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

Kampala Art Biennale 2018

From Missionaries to Artists

The center of this year’s Kampala Art Biennale consists of seven studios where…

Exhibition view Hello World. Revision einer Sammlung / Colomental
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 2018
© Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Thomas Bruns

Hamburger Bahnhof

Hello World: Complicating Notions of “Global Art”

Tasked with revising the collection of the Nationalgalerie with a non-Western focus, the…

Exhibition view of Bronwyn Katz, “A silent line, lives here”, Palais de Tokyo (22.06 – 09.09.2018). Photo: André Morin. Sam Art Projects Resident, Courtesy of the artist and blank (Le Cap)

A Silent Line Lives Here

Bronwyn Katz: Overcoming Boundaries in Poetic Ways

How to be visible both here and from elsewhere? How to bring out…

ZED, Couleurs de Brazza, 2018. Courtesy the artist.

Les Ateliers Sahm

The project helping promote young Congolese artists in Africa

Les Ateliers Sahm was one projects taking part in the “Off” program of…

Members of the African Choir, London, 1891. By London Stereoscopic Company (left to right: Frances Gqoba; Katie Manye [later known as Katie Makanya]; Paul Xiniwe9 © Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Courtesy of Hulton Archive, and Autograph ABP, London. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Black Chronicles IV

Chronicling Black Lives in History

In April of this year, the British Association of Black Photographers initiated yet…

Ajarb Bernard Ategwa, Installation view at Douala Art Fair 2018 at Canal Olympia, Bessenguè. Photo: Peres Projects

1st Douala Art Fair

The Promises of a First Edition

From June 1 to 3, 2018, Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital, hosted the first…

Firelei Báez, For Marie-Louise Coidavid, exiled, keeper of order, Anacaona, 2018. Oil on canvas, Installation view, 10.Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg), Berlin. Courtesy Firelei Báez, Kaci Gupta Gallery, Chicago. Photo: Timo Ohler

10th Berlin Biennale

We’re Not What You Think We’re Not

In contrast to most biennials, constructed from the vision and concept of a…

Helen Salomão, Full Boom, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

Axé Bahia

The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis

The book offers a comprehensive framework that combines history with cultural and art…

Juan Andres Milanes Benito, Microwave for one, 2017. Photo: C&

Dak’Art 13 - Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain

Creating New Realities through Experimentation

Entitled L’heure Rouge (The Red Hour), Dak’Art 13 has invited 75 artists from…

Firelei Báez, Untitled (detail), 2018. Photo: John Lusis. Courtesy the artist and Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago.

“Joy Out of Fire”

The Powerful Women of Firelei Báez

In her polychrome murals, the Dominican artist revives forgotten images and depicts remarkable…

Bahar Behbahani and Almagul Menlibayeva, Ride the Caspian, 2011.  2-channel video installation, HD colour, surround sound, wall-mounted digital photographs. Sound: OMFO, Negar Behbahani. Co-produced by Sharjah Art Foundation with a grant from the Art and Culture Network Program, Open Society Institute Budapest and the support of Priska C Juschka Fine Art. Sharjah Art Foundation 

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March Meeting 2018

What Does Resistance in the Arts Look Like Today?

From the New Museum Triennial’s Songs for Sabotage to the Triennial of Photography…

Jared Onyango, Me in a Square, Performance at Goethe Institut Nairobi. Photo Courtesy of the Goethe Institut.

Jared Onyango: Me in a Square

Using Ritual to Create New Meanings for the Black Skin

At the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi, artist Jared Onyango captured the violent nature of…


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