Advertisment

Staff of Umoja Art Gallery Denied Visas Before Africa Basel

The event occurred a week before the opening of the Africa Basel art fair on June 17

The Art Journal18 June, 2026

Courtesy Umoja Art Gallery, Kampala

Staff from Umoja Art Gallery, in Kampala, Uganda, were denied Swiss entry visas the week before the opening of the Africa Basel art fair on June 17 – as reported by Alexander Morrison for The Art Newspaper.

A sign on the gallery’s empty booth at the fair reads: “An empty booth stands as a reminder that despite the ambition of a global art ecosystem, physical borders and administrative barriers still determine whose voices can be present.”

Africa Basel was launched last year to coincide with Art Basel’s flagship event in Switzerland. This year, it encompasses 19 international galleries promoting work by African and African diaspora artists.

Share:
FacebookTwitter

News

King's Library Tower at the British Library by Sam Walton

British Library Announces New CEO

The recently departed head of the UK Space Agency has been announced as the British Library’s new chief executive, as the institution emerges from a turbulent period and announces a new partnership with Netflix

The Art Journal
Advertisment
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Photo: Iwan Baan, courtesy of the Lucas Museum

A New Hope for George Lucas’s $1 Billion Museum

 Far more than a home for Star Wars, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson’s new Los Angeles museum brings fine art, comics, illustration, photography and cinema together under the banner of ‘narrative art’

The Art Journal
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, courtesy of the Library of Congress

Washington DC’s Kennedy Center Risks Fiscal Collapse

Internal documents obtained by The Washington Post warn that the Kennedy Center faces “fiscal collapse” within weeks, after ticket sales and fundraising plunged amid upheaval following Donald Trump’s takeover

The Art Journal