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Born in Addis Ababa in 1974, Muluneh graduated from Howard University in Washington D.C with a degree from the Communication Department with a major in Film. Her photography has been published widely, and can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, Hood Museum, The RISD Museum of Art, and the Museum of Biblical Art in the United States.

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António Ole (b.1951 Angola) is a leading figure in the history of artistic developments in Angola and one of the most active on the international contemporary art scene among Portuguese-speaking African artists. His rich and diversified visual universe is bound in the vivid intersection of direct observation, historical memory, far-reaching references and pressing contemporary issues such as poverty, inequity, migration, corruption and unsustainable development.

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Benigno’s work is mostly a metaphorical representation of personal experiences and various characteristics that make up the human experience, such as interpersonal relationships, fear, death, loneliness, memory, love and dreams.

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Cassi Namoda (b. 1988) is a painter whose work transfigures the cultural mythologies and historical narratives of life in post-colonial Africa, particularly those of the artist’s native Mozambique. Namoda’s paintings are highly elusive, drawing upon literary, cinematic and architectural influences that capture the expansiveness of her specifically Luso-African vantage point.

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Esther Mahlangu is part of the Ndebele community in the Gauteng region, located north of Pretoria. The Ndebele, unlike many other tribes in South Africa, have managed to preserve their centuries’ old ancestral traditions. Esther Mahlangu is an important proponent of this tradition. She draws freehand, without first measuring or sketching, using luminous and high-contrast vinyl paints that lend extraordinary vigor to her murals. While at a glance purely abstract, her compositions are built upon a highly inventive system of signs and symbols. Mahlangu is the first Ndebele artist to transpose wall paintings onto canvases and to take the conventions of her artwork into the larger arena.

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Felix Shumba is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses drawing, painting, video, text, and installation work. His work attempts at deconstructing spaces (real or imagined)—which he describes as Fold Fields Space (FFS). These are sites generally characterized and haunted by death, trauma, tension, restraint, psychic terror, ecological damage and use of the military as an apparatus of control.

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"My work revolves around an exploration of identity, more specifically, the intersections of Blackness and womanhood. I am interested in the ways in which this physical identity can serve as a positive force of connection and closeness, while also examining its imposed relationship to otherness."

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Helena Uambembe is an Angolan-South African artist whose work interrogates the dyadic relationship between the political (world politics) and the domestic (personal politics). Drawing from personal and familial history, Uambembe maps the ideological and intimate space created by the historical and colonial links between Angolan, Southern African and global history. Born in South Africa in 1994, her Angolan parents fled the Angolan civil war back in 1975 and settled in the embattled Pomfret with other families of the 32 Battalion.

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Born in 1974, Choumali is a visual artist/photographer based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She works mainly on conceptual portraits, mixed media, and documentary photography.

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Born in 1979 in Luanda (Angola), Kiluanji Kia Henda is a Multidisciplinary artist that uses humor and visual storytelling to examine Angola’s colonial history and propose new possibilities for the future. His work has been presented at the Venice Biennale, Bienal de São Paolo, and Gwangju Biennial, and his photo series Rusty Mirage (The City Skyline) (2013) was acquired by the Tate Modern in 2019.

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Malebona Maphutse is a Johannesburg-based visual artist. She completed her BA.FA (Fine Arts Hons) at the University of Witwatersrand and is currently attending her MFA in Filmmaking at New York Film Academy. In her body of work, she challenges historical narratives through heterogeneous media, particularly painting, sculptural installation, linocut printing, digital prints, and video art.

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Misheck Masamvu (b. 1980, Zimbabwe) is widely regarded as one of the leading figures of the Harare painting school. Trained in Germany, Masamvu continues to live and work in Zimbabwe which provides rich inspiration for his gestural painting. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, Masamvu uses the act of painting to (re)think, (re)work and (re)imagine the world and our place within it.

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Born in 1976, Mónica de Miranda is a Portuguese artist, living and working in Lisbon, Portugal. Mónica is an artist and researcher. Born in Porto (Portugal) from Angolan parents, she actually describes herself as an artist working in the diaspora. Her work is based on themes of urban archaeology and personal geographies.

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Osvaldo Ferreira (b. 1980, Angola) explores themes associated with the everyday life of Angolan society, evidencing an intergenerational continuity/discontinuity with regard to social experiences. His work, primarily constituted of paintings, often integrates chromatic and material elements that refer to the African textile tradition of exuberant colors.

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René Tavares (b.1983, São Tomé e Príncipe) translates into painting and drawing, through strokes, lines, and spots, a personal synthesis of his own identity - always "unfinished" and in construction - positioning himself in constant movement between past and present references.

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Sofia Yala's practice is an exploration of archival material and a meditation on processes of image making, a constant process of transformation. In the artist's words, (it is) "an endeavour that is never complete". Working primarily with photography and experimental image-making processes such as cyanotype, language, and sound, Yala's work reflects the complexities of identity as a diasporic body.

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Throughout his colourful multimedia practice, Yinka Shonibare considers issues of postcolonialism and globalism and often references the distinctive batik cloth common in Nigeria. The African Library is a commemoration of the fight for independence in previous European colonies across the African continent and celebrates the achievements made by Africans since liberation.

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Ymane Chabi-Gara is a French painter born in 1986 in Paris. She lives and works in Montreuil. Isolation, solitude, the body in relation to the world, and to the condition of being social are the main subjects of Ymane Chabi-Gara’s paintings. They represent individuals, alone or in small groups, in universes and situations that mirror their interiority. Domestic spaces and industrial wastelands serve as a support for the narrative, guided by formal and colored impressions. At first, a very detailed drawing determines the structure of the composition. Then the experience of painting for its own sake, opens sensitive and pictorial possibilities.

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Holes in the Moon (2023–24) are square metal prints that reveal the varied topography of the moon’s craters, recognizing these sites as opportunities to voice concerns about historical and future modes of colonisation. Barrada pinpoints lunar craters, created over millennia by asteroid strikes, which the International Astronomical Union named for scientists and natural philosophers in 1935. Some of these are attributed to Arab or Islamic figures, with many names undergoing Latinisation (for instance, the 10th century Persian medical scientist Ibn Sina is called Avicenna). Barrada’s works are each titled after these craters, such as Holes in the Moon (Ibn Battuta) (2024), which commemorates the 14th century Maghrebi traveller and scholar Ibn Battuta.