Acts of Opening Again: A Choreography of Conviviality, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 3.6.2023. Photo: Mathias Völzke/HKW
Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Amplifying the Creative Structures at HKW

I have an urge to share those stories, to honor these women, that knowledge, that work, that ability to alchemize cassava – and the natural environment in a broader sense – into whatever is needed.Kosisochukwu Nnebe

Celebrating the C& Cosmos

C&’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY

Celebrating the C& Cosmos

2023 marks a special year for Contemporary And (C&): the platform has turned TEN!

Kosisochukwu Nnebe, an inheritance/ a threat / a haunting. Installation view, 2022. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario. Courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation

Kosisochukwu Nnebe: Exploring Ancestral Connections

The artist and curator discusses how the positions of marginalized people give us access to particular forms of knowledge about our societies.

Clockwise: Diébédo Francis Kéré at Kéré Architecture, Berlin, May 2023 © The Japan Art Association / The Sankei Shimbun; Gando Primary School, 2001, Burkina Faso Photo: Siméon Duchoud. Courtesy of Kéré Architecture; Rendering façade of Benin National Assembly. Courtesy of Kéré Architecture

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Diébédo Francis Kéré Wins 2023 Praemium Imperiale

By combining local materials and skills with innovative design and smart engineering solutions, architect Diébédo Francis Kéré wins the coveted award.

Installation View of Collective Mask-Movimento de Artistas Huni Kuin. Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 35th Bienal.

Installation View

35th São Paulo Bienal – Choreographies of the Impossible

The curatorial team of this edition has chosen 121 participants from various countries, with an emphasis on artists of indigenous and African descent.

Tinotenda Chivinge, Zimbabwe Bird(s), found objects (variable dimensions). Photo: Nyadzombe Nyampenza

Art Networks in Zimbabwe

Harare Art Collectives: Where Connectivity is Key

In Harare, a cathartic group exhibition celebrates the work of collectives who bridge the gap between a feeble art market and scant resources.

10 years of C&! Clockwise: Parts of the C& Team. Photo: Benjamin Renter; C& Critical Writing Workshop Nairobi. Photo: Francis Munene; C& Print Issues. Photo: Florian Bong-Kil Grosse; James Gregory Atkinson, Ligia Lewis, and Magnus Elias Rosengarten. Panel discussion ifa-Gallery Berlin, March 2023. Photo: Benjamin Renter; DAK'ART 2014, Official opening of the main exhibition. Photo: Touré Behan; Jennifer Harge, FLY | DROWN, 2019. Perfomance in the frame of

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Love Letters to C&

C&'s tenth anniversary is a very special moment for us. We have asked people from our network to share their thoughts, memories, and wishes for C&.

left: Nefertiti, Neues Museum Berlin. rigth: Cover, Black Women in Antiquity, edited by Ivan Van Sertima, 1988.

C&10

Fatima El-Tayeb: Reclaiming Nefertiti

Another find from our great archive: Fatima El-Tayeb on how European institutions have consistently appropriated Black historical personalities.

Azu Nwagbogu on a research trip to Benin at the Market at Musee Historique D’Abomey (Historic Museum of Abomey). Courtesy of UGO.

News

Benin Pavilion for 60th Venice Biennale Announces Artists and Theme

The curatorial team around Azu Nwagbogu will put works together by Romuald Hazoumé, Chloe Quenem, Ishola Akpo, and Moufoli Bello.

Ludo by Yadi. Courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation

Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu Explains How Ludo Became an Exciting Artwork

Ludo by Yadi highlights local design and production while embracing community recreation and functional art.

Senam Okudzeto. Photo: Christopher Cerrone

News

Senam Okudzeto Receives the Paul Boesch Art Prize 2023

Artist, researcher, writer and founder, Senam Okudzeto receives on of the highest Swiss art prizes for her socio-politically relevant work.

Gabi Ngcobo

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Kunstinstituut Melly Announces Gabi Ngcobo as its New Director

Starting in January 2024, Ngcobo will continue the Rotterdam Institution's collaborative approach to face acute questions of our time.

Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West, 1992. Photo: Nancy Lytle

In Conversation

Coco Fusco Looks Back

Prior to her retrospective at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, the artist discusses the choices behind key works in her oeuvre.

Maud Ntonga, Gallery Director (left) Noelle Mukete-Elhalaby, Founder (center) and Brice Arsene Yonkeu, Founder (right) Photo credits: Wilfried Koté Amoyi

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Bwo, a New Art Gallery in Cameroon, Announces the Opening of its Space

Bwo established in Central Africa by founders under the age of 30 plans to open in Douala with an inaugural exhibition on September 2, 2023.

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Nada Baraka, Untitled. Courtesy of Latitudes and ANNA

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2023 ANNA Award Winner Announced

Nada Baraka, an Egyptian artist based in Cairo, is the 2023 ANNA Award recipient.

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Inside the Library

Bushman Café, Abidjan

C& regularly takes a look into book collections holding rare publications. This time, Keren Lasme introduces five books she found in Abidjan.

Blessing Atas, The Egrets. Courtesy the artist.

Tender Photo

Emmanuel Iduma’s Archive Attempts to Hold All That Is Intimate

The artist has created a participatory digital archive around the tenderness in photographs, refusing temporal linearity by drawing out a kinship.

Sasha Huber, Rentyhorn, 2008. Commissioned photography by Siro Micheroli. Courtesy of the artist and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki.

Ecologies

Sasha Huber Looks at the Uncomfortable

The artist discusses her practice in the context of changing climatic realities and how symbolic actions can have an impact.

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The eight artists of the 2024 Nigerian Pavilion. From left, top row: Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ndidi Dike, Onyeka Igwe, and Toyin Ojih Odutola; bottom row: Abraham Oghobase, Precious Okoyomon, Yinka Shonibare, and Fatimah Tuggar. Credits: Adenyi-Jones: On Whit Wall; Igwe: Regine Ullrich; Ojih Odutola: Beth Wilkinson; Shonibare: Tom Jamieson, 2023; All others: Courtesy the artists.

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Nigeria Announces Curator and Artists for National Pavilion in Venice 2024

For the second Nigerian Pavilion, Aindrea Emelife will curate a group exhibition with eight artists around the theme "Nigeria Imaginary".

(from left to right) Tiago Sant’Ana, Raphael Fonseca and Yina Jiménez Suriel. Courtesy of Mercosur Biennial Foundation.

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14th Edition of The Mercosur Biennial

Along with Tiago Sant’Ana, C&AL Associate Editor Yina Jímenez joins Raphael Fonseca’s artistic team of The Mercosur Biennial’s 14th edition.

Eric Magassa, Blinking Blind, 2023. Installation view FLIGHT Malmö Konsthall, 2023. Photo / Photo: Helene Toresdotter. Courtesy konstnären/the artist

In Conversation

Tawanda Appiah Ponders Beauty’s Transformative Potential

The Malmö-based curator talks about his current project at Skånes konstförening, creating immersive experiences, and rearranging history.

(Clockwise, all Details): Maheder Haileselassie, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, 2023; Carlos Idun-Tawiah, Sunday Special, 2022. Isoraka, Antananarivo; Léonard Pongo, Untitled. From Primordial Earth, 2023; Yasmin Forte, Military. From This is a story about my family, 2022; Nadia Ettwein, Looks Like Dad. From Hond, 2023

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CAP Prize Winners Announced for 2023

Nadia Ettwein, Carlos Idun-Tawiah, Léonard Pongo, Yasmin Forte and Maheder Haileselassie awarded with Prize for Contemporary African Photography.

David Adjaye. Photo credit: Josh Huskin; two buildings designed by David Adjaye (top right) Smithsonian National Museum of African American Arts and Culture - Washington DC. Photo: Nic Lehoux; (bottom right) MOSCOW School of Management. Photo: Ed Reeve. All images courtesy of RIBA.

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Several Institutions Have Severed Ties with David Adjaye Over Sexual Assault Allegations

After Studio Museum Harlem announced the end of its collaboration, Sharjah‘s Africa Institute also stops plans for a campus designed by the architect.

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18th Venice Architecture Biennale 2023

Lesley Lokko Breaks New Ground with The Laboratory of the Future

In presenting a compelling interplay between reality, fiction and crisis, Lokko delivers a lesson on accountability for curatorial practices.

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KITONG-KIASS International 3RRR Symposium 2023

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Enter the Hyper-Scientific – Artist in Residence

Lausanne, Switzerland

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28 Piazza di Pietra Fine Art Gallery 

7th Edition Passepartout Photo Prize

Rome, Italy

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