Concepts such as climate colonialism […] cultivate ethical frameworks for reckoning with violent colonial pasts and presents. They cradle spaces for a capacious, trans-temporal Blackness in intimate relation with a multitude of ecologies.Ama Josephine Budge
In Conversation
The curator of the twelfth Liverpool Biennial links emancipated artistic practices to the city, generating new questions about colonial histories.
Contemporary Black Discourses
Afrofuturism and Afropessimism both seek to step outside of limiting narratives and invite self-awareness into the conversation around Black lives.
C&’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY
2023 marks a special year for Contemporary And (C&): the platform has turned TEN!
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At this year's New York edition, taking place from 18-21 May, 26 galleries presenting the work of over 80 artists from Africa and its Global Diaspora.
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C& and C&AL Print Issue #12/4
From the forthcoming print issue: Ama Josephine Budge on how to resist climate colonialism through a capacious, trans-temporal Blackness.
As we launch our new C& Artists' Edition, we revisit our interview with Agnes Waruguru from 2020 and asked her about the process behind the new work.
C& Artists’ Editions
We are thrilled to announce our new C& Artists' Edition with Agnes Waruguru!
Installation View
This solo show by Syowia Kyambi includes a site-specific multi-media installation, photo-based works, video works, and sculptures from 2019-2023.
Louise Thurin met Laila Hida, co-founder of Le 18 in Marrakech, to talk about the genesis and visions of the creative hub.
The exhibition at KENU in Dakar marks the launch of a research project on environmentalism, sustainability and colonial entanglements by Nyabinghi Lab
Experimentation and exchange are the focus at Kemi Adeyemi’s arts writing incubator in Seattle.
Abattoir, U.S.A!
In Chicago, Dean helps us experience connections between animal slaughter, violence towards Black peoples, and the brutalization of captured bodies.
Interdisciplinary South African artist Senzeni Marasela wins the award for her work on race, identity and gender inequalities during Apartheid.
Events
Exhibition
MAGNIN-A galleryParis, France 03 Jun 2023 - 29 Jul 2023
Museum of Modern ArtNew York, United States 01 Jul 2023 - 09 Oct 2023
Gallery 1957Accra, Ghana 12 May 2023 - 17 Jun 2023
Goodman GalleryCape Town, South Africa 26 Apr 2023 - 17 Jun 2023
kó GalleryLagos, Nigeria 29 Apr 2023 - 26 May 2023
Performances
Akademie der KünsteBerlin, Germany 23 Jun 2023 - 24 Jun 2023
Addis Fine ArtAddis Ababa, Ethiopia 21 May 2023 - 22 Jul 2023
MdbKLeipzig, Germany 18 May 2023 - 10 Sep 2023
Addis Fine ArtAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
21 May - 22 Jul 2023
Gallery 1957Ghana
MAGNIN-A galleryParis, France
03 Jun - 29 Jul 2023
Museum of Modern ArtNew York, United States
01 Jul - 09 Oct 2023
Gallery 1957Accra, Ghana
12 May - 17 Jun 2023
Goodman GalleryCape Town, South Africa
26 Apr - 17 Jun 2023
Absa L’Atelier
DëkandooDakar, Senegal
Doual’artDouala, Cameroon
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Kairos Futura, Wajukuu Arts and Brush Tu Artist Collective have teamed up to create the Nairobi Space Station to envision the future of Nairobi.
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C&10
To celebrate our authors' writing we've dug up a few pieces from our archive. Today, Elisabeth Wellershaus' text on the African Futures Festival 2015.
Having But Little Gold
A retrospective carefully explores Berni Searle’s main subjects – ruins, residues, and loss as a uniquely legitimate site for meditating on liberation
Racism: a bigger picture
Exhibition Histories
Venice Biennale 2017
Mukwazhi's presents a new body of work consisting of textile paintings and video works at Secession, Vienna running through 16 April 2023.
Amt 45 i
The traces of racialised enslavement can be found in various German cities. The artist’s exhibition follows them through Frankfurt am Main.
The three residents are Bianca Xunise, Bunga Siagian and Jere Inkongio, selected by a jury chaired by Hou Hanru and N'Goné Fall.
The artist, designer and architect Demas Nwoko is awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
The Republic of Benin Announces First Ever Venice Biennale Pavillion curated by Azu Nwagbogu at the 60th edition in 2024.
The painter receives the Public Vote Price endowed with R25,000 for their work ‘XALÉ TEY – Enfants d’aujourd’hui (2021)’.
Residencies crazinisT artisT studiO
Kumasi, Ghana
Call for papers SAVVY Contemporary
Berlin, Germany
Prizes Gallery 1957
Ghana
Call for applications Doual’art
Douala, Cameroon
