Grazie alle opere in esposizione sarà dunque possibile esplorare i concetti di sfollamento, migrazione e attraversamento, siano essi il portato di dinamiche politiche, ambientali, sociale o storiche. A seguito di una residenza creativa e di ricerca presso la OH Gallery, il prossimo autunno Mischa Sanders e Philipp Putzer presenteranno un’esplorazione scultorea dell’ambiente urbano, frutto della concentrazione della loro analisi e delle loro sensibilità su architettura, materiali da costruzione e forme di appropriazione spaziale. La mostra sarà visitabile dal pubblico dal 29 novembre 2025 al 31 gennaio 2026. Inoltre, OH Gallery offrirà un nutrito programma di eventi off-site, tra i quali si segnalano la personale di Théodore Diouf alla Biennale di San Paolo (dal 6 settembre 2025 all’11 gennaio 2026) e la collettiva presso la 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair di Londra (dal 16 al 19 novembre 2025).
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To inaugurate its 2025–2026 season, OH Gallery will bring together artists Souad Abdelrasoul, Viyé Diba, Abdoulaye Konaté, Ghassan Salhab, and Ousmane Sow from September 21 to November 8, 2025.
2025-26 PROGRAM
The exhibition will explore notions of displacement, migration, and crossing, whether political, environmental, social, or historical in nature. Following a creative and research residency at OH Gallery in the fall of 2025, Mischa Sanders and Philipp Putzer will present a sculptural exploration of the urban environment, focusing on architecture, construction materials, and forms of spatial appropriation. Their exhibition will run from November 29, 2025, to January 31, 2026. OH Gallery will also offer a rich off-site program, including a solo show by Théodore Diouf at the São Paulo Biennial from September 6, 2025, to January 11, 2026, and a group exhibition at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London, from November 16 to 19, 2025.
Abdoulaye Konaté, Hommage aux chasseurs du Mandé #4, 2013-2024. Mixed media, 275 x 618 cm © Abdoulaye Konaté
Group exhibition: Souad Abdelrasoul, Viyé Diba, Abdoulaye Konaté, Ghassan Salhab, Ousmane Sow, September 21 – November 8, 2025 – To open its 2025-2026 season, OH Gallery is bringing together Souad Abdelrasoul (Egypt), Viyé Diba (Senegal), Abdoulaye Konaté (Mali), Ghassan Salhab (Lebanon) and Ousmane Sow (Senegal) to explore notions of displacement, migration and crossing, whether linked to political, environmental, social or historical contexts. Through plastic, film and installation works, the artists explore the experience of displacement in all its structural violence. In a global context marked by the intensification of human mobility, whether chosen or forced, the artists explore the complex dynamics envisaged here as an experience of the body and identity, but also as a vector of transformation, memory and resistance. By cross-referencing geographical trajectories, the exhibition highlights the impact of the social and political contexts of origin on the migration process, the tensions between territory and belonging, between imposed borders and lived spaces, and the post-colonial legacies and systems of domination that organise the movement of bodies and continue to shape the imagination of exile, return and the impossibility of departure.
Mischa Sanders & Philipp Putzer, Espaces poétiques, 2022. Mixed media on paper, 33 x 28( x18) © Mischa Sanders & Philipp Putzer
Mischa Sanders & Philipp Putzer: November 29, 2025 – January 31, 2026 – Following on from an artistic and research residency at OH Gallery in autumn 2025, Mischa Sanders and Philipp Putzer offer a visual exploration of the urban environment, paying particular attention to architecture, building materials and forms of appropriation of space.Their project is part of a process of sensitive and material investigation, informed by observation of the dynamics of urbanisation, the logic of self-construction and the local economies of transformation. At the heart of their thinking: aluminium, an industrial material that has been hijacked and reinvested, worked in collaboration with traditional foundries in Dakar. Combining sculpture, installation and research, the exhibition adopts a minimalist, conceptual approach that emphasises the economy of form and the evocative power of materials. It explores the stories buried in the material, the layers of temporality inscribed in the urban fabric, and the tensions between projected modernity and constructed reality.
Théodore Diouf, Sans titre 04, 1986, acrylic on paper, 56 x 76 cm
OFF-SITE PROGRAM
36th edition of the São Paulo Biennale, Théodore Diouf: September 6, 2025 – January 11, 2026 – Théodore Diouf (born 1949) embodies the École de Dakar. He was among the first generation of Senegalese artists to be trained in the Senghorian ideology of post-independence negritude. His participation in the 36th São Paulo Biennale 2025 established him as a major figure of African modernism within a global pan-African and transatlantic movement, in dialogue with the Brazilian modernists of the 1960s who, like him, sought emancipation from Western art. This encounter reveals the convergences between the École de Dakar and the Brazilian neo-concretists in their sensory reinterpretation of tradition, contributing together to the development of a post-colonial visual language that affirms the cultural identities of the African diaspora and participates in the emergence of a globally interconnected contemporary art.
1-54 London, Oumar Ball, Aliou Diack, Viyé Diba, Théodore Diouf, Méné, Ibrahima Thiam: From November 16 to 19, 2025 – Théodore Diouf (born 1949) embodies the École de Dakar. He was among the first generation of Senegalese artists to be trained in the Senghorian ideology of post-independence negritude. Dividing his time between Senegal and Switzerland since the second half of the 1980s, he has developed a practice that favours warm colours, figurations and abstractions inspired by African mythologies, applying Senghor’s cultural policy aimed at demonstrating contemporary African creative capacity. He was part of the pan-African movement of the 1960s and 70s, alongside l’École de Casablanca and other post-independence artistic movements, participating in the continental effervescence that redefined modern African artistic identity.
View of Cris de mer et du désert © Hako Hankson
ABOUT THE OH GALLERY
In the heart of the Plateau, the historic city center of Dakar, stands OH Gallery, a unique venue for contemporary art and creation. The gallery hosts monographic and group exhibitions as well as an offsite programme that reaches out to the public. The gallery contributes to stimulating an audacious rhythm to contemporary creation in Senegal. It offers tailored events and experiences: exclusive and personalized moments for collectors and visitors, in order to spread the wealth and plurality of this artistic landscape as widely as possible. Through its curatorial approach and finely chosen scenography, OH Gallery creates a dialogue between historical heritages and contemporary perspectives, turning the themes it tackles into a source of thought and research. The artists exhibited transform their singularity into a dialogue and make their hybrid origins an echo that crosses borders. Their work is presented throughout the world, traveling to fairs as Art Basel in 2022 and 2024, as well as biennials and other rendez-vous. With them, OH Gallery, directly rooted on the continent, is part of a decolonial dynamic, shaking up the art market. The gallery’s ambition is to establish strong links with the cultural actors that surround it, by sharing projects and establishing collaborations, whether local or international, with galleries, alternative creative third places and institutions that work towards the collective construction of a critical discourse.
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Building Maginot, 143 Avenue Lamine Gueye, Dakar Plateau (Sénégal);
free access from Wednesday to Saturday, 12 a.m to 06 p.m;
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