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🛒 تسوق الآنBarbican Centre Launches Landmark Pan-African Arts Season With 50+ Events in London
Barbican Centre Launches Landmark Pan-African Arts Season With 50+ Events in London
A Century of Pan-African Creativity Under One Roof
The Barbican Centre in London is hosting one of the most ambitious cultural seasons in its history, bringing together more than 50 events spanning visual art, film, music, performance, talks and workshops from June through September 2026. At the heart of the programme is Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, a landmark international exhibition featuring over 300 works from Africa, the Caribbean, Brazil, North America and Europe.
The exhibition traces how artists and activists across a century have used visual art, performance, design and collective action to address themes of liberation, identity and political change. Participating artists include globally recognised names such as El Anatsui, William Kentridge, Lubaina Himid, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Marlene Dumas, Inji Efflatoun and Yto Barrada, among more than 150 others from across the African continent and its diasporas.
What Pan-Africanism Means for Art and Culture
Pan-Africanism emerged around the turn of the 20th century as a political and philosophical movement advocating self-determination, anti-colonial resistance and solidarity among people of African descent. While its influence on global history is well documented, the Barbican's programme is the first major exhibition to comprehensively examine how these ideas have shaped artistic and cultural production across different regions and disciplines.
The season explores four core themes: Rituals, Nationhood, Technology and Archive. These themes were co-curated by the Barbican alongside cultural curators Tobi Kyeremateng and Jason "Scully" Kavuma, ensuring the programme reflects authentic voices from within the communities it represents.
Key Facts at a Glance
- 300+ works on display from Africa, the Caribbean, Brazil, North America and Europe
- 50+ events across visual art, film, music, performance, talks and workshops
- 150+ artists featured, including El Anatsui, William Kentridge and Lubaina Himid
- 4 thematic pillars: Rituals, Nationhood, Technology and Archive
- June–September 2026 — the season runs across multiple venues within the Barbican Centre
- Film programme tracing the circulation of pan-African ideas across the 20th century
Music, Film and Immersive Experiences
The season opens with an immersive spatial audio presentation of a collaborative project between the late Jamaican producer Lee "Scratch" Perry and German electronic duo Mouse on Mars. Other headline performers include Grammy-nominated bassist and singer Meshell Ndegeocello, Ghanaian jazz musician Pat Thomas, composer Tyshawn Sorey, the Cesária Évora Orchestra with Cape Verdean vocalist Mayra Andrade, and Congolese artist Sammy Baloji.
The accompanying film programme features both historical and contemporary works that trace how festivals, social movements and cultural networks have shaped global conversations around Black identity and solidarity. Listening sessions, workshops and community gatherings will run throughout the four-month season.
Why This Matters for Libya and North Africa
For Libyan audiences, the Barbican season represents a significant moment for African cultural visibility on the global stage. North African artists are well represented in the exhibition, including Moroccan photographer Yto Barrada, Egyptian painter Inji Efflatoun, Sudanese modernist Ibrahim El-Salahi and Moroccan painter Mohamed Melehi. Their inclusion underscores the deep connections between North African and broader pan-African artistic traditions.
Libya's own cultural heritage — from Amazigh visual traditions to revolutionary-era political art — sits within the same currents of anti-colonial resistance and transnational solidarity that the Barbican season celebrates. As Libya continues to rebuild its cultural institutions, programmes like this offer both inspiration and a reminder of the power of art to shape national identity.
A Season That Looks Forward by Looking Back
The season concludes with the Sankofa Carnival Performance, inspired by the Akan concept of Sankofa — learning from the past to shape the future. The event celebrates the transnational roots of carnival traditions and their connections to African and diasporic cultures worldwide.
For anyone passionate about art, history and the enduring power of cultural exchange, the Barbican's pan-African season is not to be missed. It is a rare opportunity to experience the full breadth of African creativity — past, present and future — in one of the world's great cultural capitals.
— LibyaPress / Entertainment Desk
