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Montague Contemporary, 526 West 26th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY (2026)

05/18/2026

Montague Contemporary is pleased to announce Second Sight, a group exhibition of work by Delano Dunn () Miska Mohmmed (.art) Dina Nur Satti () Elias Mung’ora () Birhane Worede () and Wole Lagunju () opening May 23, 2026, at N° 2 Main, the gallery’s artist residency in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

The exhibition is installed not in a conventional gallery setting but throughout the rooms and walls of the residency itself—encountered in natural light, in intimate domestic spaces, in the way art is meant to be lived with. Taken together, the six artists’ practices—spanning painting, ceramics, collage, and drawing—form a conversation about what it means to carry more than one world inside you, and what you see that others cannot.

The exhibition takes its premise from the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois, who was born in the neighboring town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Du Bois described the condition of double consciousness—“this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others”—as both a burden and the source of a rare gift: second sight, the capacity to perceive what those who have never been othered cannot. He described himself as “a seventh son, born with a veil”—drawing on a tradition, shared across African, African American, and European cultures, in which those born at the threshold between worlds are marked for a particular kind of perception.

Second Sight does not treat Du Bois’s framework as historical artifact. The six artists in this exhibition—working across ceramics, painting, collage, and drawing—carry his questions into the present: What does it mean to carry more than one world inside you?

What do you see that others cannot?

We would love to have you stop by on opening day:

Saturday May 23rd
1 to 4PM
N° 2 Main
2 Main Street
West Stockbridge, MA 01266

Second Sight will also be open for public viewing every Saturday from 11AM to 3PM through Labor Day in September.

05/17/2026

What a week at NADA New York!

Grateful for the conversations, the energy, and the incredible turnout for our gathering this week celebrating the work of Dina Nur Satti () and Miska Mohmmed (.art). Thank you to everyone who came through the booth, joined us for the party, danced with us late into the evening with DJ Love Bonez, and spent quality time with the work.

These fairs can move fast, but we love all the community coming through — collectors, curators, artists, advisors, old friends, and new faces all crossing paths in one room.

Today is the final day to see our presentation at NADA New York. If you haven’t stopped by yet, we’d love to see you before close.

NADA New York
Booth A13

05/16/2026

Wonderful to see this week’s recognition for the African Art in Venice Forum and the expanding international dialogue around contemporary African art. Congrats to , , , , , !

The work being done by artists, curators, collectors, institutions, and cultural organizers across Venice and beyond continues to reshape how these practices are being engaged globally, and it is incredibly rewarding to see so many friends, collaborators, and longtime supporters of the field reflected in that momentum.

It also feels especially meaningful alongside the remarkable exhibition currently on view at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, which brings together a dynamic group of artists including Marc Standing and Athi-Patra Ruga, among many others whose work we have long admired, championed, and been fortunate to support through exhibitions, placements, and ongoing conversations over the years.

A powerful reminder that the ecosystem surrounding contemporary African art today is being built collectively — across museums, biennials, residencies, galleries, artists, patrons, and communities — and that its influence continues to deepen internationally.

05/16/2026

Happy Saturday from NADA!

Thank you to everyone who has stopped by to spend time with our presentation featuring Dina Nur Satti and Miska Mohmmed — especially during a moment of growing institutional recognition and recent museum acquisitions for their work.

We’ve been grateful for the conversations, return visits, and continued support from artists, collectors, curators, advisors, and friends throughout the fair.

Come see us before NADA closes Sunday.

NADA New York
Starrett Lehigh Building
601 W 26th St
May 13 - 17

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05/15/2026

A few moments from our Thursday night opening part celebrating our presentation at NADA New York!

Still overwhelmed by the turnout, the energy, and the incredible mix of artists, collectors, curators, friends, ambassadors, and supporters who filled the space all evening long.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, stayed late, danced, reconnected, introduced friends, and helped make the night feel so alive. These gatherings really remind us how special this community is and how much it means to build these moments together around the artists and the work.

Huge love to for the music, to everyone who helped bring the evening together behind the scenes, and to our host committee for all of the support and generosity.

And thank you always to Dina Nur Satti and Miska Mohmmed for trusting us with this presentation.

Come swing by NADA New York to see the works through Sunday.

NADA NEW YORK
Starrett Lehigh
601 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001

Photos by .pooviriyakul

05/15/2026

Last night, Montague Contemporary celebrated our inaugural presentation at NADA New York. We were fortunate to be joined by a the extraordinary gathering of artists, collectors, curators, musicians, and friends in celebration of our presentation with Dina Nur Satti and Miska Mohmmed.

We are deeply grateful to everyone who joined us for an evening shaped by conversation, music, movement, and community — featuring a vibey Afrobeats set by , traditional Sudanese food shared throughout the night, and cocktails generously provided by , whose spirit of diasporic connection and celebration resonated beautifully with the evening.

Special thanks to our incredible host committee:

And to our extended community of supporters, collaborators, and friends who continue to believe in the artists and ideas we champion.

Photography by .

NADA New York continues through Sunday.
601 W 26th Street, New York, NY

05/06/2026

We’re delighted to share another important acquisition for Dina Nur Satti (). Her work “Black Tower Lotus I” has been acquired by the Brooklyn Museum of Art () for its permanent collection and which will be on display in the renovated African Wing when completed.

Dina’s practice is rooted in material intelligence and quiet transformation—drawing from craft traditions, ritual gestures, and the poetic architecture of natural forms from East Africa and Nubian tradition. In the Lotus works, she builds surfaces that feel both intimate and monumental: patient, layered, and deeply attentive to time, memory, and touch.

A special thank you to both Ernestine White-Mifetu (Curator, African Arts) and Annissa Malvoisin (Assistant Curator of African Arts), for their leadership and care in bringing this acquisition to fruition. We’re also thankful for the generous support of Claire and Mike Olsson, whose belief in Dina’s work helped make this moment possible.

We’re equally excited to share that we will be presenting Dina Nur Satti alongside Miska Mohmmed in a dual presentation at this year’s NADA New York, opening Wednesday, May 13 and on view through May 17. We can’t wait to welcome you into the presentation and to share the dialogue between these two artists—distinct voices that meet in their sensitivity to place, gesture, and lived experience.

To mark the week, we would love to celebrate with you in person. Please join us for a cocktail party at the gallery:

Wednesday, May 13 | 6:00–10:00 PM
Cocktails, food, and music by Sudanese DJ Love Bonez
526 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001

Please RSVP at [email protected]

05/01/2026

Dina Nur Satti () grew up accompanying her father — a cultural preservation specialist with the United Nations — across East and Central Africa. Spending time in antique shops with her mother, she learned to read the stories behind objects. “You have this whole conversation in the art world about high art and low craft,” she says. “A lot of output from the global south is looked down on as ‘low craft.’ I would always ask myself — why is this devalued?” She has spent her career answering that question.

Born in Chad in 1987 and raised in France and Kenya, Dina is a Brooklyn-based ceramic artist of Sudanese and Somali heritage who holds a BA in International and Intercultural Studies from Fordham University. The turning point in her practice came when she traveled to Ethiopia and encountered a group of Jewish Falasha women keeping the ancient coiling technique alive — building vessels six to eight feet tall, perfectly symmetrical, entirely by hand. “It changed my brain chemistry,” she says. She has worked exclusively by hand ever since, and her practice is all the richer for it.

Named to Architectural Digest Middle East’s AD100 list in both 2024 and 2025, and profiled in Vogue, Whitewall, Interior Design, and Business of Home. Exhibited at the Triennale di Milano, the Petrie Museum in London, and Efie Gallery in Dubai, with residencies at Saint Heron and Palm Heights. Her work has entered the permanent collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. She was also our inaugural artist in residence at No. 2 Main () in West Stockbridge this past summer — a homecoming of sorts for a practice so rooted in land and place.

We are proud to be presenting Dina’s ceramic work at NADA New York, opening May 13 at the Starrett Lehigh Building.

📍 NADA New York | Booth A13 | Starrett Lehigh Building | May 13–16, 2026

04/28/2026

Miska Mohmmed grew up between two of the most geographically opposite landscapes on earth — the lush confluence of the White and Blue Nile in Khartoum, and the vast desert terrain of Saudi Arabia, where her family moved when she was three. That contrast never left her. It became her work.

She pursued a BFA in Painting at the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Sudan University, graduating in 2016, and her practice evolved quickly from realism to abstraction — sketching and painting en plein air, focusing on color and form, capturing the essence of nature rather than its surface details.

Her breakthrough came in 2019 with a mixed-media landscape inspired by the swirls of the Nile. Her signature improvisational style — which she calls “Mindscapes” — became increasingly experimental, adding dynamic lines and dots to compositions that treat landscape as something felt from the inside rather than depicted from without. She now lives and works in Sharjah, UAE.

Her exhibition record spans Sudan, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, Dubai, Tunisia, New York, the UK, Germany, and Zanzibar, with participation in Art Dubai, Art X Lagos, FNB Art Joburg, and the Investec Cape Town Art Fair. Solo exhibitions include Where The Light Settles (2025) at Montague Contemporary; Whispers Between The Waves (2025) and Highlands of Sudan (2023) at OOA Gallery, Barcelona; and The Magic of Forgotten Places (2021) at Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi. Her work is held in the Schulting Art Collection, the Arak Collection, and Africa First, among others.

We are proud to be presenting new large-scale works by Miska at NADA New York, opening May 13 at the Starrett Lehigh Building.

📍 NADA New York | Starrett Lehigh Building, 601 West 26th Street | May 13–16, 2026

04/16/2026

A soft blanket. A cozy couch. The world, briefly, at bay.

Birhane Worede’s paintings gives us permission — to exhale, to soften, to simply be. Drenched in warm hues of earthy red and yellows, it’s a small act of radical tenderness.

Birhane’s practice is a sustained meditation on our inner lives in the face of societal pressure — the quiet moments, the private joys, the kind of contentment that doesn’t ask for an audience.

Out of Office closes next week. This one deserves to be seen in person.

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