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Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński: Looking As an Act of Knowledge Production

Africa2020 Season: Installation view

El Anatsui: En quête de liberté

Are We Not Makers of History?

Afro-Lusophone Artists Grapple with Memory in New Book

Exhibition

Cinthia Sifa Mulanga: Intimate Spaces

Restitution isn’t just returning objects, relearning cultural identities, reshaping voids, loss, shame, and violences, it is re-engaging with what’s possible.Awuor Onyango

ART X Lagos

ART X Lagos 2021 Dates Announces

From 4 - 7 November 2021 Art X Lagos will take place as a hybrid with…

Artes Mundi 9 Prize

All Shortlisted Artists Awarded the 9th Artes Mundi Prize

"In recognition of this time of exceptional social and economic upheaval ", all six artist from…

The Kitchen New York

The Kitchen Appoints Legacy Russell as Its Next Executive Director & Chief Curator

Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Studio Museum Legacy Russell will take off her new position…

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Named New Director of Renowned Berlin Arts Institution

Founder and Artistic Director of SAVVY Contemporary, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is appointed the new director…

African Futures Institute

A New School of Architecture Headquartered in Accra

The African Futures Institute (AFI), founded in Accra, Ghana, is a new venture that aims to…

Marian Goodman Gallery and ICI

Inaugural Curatorial Research Fellows in Honor of Okwui Enwezor Are Announced

Anaïs Duplan, Negarra A. Kudumu, Marie Hélène Pereira, and Ronald Rose-Antoinette have been named the inaugural…

Africa2020 Season

Fatimah Tuggar: Not Reactive, but Curious

Fatimah Tuggar’s work is included in the exhibition Beyond what we see at Les Abbatoirs in…

Dekoloniale

Berlin Residents 2021 decided!

Nnenna Onuoha, Dior Thiam, and Gladys Kalichini will together take up the first Dekoloniale Berlin Residency…

Cryptoart

A Roundtable with Emerging Artists Working with NFTs

Four artists speak to Tash Moore about the opportunities of digital art.

Pan-African Festivals

Now Online! PANAFEST Web Documentary

Over a ten-year period, Dominique Malaquais and Cédric Vincent developed the PANAFEST website to document four major…

Javett-UP

Gabi Ngcobo Investigates the Specters of the Museum

Since Gabi Ngcobo has started as curatorial director at a large Pretoria based art center, she…

The Benin Bronzes Restitution

A View from Nigeria

We asked 9 art professionals from the Nigerian art scene for their thoughts on the meaning…

Africa2020 Season

Can Africa2020 Bring French Discourse into the Twenty-First Century?

A group exhibition curated by Meriem Berrada at Palais de la Porte Dorée raises important questions…

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Africa2020 Season

A major event taking place in France entirely focused on African perspectives. Find interviews, installation views and the current program here.

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Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria

Gabi Ngcobo Officially Appointed Curatorial Director of Javett-UP

Ngcobo brings in years of experience working in the artistic field as artist, curator and educator.…

Grand Prix Images Vevey 2021/2022

Lebohang Kganye Wins Prize for her Staging Memories Project

In recognition of its visual inventiveness, historical rigor, and daring conceptualization, the jury select Lebohang Kganye’s Staging Memories project .

In Conversation

Josèfa Ntjam: Dissolving the Separation Between Human and Non-human

Josèfa Ntjam is an artist, performer, and writer exploring concepts of fluidity through biology, African mythologies,…

Goethe Medals

Princess Marilyn Douala Manga Bell Is Among the Honorees of the 2021 Goethe Medals

Goethe-Institut acknowledges the work of social economist and president of the cultural organisation doual’art Princess Marilyn…

Magiciens de la Terre

Racism: a bigger picture

The Black, Asian and White Racial Triangulation

A conversation with Walter Mignolo

“Decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis has become a connector across the continents”

The Benin Bronzes Restitution

A View from Nigeria

In Conversation

Tarek Lakhrissi: Staging Melancholy, Finding Inspiration in Other People’s Words

Tarek Lakhrissi’s solo show Perfume of Traitors opened at VITRINE gallery in London…

Invisible Inventories

Absent Figures: The Difficult Questions Restitution Raises

Being asked to call something an object can be troubling, as evidenced in…

Africa2020 Season

Najah Zarbout: Being at a Crossroads

For her exhibition “Thanaya: entre plis et chemins” at Africa2020 Season Tunisian artist…

Africa2020 Season

Abdelkader Damani: Seeking Forms of Freedom

As the subject of Abdelkader Damani’s Africa 2020 exhibition, Algiers is the city…

Africa2020 Season

N’Goné Fall: More than a Season

The large-scale French event Africa2020 hasn’t had an easy start. Curator N'Goné Fall…

Africa2020 Season: Installation View

Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński: Looking As an Act of Knowledge Production

El Anatsui: En quête de liberté

Afro-Lusophone Artists Grapple with Memory in New Book

Cinthia Sifa Mulanga: Intimate Spaces

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Najah Zarbout: Being at a Crossroads

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