Project a Black Planet: Pan-African Art and Culture Exhibition Travels to London and Brussels

Key facts

• Exhibition 'Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica' was shown at MACBA in Barcelona.
• It will open at the Barbican Centre in London next month.
• It will travel to KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels in spring 2027.
• The exhibition covers a century of Pan-African influence through art and ephemera.
• It focuses on three movements: Garveyism, Négritude, and Quilombismo.
• Ebony G. Patterson's work 'Invisible Presence: Bling Memories' involved 50 decorated coffins paraded in Kingston.
• Kader Attia's 'Asesinos! Asesinos!' features sawn doors and silent megaphones.
• Theaster Gates' 'Alls my life I has to fight' depicts a Black Madonna in a cage, referencing Kendrick Lamar and Alice Walker.
• Kawira Mwirichia created kanga cloths to honor queer activists from around the world.
• Kiluanji Kia Henda's 'The Merchant of Venice' shows a Senegalese musician on a marble plinth in Venice.
• Mónica de Miranda's video 'Path to the Stars' revisits anti-colonial resistance in Angola.
• Samuel Fosso's 'Allonzenfans' series pays tribute to African soldiers who fought for France in WWI and WWII.
• The exhibition includes works by over 20 artists and historical ephemera.
• Pan-Africanism is defined as a movement for equality, freedom, and social transformation.