These 11 Artists Continue the Global Expansion of Zimbabwean Contemporary Art this Winter.

Richie Madyira (2025), Oil on Canvas By Richard Mudariki Yet another powerful wave of international exhibitions featuring Zimbabwean contemporary artists continues to affirm the country’s growing importance within the global art world. Across London, Bucharest, Dallas, Singapore, Cape Town, and Johannesburg, Zimbabwean artists are increasingly participating in ambitious exhibitions that explore identity, migration, spirituality, memory, politics, and belonging through highly

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Kwatiri Kubva Nekwatiri Kuenda - Rizhi Solo Exhibition in California

by artweb Zimbabwean artist Julio Rizhi will present a new solo exhibition, Kwatiri Kubva Nekwatiri Kuenda (Where We Are Coming From and Where We Are Going), at Hill House in Pasadena, California, opening on 11 October 2026. Presented by Simchowitz, the exhibition brings together 22 works made between 2020 and 2024, tracing Rizhi’s sustained engagement with migration, memory, identity and the possibilities of transformation. The title, drawn from Shona, establishes the exhibi

Wallen Mapondera Asks: How Do You Even Sleep At Night?

by Richard Mudariki At Mitterrand Gallery in Paris, Wallen Mapondera turns a deeply personal encounter with state power into a broader meditation on legality, responsibility and the human consequences of bureaucratic decisions. There is something deliberately uncomfortable about the question at the centre of Mapondera’s latest exhibition: How Do You Even Sleep At Night? It is not a question that seeks an easy answer. Instead, it lingers as an accusation, a challenge and perha

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