Cover detail of Felwine Sarr's book

Talks / Workshops 

»Afrotopia« An Evening with Felwine Sarr & Bénédicte Savoy

Felwine Sarr, economist from Senegal, is one of the most discussed thinkers in Africa. He vehemently demands t ...

Edson Chagas, Tipo Passe, 2014.  A World in Common . Contemporary African Photography, Installation view at C/O Berlin, 2025 © C/O Berlin Foundation. Photo: David von Becker.

In Conversation 

Osei Bonsu: A Curatorial Lens on Photography as Identity and Tradition, Counter-Histories and Imagined Futures

Mearg Negusse: The title of the ex­hi­bition is A World in Common. Can you tell me how you decided on it and ...

Condition Report 5: A Sense of Place/Displacement, Replacement, Non-placement. Performance view of “Place-DIS Placement”, 2024, by nora chipaumire, in collaboration with/en collaboration, avec l’Ecole des Sables”, presented at Theodore Monod Museum of Africain art, Dakar, from December 2024. Courtesy of artist nora chipaumire, © Kerry Etola Viderot, 2024, RAW Material Company

Call for applications 

RAW Académie Session 11

The call for applications for RAW Academy Session 11 / A Sense of Place/Displacement, Replacement, Non-placeme ...

Still from Dahomey by Matt Diop.

Restitution 

Tracing the Then and Now of Restitution Through Mati Diop’s Documentary Fantasy Dahomey

Was the historic restitution of twenty-six artworks and sacred objects to Benin by France in 2021 – as chron ...

Installation view C& Center of Unfinished Business, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © Contemporary And. Photo: C&

C& Center of Unfinished Business 

Book List on Post-Colonial Theory from the C& Library

Find a selection of books from our C& Center of Unfinished Business here. Since 2017 the C& Center of ...

Sammy Baloji, …AND TO THOSE NORTH SEA WAVES WHISPERING SUNKEN STORIES (II), 2021, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022, photo: dotgain.info

In Conversation 

Marie Hélène Pereira: “I’m very fond of conversations that take you out of the over-intellectualization of things”

Contemporary And: Kader Attia is the curator of this year’s Berlin Biennale and brought together an artistic ...

DOXANTU. Performing arts Precy Numbi, Mucyo, Peintre Obu, Laura Nsengiyumva. Production : Isabelle N’diaye.

Dak’art Biennale 2022 

Out of the Fire: The Postcolony Will Rise

This creative review of Dak’Art is situated in the eyes and experience of a woman, those of a diasporic ...

Les ateliers de la Pensée @ Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations. Photo: Guillaume Bassinet

Les Ateliers de la Pensée 

Forging Ecologies of Knowledge, in Between Arts and Sciences

The fourth annual edition of Les ateliers de la Pensée, held at the Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations in Ma ...

Les Ateliers de la Pensée

Events 

ADLP#4 – Bonds Cosmologies and Forms of Life

Les Ateliers de la Pensée, initiated by Achille Mbembé and Felwine Sarr, bring together from March 23 to 26, ...

Image by Syowia Kyambi: Kaspale/The Lecture Room
Intervention, Video Still.
© Carl Kühl, MARKK Museum 2019

Conferences 

UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge

The performative conference UNEXPECTED LESSONS deals artistically and scientifically with the decolonisation o ...

Ecliptic (Black Liberation Zodiac) (detail), 2017 © Nolan Oswald Dennis and the Goodman Gallery

Exhibition 

UFA – University of African Futures

UFA – University of African Futures invites artists who, from a critical approach to the notion of the futu ...

Afrotopiac, Larry Achiampong © Larry Achiampong

Exhibition 

Afrotopia

Africa2020 is a national cultural project dedicated to the 54 countries of the African continent, commissioned ...


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