Yinka Shonibare CBE RA news

Yinka Shonibare showcases Discobolus (after Naukydes) on the the 20th anniversary of the Gottorfer Globus at the museum's Globushaus.

BBC shares a short film of Yinka Shonibare CBE RA as part of their Arts in Motion documentary series. The artist speaks briefly on themes of identity, colonialism, and cultural exchange in his work, referring to his 2010 Fourth Plinth commission, recent exhibition at Serpentine and Guest Artists Space Foundation, Lagos.

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA features in Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Illuminating aesthetic connections among 60 artists working in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are among the first to examine nearly a quarter century of production by Black artists.

Set within the context of global climate anxiety and planetary health concerns, Earthbound showcases existing and newly commissioned works by nine artists and community makers.

The True Size of Africa brings together major contemporary artworks with sound and spatial installations realised especially for the show by artists from Africa and its global diaspora.

With over eighty works, the group exhibition The Invention of the Stranger in Art sheds light on the construction and representation of 'foreignness' in European art.

Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture explores the powerful connection between sports and society through a diverse range of artistic perspectives.

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA's sculpture, Hibiscus Rising, has been shortlisted for the 2024 PSSA Marsh Award for excellence in public sculpture.

A Gathering on Art and Land is a day centring art and design-led approaches to planting, farming, seeding, gardening and burying. 

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA's work Revolution Kid (Calf) is displayed in Kunstmuseum Den Haag's permanent collection.

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA’s editions Modern Spiritual I, Modern Spiritual II and Modern Spiritual III and Clare Wood's prints Flat Foot, Unstable and Vauxhall are featured in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2024.

Contemporary collecting explores the relationship between the British Museum's contemporary and historical collections .

'Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change' brings together over 100 major contemporary and historic works as part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism – and how it may help set a course for the future.

'In Brillaint Light' showcases contemporary works by African artists alongside masteprieces from the museum's collection.

This is the third installment of the 'Callart' exhibition series, presenting selected works from the Wrocław Contemporary Museum and Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts' collections. 

'Au bout de mes rêves' translates to 'at the end of my dreams'. The exhibition brings together works from the Vanhaerents Art Collection at the Tripostal in Lille, a former post sorting office. The latest in a series of major international exhibitions in Lille begun in 2007, the presentation seeks to platform some of the most exciting contemporary artists working today. The exhibition promises that where there are dreams, there is hope for change.

‘Fabric: Textile as Artistic Material’ explores the role of textiles in art from classical modernism to the present.

'The Magic of the Silver Swan' celebrates automata. It centres the silver swan, one of the most prized pieces in the castle's collection, presented alongside other artefacts and a range of works by contemporary artists, makers, designers and inventors.

'Threads' brings together works by 21 textile artists. Celebrating material and making, these artists use the storytelling power of textiles to connect with past traditions, find commonalities between cultures, time and place, and to ‘breathe stories into materials’.

'Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes' is a group exhibition looking at the connections between Lagos in Nigeria and Peckham in South East London.