Current
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Virginia Chihota
Munoonei kana makaditarisa nhai Mwari?/What do you see when you look at me ohh God? 5 Jun - 20 Sep 2025 London Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Virginia Chihota: Munoonei kana makaditarisa nhai Mwari?/What do you see when you look at me ohh God? Chihota inimitably visualises her inner world as an emotionally shifting, symbolic terrain—a reconnaissance marked by vigilance, self-questioning, and transformative resolution. These new works originate from a question... Read more -
In Focus: Felix Shumba
For want of a horse, a button was lost 5 Jun - 20 Sep 2025 London Our first In Focus introduction this year in the viewing room, features, Felix Shumba: For want of a horse, a button was lost . Shumba has created an installation of charcoal drawings influenced by the evidential and documentary values of photography, particularly referencing 19th century daguerreotype plates and the work... Read more
Forthcoming
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Ugonna Hosten
The Song I Once Knew 2 Oct - 1 Nov 2025 London Tiwani Contemporary is hugely excited to present this autumn at 24 Cork Street, The Song I Once Knew , an incredible debut presentation by Ugonna Hosten who centres drawing at the core of her multidisciplinary practice and evolves episodic narratives featuring the psycho-spiritual encounters of a heroine in her own... Read more -
In Focus: Bunmi Agusto
Tales By Moonlight 2 Oct - 1 Nov 2025 London Tiwani Contemporary is hugely excited to present this autumn at 24 Cork Street, Tales By Moonlight, an incredible In Focus presentation by Bunmi Agusto who centres drawing at the core of her multidisciplinary practice and evolves episodic narratives featuring the psycho-spiritual encounters of a heroine in her own likeness on... Read more
Past
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Wura-Natasha Ogunji
space comma space comma space 3 Apr - 24 May 2025 London Wura-Natasha Ogunji's upcoming exhibition, space comma space comma space embraces not-knowing, the breaking of habits, irreverence and the use of mistakes as integral components of the creative process. Through works on paper, the artist creates a memoir of her time inside the studio - through acts of stitching, cutting, tearing... Read more -
A Conscious Relation: body/mind/movement
Virginia Chihota, Alicia Henry, Joy Labinjo, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Dawit L. Petros, Umar Rashid, and Leo Robinson 6 Feb - 22 Mar 2025 London Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to launch its 2025 exhibition program with a group presentation featuring recent works by Virginia Chihota, Alicia Henry, Joy Labinjo, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Dawit L. Petros, Umar Rashid, and Leo Robinson. A Conscious Relation: body/mind/movement will be on view at the gallery's 24 Cork Street location in... Read more -
Muzae Sesay
born on the earth. 28 Nov 2024 - 18 Jan 2025 London Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present the debut solo exhibition, Muzae Sesay: born on the earth . born on the earth . is an ongoing, psycho-geographic assessment of the Earth we are placed onto and thus acts as a reflection of the artist's neighbourhood in Oakland, California as a metaphorical... Read more -
Emma Prempeh
Wandering Under a Shifting Sun 4 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 London Tiwani Contemporary is proud to feature the first of two solo presentations (the second in Lagos early 2025) by Emma Prempeh where pictorially she considers for the first time, landscape, and its relevance as an expansion of her hyperreal perceptions of home, belonging and memory. Her paintings depict events, people,... Read more -
In the Blood
Rita Alaoui, Virginia Chihota, Miranda Forrester, Heloisa Hariadne, Joy Labinjo, Claude Lawrence, Tessa Mars, Amanda Mushate, Emma Prempeh 27 Jun - 14 Sep 2024 London Our group show, In the Blood , features represented, and associate artists inspired and committed to painting. This exhibition is a review of their approaches defining their representations of life and emotions, and how those impulses and reflections are translated gesturally and materially, in figuration and abstraction. In the Upper... Read more -
In Focus: Heloisa Hariadne
30 May - 15 Jun 2024 London 'My painting is an investigation of memories in my body, in which I question the temptations and intentions in a portrait of the intimate - a memory of records of looks, people and constructions, of small shapes, environmental themes, habits, the rescue of the knowledge of native peoples - all... Read more -
Gareth Nyandoro
Pfumvudza 23 Apr - 15 Jun 2024 London We are delighted to open our spring solo exhibition with Gareth Nyandoro: Pfumvudza . Living in Ruwa, a town 30 minutes’ drive from Harare, Nyandoro has been observing and documenting the everyday lives, and informal entrepreneurship of its residents in small to large-scale mixed-media drawings and installations, in his inimitable... Read more -
As Feeling Births Idea
Virginia Chihota, Rita Alaoui, Ranti Bam, Euridice Kala, Paula Do Prado and Wura-Natasha Ogunji 22 Feb - 6 Apr 2024 London Tiwani Contemporary proudly presents, As Feeling Births Idea a group show featuring: Virginia Chihota, Rita Alaoui, Ranti Bam, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Paula Do Prado, and Wura-Natasha Ogunji . The exhibition gathers together a reflection on each artist's poetics of interiority and engagement: the phenomena, live, or recollected encounters that inform... Read more -
Leo Robinson, Ivan Forde, Richard Ayodeji Ikhide
Polymythologies 18 Jan - 17 Feb 2024 London Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to open its 2024 London programme with the group exhibition Polymythologies , featuring Leo Robinson, Ivan Forde and Richard Ayodeji Ikhide. Polymythologies introduces how each artist draws upon a wide constellation of references to a globalized collective unconscious, classical allegory, science fiction, and gaming to explore... Read more -
Miranda Forrester
Arrival 23 Nov 2023 - 6 Jan 2024 London Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Miranda Forrester's first solo exhibition at the gallery's new space in Cork Street, titled 'Arrival'. The exhibition focuses on the domestic intimacy of the artists’ relationship and anticipation of her new-born baby and growth of Forrester’s family. The joy of parenthood is met and... Read more -
Joy Labinjo
Beloved, Take What You Need 12 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 London Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce Joy Labinjo: Beloved, Take What You Need, its inaugural exhibition at its new 24 Cork Street, Mayfair gallery. This new body of work focuses on everyday Black life, and reflects the personal and professional changes Labinjo has been through in the five years since... Read more -
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Lalala ha! 16 Sep - 5 Nov 2023 London Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce its forthcoming autumn exhibition in its Lagos gallery, lalala ha! . This solo presentation of paintings, drawings and performance by Wura-Natasha Ogunji ebbs, flows and accumulates over time. Conceptualised as a series of changing vignettes with a non-linear narrative, lalala ha! considers the characteristics... Read more -
Dawit L. Petros
Recollections 5 - 29 Jul 2023 London Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to announce our forthcoming presentation, Dawit L. Petros: Recollections. The exhibition continues Petros’ inquiries into the complex relationship between African and European histories of colonialism and modernity. The Strangers Notebook (2016-2017) the project which formed Petros’ debut solo show with Tiwani Contemporary, in 2016, emerged from... Read more -
Your Presence Does Not Escape Me
Charmaine Watkiss, Delita Martin and Tessa Mars 10 May - 3 Jun 2023 London TIWANI CONTEMPORARY Gallery 6 Cromwell Place 4 Cromwell Place London, SW7 2JE Please join us for the opening event: Tuesday 9 May | 6 pm - 8 pm Tiwani Contemporary is delighted to announce the group presentation, Your Presence Does Not Escape Me , featuring gallery artist Charmaine Watkiss (United... Read more -
The Company She Keeps
Chioma Ebinama, Miranda Forrester, Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Nengi Omuku, and Charmaine Watkiss | Lagos 28 May - 13 Aug 2022 London FORTHCOMING - TIWANI CONTEMPORARY, LAGOS 13 Elsie Femi Pearse Street Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria Opening times: Tue - Sat: 10am to 6pm Tiwani Contemporary is very pleased to present The Company She Keeps , a group show bringing together five artists who work internationally. Materially and collectively their works draw... Read more
