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36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travelers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice

The 36th edition of the Bienal de São Paulo is led by chief curator Professor Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, together with a conceptual team of co-curators Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz and Thiago de Paula Souza, as well as co-curator at large Keyna Eleison.

Flowing Affections: Laryssa Machada’s Sensitive Geographies

Artist presents photography project with potential as affirmative action for dissident memories.

Atlantic Threads

This residency programme brings together Brazilian, Beninese, and Ivorian artists addressing themes such as memory, Afro-Atlantic movements, and Afro-diasporic thought.

Caribbean Musicality in the Work of Valerie Brathwaite

An account from Port of Spain on how Caribbean culture and nature have influenced Brathwaite’s sculptures.

Orgullo Nacional

The Orgullo Nacional [National Pride] exhibition showcases recent works by José Morbán and challenges the Dominican national ego and the ways in which history and identity are “constructed” or “erected” from positions of power.

Art and Identity in the Caribbean

Kosisochukwu Nnebe and Keisha Scarville are two artists exploring identity and migration in their Miami residency.

Conceptual Team for the 36th Bienal de São Paulo Announced

The team assembled by chief curator Ndikung is made up of Keyna Eleison, Thiago de Paula Souza, Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz and Henriette Gallus.

Glitches in the Sound and Thought of biarritzzz

Profile on Brazilian artist whose aesthetic mimics the digital environment and all its visual and sonic excess.

Andean Eroticism and the Ancestral Tables of Sarhua

A conversation with the Peruvian artist who explores themes such as Andean eroticism and the visibility of women.

A Black Curator is Never Just a Curator

In this encounter in Canada, Black curators and art professionals held intergenerational dialogues about industry challenges.

Eliazar Ortiz Roa: Connecting Antillean Society and Botany

A conversation with the Dominican artist, who is participating in the 23rd Paiz Art Biennial in Guatemala.

C& and C&AL Joint Print Issue: Ecologies

With texts in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, K’iche' and Limbum.

Masp planned a year dedicated to Indigenous Histories

Masp presents indigenous contemporary art in a series of exhibitions througout 2023.

Bodies of Revolt: ColetivA Ocupação and the transgressive practices of art and education

Formed during the high school student protest movement, this artistic collective’s ethos is “walking and learning together”.

Edgar Kanaykõ: Photography as reclaiming

Brazilian indigenous artist talks about the relationship between image and ethno-vision, the constant construction of identity, and art as territory.

Mulambö: Carnival was my art school

The artist who creates paintings and sculptures inspired by Rio de Janeiro’s suburban and popular culture talks about his trajectory.

FICCA: A Festival of African Cinema in Medellín

The seventh edition of FICCA is scheduled to open in September in Medellín, Colombia, under the theme “Land” and includes more than 40 films.

“We Live in a City that Casts People Out”

Coletivo Coletores (Collectors Collective) proposes discussion on urgent issues such as combating racism and exclusion.

Memory Is at the Heart

The only Afrodiasporic Memory Center in Colombia is located in Chocó, the department with the largest Afro-descendant population in the country.

How to Talk about Difference Without Explaining It?

Opening up writings and notebooks, Rebeca Carapiá discusses environmental racism and sculpture's right to die.

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All

This group exhibition at Kunstverein Hamburg looks into the processes of dehumanization that have been taking place in Europe.

In Search of Decolonized Images of South Africa

Two Colombian photographers in South Africa examine the notions of representation, independence processes and image subversion.

The Forgotten Social History of International Blackness

For people of Black African heritage, identifying with Blackness is the glue that connects us, argues Minna Salami.

The 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art publishes participants

Artists from all over the world will exhibit their works in Berlin beginning in September 2020.

Manuela Ribadeneira, Objects of Doubt and Certainty

This exhibition in Quito brings together works from the last twenty years of production of the Ecuadorian artist.

Black Art in Brazil: An Uncertain Future

After taking steps to generate public policies for the Brazilian black art scene, the challenge is being able to maintain them.

Artistic Work as a Form of Healing

The artist from Barbados on collective healing, frightening colonial legacies and the Caribbean artistic scene.

Why Is My Thinking Ethnic?

“You have to understand that fully embracing blackness and pride is a constant struggle,” says columnist Keyna Eleison.

Reacting to Social Emergencies

Whe spoke with the Texan native artist about her work and her role as an artist, activist, and teacher.

Minerva Cuevas – No Room To Play

The Mexican artist questions the construction of political roles and the significance of the public space.

Displacement as Choreography

Residency brings together eight Brazilian artists in Munich. Displacements are visible on the residents' bodies and in their works.

The Cliché of Indigenous Art as “Exotic”

A conversation with Elvira Espejo, Bolivian artist and researcher, about textile art, the Bauhaus and the biased perspective of museums.

Pluralizing narratives

Exhibition at major art spaces reveals complex network of social relationships around art produced by Afro-descendants.

“Art as a tool to forge the path”

The artist, curator and art educator talks about his trajectory and remembers the legendary gallery space O Oço/Galeria Cine e Sol.

“The Margin of the Margin”

Rose Mara Kielela addresses the issue of nonbelonging – “something very profound in the psychological structure of Afro-descendants".

GOD'S P(L)AN

When discussing art and culture, capitalism and neoliberalism are often overlooked, argues C&’s deputy editor Will Furtado.

Eneida Sanches – Trance and Dimensional Displacement

Among black women artists from Brazil, she is one of the few who discusses in her works a closeness with the sacred.

Displacements in Exhibitions’ Discourses

Afro-Cuban arts narrative from Wifredo Lam to José Bedia and the use of African diasporic concepts within the global art world.

Speaking Walls

In Peru, young artists are exploring their roots – while trying to change the way the Latin American country regards itself.

Cheikh Anta Diop

Senegalese cultural theorist committed himself to a life-long project of decolonizing the African humanities.