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2021

First Floor Gallery Harare/Victoria Falls
5 Memorable Booths to Seek Out at Art Basel Miami Beach
December 2021
Artnet News
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Troy Makaza
Abstract Revival
December 2021
Penta Barron's
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First Floor Gallery Harare/Victoria Falls
First-Time Exhibitors Shine at Art Basel Miami Beach as Selection Committee Pushes to Diversify
November 2021
ARTnews
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Wycliffe Mundopa
Wycliffe Mundopa, winner of the 2021 FNB Art Prize
October 2021
New24
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Anne Zanele Mutema and Miriro Mwandiambira
Two-woman exhibition opens first of its kind in Victoria Falls
October 2021
The Independent
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Shamilla Aasha
Interview with Shamilla
September 2021
Artemorbida
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Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude
Visual artist self-reflects in new exhibition
September 2021
The Herald
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First Floor Gallery Harare/Victoria Falls
Highlights from African Galleries Now
June 2021
WhiteHot Magazine of contemporary art
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Pebofatso Mokoena
Mzansi visual artist in Zim’s solo exhibition
June 2021
NewsDay
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First Floor Gallery Harare/Victoria Falls
​​Busy month at First Floor Gallery
June 2021
The Zimbabwe Independent
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Pebofatso Mokoena
12 Must-See Works from Leading African Galleries
June 2021
Artsy
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Troy Makaza​
​Breaking with tradition, three international guest curators step in to guide the next Art Basel OVR
June 2021
Financial Times
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Troy Makaza
Four first-time artists on show at OVR: Portal
June 2021
Financial Times
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​Amanda Mushate
Intimate abstractions of Mushate
April 2021
NewsDay
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Amanda Mushate
​First Floor Gallery hosts young Mushate’s solo exhibition
April 2021
Zimbabwean Independent
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Thomas Muziyirwa
Luxor African Film Festival
March 2021
Egypt Today
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First Floor Gallery Harare/Victoria Falls
​The best art gallery in Africa: Top 10 list
January 2021
Briefly
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First Floor Gallery Harare/Victoria Falls
First Floor Gallery expands support to emerging talents
January 2021
NewsDay
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2020​

First Floor Gallery Harare/Victoria Falls
​First Floor Gallery branches out to Vic Falls
November 2020
The Herald
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Valerie Kabov
Some views on Covid, The social justice protests and the art world from Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa
July - August 2020
Art Africa
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​Valerie Kabov, Julie Taylor
Why the Contemporary African Art Market Is Uniquely Positioned to Weather COVID-19
May 2020
Artsy
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Wycliffe Mundopa
Wycliffe Mundopa 1001 Afternoons
April 2020
FAD magazine
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2019

Amanda, Gresham and Helen
​'A crazy amount of talent': contemporary art thrives in Harare
September 2019
The Guardian
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Troy Makaza
​8 Artists Using Silicone to Create Strange, Radical Artworks
March 2019
Artsy
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Troy Makaza
3 exciting emerging artists to look out for at the Cape Town Art Fair
February 2019
Tmes Live
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Bouvy Enkobo, Pebofatso Mokoena
Songs of Sankofa opens at First Floor Gallery
Januray 2019
The Herald
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2018

​First Floor Gallery Harare
Celebrating First Floor Gallery
August 2018
The Sunday Mail
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2017

Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude
Nyaude selected for New York triennial
December 2017
The Herald
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Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude
Nyaude exposes social ills through art
September 2017
The Herald
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​Julio Rizhi
Contemporary artist Julio Rizhi in solo exhibition
October 2017
The Herald
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2016

Troy Makaza
A conversation on colour, line and from
September 2016
Between 10and5
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Troy Makaza
Visual artist bridges cultural gap
March 2016
The Herald
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2015​

• Visual artists leave for international art fairs - The Herald : 14 September 2015
• Visual artists explore religion - The Herald : 11 September 2015
• Origins of the oppression of african women - The Herald : 28 August 2015
• Committed to the medium by Valerie Kabov - Art Africa : 27 August 2015
• Harare Painter Mavis Tauzeni’s Reflections On Being A Woman In Zimbabwe - OkayAfrica : 10 July 2015
• Artist's age of accountability - The Herald : 20 March 2015
• First Floor Gallery dares to be different - The Daily News : 16 January 2015

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2014

• Africa's 10 best contemporary art galleries - The Culture Trip : 2014
• Top Gallery Celebrates 5th Anniversary - The Herald : 19 December 2014
• Supporting Zimbabwean Art - AMA : 15 October 2014
• The interview issue - Art South Africa : 06 October 2014
• Review: 'The Wayland Rudd Collection' at First Floor Gallery Harare - Art South Africa : 12 September 2014
• The Collectors Cocktail - The Herald : 01 August 2014
• Exhibition on Racism opens at First Floor Gallery - The Herald : 24 June 2014
• Wayland Rudd Collection Stops over in Zim - Newsday - 23 June 2014 
• Harare No Limits exhibition at HIFA - The Herald : 01 May 2014
• ‘In Perpetual Motion’ exhibition opens - The Herald : 09 April 2014
• First Floor Gallery Opens Dramascapes - Harare News : 17 February 2014
• Mundopa in Solo exhibition - The Herald : 12 February 2014
• Dramascapes opens at First Floor Gallery - Newsday : 11 February 2014
• The Wayland Rudd Collection - The New York Times : 06 February 2014

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2013

• Time to Pretend exhibits - The Herald : 13 November 2013
• 1:54 African Art Fair, Somerset House, London review - The Financial Times: 16 October 2013
• Putting urban life to test - The Herald : 26 September 2013
• September at the gallery - Harare News : 05 September 2013
• In Black & White Exhibition opens at First Floor Gallery Harare - Harare News : 30 August 2013
  
•  First Floor Gallery makes strides in visual art - The Herald : 08 May 2013
• I am, I was, i could be ; An Exhibition of Self - Zimbojam : 04 April 2013
• Chiso Exhibition Opens - Zimbojam : 01 March 2013
• First Floor Gallery presents Chiso - Newsday : 28 February 2013
• First Floor gallery engages Dutch artist - Newsday : 21 January 2013

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2012

• Harare Captured in Works of Art - The Herald : 30 November 2012
• First Floor Gallery Engages New York Artist - Newsday : 04 November 2012
• New Home For First Floor Gallery - Zimbojam : 26 September 2012
• Visual Artists to Exhibit in South Africa - Newsday : 31 August 2012
• Artists for Berlin Fair - Panorama Magazine : 28 July 2012
• German artist's masterclass - Panorama Magazine : 16 June 2012
• First Floor Gallery offer upcoming artists a platform for visibility - The Standard : 04 March 2012
• First Floor Gallery supports artists - The Standard : 08 January 2012
• Zim artist bump it up in Bangkok - Zimbojam :  01 January 2012

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2011

• Bangkok Post - Zimbabwean art show opens next week : 28 December 2011
• First Floor Gallery nurtures Zim's fine art - The Herald : 21 September 2011
• ​Visual artists shine at arts festival - Newsday : 09 September 2011
• ​Visual arts programme eyes young talent - ZBC TV : 12 July 2011
• First Floor Gallery: A new kid on the block - The Herald : 05 July 2011
• Paris gets a taste of Zimbabwe art - The Herald : 07 June 2011
• Gallery takes art to the people - The Herald : 05 June 2011
• Five Zim artists take Paris by storm - The Zimbabwean : 26 May 2011
• Visual artists exhibit in Paris - Newsday : 24 May 2011
• First Floor Gallery making crucial steps - The Herald : 03 April 2011
• Women's day celebrated in art - The Herald : 09 March 2011​

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2009

• First Floor Gallery, A new space for artists - Zimbojam : 30 November 2009