Anta Helena Recke and Joana Tischkau on the Deutsche Museum für Schwarze Unterhaltung und Black Music | Contemporary And

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Installation View DMSUBM. Photo: Hannah Aders

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Anta Helena Recke and Joana Tischkau on the Deutsche Museum für Schwarze Unterhaltung und Black Music

C& spoke to the two founders of a new institution dedicated to Black German culture and history.

Binta Diaw, AFR, Installation view. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Drawing From the Depth of Materials Within the Soil of Colonial Violence, Binta Diaw Is Literally Growing New Meaning

The artist spoke to C& about how she applies, removes, and layers symbolic…

Installation view ‘Diaspora At Home’ exhibition at CCA Lagos. Photo: CCA Lagos

In Conversation

Oyindamola Fakeye – the New Creative Director of CCA Lagos

Obidike Okafor spoke to the creative producer about the legacy of founder Bisi…

Victor Ekpuk, Shrine to Wisdom, Installation view at the exhibition Get Up, Stand Up Now at Somerset House from 12 Jun – 15 Sep 2019. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Victor Ekpuk: Confronting the Beast Through Art

The Washington, D.C.-based artist spoke to Sharon Pendana about his multidisciplinary practice committed…

Nuno Silas, from the series The Intensity of Identity,
2019-2020. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Nuno Silas

The Intensity of Identity of a Diasporic Artist

We spoke to the Maputo-born artist Nuno Silas about his work in the…

Mia Imani Harrison, Soil is an inscribed body. On Sovereignty and Agropoetics. Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary e.V. Photo: Raisa Galofre/ Savvy Contemporary.

In Conversation with Bola Juju

Dreaming up Radical Resistance

Artist Mia Imani Harrison uses her dreams to envision new forms of collectivity.…

Immy Mali, Kasonko the portal, 2018. Digital edition. The dwelling place for all memory. In playing kasonko, we ascended in classes, we bought land and built houses, we became landlords and evicted neighbours.

In Conversation with Immy Mali

Debating Memories with Several Selves

Through her fictional alter ego Marcue, Ugandan multimedia artist Immy Mali explores personal and postcolonial realities.

Ivana Pavlickova, Killjoy, Ceramics, 2020. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Ivana Pavlickova

Free-spirited Objects

Afro-Czech artist Ivana Pavlickova speaks about her interest in the non-human and the…

Tonia Nneji, Faith and Worry (Detail), 2020.
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches

In Conversation with Tonia Nneji

Raising Awareness about Women’s Health Through Art

C&’s Obidike Okafor speaks to Tonia Nneji about how her health has become…

Nina Chanel Abney, Imaginary Friend in Paris, 2020, augmented reality. Courtesy: Nina Chanel Abney and Acute Art.

In Conversation with Nina Chanel Abney

Catering to the Imaginary for a Real World

Our author Nelly Y. Pinkrah chatted with artist Nina Chanel Abney about her…

Manuel Mathieu, The Remarkable Entrance (Detail), 180x160 cm, Mixed Media, 2019

In Conversation with Manuel Mathieu

On Vulnerability and Generosity – when I leave I will be measured by what I gave and not what I’ve taken

Haitian artist Manuel Mathieu talks about the strength he can draw from the…

Christian Nyampeta, Sometimes It Was Beautiful, 2018. Film Still.

In Conversation with Christian Nyampeta

How to Live Together

Recently awarded the European Union Prize at the 12th Rencontres de Bamako, Christian…

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