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News
Kiwanga receives the prestigious award in recognition for her powerful, research-based installations exploring history, power, and social structures.
Review
Curator Amandine Nana brings celebration and community as tools of resistance in her most recent exhibition.
Editor’s Note
Reflecting on oral tradition, rhizomes, and opacity, C& Magazine’s new editor-in-chief, Ethel-Ruth Tawe, shares 3 notebook entries and an invitation.
A bold new editorial direction grounded in critical inquiry, collective care and creative strategy.
C& Projects
15 Mar 2025 – 15 Jun 2025 Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck
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C& x Académie des Traces
In collaboration with Académie des Traces, seven emerging scholars and museum professionals explore the traces of colonial heritage.
C& Center of Unfinished Business
From eighteenth-century philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo to Johny Pitts’ twenty-first-century perspective via May Ayim.
Inside the Library
In this series, C& explores special book collections. This time, Keren Lasme shares her top five books from the queer-feminist space AWARE in Paris.
Dedicated to the emerging scene in Ghana, the final 5 are Sena Burgundy, Reginald Boateng, Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, Nana Frimpong Oduro, and Dela Anyah.
Formerly at Zeitz MOCAA, the curator is appointed to lead the Africa collection and enhance community engagement at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
From the Archive
Revisiting an earlier conversation with the artist from our archive, she reflects on her own archive of experiences that shape her sense of belonging.
In Conversation
C& partners with C/O Berlin for a book residency at ‘A World in Common. Contemporary African Photography’ exhibition curated by Osei Bonsu.
Dr. Zoé Whitley will curate the Focus Exhibition at the 26th Art Toronto, showcasing art from participating galleries for collectors to view and buy.
Material Culture
In a subversive reconfiguration of images and objects, the exhibition “No One Has Ever Called Their Child Hunger” conjures a cosmos.
Events
Exhibition
AFIKARISParis, France 26 Apr 2025 - 17 May 2025
OOA Gallery, Barcelona, Spain 03 May 2025 - 08 Jun 2025
NCAI x SCCA TamaleNairobi, Kenya 29 Apr 2025 - 27 Jul 2025
Rele GalleryLagos, Nigeria 03 May 2025 - 14 Jun 2025
basis e. v.Frankfurt am Main, Germany 23 May 2025 - 03 Aug 2025
Wunika Mukan GalleryLagos, Nigeria 19 Apr 2025 - 09 May 2025
Talks / Workshops
Haus der Kulturen der WeltBerlin, Germany 25 Apr 2025 - 27 Apr 2025
Tiwani ContemporaryLagos, Nigeria 06 Mar 2025 - 24 May 2025
The Centre for Contemporary ArtLagos, Nigeria
12 Feb - 31 May 2025
Institute for Postnatural StudiesMadrid, Spain
Contemporary at Blue Star
AFIKARISParis, France
26 Apr - 17 May 2025
OOA Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
03 May - 08 Jun 2025
NCAI x SCCA TamaleNairobi, Kenya
29 Apr - 27 Jul 2025
Rele GalleryLagos, Nigeria
03 May - 14 Jun 2025
StädelschuleFrankfurt am Main, Germany
basis e. v.Frankfurt am Main, Germany
23 May - 03 Aug 2025
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Fadugba becomes the fourth recipient of this prestigious award, honored with a cash prize, a solo exhibition, and a residency in 2025.
Film & Cinema
Vusumzi Nkomo reflects on The Other Side of Now at Zeitz MOCAA, an exhibition that explores the past and ongoing impacts of imperial war.
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“Afterlives of History”
Ana Nolasco explores César Schofield Cardoso’s work, examining Cabo Verde’s colonial past, memory, and the impact of global capitalism on identity.
Artistic Communities
Anna Adima reflects on the embrace of community and resourcefulness despite infrastructural challenges in Kampala’s rapidly expanding artistic scene.
Racism: a bigger picture
Exhibition Histories
Venice Biennale 2017
"Afterlives of History"
The multifacted work of Unidigrazz invites us to revisit domestic scenes as a way to critically reclaim public space.
C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship: Wanini Kimemiah
Fellow Wanini Kimemiah presents an editorial essay that introduces eight texts exploring the complex legacies of colonial histories in Kenya.
C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship
Cynthia Nyakiro Ngunjiri presents a visual art project in process featuring plant motifs inspired by her family’s generational knowledge of medicinal.
In her contribution, Mwende Ngao explores the complex relationship between urban life and nature in a rapidly developing Nairobi.
C& regularly takes a look into book collections holding rare publications. Keren Lasme chooses five books from the feminist library AWU in Dakar.
Year-in-Review
It has been another year of expanding networks, fostering dynamic collaborations, and producing exceptional art writing.
Call for proposals EUNIC
Sub-Saharan Africa
Job offers Contemporary And (C&)
Berlin or Remote
Job offers Städelschule
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Residencies Institute for Postnatural Studies
Madrid, Spain
![(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.](https://contemporaryand.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bildschirmfoto-2024-12-19-um-21.08.13.png)