As part of Black History Month, come and join sisters - singer and songrwiter, Dinachi, and award-winning author, Chibundu Onuzo - at The Africa Centre for Wura! A vibrant family-friendly afternoon celebrating the beauty and joy of childhood in West Africa.

STYLE CONGO: WHERE IT ALL STARTS AND WHERE IT ALL ENDS?Architect and cofounder of Traumnovelle, Johnny Leya invites us on a journey where architecture and visual arts intersect to challenge inherited colonial narratives. Spanning from the late 19th century, when Belgium established the Congo Free State in 1885, through to Congo’s independence in 1960, the talk traces how Belgian Art Nouveau absorbed Congolese resources and visual motifs, embedding imperial ideologies into celebrated European aesthetics.

Ugonna Hosten talks with Adjoa Armah about the imaginative journey into her ancestral spiritual and cultural roots that defines her practice. 

Serpentine presents a new project by Peter Doig that explores the role of music, film, and sites of communal gathering, listening and creative exchange within his practice.

Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work.

Free

This theme explores how artists transform humble or found materials — cardboard, beads, market remnants — into carriers of memory and meaning. These materials speak to histories of migration, trade, and belonging, and to the ways everyday objects can embody resilience, identity, and the idea of “home.”

Attend the screening of select films from Africa’s Cultural Landmarks, a new documentary series produced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art with World Monuments Fund (WMF). Africa’s Cultural Landmarks highlights Africa’s diverse architectural vernaculars and preservation efforts against a backdrop of challenges. These films foreground local perspectives and stewardship, bridging ancestral legacies with contemporary narratives. 

Time: 16:00 – 16:30

Location: 1-54 Bookshop

– THE STRANGERS (Penguin)
– BLACK EARTH RISING (Thames & Hudson)

This conversation proposes to examine the role that certain galleries are taking on today by going beyond traditional commercial functions to become true micro-institutions. Engaged in the construction of a critical and decolonial discourse, these entities invest themselves in the work of repairing and rewriting parts of art history by mobilising rigorous processes of research, archival investigation, and artistic lineage. 

The African Creative Industries Symposium will convene leading artists, cultural practitioners, policymakers, investors, and academics from Africa, the UK, and beyond. As part of the UK/Kenya Season of Culture, this landmark event will spotlight Africa’s creative economies as engines of growth, innovation, and cultural diplomacy.

Through four key panels: Fashion, Visual Arts, Music, and Financing, the symposium will foster dialogue, networking, and international collaboration to strengthen Africa’s creative industries and connect them with global markets.

This talk convenes art historians, curators, collectors, and enthusiasts to critically examine the oeuvre and legacy of Ben Enwonwu, a pioneering Nigerian modernist. The programme will feature in-depth analyses of Enwonwu’s innovative synthesis of traditional African art and modernist idioms, with a focus on his impact on global artistic trends and the contemporary art market.

Join Artist Rachel Jones and curator Jane Findlay for an inspiring conversation and wine reception.

£30

Free

After a rebel rousing evening jam packed with soul stirring moments. Open micers, Live Art, Music and Cheza Roho! We return with the best of UK's vocalists;

£22,35

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is pleased to present Winter Remembers April, Shaqúelle Whyte’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Titled in homage to Wynton Marsalis’ interpretation of the jazz standard, I’ll Remember April, the exhibition honours several of Whyte’s musical heroes, from Boris Gardiner and Gil Scott-Heron, to The Beatles.

Free

Vigo Gallery and English Heritage present LAKWENA – HOW WE BUILD A HOME, a vibrant new exhibition of cardboard and bead paintings by celebrated artist Lakwena Maciver at the iconic Wellington Arch.

Free

Explore South African storytelling, beadwork poetics and praise poetry in this participatory workshop with performer and writer Nomakhwezi Becker.

Free

Serpentine presents a new project by Peter Doig that explores the role of music, film, and sites of communal gathering, listening and creative exchange within his practice.

Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work.

Free

October Gallery and Goodman Gallery London are proud to present “Go Back and Pick”, an exhibition in two parts by El Anatsui, widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. Anatsui’s new wooden sculptures mark a significant moment in his artistic trajectory, evolving from his foundational use of the medium during the 1980s and 1990s.

Free

Goodman Gallery London and October Gallery are proud to present two concurrent exhibitions by El Anatsui, widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. Anatsui’s new wooden sculptures mark a significant moment in his artistic trajectory, evolving from his foundational use of the medium during the 1980s and 1990s.

Free

This major group exhibition examines how photographs can be deconstructed and reassembled through the idea of collage, offering new perspectives on complex histories and contested social realities.

Free

Messums London is proud to present The Ground Beneath: Material Memory and the Resilience of Hope, featuring artists Temitope Adebowale, Motunrayo Akinola, Sonia Elizabeth Barrett, Shirley Nette Williams, Irvin Pascal, Camille Provost, and Justin Randolph Thompson. All of the artists are of Black and African diasporic heritage and work across sculpture, installation, painting, and performance. Together, they explore how ordinary, often discarded materials can carry emotional, cultural, and political weight – and how processes of transformation offer pathways toward regeneration and repair. 

Free

Image : Camille Provost, Figure-sculpture: silver memories, 2025

Delfina Foundation is pleased to present Sanctuary and the Shadow of its Walls, the first institutional solo exhibition in the UK by Brazilian artist Maxwell Alexandre. Marking a pivotal evolution in his practice, the exhibition unveils a series of newly commissioned paintings on pardo paper alongside site-specific scenography, contemplating the nuances of seeking sanctuary and exploring its fragile borders.

Free

A solo exhibition of striking new paintings which examine the consequences of toxic waste produced by mining colbalt and other heavy metals, on the environment and community of Katanga in DRC.

Free

Co-curators of the exhibition, Lagos Studio Archives, will discuss their ongoing work in preserving works from the studio. They will select a range of works to expand on the history and legacy of the archive. Join us as we explore the legacy of Nigerian photography in this exhibition, and ensure its contributions are recognised within the broader cultural history of photography.

£5

You are invited to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions at Autograph's gallery in Hackney: Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Studio – Staging Desire, exploring a radical vision of culture, intimacy, desire and pain, and Abi Morocco Photos: Spirit of Lagos, capturing the rich style and joyous spirit of Lagos in the 1970s through portraiture.

Everyone is welcome to Autograph's exhibition openings. Both galleries will be open, plus drinks and an outdoor seating area. This is an informal event, you can arrive and leave at any time

Free

Join Artistic Director of October Gallery, Elisabeth Lalouschek, in conversation with Director of Special Projects, Gerard Houghton, for a talk which aims to unpack these intriguing questions, using the works in Vital Force to highlight 45 years of October Gallery’s partnership with some of the world’s most renowned contemporary artists.

Disabled access is available as the talk will take place on the ground floor, within the exhibition, Vital Force.

Hear Darren Newbury speak about Ernest Cole and his landmark photographic book, House of Bondage

Price: £8, £5 members & concessions

Cob Gallery presents the debut solo exhibition for Chinese artist Yi Liu. Known for a unique blend of Eastern and Western painting techniques, Yi Liu's latest series, Searching the Mountains, continues her exploration of traditional oriental imagery while incorporating Western artistic methods.

Free