Press Release

At Art Basel Paris, Goodman Gallery presents works by some of the most important contemporary and modern artists from Africa and beyond. Notably El Anatsui’s new sculptural installation made of bottle tops and fragments, Eto, 2025. This coincides with Anatsui’s inclusion in the much anticipated ‘Nigerian Modernism’ exhibition at the Tate Modern and the recent unveiling of the Safety Curtain commission at the Vienna State Opera. In London, Goodman Gallery and October Gallery host concurrent solo exhibitions focusing on his wooden sculptures.

A number of works by William Kentridge including Fat Cat, 2025 and Enough of This Scandal, 2020 are on display. Kentridge recently opened his biggest retrospective to date in Germany at SKD and Museum Folkwang, alongside his landmark exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK.

Other highlights include: multiple paintings by acclaimed African Modernist Atta Kwami, including by Untitled (Red, White, Blue, Black), 2008. Kwami’s practice and work as an art historian helps to shape how African art is understood internationally. Works by South African icons: a large-scale painting, Tempest, 1987 by David Koloane and several photographs by David Goldblatt. The gallery will also show new work by Yinka Shonibare from the Archive of Lost Memories V series. This comes as the artist has his first major solo exhibition on the African continent, at Foundation H, Madagascar. This presentation highlights the gallery’s ongoing commitment to artists who challenge, innovate, and reshape the contemporary art landscape ensuring their work reaches global audiences. Yinka Shonibare will take part in Conversations: The 90s at Art Basel, a talk guest-curated by Edward Enninful OBE, on Saturday 19 October 2025.

Other artists include: Kapwani Kiwanga, Leonardo Drew, Jared Ginsburg, Ernest Cole, Carrie Mae Weems, Misheck Masamvu, Mikhael Subotzky, Hank Willis Thomas, Clive van den Berg, Ghada Amer, Sue Williamson and Zineb Sedira.

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