Southern Guild Returns to The Armory Show 2025 with Bold Pan-African Voices

Southern Guild returns to New York’s Armory Show this September for a third consecutive year, bringing a bold cross-section of African voices to the Javits Center. The gallery’s presentation cuts across painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media, with works by Kamyar Bineshtarigh, Amine El Gotaibi, Madoda Fani, Terence Maluleke, Manyaku Mashilo, Roméo Mivekannin, Zanele Muholi, Mmangaliso Nzuza and Zizipho Poswa.

The booth reads like a charged conversation around identity, history and form, spanning South Africa, Morocco, Benin and Nigeria, amplifying the gallery’s mission to position African perspectives at the centre of global discourse.

Highlights include two lightbox works by Zanele Muholi from the acclaimed Somnyama Ngonyama series, impromptu self-portraits that confront invisibility with raw intensity. Zizipho Poswa presents a new ceramic and bronze work from her Magodi series, honouring hair styling as an intergenerational archive. Manyaku Mashilo unveils red-ochre-cloaked figures rooted in Sepedi culture, while Madoda Fani’s smoke-fired vessels echo Nguni tradition through burnished, organic forms.

Also on view: Mmangaliso Nzuza’s angular, allegorical canvases; Terence Maluleke’s crystal-slick portrait of Pusha T at the Met Gala; Roméo Mivekannin’s interventions into European art history; and Kamyar Bineshtarigh’s abstract explorations of mark-making and memory.

This presentation comes as Southern Guild expands its footprint with a Los Angeles outpost and deeper connections across Africa and the diaspora. At the Armory Show 2025, the gallery’s vision is clear: African art is not an addition to the global stage – it is reshaping it.