Nashville-based artist has created work that departs from Western ideas of portraiture denoting a likeness or a construction of a subject. Her figurative,... Read more -
Andrew Pierre Hart
The Listening Sweet 11 Mar - 15 May 2021 More information to come soon Read more -
Virginia Chihota
Whose Am I? I Am Not My Own (Ndiri Waani? Handisi Muridzi Wangu) 14 Jan - 27 Feb 2021 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Whose Am I? I Am Not My Own (Ndiri Waani? Handisi Muridzi Wangu) by Virginia Chihota. At the centre of the exhibition is a suite of serigraphic works from the artist’s latest series ‘Uri Mwana Wani?’ shown originally in a solo exhibition by the... Read more -
Joy Labinjo
Art Basel Miami Beach OVR 3 Dec 2020 - 6 Jan 2021 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present new paintings by London-based artist Joy Labinjo for Art Basel Miami Beach OVR 2020 . These works will also be on view in a physical exhibition at the gallery in London from Dec 3 2020 until Jan 6 2021. The presentation is the first... Read more -
Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers)
In The Court of the Crimson Queen or White Lady On A Horse 8 Oct - 21 Nov 2020 “I ultimately seek to tell a story of humanity. An all-inclusive humanity that is generally left out of the prescribed, sanitized history, some of us are all too familiar with.” Umar Rashid Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to present the first solo UK exhibition of work by storyteller, visual artist, poet... Read more -
Charmaine Watkiss & Andrew Pierre Hart
The Abstract Truth of Things 23 Jul - 12 Sep 2020 Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to present a two-person exhibition by British artists Charmaine Watkiss and Andrew Pierre Hart. Comprising new and recent work by the artists, the exhibition features drawing by Watkiss and painting by Hart. In addition, the exhibition features a soundscape. The lockdown in the UK made for... Read more -
Gareth Nyandoro
Ruwa 17 Mar - 18 Jul 2020 From June 15th, Tiwani Contemporary will be open by appointment only. For enquiries please contact info@tiwani.co.uk Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Gareth Nyandoro’s third exhibition with the gallery. Ruwa furthers Gareth Nyandoro's explorations of Zimbabwe, drawing inspiration from the rapidly changing urban and cultural panorama of the country. Working... Read more -
Theo Eshetu
Atlas Portraits 31 Jan - 29 Feb 2020 “Cultural identities have never been fixed and defined but have been created and moulded through political projections, erected and destroyed by historical events and have fluctuated with the displacement of cultural objects and the migration of populations...all these seem to point to the impossibility of fixing identities in time, as... Read more -
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
After Euphoria 22 Nov 2019 - 18 Jan 2020 “As the tide carried me to the realm of self-content and reflection, it is now that I see that it was simply carrying me to the shore of finding myself.” Michaela Yearwood-Dan Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to present Michaela Yearwood-Dan ’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery. Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s work... Read more -
Maren Hassinger
Passing Through 2 Oct - 15 Nov 2019 “I don’t know where I come from and I don’t know where I’m going. This is the life I share with everyone. We are equal in this predicament. We are all passing through. From this untenable place, I make things.” Maren Hassinger Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present the first... Read more -
Leo Robinson
Theories for Cosmic Joy 5 Jul - 13 Sep 2019 Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to present Theories for Cosmic Joy, Leo Robinson ’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Leo Robinson (b.1994) is a multi-disciplinary artist who graduated from Manchester School of Art in 2016. He is also the founder and singer-songwriter behind Cult Party, a Manchester-based band noted for... Read more -
Virginia Chihota
Mhamha 17 May - 29 Jun 2019 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce Mhamha, an exhibition of new work by Virginia Chihota . Virginia Chihota (b.1983, Zimbabwe) represented Zimbabwe at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and was awarded the Prix Canson in the same year. This is her third solo exhibition with Tiwani Contemporary. Virginia Chihota’s... Read more -
Délio Jasse
Arquivo Urbano 22 Mar - 3 May 2019 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce Arquivo Urbano, an exhibition of new works by Délio Jasse . Jasse is known for his experimental photographic work, in which he often interweaves found images with clues from past lives to draw links between photography and memory. The exhibition highlights Jasse’s ongoing interest... Read more -
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Diorama 11 Jan - 8 Mar 2019 “I think of the figures in my work as time travelling, fantastical, alternate selves. The landscapes they traverse are simultaneously futuristic and prehistoric. As such, Time, History, Space, Place and Self-Hood – whether actual or invented – are all significant narrative and conceptual concerns”. Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum Tiwani Contemporary is... Read more -
Joy Labinjo
Recollections 7 Nov - 21 Dec 2018 Tiwani Contemporary now represents Joy Labinjo and is delighted to present Recollections, her forthcoming debut solo exhibition at the gallery. In 2017, Labinjo received the prestigious Woon Art Prize, jointly awarded and presented by Northumbria University and BALTIC. Joy Labinjo ’s large-scale paintings depict intimate, contemporary scenes of family life:... Read more -
Zina Saro-Wiwa
The Turquoise Meat Inside 13 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 The oil-producing Niger Delta has a latent indigenous environmentalism that is ignored by international onlookers and often even locals themselves. It moves silently, in subcutaneous layers beneath the plastic, petroleum-fuelled economy and works within the system but rarely speaks its name. This is the space where I choose to make... Read more -
Thierry Oussou
Timelines 22 Jun - 25 Aug 2018 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Timelines – a solo exhibition by Thierry Ousso u, who is now represented by Tiwani Contemporary. Timelines is his first solo show at the gallery and in the UK. In his pictorial work, Oussou reflects on the relationship between past and present, and envisions... Read more -
Mequitta Ahuja
Notations 13 Apr - 9 Jun 2018 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Notations - a forthcoming solo exhibition, debuting new works by Mequitta Ahuja. Mequitta Ahuja 's recent work explores the currency of the figure of the artist at work in the history of European and American figurative painting. Merging the roles of artist-maker and subject,... Read more -
Robel Temesgen
Confluence 26 Jan - 31 Mar 2018 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Confluence, Robel Temesgen ’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. In recent years, Temesgen’s practice has been concerned with developing a visual language for the spiritual and depicting the lived experiences of particular Ethiopian landscapes. In the current exhibition, the artist creates a convergence... Read more -
Manuel Mathieu
Truth to Power 16 Nov 2017 - 13 Jan 2018 Mathieu is known for his large paintings, which oscillate between abstraction and figuration. With a distinctive style, at once gestural and expressionist, he depicts the figure in mutation: testing its physical boundaries and merging with the adjoining environment. Departing from purely formal considerations and his work’s filiation from post-war abstract expressionism, Mathieu’s... Read more -
Gareth Nyandoro
Stall(s) of Fame 29 Sep - 4 Nov 2017 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Stall(s) of Fame, Gareth Nyandoro ’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. This is the first time that this new body of work will be exhibited in the UK, following a solo presentation at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in the summer of 2017, produced... Read more -
Theo Eshetu
The Slave Ship 30 Jun - 12 Aug 2017 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present The Slave Ship (2015), a video installation by Theo Eshetu . Eshetu is known for his pioneering work in film and video, combining his formal interest in the moving image with anthropological ideas to examine the notion of culture itself. This is the first... Read more -
Mimi Cherono Ng'ok
Everyone is Lonely in Kigali 4 May - 17 Jun 2017 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Everyone Is Lonely in Kigali, a solo exhibition of work by Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, whose practice expresses what she describes as ‘an emotional cartography’. The works shown arose from a project bookmarked by two journeys to Brazil, marking a period of major emotional transformation... Read more -
Phoebe Boswell
For Every Real Word Spoken 9 Mar - 22 Apr 2017 For every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences. Audre Lorde Tiwani Contemporary... Read more -
Field Work
R. Alaoui, T. Eshetu, K. Kameli, K. Lynn Lelliott, Y. Limoud, A. Oghobase, T. Oussou & R. Temesgen 13 Jan - 25 Feb 2017 Field Work gathers the work of eight contemporary artists who have anchored their practice in a deep examination of the mechanics of history. Through their work, they find themselves looking back, both at their own past and at 'the past' in general, engaging in storytelling, or perhaps more specifically, in... Read more -
Délio Jasse
The Lost Chapter: Nampula, 1963 11 Nov - 17 Dec 2016 Tiwani Contemporary now represents Délio Jasse and is delighted to announce his first solo exhibition at the gallery. Jasse is known for his experimental photographic work, in which he often interweaves found images with clues from past lives to draw links between photography and memory. The Lost Chapter: Nampula, 1963,... Read more -
Virginia Chihota
Come Forth as Gold 16 Sep - 29 Oct 2016 Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to present Virginia Chihota 's second solo exhibition at the gallery. New, unseen works will be exhibited, including large monoprints that explore and test the relationship between printmaking and painting, breaking away from the immediate constraints of the printing screen. The exhibition title, Come Forth as... Read more -
Curated by Zina Saro-Wiwa
The Pineapple Show 9 Jul - 13 Aug 2016 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce The Pineapple Show, a group exhibition curated by Zina Saro-Wiw a and presented by Boys' Quarters Project Space, the gallery founded by Saro-Wiwa and situated in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. For this exhibition, Zina Saro-Wiwa has drawn together a group of artists working out of... Read more -
Dawit L. Petros
The Stranger's Notebook (Prologue) 20 May - 25 Jun 2016 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce The Stranger's Notebook (Prologue), a solo exhibition of new work by Dawit L. Petros . This will be Petros' first solo exhibition in Europe, following the group photography exhibition The View From Here at Tiwani Contemporary in May 2015. The exhibition forms the first... Read more -
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Polyhedra 1 Apr - 7 May 2016 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce Polyhedra, a solo exhibition of new work by Johannesburg-based artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum . This will be Sunstrum's first solo exhibition in the UK, following the group exhibition Mythopoeia at Tiwani Contemporary in April 2015. Sunstrum's multidisciplinary work alludes to mythology, geology and theories... Read more -
Gareth Nyandoro
Paper Cut 19 Feb - 19 Mar 2016 Tiwani Contemporary now represents Gareth Nyandoro and is pleased to present his first solo exhibition in the UK. Nyandoro is known for his large works on paper, which often spill out of their two-dimensional frame and into installations including paper scraps and objects found in the markets of Harare, where... Read more -
Robel Temesgen
Adbar 7 Jan - 6 Feb 2016 Tiwani Contemporary now represents Robel Temesgen (b.1987, Ethiopia) and is pleased to announce his first UK solo exhibition. The exhibition comprises a series of new paintings and works on paper inspired by the longstanding Ethiopian belief of adbar and its associated rituals. In Amharic, the term 'adbar' refers to the... Read more -
Francisco Vidal
Workshop Maianga Mutamba 13 Nov - 19 Dec 2015 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce Workshop Maianga Mutamba, an exhibition of new works by Francisco Vidal. This will be Vidal’s first solo exhibition in the UK, following an exhibition and residency at Tiwani Contemporary in July by e-studio Luanda, a Luanda-based artist collective, project space and studio complex co-founded... Read more -
Theo Eshetu
Constellations 25 Sep - 31 Oct 2015 Tiwani Contemporary now represents Theo Eshetu and we are delighted to announce his first solo exhibition in the UK. Considered one of the most influential media practitioners of the contemporary era, the London-born Ethiopian artist is known for his pioneering work across TV, film and video. Since the 1980s, Theo... Read more -
e-studio Luanda
African Industrial Revolution 10 Jul 2015 - 15 Aug 2017 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce African Industrial Revolution, an exhibition and public programme by e-studio Luanda. e-studio Luanda is an artist collective, project space and studio complex founded in 2012 in the Angolan capital by Francisco Vidal, Rita GT, Antonio Ole and Nelo Texeira. The collective has played an... Read more -
Andrew Esiebo, Délio Jasse, Lebohang Kganye, Namsa Leuba, Mimi Cherono Ng'ok, Abraham Oghobase & Dawit L. Petros
The View From Here 22 May - 27 Jun 2015 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce The View From Here, a photography exhibition, which will open during Photo London. The View From Here will present works by seven emerging international artists from Africa and the diaspora, many of whom will be showing in London for the first time. Abraham Oghobase... Read more -
Mequitta Ahuja, Kapwani Kiwanga, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum & Alida Rodrigues
Mythopoeia 10 Apr - 9 May 2015 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce Mythopoeia, a group exhibition gathering four international artists: Mequitta Ahuja (USA), Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada), Alida Rodrigues (Angola/UK) and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (Botswana/South Africa). The exhibition title, drawn from the Greek 'muthopoios' and meaning 'composer of fiction', points to the age-old role of storytelling and... Read more -
ruby onyinyechi amanze
a story. in parts. 25 Feb - 28 Mar 2015 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce a story. in parts. – the first solo exhibition by ruby onyinyechi amanze. The exhibition will present new, unseen works that form part of an ongoing series of drawings in which the artist envisions narratives of supernatural existence to evoke ideas around hybridity. Though... Read more -
Virginia Chihota
A Thorn in my Flesh (munzwa munyama yangu) 9 Jan - 7 Feb 2015 Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to announce Virginia Chihota ’s first solo exhibition in Europe, A Thorn in my Flesh (munzwa munyama yangu). Chihota represented Zimbabwe at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and was awarded the Prix Canson in the same year, which recognises an international emerging artist working with... Read more -
Mary Evans and Emeka Ogboh
Mirrors & Echoes 14 Nov - 20 Dec 2014 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Mirrors & Echoes - Mary Evans and Emeka Ogboh, a collaboration between the two artists. This is the first time Mary Evans and Emeka Ogboh have collaborated on an exhibition. A dialogue between Evans and Ogboh was first established through a radio broadcast during... Read more -
Rotimi Fani-Kayode
Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) 19 Sep - 1 Nov 2014 'On three counts I am an outsider: in matters of sexuality; in terms of geographical and cultural dislocation and in the sense of not having become the sort of respectably married professional my parents might have hoped for...' Rotimi Fani-Kayode Tiwani Contemporary, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to... Read more -
ruby onyinyechi amanze, Douglas Rodrigo Rada, Helô Sanvoy & Shoshanna Weinberger
Mutations 30 May - 16 Aug 2014 Tiwani Contemporary presents Mutations, an exhibition showcasing recent works on paper by four international artists: ruby onyinyechi amanze (Nigeria/US), Douglas Rodrigo Rada (Bolivia), Helô Sanvoy (Brazil), and Shoshanna Weinberger (Jamaica/US). All artists have exhibited frequently and across the globe, though this is the first time that their work has been... Read more -
Gemuce
Alignment of Values 11 Apr - 17 May 2014 Tiwani Contemporary presents Alignment of Values, a 15-part series of oil paintings by the Mozambican painter Gemuce. The exhibition is the artist’s first solo exhibition in London. The starting point for Alignment of Values was an art/research project based on co-working practices between researchers and artists, conceived in 2010 at... Read more -
Ephrem Solomon
Untitled Life 21 Feb - 29 Mar 2014 Tiwani Contemporary presents Untitled Life, a selection of wood cut and mixed media works by Ethiopian artist Ephrem Solomon. The exhibition is Solomon's debut with Tiwani Contemporary and his first in London. With Untitled Life, Ephrem Solomon presents his observations on the city of Addis Ababa, its histories and inhabitants,... Read more -
Andrew Esiebo
Pride 10 Jan - 8 Feb 2014 Tiwani Contemporary presents Pride, an exhibition by Nigerian photographer Andrew Esiebo focussing on male hair barbering and barbershops across eight West African cities (Lagos, Cotonou, Accra, Abidjan, Monrovia, Bamako, Dakar and Nouakchott). This will be Esiebo's first solo exhibition in London and includes works being exhibited for the first time.... Read more -
Njideka Akunyili & Simone Leigh
I Always Face You, Even When It Seems Otherwise 12 Oct - 15 Dec 2013 Tiwani Contemporary presents I Always Face You, Even When It Seems Otherwise, featuring the work of US-based Nigerian artist Njideka Akunyili and American artist Simone Leigh. The exhibition is curated by Bisi Silva, Director of CCA, Lagos, and its title is inspired by a 2012 work by Njideka Akunyili. The... Read more -
Gideon Mendel
Drowning World 7 Jun - 27 Jul 2013 Tiwani Contemporary presents Drowning World, an exhibition by South African photographer Gideon Mendel and curated by Christine Eyene. The selection includes fifteen images taken in Nigeria that have never been exhibited, and five photographs documenting flooding in various parts of the globe including England, India, Haiti and Australia. Mendel is... Read more -
Younès Rahmoun
Darra 5 Apr - 25 May 2013 Tiwani Contemporary, in association with Galerie Imane Farès (Paris), is delighted to present Darra, the first solo exhibition in London by interdisciplinary artist Younès Rahmoun. The show comprises a series of photographic enlargements that explore spiritual transcendence, as presented through capsules of real life. Rahmoun initially exhibited Darra with Galerie... Read more -
Barbara Walker
As Seen 1 Feb - 23 Mar 2013 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present As Seen, Barbara Walker’s first major solo show in London. This exhibition will present new large-scale drawings as well as existing work depicting 'unidentifiable' males. Executed with charcoal and graphite, these portraits raise questions about societal constructs and examine how identity has come to... Read more -
Mary Evans
Cut and Paste 14 Sep - 20 Oct 2012 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Cut and Paste, artist Mary Evans ' first solo exhibition in London. Evans presents a new large-scale installation, cut paper works and a video piece. Foregrounding narratives around migration and displacement, the past and the present coalesce in Evans' artworks and reflect both personal... Read more
