The Shape of Silence | Olamide Ogunade

2026-05-18T10:33:29+02:00

Drenched in surrealist, whimsical symbolism, Nigerian artist Olamide Ogunade's solo exhibition with Eclectica Contemporary offers a vivid meditation on the poetics of stillness, situating the Black figure within richly textured domestic and natural environments. Ogunade's portraits invite a double reading; they are documents of dignity situated in place and history, and portals into dreamy, interior worlds that feel intimate and fleeting.

The Shape of Silence | Olamide Ogunade2026-05-18T10:33:29+02:00

FNB Art Joburg 2025 | MAX: Ibrahim Khatab | Artist Spotlight

2026-05-18T10:36:06+02:00

Eclectica Contemporary is proud to spotlight Ibrahim Khatab at FNB Art Joburg 2025 within the MAX section. Featured artists included Johannes Phokela, Abdoulaye Konaté, Ibrahim Khatab, Justin Dingwall, Kamal El-Feky, Nedia Were, Thando Phenyane, Ebenezer Samuel Akinola, Rory Emmett, Patrick Rulore, Sahlah Davids and Yasmine Yacoubi at FNB Art Joburg 2025. Referred to as gallery HUB, the fair’s central section presents the best in contemporary Africa art from across the continent and the world to reflect the fair’s objective to be a quality rather than quantity focused fair.

FNB Art Joburg 2025 | MAX: Ibrahim Khatab | Artist Spotlight2026-05-18T10:36:06+02:00

FNB Art Joburg 2025 | HUB: Ebenezer Samuel Akinola | Artist Spotlight

2026-05-18T10:44:25+02:00

Eclectica is thrilled to spotlight Ebenezer Samuel Akinola, as a part of FNB Art Joburg 2025 in the HUB section. This exhibition featured Johannes Phokela, Abdoulaye Konaté, Ibrahim Khatab, Justin Dingwall, Kamal El-Feky, Nedia Were, Thando Phenyane, Ebenezer Samuel Akinola, Rory Emmett, Patrick Rulore, Sahlah Davids and Yasmine Yacoubi.

FNB Art Joburg 2025 | HUB: Ebenezer Samuel Akinola | Artist Spotlight2026-05-18T10:44:25+02:00

Je’ni isi isi (Jenisisi): To the Beginning | Ebuka Pascal Agudiegwu

2026-05-13T15:01:03+02:00

Je’ni isi isi, translated from Igbo as “go to the beginning”, is both an invocation and an artistic excavation. This solo exhibition by Ebuka Pascal Agudiegwu is a deliberate act of re-entering the mythic, imaginative space from which the artist's visual language first emerged. Artworks that act as dreamscapes manifest as alternate representations of Western archetypes, and shift the paradigm of narrative devices, suspended between worlds, referencial works such as 'A Match Made in Heaven' invoke visual drama's within the European canon, and imbued by the artist's reframing, and realignment with the 20th-century modernist preoccupation with “the return”, Picasso’s engagement with so-called “primitive” forms, or Chagall’s dreamscapes that collapse memory and myth. Illustrative and majestic, these paintings operate as sites of remembrance and reinvention.

Je’ni isi isi (Jenisisi): To the Beginning | Ebuka Pascal Agudiegwu2026-05-13T15:01:03+02:00

Pinned to Memory | Sahlah Davids

2026-05-13T15:50:17+02:00

Sahlah Davids' solo exhibition 'Pinned to Memory' is a showcase of how space shaped identity. The pin, the bead, the ruching of fabric, materials that pierce yet bind, hold together what memory might otherwise unravel. Sahlah Davids’ practice emerges from a deep engagement with the acts of unpicking and recollecting, weaving together fragments of history and material culture through layered textiles, clusters of dressmaking pins, and luminous beads. Her work transforms these humble elements into vessels of memory, quiet but powerful objects that speak of generational stories passed down through the hands of both men and women.

Pinned to Memory | Sahlah Davids2026-05-13T15:50:17+02:00

I Thought I Recognised You | Rory Emmett

2026-05-13T16:31:37+02:00

The paintings of Rory Emmett evokes a world untethered from imposed boundaries. Joy, pride, and shared humanity flicker through the obscured figures, resonating as universal emotions. Recognition here is unstable: a projection, a memory, an echo of something we might know but cannot name. 'I Thought I Recognised You' is both question and confession. It asks us to confront our biases, to sit with the discomfort of unknowing, and to consider how visibility and its absence shapes who we are allowed to see.

I Thought I Recognised You | Rory Emmett2026-05-13T16:31:37+02:00

Lowe | Thebe Phetogo

2026-05-14T13:25:14+02:00

Thebe Phetogo's paintings call into question the construction of identity pertaining to Black bodies. Drawing from references to anatomy, and cinematic green screens, Phetogo's deliberate use of colours serve as a metaphor for a painting’s potential to be a screen onto which new images, ideas, and identities can be projected. Ultimately, his work explores the construction of personal identity and narratives, questioning how our understanding of politics and history are formed. Hauntologically situated in expression and metaphor, Phetogo's art becomes a visceral and meaningful extension of self to the world.

Lowe | Thebe Phetogo2026-05-14T13:25:14+02:00

Stick to the Story | Ibrahim Khatab

2026-05-14T11:34:28+02:00

Ibrahim Khatab's solo exhibition with Eclectica Contemporary invites viewers to immerse themselves in the hybridity of mediums where Khatab's poster works become more than paper; it is where paper, memory, texture and rhythm coalesce. Through a detailed layering process, timelines merge and past and present collide - simultaneously an ode to life in Egypt, Khatab presents work that is transcendental and multiplicative.

Stick to the Story | Ibrahim Khatab2026-05-14T11:34:28+02:00

When I Stare At The Night Sky | Justin Dingwall

2026-05-14T12:11:41+02:00

Marking Justin Dingwall's first solo exhibition with the gallery, this body of photographic work illuminates the nuanced nature of our memories. The inclusion of remembered objects connects to a greater notion of the body as a vessel, and more specifically, a vessel of personal history. Material and photography are entwined as a means of weaving past and future; where collective memory and the resonance of intangible world manifest into a palpable realism.

When I Stare At The Night Sky | Justin Dingwall2026-05-14T12:11:41+02:00

EXPO CHICAGO 2025

2026-05-14T12:21:49+02:00

Featuring the textile-centric artists Louis Barthélemy and Abdoulaye Konaté, Eclectica Contemporay is pleased to present 'Thread Counts - Weaving Power, Pattern and Provocation' at EXPO CHICAGO 2025. Together, Konaté and Barthélemy push the boundaries of textile as both form and concept, proving that fabric is not limited at being decorative ; it is an archive, a battleground, and by essence , provocation. West African woven storytelling meets the charting of European legacy and postcolonial reclamation. Here, the dialogue between artists sees critique, conversation and shared dynamism. Through 'Thread Counts', they unravel the past while weaving visions of the future, reminding us that every stitch tells a story and every pattern holds power.

EXPO CHICAGO 20252026-05-14T12:21:49+02:00
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