Contemporary African Artists

The Guy Ferrer Collection

Contemporary African art is currently experiencing a moment of international recognition. This exhibition brings together around seventy works by artists from countries such as Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, South Africa, Mozambique, and Burkina Faso, drawn from the private collection of artist and collector Guy Ferrer. These are powerful, unfiltered creations—works that don’t hesitate to press on the wound while proudly presenting an art born of scarcity, the urge to tell a story, and the hope for a more just world for all. It is a lived, authentic art that needs no literary justification to strike us emotionally—
an art that, sadly, feels increasingly distant from our Western perspective.

Toni Àlvarez de Arana, curator

“Beyond the immediate pleasure it gives me, the modest collection I’ve begun — and hope to expand with future discoveries — seeks to repair, even in part, the lack of recognition these works have long endured. At the same time, it speaks to the universality of art: sensitivity knows no borders and reaches anyone open to others with curiosity.”

Guy Ferrer, collector

“This collection speaks for itself. It expresses our loyalty to the artists. Our desire to make visible all the forms of contemporary Africa: from the most political to the most poetic, from figurative to abstract, from pain to hope.”

Diane Audrey Ngako, art curator and collector