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12/16/2025

Project Feature • Threads of Light, Threads of Us

For nearly a decade, Adelaja has used photography as a means to examine both himself and the world exploring identity, cultural heritage, migration, and the shared human experience through what he describes as “reflective and nuanced visual storytelling.”

These themeOur Urban Oasis | Londonht into sharp focus during his recent London exhibition, held on December 6–7, 2025 at Our Urban Oasis in East London ().

“These stories and the quiet power of oral tradition continue to inform my artistic voice,” Adelaja reflects, an ethos that resonated throughout the exhibition and continues to define his evolving body of work.

Lagos Exhibition:
Date: December 20-22, 2025

Venue: 22B Lagos Complex

12/15/2025

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Open Call: Maison Perrier Art Prize
Maison Perrier is launching the inaugural Maison Perrier Art Prize, an international competition open to emerging artists worldwide, created to support the next generation of creative talent. The prize aims to recognize artists shaping the future of creativity and includes mentorship from a major artist to help foster artistic growth and visibility.
Deadline: Mar 31, 2026

Eutopia Art Residency: Sea & Urbanism - Kavala (Greece)
Open to artists and creative practitioners across disciplines, the residency offers time and space to develop projects while connecting with local communities and immersive landscapes.
Deadline: Dec 30, 2025

Open Call: Futures Talents 2026 (Hamburg, Germany)
FUTURES is a Europe-wide photography platform that supports emerging talents by offering professional development, visibility, and access to an international network of curators, galleries, institutions, and audiences. FUTURES serves as a launchpad for photographers to advance their practice and careers on a global stage.
Deadline: Jan 11, 2026

Open Call: UNESCO AI Ethics Residency
Somerset House Studios, in partnership with UNESCO, is launching a joint residency programme commissioning three international artists to create new online works exploring intercultural perspectives on AI and ethics. The selected artists will be supported through a remote residency, participate in UNESCO’s Global Forum on the Ethics of AI in June 2026, and present their final works on Somerset House’s online platform later in the year.
Deadline: Jan 15, 2026

Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation Grant Program
The grant welcomes proposals across media from artists whose work reflects Bobby Anspach’s forward-looking vision and commitment to meaningful, socially engaged art.
Deadline: Dec 30, 2025

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12/10/2025

Nnena Kalu has been awarded the 2025 Turner Prize () and its £25,000 award, becoming the first artist with a learning disability to receive the honour. This year’s shortlist also included Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa.

Active since the 1980s, Kalu’s career reflects a sustained commitment to her practice, even with limited institutional recognition over the years. Her trajectory highlights the value of alternative paths within contemporary art.

The jury praised the clarity and force of her work and commended all four nominees for offering distinct and compelling perspectives across sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, sound and installation.

The ceremony was held at Bradford Grammar School in Bradford, the UK City of Culture. The Turner Prize will move to MIMA in Middlesbrough for its 2026 edition.

🔗 Learn more https://www.prazzlearts.com/editorial/turner-prize-2025-nnena-kalu-takes-the-uk-award-as-the-first-artist-with-a-learning-disability

12/09/2025

In a historic move for accessibility, MoMA PS1 () will become NYC’s largest free museum in 2026, powered by collector and creative entrepreneur, Sonya Yu’s ().

The announcement arrives as PS1 approaches its 50th anniversary, marking a new chapter for the institution’s role in the city’s artistic and civic landscape.

Under the leadership of Connie Butler (.butler), PS1 has been doubling down on its commitment to community, accessibility, and cultural exchange

Yu’s commitment is rooted in a belief that creativity can reshape how communities connect and how individuals see themselves within cultural spaces.

🔗 Learn More https://www.prazzlearts.com/editorial/a-transformative-gift-from-collector-sonya-yu-will-make-moma-ps1-new-yorks-largest-free-museum-by-2026-marking-its-50th-anniversary

12/09/2025

Upė Foundation () is a new London-based arts initiative created by Vinted co-founder Justas Janauskas () and curator Adomas Narkevičius (.n) to plug the Baltic art scene directly into the global creative arts circuit.

Narkevičius, a rising Lithuanian curator (and co-curator of the 2026 Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale), steps in as director. Janauskas, the tech founder-turned-collector, says he wants to use his startup success to empower the curators who’ll “write the next chapter” of the field.

The foundation debuts with 18-month Curatorial Fellowships designed to move people, not just ideas, across borders. UK curators will head to Tallinn Art Hall, while curators from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will embed at London’s Hayward Gallery.

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12/08/2025

Alejandro Cartagena’s () Carpoolers is a photography series (2011–2012) that captured the reality of workers commuting in the back of pickup trucks, anonymous, uncelebrated, yet essential.

From the vantage point of a highway overpass, the images transform precarious commutes into stark tableaux: men squeezed into truck beds, surrounded by their tools, en route to build homes far from their own.

Cartagena documents the uniform rows of bodies, the fabrics, ladders, tarps, the geometry of repetition which spoke quietly of inequality, routine, and survival.

Through Carpoolers we don’t just see laborers, we see a system. A cycle of hope and hardship. A generation of workers riding daily toward building someone else’s dream.

Exhibitions:
Carpoolers has been exhibited internationally, at SFMOMA in San Francisco, the Circuit Gallery during Toronto’s Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, and the Spagnuolo Art Gallery at Georgetown University.

About the artist:
Alejandro Cartagena (b. 1977, Santo Domingo / Mexico) lives and works in Monterrey. His photographic practice explores urbanization, labor, and social inequality across Latin America.

Photo credit / Copyright: © Alejandro Cartagena, Carpoolers, 2011–2012

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12/08/2025

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Open Call Exhibition By KMA Gallery
KMA Gallery in Brighton has launched its first open call, inviting Sussex-based artists aged 18+ to submit work. This exhibition offers regional artists a chance to present their work in a respected Brighton art space.
Deadline: Jan 14, 2026

Helvet Art International Art Competition
HelvetArt invites artists from around the world to apply for its international art competition, offering the chance to win a physical solo exhibition in Geneva.
Deadline: Jan 23, 2026

Open Call: PX3 Exhibition For Photographers
This international photography competition highlights global talent and promotes the art of photography. Winners are exhibited in Paris and published in the annual PX3 book. The award is juried by leading industry professionals, offering broad visibility and recognition to photographers worldwide.
Deadline: Feb 18, 2026

Grant Applications - The Museum Foundation of the Philippines
The Museum Foundation of the Philippines offers grants for projects that preserve and promote Philippine cultural heritage. Support is available for research, publications, exhibitions, and professional development for museum staff.
Deadline: Mar 1, 2026

NYLAAT: Artists-in-Residence 2026
The process-focused residency includes studio time as well as optional professional immersion programs that let participants explore new social and technological practices.
Deadline: Feb 15, 2026

Open Call For Creatives -, 2026 Neighborhood Interpretive Center (NIC) (Los Angeles)
This is an annual fall call for cultural practitioners and creative professionals to propose programs for its project space. Selected proposals should creatively engage with the neighborhood’s diverse community through innovative cultural activities.
Deadline: Jan 5, 2026

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12/07/2025

Martin Parr () spent five decades redefining documentary photography through his saturated colour, on-camera flash and precise attention to everyday life, including holidays, leisure, consumer habits and the small social behaviours that often go unnoticed.

He presented more than ninety exhibitions worldwide and developed major curatorial projects such as ParrWorld, alongside co-editing the influential multi-volume series The Photobook: A History.

As a longtime member and former President of Magnum Photos (), and as founder of the Martin Parr Foundation (), he supported photographers and safeguarded important photographic archives.

His work remains a clear record of how people live and continues to shape the way photography is understood as a medium of documenting our culture today.

12/07/2025

El Anatsui () was born in 1944 in Anyako, Ghana, into a culture where everyday objects carried their own stories. This early sensibility defined the way he would later approach material and memory.

His early practice focused on wood carving and ceramics. They served as mediums through which he explored language, identity and the histories embedded in African material culture.

By the late 1990s, a shift occurred as everyday metal became his canvas. Discarded bottle caps, aluminum fragments and the overlooked residues of consumption opened a new visual vocabulary for him. What began as an experiment grew into the monumental metal collection that would eventually redefine contemporary sculpture on a global scale.

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Visuals: Él Anatsui in his studio, Nsukkka

El Anatsui’s „Untitled“ (2009); installed in the Smithsonian’s Visionary galleries

- El Anatsui‘s Behind the Red Moon.

12/06/2025

In Miami? The 2025 edition of Miami Beach showcases 283 leading galleries from 43 countries and territories spanning the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Asides that the city is activated by off-spaces including and fairs. 🔗 Link in bio to access the full guide.

Here are top picks of what to see:

LVMH The Studio Miami and more
Dates: 3 – 7 December 2025
📍Palm court event space

Gagosian Presents Works By Jeff Koons and Maurizio Cattelan
Dates: December 5-7, 2025
📍Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth G6

Art Acess Presents Works By , , and others .show
Dates: December 6-January 6, 2026
📍Art Basel Miami Beach

David Castillo Gallery Presents Landscapes By Studio Lenca
Date: December 1 – January 31, 2026
📍Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth H27

The Rubell museum Presents Works By Joanna van Son, Lorenzo Amos, Rita Letendre, Joanna Van Son and Ser Serpas
Date: December 2–7, 2025
📍23rd Street, Miami

Galerie Lougére turns to Miami Art Week with Self Preservation Exhibition.
Date: December 4-7, 2025
📍 Scope Art Show l, Booth G26, installation at The Standard Miami

David Kordansky Gallery Presents a Group-show Lineup By Lauren Halsey, Rashid Johnson, Shara Hughes, Sam McKinniss and Tala Madani
Date: December 5-7, 2025
📍Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth E20

Johyun Gallery Presents Works By Park Seo-Bo, Lee Bae, Kishio Suga, Bosco Sodi and others
Dates: December 5 to December 7, 2025
📍Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth F2

12/05/2025

has been named the most influential figure in ArtReview’s Power 100 for 2025, making it the first time an African artist has claimed the top spot. He also received the Art Basel Gold Award (Established).

Ibrahim Mahama (b. 1987, Tamale, Ghana) lives and works between Accra and Tamale. He studied painting and sculpture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi (2013).

In 2019, Mahama founded the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) in Tamale, followed by Red Clay in 2020, an expansive studio complex with exhibition spaces, research facilities, and an artist residency programme. In 2021, he inaugurated Nkrumah Volini, a renovated silo and his third educational institution in northern Ghana within two years.

He has been awarded several prizes, including the inaugural Sam Gilliam Award@(2024). His works can be found in numerous public collections worldwide. He is repesented by White Cube Gallery and APALAZZOGALLERY.

Cover: Ibrahim Mahama, photo: Carlos Idun-Tawiah

(1) Installation view Ibrahim Mahama: Zilijifa, The Physical Impossibility of Debt in the Mind of Something Living, 2025, Kunsthalle Wien 2025 Courtesy Redclay; Ibrahim Mahama & White Cube, Hong Kong/London/New York/Paris/Seoul, photo: Markus Wörgötter

Other images courtesy and the artist / Excerpt From Prazzle Culture Kaleidoscope: 100 Contemporary Artists of our Time

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