Tate Modern: A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography

Advance booking only

Exhibition Dates: 6 July – 14 January 2024

Bringing together a group of artists from different generations, this exhibition will address how photography, film, audio, and more have been used to reimagine Africa’s diverse cultures and historical narratives.

Moving beyond a traditional photography exhibition, the show seeks to explore the many ways images travel across histories and geographies. Using themes of spirituality, identity, urbanism and climate emergency, the exhibition will guide the viewer through dream-like utopias and bustling cityscapes viewed from the artists’ perspectives.

The exhibition follows artists across the many landscapes, borders and time zones of Africa to reveal how photography allows the past and the future to co-exist in powerful and transformative ways.

Read, rest and reflect in our free space Common Ground before or after the exhibition.

Image Credit: Dawit L. Petros Untitled (Prologue III), Nouakchott, Mauritania 2016 Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary