Sexual and gender diversity

Curated by the museum's director, Elvira Dyangani Ose, in cooperation with Antawan Byrd, Adom Getachew and Matthew S. Witkovsky, Projecting a Black Planet. The Art and Culture of Pan-Africanism is the first major international exhibition that analyses the cultural manifestations of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to the present.

This project is jointly promoted with the Art Institute of Chicago in cooperation with two other leading institutions: the Barbican Centre in London and the KANAL Centre Pompidou in Brussels. This collaboration has facilitated the sheer magnitude of the exhibition, with nearly 350 pieces by one hundred artists, which will be exhibited at the four institutions until spring 2027.  

Although Pan-Africanism has been widely recognised as a major force in 20th-century world history, until now, no major exhibition has been planned to examine this movement in the field of art and culture. Projecting a Black Planet. The Art and Culture of Pan-Africanism” takes the first Pan-African Congress (1919) as its starting point and explains Pan-Africanism as a series of galvanising ideas, projections of another perspective of a world that has existed but has neither been explained through art forms nor considered sufficiently relevant in political terms.