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Khanyisile Mbongwa. Photo: Tatyana Levana

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Khanyisile Mbongwa Named Curator for Liverpool Biennial

Cape Town-based independent curator, artist and sociologist Khanyisile Mbongwa will curate UK’s largest contemporary visual arts festival in 2023.

Na Chainkua Reindorf, Lara, 2021. Photo: Na Chainkua Reindorf.

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Ghana Pavilion Announces Exhibition and Artists for Venice

Curated by Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Ghana presents "Black Star: The Museum as Freedom" featuring Na Chainkua Reindorf, Afroscope and Diego Araúja.

Bouba Touré (1948-2022)

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Bouba Touré (1948-2022)

The photographer and activist passed away on 21 January 2022. 

Portrait by India Roper-Evans

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Jean-Ulrick Désert Wins Inaugural Wi Di Mimba Wi Prize

AKB Stiftung and SAVVY Contemporary have teamed up to launch this new and long-term commission grant for artists of colour based in Germany.

C& Office and Reading Room Nairobi. Photo: Emmaus Kimani

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C& Opens a New Office and Reading Room in Nairobi!

Located in one of Nairobi's first mall buildings, the office will host artists, writers and curators and provide a home for ongoing conversations.

Wilfred Timire and Franklyn Dzingai Win artHARARE Prize

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Wilfred Timire and Franklyn Dzingai Win artHARARE Prize

Zimbabwean emerging artists Wilfred Timire and Franklyn Dzingai are joint winners and will present a solo exhibition at Gallery 1957 in 2022.

Grada Kilomba in cooperation with Kalaf Epalanga, O BARCO / THE BOAT, Perfomance at Boca 2021, Lisbon. Courtesy the artist.

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Grada Kilomba and the Venice Biennale 2022

The international arts and culture scene condemns the judging irregularities at the Venice…

Rituel de déplacement de corps - 2019, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan © Dalila Dalléas Bouzar

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Dalila Dalléas Bouzar Awarded SAM Prize 2021

Algerian artist Dalila Dalléas Bouzar has been awarded the SAM Prize 2021, that includes an exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in 2022.

Joy Gregory, Invisible Life Force of Plants, cyanotype and lumen prints, 2020. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Rencontres de Bamako Reveals Artist List for 2022

Roughly 75 artists from Africa and the Global Diaspora have been invited to the next Bamako Encounters, taking place from October to December 2022.

Top left: Đỗ Tường Linh, photo: Xuân Phan; top right: Rasha Salti, photo: Christoph Terhechte; middle: Marie Helene Pereira, photo: Élise Fitte-Duval, bottom left: Noam Segal, photo: Maya Barkai; bottom right: Ana Teixeira Pinto, photo: Adam Berry, transmediale, CC BY-SA 4.0

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12th Berlin Biennale Announces Artistic Team

Kader Attia selected Ana Teixeira Pinto, Đỗ Tường Linh, Marie Helene Pereira, Noam Segal, and Rasha Salti as artistic team for the 2022' edition.

Greg Tate

In Memoriam

Greg Tate (1957-2021)

The inspiring African-Amercian writer and musician has passed away at the age of 64.

Virgil Abloh in Paris 2019

In Memoriam

Virgil Abloh (1980-2021)

The influential designer and artist has passed away at age 41 after to a long battle with cancer.


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