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Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica

Curated by MACBA director Elvira Dyangani Ose, along with Antawan Byrd, Adom Getachew and Matthew S. Witkovsky, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is the first major international exhibition to examine the cultural manifestations of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to the present.

The Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica has been developed jointly with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbican Centre in London and the KANAL–Centre Pompidou in Brussels. This collaboration has made the magnitude of the exhibition possible, with nearly 350 pieces by 100 artists touring the four institutions until spring 2027.

Although Pan-Africanism has been widely recognised as a major force in twentieth-century global history, until now there has been no major exhibition surveying this movement’s cultural manifestations. Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica takes as its starting point the date of the first Pan-African Congress (1919) and revisits Pan-Africanism as a set of galvanizing ideas: projections of another vision of a world that has yet to be elucidated artistically or considered sufficiently relevant in political terms.

Demas Nwoko, Folly, 1960. Private Collection via Sotheby’s.

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