West Africa’s 10 Best Contemporary Art Galleries

Gallerie Cecil Fakhoury, Abidjan

An interesting list of contemporary art galleries in West Africa.
–> In recent years, African artists have exponentially increased their access to the global context through online and social media. At the same time, a proliferation of legal and extralegal restrictive immigration policies, especially in the West, inscribes the locality of African subjects by subjecting them to restrictive codes of movement. Geo-spatial technologies have become directly proportional to increased limitations on mobility in the current global order, which impedes the ability of contemporary African artists to fully engage globalization. However, many art programs and institutions have arisen in Africa to counter this process. These new institutions of contemporary art are diverse, committed to trans-African collaboration and actively encourage the movement of African artists and ideas about art across borders. The activities of these contemporary art organizations are expanding communication and collaboration among African artists on a continental/global scale.The ten contemporary Art galleries listed here have played an important role in this process, providing local artists international exposure and bringing foreign artists to interact with their counterparts in various West African countries. Their efforts are truly commendable.