19/06/2025
🌍 When We See Us.
🎨 How have artists from Africa and its vast diaspora depicted daily life over the past century? This landmark exhibition offers a rich variety of answers to the question, presenting a kaleidoscope of Black figurative painting from the 1920s to the present day.
🎥 Inspired by Ava DuVernay's series When They See Us, the exhibition title When We See Us reflects a fundamental perspective exploring Black self-representation and global Black subjectivities. The approximately 150 works by around 120 artists are grouped into six themes: The Everyday, Joy & Revelry, Repose, Sensuality, Spirituality, and Triumph and Emancipation.
✨️ The exhibition was curated by Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, who tragically passed away in May 2025. On this exhibition, she worked closely with co-curator Tandazani Dhlakama. The exhibition is on view at Bozar Brussels until the 10th of August 2025.
