Magdalene Odundo in Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
5 November 2025—6 April 2026
Group exhibition at MACBA Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is the first major international exhibition to examine the cultural manifestations of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to the present. Developed jointly by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbican Centre in London and the KANAL–Centre Pompidou in Brussels, the exhibition comprises nearly 500 pieces by 100 artists and will tour the four institutions until spring 2027.
Although Pan-Africanism has been widely recognised as a major force in twentieth-century global history, until now there has been no major exhibition surveying this movement’s cultural manifestations. Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica takes as its starting point the date of the first Pan-African Congress (1919) and revisits Pan-Africanism as a set of galvanizing ideas: projections of another vision of a world that have yet to be elucidated artistically or considered sufficiently relevant in political terms.