The 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair has announced the 40 galleries from 18 countries that will be exhibiting at the fair’s fourth London edition, to be held at Somerset House from October 6 to 9, during Frieze Week.
As usual, this year’s fair will display the work of artists from Africa and its diasporas—more than 110 in total this year. FORUM, the fair’s educational wing, also returns to the fair, offering a variety of programming curated by Koyo Kouoh, the artistic director of the RAW Materials Company arts center in Dakar, Senegal.
The list of participating galleries in full, below.
50 Golborn (London)
Addis Fine Art (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
AFRONOVA GALLERY (Johannesburg)
AGorgi Gallery (Tunis, Tunisia)
APALAZZOGALLERY (Brescia, Italy)
Art Twenty One (Lagos, Nigeria)
ARTCO Gallery (Aachen, Germany)
ARTLabAfrica (Nairobi, Kenya)
Axis Gallery (New York)
Barnard Gallery (Cape Town, South Africa)
Caroline Pagès Gallery (Lisbon, Portugal)
CIRCA Gallery (London)
Circle Art Gallery (Nairobi, Kenya)
Eric Hussenot Gallery (Paris)
Galerie Mikael Andersen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Galeria 111 (Lisbon, Portugal)
Galerie Anne De Villepoix (Paris)
Galerie Cécile Fakhoury (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire)
Gallery 1957 (Accra, Ghana)
Gallery of African Art (GAFRA) (London)
GVCC (Casablanca)
Jack Bell Gallery (London)
Jenkins Johnson Gallery (New York and San Francisco)