Opinion

Mauro Vombe, Passengers, 2017. Photo: C&

12th Bamako Encounters

A Show of African Solidarity

Headed by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and featuring a curatorial team including Aziza…

El Anatsui's project for the exhibition Who Knows Tomorrow, a monumental metal cloth installed on the façade of Berlin's Alte Nationalgalerie, 2010.

Looking Back

A Short History of the 2010s in Art

The 2010s not only saw the rise of new and urgent social movements…

Mario Moore, Detroit’s Crisis 313-873-6170, 2010. Oil on canvas, 84 x 66 cm. Courtesy of the artist and the Jiménez-Colón Collection.

C& Special Edition #Detroit

How To Give Space

Olivia Gilmore on moving beyond “allyship”.

Peter Friedl, Untitled (Berlin), 1998/1999. Adhesive film on plexiglass / light box. Loan of the Federal Republic ofGermany – Contemporary Art Collection. Photo: Benjamin Renter

C& Print Issue Another 89

What Collective Remembrance Is For

Anniversaries are a chance not only to remember but to reevaluate history, writes…

Maggie Laubser, Born 1886, Malmesbury, Western Cape. Died 1973, Strand, Western Cape, Original title: Wasmeidjie on farm Oordmanspos, Changed to: Washerwoman on a farm in Oortmanspoort, Oil on board1925

Debate

How do we (not) Speak About Art and Violence?

On October 1st 2019 SWEAT (Sex Workers Education & Advocacy Taskforce) publicly called for…

Covers from books

Art and Stereotypes

Playing with Race

We are still stumbling across curated incredibilities taking place in museums and art…

Installation view of a exhibition at the new Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal. Photo: Maya Varichon

Museum of Black Civilisations Dakar

Restitution Alone is Not the Answer

Looking at the histories and contemporary cultures of Black people in a global…

François Knoetze: Core Dump, Dakar featuring Bamba Diangne, Film still: Anton Scholtz, 2018 © Courtesy François Knoetze , Film still: Anton Stoltz

Digital Arts from Africa

Embodying Forms of Knowing and Being

Our author Enos Nyamor looks at digital arts from Africa and their potential…

Bist Silva in Lagos in front of the work of Victor Ehikhamenor, 2011. Courtesy and Copyright: Victor Ehikhamenor

Art World Pays Tribute

In Memory of Bisi Silva

With her unique drive to make a difference in the art, culture, and…

Protests for renaming the M*straße in Berlin Mitte. Photo: Tahir Della

Es kotzt uns an – We are sick of it

Racism in the Art World: A Luta Continua

Racism is a recurrent subject in C&. The Western malaise permeates our entire…

Steve Bandoma. Courtesy the artist.

Where Politics and Arts marry...

Steve Bandoma: Political Aesthetics or Aesthetic Politics?

The painter Steve Bandoma has built a career on addressing the politics of…

Inside The Library (Studio Bili Bidjocka). Courtesy Kampala Art Biennale.

Letter from an outsider

Simon Njami: “The masters acted as mentors, big brothers, uncles”

Enos Nyamor, a participant at our C& Critical Writing Workshop in Nairobi two…


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