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The Barbican Centre's brutalist facade and iconic balconies

Barbican Centre · City of London

Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica

Ended11 June 2026 – 6 September 2026·Ticketed — see website

This exhibition has ended.

Over 300 works tracing Pan-Africanism's influence on art and culture from the 1920s to today, featuring artists including Chris Ofili, Marlene Dumas and Claudette Johnson.

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Editor's pick

The Barbican has been quietly building toward this for two years — a survey of Panafrican art, music, design and political imagination from the 1920s to now. Three floors. Probably the most ambitious group show of 2026. Open it cold; the wall texts are doing the work the Wikipedia page can't.

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