Past
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Souad Abdelrassoul: Unstable Worlds
Circle Art Gallery 11 September - 19 October 2024 In a year of rupture and dislocation in the world and in her personal and relational life, Souad turned inwards into a solitary studio practice. From this intense period of solitude and self-reflection, Unstable Worlds emerges, featuring paintings made between 2022 and 2024. In the struggle and catharsis of making... Read more -
Tabitha wa Thuku: Seasons within a Season
Circle Art Gallery 19 June - 20 July 2024 In different places and spaces, she has explored notions of home and belonging; to people, to herself and to the land. These seasons, as she calls them, come together to paint a rich tapestry of her life, and all the things she has seen and done on her odyssey. We... Read more -
Shabu Mwangi: (UN)CONTAINED TURBULENCE
Circle Art Gallery 24 April - 25 May 2024 Read more -
Austine Adika: R’n'B, Wanjohi Maina: Hawkers’ Republic, Ngugi Waweru: Mbinguni Kume Pasuka
Circle Art Gallery 13 - 30 March 2024 Three concurrent solo exhibitions Austine Adika (b.1986), Wanjohi Maina (b.1986) and Ngugi Waweru (b.1987) present three exciting bodies of work, ingenious in their working methods, aesthetic strategies and use of material, each reflecting a distinct sculptural language. Austine Adika is interested in how everyday materials can be transformed, responding to... Read more -
Invocations: A Group Exhibition
Circle Art Gallery 24 January - 24 February 2024 Read more -
Dickens Otieno: Trails
Circle Art Gallery 29 November 2023 - 6 January 2024 Read more -
Tiemar Tegene: Shertan Weha / ሸርጣን ውሀ
Circle Art Gallery 13 September - 14 October 2023 Tiemar Tegene: Shertan Weha exhibition at the new Circle Art Gallery Read more -
Antifragile
Circle Art Gallery 20 July - 2 September 2023 Read more -
Donald Wasswa: Immortal Objects
Circle Art Gallery 14 June - 8 July 2023 Read more -
Eastern Voices: Contemporary Artists from East Africa
Addis Fine Art, London 1 June - 22 July 2023 We are delighted to be part of this survey exhibition which seeks to foster dialogue and highlight synergies between artists and contemporary East African galleries. In collaboration with Afriart Gallery and Addis Fine Art, Eastern Voices will be exhibited at Addis Fine Art - London, 21 Eastcastle Street, London W1W... Read more -
Sujay Shah: Forgive Us For Our Skins
New Circle Art Gallery, Riara Road 19 April - 20 May 2023 Hello Description Read more -
The Forest and Desert School Revisited
Circle Art Gallery 23 November - 22 December 2022 Read more -
East African Masters
Gallery 12, Cromwell Place, London 11 - 16 October 2022 For Circle's second year showing at Cromwell Place, we have chosen to focus on the older generation with a presentation of four artists from Kenya, Sudan and Uganda; Geoffrey Mukasa, Theresa Musoke, Mohamed Otaybi and Sane Wadu. These artists, whilst well known in their home countries have little or no... Read more -
Tahir Karmali: Bound Between Cliffs
Circle Art Gallery 31 August - 1 October 2022 Read more -
Mohamed Abdella Otaybi: The Lost Paradise
Circle Art Gallery 29 June - 30 July 2022 Read more -
Fictions: Group Exhibition
Circle Art Gallery 11 May - 11 June 2022 Read more -
Souad Abdelrassoul & Shabu Mwangi: A Never Ending Longing
Gallery 12, Cromwell Place, London 9 - 15 May 2022 Read more -
Jackie Karuti: Notes Movement Method
Circle Art Gallery 27 April 2022 Exhibition preview and book launch Jackie Karuti was the main prize winner of the 2020 Henrike Grohs Art Award. This book is published as part of the award, with support from the Goethe-Institut and Grohs family. Additional support was provided by The African Arts Trust. This book was produced by... Read more -
Shabu Mwangi & Ngugi Waweru: Systems to Emptiness
Circle Art Gallery 16 March - 14 April 2022 As a prelude to Wajukuu's participation in Documenta 15, June - Sept 2022 in Germany, Shabu Mwangi (Kenyan, born 1985) and Ngugi Waweru (Kenyan, born 1987) will be creating an installation at Circle Art Gallery that considers the society we live in, human nature and our struggles. The architectural elements... Read more -
A Retrospective of Three Artists: Theresa Musoke, Tabitha wa Thuku, Yony Waite
Circle Art Gallery 26 January - 26 February 2022 To view Yony Waite Memorial Exhibition March 2024 Portfolio click here Read more -
Dennis Muraguri: New Sculpture
Circle Art Gallery 1 - 23 December 2021 Read more -
Xavier Verhoest: Closer
Circle Art Gallery 13 October - 22 November 2021 Xavier Verhoest's images locate the viewer in an in-between world where movement through space and time is, all at once, suspended and accelerated. The natural world, and landscapes are often the starting point for an exploration of remembrance and oblivion, in which Verhoest takes the viewer to and beyond places... Read more -
East African Encounters
Gallery 12, Cromwell Place, London 5 - 17 October 2021 Read more -
Various Small Fires: Emerging Artists from Kenya, Tanzania & Eritrea
Circle Art Gallery 11 August - 10 September 2021 Read more -
Souad Abdelrassoul: Behind The River
Circle Art Gallery 24 June - 23 July 2021 Read more -
Jonathan Gathaara Sölanke Fraser: There Is A Time and A Place
Circle Art Gallery 12 May - 11 June 2021 Read more -
Addis Contemporary II: Six Years On
Circle Art Gallery 14 April - 7 May 2021 Read more -
Shabu Mwangi: The Source of our Seas
Circle Art Gallery 27 January - 17 February 2021 Read more -
Dickens Otieno: Mabati Tailor
Circle Art Gallery 25 November - 22 December 2020 Read more -
Boniface Maina: Waiting, Watching and Wishing
Circle Art Gallery 28 October - 18 November 2020 Read more -
Agnes Waruguru: Small Things to Consider
Circle Art Gallery 9 September - 10 October 2020 Read more -
Shabu Mwangi: The Man with Two Shadows
Online 27 August 2020 Read more -
Souad Abdelrassoul: Confusion
Online 7 - 27 June 2020 Read more -
Maliza Kiasuwa: Today is Yesterday
Online 29 April - 20 May 2020 Circle Art Gallery is delighted to announce an exclusive online show of a selection of new two and three dimensional works from Maliza Kiasuwa, from her ongoing series entitled 'Yesterday is Today'. In her art making, Maliza Kiasuwa focuses on materials available to her in her immediate environment. Today is... Read more -
I Will See What I Want to See
Circle Art Agency 13 November - 7 December 2019 Read more -
Salah Elmur: Studio Kamal
Circle Art Gallery 24 April - 24 May 2019 Read more -
Kaloki Nyamai: Mwaki Nginya Evinda Enge (The Fire Next Time)
Circle Art Gallery 9 - 25 January 2019 Read more -
Harare Contemporary
Circle Art Gallery 28 November - 21 December 2018 Defying expectation, bad press and international perception of their country, Zimbabwean artists have forged ahead over the past decade, becoming a major force in contemporary African art. This exhibition brings together 13 emerging and established Zimbabwean artists, curated by Valerie Kabov, First Floor Gallery, for an exciting first exhibition in... Read more -
Michael Soi: China Loves Africa
Circle Art Gallery 15 August - 15 September 2018 Michael W. Soi (b. 1972) is a Nairobi-based artist who launched his practice in 1995 after completion of his studies in fine art and art history. In his work, he tackles current issues in politics, and offers a satirical take on the topics that occupy our public imagination. Soi draws... Read more -
New Threads: Investigating Process and Material
Circle Art Gallery 31 January - 24 February 2018 New Threads, Investigating Process And Material, considers artists' intimate engagement with material, how the medium and materials can dictate the form of a work of art. Artists understand their medium, not just physically, but also in terms of history, personal experience and cultural associations, opening up an array of aesthetic... Read more -
Shabu Mwangi: The Stateless
Circle Art Gallery 26 September - 20 October 2017 Lawrence 'Shabu' Mwangi is an artist in search of individual and collective healing. In The Stateless, his first solo exhibition since 2015, Shabu recalls his interactions with asylum seekers whilst on a fellowship in Berlin. Listening to their accounts of the journey to Europe and life as stateless people, these... Read more -
Young Guns
Circle Art Gallery 7 June - 7 July 2017 This exhibition features new drawing, painting, photography and video from 26 emerging artists in Nairobi. The artists work mostly in collectives and communal art spaces across the city. They are the new guard; politicized and pushing boundaries. Exploring their identities; local and global concerns; war and peace; law and disorder;... Read more -
Khartoum Contemporary
Circle Art Gallery 5 - 23 May 2017 This exhibition presents a range of work and artistic ideas spanning the past 50 years. The artists in this show have all studied, and many of them have also taught, at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Khartoum, which has played a central role in the movement of... Read more -
Rehema Chachage: Mlango wa Navushiku (Navushiku's Lineage)
Circle Art Agency 30 March - 18 April 2017 It was at the Circle Art Gallery booth in the Tomorrow's and Today section at the 2016 Cape Town Art Fair that I had my first time encounter with Rehema Chachage's work. The familiar image of a woman wrapping a khanga around her waist drew me into the booth. There,... Read more -
Kampala Contemporary
Circle Art Gallery 13 April - 14 May 2016 Kampala is a cross section of co-habiting realities reflected in the styles, subjects, and symbolism of the artists in this exhibition. The artists cast their characters across class, gender, and social roles. The work looks inward at the self, looks around as if to find its bearings, and looks out... Read more -
Freedom | Flight | Refuge
Circle Art Gallery 11 February - 31 March 2016 Circle Art Gallery's first exhibition of 2016 entitled 'Freedom | Flight | Refuge' explores personal and public issues of freedom, movement and home. Six contemporary Kenyan artists have made work that interrogates themes of political and economic migration, displacement, persecution, dreams and journeys to another place. The six artists featured... Read more -
Paper II
Circle Art Gallery 24 November - 23 December 2015 Read more -
Gor Soudan: Join The Dots
Circle Art Gallery 11 September - 4 October 2015 Gor Soudan (born 1983, Kenya) lives and works between Kisumu and Nairobi. Soudan's artistic practice is an intense, obsessive process through which material is transformed into beautiful, haunting and thought-provoking work. His practice is often informed by found objects and material that surround him; scraps of paper, carton, plastic and... Read more -
Addis Contemporary
Circle Art Gallery 17 June - 12 July 2015 Painting has always been the predominant medium for artists in Ethiopia. The development of the modern art movement in the country can be traced to the deeply rooted and dominant influence of church paintings. However, in every generation, artists have addressed socio-cultural, historic, economic and political issues and this is... Read more -
Concerning The Internal
Circle Art Gallery 26 March - 19 April 2015 The first exhibition at Circle Art Gallery gives space to a group of 20 artists chosen for their diverse interrogation of profoundly individual, internal concerns. Concerning the Internal features video, installation, painting and drawing that communicate each artist's innermost thoughts, experiences or desires. Broader narratives about shared human experiences are... Read more -
East African Encounters
Popup, Ramara, Nairobi 20 - 23 June 2014 Circle's 3rd pop-up exhibition at Ramara, a modernist building built in the 60s featured 25 artists from 6 countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda and Ethiopia. It included work by both emerging and established artists, many previously unseen in Kenya. Some of the artists are exhibiting and gaining acclaim both... Read more -
Paper I
Popup, Nairobi 1 - 3 March 2014 Circle Art Agency staged a pop-up exhibition entitled 'paper' in a beautiful, unoccupied house on Lower Kabete Road, just north of Zen Garden. The show featured over 30 established and emerging artists from East Africa, all exploring the theme/medium of paper and its multiple possibilities for an artist. Works were... Read more -
Xtract Subtract Abstract
Popup, PwC Towers, Nairobi 11 - 14 May 2013 Circle's first pop up exhibition - Xtract Subtract Abstract - was held at PwC Towers, Nairobi in May 2013. The ground breaking exhibition featured large scale abstract works by eight artists; Justus Kyalo, Sibylla Martin, Michael Wafula, Jason Corder, Emily Odongo, Sidney Mang'ong'o, Xavier Verhoest and Peter Walala. Read more
