Past
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Future, Past
a solo exhibition by Tejumola Adenuga 19 Apr - 5 Nov 2024 Set in a time both past and in the future, Future Past is an exploration of a small village in Western Nigeria, looked after by a divine presence in Yoruba cosmology whose primary occupation is to accord creativity to its inhabitants. Welders, painters, cobblers and dressmakers; these ordinary denizens move... Read more -
ENIYAN: ESCAPE ROOM
By Yusuff Aina 6 Jul - 6 Sep 2023 Retro Africa presents at Art Twenty One
Curated by Dolly Kola-Balogun (Founder and Creative Director, Retro Africa) Read more -
STATUES ALSO BREATHE
A collaborative project between the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and Prune Nourry 19 Nov 2022 - 4 Feb 2023 Read more -
FRAGILE
A SOLO EXHIBITION BY WOLFGANG TILLMAN 30 Apr - 22 Jul 2022 Read more
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Carte Blanche
A Solo Exhibition by Olu Amoda 6 Nov 2021 - 19 Mar 2022 Art Twenty One is pleased to present Carte Blanche, a solo exhibition of renowned mixed media artist Olu Amoda from November 6th, 2021 to January 29th, 2022. As the fourth solo exhibition of Olu Amoda at Art Twenty One, Carte Blanche presents the artist’s body of work created over the... Read more -
Working through an Impasse
A solo exhibition by Ndidi Dike 17 Jul - 25 Sep 2021 In early 2020, I was already at work planning a major solo exhibition of new work in a range of media. At the time, I envisioned titling the show, “Intersections and Realities of An Aesthetic Vocabulary.” As the title suggests, I was really thinking reflexively about the conceptual and material... Read more -
Other-Worldly
A solo exhibition by Michael Enejison | in collaboration with RSVP Lagos 25 May - 30 Jul 2021 Michael Enejison is a self-taught abstract & mixed media artist whose raw compositions delineate a variety of ecosystems within the human race. From studying Geology at the University of Technology, Minna, his interest in environmental sciences manifests itself in his artistic practices as a form of social activism. Enejisons art... Read more -
Façade
An Exhibition of Paintings by Bruce Onobrakpeya | 12 Dec 2020 - 1 Jun 2021 The history of art is riddled with criticisms against the ‘wanton and scandalous’ acts of artists who have dared to introduce new styles and techniques of practice which originally, are unproven or have been disproved to be what art means. It begs the question of what constitutes an absolute work... Read more
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ATO Connects
Online Exhibition 4 Nov 2020 - 30 Jan 2021 Art Twenty One is pleased to present ATO Connects, a group exhibition that explores contemporary notions of creation in an interconnected global environment.
During the global 'Slow Down' and 'pandemic' of 2020 - we encouraged artists to keep the spirit of alive by creating & sharing their most recent work with us.
Featuring 8 artists from Lagos, Nigeria, ATO Connects will be showcasing pieces from each artists collection, highlighting their tireless effort to work on their craft given the constraints of the “global pandemic. Read more -
Floor One 9
. CONTEMPORARY ART X CONTEMPORARY DESIGN . 26 Oct 2019 - 1 Mar 2020 Art Twenty One in Lagos, Nigeria. The first location for Floor One 9 will showcase how the
cultures from the different countries on the continent can be celebrated through interiors shaped by contemporary Art and Design. Read more -
Layers of Time and Place
What Lies Beneath 12 Oct - 7 Nov 2018 The idea for Layers of Time and Place: What Lies Beneath (2018) emerged from Abraham Oghobase’s first trip to Jos, Plateau State a few years ago. He was fascinated by the vastly different terrain from the urban jungle of Lagos, his own home since birth. The large man-made ponds and lakes, which form a prevalent part of the modern landscape of the city of Jos and its surrounding areas, were visually striking. Read more -
Season ii
Olu Amoda 28 Mar - 5 Nov 2017 In Index Season ii, Olu Amoda uses leaves as a metaphor to address the notion of a nation undergoing political impasse. Creating metal sculptures that evoke the changing colours of the four seasons, Amoda compares the individual leaves to human relationships, bunched together in social interconnectedness. Read more
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ETHNOMODERN
Namsa Leuba 8 Nov 2016 - 10 Jan 2017 Art Twenty One is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Swiss-Guinean artist Namsa Leuba entitled Ethnomodern, November 5, 2016-January 10, 2017. As the first large-scale solo exhibition of Leuba’s work, this exhibition brings together the artist’s diverse photographic practice that spans documentary, fashion and performance. Read more -
Breaking News
30 Apr - 22 Jun 2016 Art Twenty One presents Breaking News, a group exhibition that explores the politics and mechanisms of the mass media. Featuring artists working in painting, drawing, photography, video and installation, Breaking News questions how information is disseminated, fact is constructed, and how social and political life are filtered through the lens... Read more -
Chap Chap
Aboudia 13 Feb - 23 Mar 2016 Art Twenty One is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Ivorian artist Aboudia, entitled Chap Chap, in collaboration with Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan. This exhibition follows the artist’s continued interest in exploring the urbanity of Abidjan’s cityscape and the culture of the “Nouchi”, a pidgin language that emerged in... Read more -
ANOTHER CONGO
Alex Majoli & Paolo Pellegrin 31 Oct - 30 Nov 2015 Art Twenty One presents the exhibition Another Congo, featuring the work of Magnum photographers Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin. After extensive work documenting contemporary life in the Congo, the acclaimed photojournalists have formed an intimate portrait of Congolese culture through an immersive photographic installation. This exhibition launched at ParisPhoto in... Read more
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Elsewhere
Joseph Eze, Namsa Leuba,
Abraham Oghobase, Demola Ogunajo,
Vincent Michea, Paa Joe & Jacob Tetteh-Ashong, Yarisal and Kublitz 29 Jun - 10 Sep 2015 Art Twenty One is pleased to present Elsewhere, a group exhibition that explores contemporary notions of fantasy in an interconnected global environment. Working across artistic mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture, and collage, the artists in this exhibition define alternative ways of depicting otherness, not rooted in spatial boundaries but by... Read more -
Traces
Gerard Quenum 5 May - 11 Jun 2015 Gérard Quenum (Benin, 1971) works across multiple artistic practices including painting, drawing, and sculpture. In his works on canvas, Quenum depicts loosely drawn figures that protrude on a blank picture plane, floating as ghostly and unidentifiable presences. Read more -
Fringe
Olu Amoda 9 Mar - 16 Apr 2015 Olu Amoda is an internationally celebrated Nigerian sculptor, muralist, furniture designer, and multi-media artist whose iconic work using repurposed materials and metal expresses the very best of modern African sensibility. Amoda was born in Warri in the Niger Delta in 1959 to his father, a goldsmith, with whom there seems to be evidence of some subtle interdependence of a ‘flaming’ strength drawn from the sole element of consanguinity apparent in the art of both father and son. Read more -
Francois-Xavier Gbré
Francois-Xavier Gbré 15 Nov 2014 - 10 Jan 2015 Francois-Xavier Gbré's current exhibition, Abroad, in partnership with Galerie Cecile Fakhoury, explores the photographer's interest in urban space and architecture as a metaphor for social memory. Read more
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Odun Orimolade
Odun Orimolade 4 Apr - 10 Jun 2014 Predominantly, I continue to be pre occupied with an overlapping, porous, layered and intertwined presence of realities through time and space all at once, one and the same without distinctions or alternates and the influences and the evidences of existence in it. In this all things are present, cyclical and... Read more -
Blank Canvas
Dominique Zinkpe, Gerard Quenum, Obinna Makata, Tchif, Uchay Joel Chima, Uche Uzorka, Victor Ehikhamenor 13 Dec 2013 - 27 Feb 2014 Our "Blank Canvas" exhibition was about giving the same amount of wall space to 7 different artists and give them complete freedom of expression.
Three artists from Benin - Dominique Zinkpe, Tchif, Gerard Quenum - and 4 artists from Nigeria - Victor Ehikhamenor, Uche Uzorka, Obinna Makata, Uchay Joel Chima - presented their works during this exhibition, each having their very own style.
The common theme of the exhibition was to allow the artist to do what they do best: express themselves through art. Our job was to showcase it. Read more -
Wrapture: a Story of Cloth
Peju Alatise 12 Sep - 16 Nov 2013 Materials and mediums used to creat my works of art are applied with the intent to tell a visual story. Being a mixed media artist (with the tendency to flirt with as many mediums as are available to me), it is with severe discipline, strictly adhering to the choice of using a particular medium to tell the stories of this project titled “WRAPTURE: The Story Cloth”.
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Akaraka: What Will Be
Nnenna Okore 4 Jun - 15 Aug 2013 My name is Nnenna Mgbore Okore. My parents named after my paternal grandmother as a mark of continuity within my family lineage. Though born in Australia, I spent most of childhood years in Nigeria. Living and growing up in Nsukka exposed me to a rich tactile and vibrant rural environment,... Read more
