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Curated virtual exhibitions — immersive, contextual, and built to travel beyond physical borders. Every show personally designed by Daffa Konate.

Currently On View · Feb–Jun 2026
Echoes of
Tomorrow

Seven artists engage with the question of futurity — what does tomorrow look like when your past has been systematically suppressed, and your present is constantly contested?

"This exhibition refuses the logic of arrival. It insists, instead, on the generative power of becoming."
— Daffa Konate, Curator

Artists in the Exhibition
Kofi Mensah ·  Aminata Diallo ·  Chidi Okonkwo ·  Fatoumata Coulibaly ·  Kwame Asante ·  Nadia Ben Salem ·  Ibou Sarr
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Works available for acquisition
24
Rooms in this Exhibition

Each room stages a distinct question. Visitors move between them as they might move between chapters of a single continuous thought.

Room I
The Weight of Naming
How do African artists reclaim the right to name their own practice — outside the categories imposed by the Western market and institution? Mensah and Coulibaly in dialogue.
4 Works · Mensah · Coulibaly
Room II
Bodies in Time
Figurative work across two generations — exploring how the Black body is represented, dis-represented, and re-imagined across African contemporary art.
3 Works · Diallo · Okonkwo
Room III
Material Memory
Objects, textiles, and found materials as archives. Artists who build their practices around what was left behind — cloth, language, geography, dust.
4 Works · Asante · Ben Salem · Sarr
Selected Works — Echoes of Tomorrow
Available for Acquisition
I
Room I
Inheritance No. 3
Kofi Mensah · Accra
€1,200Oil on Canvas
II
Room II
Lagos at Dusk
Aminata Diallo · Dakar
€850Photography
III
Room III
Reclaimed I
Chidi Okonkwo · Lagos
€3,400Sculpture
IV
Room I
The Archive Speaks
Fatoumata Coulibaly · Abidjan
€2,100Mixed Media
Exhibition Archive
Sep–Dec 2025
Harmattan Light: West African Photography
Diallo · Sarr · Ben Salem · 3 guest artists · 18 works
Closed
Apr–Aug 2025
Threads: Textile as Language
Coulibaly · Asante · Mokoena · 12 works
Closed
Jan–Mar 2025
Inaugural: Forty-Two Artists, One Vision
All 42 roster artists · Opening platform exhibition · 42 works
Closed
Opening June 2026
Ndebele Now:
Geometry as Language

Six artists reimagine the bold geometric traditions of Ndebele visual culture through a contemporary lens — across painting, installation, textile, and digital work. The most formally ambitious show Art Kelen has yet presented.

Preview I
Preview II
Preview III
Opening
Jun 2026