Investec Cape Town: Tyna Adebowale

We are delighted to participate for the first time in Investec Cape Town, the largest and leading international art fair in Africa, hosted in the International Convention Centre (CTICC) in Cape Town, South Africa. We will be showing new work in a solo presentation by Tyna Adebowale in the Solo Section of the fair, which is curated by Céline Seror.

The presented work by Adebowale constitutes the fourteenth chapter in her #Motherwomb series, a multifaceted and ongoing artistic project which explores motherhood as something larger than biology and deeply intergenerational. 

The #motherwombseries is Adebowale's visual ode to the women who raised her–her five mothers. In the Uneme community in Nigeria, where she grew up, it is common for a child to be raised not only by their biological mother, but also by several maternal figures. It was only when the artist began travelling that she realized this natural, communal way of parenting was rarely the norm. In this series, Adebowale and the community for her spiritural widsom and lifelong work as a healer, mediator, midwife, and strong matriarch until her passing in 2015.

Tyna Adebowale (1982, Nigeria) lives and works in Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions include Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art, Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA. Good Mom/Bad Mom, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2025); Vrouwen van Amsterdam: een ode, Amsterdam Museum (2025); Africa Supernova (The contemporary African painting collection of Carla and Pieter Schulting), Kunsthal KAdE; Refresh Amsterdam 2020-2021 (Amsterdam Museum); The Future is Female, CODA Museum, Appeldorn (2020); and What if Women Rule The World?, Garage Rotterdam (2019). She is the second recipient of the Jacqueline Van Tongeren Fellowship For African Artists (2017- 2018), 3Package Deal Award (2019-2020) Recipient from the AFK grant, Amsterdam. She became a second-year artist in residency at BlackRock Senegal in 2021, and completed a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, between 2017 and 2018.