As the first major exhibition to survey Pan-Africanism’s cultural manifestations, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica gathers together some 350 objects, spanning the 1920s to the present, made by artists on four of the world’s seven continents: Africa, North and South America, and Europe. Panafrica, the promised land named in the exhibition title, is presented as a conceptual place where arguments about decolonization, solidarity, and freedom are advanced and negotiated with the aim of an emancipatory future. Rather than a stable and defined territory, the exhibition maps Panafrica as a shifting and boundless constellation that transforms and reassembles standard representation of the planet.
December 15, 2024 - March 30, 2025
Regenstein Hall, The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Friday - Monday: 11 AM - 5 PM
Thursday: 11 AM - 8 PM
Tuesday - Wednesday: CLOSED
