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Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, winner of the ellipse 2025 Prize © Courtesy ellipse art projects - 2025 ellipse prize

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Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku Wins 2025 Ellipse Prize Focused on Ghana’s Emerging Art Scene

The multidisciplinary artist repurposes textiles to explore identity and climate - see his work at AKAA, Oct 24–26, 2025.

AMANI kukita | kung’oa – German and Tanzanian Perspectives on a Colonial Collection

Installation View

AMANI kukita | kung’oa – German and Tanzanian Perspectives on a Colonial Collection

The exhibition resurfaces a century-old collection of Tanzanian objects - art and research shed light on their colonial journey and meaning today.

Med Hondo on the set of Soleil Ô, 1970. © Med Hondo

Film & Cinema 

Image Interventions in “The African Gaze”

Extending an ongoing conversation around the evolution of image practices in Africa, Amy Sall’s The African Gaze offers further insights.

The curatorial team (left to right) with Koyo Kouoh in the center: Siddhartha Mitter, Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo, Marie Hélène Pereira, Rasha Salti and Rory Tsapayi. Biennale Arte 2026. Photo by Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.

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Venice Biennale 2026 Will Follow Late Koyo Kouoh’s Vision

"In Minor Keys" marks a return to the sensory, affective, and subjective dimensions of art, and will be presented exactly as Koyo Kouoh conceived it.

Installation View „Archives and Memories“ at Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos. Courtesy of CCA Lagos.

In Conversation

‘To Treat Process with Care and Intention’: Favour Ritaro Carries Forward Important Curatorial Legacies

Navigating what it means to curate across geographies, Ritaro reflects on her recent exhibition at CCA Lagos and the legacy of Bisi Silva.

(left) Lindokuhle Sobekwa; (right) Detail from I Carry Her Photo With Me, 2024. Published by MACK.

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Lindokuhle Sobekwa Wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025

Awarded for his moving photobook, Sobekwa turns personal loss into a powerful reflection on memory, grief, and the enduring fractures of South Africa.

Koyo Kouoh. Photo: Emeka Okereke.

In Memoriam

Koyo Kouoh (1967 – 2025)

The curator of the 2026 Venice Biennale, chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA, and founder of RAW Material Company has passed away at age fifty-seven.

Tint Library Space. Photo: Haja Fanta

Inside the Library

Dispatches from Tint Library’s London Pop-Up

Following a series of community activations by the independent library in London, Haja Fanta highlights key titles from its diverse collection.

(left) Kapwani Kiwanga. Photo: Angela Scamarcio. (right) Terrarium, 2022. Mixed Media. Installation View at La Biennale de Venezia. Image Courtesy: Galerie Tanja Wagner

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Kapwani Kiwanga Wins the 2025 Joan Miró Prize

Kiwanga receives the prestigious award in recognition for her powerful, research-based installations exploring history, power, and social structures.

Libation March through the city of Ouagadougou during FESPACO 2025. Photo: Makella Ama.

Film & Cinema

FESPACO 2025 Made Space for the Ceremony of African Cinema

Founded in 1969, the FESPACO is reviving itself while staying alert to the political and alchemical possibilities of film.

Kombo Chapfika, Borderlands, augmented reality installation, 2018. Photographer: Mark Lewis

In Conversation

Kombo Chapfika and Uzoma Orji: What Else Can Technology Be?

The two artists exchange thoughts on their common interest in the interplay of technology and culture, and how the tools we use reshape us.

Imagining a Future for the Arts in the US

Arts in Crisis

Imagining a Future for the Arts in the US

From mutual aid to getting in trouble, what can we do as cultural workers amid the federal fearmongering in the US?

INVENTING YOUR OWN GAME

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Ecologies

C& and C&AL invited organizations, artists, and activists from Black and Indigenous perspectives to discuss, contextualize, and reflect on the relationship between neocolonial structures and the climate crisis in their local contexts.

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