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AMANI kukita | kung’oa – German and Tanzanian Perspectives on a Colonial Collection

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AMANI kukita | kung’oa – German and Tanzanian Perspectives on a Colonial Collection

The exhibition resurfaces a century-old collection of Tanzanian objects - art and research shed light on their colonial journey and meaning today.

The Anarchist Citizenship – People Made of Stories

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The Anarchist Citizenship – People Made of Stories

An exhibition centering Somali voices explores how citizenship in Somaliland, the Somali region, and its diaspora is shaped and redefined through art.

La Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain Dak’Art 2024

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La Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain Dak’Art 2024

From November 7 to December 7, 2024, the 15th Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar will be held under the theme “The Wake – L’Éveil.”

Elolo Bosoka: What he saw sees when he went goes strolling

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Elolo Bosoka: What he saw sees when he went goes strolling

Elolo Bosoka blends painting, sculpture, and digital media, offering a unique interpretation of everyday life through visual compositions.

Noah Davis, Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, 2014. Miguel Pimentel © The Estate of Noah Davis. Courtesy The Estate of Noah Davis and David Zwirner.

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Noah Davis

Noah Davis' visionary art is on view at DAS MINSK Potsdam until January 2025, showing 60 works in his first international institutional retrospective.

Hamedine Kane. Installation view of „Export-Import” featuring works by Younes Baba-Ali, Mbaye Diop, and Hamedine Kane. Photo: Morel Donou. Courtesy of Selebe Yoon.

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OFF Biennale Dakar 2024

The OFF is ON! Find here are some impressions of the exciting exhibitions, talks and performances happening in Dakar right now!

Karimah Ashadu, Installation view Venice Biennale Machine Boys, 2024. Photo: Lorenzo Palmieri.

60th Venice Biennale

Ancestors and Liberation at Pedrosa’s Foreigners Everywhere

Vibrant and challenging complexities of decolonial thinking, intimacy, resistance, and joy are displayed in Venice, writes María Inés Plaza Lazo.

60th Venice Biennale: National Pavilions of Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire

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60th Venice Biennale: National Pavilions of Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire

Find some impressions of the pavilions curated by Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa, Aindrea Emelife and Simon Njami.

60th Venice Biennale: National Pavilions of Canada, France, USA, UK and Hãhãwpuá (Brazil)

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60th Venice Biennale: National Pavilions of Canada, France, USA, UK and Hãhãwpuá (Brazil)

Here are impressions of some of the National Pavilions at Giardini.

60th Venice Biennale: Foreigners Everywhere

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60th Venice Biennale: Foreigners Everywhere

Find here some first impressions of the exhibition curated by Adriano Pedrosa.

Thailand Biennale 2023: The Open World

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Thailand Biennale 2023: The Open World

Addressing global topics such as history, ethnicity, cross-border migration and ecologies, the biennale presents more than 60 artists.

Silent Invasions: The Art of Material Hacking

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Silent Invasions: The Art of Material Hacking

An exhibition presented by Ghanaian blaxTARLINES and the art communities of Uganda at Amasaka Gallery in Masaka City until 13 January, 2024.

Ligia Lewis “minor matter” Performance Space New York New York, N.Y. May 21, 2019 Photo Credit: Julieta Cervantes

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Ligia Lewis: Complaint, A Lyric

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, is showing a retrospective of seven pieces by artist and choreographer Ligia Lewis from November 15 to 19.

Seeds and Souls

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Seeds and Souls

The exhibition in Copenhagen proposes new explorations into the connections between botanical histories, colonial legacies and diasporic experiences.

3rd Biennale Internationale de Sculpture de Ouagadougou (BISO) – The Fire of Origins

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3rd Biennale Internationale de Sculpture de Ouagadougou (BISO) – The Fire of Origins

Inspired by the writer Emmanuel Dongala, Le Feu des origins, will run until 4th November in Ouagadougou celebrating contemporary crafts and art.

Installation View of Collective Mask-Movimento de Artistas Huni Kuin. Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 35th Bienal.

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35th São Paulo Bienal – Choreographies of the Impossible

The curatorial team of this edition has chosen 121 participants from various countries, with an emphasis on artists of indigenous and African descent.

Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora

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Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora

The multi-chapter exhibition traces links between Asia and Africa, looking at their increased political, economic and cultural importance.

Syowia Kyambi: Kaspale

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Syowia Kyambi: Kaspale

This solo show by Syowia Kyambi includes a site-specific multi-media installation, photo-based works, video works, and sculptures from 2019-2023.

A project by Nyabinghi Lab co-produced by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Nyabinghi Lab, KENU - LAB’Oratoire des Imaginaires and Chimurenga. Funded by the TURN2 Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Photo:  Jean Baptiste Joire.

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The Roots of Our Hands, Deep as Revolt: Entangled Colonialities of the Green

The exhibition at KENU in Dakar marks the launch of a research project on environmentalism, sustainability and colonial entanglements by Nyabinghi Lab

Kresiah Mukwazhi: Kirawa. Exhibition, Secession, Wien, Vienna, 17.2.–16.4.2023

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Kresiah Mukwazhi: Kirawa

Mukwazhi's presents a new body of work consisting of textile paintings and video works at Secession, Vienna running through 16 April 2023.

Isaac Julien, Once Again...(Status Never Die), 2022. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. Photo: C&.

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Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present II

SB15 reflects on Okwui Enwezor’s visionary work, which transformed contemporary art and has influenced institutions and biennials around the world.

Judy Bowman. Mom In Harlem, 2019. 36 x 48 in91.4 x 121.9 cmCourtesy of the artist.

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Judy Bowman: Gratiot Griot

Gratiot Griot is the first solo museum exhibition of artist Judy Bowman highlighting her extensive career as a storyteller of African American life.

Installation shot at Memorial Modibo Keita, From the left, works by Adee Roberson and Fatoumata Diabaté.Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah

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13th Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography

The Bamako Encounters pay a powerful tribute to the spaces in between and reflect on multiplicities of being - on view until 8 February 2023.

Brandon Gercara. Photo: Sef Younes

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5th International Biennale of Casablanca

Entitled The Words Create Images, the fifth edition takes place in two stages. Find some first impression of part one here on C&.

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While we are embattled – Group Show

Take a look at the exhibition at Para Site featuring the C& Center of Unfinished Business, curated by Nomaduma Rosa Masilela and Thiago de Paula Souza

STAN DOUGLAS, VIEW OF “AN DER ALTEN ZAUCHE” WITH PLATTENBAUTEN, HOCHHÄUSERN AND THE TWIN SMOKESTACKS OF KOHLEHEIZWERK REHBRÜCKE, AM SCHLAATZ, 1994/95, FROM THE SERIES POTSDAMER SCHREBERGÄRTEN, 15 PARTS. HASSO PLATTNER COLLECTION, © STAN DOUGLAS, COURTESY THE ARTIST, VICTORIA MIRO AND DAVID ZWIRNER

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Stan Douglas: Potsdamer Schrebergärten

With its inaugural exhibition "Potsdamer Schrebergärten" by Stan Douglas, DAS MINSK opened its doors to the public in August 2022 in Potsdam, Germany.

Dekoloniale Berlin Installation View, 2022 © Damian Charles

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Dekoloniale 2022 Residency Works

Dekoloniale Berlin presents an exhibition by Lulu Jemimah, Maya Alam and Vitjitua Ndjiharine,…

Tony Cokes. Fragments, or just Moments Installationsansicht / Installation view Haus der Kunst, 2022 Photo: Maximilian Geuter

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Tony Cokes: Fragments, or just Moments

Haus der Kunst is hosting Germany’s first solo show of the artist Tony Cokes who is becoming one of the most important, post-conceptual artists.

Victor Fotso Nyie. Installation View, SEDIMENTS. After Memory @ Mattatoio, Roma 2022 © SPAZIO GRIOT. Photo: Elia Buonora

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SEDIMENTS. After Memory

At Mattatoio in Rome, the group exhibition reflects on the hypermodern (dis)order of the world and examines the question of what will remain.

Elisia Nghidishange, Ancestor Caller, 2020. 15. Triennial Kleinplastik Fellbach, 2022, Photo: Peter Hartung

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15th Triennial of Small Sculpture Fellbach

The Triennale curated by Elke aus dem Moore brings together more than 50 artists from all over the world to look at the the vitality of things.

Globalisto. A Philosophy in flux.

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Globalisto. A Philosophy in flux.

The group show at MAMC+ invites artists who invent new worlds, question the status quo of the current modality and critique power systems.

Installation View of Austrian Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music at Belvedere, Vienna, 2022. Photo: Johannes Stoll, Courtesy of Österreichische Museum für Schwarze Unterhaltung und Black Music (ÖMSUBM).

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Austrian Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music

The Museum gathers stories of Black artists and entertainers who rose to prominence in what has been a predominantly white entertainment industry.

El Hadji Sy, Installation View, Selebe Yoon, 2022.

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El Hadji Sy: Now / Naaw

El Hadji Sy's works, on view at Selebe Yoon in Dakar, are made with a variety of materials blurring boundaries between functionality and aesthetics.

Fondation Festival sur le Niger. Installation view at documenta fifteen, Kassel. Photo: C&

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documenta fifteen

Ruangrupa takes lumbung as the starting point of documenta fifteen: principles of collectivity, resource building and equitable distribution.

documenta fifteen

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documenta fifteen

Running for 100 days through 25 September, the 15th edition of documenta in Kassel, Germany, opens its door. Find some first impressions here.

12th Berlin Biennale: Still Present!

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12th Berlin Biennale: Still Present!

With its political profile, the current edition of the Berlin Biennale takes place from June 11 to September 18, 2022, and is curated by Kader Attia.

Lac Rose, Installation View at the 14th Dakar Biennale, 2022. Photo: Roseline Olang' Odhiambo

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14th Dakar Biennale 2022: Palais de Justice

Here are some installation views of the 14th Dakar Biennale taking place from…

Zineb Sedira, Les rêves n'ont pas de titre/ Dreams have no titles, 2022. Installation view of the France Pavilion at 59th Venice Biennale. Photo: C&

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Pavilions of France, Great Britain, Uganda and USA

Find some impressions of the pavilions and artists' work that have been honored at the 59th Venice Biennale here.

The Milk of Dreams at Arsenale, Pavilion of Zimbabwe and Ocean Space

Installation View: 59th Venice Biennale

The Milk of Dreams at Arsenale, Pavilion of Zimbabwe and Ocean Space

Here are some installation views of the 59th Venice Biennale taking place from 23 April to 27 November 2022 curated by Cecilia Alemani.

Jadé Fadojutimi: Yet, Another Pathetic Fallacy

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Jadé Fadojutimi: Yet, Another Pathetic Fallacy

The exhibition at ICA Miami highlights Fadojutimi's wide range of techniques, her complex emotions and the inspiration she takes from her environment.

Cultura persa e imparata a memoria, Adji Dieye, 25 February 2022

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Adji Dieye: Culture Lost and Learned by Heart

At ar/ge art, Adji Dieye shows works that began with archival research in Senegal to look at the country's post-independent situation.

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. « GBRÉ=GBLÉ » N° 118 from Alphabet Bété. 1991. Colored pencil, pencil, and ballpoint pen on board, 3 ⅞ × 5 ⅞” (9.8 × 14.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art. © 2022 Family of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

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Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound

The first exhibition devoted to an Ivorian artist at MoMA presents Bouabré’s artworks from the 1970s until his death in 2014.

James Gregory Atkinson, Zeitkapsel Transformer, 2021, photography, documents, transformer, books, various materials, installation view ‘6 Friedberg-Chicago’, Dortmunder Kunstverein Courtesy: the artist, Archiv des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung, Germericans (Sabrina und Marvin Kuhn), Ika Hügel-Marshall, The Lisbet Tellefsen Collection, Tyrown Vincent, Dortmunder Kunstverein Photo: Roland Baege

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James Gregory Atkinson: 6 Friedberg-Chicago

At Dortmunder Kunstverein, Atkinson illuminates a neglected part of African-American–German history on personal, social and political level.

Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust

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Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust

The show at Kunsthalle Zürich is akin to a park, a landscape that absorbs and surrounds us with the everyday, desire, narrative and countless contrast

Hervé Télémaque: A Hopscotch of the Mind

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Hervé Télémaque: A Hopscotch of the Mind

The first UK institutional show at Serpentine for the legendary Haitian-French artist includes…

William Scott

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William Scott

This expansive exhibition at Studio Voltaire includes over 80 paintings, drawings and sculptures…

Dineo Seshee Bopape, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU.

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Dineo Seshee Bopape: Ile aye, moya, là, ndokh…harmonic conversions…mm

Dineo Seshee Bopape's solo exhibition at Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond calls…

sonsbeek20→24: force times distance

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sonsbeek20→24: force times distance

With more than 250 contributions and artistic positions in 13 different locations, sonsbeek20→24…

Bhulebezwe Siwani. Installation View The Power Of My Hands at Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, 2021. Photo: Pierre Antoine

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The Power of My Hands

The exhibition at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris tells us how artists can…

ROUBAIX - 20 AVRIL 2021: Photos de l’exposition Matières sensibles,  

Africa2020 Season: Installation View

Sensitive Materials

Curated by the artist collective EXIT FRAME this exhibition at La Condition Publique…

Mário Macilau: Circle of Memories

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Mário Macilau: Circle of Memories

Mário Macilau's exhibition at La Terrasse espace d'art de Nanterre curated by Elvira…

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Africa2020 Season: Installation View

What is forgotten and what remains

Through the works of seventeen artists from Africa and its diasporas, the exhibition…

Installation View UFA – University of African Futures from 10 April to 10 August 2021 at le lieu unique.

Africa2020 Season: Installation View

UFA – University of African Futures

The exhibition at le lieu unique in Nantes invites artists who, from a…

Mary Sibande, Sophie. Exhibition View

Africa2020 Season: Installation View

Memoria: Account of another history

The exhibition at Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA in Bordeaux addresses the idea of a…

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Africa2020 Season: Installation View

Distance ardente

The 11 artists in the exhibition installed at Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie…

Georges Adéagbo. La lumière qui fait le bonheur… Installation view Maschinenhaus M2, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin © Georges Adéagbo / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2021. Foto: Jens Ziehe, 2021© Georges Adéagbo / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2021  Foto: Jens Ziehe, 2021

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Georges Adéagbo: La lumière qui fait le bonheur…

Beninese artist Georges Adéagbo has a solo show at KINDL Berlin. Curated by…

Galerie 31 project, Installation view « On fait des dessins dans la terre », 2021. Works by Naomi Lulendo and Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien © Nicolas Brasseur

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On Fait Des Dessins Dans La Terre

Eva Barois De Caevel curated a collective exhibition with works by Naomi Lulendo,…

Emeka Ogboh, The Way Earthly Things Are Going, Installation view at Kunstmuseum Ravensburg. Foto: Kunstmuseum Ravensburg/Wynrich Zlomke

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Emeka Ogboh: The Way Earthly Things Are Going

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Alioune Diouf, Le Boulevard, 2020. Installation view at Selebe Yoon, Dakar.

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Alioune Diouf: Ubeku – Ouverture

In the center of Dakar a new art space opened: Selebe Yoon shows as its inaugural exhibition Ubeku ("Overture") by Senegalese artist Alioune Diouf.

Otobong Nkanga, Taste of a Stone, 2020. Site-specific installation, boulders, gneiss, granite, iceland lichen, inkjet prints on limestone, marble pebbles, movements, plants Installation view Otobong Nkanga: There's No Such Thing as Solid Ground, Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2020. © Otobong Nkanga, photo: Luca Giradini

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Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground

Following Otobong Nkanga's year-long residence in 2019 at Gropius Bau, the Berlin institution…

Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.

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Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) present a massive retrospective…

Installation view C& Center of Unfinished Business, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © Contemporary And, photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, Cologne / Nina Siefke

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HERE AND NOW at Mu­se­um Lud­wig – Dy­nam­ic Spaces

For the ex­hi­bi­tion HERE AND NOW at Mu­se­um Lud­wig: Dy­nam­ic Spaces, C& is…

Installation view: ​Meleko Mokgosi: Your Trip to Africa​, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2020-21. © Meleko Mokgosi. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo: Oriol Tarridas

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Meleko Mokgosi: Your Trip to Africa

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Installation view Malek Gnaoui, Essaida Carthage: Between the Past and the Future. Courtesy of Selma Feriani Gallery and the artist.

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Malek Gnaoui, Essaida Carthage: Between the Past and the Future

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George Hallett taking a self-portrait in the mirror, with South African photographer Clarence Coulson. Courtesy BIC Project Space

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George Hallett: sound . text . image

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Michael Armitage, The Accomplice, 2019. Courtesy Norval Foundation, Cape Town

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Accomplice: Michael Armitage

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View of Amina Zoubir taking a stance on berber queens: history and mythology at Södertälje Konsthall, 2020. Amina Zoubir, Forgotten figure #Lalla N'soumer. Installation of wallpaper. Amina Zoubir, ADAGP Paris.

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Amina Zoubir taking a stance on berber queens: history and mythology

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Cameron Rowland, 3 & 4 Will IV c. 73, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2020. Installation view

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Cameron Rowland: 3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73

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Gabriella Badjeck, Installation view of Femmes sans tabous at Doual'art, Douala, Cameroon.

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Femmes sans tabous

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Gareth Nyandoro, Musika weTomatoes, 2020. Installation View at Tiwani Contemporary London.

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Gareth Nyandoro: Ruwa

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Installation View of LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze at Wexner Center for the Arts

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LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze

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Dawoud Bey, Mary Parker and Caela Cowan, Birmingham, AL, from the series The Birmingham Project, 2012. Rennie Collection, Vancouver, © Dawoud Bey

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Dawoud Bey: An American Project

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Installation View of Dust Specks on the Sea at Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, 2020.

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Dust Specks on the Sea – Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti

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Exhibition I killed the butterfly in my ear, Minia Biabiany, 2020, MAGASIN des horizons. © Camille Olivieri

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Minia Biabiany: I killed the butterfly in my ear

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Mohammad Omar Khalil, Harlem, 1999. Photo: Andy Stagg, courtesy The Mosaic Rooms. 5 x prints 94 x 55.5cm each

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Mohammad Omar Khalil: Homeland Under My Nails

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Thó Simões. Installation view at Fuckin’Globo 2020.

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Fuckin’ Globo 2020: In the discomfort zone

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Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Installation view Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2020. Courtesy the artist and Sulger-Buel Gallery, London. Photo: Stefan Stark

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THE FACULTY OF SENSING – Thinking With, Through and by Anton Wilhelm Amo

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Diamond Stingily, Tell me About, NS Dokumentation Center Munich. Photo: Orla Conolly

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Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow

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Installation view digital exhibition at Mahagony Culture, 2020.

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What Is ‘Contemporary’ Caribbean Culture

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Installation view of Liberty by Adiskidan Ambaye at Addis Fine Art gallery, Addis Ababa, 2020. Photo by Eyerusalem Jiregna.

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Adiskidan Ambaye: Liberty

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Installation View of James Barnor: A Retrospective, Nubuke Foundation Ghana.

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James Barnor: A Retrospective

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Hyundai Commission: Kara Walker: Fons Americanus, 2019. Tate Modern. Photo courtesy and copyright: Ben Fisher

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Kara Walker: Fons Americanus

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Jonathas de Andrade, 2 em 1 (2 in 1), 2010. Installation view of the group show Codes of Coupling at Gypsum Gallery Cairo.

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Codes of Coupling – Group Show

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Installation view Re: Zacharaha Magasa and Zanele Mutema at First Floor Gallery Harare, 2020.

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Re: Zacharaha Magasa and Zanele Mutema

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Dawit L. Petros, Spazio Disponibile, 2020. Installation view: The Power Plant, Toronto, 2020. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

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Dawit L. Petros: Spazio Disponibile

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Tony Albert, Brothers (The Prodigal Son), 2020, glass, lead, photographic decal, steel, stone. Installation view (2020) for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, National Art School. Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney. Photograph: Zan Wimberley

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22nd Biennale of Sydney – NIRIN

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View of Camille Dumond's

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Camille Dumond: Eye archive

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Mawande Ka Zenzile, Installation view of Udludlilali, Table-turning, 2020. Taxidermied chicken, wood, hessian, leather and stone, 124 x 30 x 40cm. Courtesy of Stevenson.

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Mawande Ka Zenzile: Udludlilali

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Khalil Joseph’s BLKNWS, 2019. Installation View, How To Disappear, at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg.

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How To Disappear

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WAM3Faith Ringgold, Picasso’s Studio (Detail), 1991. Acrylic on canvas with printed and tie-dyed fabric 73 x 68 in. Worcester Art Museum, MA, Charlotte E. W. Buffington Fund 716226

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Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition

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Daniel Otero Torres, installation view at HAVE YOU SEEN A HORIZON LATELY at MACAAL, 2020. Photo: C. Omar Tajmouati

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HAVE YOU SEEN A HORIZON LATELY?

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John Akomfrah, exhibition, Secession, Vienna, 2020

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John Akomfrah

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installation views © die arge lola / Kai Loges und Andreas Langen Shown works from the series: „ Les Marocains“, „Crossings“ „No Pasara“, „L’île du Diable“ by Leila Alaoui © Fondation Leila Alaoui; Galeria Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Habana

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Leila Alaoui

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Tschabalala Self, »Leotard«, 2019 und »Polka«, 2019. Installation View at Kunstverein Hannover. Photo: Raimund Zakowski

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Beyond the Black Atlantic

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Stan Douglas, Luanda-Kinshasa, 2013, one-channel video installation, 361’ (loop), color, sound, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. Installation view Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin. Photo: Alwin Lay

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Stan Douglas: Splicing Block

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Installation view Sonia Elizabeth Barrett at Villa Romana, Florence. Photo: Ela Bialkowska/ OKNOstudio

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Sonia Elizabeth Barrett: Sky

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Akinbode Akinbiyi, Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos, 2006. From the series Sea Never Dry (Detail), Photograph. Courtesy: the artist

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Akinbode Akinbiyi: Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in the Taut Air

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Olowu: Seeing Chicago, MCA Chicago Feb 29-May 10, 2020 Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

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Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago

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Installation view of Zina Saro Wiwa in the exhibition African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other at FotoFest Biennial 2020, Houston, TX. Photo: Emily Peacock. Courtesy of FotoFest, Houston, TX.

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FotoFest Biennial Houston – African Cosmologies

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Installation view of Crossing Night: Regional Identities x Global Context at MOCAD Detroit.

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Crossing Night: Regional Identities x Global Context

Crossing Night: Regional Identities x Global Context presents work that addresses the concerns,…

Guy Wouete, Terre et Visages, 2015-18. Photo: C&

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Recontres de Bamako II

In its 25th anniversary, Rencontres de Bamako (Bamako Encounters), the biennial dedicated to…

FOTOTALA KING MASSASSY, Tenir, 2019. Photo: C&

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Rencontres de Bamako

In its 25th anniversary, Rencontres de Bamako (Bamako Encounters), the biennial dedicated to…

George Camille's installation in the national pavilion of the Seychelles curated by Martin Kennedy. Photo: C&

Venice Biennale 2019

Installation View: National Pavilions

The 58th Venice Biennale counts a record 90 national participations, nine of which…

Anthea Hamilton, Mama Moth Sofa A, 2019. Photo: C&

Venice Biennale 2019

Installation View: “May You Live In Interesting Times” at Giardini

The 58th Venice Biennale focuses on artists who challenge existing habits of thought…

Moneta Sleet Jr, 1965. Foto Courtesy: Johnson Publishing Company, LLC. All rights reserved.

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The Black Image Corporation – Theaster Gates

In the 1940s and 50s Johnson Publishing helped define the aesthetics and cultural…

Medu Art Ensemble (Judy A. Seidman). . . . and the people vote for Nelson Mandela, 1981. The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Artworkers Retirement Society. © Medu Art Ensemble.

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The People Shall Govern! Medu Art Ensemble and the Anti-Apartheid Poster

The Medu Art Ensemble formed in the late 1970s in opposition to South…

El Anatsui, Rising Sea, 2019. Installation view Haus der Kunst. Photo: Maximilian Geuter

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El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale

El Anatsui’s survey exhibition ‚Triumphant Scale’ at Haus der Kunst is the most…

Hannah Black and Ebba Fransén Waldhör, Suntitled, 2019. Photo: C&

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Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber

Co-curated by Claire Tancons, Zoe Butt and Omar Kholeif under the theme Leaving…

Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Swing, 2018. Photo: C&

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12th Shanghai Biennale

Entitled Proregress, the 12th Shanghai biennale tasked 65 international artists to engage with…

Magda Stawarska-Beavan & Joshua Horsley. Photo: C&

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4th Casablanca Biennale: Water Margins

Entitled Tales from the Water Margins, the 4th Casablanca Biennale has officially opened…

Phoebe Boswell,

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Phoebe Boswell: She Summons an Army

The new series by Kenyan British artist Phoebe Boswell entitled She Summons an…

Interference 2018. Ghorbel and Mhiri. Photo: Jennifer Braun

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INTERFERENCE Tunis 2018

The second edition of the international light art project took place in the…

Tei Huagie installation on the outside of Ussher Fort. Photo: Ruth Simbao

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Chale Wote Festival 2018

The 8th Chale Wote street art festival took place in James Town, Accra…

Art Work by Zilvinas Landzbergas. 33a Bienal de São Paulo. 03/09/2018 © Leo Eloy / Estúdio Garagem / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.

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33ª Bienal de São Paulo – Affective Affinities

The 33rd Bienal de São Paulo, opens on September 7, seeks to create…

Dineo Seshee Bopape, Untitled (Of Occult Instability) [Feelings], 2016-2018. Photo: C&

10th Berlin Biennale

Installation View: KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Featured as a special section in our print issue #9 the 10th Berlin…

Firelei Báez, A motor with medicinal function, 2018. Photo: C&

10th Berlin Biennale

Installation View: Akademie der Künste

Featured as a special section in our print issue #9 the 10th Berlin…

View of the exhibition “Covered in Time and History: Die Filme von Ana Mendieta”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2018. Photo: C&AL

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Ana Mendieta in Berlin

The Gropius Bau in Berlin shows the works of the legendary Cuban video…

Hamid Attia, Unlocked Mediterranean, 2017. Maison des anciens combattants. Photo: C&

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Dak’Art 2018 – Musée de l’IFAN and other venues

Dak'Art 2018 - La Biennale de Dakar has opened in Senegal. In addition…

Courtyard Ancien Palais de Justice, Pascale Monnin (blue). Photo: C&

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Dak’Art 2018 – Ancien Palais de Justice

Entitled L'heure Rouge (The red hour) and curated by Simon Njami, Dak'Art 2018…

1-54 Special Projects Ralph Ziman. Photo: Ann Mbuti

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1-54 New York

1-54 New York returns for its fourth edition at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn between…

Kelvon Haizel, Things and Nothings, 2017. Photo: C&

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Rencontres de Bamako – 11th African Biennale of Photography

Entitled Afrotopia, the 11th Recontres de Bamako African Biennale of Photography explores what…

“Club Lagos” installation. Naijapop in HD, Nigerian music videos. Photo: Luísa Lombardi

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Ex África

The largest exhibition on art from African perspectives held in Brazil is open…

Kiluanji Kia Henda, Under the Silent Eye of Lenin, 2017. Photo: C&

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Frieze London 2017

The 15th edition of Frieze London took place from 5–8 October. Get a…

Aïcha Snoussi, Bugs (Antocodexxx), 2017, AGorgi Gallery. Photo: C&

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1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

The fifth London edition of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, the leading international…

Lungiswa Gqunta, Lawn 1 2016/17. Photo by C&

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15. Istanbul Biennial: A Good Neighbour

The 15th Istanbul Biennial is taking place between 16 September and 12 November…

A LABOUR OF LOVE, Installation View at Johannesburg Art Gallery 2017. Photo: C&

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A Labour Of Love

Travelling from the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt on the Main, the exhibition re-examines…

The Center of Unfinished Business at Kassel, image by Natalia Escudero

"Unpacking my Library"

The C& Center of Unfinished Business in Kassel

As part of a unique "book residency project" between documenta 14's aneducation and…

Aboubakar Fafana at Documentahalle: Fundi (Aufstand), 2017. Photo: C&

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documenta 14

Get a first impressions of the works on show at documenta 14 in…

Dineo Seshee Bopape, mabu/mubu/mmu, 2017. Local soil, cermaics, herbs, crystals, coal, ash, adobe bricks. Produced by PinchukArtCentre. Image © Contemporary And

Venice Biennale 2017

Installation View: Future Generation Prize

21 young artists from 16 different countries, shortlisted for the 4th edition of…

Peterson Kamwathi © Contemporary And

Venice Biennale 2017

Installation View: Pavilions of Kenya, Angola and Tunisia

The 57th edition of La Biennale di Venezia takes place from May 13th…

Kagnedjatou Joachim Silué 'ALT!! Same Causes, Same Effets' 2017, image: © Contemporary And

Venice Biennale 2017

Installation View: Pavilions of Zimbabwe, Nigeria & Côte d’Ivoire

Get a first impressions of the Venice Biennale 2017

Isaac Julien - The Leopard (Western Union: small boats (2007) Single screen projection, Super 16mm colour lm transferred to high de nition, 5.1 surround sound (19 min 51 sec)

Venice Biennale 2017

Installation View: Diaspora Pavilion

The very first Diaspora Pavilion in Venice offers a glimpse into an art…

Manuel Ocampo No Pain Like This Body (2010/2017)

Venice Biennale 2017

Installation View: Pavilions of South Africa, USA, Egypt, New Zealand & Philippines

The 57th edition of La Biennale di Venezia takes place from May 13th…

Hassan Hajjaj - J'♥ El Fna, 2012 - ©Maxime Dufour Photographies -Exposition Afriques Capitales, dans le cadre du printemps 2017 à Saint Sauveur

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Afriques Capitales

Afrique Capitales, conceptualised by leading curator Simon Njami, takes a stance for a…

Olu Oguibe, installation view Biafra Time Capsule, 2017. Books, archival objects, mixed media. documenta 14 in Athens, 2017. Photo by C&

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documenta 14: Athens

documenta 14 is curated by Adam Szymczyk and his curatorial team such as…

Journey to the One by Mongezi Ncaphayi

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Journey to the One by Mongezi Ncaphayi

Journey to the One is Mongezi Ncaphayi’s first solo exhibition with SMAC gallery…

CUSS Group : New Horizons at STEVENSON

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CUSS Group : New Horizons at STEVENSON

STEVENSON and the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) present New Horizons, a…

In Context: Africans in America

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In Context: Africans in America

Goodman Gallery presents the exhibition Africans in America , co-curated by American artist…

Yinka Shonibare MBE: ‘Wind Sculpture VI’ in Lagos

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Yinka Shonibare MBE: ‘Wind Sculpture VI’ in Lagos

The British Council unveiled its first ever public sculpture project in Nigeria. Yinka…

AKAA – Also Known As Africa 2016

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AKAA – Also Known As Africa 2016

AKAA – Also Known As Africa is the first art fair devoted to…

INTERCOUTURE: OBJETS DU POUVOIR

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INTERCOUTURE: OBJETS DU POUVOIR

Exhibition with the artist Henrike Naumann at Museum for Contemporary Art and Multimedia…

‘Rituals and Performance’ LagosPhoto Festival 2016 in Nigeria

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‘Rituals and Performance’ LagosPhoto Festival 2016 in Nigeria

Currently in its seventh edition, LagosPhoto is the first and only international arts…

‘Exchange’ at Galerie Hans Mayer

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‘Exchange’ at Galerie Hans Mayer

The title of the show “EXCHANGE” stands not only for an exchange of…

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

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1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

1:54 , the leading international art fair dedicated to Contemporary African Art returned…

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

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32nd Bienal de São Paulo

The title of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, INCERTEZA VIVA (Live Uncertainty),…

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

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32nd Bienal de São Paulo

The title of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, INCERTEZA VIVA (Live Uncertainty),…

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

Installation View III

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

The title of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, INCERTEZA VIVA (Live Uncertainty),…

‘When things fall apart: Critical voices on the radars’ at Trapholt Museum in Denmark

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‘When things fall apart: Critical voices on the radars’ at Trapholt Museum in Denmark

In the exhibition, When things fall apart: Critical voices on the radars ,…

‘Still life with water’ – Wim Botha at Fondation Blachere

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‘Still life with water’ – Wim Botha at Fondation Blachere

Fondation Blachere presents 'Wim Botha : Still life with water' from 26 May…

Dak’Art 2016 – Théodore Monod Museum of IFAN

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Dak’Art 2016 – Théodore Monod Museum of IFAN

The following six curators were invited to propose an exhibition of three to…

Dak’Art 2016 – EL HADJI SY at Le Village des Arts

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Dak’Art 2016 – EL HADJI SY at Le Village des Arts

El Hadji Sy showing at Le Village de Arts in the framework of…

Dak'Art 2016 international exhibition, Installation view, Palais de Justice © C&

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Dak’Art 2016 – PALAIS DE JUSTICE

The 12th edition of Dakar’s Biennale for Contemporary Art, Dak’Art,  “The City in…

Kabbo Ka Muwala: The Girl’s Basket

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Kabbo Ka Muwala: The Girl’s Basket

Kabbo Ka Muwala: The Girl’s Basket is currently on view at Makerere Art…

Interior Landscapes by Filipe Branquinho

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Interior Landscapes by Filipe Branquinho

A selection of photographs of the series “Interior Landscapes” was selected and shown…

Still (the) Barbarians – EVA International

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Still (the) Barbarians – EVA International

The 2016 editions of EVA International – Ireland’s biennial of contemporary art, 'Still…

NGO – Nothing Gets Organised

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NGO – Nothing Gets Organised

View shots of NGO's inaugural exhibition with Cinthia Marcelle, Tiago Mata Machado, Pratchaya…

‘I lost track of the swarm’ by Paul Maheke

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‘I lost track of the swarm’ by Paul Maheke

Following six months as the South London Gallery’s Graduate-inResidence , Paul Maheke presents…

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