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

"Auf Deutsch"

A Bavarian Intergenerational Exchange

Malcom Ohanwe sat down with artist Ransome Stanley to discuss and compare Afro-German experiences from different…

Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona

Elvira Dyangani Ose Is New Director of MACBA

Curator and Art Historian Elvira Dyangani Ose will be the first women to lead the major…

Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth

Samson Kambalu Wins Fourth Plinth Commission

Artist and writer Samson Kambalu will install his work "Antelope", a tribute to Pan-Africanist and anticolonial…

Artist Portrait

Nakitende Sheila Is Giving Barkcloth New Meaning

Nakitende Sheila twists, stitches, and burns as she experiments with natural textures and reinvents barkcloth making.…

C& Center of Unfinished Business

Decentering the I: How to Redefine the Human

Our Deputy Editor Will Furtado argues that indigenous knowledge has always held the solution to ecological…

“Auf Deutsch”

AfroDiaspora 2.0// e.V. : Creating Safer Spaces

For centuries there has been Black cultural production from countries where German is spoken, and it…

New Art Exchange

New Art Exchange Announces Saad Eddine Said as Artistic Director and CEO

Nottingham's New Art Exchange is hiring Moroccan creative Saad Eddine Said as the new Artistic Director…

Art Basel and BMW

Julien Creuzet Awarded BMW Art Journey 2021

French-Martinique artist Julien Creuzet is awarded the BMW Art Journey, honoring his innovative ideas to the…

ellipse Prize

Ibrahima Ndome Wins Inaugural ellipse Prize 2021

Visual artist Ibrahima Ndome receives the first edition of the ellipse Prize, focusing on emerging artists…

In Conversation

Karimah Ashadu: Labor as a Practice Towards Independence

We spoke with artist Karimah Ashadu about artistic mediums’ own sense of curiosity, her focus on…

Kunsthalle Bern

Kabelo Malatsie Named New Director of Kunsthalle Bern

The 34-young South-African curator Kabelo Malatsie will be the next director of Kunsthalle Bern. Among more…

AMAKABA

Tabita Rezaire Opens AMAKABA – A Space for Collective Healing

In the Amazonian forest of French Guiana, artist Tabita Rezaire has founded a new center for…

INVENTING YOUR OWN GAME

Sam Gilliam: Between Structure and Improvisation

In the “post-war” period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the Western art world…

C& Print

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C& Featuring

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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Gropius Bau Berlin

C& Artistic Director Julia Grosse Announced as Associate Curator at Gropius Bau

We are so excited to share the news that Gropius Bau in Berlin hired Julia Grosse…

“Auf Deutsch”

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

For centuries there has been Black cultural production from countries where German is spoken, and it…

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…

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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…

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…

Africa2020 Season: Installation view

El Anatsui: En quête de liberté

For Africa2020 Season, General Commissioner N’Goné Fall installed El Anatsui’s large cloths at…

African Futures Institute

A New School of Architecture Headquartered in Accra

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

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…

Are We Not Makers of History?

Afro-Lusophone Artists Grapple with Memory in New Book

A publication featuring artists in Portuguese-speaking countries suggests distinct artistic approaches to dealing…

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2021 Foundwork Artist Prize

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