“Auf Deutsch”

(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.

Year-in-Review

C& Highlights of 2024

It has been another year of expanding networks, fostering dynamic collaborations, and producing exceptional art writing.

C& Builds a Living Digital Archive

Grant Announcement

C& Builds a Living Digital Archive

Transforming how audiences engage with 10+ years of C& content with Mellon Foundation support.

C& Launches Patreon Membership

News

C& Launches Patreon Membership

An invitation to our extended community to join and support us!

Myles Igwe, Ndi Nwanyi , 2024. Installation view at 14th Recontres de Bamako. Courtesy of the  Bamako Biennale.

14th African Biennal of Photography

The Resilient Spirit of the Bamako Biennale

The continent's leading photography festival is a rallying cry for African self-reliance and a platform for new voices, writes Obidike Okafor.

documenta und Museum Fridericianum
gGmbH, Artistic Direction documenta 16, Naomi Beckwith, Kassel 2024,
Photo: Nicolas Wefers.

News

Naomi Beckwith Appointed Artistic Director for documenta 16

The Deputy Director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York will lead the next edition of documenta to be held from June 12 to September 19, 2027.

Maheder Haileselassie Tadesse, Installation view at 14th Bamako Biennale. Courtesy of Les Rencontres de Bamako.

News

Maheder Haileselassie Tadesse Wins Main Prize at Rencontres de Bamako

Additional prizes were awarded to Wilfried Vanie and Victor Adewale, with honorable mentions for Seyba Keita, Dior Thiam, and John Moussa Kalapo.

John Akomfrah (British, born 1957) . The Unfinished Conversation. 2012. Three-channel video (color, sound). 45 min. The Contemporary Arts Council of the Museum of Modern Art, The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art, and through the generosity of Bilge Ogut and Haro Cumbusyan, 2016. © 2017 John Akomfrah.

C& Center of Unfinished Business

, so I dream: An Ode to Stuart Hall

Our author Aaliyah Lauterkranz was inspired to write a poem by Hall's pioneering thinking in the context of identity.

Bring Home your C& Collectors Box!

A Limited Collection of all C& and C&AL Print Issues

Bring Home your C& Collectors Box!

We are thrilled to announce that the C& Collectors Box, until now only available to our Patreon members, is for sale!

Four of the six Prince Claus Impact Awardees 2024: (clockwise) Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, Myrlande Constant (Courtesy of Faena Art), Sana Na N’Hada, and Rosa Chávez (Portrait by Victoria Castañeda).

News

Prince Claus Impact Award Presented to Six Artists from Diverse Disciplines

The award honors artists driving social change and community work, including Sana Na N’Hada, Myrlande Constant, Rosa Chávez, and Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi

Koyo Kouoh. Courtesy of La Biennale.

News

Koyo Kouoh Has Been Announced as Curator of Venice Biennale 2026

Koyo Kouoh, director of Zeitz MOCAA, has been appointed to curate the main exhibition of the 61st Venice Biennale, which will open in spring 2026.

Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden. Photo: Omar Tajmouati. Courtesy of MACAAL.

News

MACAAL in Marrakech Will Reopen in 2025 After Undergoing Significant Renovations

MACAAL reopens in February with a new permanent exhibition, showcasing one of the most comprehensive art collections on the continent and more.

Massoud Hayoun, Sick of foul, I’ll take the goat, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 36x48“. Courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation

Massoud Hayoun: Making Art To Say Things Out Loud

We spoke to visual artist Massoud Hayoun about his paintings, which aim to stand in opposition to anti-human politics and nihilism.

The Anarchist Citizenship – People Made of Stories

Installation View

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.

Wangechi Mutu, A Palace in Pieces, 2024. Installation view at 15th Dakar Biennale. Courtesy of DakArtNews.

Dak'Art 2024

Still a Powerful Platform for Critical Dialogue around Art, Ecology, and History

Haja Fanta takes a look at the important biennial, questioning its conceptual coherence while admiring its composition.

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

Installation View

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.”

Artist Agnès Brezephin from the Martinique island is presented the Léopold Sédar Senghor by Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye Présidence Sénégal

Dak’art 2024

Agnès Brezephin Awarded the Grand Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor at This Year’s Dakar Biennale

Six prestigious prizes are being awarded among the 58 artists selected for the official international lineup.

Our Ronald, Waagawullide (

Dak'Art 2024

Odur Ronald: ‘Why is it easier for raw cotton to reach European capitals than for Ugandan people to travel anywhere?’

Ahead of the rescheduled Dakar Biennale, we spoke with Odur Ronald, whose distinctive works explore themes of power, mobility, and identity.

Still from Dahomey by Matt Diop.

Restitution

Tracing the Then and Now of Restitution Through Mati Diop’s Documentary Fantasy Dahomey

Can the French restitution of some of Benin’s royal treasures constitute a new beginning? Mati Diop’s new film, Dahomey, delves this question.

Curatorial team for the 36th São Paulo Biennial, from left to right: Keyna Eleison, Alya Sebti, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Henriette Gallus, Anna Roberta Goetz, and Thiago de Paula Souza.
©João Medeiros / Fundacão Bienal de São Paolo.

News

36th Bienal de São Paulo Reveals Title, Concept, Partnerships, and Visual Identity

"Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice“ will take place as of September 2025 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paolo, Brazil

Installation view of ’60 Years: the NCAI Collection’ at the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, Kenya.

Letter from Nairobi

An Exhibition Aims at Accessibility Against a Backdrop of Protest in Kenya’s Capital

Mūhunyo Maina reviews a pertinent exhibition at NCAI, following protests against the 2024 Finance Bill, exploring ways to democratize art viewing.

Fred Ebami, Kaper Jesse Legacy (Detail), 2024. Presented by Galerie Mam.

News

ART X Lagos 2024 Reveals Theme, Gallery List and Program

The 9th edition explores future visions of Africa and its diasporas taking place from October 31st to November 3rd at The Federal Palace in Lagos.

(left) Gaëlle Choisne. Photo credit: Hugues Lawson-Body. (right) Ruche – Creole Garden in Normandie, 2024. In the background Safe Space for a passing history – Ère du Verseau 99999, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Air de Paris, Romainville, Grand Paris © Adagp, Paris, 2024

News

Gaëlle Choisne is the Winner of Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024

Recognized for her delicate multidisciplinary installations, Gaëlle Choisne has been named the winner of France's most prestigious art award.

Portrait of Nkule Mabaso. Photo: Jacob Sweep

News

Fotogalleriet Announces Nkule Mabaso as Director from 2024 to 2028

Nkule Mabaso’s strong interest in networks and their potential for institutions and artists will elevate Norway’s only kunsthalle for photography.

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

Installation View

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.

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It Will End in
Tears
It Will End In Tears, SCENE 16, 2024
Courtesy Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and
Goodman Gallery
Photo: Alexander Edwards

In Conversation

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: A Dramatic Painted Mystery Investigates Ideas about Women’s Power

The painter discusses It Will All End in Tears, her site-specific installation at London’s Barbican Center, made with architect Remco Osório Lobato.

Installation view at John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture & History. Courtesy of Obinna Emelike

Museum for Yoruba Culture and History

Five Things You Need to Know About the John Randle Center Before It Opens

C& author Obidike Okafor shares what to expect from the new architectural marvel in Nigeria’s art capital.

Filipa Bossuet, MANKAKA KADI KONDA KO II, 2022. Act I, Performance at MAAT, Lisbon. Courtesy of Pedro Pina.

Afterlives of History

Filipa Bossuet: Performance as Conversation, Intimacy as Power

Having started as a vlogger, the artist uses her biography to create shared reference points beyond self-referentiality.

& Artists’ Edition by Zohra Opoku. Left and right: Give Me Back My Black Dolls (2024), shown in two of five different color variations. Photo: C&.

Available Now!

C& Artists’ Editions #5 Zohra Opoku

We are very excited about our new C& Artists’ Edition by artist Zohra Opoku - one of our collaborators from the very beginning!

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

Installation View

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.

Zohra Opoku, Thinking Historically in the Present, 2023. Installation View 3. Photography by Sanabas Jamaluddin. Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation.

C& Artists’ Edition

Zohra Opoku: Empowering Children of Color to Love Themselves

In the run-up to our new edition, we spoke to the artist about her passion for fabric and photography, her childhood, and how her new work came about.

Get Your C& Collector’s Box Now!

Out Now!

Get Your C& Collector’s Box Now!

Become a Moon Member on Patreon and get an exclusive and bespoke little treasure chest: our C& Collector’s Box - a collectible of all print issues.

Agape Harmani: Trauma as an Essential Part of Diaspora

In Conversation

Agape Harmani: Trauma as an Essential Part of Diaspora

Curator Nicolas Vamvouklis chats with London-based artist Agape Harmani about her latest project, her Greek-Ethiopian roots, humor, and mental health.

Sarah Ama Duah, To build, To bury to remember, 2022, exhibition view, Galerie Wedding, Berlin. photo©ceeceeberlin

“Auf Deutsch”

Sarah Ama Duah: A Journey Towards Building Contemporary Monuments

The artist purposefully contributes to the sculptural visibility of various Black narratives as part of Germany's history and culture of remembrance.

One of the young women's exhibitions previously held in Kigali. Photo: Andrew I.Kazibwe.

Impundu Arts Centre

Rwanda’s Creative Sector Holds Vast Potential Through Women Artists

Andrew I Kazibwe met with Jemima Kakizi, artist, curator, and organizer of arts mentoring programs, to speak about the potential for female artists.

Installation view, Elolo Bosoka, Flying Onions, 2024, Photo: Morel Donou, Courtesy Galerie Atiss Dakar

Round Table

In the Wake of Dak’Art Biennale 2024: A Momentum for Reflection

Four curators from West-Africa reflect on Dakar’s cultural resilience and collective symbiosis following the Biennale’s unexpected postponement.

The curatorial team of the 14th Bamako Encounters: (clockwise) Lassana Igo Diarra, Nadine Hounkpatin, Manthia Diawara, Patrick Mudekereza,  Soufiane Er-Rahoui, and Oyindamola (Fakeye) Faithfull. Courtesy of Bamako Encounters.

News

Rencontres de Bamako 14 Reveals Artist List for 2024

30 artists have been selected for the 14th African Biennal of Photography that will be held from November 16, 2024 to January 15, 2025 in Bamako.

Tesfaye Urgessa, detail  from on of his works of the series

60th Venice Biennale

Breaking New Ground with an Ethiopian Pavilion

For Dagmawit Abebaw Hunz the inaugural pavilion of Ethiopia shines, but also brings up colonial wounds and art-world inequalities.

Ruth Ige, Queen from the 7th earth (part 2), Detail, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 150cm. Courtesy of Stevenson.

C& Book #02

I thought I knew the depths of you (Blackness)

In reference to the title with C&’s latest book, Ruth Ige has written a poem to share her very own relationship with Blackness.

Syncretical,

Artist Portrait

From the Collective Narrative to the Singularities of North African Identities: A Dive into the World of Syncretical

The artist creates dialog between his North African heritage and his native French culture, merging traditions, pop culture, and philosophical teachin

(clockwise) Yasmil Raymond, Gridthiya Gaweewong, N'Goné Fall, Yilmaz Dziewior, Mami Kataoka, Sergio Edelsztein. 

Fotos: Valentina Knežević /  F. Diouf PHOTOGRAPHY / Angkrit Ajchariyasophon / © Städelschule 2020 / Falko Alexander /  Ito Akinori / Albi Serfaty

News

N’Goné Fall is Part of the Documenta Finding Committee

Six international art experts have been appointed to documenta’s new Finding Committee to search for artistic director of Documenta 16 in 2027.

Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

Studio Visit

Anaïs Cheleux: Connecting Caribbean Identity Through Photography and Performance

Marny Garcia Mommertz visits Anaïs Cheleux in her Guadeloupe studio to chat about sugar-cane syrup and her work at this year's Off Biennale in Dakar.

Helena Uambembe, In memory We love, 2022. Installation view at Njabala Foundation. Photo: Royal Kenogo.

Njabala Foundation

An Exhibition that Welcomed Grief at the Door and Pulled out a Chair

On a curatorial trip to Kampala, curator Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo shares her impressions in a letter to a loved one in Nairobi.

Installation view of Giants: Art from the Dean Collection. Photo: Paula Abreu Pita.

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

A Show of Parallels and Superlatives

C&'s Nan Collymore visited the highly acclaimed exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and found many things to fall in love with.

(left) Nobel Koty; (right) Nobel Koty, Voile #5, 2024, 130 x 110 cm, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist.

News

Nobel Koty Receives 2024 ellipse Prize

This year dedicated to the Beninese art scene, the French art prize goes to Nobel Koty, who creates intimate self-portraits.

Work by Tawanda Takura. Courtesy of the artists.

News

Tawanda Takura Wins 13th Cassirer Welz Award

The self-taught artist from Zimbabwe receives a residency and solo exhibition at Bag Factory Artists’ Studios in Johannesburg.

Mohamed El BAZ. Photo: Fouad Maazouz.

In Memoriam

Mohamed El Baz (1967–2024)

The Moroccan artist passed away in May 2024. The curator Syham Weigant, his friend and colleague, highlights special moments of his life and career.

Spaces of Collective Learning, Relearning and Unlearning with Drama Queens

OtherNetwork x C&

Spaces of Collective Learning, Relearning and Unlearning with Drama Queens

The queer-feminist collective shares its actions and visions with the newly founded W'AHU Magazine, which celebrates Ghana's diverse communities.

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.

Installation View

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!

Manyaku Mashilo: Intuition is the Place

Artist Portrait

Manyaku Mashilo: Intuition is the Place

Kim M Reynolds dives into the poetic work of multifaceted visual artist Manyaku Mashilo, encountering the possibility of invention.

The conceptual team of the 36th São Paulo Biennial (from left to right): Keyna Eleison, Anna Roberta Goetz, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Alya Sebti, Thiago de Paula Souza, and Henriette Gallus. Photo: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.

News

Conceptual Team for the 36th Bienal de São Paulo Announced

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

View of Sonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way, British Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale, 2022. Photo: Rob Battersby. @ Leeds Art Gallery.

News

Toronto Biennial of Art 2024 Reveals Title, Artist List, and Venues

With 'Precarious Joys', curators Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López present 36 Canadian and international artists at 12 venues around the city.

Elsadig Mohamed Janka, The Adoration, from Ahmed My Beloved series, 2016, Courtesy of Borderlands Art.

In Conversation

Elsadig Mohamed Janka: Liminal Space is a Place of Creativity and Vision

Janka’s latest solo exhibition is a deeply personal journey into his spirituality, his closest friendship, and the circumstances of his life.

(left) Lebohang Kganye; (right) Re shapa setepe sa lenyalo II, 2013 © Lebohang Kganye, Courtesy the artist.

News

Lebohang Kganye Awarded Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024

For her exhibition at Foam Amsterdam in 2023, Lebohang Kganye receives the prestigious prize endowed with £30,000.

Weaam El Masry, Fragments – (b. 1976, Egypt). Drawing on toned paper

News

Weaam El Masry Receives Public Vote Prize of the NSAAP 2024

El Masry's work “Fragments” convinced and touched the audience through the deep reflection of her own personal memories and inner world.

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.

Zohra Opoku,‘I am the one who shines, the one who is above the district of the sky. I go forth to the sky. I climb upon the sun’s rays. O, I am weary, I am weary, (yet) I proceed.', (Detail) 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim

15th Dakar Biennale

The Off is On! Why We Should All Still Be in Dakar

Here, Black Pages from Dakar shares a long list of exciting exhibitions and events taking place alongside the OFF Biennale.

Tegene Kunbi, Installation View at the 14th Dakar Biennale, 2022. Photo: Roseline Olang’ Odhiambo.

News

Dakar Biennale 2024 Postponed Due to Political Unrest

Following changes in Senegal's cultural and political leadership, the country is postponing the Biennale until November 7 to December 7, 2024.

Joy Maringa. Installation view at Kobo Trust. Photo: Mūhunyo Maina

Letter from Nairobi

New Talent and New Avenues in Nairobi’s Art Scene

Mūhunyo Maina reviews the artistic offerings in Kenia’s capital in the first quarter of 2024.

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

Installation View

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.

(from left to right) Claudette Johnson.  Photo © Anne Tetzlaff; Jasleen Kaur. Photo: Robin Christian; Pio Abad. Pio Abad; Delaine La Bas. Photo © Tara Darby. Courtesy of the artists.

News

These Are the Turner Prize 2025 Shortlisted Artists

The Turner Prize 2024 shortlisted artists are Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas.

Installation view C& Center of Unfinished Business, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © Contemporary And. Photo: C&

C& Center of Unfinished Business

Book List on Post-Colonial Theory from the C& Library

Our library offers a wide selection of books that are connected to the topic of (post-) colonialism in various ways and help us to understand the now.

60th Venice Biennale: National Pavilions of Benin, South Africa, Senegal and Ethiopia

Installation View

60th Venice Biennale: National Pavilions of Benin, South Africa, Senegal and Ethiopia

Here are some impressions of the pavilions spread across the city. Benin and Ethiopia make their first appearance at the Venice Biennale.

Helena Uambembe and Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino. Courtesy of ars viva prize.

News

Helena Uambembe and Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino are among Winners of ars viva prize 2025

Since 1953 the ars viva prize of Visual Arts goes to young artists under 35 based in Germany, associated with a solo exhibition and art residency.

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

Installation View

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

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

Karimah Ashadu; Installation View at 60th Venice Biennale. Photo: C&; Film Still. Courtesy of Venice Biennale.

60the Venice Biennale

Silver Lion Goes to Karimah Ashadu

Multimedia artist Karimah Ashadu is awarded with the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Artist in the International Exhibition.

60th Venice Biennale: Foreigners Everywhere

Installation View

60th Venice Biennale: Foreigners Everywhere

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

(Clockwise) Dalton Paula (Brasilia, Brazil, 1982), Maria Firmina dos Reis, 2022. Gold leaf and oil on canvas, 61 x 45 cm. Photo: Paulo Rezende; Abel Rodriguez. Courtesy of the artist; Karimah Ashadu, Film still – “Plateau”, Detail, 2021. Courtesy of the artist; Uche Okeke, Okpaladike and his Obu, Detail, 1961. Credit Courtesy of the artist and Skoto Gallery - New York Times; Kiluanji Kia Henda, A City Called Mirage, 2013–2017, one of fifty black and white photographs. Courtesy of the artist; Gladys Mgudlandlu, Three men in blue, not dated. Detail, body colour. Courtesy Johannesburg Art Gallery

60th Venice Biennale

A Venice Guide to Art from Africa and the Global Diaspora

The 60th Venice Biennale is about to open its doors to the public and here you will find an overview of all African and diasporic perspectives.

Kitjo Lynn Lelliot, I was her and she was me and those we might become 1, Installtion View Chamarande. Photo: Henri Perrot.

News

Kitso Lynn Lelliott Receives Henrike Grohs Art Award 2024

Kitso Lynn Lelliott is the fourth recipient of the Henrike Grohs Art Award, conceived by the Goethe-Institut and Grohs family.

Portrait of Faith Ringgold. Photo by Grace Matthews.

In Memoriam

Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

Artist and activist Faith Ringgold died in her home in Englewood on 13 April. Her death was reported by ACA Galleries, which has represented her work.

(left) Faith Ringgold, Feminist Series: We Meet the Monster, 1972. Acrylic on canvas framed in cloth 12/20, 127 x 83 cm. (right) Faith Ringgold, Marlon Riggs: Tongues Untied, 1994. Storyquilt, 226 x 151 cm. Both images courtesy the artist and Weiss Berlin

In Conversation

Faith Ringgold: “I am very inspired to tell my story, and that’s my story.”

With this interview from 2018, we would like to pay tribute to a true trailblazer: artist, storyteller and activist Faith Ringgold.

Tesfaye Urgessa representing Ethiopia's firs National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024. Photo: Photography by Kameron Cooper. Courtesy Tesfaye Urgessa and Saatchi Yates

2024 Venice Biennale

These Pavilions have Announced African Perspectives so far

18 National Pavilions present artists from Africa and the global diaspora at the 60th Venice Biennale, including four debutants.

Julien Creuzet. Photo: Cristian Baena.

60th Venice Biennale

A Journey into the Mind and Work of Julien Creuzet

Marny Garcia Mommertz and Cristian Baena reflect on a recent press trip to Martinique alongside the artist and curator of the French Pavilion.

Marie-Ann Yemsi. Credit: Daniel Nicolaevsky

News

Marie-Ann Yemsi Appointed Curator for MOMENTA 2025

With "In Praise of the Missing Image" Yemsi will curate a biennial in Montreal that aims to rethink narratives about time, history and the world.

Karen Winter Photography/ Courtesy of the French Institute of South Africa

“Reimagining Heritage, Archives and Museums: Today/Tomorrow”

What Needs to be Considered When Running a Museum in (South) Africa?

Vusumzi Nkomo attended a conference in Cape Town that explored multiple aspects of creating a fairer, more sustainable art ecosystem.

(clockwise) Tonderai Koschke, Percy Nii Nortey, Theresa Weber, Charlotte Ming, and Yangkun Shi

News

Dekoloniale and C& Announce Berlin Residents 2024

Tonderai Koschke, Charlotte Ming, Percy Nii Nortey, Yangkun Shi and Theresa Weber are the artists selected for the annual residency program in Berlin.

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - © Jana Edisonga / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

News

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Appointed Chief Curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo

HKW Director and SAVVY Contemporary Founder Ndikung will be chief curator of the 36th edition of the biennial, scheduled for the second half of 2025.

Chloe Quenum, Epopée, 2023. ©Arthur Pequin.

60th Venice Biennale

Azu Nwagbogu: “Restitution is not restricted to objects but includes knowledge systems”

We spoke to the curator of Benin’s first national pavilion – none other than Azu Nwagbogu – about the concept, the artists, and the biennale.

Henok Melkamzer, Untitled (Detail), 2023. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo: Shafeek Nalakath Kareem

Sharjah Art Museum

Positioning Telsem in Global Art History with Henok Melkamzer

A comprehensive survey offers insights into the Ethiopian painter’s career and makes the case for multiple modernisms.

Nidhal Chamekh, Ismaël, 2023. Plaster and steel. 160h x 117w x 100d cm. Courtesy the artist and Selma Feriani.

In Conversation

Nidhal Chamekh: “I instinctively move into unexplored territory”

From theory and exile to exhibiting and the art market, this interview spans various aspects of Chamekh’s life and approach to making art.

Whitney Biennial is On and Here is All you Need to Know

News

Whitney Biennial is On and Here is All you Need to Know

With works by more than 70 artists and collectives, New York's Whitney Museum is opening the doors for its biannual signature event.

All that it holds. Tout ce qu’elle renferme. Tudo o que ela abarca. Todo lo que ella alberga, 2023. Published by C& and Kerber Verlag.

C&‘s Second Book is Out Now!

“All that it holds. Tout ce qu’elle renferme. Tudo o que ela abarca. Todo lo que ella alberga.”

Get your copy now! The book is a curated selection of texts representing a plurality of voices on contemporary art from Africa and the diaspora.

Elizabeth Catlett, Which Way, 1973, Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust, Mexico, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023 Elizabeth Catlett, photo: Axel Schneider

MMK Tower

Tracing the Immeasurable Legacy of Elizabeth Catlett

Maria Ines Plaza Lazo bears witness to Catlett's artistic skill and commitment to social justice in the late artist’s most comprehensive show to date.

Sonya Clark, Detail of Madam C.J. Walker. Photo: Grid_o2. Courtesy of High Museum of Art.

High Museum of Art

Eyes Not Looking Just Right: On Sonya Clark’s Mid-Career Survey

Enos Nyamor visited "We Are Each Other" in Atlanta focused on the Clark's community-centric and participatory projects.

(left) Portrait of Amina Ageuznay. © Hazem Treasure; (right) Amina Agueznay, Portal #1, 2023. Wool, cotton. Courtesy of the artist.

News

Amina Agueznay Wins the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2024 Grand Prize

A jury of five global art experts selected the Moroccan multimedia artist as the winner among 27 finalists from Africa and the global diaspora.

Thailand Biennale 2023: The Open World

Installation View

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.

Photo: C&

Decolonising Art Book Fairs

To Create is to Remember, to Cite is to Acknowledge

On the occasion of a new publication, editor and curator Nkule Mabaso looks into power relations of knowledge production and citation.

Tatenda Chidora: Challenging Stereotypes about Men

In Conversation

Tatenda Chidora: Challenging Stereotypes about Men

Elisa Pierandrei talks to the photographer who wants to create a more diverse picture of masculinity – in between comfort and discomfort.

Yussef Agbo-Ola

Lagos Biennial 2024

A Refuge of Sorts

Joseph Omoh Ndukwu examines the 4th edition of Nigeria's seminal biennial, which aimed to create a space to dream alternate paths in a systemic crisis

Image courtesy of Henrique J Paris. Photo: Mamady Diana

In Conversation

Henrique J. Paris: What Can Objects Tell Us?

On the occasion of the 1-54 Marrakech, we spoke to the transdisciplinary artist, who will be showing works that he is currently preparing at RAAR.

Lagos Biennial 2024

Installation View

Lagos Biennial 2024

A Biennial reflecting on the concept of nation-state, important historical events on the continent and new exhibition making.

Venice Reveals Theme and Artist List

Venice Biennale 2024

Venice Reveals Theme and Artist List

Curated by Adriano Pedrosa 'Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere', brings together 331 artists and collectives - mainly from the Global South.

(left) Portia Malatjie; (right) MADEYOULOOK made up of Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho. Courtesy the artists.

News

South Africa Pavilion Announces Curator, Artists and Exhibition Title for Venice Biennale 2024

Managed by the Institute of Creative Repair, "Quiet Ground" is curated by Portia Malatjie and will feature new work by MADEYOULOOK.

Madame Zo: From Re-Creation to Quest for Meaning

Female Pioneers

Madame Zo: From Re-Creation to Quest for Meaning

Fondation H is dedicating its first exhibition to an icon of the Malagasy art scene: Madame Zo. Here, Hemerson Andrianetrazafy reflects on her work.

Diana Ejaita, Studio Villa Romana ©photo Ela Bialkowska OKNO studio.

In Conversation

Diana Ejaita: Unfixed Stories, Interconnected Worlds

We spoke to artist Diana Ejaita about her residency at the Villa Romana, her multidisciplinary work, and the many uses of symbols and images.

A collage made using ephemera collected during the trip. Photo: Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo

Greetings from Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo

Darling, this is Switzerland

On a curatorial research trip through Switzerland, curator Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo shares her impressions in five postcards with a loved one in Nairobi.

Lesley Lokko. Photo: Murdo Macleod

News

Lesley Lokko Receives Royal Gold Medal 2024 for Architecture

One of the world’s highest honours in architecture goes to architect, educator, author and curator Lesley Lokko.

Mabel Cetu featured in Zonk! Magazine in October 1956.

Female Pioneers

Mabel Cetu: A Complicated Legacy

Writer Ethel-Ruth Tawe reflects on the multiple narratives of Mabel Cetu’s photojournalistic work.

P. Staff, In Ekstase, 2023, detail, in: P. Staff, In Ekstase, Kunsthalle Basel, 2023, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Kunsthalle Basel

Where is Your Body? P. Staff and Tiona Nekkia McClodden Opening Space for Vulnerability

On a research trip through Switzerland, Khanya Mashabela delved into the works of the two artists exhibiting at Kunsthalle Basel.

Silent Invasions: The Art of Material Hacking

Installation View

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.

A portrait of Pope.L (photo by Peyton Fulford, courtesy Modern Art London)

In Memoriam

William Pope.L (1955-2023)

The visual artist and educator died on December 23 at the age of 68 in Chicago, USA.

(clockwise) Torkwase Dyson, Liquid A Place, 2023. Homme Adams Park 72500 Thrush Road, Palm Desert at Desert X. Photography courtesy of Lance Gerber; Rhael

Best of 2023

C& Magazine’s Highlights of 2023 You Might Want to Read Again

From climate colonialism to new perspectives from queer artists in Mozambique, these are some of our most-read articles this year.

Celebrating the C& Cosmos

C&’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY

Celebrating the C& Cosmos

2023 marks a special year for Contemporary And (C&): the platform has turned TEN!

(Clockwise): Delegation Parade Frelimo. Photo: Luc-Daniel Dupire. Courtesy of PANAFEST archiv; Jeannette Ehlers 'Whip it Good’ 2017. Photo: Aukje Lepoutre Ravn. Courtesy the artist.; Zineb Sedira, The Lovers, 2008 © the artist/DACS, London and courtesy kamel mennour, Paris/London; Kiosk Gallery Poster: 'Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power', 2017.

Special Focus

A Reader on Post-Colonialism and Decolonial Practices

We want to share some resources on the important movements that help us to see a more differentiated picture of these complex times.

1st Circular Library, Foundation for Contemporary Art-Ghana, Accra. Photo: Abbey IT-A

Inside the Library

The Foundation for Contemporary Art – Ghana: 1st Circular Library, Accra

Adwoa Amoah, artist, curator, and co-director of FCA Ghana, asked regular visitors of the library to pick their favorite book.

Wanini Kimemiah - courtesy of Wanini Kimemiah, C& Office Nairobi

News

The Stedelijk x C& Editorial Fellowship Announces First Fellow Wanini Kimemiah

Nairobi-based artist and writer Wanini Kimemiah is the first young editor of the editorial fellowship hosted by C& and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Baloji, Augure, Film Still, Production Wrong Men, 2023.

In Conversation

Baloji and the Art of Averting the Evil Eye

Musician, filmmaker, and multitalented artist Baloji talks to C& about his first feature film and his connection with the diaspora.

Critical Writing Workshop Lagos, 2015. Photo: Aderimi Adgebite

Cultural Funding

Unheard Voices: Arts and Culture Journalism in Nigeria

Cultural coverage in Nigeria is presently limited, writes Obidike Okafor, and that corresponds with scarce training and income opportunities for such

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

Retrospective

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.

Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Sonnet of Vermin, 2022. Photo by Claudia López Terroso.

News

Toronto Biennial Announces Preliminary List of Artists, Partners, and Sponsors

Curators Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López reveal their first pick of artists for the 3rd edition of the Toronto Biennial running in Fall 2024.

John Akomfrah: “If there is a problem with hybridity, for me, it is that it participates in this hierarchization of the world”

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John Akomfrah: “If there is a problem with hybridity, for me, it is that it participates in this hierarchization of the world”

It's still C&10 and we retrieved another treasure from our archive: a conversation…

(clockwise) Kisha and LaDarayon by Gilleam Trapenberg; Diena by Alexandre Silberman; Chotu Lal Upside-down by Carl Francois van der Linde; me nana fie by Serena Brown; Shaun Ryder by Jake Green.

News

Winners of Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023 Announced

The prestigious prize 2023 goes to Alexandre Silberman, Gilleam Trapenberg, Jake Green, Carl Francois van der Linde, and Serena Brown.

Seeds and Souls

Installation View

Seeds and Souls

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

(left) Christelle Oyiri. Photo: Lucid Interval; (right) Christelle Oyiri, Gentle Battle, 2022, installation view, Tramway, Glasgow

News

Christelle Oyiri Awarded PONTOPREIS MMK 2024

Paris-based interdisciplinary artist and Djane Christelle Oyiri is honored for her clear and free observations of everyday life.

Benediction, 2023, by Daniel Arnan Quarshie. Presented by Gallery 1957

News

ART X Lagos Announces Theme and Program for 2023

A wide-ranging fair programme features special exhibitions, ART X Live! and ART X Talks, and the debut of ART X Cinema to be held from 2-5 November.

Mário Macilau, A candle man, from Faith series, 2018. Courtesy of Ed Cross.

News

Mário Macilau Receives James Barnor Photography Prize 2023

Mário Macilau has been awarded the prestigious prize for his series Faith documenting the practice of animism in contemporary Mozambique.

Installation View

The BENIN BRONZES Roundtables

The Return of the Benin Bronzes: Part of the Past or Pathway to the Future?

Agwu Enekwachi recently participated in a roundtable discussion in Abuja on the impetus and action around the promised return of the Benin Bronzes.

Thelma Golden.Photo: Julie Skarratt. Courtesy of LACMA.

News

Thelma Golden Wins Gish Prize 2023

The 30th Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize goes to Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Rafiki, Only the fool fights the sun (cropped), 2022. Courtesy the artist.

News

New Triennale “Southnord Artfest” Announced in Stockholm

Southnord Artfest, hosted by Kulturhuset, brings together Black and Afro Nordic artists. It takes place between 26 Oct 2023 and 14 Jan 2024.

At Akademie Schloss Solitude Aderemi Adegbite works on his news series »Al-Shaafi (The Healer)« in which the uses the Islamic slates to reflect on the disconnection of the spiritual self from the physical self, 2023, photo: Daphne van de Burgwal.

In Conversation

Aderemi Adegbite: Embracing Solitude and Empowering Communities

Artist-curator Aderemi Adegbite shares his insights on the crucial role of language and culture in our postcolonial moment

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

Installation View

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.

M’hammed Kilito, from the series

News

14th LagosPhoto Festival Announces Places, Artist List and Theme

Running from October 27 to December 31, LagosPhoto Festival announces its first expansion beyond Lagos hosting 38 national and international artists.

(Left) Otobong Nkanga.
Courtesy of the artist. (Right top) Otobong Nkanga, Taste of a Stone, 2010/19; Kolanut Tales–Dismembered, 2016. Installation view of Acts at the Crossroads at MOCAA–Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019. Photo: Dillon Marsh; (right bottom) Otobong Nkanga, In Pursuit of Bling, 2014. Installation view of Otobong Nkanga: To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2018.

News

Otobong Nkanga Receives 2025 Nasher Prize

For her powerful work, the Antwerp-based artist wins the 2025 Nasher Prize exclusively awarded to contemporary sculpture.

Maliza Kiasuwa, Intersection 2. 202340 x 27.5 in. Paper and thread. Courtesy of the artist and Morton Fine Art.

In Conversation

Maliza Kiasuwa: Stories Intersecting Like the Crossing of Paths

The artist talks about her collage practice in relation to intuition and the meaning of a hybrid identity.

Theresah Ankomah, Untitled, 2022. Courtesy of Savvy Contemporary.

News

1-54 London: Exhibitors, Artists and Special Projects

This edition will host over 60 international exhibitors, its largest number to date and more than 170 artist from Africa and the Global Diaspora.

Acts of Opening Again: A Choreography of Conviviality, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 3.6.2023. Photo: Mathias Völzke/HKW

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Amplifying the Creative Structures at HKW

Edna Bonhomme examines how a Berlin institution pays tribute to anti-colonial feminists and applauds its new international team.

Zineb Sedira, Sugar Silo I, 2014. Diptych, C-Type, 180 x 200 cm each. Commissioned by Marseille-Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture and the Port of Marseille. Courtesy the artist and the galleries: The Third Line, Dubai, and Plutschow Gallery, Zurich

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Zineb Sedira: “Identity is very much at the core of every artistic practice, whether painting flowers or exploring one’s culture or politics.”

To celebrate our authors' writing we've dug up a few pieces from our archive. Here, Zineb Sedira on "identity" and the “burden of representation".

Filmstill

In Conversation

Lamin Leroy Gibba: “I want to tell stories that feel truthful”

The actor, writer, and producer reflects on dominant cultural narratives and the complex lives of Black and queer characters on screen and stage.

Kosisochukwu Nnebe, an inheritance/ a threat / a haunting. Installation view, 2022. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario. Courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation

Kosisochukwu Nnebe: Exploring Ancestral Connections

The artist and curator discusses how the positions of marginalized people give us access to particular forms of knowledge about our societies.

Clockwise: Diébédo Francis Kéré at Kéré Architecture, Berlin, May 2023 © The Japan Art Association / The Sankei Shimbun; Gando Primary School, 2001, Burkina Faso
Photo: Siméon Duchoud. Courtesy of Kéré Architecture; Rendering façade of Benin National Assembly. Courtesy of Kéré Architecture

News

Diébédo Francis Kéré Wins 2023 Praemium Imperiale

By combining local materials and skills with innovative design and smart engineering solutions, architect Diébédo Francis Kéré wins the coveted award.

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

Installation View

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.

Tinotenda Chivinge, Zimbabwe Bird(s), found objects (variable dimensions). Photo: Nyadzombe Nyampenza

Art Networks in Zimbabwe

Harare Art Collectives: Where Connectivity is Key

In Harare, a cathartic group exhibition celebrates the work of collectives who bridge the gap between a feeble art market and scant resources.

10 years of C&! Clockwise: Parts of the C& Team. Photo: Benjamin Renter; C& Critical Writing Workshop Nairobi. Photo: Francis Munene; C& Print Issues. Photo: Florian Bong-Kil Grosse; James Gregory Atkinson, Ligia Lewis, and Magnus Elias Rosengarten. Panel discussion ifa-Gallery Berlin, March 2023. Photo: Benjamin Renter; DAK'ART 2014, Official opening of the main exhibition. Photo: Touré Behan; Jennifer Harge, FLY | DROWN, 2019. Perfomance in the frame of

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Love Letters to C&

C&'s tenth anniversary is a very special moment for us. We have asked people from our network to share their thoughts, memories, and wishes for C&.

left: Nefertiti, Neues Museum Berlin. rigth: Cover, Black Women in Antiquity, edited by Ivan Van Sertima, 1988.

C& and Arts Everywhere

Fatima El-Tayeb: Reclaiming Nefertiti

In a new series C& and Arts Everywhere commission essays and articles inspired…

Azu Nwagbogu on a research trip to Benin at the Market at Musee Historique D’Abomey (Historic Museum of Abomey). Courtesy of UGO.

News

Benin Pavilion for 60th Venice Biennale Announces Artists and Theme

The curatorial team around Azu Nwagbogu will put works together by Romuald Hazoumé, Chloe Quenem, Ishola Akpo, and Moufoli Bello.

Ludo by Yadi. Courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation

Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu Explains How Ludo Became an Exciting Artwork

Ludo by Yadi highlights local design and production while embracing community recreation and functional art.

Senam Okudzeto. Photo: Christopher Cerrone

News

Senam Okudzeto Receives the Paul Boesch Art Prize 2023

Artist, researcher, writer and founder, Senam Okudzeto receives on of the highest Swiss art prizes for her socio-politically relevant work.

Gabi Ngcobo

News

Kunstinstituut Melly Announces Gabi Ngcobo as its New Director

Starting in January 2024, Ngcobo will continue the Rotterdam Institution's collaborative approach to face acute questions of our time.

Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West, 1992. Photo: Nancy Lytle

In Conversation

Coco Fusco Looks Back

Prior to her retrospective at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, the artist discusses the choices behind key works in her oeuvre.

Maud Ntonga, Gallery Director  (left) Noelle Mukete-Elhalaby, Founder  (center)  and Brice Arsene Yonkeu, Founder (right)
Photo credits: Wilfried Koté Amoyi

News

Bwo, a New Art Gallery in Cameroon, Announces the Opening of its Space

Bwo established in Central Africa by founders under the age of 30 plans to open in Douala with an inaugural exhibition on September 2, 2023.

Nada Baraka, Untitled. Courtesy of Latitudes and ANNA

News

2023 ANNA Award Winner Announced

Nada Baraka, an Egyptian artist based in Cairo, is the 2023 ANNA Award recipient.

Bushman Café, Abidjan

Inside the Library

Bushman Café, Abidjan

C& regularly takes a look into book collections holding rare publications. This time, Keren Lasme introduces five books she found in Abidjan.

Blessing Atas, The Egrets. Courtesy the artist.

Tender Photo

Emmanuel Iduma’s Archive Attempts to Hold All That Is Intimate

The artist has created a participatory digital archive around the tenderness in photographs, refusing temporal linearity by drawing out a kinship.

Sasha Huber, Rentyhorn, 2008. Commissioned photography by Siro Micheroli. Courtesy of the artist and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki.

Ecologies

Sasha Huber Looks at the Uncomfortable

The artist discusses her practice in the context of changing climatic realities and how symbolic actions can have an impact.

The eight artists of the 2024 Nigerian Pavilion. From left, top row: Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ndidi Dike, Onyeka Igwe, and Toyin Ojih Odutola; bottom row: Abraham Oghobase, Precious Okoyomon, Yinka Shonibare, and Fatimah Tuggar. Credits: Adenyi-Jones: On Whit Wall; Igwe: Regine Ullrich; Ojih Odutola: Beth Wilkinson; Shonibare: Tom Jamieson, 2023; All others: Courtesy the artists.

News

Nigeria Announces Curator and Artists for National Pavilion in Venice 2024

For the second Nigerian Pavilion, Aindrea Emelife will curate a group exhibition with eight artists around the theme "Nigeria Imaginary".

(from left to right) Tiago Sant’Ana, Raphael Fonseca and Yina Jiménez Suriel. Courtesy of Mercosur Biennial Foundation.

News

14th Edition of The Mercosur Biennial

Along with Tiago Sant’Ana, C&AL Associate Editor Yina Jímenez joins Raphael Fonseca’s artistic team of The Mercosur Biennial’s 14th edition.

Eric Magassa, Blinking Blind, 2023. Installation view FLIGHT Malmö Konsthall, 2023.
Photo / Photo: Helene Toresdotter. Courtesy konstnären/the artist

In Conversation

Tawanda Appiah Ponders Beauty’s Transformative Potential

The Malmö-based curator talks about his current project at Skånes konstförening, creating immersive experiences, and rearranging history.

(Clockwise, all Details): Maheder Haileselassie,  Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, 2023; 
Carlos Idun-Tawiah, Sunday Special, 2022. Isoraka, Antananarivo; Léonard Pongo, Untitled. From Primordial Earth, 2023; Yasmin Forte, Military. From This is a story about my family, 2022; Nadia Ettwein, Looks Like Dad. From Hond, 2023

News

CAP Prize Winners Announced for 2023

Nadia Ettwein, Carlos Idun-Tawiah, Léonard Pongo, Yasmin Forte and Maheder Haileselassie awarded with Prize for Contemporary African Photography.

David Adjaye. Photo credit: Josh Huskin; two buildings designed by David Adjaye (top right) Smithsonian National Museum of African American Arts and Culture - Washington DC. Photo: Nic Lehoux; (bottom right) MOSCOW School of Management. Photo: Ed Reeve. All images courtesy of RIBA.

News

Several Institutions Have Severed Ties with David Adjaye Over Sexual Assault Allegations

After Studio Museum Harlem announced the end of its collaboration, Sharjah‘s Africa Institute also stops plans for a campus designed by the architect.

Rhael

18th Venice Architecture Biennale 2023

Lesley Lokko Breaks New Ground with The Laboratory of the Future

In presenting a compelling interplay between reality, fiction and crisis, Lokko delivers a lesson on accountability for curatorial practices.

Olu Alake; The Africa Centre. Courtesy of the centre.

News

Olu Alake Appointed Chief Executive Officer of The Africa Centre

From 17th July on, the recently revamped Africa Centre in London has a new CEO: renowned strategic leader and multi-sector stakeholder Olu Alake.

Heiko-Thandeka Ncube, The early rains which wash away the chaff before the spring rains, 2023. Video, 12 mins, film still.

Essay

Every Straw Is a Straw Too Much

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the psychological burden of being racialized while doing art.

Hamid Zénati. All-Over

Installation View

Hamid Zénati. All-Over

Haus der Kunst in Munich is showing the works of the self-taught artist and his wealth of forms, patterns, colors, materials and techniques.

(left) Poster of the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible © Nontsikelelo Mutiti / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo; (right): Study for closing of the second pavement for the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible © Vão / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

News

35th Bienal de São Paulo Announces Participants and Architecture Projects

From Sept 6 to Dec 10, Choreographies of the Impossible will present 120 participants in the exhibition and spatial design by the architects of Vão.

Atelier Ndokette, Ndokette Session, untitled, 2019. Courtesy of the artists.

In Conversation

How Atelier Ndokette Interweaves Artistic Practices

They have worked together as a collective since 2019. And their shared practices highlight the various ways in which clothes can speak.

Photo: Somakpo Kouakou Guy Serge Eddie

In Conversation

Kpingni Dieth Douabou Addresses Intimate Issues of Black Feminism

The artist adapts the book The Sex Life of African Women and paints a candid picture of sexual experiences – the troublesome and the joyful.

C& and C&AL Print Issue #12/4: Ecologies

Out Now!

C& and C&AL Print Issue #12/4: Ecologies

We are thrilled to announce the first joint issue between C& and C&AL reflecting on neocolonial structures and the climate crisis.

Abel Rodríguez, Terraza Alta II, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Instituto de Visión.

Ecologies

Abel Rodríguez: The Namer of Plants

The Colombian artist of Nonuya origin is known in the art world by using drawing to preserve the memory of Amazonian flora at risk of extinction.

Heiko-Thandeka Ncube. Photo by Göksu Baysal.

In Memoriam

Heiko-Thandeka Ncube (1991-2023)

Heiko-Thandeka Ncube, the artist, filmmaker, educator and activist has passed away in Berlin.

Musila/Soil Paint on Photopaper. Simonga, 2022 [analogue image: Victoria Chona, London 1971]. Courtesy the artist.

Ecologies

Banji Chona Calls on Ancestral Knowledge

The artist’s earth-based practice in the mopane woodlands is based on the reciprocity between her ancestral home and the offerings of her art works.

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

Installation View

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.

Margaret Abeshu, Installation view at 'Indoctrination: Multivalent Gestures', curated by Dahir Hussein, 18 March - 30 April 2023, Fotogalleriet, Oslo.

In Conversation

Dahir Hussein Explores the Plurivalent Nature of Indoctrination

After a fellowship at Fotogalleriet in Norway, Dahir Hussein was inspired to curate a group show on identity and indoctrination.

Velma Rosai, The Ways of My Serpent Mother are Strange (detail), 2022. Oil and acrylic on paper, 42 x 29.5 in / 45 x 33 in. Courtesy of Sarah Brook Gallery.

In Conversation

Velma Rosai-Makhandia: Inspiration from the Internal Space

Following her debut solo exhibition, the artist reflects on Blackness, the gift of intuition, and the potency of African spirituality in her work.

1949 Library. Photo: Keren Lasme.

Inside the Library

1949, Abidjan

Keren Lasme introduces five books from 1949, Abidjan’s only library of women writers.

Lorin Sookool, project on going, 2022. Image by Tanja Hall.

In Conversation

Khanyisile Mbongwa: Wind, Woundedness, and World-Making

The curator of the twelfth Liverpool Biennial links emancipated artistic practices to the city, generating new questions about colonial histories.

Mae-ling Lokko, Grounds for Return, 2021. Photo: Selma Gurbuz. Courtesy of the artist.

Ecologies

Changing Perspectives on Waste

Our writer Edna Bonhomme speaks to Mae-ling Lokko about agrowaste, fungi, and her evolution as an artist.

(Clockwise) Guest Artist Space Foundation in Lagos by Yinka Shonibare; Black Rock Senegal in Dakar by artist Kehinde Wiley; dot. Ateliers in Accra by Amoako Boafo; Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre by Victor Mutelekesha; Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute by Michael Armitage.

African Art Hubs

Institutions Build on Art Scenes that Grew Out of Common Artistic Needs

How do new arts hubs from Accra to Antananarivo relate to ongoing collective efforts that have enabled production in inconceivable circumstances?

Photo: Nappy/Pexels

Contemporary Black Discourses

Navigating Pain and Possibility

Afrofuturism and Afropessimism both seek to step outside of limiting narratives and invite self-awareness into the conversation around Black lives.

Torkwase Dyson, Liquid A Place, 2023. Homme Adams Park 72500 Thrush Road, Palm Desert at Desert X. Photography courtesy of Lance Gerber.

Ecologies

Locating Blackness In Intimate Ecologies

Ama Josephine Budge on how to resist climate colonialism through a capacious, trans-temporal Blackness.

Agnes Waruguru, Small Things to Consider, Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi, 2020. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Agnes Waruguru: A Dedication Time for Thinking and Doing

As we launch our new C& Artists' Edition, we revisit our interview with Agnes Waruguru from 2020 and asked her about the process behind the new work.

Agnes Waruguru, Messengers of a Midnight dream, 2023. Etching on Arches Rives BFK white Cotton Rag paper, 26 x 32.5 cm.

C& Artists’ Editions

Out Now! C& Artists’ Editions #4: Agnes Waruguru

We are thrilled to announce our new C& Artists' Edition with Agnes Waruguru!

1-54 New York 2017 @Katrina Sorentino

News

1-54 New York Announces Gallery and Artist Lists

At this year's New York edition, taking place from 18-21 May, 26 galleries presenting the work of over 80 artists from Africa and its Global Diaspora.

Syowia Kyambi: Kaspale

Installation View

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.

Original tiles of the riad stairs. Courtesy of LE 18.

In Conversation

Laila Hida: Facilitating Creative Initiatives in Morocco

Louise Thurin met Laila Hida, co-founder of Le 18 in Marrakech, to talk about the genesis and visions of the creative hub.

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.

Installation View

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

Journal - A Year In Black Art, Issue V. Courtesy of BES.

In Conversation

The Black Embodiments Studio: Fast, Loose and Immediate Writing

Experimentation and exchange are the focus at Kemi Adeyemi’s arts writing incubator in Seattle.

Aria Dean, ABATTOIR, U.S.A.!, Installation view, 2023. The Renaissance Society. Photo: Robert Chase Heishman.

Abattoir, U.S.A!

Aria Dean Conjures a Deathly Spectacle

In Chicago, Dean helps us experience connections between animal slaughter, violence towards Black peoples, and the brutalization of captured bodies.

First K21 Global Art Award Goes to Senzeni Mthwakazi Marasela

News

First K21 Global Art Award Goes to Senzeni Mthwakazi Marasela

Interdisciplinary South African artist Senzeni Marasela wins the award for her work on race, identity and gender inequalities during Apartheid.

Data visualisations from othernetwork.io. © Graphic design F451 (Quentin Creuzet,
Domitille Debret), 2023.

News

OtherNetwork

ifa and Cookies invite independent art spaces to join OtherNetwork, a collaborative digital platform that connects cultural projects worldwide.

Courtesy of Kairos Futura

News

Three Art Collectives Launch New Initiative in Kenya

Kairos Futura, Wajukuu Arts and Brush Tu Artist Collective have teamed up to create the Nairobi Space Station to envision the future of Nairobi.

Believing is not Knowing

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Believing is not Knowing

To celebrate our authors' writing we've dug up a few pieces from our archive. Today, Elisabeth Wellershaus' text on the African Futures Festival 2015.

Berni Searle, Untitled (red, white, yellow, brown), (detail), 1998. Installation view at Norval Foundation. Photo: Vusumzi Nkomo

Having But Little Gold

How Berni Searle Contemplates the Weight of Loss

A retrospective carefully explores Berni Searle’s main subjects – ruins, residues, and loss as a uniquely legitimate site for meditating on liberation

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

Installation View

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.

Cameron Rowland, macandal, 2023
Oxalic acid
37.5 x 30.5 x 67 cm

Packets of materials that could invoke spirits, protect against punishment, and poison slave masters were called macandals. They were at the center of a plot in 1757 to poison all the white people in Haiti. The plot was organized by hundreds of enslaved and free black people. All macandals were subsequently outlawed. Their trade and use continued despite their criminalization.

Enslaved people throughout the Atlantic world used arsenic, manioc juice, ground glass, and oxalic acid to poison overseers, masters, masters’ children, and livestock. Oxalic acid is a stain remover and household cleaner.

Amt 45 i

Cameron Rowland Investigates how Germany Profited from the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The traces of racialised enslavement can be found in various German cities. The artist’s exhibition follows them through Frankfurt am Main.

From left: Bianca Xunise, Bunga Siagian, Jere Inkongio

News

Dekoloniale and C& Announce Berlin Residents 2023

The three residents are Bianca Xunise, Bunga Siagian and Jere Inkongio, selected by a jury chaired by Hou Hanru and N'Goné Fall.

Demas Nwoko. Courtesy of La Biennale.

News

Demas Nwoko Receives Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

The artist, designer and architect Demas Nwoko is awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Azu Nwagbogu; Venice Biennale

News

Benin Debuts at Venice Biennale in 2024

The Republic of Benin Announces First Ever Venice Biennale Pavillion curated by Azu Nwagbogu at the 60th edition in 2024.

Alioune Diagne, XALÉ TEY – Enfants d’aujourd’hui, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize.

News

Alioune Diagne Wins Public Vote Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2023

The painter receives the Public Vote Price endowed with R25,000 for their work ‘XALÉ TEY – Enfants d’aujourd’hui (2021)’.

Marilú Mapengo Námoda, What does the silence pray for? / Para que reza o silencio?, 2023, Sculpture, 2m x .5m. Photo: Lorna Zita

Sem Sombras

Queer Artists Bring New Perspectives to Mozambique

Curators Onyịnye Alheri and Carolina Policarpo display collaborations between artists from Mozambique, Nigeria, and Angola.

Peter Obi as Symbol of a new Nigeria by Douglas Jonn.

Nigeria’s Obidient Movement

Art in Support of Political Change

Peter Obi stirred an outpour of hope during the Nigerian elections. Agwu Enekwachi looks at some of the artworks made to reflect that spirit.

Curators of HWK.

News

Haus der Kulturen der Welt Reveals Team Members and Programmes

HKW Berlin announces conceptual lines, practices, and programmes for 2023 and beyond, and presents its team headed by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.

Aindrea Emelife (left) and Chika Okeke-Agulu (right). Courtesy of EMOWAA.

News

EMOWAA Appoints Chike Okeke-Agulu and Aindrea Emelife

To strengthen the focus on Modern and Contemporary Art, the museum appoints Chike Okeke-Agulu as senior advisor and Aindrea Emelife as curator.

Le Cake-Walk: Caucasian Chalk Circle (#9.1 & #9.2 Diptych), 2020, Heather Agyepong. (Commissioned by The Hyman Collection)

In Conversation

Heather Agyepong Engages with the Cakewalk

Exploring resistance through performance, the exhibition Wish You Were Here presents the artist’s interpretations of Aida Overton Walker's legacy.

Courtesy of the Museums.

News

SFMOMA and MoAD Announce Joint Curatorial Position on Art of The African Diaspora

New role will advance scholarship and public engagement with African Diasporic Art and Culture and generate new pipeline for curatorial talent.

Otobong Nkanga, Social Consequences III: The Choice we Make, 2009. Courtesy of the Artist

C&10

Artists Not Geographies Should Be Our Focus

To celebrate our authors' writing we've dug up a few pieces from our archive. One of our first commissioned text we published is from Sean O'Tool.

(right) Marlou Fernanda, “Like Me Know, Ego, Death”. (2022). Courtesy of the artist. (left) Marlou Fernanda, “Old Answers New Questions”. (2022). Courtesy of the artist.

Black Womanhood

Marlou Fernanda: Foregrounding the Inner Self through Art

The artist visualizes her inner dialogues with a creative force that is challenging the white-cis male-dominated Dutch art world.

C& Office and Reading Room, Nairobi. Photo: C&

Inside the Library

C& Reading Room, Nairobi

V for 5 introduces five books from our C& Reading Room, that are rarer and often forgotten publications but nonetheless essential to the discourse.

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

Installation View II

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.

Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present

Installation View

Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present

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.

Installation View

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.

Famakan Magassa, La Ballade Noctambule. Acrylic on canvas, 145 x 149 x 3cm. IMAGE courtesy of the artist.

News

2023 Norval Sovereign African Art Prize Goes to Famakan Magassa

In its second edition, the award recognizes Magassa's work with R500,000 and a solo exhibition at the Norval Foundation.

‘Leave the Edges’ by Baff Akoto © Rencontres Bamako

13th Edition of the Bamako Encounters

Embracing Sustainable Practices and Attitudes in Times of Political Uncertainty

Participating artist and writer Annie-Marie Akussah shares her views on the Biennale of Photography.

(left) Kapwani Kiwanga. © Bertille Chéret; (right) Installation view at Venice Biennale 2022. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.

News

Kapwani Kiwanga to Represent Canada at 2024 Venice Biennale

With her insightful multidisciplinary work on power asymmetries, Kiwanga is recognized as one of the country’s most acclaimed contemporary artists.

(left) John Akomfrah at his London studio, 2016. © Jack Hems; (right) John Akomfrah, exhibition view at Secession, Vienna, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Secession Vienna

News

John Akomfrah RA Will Represent UK at 2024 Venice Biennale

The artist and filmmaker has been selected for his quality in-depth art films and video installations on colonial legacies and climate issues.

Art & Conversations eGqeberha 2022 installation views (artworks by Asanda Mtana), image by Zimkhitha Xwashu

In Conversation

Zimkhitha Xwashu: South African Advocate for the Arts

In this Q&A, arts practitioner and blogger Zimkhitha Xwashu talks about her many projects to support the country’s young and upcoming artists.

Tawanda Appiah. Photo credit: Santiago Mostyn

News

Skånes konstförening Appoints Tawanda Appiah as New Curator

Independent curator, researcher and writer Tawanda Appiah returns to the Malmö art hub and will take up his new position for three years.

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

Installation View

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.

(left) N'Goné Fall; (right) Hou Hanru

News

Dekoloniale Berlin and C& Announce Jury Presidents for Residency 2023

For this years' Dekoloniale Berlin Residency (open to apply) writer and curator Hou Hanru and curator N'Goné Fall are the presidents of the jury.

(left) Michelle Commander. Photo: Smithsonian NMAAHC; (right) Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photo: Smithsonian NMAAHC

News

The Smithsonian NMAAHC Announced Michelle Commander As Deputy Director

Commander is succeeding the outgoing and founding deputy director, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, and takes up her new role on 30 January.

C& Special Print Issue #Artofcritique, 2023. Photo: C&

Out Now!

New C& Special Print Issue #artofcritique Featuring our Mentees’ Texts

A celebration of the work that has been produced in the frame of the C& Critical Writing Workshops and the C& Mentoring Program since 2016.

Image by Ming Smith

News

Ming Smith Receives Lifetime Achievement Award by International Center of Photography

The ICP’s Infinity Awards honor outstanding achievements in photography and visual arts. Ming Smith and Zora J Murff are among the winners in 2023.

Critical Writing Workshop Participant in Lubumbashi, 2017. Photo: Mustache Muhanya

Out Now Soon! C& Special Print Issue #artofcritique

Re-Generation of Life – A Roundtable On Critical Art Writing

Bwanga Kapumpa, Enos Nyamor, Miriane Peregrino and Lorna Telma Zita speak to Rose Jepkorir about their motivations and practice in recent years.

Courtesy of Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre

News

The Lusaka Contemporary Art Center Opened as Zambia’s First Contemporary Art Hub

Founded by Victor Mutelekesha, the LuCAC is dedicated to contemporary Zambian artists and research into Zambian arts.

Installation View Na Chainkua Reindorf: Up To No Good at Nubile Foundation from 18 Nov 22 - 18 Feb 2023. Photo: Isaac Gyamfi. Courtesy of Nubuke Foundation.

In Conversation

Na Chainkua Reindorf: Unruly Artworks

The artist talks about the Venice Biennale, her multiperspective practice, and her interest in masquerade cultures.

Photography by Paul Kodio

Rencontres de Bamako – Biennale Africaine de la Photographie

Ousmane Diarra Shares his Meditations on the Biennale

The distinguished author looks back on a year of turmoil: on coups, wars and embargos, but also on artistic connection with the world.

Brandon Gercara. Photo: Sef Younes

Installation View

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&.

(left) Amoako Boafo. Photo Robert Wedemeyer. (right) The exterior of dot.ateliers in Accra, image courtesy of Edem J. Tamakloe.

News

Amoako Boafo Launches dot.ateliers in Accra

The artist opens a residency space with a gallery, studio, café and art library, designed by Sir David Adjaye to support the country's art scene.

C&’s Highlights of 2022 You Might Want to Read Again

Best of 2022

C&’s Highlights of 2022 You Might Want to Read Again

From the major art events that have shaped this year to a joyful celebration of Black lives and art: these are the editors favourite picks of 2022.

Amira Hanafi, A dictionary of the revolution. Vocabulary box (2014). Courtesy the Artist.

Casablanca International Bienniale

The Many Languages of Contemporary Art

The biennial explores the links between various art forms and makes way for visual narratives that challenge established storytelling.

Julien Creuzet. Photo: Viginie Ribaut

News

Julien Creuzet Will Represent France at the Venice Biennale 2024

The French-Caribbean visual artist and poet will propose a totally new project for the French Pavilion.

Installation View

Installation View

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

(left) Veronica Ryan. Photo: Holly Falconer (right) Turner Prize 2022: Veronica Ryan. Installation view at Tate Liverpool, 2022. Photography: Matt Greenwood

News

Turner Prize Goes to Sculptor Veronica Ryan

The £25,000 prize honours Ryan's "personal and poetic way she extends the language of sculpture", to be seen at Tate Liverpool until 19 March 2023.

Dominique Fontaine (left), Photo: Kétiana Bello; and Miguel A. López (right), Photo: Daniela Morales

News

Toronto Biennale Reveals Co-Curators for the 2024 Edition

Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López co-curating the Toronto Biennale's third edition taking place from September 21 - December 1, 2024.

Brandon Gercara, Lip sync of thought, performance/installation, speeches by Asma Lamrabet, Françoise Vergès, Elsa Dorlin, FRAC REUNION Collection, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.

Casablanca International Bienniale

Brandon Gercara: “I have the impression of being in a permanent state of displacement”

For the Casablanca Biennale, the artist explores feminist propositions as a tool for achieving emancipation and better ways of living together.

Installation View of

In Conversation

Wana Udobang: Exploring the Impacts of Shared Confessions

The Lagos-based artist invites audiences to share their innermost secrets in her mobile exhibition Dirty Laundry.

(Clockwise) May al-Ibrashy, María Medrano,  Alain Gomis, Hassan Darsi, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Ailton Krenak.

News

First Prince Claus Impact Awardees Announced

Ailton Krenak, María Medrano, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, May al-Ibrashy, Hassan Darsi and Alain Gomis are the first-ever winners of this new award.

Left to right: Sylvester Thamsanqa (Thami) Majela, Msaki, Mahlatsi Mokgonyana (Theatre Duo), Linda Sikhakhane, Billy Langa (Theatre Duo), LADY SKOLLIE, and Koleka Putuma. Photographer: Themba Mokase

News

2022 Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winners Announced

The award celebrates South African artists and alongside awardees in theatre, poetry, dance, jazz and music, LADY SKOLLIE wins for Visual Arts.

Everlyn Nicodemus. Photo by Joyce Marshall; Scottish National Gallery Modern One. Photo by Keith Hunter

News

Everlyn Nicodemus and National Galleries of Scotland Win 7th Freelands Award

The Award enables a UK arts institution to present a solo exhibition by a woman artist who may not have received the recognition it deserves.

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

Installation View

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.

Rita Ouédraogo. Photo: Anne Lakeman; Azu Nwagbogu. Photo: Paul Odigie

News

Rita Ouédraogo and Azu Nwagbogu Are the First Curators of Buro Stedelijk

The two curators applied for the vacancy as a duo and will take up their position as heads of the new Amsterdam space on December 1, 2022.

Photo: C&

News

Terra Foundation for American Art funds C& Critical Writing Workshops and C& Mentoring Program in 2023

C& facilitates writing workshops for young art writers since 2016, in 2023 they will take place in Atlanta and Dallas, United States.

Dafe Oboro and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński

News

Dafe Oboro and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński Win Access Bank ART X Prize 2022/23

Filmmaker and Photographer, Dafe Oboro, wins Nigeria Award, and Artist, Writer and Researcher, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, wins the Africa/Diaspora Award

cameron clayborn. nothing left to be, Exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, September 15, 2022-January 22, 2023, © cameron clayborn, Courtesy Simone Subal Gallery, New York, © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Thomas Bruns

In Conversation

cameron clayborn: “It is always about trying to harness energy”

Magnus Rosengarten met up with the artist to talk about the body, emotional landscapes, parents, and how all this comes together in their work.

The Women's Museum team delivering a community workshop in Gwembe Valley, Southern Province, Zambia.

Zambian Women’s History Museum

On How to Protect Women’s Stories

A digital museum wants to preserve Zambian culture from a female perspective and make it accessible for a broader audience.

Monika E. Kazi, Performance, Transplantation Gallery space in Montparnasse, before the exhibition hanging of

Transplantation

New Perspectives on Past and Present Paris

Amandine Nana has opened a mobile cultural space that engages with Black art practices in contemporary and historical contexts.

Art History Institute (KHI) of Freie Universität Berlin (FU), streetview. Source: Jonah Langkau

Open Letter

Decolonial Visions at the Institute of Art History of Freie Universität Berlin

The Student Working Group for an Anti-racist and Anti-Colonial Art History of Freie Universität Berlin has written an open letter. Read it here.

Jerry Buhari, 408 Journals of NEPA, 2022. Mixed media on paper
30 × 22 in | 76.2 × 55.9 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Nigerian Modernism

Jerry Buhari’s Discovery of Landscapes of the Soul

In his three-decade-long practice and through the use of varied media, Buhari has intimately reflected on himself and his sociopolitical environment.

Untitled photograph-Old Benoni Location (circa 1950), Torrance Ngilima as part of Eja radini (2019), Madeyoulook.

documenta fifteen

Serine Ahefa Mekoun Dives into the Wisdom and Validity of Works of Art

Our author highlights the inspiring artistic positions of this year’s documenta that took place from 8 June to 25 September 2022 in Kassel, Germany.

Sa Sa Reading room. Photo: Serine Mekoun

Inside the Library

Sa Sa Art Projects Reading Room, Phnom Penh

Featured this time in connection with the project #weavingnetworks with documenta fifteen: Sa Sa Art Projects' reading room in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Common Life, Zimbabwe and Uganda, Drawing by Charity Atukunda

Common Life

A Blueprint for Common Living

Researchers and arts initiatives collaborate to investigate overlaps between arts and community organization in Africa.

Cinthia Sifa Mulanga, All my Emos, 2022. Courtesy  of Norval Foundation

News

Shortlist for The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2023 Revealed

30 artists are shortlisted for the second edition of the art prize, which includes a cash prize and a solo exhibition at the Norval Foundation.

Performance by Sarah Ndele

7th Lubumbashi Biennale

ToxiCity: A Horizontal Collective Biennale

Costa Tshinzam visited the Biennale that is held “unmistakably horizontal and collective” until November 6, 2022 under the artistic direction of Picha

G.A.S. Buildings in Lagos and Ikise. Photography by Andrew Esiebo. Images © G.A.S. Foundation and Andrew Esiebo

News

Yinka Shonibare Launches G.A.S Foundation in Lagos

G.A.S is an non-profit project with two major new Nigeria-based creative hubs dedicated to art, design, architecture, agriculture and ecology.

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, Blues for the Martyrs, 2022. Oil on canvas, 203 x 300cm. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Mohamed Noureldin Abdallah Ahmed. © Kamala Ibrahim Ishag.

Installation View

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness

The exhibition of pioneering Sudanese artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishag celebrates the breadth and importance of her work spanning from the 1960s to today.

Frederick Ebenezer Okai, Fie, 2021. Courtesy the artist. Installation View of Earthy Structures and Contingent Breakthroughs at Gyamadudu Museum, Ghana.

Redefining Pottery

Frederick Ebenezer Okai Investigates the Possibilities of Clay

The artist’s solo exhibition explores his relationship with the earth and how his pottery is woven into the complex structures of Ghanaian society.

Art and the City

Exploring the Complexities of Urban Spaces

Different experiences and identities form a city. Joseph Omoh Ndukwu writes about how art examines the interior spaces of urban belonging.

Arsène Mpiana. Description: The Biennale crowd/partakers in front of the slag heap/terril of the former Gécamines mining site.

Lubumbashi Biennale

Picha Collective Responses to Gloria Mpanga’s opinion piece

Find here a response by the curators of the 7th Lubumbashi Biennale to our author’s critical piece, published ahead of the opening.

Hady Barry, Azi and Adjéla, from the series Wearing the Inside Out, 2022. Courtesy the artist.

Photography

Hady Barry and Her Intimate Gaze on Friendship and Motherhood

The very personal photographic series "Wearing the Inside Out" by Hady Barry captures the lives of the Guinean artist’s extended family and friends.

Dekoloniale Berlin Installation View, 2022 © Damian Charles

Installation View

Dekoloniale 2022 Residency Works

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

Screenshot network connections with Lagos © ifa/eflux

News

ifa Launches OtherNetwork – a Digital Platform for Independent Art Spaces

OtherNetwork will go online end of October as digital platform that networks independent art spaces and art projects around the world.

By Imani Jacqueline Brown

In Conversation

Imani Jacqueline Brown: What remains at the ends of the earth?

The artist and activist talks about the importance of ecological resistance and how it connects to our ancestors through the earth.

Guerrilla Girls, 3 White Women, 1 Woman Of Color And No Men Of Color-Out Of 71 Artists?(Detail), 1997. Paper, Offset print, 10,7 x 15 cm. © Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln. Courtesy of the Museum Ludwig, Grafische Sammlung

In Conversation

Eboa Itondo: “One of the biggest challenges lies in institutional staffing practice”

C& talked to the recently appointed head of the Graphics Collection at Museum Ludwig about her strategies, visions, and wishes.

Ruth Ige on Blackness, Abstraction, and the Color Blue

In Conversation

Ruth Ige on Blackness, Abstraction, and the Color Blue

The artist talks about making art that is hard to decipher and the importance of portraying Blackness.

Rencontres de Bamako

News

Bamako Encounters Announce New Dates, Venues and Concept

In 5 chapters and with 75 artists from the African world, the 13th Rencontres de Bamako will be held from December 8, 2022 to February 8, 2023.

'Fallen Crucifix' (Detail), Variable Dimension _Paul Wade ©Nyadzombe Nyampenza

Reintroducing Paul Wade

At National Gallery of Zimbabwe, the Retrospective of Paul Wade Marks Another Milestone

Nyadzombe Nyampenza looks at the exhibition that reflects his unstoppable interest in making art and his ongoing influence on the country’s art scene.

Pamela Z, Ars Electronica, 2008. Photo: Rubra.

News

Pamela Z Awarded 2022 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist Pamela receives the 100K USD prize that includes a residency at MIT in fall 2022.

(Clockwise): Taofeek Badru (Nigeria), Malebogo Naticia Molokoane (South Africa), Chelsea Selvan (South Africa) and Gandor Collins (Ghana). All images courtesy of Absa.

News

Pan-African Absa L’Atelier Initiative Announces Winners

After receiving a record number of registrations, the jury awarded Chelsea Selvan, Gandor Collins, Taofeek Badru and Malebogo Naticia Molokoane.

Picha ASBL. Preparations for the 7th Lubumbashi Biennale. Courtesy of Nicolas, Photographer of the Biennale.

Biennale de Lubumbashi

A View of the Postcolonial World at the 7th Lubumbashi Biennale

In the run-up to the Biennale, C& mentee Gloria Mpanga takes a critical look at its relevance, history and curatorial concept.

Installation view of

Erotic Empiricism

Ranti Bam Is Searching for Common Ground

In her first solo show the artist displays her delicate and tender clay hearths, and here she offers her insights on the commons and spirituality.

The Africa Centre Interior. Photo: Felix Speler

Cultural Charity

The Return of the Africa Centre in London

Years after the Africa Centre in Covent Garden closed, its recently refurbished Southwark building reflects current connections to the continent.

[curators of the 35th Bienal, from left to right: Hélio Menezes, Grada Kilomba, Diane Lima and Manuel Borja-Villel © Levi Fanan/Fundação Bienal de São Paulo]

News

São Paulo Biennale Announces Title and Theme

Entitled "choreographies of the impossible", the Biennale is an "invitation to radical imaginations" and will take place in autumn 2023.

(left) vanessa german. Photo: Joshua Franzos; (right) Cauleen Smith. Photo: Joshua Franzos

News

27th Heinz Awards for the Arts Honors vanessa german and Cauleen Smith

The Heinz Family Foundation recognizes the artists for their enduring impact in the arts with its coveted award of $250.000.

A work by Ralph Lemon included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial. Photo: Whitney Museum.

News

2022 Bucksbaum Award Goes to Ralph Lemon

The interdisciplinary artist is the recipient of the 2022 Bucksbaum Award for his outstanding contribution to the history of American art.

Senga Nengudi. Photo: Ron Pollard. Courtesy Sprüth Magers Gallery

News

Senga Nengudi is Recipient of the 2023 Nasher Prize

American artist Senga Nengudi receives the prestigious $100,000 award presented by the Nasher Sculpture Center for genre-expanding sculpture.

Hambre Publications. Courtesy of Hambre.

#weavingnetworks

Thoughts on Collective Archives

The collectives Hambre, Kayfa ta, Jatiwangi art Factory, and the Black Archives discuss perspectives on collective publishing and archiving.

La Impresora, Installation View exhibition documenta fifteen, 2022. Courtesy of La Impresora.

#weavingnetworks

Amplifying the Voices of Local Communities

The collectives LA IMPRESORA, Más Arte Más Acción, Jalada Africa, and Sa Sa Art Projects talk about collaborative publishing and sharing practices.

(Clockwise) Karimah Ashadu. Portrait by Aigberadion Israel Ikhazuangbe; Film Still Detail

News

Prize of the Böttcherstraße 2022 goes to Karimah Ashadu

The artist Karimah Ashadu wins one of the most renowned art prizes in the German-speaking world for her film installation "Cowboy".

Gerard Sekoto, Song of the Pick, 1947, huile sur carton, Courtesy South 32 Collection, dépôt à Javett Arts Centre, Pretoria © ADAGP, Paris 2022

Globalisto: A Philosophy in Flux

Mo Laudi’s Take on Pan-Africanism

The exhibition Globalisto: A Philosophy in Flux at MAMC+ shares observations on translocality and cultural hybridity.

Ijeoma Loren Uche-Okeke in April 2022 at the opening of

News

Ijeoma Loren Uche-Okeke (1972 – 2022)

Ijeoma Uche-Okeke, curator and director of Asele Institute, has passed away.

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

Installation View

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.

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. Le Dieu Solaire APIS (Égyptien) me présente, ici, l’aspect d’un message pictographique que j’essaie d’interpréter à ma façon, au verso du tableau from Connaissance du monde. 1991. Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on board, 6 ⅜ × 12 ⅜” (16.2 × 31.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art. © 2022 Family of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

World Unbound

With Substance and Context against Misinterpretation: Fédéric Bruly Bouabré’s Retrospective at MoMa

The exhibition pays Ivory Coast’s most significant 20th-century artist long-overdue appreciation and manifests his importance within art history.

Sammy Baloji, …AND TO THOSE NORTH SEA WAVES WHISPERING SUNKEN STORIES (II), 2021, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022, photo: dotgain.info

In Conversation

Marie Hélène Pereira: “I’m very fond of conversations that take you out of the over-intellectualization of things”

Magnus Elias Rosengarten met up with the co-curator of the Berlin Biennale to talk about real encounters, global challenges, and inspirations.

Clockwise: By Gloria Kiconco, Yina Jiménez Suriel, Serine Ahefa Mekoun and Russel Hlongwane

Out now! New Print Issues: C& and documenta fifteen

The Stuff That New Networks Are Made Of

Ann Mbuti looks behind the scenes of a joint project between C& and documenta fifteen that has resulted in four very unique print issues.

Rindon Johnson Receives Ernst Rietschel Art Prize for Sculpture 2022

News

Rindon Johnson Receives Ernst Rietschel Art Prize for Sculpture 2022

Johnson's art practice blurs the lines between sculpture, photography, performance, poetry and virtual reality, fusing language with art.

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

Installation View

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.

Oumar Ball, Installation View Biennale Internationale de Sculpture de Ouagadougou 2021. Courtesy of Jérôme Legrand.

In Conversation

Nyaba Léon Ouédraogo on the Biennale Internationale de Sculpture de Ouagadougou

Louise Thurin speaks to the Burkinabe photographer and co-founder to recapitulate the history and importance of the initiative launched in 2018.

Lubaina Himid by Magda Stawarska Beavan

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Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize Goes to Lubaina Himid

Himid will present a solo exhibition in Austin and later New York, including an exhibition publication and public programming.

Lerato Nkosi. Courtesy of Latitudes.

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Lerato Nkosi Wins First ANNA Award

Lerato Nkosi’s entry for the ANNA Award features words inspired by Bell Hooks’ All About Love and is endowed with a cash prize and a residency.

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.

Stéphané E. Conradie, kroon, 2017, Fotografie, Courtesy: Stéphané E. Conradie, Foto: Strauss Louw

15th Triennial Kleinplastik Fellbach

Stéphané Edith Conradie Receives Triennial Young Artists Award

The inaugural Young Artist Award of Fellbach Triennale goes to artist Stéphané Edith Conradie for her ornate sculptures and prints.

Performance by Azazou Show. Photo: Costa Tshinzam

2nd Yango Biennial of Kinshasa

Toko zela lobi te: A Biennale Fed Up with Waiting for Tomorrow

Costa Tshinzam has attended the second edition of a long-awaited biennial that has managed to put itself back on the world map of artistic events.

Diasporic Library. Photo: Serine Mekoun

Inside the Library

The Diasporic Library, Brussels

Take a look into libraries and collections holding some of the rarer and often forgotten publications - this time: The Diasporic Library, Brussels.

Setting Up The Scott House for the event, Credit : Daakpe Studios

ARCHITECTURE IS A PARTY

Challenging the Perception of Preservation in Accra’s Architecture

A event night in Ghana’s capital addressed issues of public spaces and architectural history from unconventional perspectives.

Susana Pilar, “Dibujo intercontinental [Intercontinental drawing]”, 2017. Performance   Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano. © Susana Pilar. Photo: Marnix van den Berg

12th Berlin Biennale

Susana Pilar Delahante: Reclaiming Space through Performance

A chat with Cuban artist Susana Pilar Delahante about her career and the work she presented at the 12th Berlin Biennale.

(Left) Yvonne Vacha, Detail. (right) Natalie Perkof, Detail. Courtesy the artists.

In Conversation

Natalie Perkof and Yvonne Vacha on being Black Czech Artists

In a conversation with each other, the two reflect on their experiences as Black artists in the Czech Republic.

Selom Kudjie (in black), Artistic Director SCCA Tamale giving Ugandan artists a tour of A diagnosis of Time: Unlearn What You Have Learned.

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Ghana Exchange Program “Travel Somewhere Nice” Launches Second Edition

Curators and cultural producers from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania visit three cities in Ghana: Accra, Kumasi and Tamale in August 2022.

By Latitudes ANNA Award Finalist Lerato Nkosi

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First ANNA Award Finalists are Announced

Out of 12 finalists, the ANNA Award selection committee will select the winner, who will be announced on August 10, 2022.

Cynthia Aurora Brannvall: The Threads that Bind … was on view March 30 - June 12, 2022
Cynthia Aurora Brannvall, The Threads That Bind a Nation, 2020. Vintage and antique textiles painted on stretched crinoline, white thread in long stitches. 36 × 58 in. Courtesy of the artist.

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MoAD Expands its Emerging Artists Program

A new grant will support a juried competition that selects four local Black artists per year for a solo show at the Museum of the African Diaspora.

ARTSPLIT App launches MOCONA – Auction for Art from Nigeria

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ARTSPLIT App launches MOCONA – Auction for Art from Nigeria

This first-of-its-kind auction, titled Ode to Mastery, will feature five prominent Nigerian artists who are key drivers of the contemporary art scene.

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.

Laboratoire Kontempo, Film still

In Conversation

Laboratoire Kontempo Embraces the Art of Conflict

The founders of the Kinshasa based art project speak about artistic complexities and concepts of the foreign.

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).

Installation View

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.

Installation View

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.

Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, photography by Fredrik Nilsen Studio.

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Sam Gilliam (1933-2022)

Sam Gilliam, one of the great innovators in postwar American painting, has passed away.

CCA Lagos, view From Front. Courtesy CCA Lagos.

Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos and Sotheby’s

Bisi Silva’s CCA Lagos is the Subject of a Major Revamp

With over 1 million dollars raised at a Sotheby’s CCA Lagos Benefit auction, one of Nigeria’s most respected art institutions is getting a major rehab

CAP Prize Announces 2022 Winners

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CAP Prize Announces 2022 Winners

Amina Kadous, Remofiloe Nomandla Mayisela, Lee-Ann Olwage, Mahefa Dimbiniaina Randrianarivelo, and 
Pamela Tulizo…

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

Installation View II

documenta fifteen

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

The five visual artists shortlisted for the 2022 Sobey Art Award. Top row: Azza El Siddique (Ontario); Second row, from left: Tyshan Wright (Atlantic), Stanley Février (Quebec); Third row:  Divya Mehra (Prairies & North); Bottom row: Krystle Silverfox (West Coast & Yukon).

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Five Artists Shortlisted for the 2022 Sobey Art Award

Representing the five regions of Canada, Tyshan Wright, Stanley Février, Azza El Siddique, Divya Mehra and Krystle Silverfox are listed for the prize.

Gideon Appah’s Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes: Remembering and Remaking

Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

Gideon Appah’s Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes: Remembering and Remaking

Gideon Appah paints between memory and fantasy, referencing a Ghana of the 1950s to 1980s, helping us – perhaps – to imagine a new vision.

Critical Writing Workshop Participant in Lubumbashi, 2017. Photo: Mustache Muhanya

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C& Mentoring Program Enters a new Round

Our mentors Fadzai Muchemwa, Enos Nyamor, Miriane Peregrino, and Costa Tshinzam selected four new mentees for 2022.

documenta fifteen

Installation View

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.

Nontsikelelo Mutiti, (center) Portrait by Jasper Kettner; (right) Box Braid Study, 2014, Archival Inkjet Print, 20 x 16 inches.

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Nontsikelelo Mutiti Appointed Director of Graphic Design at Yale School of Art

Mutiti is a designer, visual artist, and educator with a deep interest in community engagement. She will take over her new position in August.

DOXANTU. Performing arts Precy Numbi, Mucyo, Peintre Obu, Laura Nsengiyumva. Production : Isabelle N’diaye.

Dak’art Biennale 2022

Out of the Fire: The Postcolony Will Rise

Isabelle N’diaye on the biennial that aims to create the conditions to forge realms out of fire and in action.

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.

Françoise Vergès: Artists can translate Hope and Anger into Art-Dreams

12th Berlin Biennale

Françoise Vergès: Artists can translate Hope and Anger into Art-Dreams

An interview with the political scientist, film producer, curator, activist, and educator on her participation at the 12th Berlin Biennale.

Ibrahim Mahama on his first visit at the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana. Photo: Urška Boljkovac. MGLC Archive.

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Ibrahim Mahama Appointed Artistic Director of the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts

The artists will explore the history between Ghana and former Yugoslavia, to (re-) establish connections the local Slovenian and international artists

Javett-UP Launches Collaborative Platform SCENORAMA

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Javett-UP Launches Collaborative Platform SCENORAMA

The project is a platform for artistic experimentation and new commissions connected to pan-African experiences.

Immanuel Wilkins - The 7th Hand (Blue Note Records)

In Conversation

Immanuel Wilkins: Bridging the Gap Between Music and Art

The saxophonist and composer from Philadelphia speaks about his new album and how visual art informs his music.

Alberta Whittle, Purebred Monkel, Installation view  at the Scottish pavilion in the 59th Venice biennale

Venice Biennale

Unpacking the Milk of Dreams

Mia Harrison on how the exhibition became a platform for womxn artists to articulate, build, and contextualize their individual and collective dreams.

Robert Nzaou Kissolo, Louzolo, 2022.

News

CAP PRIZE 2022 Shortlist Announced

The five winners of the 10th CAP Prize for Contemporary African Photography 2022…

High school students visiting the exhibition during Youth Week. Municipal Foyer, Lolodorf. Photo: Christine Eyene, 2022.

Giving Back to the Continent

Bikoka Art Project: A New Art Initiative in the South Province of Cameroon

We talk to Christine Eyene, curator and initiator of the contemporary art project founded in 2022 in Lolodorf, Cameroon.

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

Installation View

14th Dakar Biennale 2022: Palais de Justice

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

Photo courtesy of Tegene Kunbi⁠

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Tegene Kunbi Receives Dak’Art Main Prize

The Grand Prix Léopold Sédar SENGHOR goes to Ethiopian artist Tegene Kunbi at the opening of the 14th Biennial of Contemporary African Art 2022.

Image: Amira Hanafi, Vocabulary Box, 2014

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Casablanca Biennale Announced New Dates

Taking place in two stages, exhibitions and events will run from 17 November to 17 December 2022 and from 9 February to 11 March 2023.

Down in Napak, 2020, Installation View, Courtesy of Afriart Gallery

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AfriArt Gallery

THK Gallery. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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THK Gallery

Richard Saltoun Gallery, London. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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Richard Saltoun Gallery

Gallery 1957. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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Gallery 1957

Retro Africa. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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Retro Africa

Nil Gallery. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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Nil Gallery

Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery

HOA Galeria. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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HOA Galeria

Foreign Agent. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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Foreign Agent

Fridman Gallery. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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Fridman Gallery

50 Golborne. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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50 Golborne

Spacecraft_KT, Fabrication d#un fablab mobile: a prototype of a mobile fablab for arts, Dak'art OFF, 2018. Kër Thoissane. Photo: C&

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14th Dakar Biennale: The OFF Program

To follow up on the 350 private initiatives that make up the "OFF", you can find the maps and a small selection here.

Adéọlá Naomi Adérè̩mí, Aurélie, 2021. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Adéọlá Naomi Adérè̩mí: I Am Afro Greek

The filmmaker upholds experiences of being Black and Greek and creates an archive for the community and for generations to come.

Abdoulaye Konaté, 'Composition 3', (Detail) bazin teint, 228x146cm, 2012

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Dak’Art Announces Theme and Program

With Ĩ Ndaffa, the fourteenth edition of the Dakar Biennale calls for the transmutation of concepts and the foundation of new meanings.

Amakaba, introduction video (still), 2021. Courtesy of Amakaba.

In Conversation

Tabita Rezaire: “I prefer to stand for things I believe in”

In 2020, in the midst of the Amazon forest in French Guiana, artist Tabita Rezaire founded a space for spiritual being and creative exchange.

Acaye Kerunen. Installation view of the Uganda Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. Photo: C&

59th Venice Biennale

What a Uganda Pavilion in Venice Means to Ugandans

It has received a special mention for its inaugural pavilion in Venice, yet Uganda’s global art venture has just begun, writes author Gloria Kiconco.

70 artists,

La Biennale di Venezia

Why the Venice Biennale Model Is Obsolete

With the national pavilion model, the Venice Biennale masquerades provincialism as worldliness. And it’s Global South artists who pay the price.

Concerned Members of the Namibian Arts Community: It is a One-dimensional Problematic Pavilion

In Conversation

Concerned Members of the Namibian Arts Community: It is a One-dimensional Problematic Pavilion

We talked to the collective that is questioning the selection process and intentions…

Photo: Derrick Beasley

News

Lauren Haynes Appointed Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs at Queens Museum

Haynes joins the Queens Museum from the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to start in mid-July.

Les ateliers de la Pensée @ Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations. Photo: Guillaume Bassinet

Les Ateliers de la Pensée

Forging Ecologies of Knowledge, in Between Arts and Sciences

The 4th Les ateliers de la Pensée brought together artists and intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora at the Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations

(left) Simone Leigh. Foto: Shaniqwa Jarvis/Courtesy of the Simone Leigh and Hauser & Wirth via Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art/AP/dpa. (right) Sonia Boyce, commissioned by the British Council for the British Pavilion 2022. Image: Cristiano Corte © British Council

59th Venice Biennale

Golden Lion to Simone Leigh and Sonia Boyce

The prestigious award goes to Leigh for her participation in the main show and to Boyce's British Pavilion, special mentions to Uganda and France.

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&

Installation View: 59th Venice Biennale

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 Central Pavilion, Pavilions of Brasil, Suisse, South Africa and Ghana

Installation View: 59th Venice Biennale

The Milk of Dreams at Central Pavilion, Pavilions of Brasil, Suisse, South Africa and Ghana

Here we share some installation views of the art work we spotted during the opening week at the Pavilions of the 59th Venice Biennale.

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.

Joy Labinjo, Terra Firma VI, 2022. Oil on canvas, 180 x 250 cm. Courtesy Tiwani Contemporary.

Full Ground

Tiwani Gallery Debuts in Lagos with Joy Labinjo Show

The London gallery opening is one of the several recent art highlights in the Nigerian capital including Yinka Shonibare’s newly launched foundation

Clockwise: © Veronica Ryan. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert; Ingrid Pollard. Photo Emile Holbar; Heather Phillipson. Photograph by Rory Van Millingen; Sin Wai Kin crop by Vic Lentaigne

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Turner Prize Announces Finalists in 2022

Among two other artists, Ingrid Pollard and Veronica Ryan are on the shortlist for this year's Turner Prize.

Carrie Mae Weems, The Push, The Call, The Scream, The Dream, 2020. Installation View at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2022. Photo: Hans D. Christ

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Carrie Mae Weems Investigates US History through James Baldwin

The US artist’s first solo and retrospective exhibition in Germany takes the name of a Baldwin essay and features a variety of media.

Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Brown Paper Envelope Test, 2021, HD Video, 7mins 36 secs.

In Conversation

Tobi Alexandra Falade: Inspired From (Un)Usual Spaces

The curator tells C& about an exhibition of Rosa-Johan Uddoh’s films, libraries as exhibition spaces, and Britain’s colonial legacy.

Sonia Boyce. Photo: Sarah Weal.

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Sonia Boyce Represents UK in Venice

Being the first Black woman to represent Britain, Boyce’s will show a multi-media installation comprising video, sound, wallpaper and sculptures.

Gabrielle Camuset: Transforming the Narrative

In Conversation

Gabrielle Camuset: Transforming the Narrative

The curator and researcher features three Moroccan artists in her current exhibition who challenge monotone perspectives of their country.

Christine Eyene. Photo: Aliyah Leger.

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Christine Eyene Joins LJMU and Tate Liverpool

The curator and art historian has been appointed Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool University and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool.

Installation View

When Rain Clouds Gather

Archives of Womanhood and Blackness in South Africa

This exhibition at Norval Foundation shows a detailed history of pioneering Black South African female artists from 1940 to 2000.

Prince Claus Fund Names Mentees for Educational Programme Building Beyond

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Prince Claus Fund Names Mentees for Educational Programme Building Beyond

12 artists from 9 African countries will jointly reflect on the future of cities and communities to find and push forward new urban agendas.

(left to right) Lulu Jemimah photo by Maria Carranza; Maya Alam, Photo credits: © AlamProfeta; Vitjitua Ndjiharine by Akademie Schloss Solitude/Frank Kleinbach

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Residents for Dekoloniale Berlin Announced

Dekoloniale and C& choose Lulu Jemimah, Maya Alam and Vitjitua Ndjiharine for the 2022 residencies in Writing, Architecture and Design.

Gladys Kalichini, Portrait © Kelvin Haizel; ... these practices are done in sharing her stories, 2020, four-channel video, photograph by Arthur Debert; Retitled: Untitled, 2018, outdoor voile installation, photograph by Gladys Kalichini

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Gladys Kalichini Wins Henrike Grohs Art Award 2022

For her "melancholic meditation on Zambia’s colonial and postcolonial histories", visual artist Kalichini wins the prize in memory of Henrike Grohs.

Jadé Fadojutimi: Yet, Another Pathetic Fallacy

Installation view

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.

Camille Turner, Nave, 2021-2022, 00:12:34 (H:M:S), three-channel 3840 x 2160 video installation. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view at Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, ON as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2022. Photo: Toni Hafkenschied. Courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art.

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Camille Turner Receives TBA Artist Prize

The Toronto Biennale of Art honored Camille Turner, whose work reveals colonial Canada's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.

What Are the Stakes of Representing Art from Africa in Dubai?

Opening of Efiɛ Gallery

What Are the Stakes of Representing Art from Africa in Dubai?

As the first African-owned art gallery in the UAE, Efiɛ may have to interrogate existing cultural legacies in the region, writes Nantume Violet.

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

Installation View

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.

Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa

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Fadzai Muchemwa Appointed Curator at National Gallery of Zimbabwe

Writer an Curator Fadzai Muchemwa will take the curatorial lead of Contemporary Art at one of Harare's oldest and most important art museums.

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.

Glenn Ligon, Installation View at 16. Istanbul Biennale. Short film

Looking Back

James Baldwin in Istanbul: Art and Activism in Exile

While in Istanbul Baldwin used fierce artistry to unmask the USA’s façade as the custodian of freedom and democracy, explains curator Gürsoy Doğtaş.

Clockwise: Diébédo Francis Kéré, photo courtesy of Lars Borges; Gando Primary School
2001, Gando, Burkina Faso. Photo courtesy of Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk; National Park of Mali, photo courtesy of Francis Kéré

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Diébédo Francis Kéré Receives the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Pioneering in sustainable architecture, Francis Kéré empowers and transforms communities through the process of his work.

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

Installation View

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

Installation View

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

Tamary Kudita, That evening sun goes down, 2020. Courtesy the artist.

ArtHARARE 2021

The Particularities of a Place

This edition of artHARARE, navigating through the city and diasporic experiences, allowed reflections on the possibilities of presenting art online.

Manuel Borja-Villel (photo: Joaquín Cortés/Roman Lores), Grada Kilomba

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São Paulo Biennale Reveals Curatorial Collective

Manuel Borja-Villel, Grada Kilomba, Diane Lima, and Hélio Menezes will co-curate the next Biennale taking place in 2023.

Open Letter: “Not Our Namibian Pavilion”

59th Venice Biennale 2022

Open Letter: “Not Our Namibian Pavilion”

We are sharing the open letter by artists and organizations in Namibia, expressing their concern about the National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin © David von Becker; Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk; Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City © faf.berlin; Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy © BStU/Dronebrothers; KW Institute for Contemporary Art © Frank Sperling

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12th Berlin Biennale Revealed Venues

They are Akademie der Künste, Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City, Hamburger Bahnhof, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Stasi Headquarters.

A New Art Award Celebrates Women-Identifying Artists in South Africa

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A New Art Award Celebrates Women-Identifying Artists in South Africa

ANNA and Latitudes, two female-centric South African brands, have joined forces to create an new art award nurture a new generation of women artists.

RENN, “Heading for 1 – big gathering” Number 27, desert stone and steel rod, h.150cm.

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Namibian Pavilion Debuts at 59th Venice Biennale

The National Pavilion of Namibia announces a Land Art project curated by Marco Furio Ferrario.

Valerie Cassel Oliver. Photo: Travis Fullerton.

News

Valerie Cassel Oliver Receives Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence

Currently Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the VMFA, Valerie Cassel Oliver has organized numerous acclaimed exhibitions.

Detail view of Jeremy Toussaint- Baptiste,

In Conversation

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste: Bass is Touch

In his exhibition Set It Off, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste investigates the relationship between sound, Black cultural traditions, and the body

Clockwise: Kyle Malanda, Who Will Bury You? III, 2018. Courtesy the artist; Ja’Tovia Gary, Image from Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), 2018. Courtesy the artist; kate-hers RHEE, And then there were none. ©2013, performance HD video and C-Print photography, courtesy of the artist.

From the Archive

Black (Art) History Month

From the reenactment of art conferences in Africa to South-South collaborations, we revisit articles that examine Blackness in a global art context.

Ronald Muchatuta, Kresiah Mukwazhi, Terrence Musekiwa, Wallen Mapondera, Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa.

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Zimbabwe Pavilion Reveals Artists and Curator for Venice Biennale

Kresiah Mukwazhi, Wallen Mapondera, Terrence Musekiwa and Ronald Muchatuta are part of ‘I did not leave a sign?’ curated by Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa.

Kimberly Drew, Photography by Inez & Vinoodh

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Kimberly Drew Joins Pace as Associate Director

As part of Pace’s global sales team, Drew will work with and support the gallery’s artists, develop strategies, exhibitions, and public programming.

Jepchumba, Practicing some digital painting (Detail), 2021. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Nandi: An African-Made NFT Marketplace For the World

Nandi’s aim is to enable economic participation and cultural preservation of African creative content in the age of non-fungible tokens.

Artists Acaye Kerunen and Collin Sekajugo, and curator Shaheen Merali.

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Pavilion of Uganda at Venice Biennale

Under the theme "Radiance - They Dream in Time" curator Shaheen Merali invites Acaye Kerunen and Collin Sekajugo to present their work.

Lebohang Kganye, Phumulani Ntuli and  Roger Ballen. Photos: Marguiritte Rossouw

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South Africa Announces Team for Venice Biennale

Curated by Amè Bell, South Africa's pavilion will feature works by Lebohang Kganye, Phumulani Ntuli and Roger Ballen.

30 November 2019 : KOP hosts their last event for 2019 at the Third Placein Newtown. The night had two stages, live graffiti art, games and  heavy entertainment. Photography Andiswa Mkosi

Artist Portrait

ANDYMKOSI, Even in Darkness, Makes a Space for Light

The South African photographer presents us with an alternative and joyful portrait of Black experiences on the continent.

Venice Biennale 2022 Reveals Artist List

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Venice Biennale 2022 Reveals Artist List

In the main exhibition "The Milk of Dreams”, curator Cecilia Alemani invited 213 artists to present their work from April 23 to November 27.

Isaac Julien

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Isaac Julien Receives Goslar Kaiserring 2022

The London-based artist is honored for his sensual and poetic visual narrative that breaks down barriers between different artistic disciplines.

Joy Gregory, from the commission Madam Photo, 2020. Commissioned by Autograph for Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other © and courtesy the artist

Responding to the Global Pandemic

A Photographic Reflection on the Self and the Other

In a recent exhibition, the London-based photographic arts organization Autograph ABP addressed multi-perspective takes on Covid by British photograph

Yali Romagoza, Monument to the Great Living Artist, 2018. Courtesy the artist.

A Latin American Universe

What Is “Latinx”?

Aldeide Delgado looks for C&AL into the implications and opportunities of the term “Latinx”.

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. 

Installation View of Sane Wadu

Giving Back to the Continent

Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI)

We talk to Michael Armitage, artist and initiator of the non-profit visual art space founded in 2020 in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

Portrait by India Roper-Evans

News

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.

Hank Willis Thomas, All Power to All People, 2020. Photograph by Albert Yee. Courtesy of the artist and Kindred Arts.

In Conversation

Marsha Reid: Public Sculpture and Cultural Equity

We spoke to the US arts activist about an exhibition in which she invites artists to create public works that question ownership of open spaces.

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

News

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.

Videostill, enorê. Courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation

Brazilian Artist enorê Explores the Creative Language of Data

enorê, whose work challenges the idea of fluidity by connecting digital and non-digital art, speaks to C& about visible and invisible realities.

C&’s Highlights of 2021 You Might Have Missed

Best of 2021

C&’s Highlights of 2021 You Might Have Missed

From the restitution of the Benin Bronzes to the overdue celebration of female artists from Africa; these are some of our most read articles in 2021.

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.

Open Letter

Grada Kilomba and the Venice Biennale 2022

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

El Franco Lee, II, DJ Screw in Heaven 2, 2016. Neon bulb and single-channel audio, 3:04 minutes, 60 x 60 inches. Image and work courtesy the artist.

Let us Mourn in Peace

Global Grief 2021: The Year in Review

Enos Nyamor looks back at a year in the arts marked by collective mourning as a cosmic bond between Africa and the diaspora.

bell hooks

In Memoriam

bell hooks (1952-2021)

The pathbreaking writer died on December 15 at the age of 69 and left us a colossal intellectual heritage.

Christelle Oyiri. Photo: Lucid Interval.

In Conversation

Christelle Oyiri: As a DJ, I see Myself as a Healing Figure

We speak with the Paris-based multidisciplinary artist and DJ about her practice of easing pain and cataloging as a means of maintaining dignity.

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

News

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.

News

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

News

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.

Billie Zangewa, An Angel at My Bedside, 2020. Hand-stitched silk collage, 31.89 x 46.06 inches. Courtesy of Sangbeom Kim and Sunjung Kim.

Thread for a Web Begun at MoAD

Billie Zangewa: The Domestic Is Political

The Malawi-born, Johannesburg-based artist creates scenes of the domestic to celebrate the feminine and the unseen.

Installation View, Listen, Exhibition Opening. Courtesy of Goethe Institut / Alliance Française.

In Conversation

Listening to the Sounds of Nairobi

An artistic collective archives the capital’s soundscape. Here they speak about their motivations and how the tune of the city is constantly changing.

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.

Swarm, courtesy of GLOR1A

Nine Nights: Channel B at ICA London

Do Androids Dream of Being Black?

Our author Liese Van Der Watt went to the exhibition that creates sonic and visual landscapes for Black futurism.

Samuel Nnorom Wins Cassirer Welz Award 2021

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Samuel Nnorom Wins Cassirer Welz Award 2021

The multi-talented artist seeks to explore several materials and will present a solo exhibition after a ten-week residency at the Bag Factory.

Kapwani Kiwanga, winner of Zurich Art Prize 2022. Photo: Bertille Chéret

News

The Zurich Art Prize 2022 Goes to Kapwani Kiwanga

The Canadian-French artist is the 15th winner of the renowned award that includes the production of a solo exhibition at Museum Haus Konstruktiv.

Collective Practices: A Sonic Essay

Kabelo Malatsie with Robert Machiri

Collective Practices: A Sonic Essay

Arts Collaboratory commissioned Kabelo Malatsie to respond to their network and the outcome is a sonic essay with Zimbabwean artist Robert Machiri.

Rasheedah Phillips, Mmere Dane: Black Time Belt, 2021. Digital collage. © Rasheedah Phillips.

ARE YOU FOR REAL

ifa Presents New Work by Rasheedah Phillips

The artwork entitled Mmere Dane: Black Time Belt maps several destroyed historic all-Black…

The Red Affair (Detail), 2020, John Baptist Sekubulwa, Courtesy of artist.

Artist Portrait

Ugandan Artist John Baptist Sekubulwa Links Historical And Contemporary Pain

Relentlessly questioning political power relations, Sekubulwa chooses the image of the human brain to depict postcolonial vulnerability – and hope.

Jennifer Packer: Confronting the Complex, the Ugly, and the Forbidden

The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing

Jennifer Packer: Confronting the Complex, the Ugly, and the Forbidden

The US painter uses the symbolism of flowers to remember violent losses within the Black community and create tender moments that embody the senses.

Kimberli Gant (left) and Stephanie Sparling Williams (right).
Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum.

News

Brooklyn Museum Appoints Stephanie Sparling Williams and Kimberli Gant as Curators

The New York - Museum has made two major hires for American art and modern and contemporary art, to start in December and January.

Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Performance at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Sommerfest 2021. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Three Namibian Artists on their Residency at Schloss Solitude

We talked to Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Hage Mukwendje, and Nesindano Namises about their approaches, methods, processes, and inspirations.

Jamillah James. Photo by Jasmine Clarke.

News

Jamillah James Named Senior Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

James sees herself as "advocate" for artists and starts her new role in Chicago early next year.

Adama Delphine Fawundu , Earth seed New York State, 2017. Courtesy of Adama Delphine Fawundu

In Conversation

Aldeide Delgado and the Women Photographers International Archive

We spoke to the founder of WOPHA about rediscovering forgotten female Cuban artists and photography’s many uses – including its ability for change.

Julie Mehretu, Among the Multitude I, 2019/2021. Courtesy the artist and carlier | gebauer.

Julie Mehretu

Keeping Vigil with no Loss to Poetry

Rose Jepkorir spoke to the New York-based artist to dive into her work that explores the strange in between places through abstraction.

Lunga Ntila Seeks GOD AMONG US in Her Body of Work

In Conversation

Lunga Ntila Seeks GOD AMONG US in Her Body of Work

Ahead of AKAA Paris we speak to the South African artist about her multiple identities, unfamiliar surroundings, and the symbolism of bees.

Digital Art Illustration Battle. Courtesy of Fak'ugesi

Fak’ugesi – African Digital Innovation Festival

Building as a Way to Project Ourselves into the Future

The 2021 edition of Fak’ugesi – African Digital Innovation Festival in Johannesburg focused…

Exhibition view

In Conversation

Rafiki Arts Initiatives: Building Bridges Between Norway and Africa

We spoke to Nicole Rafiki, the artist behind a series of actions that…

Peter Okotor, Installation View, Table of Paradox at CCA Lagos. Courtesy the artist.

Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos

Peter Okotor Places Nigeria on a Table of Paradox through Pop Music

The artist uses interactive installations and sound to contemplate Nigeria’s national history.

Mwangi Hutter, What Must Matter, 2020. C-print, 40 cm x 54 cm
Edition of 5 plus II AP. Courtesy the artists.

“Auf Deutsch”

The Artist Mwangi Hutter Reflects on the Human Condition

C& spoke to the Kenyan-German artist duo about the creative process, merged identity and about producing works that aim to look “beyond differences”.

12th Berlin Biennale Announces Dates and Visual Identity

Berlin Biennale

12th Berlin Biennale Announces Dates and Visual Identity

Curated by Kader Attia, the 12th iteration of Berlin Biennale takes place from…

Patrick Eugene: Where Do We Go from Here?

In Conversation

Patrick Eugene: Where Do We Go from Here?

Sabo Kpade speaks to the Haitian-American painter about the timely inspiration for his…

Portrait Frank Bowling. Photo: Sacha Bowling.

Wolfgang Hahn Prize by Museum Ludwig

Frank Bowling Receives Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis 2022

Jury member Zoé Whitley honors the British Guiana artist as "a resolute and…

Hervé Télémaque: A Hopscotch of the Mind

Installation View

Hervé Télémaque: A Hopscotch of the Mind

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

Hannah Black Joins Städelschule as Guest Professor

Städelschule

Hannah Black Joins Städelschule as Guest Professor

With the start of the winter semester 2021/22 artist and writer Hannah Black…

William Scott

Installation View

William Scott

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

© Thando Mpushe

Prince Claus Fund

Marcus Tebogo Desando Is the New Director of Prince Claus Fund

Marcus Tebogo Desando will take up his new role in Amsterdam beginning 2022.

© Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Unearthing. In Conversation (2017)

Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography

Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński Wins Camera Austria Award

The Austrian artists receives the prize for her “sharp analysis of visual regimes…

Adrienne Elise Tarver,

In Conversation

Adrienne Elise Tarver: Invisibility as Superpower

We speak to the New York artist about Black womanhood, invisibility, and the…

Image by RAW Material Company. 

In Memoriam

Dominique Malaquais (1964-2021)

The art historian and political scientist Dominique Malaquais has passed away.

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

Installation View

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…

Atta Kwami in 2019. Courtesy of Serpentine Galleries.

In Memoriam

Atta Kwami (1956- 2021)

The Ghanaian artist and curator who created unique geometric paintings and prints passed…

James Bantone, He Said, They Said, 2020, exhibition view, Coalmine, Zurich

“Auf Deutsch”

James Bantone: Mimicry, Performance and Community

The Swiss artist speaks to us about internet culture as a way to reconnect with Black and Brown queer communities.

Sandra Mujinga, Mísató, 2020 Mítáno, 2020 Mínei, 2020 Míbalé, 2020. Photo: Jamila Moroder

Make Techno Black Again

The Exhibition TECHNO Reveals Institutional Blind Spots

Art historian Jamila Moroder argues that an exhibition in Bolzano, Italy, disconnects techno…

Sandra Mujinga receives the Nationalgalerie Prize 2021 (c) Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Benjamin Pritzkuleit

Preis der Nationalgalerie 2021

Sandra Mujinga is the Winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2021

The Berlin and Oslo-based artist has received the most prestigious prize for contemporary…

Lebohang Kganye: The Urgency to Be the Author and Subject

C& Artists' Editions #3

Lebohang Kganye: The Urgency to Be the Author and Subject

As we launch our latest artists’ edition with Lebohang Kganye, we revisit our…

Akinbode Akinbiyi Awarded Order of Merit of Germany

Bundesverdienstkreuz

Akinbode Akinbiyi Awarded Order of Merit of Germany

On the occasion of the Day of German Unity, Berlin-based artist Akinbode Akinbiyi…

Documenta 15 Reveals Artists for 2022 Edition

Documenta Fifteen

Documenta 15 Reveals Artists for 2022 Edition

For the next Documenta that will take place from June 18 until September…

Installation View of Salon Globalisto, curated by Mo Laudi. 17.06.21 > 31.07.21 at Galerie Bonne Espérance, Paris.

In Conversation

Mo Laudi Envisions Safe Spaces for Dissent

The multidisciplinary artist talks to Boitumelo Tlhoaele about a recent exhibition project and…

Student protests against the streaming of

In Conversation

Disrupting the Archives with Renée Akitelek Mboya

Magnus Rosengarten spoke to the curator, who lives in Nairobi, about tracing an…

Detail from Black Noise #4 (installation of aquariums, sea water, iron, metal, steel, stones with sound). Photo by Lena Bergendahl.

Black Archives Sweden

Ina Nian Investigates The Weight of Silence

The artist explores Sweden’s iron production and its connection with the transatlantic slave…

Photo: Lori Sapio

Dia Art Foundation

Jordan Carter Appointed Curator at Dia Art Foundation

Carter will be head of Fluxus and global Conceptual art of the 1960s…

Lina Ben Rejeb, Peintures domestiques No. II (Detail) , 2019. Indian fabric, DMC embroidery thread, 204h x 123w x 4d cm, Unique. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Lina Ben Rejeb: Pushing the Limits of Erasure

We speak to the Tunisian artist about her relationship with exhausting the material.

Things Fall Together Fifty Years After Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe Exhibition

Things Fall Together Fifty Years After Things Fall Apart

C&’s Obidike Okafor reviews an exhibition celebrating a fifty-year old film adaptation of…

Addis Fine Art Founders Rakeb Sile and Mesai Haileleul.

New Space

Addis Fine Art to Open Space in London

Co-founders Rakeb Sile and Mesai Haileleul will open a first gallery outside Ethiopia…

Noemi Weber, Milena Weber, SchwesterInnen touchdown, 2020. At Mouches Volantes, Cologne from 19 November 2020 - 6  Februar 2021. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Dirk Rose

“Auf Deutsch”

Noemi and Milena Weber Explore Common Spaces

With C&, the sisters based in Amsterdam and Düsseldorf spoke about communal processes in their art.

Clockwise: Mobolaji Ogunrosoye, Omoregie Osakpolor, Chigozie Obi, Nyancho NwaNri, Chukwudi Onwumere.

ART X Prize

Finalists for 2021 ART X Prize Announced

The jury selected Chigozie Obi, Chukwudi Onwumere, Mobolaji Ogunrosoye, Nyancho NwaNri, and Omoregie…

Theaster Gates

12th Austrian Friedrich Kiesler Prize

Theaster Gates Receives Austrian Friedrich Kiesler Prize for Architecture and Art

The jury awarded the American artist for his transdisciplinary and participatory approach to…

The Venus Bushfires/Helen Epega by Ebenezer Dada and emc3. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Helen Epega: “I compose with colors and shapes”

The Nigerian artist, singer, and composer speaks to us about her creative process…

Alma Thomas, Air View of Spring Nursery (Detail), 1966. Acrylic on canvas. The Columbus Museum

Inventing Your Own Game

Alma W. Thomas and the Treasures of the Natural World

In the “post-war” period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the…

Deborah-Joyce Holman, Unless (2021), Film Still. Yara Dulac Gisler & Deborah Joyce Holman. Courtesy of the artists

"Auf Deutsch"

Deborah Joyce Holman – Unless: The Potential of Subtle Acts of Refusal

We spoke to Swiss artist Deborah Joyce Holman about the key aspects of her poetic docufiction work.

Vivian Crockett Appointed Curator at New Museum

New Museum New York

Vivian Crockett Appointed Curator at New Museum

With her interests in African and Latinx diasporas, Vivian Crockett has been appointed…

Ibrahim Ahmed: It Will Always Come Back to You

Installation View

Ibrahim Ahmed: It Will Always Come Back to You

The exhibition features a large new ICA-commissioned sculpture and a selection of textile-based…

Daniel Kojo Schrade, Afronaut 3-19, 2019. Oil, acrylic, charcoal on canvas 50 x 70 inches. Courtesy the artist.

"Auf Deutsch"

Daniel Kojo Schrade: Broadening the Understanding of Diaspora

For centuries there has been Black cultural production from countries where German is…

Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale. Image © Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art. Photo Nii Odzenma

Giving Back to the Continent

Savannah Center for Contemporary Art

The number of artists from the African Diaspora who enjoy considerable success in…

Colectivo Hilando Paz, Mochilas Útero Cultural. Photo: Carlos Perdomo. Courtesy of Minga Prácticas De-coloniales.

Minga Decolonial Practices, Colombia

Creation as a Collective Process

Minga Prácticas De-coloniales (Minga Decolonial Practices) is an interdisciplinary collective that wants to…

Collage by Caroline Böttcher. Courtesy the artist.

Dekoloniale Berlin

Something Whispers Among The Trees

One hundred and twenty-five years after it took place, the “Colonial Village” at…

Jane'a Johnson. Photo by Lindsay Calmettes and Mandy Draper.

Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam

Jane’a Johnson Named New Artistic Director at Foam

Her "fresh vision and approach" to photography brings US-American Jane’a Johnson in her…

Critical Minded Convening @ 2017 Critical Minded | Photo by Ed Marshall Photography

In Conversation

Rashid Shabazz: Introducing Diversity into Art Criticism

As the executive director of the Critical Minded initiative, Rashid Shabazz hopes to…

Isolde Brielmaier is the new deputy director of the New Museum. Image courtesy New Museum

The New Museum

Isolde Brielmaier Appointed Deputy Director at the New Museum in NYC

Brielmaier is currently serving as curator at large at the International Center of…

A Bavarian Intergenerational Exchange

"Auf Deutsch"

A Bavarian Intergenerational Exchange

Malcom Ohanwe sat down with artist Ransome Stanley to discuss and compare Afro-German…

Untethered Magic Kitchen, Image courtesy of Untethered Magic

In Conversation

Untethered Magic Brings Art and Nature in Dialogue

The Nairobi art space Untethered Magic is about growth and independence – both…

'Elvira Dyangani Ose at Basilea, Creative Time and ArtBasel, Basel, 2018.' Photo by Guillermo Domínguez Terry.

Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona

Elvira Dyangani Ose Is New Director of MACBA

Curator and Art Historian Elvira Dyangani Ose will be the first women to…

Helina Metaferia: Weaving and Resisting in More Than A Few Ways

In Conversation

Helina Metaferia: Weaving and Resisting in More Than A Few Ways

Weaving together archival and social knowledge, artist Helina Metaferia considers her community’s everyday…

Awuor Onyango and Everlyn Nicodemus on Women and Strength

In Conversation

Awuor Onyango and Everlyn Nicodemus on Women and Strength

In a conversation between artists, our author Awuor Onyango speaks with Everlyn Nicodemus…

Samson Kambalu, Antelope, 2021. Photo: James Jenkins, Courtesy Goodman Gallery

Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth

Samson Kambalu Wins Fourth Plinth Commission

Artist and writer Samson Kambalu will install his work "Antelope", a tribute to…

sonsbeek20→24: force times distance

Installation View

sonsbeek20→24: force times distance

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

Nakitende Sheila Is Giving Barkcloth New Meaning

Artist Portrait

Nakitende Sheila Is Giving Barkcloth New Meaning

Nakitende Sheila twists, stitches, and burns as she experiments with natural textures and…

Decentering the I: How to Redefine the Human

C& Center of Unfinished Business

Decentering the I: How to Redefine the Human

Will Furtado argues that indigenous knowledge has always held the solution to ecological catastrophe that is fueled by placing the human above all.

AfroDiaspora 2.0// e.V. : Creating Safer Spaces

“Auf Deutsch”

AfroDiaspora 2.0// e.V. : Creating Safer Spaces

For centuries there has been Black cultural production from countries where German is…

New Art Exchange Announces Saad Eddine Said as Artistic Director and CEO

New Art Exchange

New Art Exchange Announces Saad Eddine Said as Artistic Director and CEO

Nottingham's New Art Exchange is hiring Moroccan creative Saad Eddine Said as the…

Photo: Julien Creuzet

Art Basel and BMW

Julien Creuzet Awarded BMW Art Journey 2021

French-Martinique artist Julien Creuzet is awarded the BMW Art Journey, honoring his innovative…

Photo: Ibrahima Ndome

ellipse Prize

Ibrahima Ndome Wins Inaugural ellipse Prize 2021

Visual artist Ibrahima Ndome receives the first edition of the ellipse Prize, focusing…

Karimah Ashadu, Film still -

In Conversation

Karimah Ashadu: Labor as a Practice Towards Independence

We spoke with artist Karimah Ashadu about artistic mediums’ own sense of curiosity,…

Photo: Kabelo Malatsie ©VANSA

Kunsthalle Bern

Kabelo Malatsie Named New Director of Kunsthalle Bern

The 34-young South-African curator Kabelo Malatsie will be the next director of Kunsthalle…

Tabita Rezaire Opens AMAKABA – A Space for Collective Healing

AMAKABA

Tabita Rezaire Opens AMAKABA – A Space for Collective Healing

In the Amazonian forest of French Guiana, artist Tabita Rezaire has founded a…

Sam Gilliam, 
TBC, 2020, 
watercolor on washi, 

39-1/2

INVENTING YOUR OWN GAME

Sam Gilliam: Between Structure and Improvisation

In the “post-war” period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the…

Photo: Benjamin Renter

Gropius Bau Berlin

C& Artistic Director Julia Grosse Announced as Associate Curator at Gropius Bau

We are so excited to share the news that Gropius Bau in Berlin…

Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński: Looking As an Act of Knowledge Production

“Auf Deutsch”

Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński: Looking As an Act of Knowledge Production

For centuries there has been Black cultural production from countries where German is…

Courtesy Kalashnikovv Gallery

place

Kalashnikovv Gallery

'CUP OF COFFEE IN SOLITUDE', UZO EGONU, 1980. COURTESY: KÓ

ART X Lagos

ART X Lagos 2021 Dates Announces

From 4 - 7 November 2021 Art X Lagos will take place as…

All Shortlisted Artists Awarded the 9th Artes Mundi Prize

Artes Mundi 9 Prize

All Shortlisted Artists Awarded the 9th Artes Mundi Prize

"In recognition of this time of exceptional social and economic upheaval ", all…

Legacy Russell. Photo by Andreas Laszlo Konrath.

The Kitchen New York

The Kitchen Appoints Legacy Russell as Its Next Executive Director & Chief Curator

Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Studio Museum Legacy Russell will take off…

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, new Director Haus der Kulturen der Welt from January 1, 2023. Photo: Alexander Steffens

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Named New Director of Renowned Berlin Arts Institution

Founder and Artistic Director of SAVVY Contemporary, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is appointed…

El Anatsui, Installation view of En quête de liberté, 2021 at Le centre des monuments nationaux as part of Africa2020 Season. Courtesy of Africa2020

Africa2020 Season: Installation view

El Anatsui: En quête de liberté

For Africa2020 Season, General Commissioner N’Goné Fall installed El Anatsui’s large cloths at…

A New School of Architecture Headquartered in Accra

African Futures Institute

A New School of Architecture Headquartered in Accra

The African Futures Institute (AFI), founded in Accra, Ghana, is a new venture…

(Clockwise) Anaïs Duplan (Photo: Ben Krusling), Negarra A. Kudumu, Ronald Rose-Antoinette, and Marie Hélène Pereira (Photo: Kerry Etola Viderot)

Marian Goodman Gallery and ICI

Inaugural Curatorial Research Fellows in Honor of Okwui Enwezor Are Announced

Anaïs Duplan, Negarra A. Kudumu, Marie Hélène Pereira, and Ronald Rose-Antoinette have been…

Afro-Lusophone Artists Grapple with Memory in New Book

Are We Not Makers of History?

Afro-Lusophone Artists Grapple with Memory in New Book

A publication featuring artists in Portuguese-speaking countries suggests distinct artistic approaches to dealing…

Amakaba

place

Amakaba

Fatimah Tuggar: Not Reactive, but Curious

Africa2020 Season

Fatimah Tuggar: Not Reactive, but Curious

Fatimah Tuggar’s work is included in the exhibition Beyond what we see at…

(from left to right) Nnenna Onuoha, Dior Thiam, Gladys Kalichini. Image courtesy of the artists.

Dekoloniale

Berlin Residents 2021 decided!

Nnenna Onuoha, Dior Thiam, and Gladys Kalichini will together take up the first…

A Roundtable with Emerging Artists Working with NFTs

Cryptoart

A Roundtable with Emerging Artists Working with NFTs

Four artists speak to Tash Moore about the opportunities of digital art.

Now Online! PANAFEST Web Documentary

Pan-African Festivals

Now Online! PANAFEST Web Documentary

Over a ten-year period, Dominique Malaquais and Cédric Vincent developed the PANAFEST website to…

Gabi Ngcobo Investigates the Specters of the Museum

Javett-UP

Gabi Ngcobo Investigates the Specters of the Museum

Since Gabi Ngcobo has started as curatorial director at a large Pretoria based…

Adjaye Associates has designed the Edo Museum of West African Art

The Benin Bronzes Restitution

A View from Nigeria

We asked 9 art professionals from the Nigerian art scene for their thoughts…

Can Africa2020 Bring French Discourse into the Twenty-First Century?

Africa2020 Season

Can Africa2020 Bring French Discourse into the Twenty-First Century?

A group exhibition curated by Meriem Berrada at Palais de la Porte Dorée…

Gabi Ngcobo

Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria

Gabi Ngcobo Officially Appointed Curatorial Director of Javett-UP

Ngcobo brings in years of experience working in the artistic field as artist,…

Lebohang Kganye 'the stranger stood before a monstrosity in search for memory, 2020,

Grand Prix Images Vevey 2021/2022

Lebohang Kganye Wins Prize for her Staging Memories Project

In recognition of its visual inventiveness, historical rigor, and daring conceptualization, the jury select Lebohang Kganye’s Staging Memories project

Josèfa Ntjam, A Crossing of Independences, 2021. Photomontage printed on Chromalux by sublimation 80 x 120 cm

In Conversation

Josèfa Ntjam: Dissolving the Separation Between Human and Non-human

Josèfa Ntjam is an artist, performer, and writer exploring concepts of fluidity through…

Marilyn Douala Manga Bell, at Press Conference

Goethe Medals

Princess Marilyn Douala Manga Bell Is Among the Honorees of the 2021 Goethe Medals

Goethe-Institut acknowledges the work of social economist and president of the cultural organisation…

Tarek Lakhrissi: Staging Melancholy, Finding Inspiration in Other People’s Words

In Conversation

Tarek Lakhrissi: Staging Melancholy, Finding Inspiration in Other People’s Words

Tarek Lakhrissi’s solo show Perfume of Traitors opened at VITRINE gallery in London…

Installation View

Invisible Inventories

Absent Figures: The Difficult Questions Restitution Raises

Being asked to call something an object can be troubling, as evidenced in…

Najah Zarbout, Roots (détail) 90x70, 2021. Courtesy the artist.

Africa2020 Season

Najah Zarbout: Being at a Crossroads

For her exhibition “Thanaya: entre plis et chemins” at Africa2020 Season Tunisian artist…

Abdelkader Damani: Seeking Forms of Freedom

Africa2020 Season

Abdelkader Damani: Seeking Forms of Freedom

As the subject of Abdelkader Damani’s Africa 2020 exhibition, Algiers is the city…

N’Goné Fall: More than a Season

Africa2020 Season

N’Goné Fall: More than a Season

The large-scale French event Africa2020 hasn’t had an easy start. Curator N'Goné Fall…

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

Africa2020 Season: Installation View

The Power of My Hands

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

Exhibition view “Beyond What We See. Once Upon a Time, Once Upon a Future”, 16.12.2020 > 30.05.2021 © les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse ; photo : Damien Aspe

Africa2020 Season: Installation View

Beyond What We See. Once Upon a Time, Once Upon a Future

This exhibition at Les Abattoirs in Toulouse brings together African artists who all…

Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) Photo: Theodorah Ndovlu, 2019

Turner Prize

For the First Time, Turner Prize nominates Artist Collectives only

Five art collectives are nominated for an art prize considered to be one…

The members of the Dekoloniale Jury are: (clockwise) Kader Attia, Lerato Shadi, Raul Walch, Yvette Mutumba & Julia Grosse for C&. Photo: Benjamin Renter, Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard & Anna Yeboah for Dekoloniale ©selflovetribute

Dekoloniale & C&

Jury for Dekoloniale Berlin Residency 2021 Announced

Kader Attia, Lerato Shadi, Raul Walch, Yvette Mutumba & Julia Grosse, Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard…

Minia Biabiany, still from the video Toli Toli, 10min, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation

Minia Biabiany: Choreography of the Archipelago

In her work, artist Minia Biabiany from the French-speaking Caribbean island of Guadeloupe,…

Christopher Ulutupu, Treadmill, 2021. Video Still. Courtesy the artist.

Over the Radar

Christopher Ulutupu: Fantasy, Desire, and Indigeneity

Despite having had limited cultural exchange, the continents of Africa and Oceania are…

Jamal Boushaba. Photo: Wéerari, Casablanca, April, 2016.

In Memoriam

Jamal Boushaba, the Bel Ami (1965–2021)

Jamal Boushaba – writer, cultural journalist, publisher, curator, and all-round romantic character from…

Massinissa Selmani, Untitled # 7, 2021 (Alterables series). Photocopy, graphite and coloured pencil on paper and tracing paper, 15,5 x 19,8 cm. © ADAGP Paris - Courtesy Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris

In Conversation

Massinissa Selmani: Creating Work Between Dualisms

Our author Elisa Pierandrei talked to Algerian artsist Massinissa Selmani about his enigmatic…

Meg Onli. Photo: Marcus Maddox.

Figure Skating Prize

Curator Meg Onli Wins Inaugural Figure Skating Prize

Founded by Virgil Abloh, Mahfuz Sultan and Chloe Wayne the $75,000 prize will…

Rencontres de Bamako curatorial team. From left: Bonaventure Ndikung (Artistic Director); Tandazani Dhlakama, Liz Ikiriko, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Meriem Berrada (curators). Image: Archive Appendix.

African Biennale of Photography

Rencontres de Bamako Introduces Curatorial Team and Theme for 2021

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung will return as artistic director with a team of…

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…

Lizzy Aroloye, Alien Girl Loading, from series transcending. Courtesy the artist.

Digital Art

What Are NFTs and What Do They Mean for BIPOC Artists?

NFT art has recently sold for millions, heralding a new age of opportunity…

Mário Macilau: Circle of Memories

Africa2020 Season: Installation View

Mário Macilau: Circle of Memories

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

Peterson Kamwathi, Untitled, colour aquatint etching on paper. Courtesy of One Off Gallery

Digital Auctions

Bidding for Art on WhatsApp while in Lockdown

The One Off Gallery in Nairobi started to sell art via messaging apps…

View of the the New Entrance. Photo: 32°East | Ugandan Arts Trust

In Conversation

Uganda’s New Arts Center is One Step Closer to Completion

With its fundraising campaign ongoing, 32º East | Ugandan Arts Trust is nearing…

Installation View

Africa2020 Season: Installation View

What is forgotten and what remains

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

ruby onyinyechi amanze, astral planes [only kin keeps us warm], 2020, Ink, graphite, colored pencils, photo transfers on four sheets of paper. Courtesy Mariane Ibrahim

In Conversation

ruby onyinyechi amanze: Drawing the Elements, Choreographing Freedom

ruby onyinyechi amanze crafts intricate collaged drawings that look like moments of choreographed…

Prof.in Heba Y. Amin (Foto: Sebastian Böttcher)

ABK Stuttgart

Heba Y.Amin New Professor for Digital and Time-Based Art

The ABK Stuttgart has filled the newly established professorship for Digital and Time-based…

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…

Tiffany Alfonseca, Yo Soy La Que Mando (Detail), 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery 1957

New Art Prize

Entries open to Africa’s first Art Prize for Women: The Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize

Gallery 1957 announced the launch of the first ever dedicated art prize for…

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…

Latifah Idriss, Photograph awall drawing, © Latifah Idriss

Design in Westafrica 

Worldforming by Ghanaian Women in Architecture

For three generations of women born between Ghana’s independence in 1957 and the…

Installation view

Africa2020 Season: Installation View

Distance ardente

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

Eva Obodo, Nightmare, 2020. Jute cloth, thread 235 x 206 x 46cm. Courtesy the artist and kó gallery.

Art Education

The New Nsukka Art School: Between Continuity and Change

The kó art gallery in Lagos is presenting a series of exhibitions of…

Danielle A. Jackson. Photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (Detail)

New Hire

Danielle A. Jackson Appointed Curator at Artists Space

Artists Space in New York announced that Danielle A. Jackson is joining the…

Janine Jembere, to cite: diaspora, sound installation, 37:06 minutes, paper prints, 2019, Photo: Kashira Dowridge

Good to Hear

These Are the Podcasts You Need to Follow

Knowledge production has never been so swift, intersectional, and accessible. And much of…

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

Installation View

Georges Adéagbo: La lumière qui fait le bonheur…

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

Rashid Johnson, Antoine’s Organ, 2016. Black steel, grow lights, plants, wood, shea butter, books, monitors, rugs, piano, 189 x 338 x 126 3/4 in (480 x 858.5 x 322 cm). © Rashid Johnson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Okwui Enwezor's last exhibition

Black Grief and White Grievance

At New York’s New Museum, the last exhibition conceived by Okwui Enwezor functions…

Baule Women, 1928, Unknown, Cote d’Ivoire. Courtesy of The McKinley Collection and The African Lookbook

In Conversation

Catherine E. McKinley: ‘I have gathered these images, not just for me, but for you’

Ethel-Ruth Tawe talks to the author of The African Lookbook: A Visual History…

Wood Picture, c. 1967. Courtesy of Galerie Lelong & Co.

Inventing Your Own Game

The Abstract Thinking of Mildred Thompson

In the “post-war” period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the…

Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy in front of Kunstinstituut Melly. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn

Kunstinstituut Melly

What’s at Stake in Decolonizing an Art Institution?

A Rotterdam art institute announces its new decolonial name. Will Furtado weighs in…

View of the Noldor Artist Residency, Labadi, Accra. Courtesy of the Noldor Artist Residency

Noldor Artist Residency

Ghana’s First Independent Arts Residency Announces Expansion and Fellowship Programs

Noldor reveals extensive expansion plans and welcomes Gideon Appah, Abigail Aba Otoo and…

Exhibition view. Courtesy the Artist and OH GALLERY.

place

OH GALLERY

Kenu – Lab’Oratoire des Imaginaires. Courtesy the Artist.

place

Kenu – the Lab’oratory of imaginaries

Euridice Kala, detail of I, the Archive, Villa Vassilieff, Paris, 2020. Photo by Aurélien Mole

In Conversation

Euridice Kala: Rethinking the Archive

The Mozambican artist spoke to Sean O’Toole about her personal approaches to archives,…

The Nominees for 2021 (clockwise from left top) Lamin Fofana © Isabel O’Toole; Calla Henkel und Max Pitegoff © Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff;  Sandra Mujinga © Sjur Einen Sævik; Sung Tieu © Diana Phammatter

Preis der Nationalgalerie

Preis der Nationalgalerie Reveals Shortlist for 2021

Lamin Fofana and Sandra Mujinga are among the nominees for the 2021 Preis…

(Clockwise from top left) Samson Kambalu; Ibrahim Mahama; Nicole Eisenmann; Teresa Margolles; Paloma Varga Weisz; Goshka Macuga

Fourth Plinth Public Art Commission

Samson Kambalu and Ibrahim Mahama Shortlisted Among Six Artists

The shortlist for the famous public art commissions consist of Ibrahim Mahama, Samson…

Mariana Ibrahim Photo: Sofia Giner.

New Gallery

Mariane Ibrahim Opens a Paris Space

Alongside Chicago, Paris marks the second location and the debut in Europe of…

Some of the pioneering Women. (Clockwise) Safi Faye, during the shooting of

Celebrating Female Pioneers

Where are the Women Image-Makers in African History?

On the occasion of International Women's Day, our author Ethel-Ruth Tawe looks toward…

Image above: Marsha P.Johnson (left) and Sylvia Rivera (right) at Gay Pride Parade, 1973. Photo: Leonard Fink. From the film

White Label

How Warhol Erased the Identity of His Black Trans Sitters

Art historian Gürsoy Doğtaş analyses the power imbalances between Warhol and his BIPoC queer and trans sitters of lower Manhattan

Kader Attia, Curator 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Photo: F. Anthea Schaap

Berlin Biennale

Kader Attia Appointed as Curator of the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

For over two decades, Kader Attia has worked with the concept of “repair” in his artistic practice.

View of Precious Okoyomon, Earthseed at the Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 2020. Courtesy of the artist, the Museum Für Moderne Kunst, and Quinn Harrelson / Current Projects. Photo: Axel Schneider.

Frieze New York

Precious Okoyomon wins 2021 Frieze Artist Award

For Frieze New York 2021, Okoyomon will present a performance-activated installation conceived specifically for The Shed.

Pintei o Éden de Preto, 2020. Courtesy of the David Zwirner Gallery

In Conversation with Maxwell Alexandre

“There is a Future Changing the Imagination of Subalterity”

The boy who was born in 1990 stepped into his inline “blades” for…

Galerie Atiss Dakar, Résonances, exhibition view, 2021.

Founded in 1996 by the designer Aissa Dione, Galerie Atiss Dakar has gained reputation for spotting and incubating artistic talent from West Africa mostly, often presenting them for the first time to an international audience on artistic and cultural platforms like Dak'Art Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Paris Art Fair, Art Dubai, or the Cairo Biennial.

Galerie Atiss Dakar

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

Installation View

On Fait Des Dessins Dans La Terre

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

Black Quantum Futurism at Community Futures Lab (Philadelphia). (Image: Kenzi Foto)

Arts at CERN

Black Quantum Futurism Wins Collide Residency

Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips aka Black Quantum Futurism will complete the CERN…

Kawira Mwirichia posing with her Kenya Kanga Flag, 2019. Quote by Ivy Gatibaru “Penzi Langu Halali,” meaning “My love is valid” in Swahili. Image from the artist’s Instagram.

In Memory of Rosemary Namuli Karuga and Kawira Mwirichia

The Legacies of Two Pioneering Female Artists Help Us Fill Kenya’s Historical Fractures

In the past few months two pioneering female Kenyan artists from different generations…

Alisha B. Wormsley, There Are Black People in the Future. Part of Manifest Destiny, curated by Ingrid LaFleur. Image by Alessandra Ferrara, Courtesy of Library Street Collective, Detroit.

Black (Art) History Month

Looking at The Intersection of Time

While questions around time are currently occupying many, we rummaged through our archives…

Installation View DMSUBM. Photo: Hannah Aders

In Conversation

Anta Helena Recke and Joana Tischkau on the German Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music

C& spoke to the two founders of a new institution dedicated to Black…

Rosemary Karuga, Untitled, 1998. Detail. 40x57cm. Courtesy Red Hill Art Gallery

In Memoriam

Rosemary Karuga (1928-2021)

On 10th February, Kenian pioneer artist Rosemary Karuga has passed away in the…

Installation View Hands Full Of Air by Monilola Olayemi Ilupejun at Galerie im Turm, Berlin. Photos: Eric Tschernow

Installation view #museumshutdown

Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju: Hands Full of Air

Galerie im Turm shows the installation Hands Full of Air by transdisciplinary artist…

M. Florine Démosthène , (left)Untitled 10, 2020. Collage on paper, 11″ x 15”. (right) Entangled By Your Thoughts, 2020. Collage on canvas, 18″ x 24″. Photos courtesy of M. Florine Démosthène

Wachtmeister Award

M. Florine Démosthène Named 2021 Wachtmeister Award Winner

The visual artist has won the prestigious fellowship from the Virginia Center for…

Binta Diaw, AFR, Installation view. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Drawing From the Depth of Materials Within the Soil of Colonial Violence, Binta Diaw Is Literally Growing New Meaning

The artist spoke to C& about how she applies, removes, and layers symbolic…

Installation view ‘Diaspora At Home’ exhibition at CCA Lagos. Photo: CCA Lagos

In Conversation

Oyindamola Fakeye – the New Creative Director of CCA Lagos

Obidike Okafor spoke to the creative producer about the legacy of founder Bisi…

Victor Ekpuk, Shrine to Wisdom, Installation view at the exhibition Get Up, Stand Up Now at Somerset House from 12 Jun – 15 Sep 2019. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Victor Ekpuk: Confronting the Beast Through Art

The Washington, D.C.-based artist spoke to Sharon Pendana about his multidisciplinary practice committed…

Ibrahima Thiam, Untitled, Maam Njare series, 2020. Photo Courtesy Ibrahima Thiam & RAW Material Company, Dakar.

Partcours in Dakar

Art in the Year of the Biennale That Was Not

Amina Lawal Agoro looks on the event that reinvigorated Dakar’s art scene during…

Stephen Tayo, Lagos Diva (Detail), 2020. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy the kó gallery.

A group show at kó art space

Joseph Obanubi, Stephen Tayo, and Edozie Anedu Investigate their Hometown Lagos

Experimenting with new ideas and techniques, the artists' new bodies of work presented…

Photo: Darius Garvin

Gagosian

Antwaun Sargent Appointed Director and Curator

Megagallery Gagosian has announced writer and critic Antwaun Sargent as director and curator.…

Dorine Mokha performing in

In Memoriam

Bon voyage Dorine Mokha

The Congoloese artist died on 8 January in Lubumbashi at the age of…

Nuno Silas, from the series The Intensity of Identity, 
2019-2020. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Nuno Silas

The Intensity of Identity of a Diasporic Artist

We spoke to the Maputo-born artist Nuno Silas about his work in the…

Okwui Enwezor. Photo: Jeff Weiss

Marian Goodman Gallery and ICI

Emerging Curator Initiative Honoring Okwui Enwezor

Marian Goodman Gallery and ICI launch a new initiative, conceived by Steve McQueen,…

Naomi Beckwith © Nathan Keay/MCA Chicago

Guggenheim Museum New York

Naomi Beckwith Appointed Deputy Director and Chief Curator

Naomi Beckwith joins Guggenheim from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and…

Fernand Khnopff (1858 – 1921), Des caresses (the Sphinx), 1896. Detail. 
Oil on canvas, 50,5 × 150 cm.  © Brüssel, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts.

"Decadence and Dark Dreams"

What are historical exhibitions for?

Mokia Laisin on institutional omittance of colonial terror.

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

Emeka Ogboh: The Way Earthly Things Are Going

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces are closes due to the Corona-Crisis.…

Dorine Mokha. Photo: Art Mustache

In Memoriam

Dorine Mokha (1989-2021)

Congolese dancer, choreographer, and author Dorine Mokha has passed away.

D'Angelo Lovell Williams The Lovers, 2017. Pigment print
20 x 30 in. © D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Courtesy of the artist and Higher Pictures

Collectors' View

Intersecting Patronage, Family and Community with Bernard Lumpkin

After a decade of collecting artworks by artists of African descent with his…

Mia Imani Harrison, Soil is an inscribed body. On Sovereignty and Agropoetics. Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary e.V. Photo: Raisa Galofre/ Savvy Contemporary.

In Conversation with Bola Juju

Dreaming up Radical Resistance

Artist Mia Imani Harrison uses her dreams to envision new forms of collectivity.…

Ifebusola Shotunde, Lagos, New Nigeria Studios at ART X Lagos, 2020.

Art X Lagos 2020

Radically Different, This Year

Tokini Peterside explains how Art X Lagos adapted to the pandemic and to…

Noldor Artist Residency

place

Noldor Artist Residency

Immy Mali, Kasonko the portal, 2018. Digital edition. The dwelling place for all memory. In playing kasonko, we ascended in classes, we bought land and built houses, we became landlords and evicted neighbours.

In Conversation with Immy Mali

Debating Memories with Several Selves

Through her fictional alter ego Marcue, Ugandan multimedia artist Immy Mali explores personal and postcolonial realities.

Ibrahim Mahama. Photo credit: White Cube George Darrell

Prince Claus Award

Ibrahim Mahama Receives 2020 Principal Prince Claus Award

Ghanian visual artist Ibrahim Mahama is the 2020 winner of the prestigious award for his outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development.

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

Installation view

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.

Ivana Pavlickova, Killjoy, Ceramics, 2020. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Ivana Pavlickova

Free-spirited Objects

Afro-Czech artist Ivana Pavlickova speaks about her interest in the non-human and the…

Selebe Yoon

place

Selebe Yoon

Makhosazana Xaba's poetry in the book. Courtesy of Natal Collective

Book Review: There are mechanisms in place

Place-making in the World of Sunstrum’s Paintings

The Johannesburg-based curator Boitumelo Tlhoaele writes on the figurative artist’s Sunstrum’s works and…

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba. Photo: Benjamin Renter

15th European Cultural Brand Awards

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba awarded “European Cultural Manager of the Year” 2020

We are so thrilled that Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba received the "European…

Wu Tsang, Safe Space, 2014. Installation view at  Lafayette Anticipations, Paris.

Installation View #museumshutdown

Wu Tsang: visionary company

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces are forced to close again due…

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, Saddie Choua, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020, Photo: Fred Dott

Installation View #museumshutdown

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces are forced to close again due…

(clockwise) Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Keisha Lance-Bottoms, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi.

Michelle M. Wright: “We must take the long view”

The Day After the US Election/The US Election After the Day

Academic and cultural producer Michelle M. Wright reflects on the current political situation…

Yesomi Umolu. Photo: Nicolette Nunez.

Serpentine Galleries

Yesomi Umolu Is the New Director of Curatorial Affairs and Public Practice

Aimed at making Serpentine programmes more inclusive and accessible to all audiences, Yesomi…

Emo de Medeiros, Vodunaut #003 (Hyperceiver), 2018, motorcycle
helmet, cowries, spray paint, smartphone, HD video, 40 x 40 x 30
cm, courtesy of the artist

Gwangju Biennale

The 13th Gwangju Biennale 2021 Reveals List of Participants

The Artistic Directors of the 13th Gwangju Biennale, Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala,…

Archive, Installation view

Installation View #museumshutdown

1 Million Roses for Angela Davis

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces are forced to close again due…

Victor Odiba, Aisha Yesufu addressing an #EndSARS protest in Abuja, 2020. Courtesy the artist.

Nigeria: #EndSARS

The Art Behind the Protest

As the #EndSARS protests about police brutality in Nigeria gained momentum, from the…

Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, I was not a person, I was a place, 2020, gouache, watercolor, acrylic, cut paper, graphite, colored pencil, and airbrush on paper, sheet size 79.6 x 123.4 cm (31.3 x 48.5 inches), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin, Photo Andrea Ferrari

Installation View #museumshutdown

Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski: Said the Rainbow to the Grave

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces are forced to close again due…

Installation View of

Installation View #museumshutdown

Tadesse Mesfin: Pillars of Life

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces are forced to close again due…

Installation View

L’ESPACE

In Kigali a New Art Space Sets an Example

Andrew I. Kazibwe visited the newly launched L’ESPACE, which aims to redeem the…

Thebe Phetogo, blackbody Composite (In Protest), 2020.
Oil, acrylic, shoe polish and collage on canvas 45 x 60 in
114.3 x 152.4 cm

Thebe Phetogo: Blackbody Composites

The Blackbody Against the Green Screen

In his blackbody series, the Botswana artist Thebe Phetogo pulls references from his…

Tonia Nneji, Faith and Worry (Detail), 2020.
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches

In Conversation with Tonia Nneji

Raising Awareness about Women’s Health Through Art

C&’s Obidike Okafor speaks to Tonia Nneji about how her health has become…

Sindika Dokolo

In Memoriam

Sindika Dokolo (1972-2020)

Sindika Dokolo was one of the most important art collectors on the African…

Nina Chanel Abney, Imaginary Friend in Paris, 2020, augmented reality. Courtesy: Nina Chanel Abney and Acute Art.

In Conversation with Nina Chanel Abney

Catering to the Imaginary for a Real World

Our author Nelly Y. Pinkrah chatted with artist Nina Chanel Abney about her…

Image: Cauleen Smith. Photo: Dustin Aksland

Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize

Cauleen Smith Receives the 2020 Wein Artist Prize

Los Angeles-based, multidisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith, is the winner of the fifteenth annual…

Image from the #EndSARS protests captured by Grace Ekpu

ART X Lagos

ART X Lagos 2020 Will Be Postponed

The fifth edition of ART X Lagos was supposed to take place from…

Mupfure Church Hand, courtesy of the artist.

Marechera’s The House of Hunger

The Novel that Almost Shaped a Postmodern Postcolonial Africa

Artist Santiago Mostyn revisits The House of Hunger by Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera…

An assemblage depicting a couple pounding fufu while a child sits to the side. Photo: Kelvin Haizel

Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace

Agyeman Ossei’s Life Work

The retrospective at the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art in Tamale, Ghana reflects…

1-54 Forum – All Podcasts Online

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

1-54 Forum – All Podcasts Online

Curated by Yvette Mutumba and Julia Grosse, 1-54 Forum was engaging with creative…

Manuel Mathieu, The Remarkable Entrance (Detail), 180x160 cm, Mixed Media, 2019

In Conversation with Manuel Mathieu

On Vulnerability and Generosity – when I leave I will be measured by what I gave and not what I’ve taken

Haitian artist Manuel Mathieu talks about the strength he can draw from the…

Kapwani Kiwanga. Photo: Bertille Chérot

Prix Marcel Duchamp

Kapwani Kiwanga Is the Winner of the 2020 Marcel Duchamp Prize

This year, the Marcel Duchamp Prize was awarded to Paris-based Canadian artist Kapwani…

documenta 11 (2002), Museum Fridericianum main entrance, Kassel. Courtesy of document Archiv. Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz

Exhibition Histories

documenta 11

In 2002 the artistic direction of the Kassel documenta was awarded for the…

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe

In Conversation with Raphael Chikukwa

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe Plans to Digitize its Collection

Recently appointed executive director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Raphael Chikukwa talks…

Linda Givon (1936 – 2020)

In Memoriam

Linda Givon (1936 – 2020)

Founder of Goodman Gallery Linda Givon passed away on 6 October 2020.

GURUMBÉ: 
AFRO-ANDALOUISIAN MEMORIES, Filmstill. A film by Miguel Angel Rosales, Spain/Mexico/Portugal/Senegal, 2016, Documentary, 72 min.

Will Furtado on Global Diaspora

Broadening the Spectrum

Notes on how a wider scope of Blackness is taking center stage in mainstream media

The Third Print Issue of C&AL

Out Now!

The Third Print Issue of C&AL

Fresh from the press! The new Contemporary And América Latina (C&AL) Print issue…

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. Photo: Raisa Galofre

Verdienstorden of the State of Berlin

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Receives “Order of Merit” of Berlin

Founder and artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, is given…

Temitayo Ogunbiyi, “You will play in the everyday, running”, 2020. Courtesy the artist. Photo ©️ Amedeo Benestante.

In Conversation with Temitayo Ogunbiyi

A Playground for Social Justice

You will play in the everyday, running at the Madre Museum in Naples,…

Raphael Chikukwa

National Gallery of Zimbabwe

Raphael Chikukwa Is the new Executive Director at National Gallery of Zimbabwe

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe announced today the appointment of Raphael Chikukwa as…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Institutional Critique

When Artists Speak

Art has the power to speak or even “think” for us by giving…

Ebony L. Haynes, 2020. Photo: Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
Courtesy David Zwirner.

David Zwirner

Ebony L. Haynes Creates new Gallery With All-Black Staff in NYC

David Zwirner has hired Ebony L. Haynes as new director. She will create…

Hakeem Adam, Perpetual Productivity: I Am Not A Robot, Super Deep Media II, Hochschultag - Hochschule für Künste, Bremen. 2020. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Hakeem Adam

Being Receptive to the Outside and in Contact with the Inside

Trusting his subconscious to look beyond a singular language of expression, the Ghanaian…

Charl Landvreugd

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Charl Landvreugd Named Head of Research & Curatorial Practice at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Artist, researcher and exhibition maker Charl Landvreugd is appointed the new Stedelijk Museums'…

11th Berlin Biennale, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Resiliencia Tlacuache (Opossum Resilience), video, 2019. daadgalerie Berlin. Photo: Charles González

Installation View

11th Berlin Biennale: daadgalerie and ExRotaprint

This edition entitled The Crack Begins Within is a testament to the artists,…

1-54 Forum participating artist Enorê, Untitled self-arrangement (Detail), triptych, 1/3, digital image. Courtesy of the artist.

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

Exhibitors, Special Projects and 1-54 Forum Talks Programme for London 2020 Are Announced

From 8-10 October, 1-54 London brings together on site and online, 36 exhibitors…

Elisia Nghidishange in her studio, Courtesy of StArt Art Gallery.

Contemporary Namibian Art

Finding Power in Hidden Structures

In StArt Art's exhibition Finding Power, the work of artists Elisia Nghidishange, Nicky…

Renell Medrano, Sienna, 2019. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Antwaun Sargent

Tearing Down Borders Between Magazines and Museums

Still fresh from publishing his first edited photography book, The New Black Vanguard,…

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Kraszna-Krausz Foundation

LaToya Ruby Frazier Receives Photography Book Award

The 2020 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards goes to US-American photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier…

Townhouse Gallery Cairo.  Courtesy the gallery.

Townhouse Gallery Cairo

The End of Many Endings?

The Townhouse Gallery in Cairo is closing down again and continues its struggle…

Bartolina Xixa, Ramita seca la colonialidad permanente (Dry Twig, The Permanent Coloniality), video, 2019. Courtesy of Maximilano Mamani/Bartolina Xixa.

magazines

“Creating Art from a Precarious Position Is a Challenge and an Opportunity”

Maximiliano Mamani is an artist from the Argentinean Andes who gives life to…

Museo de la Solidaridad. 11th Berlin Biennale, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin. Photo: Charles González

Installation View

11th Berlin Biennale: Gropius Bau

This edition entitled The Crack Begins Within is a testament to the artists,…

Installation view 11th Berlin Biennale, KW Berlin. Photo: Charles González

Installation View

11th Berlin Biennale: KW Institute for Contemporary Art

This edition entitled The Crack Begins Within is a testament to the artists,…

© Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

Berlin Biennale

The Main Exhibition of the 11th Berlin Biennale Opened on 5th September

Curated by María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and Agustín Pérez Rubio the…

Akwasi Bediako Afrane, Screenshot of PC Game - TRONS Factory, 2020, Studio project of virtual TRONS in Unreal Engine environment, Image by Akwasi Bediako Afrane.

In Conversation with Akwasi Bediako Afrane

Becoming a Prosthesis to TRONS

By refashioning discarded electronic gadgets into “TRONS,” Akwasi Bediako Afrane gets to the…

© Photo Michael Armitage, Anna Kucera

Ruth Baumgarte Art Award

Michael Armitage Receives the 6th Ruth Baumgarte Art Award

For his colourful, large-format oil paintings, Michael Armitage wins one of the most…

Nicolas Premier, Africa is the Future, 2020. Filmstill. Courtesy the artist.

Africa is the Future

Nicolas Premier is Reconsidering Visual Narratives

Africa is the Future radically challenges the ways in which the continent’s past,…

German Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music

A New Museum Is in Town!

For ten days, Frankfurt opens a new Museum dedicated to Black culture with…

Renee Gladman, One Long Black Sentence, 2020. Courtesy and © Renee Gladman and Image Text Ithaca Press

One Long Black Sentence

Queering the Line with Renee Gladman & Fred Moten

nan collymore dives into the still and sophic work of Renee Gladman.

Alberta Whittle. Image courtesy of Matthew A William.

Frieze Artist Award

Alberta Whittle Wins Frieze Artist Award 2020

Glasgow-based artist, researcher and curator Alberta Whittle is named the recipient of the…

Joshua Chiundiza, Bones and Dual Tones, 2018. Photographer: Zivangai Matangi

Digital Arts

Towards New Metaphors of Consciousness

The notion of non-human consciousness is reemerging in the process of reimagining African…

Hungarofuturism Manifesto

Eastern Europe’s new liberation movement

Hungarofuturism and its Parallels with Afrofuturism

North American artivist Mia Imani Harrison meets a new self-declared liberation movement in…

Finalists for Future Generation Art Prize 2021

Shortlist Announced

Finalists for Future Generation Art Prize 2021

PinchukArtCentre announces the artists shortlist for the 6th edition of the Future Generation…

Installation view of Tendances et Confrontations, Palais de Justice, Dakar 1966. In the front

Exhibition Histories

Tendances et Confrontations

With its eclectic approach the exhibition Tendances et Confrontations from 1966 provided snapshots…

Jackie Karuti. Photo by Tõnis Saadoja

Henrike Grohs Art Award

Jackie Karuti Receives the 2020 Henrike Grohs Art Award

The Nairobi based new media artist Jackie Karuti is the second recipient of…

1-54 London Takes Place in October 2020

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

1-54 London Takes Place in October 2020

Despite the cancellation of Frieze London and Frieze Masters due to Covid-19, the…

Sylvia Arthur in her Library in Accra. Photo: Serine Mekoun

Inside the Library

Library of Africa and the African Diaspora, Accra

(FR) C& s’intéresse régulièrement aux collections de livres abritant des publications rares. Cette fois, il est question de la LOATAD à Accra.

​Shannon Tamara Lewis, Too Fast Ones: We Stole These Heads I, 2019.
Oil on Linen, 2m x 2m. Photo: Guillaume Baeriswyl, Konkord Photography. Courtesy of Les Urbaines Festival

Digital Strokes

The Fantasy of Aspiration in the Paintings of Shannon Tamara Lewis

Olamiju Fajemisin speaks to Shannon Tamara Lewis about her painted assemblages of limbs…

Photo: Paper Monday

The California African American Museum

Taylor Renee Aldridge Joins the CAAM Staff

The California African American Museum announces curator and writer Taylor Renee Aldridge as…

Ahmed Cherakoui, exhibition of works at the Krzywe Koło Gallery, Warsaw, 1961, collection Nourdine Cherkaoui. Courtesy of Zacheta.

Polish-Moroccan Artistic Relations

When Ahmed Cherkaoui Ignited Artistic Exchanges in Warsaw

An exhibition reflects on the experience of a Morocco’s leading modernist painter in…

Oluwatoyin Salau by yungjake

Black Internet

yungjake: The Artist Memorializing Black Lives with Emoji Portraits

As emojis have begun to reflect our identities, Los Angeles artist and rapper…

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

Installation View

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…

On Anti-Blackness: An Open Letter to Swiss Institutions

In Conversation with Deborah Joyce Holman and Jasmine Gregory

On Anti-Blackness: An Open Letter to Swiss Institutions

We spoke to two of the 50 Black artists and cultural workers in…

Meschac Gaba, Glo-Balloon, 2013. Ballon gonflable. Courtesy Stevenson. Photo: Philippe De Gobert

No Justice No Peace

WE ARE.

In this current moment, which ferociously amplifies the uncertainty, pain, and disruption caused…

Hilaire Balu Kuyangiko. Diagnostic de nos Consciences (Detail), 2019. Courtesy of the Artist.

Vision Totale

How an Art Collective Determines its Modes of Production

The Kinshasa based collective Vi.To shares a common practice and an understanding of…

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

Installation View

Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective

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

Art gallery empty 3d room with white walls, illumination lamps and blank banners hang around perimeter. Museum interior for presentation, photography contest exhibition hall, Realistic vector mock up

#changethemuseum

Hypocrisis

Countless voices of persons currently working in the cultural field find a platform…

Sinthujan Varatharajah & Osías Yanov, from Affect Archives. Courtesy of Berlin Biennale

Berlin Biennale

The 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art Reveals Participants

Artists from all over the world will exhibit their works in Berlin beginning…

Odete Semedo in the film Quantum Creole, Filipa César, 2020. Courtesy the artist

C& Print Issue #11: CONSCIOUS CODES, ANYONE?

The Digital Has Been Around for a While

The history of technology is inseparable from the history of Africans. From the…

Vincent Rumahloine, The Exchange, 2018. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Courtesy the artist.

Over the Radar

Vincent Rumahloine: The Memory Collector

Despite having had limited cultural exchange, the continent of Africa and the region…

Laura Nsengiyumva, Peopl, 2018. Installation view at Nuit Blanche BXL 2018. The immense ice sculpture was meant to melt throughout this event to reflect on the slowly but gradually mental decolonisation process.

No Justice No Peace

WE ARE.

In this current moment, which ferociously amplifies the uncertainty, pain, and disruption caused…

Alberta Whittle: How Flexible Can We Make the Mouth, installation view, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2019. Photo: Ruth Clark.

Turner Prize 2020

Tate Britain Announces Ten Recipients Of Turner Bursaries

Tate Britain announced the ten artists who will each receive one-off £10,000 bursaries…

Sophie-Charlotte Opitz, Digital storm (2019)

Visions of Cultural Journalism

In a Hypermediatized World

Enos Nyamor explores the visions of cultural journalism in a hypermediatized world.

Mohamed Melehi, Calligraphique, 2020.

Africa Unite

Auction to Support Contemporary Artists from Africa

Made possible by a real surge of solidarity among well-known artists from Africa,…

Installation view Frida Orupabo, Untitled, 2020, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © Contemporary And, photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, Cologne / Nina Siefke

HERE AND NOW: Frida Orupabo

Understanding the Self through Depictions of the Black Female Body

Having formed her visual language after discovering the internet in her twenties, Frida…

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

Installation View

HERE AND NOW at Mu­se­um Lud­wig – Dy­nam­ic Spaces

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

Bob-Nosa Uwagboe, A drawing from the Human Merchandise Series, 2019. Acrylic on water color paper.

Bob-Nosa Uwagboe

A Protest Artist in Transit

Caught up in Poland’s COVID-19 lockdown, Bob-Nosa Uwagboe opened his solo exhibition on…

Köln, Museum Ludwig, Sammlung Fotografie, Inv.-Nr. ML/F 2013/0074 (PJ-11494), Free Huey Rally/ Kathleen Cleaver and Black Panthers, Bobby Hutton Memorial Park, Oakland, CA, Aufnahme: 1968.09.22, 2012, Silbergelatine, 40,64 x 50,80 & 50,88 x 71,12 (mit Rahmen) cm

In Conversation with Janice Mitchell

Why German Museums Need to Catch Up

A museum’s collection mirrors power: it shows the taste and assessment of directors…

Photo: C&

OUT NOW!

C& Print Issue #11: Conscious Codes, Anyone?

This first C& print edition of 2020 focuses on digital arts and their…

ruangrupa: lumbung drawing, image: Iswanto Hartono, 2020

documenta 15

ruangrupa Reveals Curatorial Practice and First Members for documenta fifteen

The Jakarta-based collective ruangrupa announces lumbung as their curatorial practice for document fifteen,…

David Alabo, Dream Bubble, 2019. Digital Art Print. Courtesy the artist

C& Print Issue #11: Conscious Codes, Anyone?

Black Mirrors and Afro-Surrealism with David Alabo

Read the first text from our new Print Issue #11 entitled Conscious Codes,…

 Sambiência, Juliana dos Santos, 2018, (credits: Gabriel Oliveira) originally featured in

Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone

The Forgotten Social History of International Blackness

For people of Black African heritage, identifying with Blackness is the glue that…

Berlin Biennale Postpones Exhibition to Fall 2020

11th Berlin Biennale

Berlin Biennale Postpones Exhibition to Fall 2020

The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art announces a new exhibition period for the…

Justine Gaga, Labyrint, 2016 - ongoing. 15 x 20 mtr x 4 mte II.

sonsbeek20→24

sonsbeek Announces Artist List and New Date

sonsbeek has revealed the artists and a number of participants that will contribute…

Yvette Mutumba. Photo: Benjamin Renter.             Adam Scymzcyk. Photo Marie Haefner / PW-Magazine.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Yvette Mutumba and Adam Szymczyk Announced as Curators-at-large

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam announces the appointment of C&'s very own Yvette Mutumba…

Black Futurism & Technologies of Joy

In Conversation with Rasheedah Phillips

Black Futurism & Technologies of Joy

How can positive futurity concepts and sustainable technologies of joy be developed that…

Nkiruka Oparah, SUOON, Tile 1 (Detail), 2020. Courtesy the artist.

HERE AND NOW: Nkiruka Oparah

How to Shape-shift in an Intersectional Digital World

Nkiruka Oparah is a non-binary artist, writer, and curator working with multiple mediums…

Find Here a List of Freedom Funds and Mutual Aid Networks in the US

Arts.Black

Find Here a List of Freedom Funds and Mutual Aid Networks in the US

Taylor Aldridge and Jessica Lynne from Arts.Black, a journal of art criticism from…

Installation View, Exhibition Bergen Assembly 2019. The creators of Oi! (Arsiema Z. Medhanie, Ayan Mohamed Moalim Abdulle, Cynthia Njoki Kangethe, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Gift H. Solhaug, Hamisi Adam Moshi, Hinda Sheikh Ibrahim Farah, Malebona Maphutse, Mamadee King Kabba, Naomi Niyo Bazira, Omar Farah, Sheila Feruzi Kassim, Shelmith Mwenesi Øseth, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Sufian Mulumba), Oi!, 2019. Risograph prints on paper, dimensions variable.

The Nordics: Out of the Shadows

Is There Room for All of Us?

Norway portrays itself as an open, liberal, and tolerant country, says C& writer…

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

Installation view #museumshutdown

Meleko Mokgosi: Your Trip to Africa

Hundreds of independent art and museum spaces were forced to close due to…

Oscar Murillo, Oscar Murillo Zhang Enli, 2019 at chi K11 art museum. Courtesy Tate London. Oscar Murillo is one of the four winners of the Turner Prize 2019.

Turner Prize 2020

Tate Cancels Turner Prize 2020 and Announces ‘Turner Bursaries’

In response to the current COVID-19 crisis, Tate Britain announced that the this…

Emma Amos at the Art Salon Show, 1979. Courtesy Ryan Lee Gallery.

In Memoriam

Emma Amos (1937-2020)

Painter, printmaker, and weaver Emma Amos has passed away at 83 after a…

The American Academy in Berlin Announced Fellows

Berlin Prize 2020/21

The American Academy in Berlin Announced Fellows

The American Academy in Berlin has awarded Berlin Prizes—semester-long residential fellowships—to twenty-two scholars,…

Christian Nyampeta, Sometimes It Was Beautiful, 2018. Film Still.

In Conversation with Christian Nyampeta

How to Live Together

Recently awarded the European Union Prize at the 12th Rencontres de Bamako, Christian…

When Water Becomes a Screen

Modes of Belonging

When Water Becomes a Screen

Few concepts speak of the personal as political as well as the ideas…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

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

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Photo, Facebook profile of Afronova. Emilie Demon and Henri Vergon. © Jodi Bieber for Madame Figaro

In memoriam

Afronova Founder Henri Vergon Passed Away

Henri Vergon of Johannesburg gallery Afronova has passed away this week. In 2016…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

George Hallett: sound . text . image

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

Accomplice: Michael Armitage

Hundreds of independent art and museum spaces were forced to close due to…

Emeka Okereke, Light Switch, 2015. Printed on Canson rag photographic 40 x 60 cm © Emeka Okereke

Lumières d’Afriques

Light in Times of Growing Uncertainty

The touring exhibition Lumières d’Afrique stops off in Johannesburg amid a global pandemic…

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.

Installation View #museumshutdown

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

Hundreds of independent art and museum spaces were forced to close due to…

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

Installation view #museumshutdown

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

Hundreds of independent art and museum spaces were forced to close due to…

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

Installation view #museumshutdown

Femmes sans tabous

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Leticia Contreras, Estría Sagrada. Vertigios Preciosos (Sacred Striation, Precious Traces) installation view. Project Row Houses, Round 49: Penumbras: Sacred Geometries, 2019. Photo by Alex Barber.

In Conversation

Leticia Contreras on Art in the Age of Social Emergency

Texan native Leticia Contreras builds landscapes in her art. To C& she spoke about the exchange and her role as an artist, activist, and teacher.

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

Installation view #museumshutdown

Gareth Nyandoro: Ruwa

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Find Here a List of Resources for Artist in Need

Artist Support

Find Here a List of Resources for Artist in Need

We've compiled a list of grants offering support to artists in need during…

Sasha Huber, Glacier I (left) and Glacier II (right), 2020. Installation View at Lokal Helsinki. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Katja Hagelstam/LOKAL

The Nordics: Out of the Shadows

Sasha Huber: Honoring Lost Memories

Despite their colonial history, the Nordic countries don’t have as large communities of…

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

Installation view #museumshutdown

LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Ifitry Residency. Photo credit: Biennale Internationale de Casablanca

COVID19

The 5th International Biennale of Casablanca Posponed to 2021

The International Biennale of Casablanca has announced new dates for its fifth edition…

Adji Dieye, Maggic Cube. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Adji Dieye

The Symbolisms of Seasoning

Adji Dieye is a transmedia artist living and working between Zurich, Milan, and…

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

Installation view #museumshutdown

Dawoud Bey: An American Project

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Bamako Reaffirms its Place as a Photographic Hub

States of Mobility

Bamako Reaffirms its Place as a Photographic Hub

Mobility in the arts, geographical or otherwise, is often seen as almost a…

Myriam Ben Salah. Photo: Nicolas Cottong

The Ren at the University of Chicago

Myriam Ben Salah appointed as Executive Director and Chief Curator

The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago has announced Tunisian curator and…

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

Installation view #museumshutdown

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

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Team (Detail), 2020. Oil on canvas 150 x 150cm © Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Photo: Nina Lieska

Virtual Dialoguing and Soliloquizing

Intimacy and Exposure in an Age of Lockdown

Covid-19 has undoubtedly already changed everyone’s lives. What the future holds, no one…

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

Installation view #museumshutdown

Minia Biabiany: I killed the butterfly in my ear

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Josiah Tongogara as a young activist in Zambia. Installation view at Zimbabwe National Art Gallery. Photo: Tinashe Muchuri

Freedom in the Eyes of Josiah Tongogara

Portrait with Missing Childhood

The exhibition Freedom in the eyes of Josiah Tongogara at Zimbabwe’s National Gallery…

Dannielle Bowman, Untitled (Hand), 2019. Detail. From the series What had happened. © Dannielle Bowman

Aperture Portfolio Prize 2020

Dannielle Bowman is the Winner of the Aperture Portfolio Prize 2020

Aperture finds that Dannielle Bowman's photography about the neighborhoods in and around the…

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

Installation view #museumshutdown

Mohammad Omar Khalil: Homeland Under My Nails

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Installation view digital exhibition at Mahagony Culture, 2020.

place

Mahogany Culture Collective

Thó Simões. Installation view at Fuckin’Globo 2020.

Installation view #museumshutdown

Fuckin’ Globo 2020: In the discomfort zone

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

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

Installation view #museumshutdown

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

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Zineb Sedira, The Lovers, 2008
© the artist/DACS, London and courtesy kamel mennour, Paris/London

States of Mobility

Between Two Worlds

Mobility in the arts, geographical or otherwise, is often seen as almost a…

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

Installation view #museumshutdown

Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Installation view digital exhibition at Mahagony Culture, 2020.

Installation view #museumshutdown

What Is ‘Contemporary’ Caribbean Culture

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Courtesy of Kabelo Malatsie.

In Conversation with Kabelo Malatsie

Deliberation and Discursive Terrain

This year's artistic directors of the Yokohama Triennale, Raqs Media Collective, invited Lantian…

Kiluanji Kia Henda: Memorial to Enslaved People, Lisbon. Foto: Kiluanji Kia Henda

In Conversation with Beatriz Dias

Memorial in Lisbon: Recovering History That Was Made Invisible

"Plantation – Prosperity and Nightmare,” a project by the Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia…

Ivy Mutuku, Practicing my serve. Courtesy the artist.

Over the Radar

Ivy Mutuku: “The world hasn’t tasted the sauce we have yet!”

Despite having had limited cultural exchange, the continents of Africa and Oceania are…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

Adiskidan Ambaye: Liberty

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

B7L9 Art Station, La Marsa, Tunis

place

B7L9 Art Station

Mania Akbari & Douglas White Installation (Detail)

place

V.O Curations

Rahima Gambo, from the series

States of Mobility

The Movement of People and Art on the Continent

Mobility in the arts, geographical or otherwise, is often seen as almost a…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

James Barnor: A Retrospective

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Art on the wall by Anedu Edozie From left: Savings, Old Money, Polaroid I & Polaroid II, 2019.

In Conversation with Oyinkansola Dada

POLARTICS Is the Gallery Creating Art Ecosystems in Africa

Initiated as a publication that merged politics and art, POLATRICS has evolved into…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

Kara Walker: Fons Americanus

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Tony Albert, David C Collins and Kieran Lawson 'Warakurna Superheroes #1', 2017. Archival pigment print on paper, 100 x 150 cm. Courtesy of Sullivan+Strumpf

Over the Radar

Tony Albert: “My work looks at optimism in the face of adversity”

Despite having had limited cultural exchange, the continents of Africa and Oceania are…

Sola Olulode, Close To You, 2019.

Digital Strokes

Depictions of Queer Black Love for the Digital Age

A new generation of young painters in Europe are using internet languages to…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

Codes of Coupling – Group Show

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Numero Unoma, Reach for the stars, 112×76cm mixed media (acrylic, aquarelle & oil pastel) on cotton paper, 2017. Courtesy the artist and SMO Contemporary Art.

States of Mobility

The Politics of Belonging

Mobility in the arts, geographical or otherwise, is often seen as almost a…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

Re: Zacharaha Magasa and Zanele Mutema

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

Dawit L. Petros: Spazio Disponibile

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

22nd Biennale of Sydney – NIRIN

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Emory Douglas, Paper Boy, 1969. Black Panther Poster. Courtesy of the artist

States of Mobility

Showing Solidarity Beyond Borders 

Mobility in the arts, geographical or otherwise, is often seen as almost a…

Nasan Tur and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. Courtesy Roman Goebel for weißensee academy of art berlin.

weissensee school of art and design

New Post-Graduate Program With New Professors Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Nasan Tur

Curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and artist Nasan Tur are the new professors…

View of Camille Dumond's

Installation View #museumshutdown

Camille Dumond: Eye archive

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Reshma Chhiba, Mother Tongues, 2020. Photo: Ashraf Jamal

Tomorrow There Will Be More Of Us

The Materiality of South Africa’s Stellenbosch Triennale

For its inaugural edition, the Stellenbosch Triennale in South Africa invited 20 artists…

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.

Installation View #museumshutdown

Mawande Ka Zenzile: Udludlilali

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

How To Disappear

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Meschac Gaba, Citoyen du Monde, 2012. Courtesy Meschac Gaba, Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Galerie In Situ, Paris © Meschac Gaba

Covid19-Comment

WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER NOW

C& is in solidarity with all the artists, independent curators, writers, other cultural…

Untitled #1, from the series, Mama's Clothes, 2015, by Keisha Scarville. Courtesy of the artist.

States of Mobility

Those Who Leave and Those Who Are Left

Mobility in the arts, geographical or otherwise, is often seen as almost a…

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
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Installation View #museumshutdown

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

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Exterior of Zoma Museum.

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Zoma Museum

Office Detail of RM Gallery & Project Space

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RM Gallery & Project Space

StArt Art Offices featuring works by: Barbara Böhlke, Elisia Nghidishange, Lynette Diergaardt and Nicky Marais.

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StArt Art Gallery

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

HAVE YOU SEEN A HORIZON LATELY?

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

John Akomfrah, exhibition, Secession, Vienna, 2020

Installation View #museumshutdown

John Akomfrah

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

Leila Alaoui

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Tiago Sant’Ana, Passar em Branco, 2016. Courtesy of Artist

Art Dubai 2020

Art Dubai Announced New Digital Programme

Given the evolving global situation and updated official guidelines around public gatherings, the…

Guy Wouete, 'Next Week', Multimedia-Installation, 2010. © Guy Wouete

States of Mobility

“The passport that does not pass ports”

Mobility in the arts, geographical or otherwise, is often seen as almost a…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

Beyond the Black Atlantic

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

Stan Douglas: Splicing Block

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

1-54 New York Postponed

Covid19

1-54 New York Postponed

In view of the current health crisis, 1-54 decided to postpone the forthcoming…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

Sonia Elizabeth Barrett: Sky

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

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

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

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

Installation View #museumshutdown

Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

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.

Installation View #museumshutdown

FotoFest Biennial Houston – African Cosmologies

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…

Ryan N. Dennis. Photo by Naima Green

The Mississippi Museum of Art

Ryan N. Dennis Named Chief Curator and Artistic Director of the Center for Art & Public Exchange

The Mississippi Museum of Art announced Ryan N. Dennis as the new chief…

The Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, 2019. Courtesy the YSMA.

The Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art

An Educational Collection

Four years ago, Africa's biggest art collector, Prince Yemisi Shyllon, started the process…

(From left to right) Larry Ossei-Mensah, Omsk Social Club, Poka-Yio. Photo: Nysos Vasilopoulos

7th Athens Biennale

Athens Biennale Announced Larry Ossei-Mensah as Co-Curator

Under the artistic direction of Poka-Yio, Larry Ossei-Mensah and Omsk Social Club will…

First AWARE Prize goes to June Edmonds

The Armory Show

First AWARE Prize goes to June Edmonds

Paris-based artist June Edmonds has been selected out of five finalists for the…

Enuma Okoro at Literature Salon, AFRƎEculture 2020,  Marrakech. Photo: Ebony Siovhan

AFRƎEculture Marrakech 2020

Reinterpreting the Salon Marocain

Meryanne Loum-Martin calls AFRƎEculture an “homage to the Black Diaspora.” But the cultural…

Bandjoun Station. Courtesy of Barthélémy Toguo

Giving Back to the Continent

Bandjoun Art Station: The Importance of a Peripheral Institution in Cameroon

The number of artists from the African Diaspora who enjoy considerable success in…

(left) Cindy Sissokho.Photo: Richard Chung;  (right) Soukaina Aboulaoula. Photo: Btihal Remli

International Biennale of Casablanca

Cindy Sissokho and Soukaina Aboulaoula Appointed as Associate Curators

Running from 24th September to 1st November 2020 under the artistic direction of Christine…

Epokä

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Epokä

AFRƎEculture founders Meryanne Loum-Martin (left) and Mashariki Williamson. Photo: Ebony Siovhan.

Dedicated to African Creativity

New Platform AFRƎEculture Launches in Marrakech

AFRƎEculture is a new cultural platform founded by Meryanne Loum-Martin and Mashariki Williamson.…

Sanford Biggers - Object
Khemetstry, 2017
Antique quilt, birch plywood, gold leaf.
Consisting of two elements, hung on the wall with custom cleats. Photo Credit: Khemetstry, © Sanford Biggers and Marianne Boesky Gallery. Photograph by Object Studies.

In Conversation with Sanford Biggers

The Many Faces of Sanford Biggers

Though cerebral and multilayered, Sanford Biggers work moves easily from medium to medium.…

Book of Dreams; photo: Serine Mekoun

Inside the Library

Café Congo, Brussels

Take a look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer…

Sonia Boyce by Paul Cochrane. Courtesy of UAL

59th Venice Biennale

Sonia Boyce to Represent the UK at the Venice Biennale

She will be the first black woman to represent the country at the…

Santu Mofokeng, A Roadside Sign in Tshwane, Marabastad / Hammanskraal, 2008. From Billboard series (1991-2009).

Santu Mofokeng (1956-2020)

In Complicity with a Great Documenter

In 2019 young South African curator Thato Mogotsi had been invited by the…

magazines

Black (Art) History Month

To celebrate Black History Month we rummaged through our archive and found all…

LaToya Ruby Frazier. Photo: Steve Benisty. Courtesy the artist.

Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Prize

LaToya Ruby Frazier Wins Inaugural Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize

For her commitment to use photography as a powerful tool for advancing social…

Antwaun Sargent. Courtesy Paris Photo.

Paris Photo New York

Paris Photo New York Appoints Antwaun Sargent as Guest Curator

The international photography art fair Paris Photo announces New York-based art critic and…

David Koloane, Installation View at Iziko South African National Gallery.

A Resilient Visionary

The Visual Journey of David Koloane through History’s City

Last summer the Iziko South African National Gallery hosted a retrospective of the…

Ata Ndele Mokili (Tôt ou tard le monde changera). Monsengo Shula, 2014, Acryl und Pailletten auf Leinwand, 130 x 200 cm. Sammlung Henri und Farida Seydoux

Rietberg Museum Zurich

Congo as Fiction – Fiction as an Objective

European museums today can hardly avoid addressing the histories of their objects. Which…

Ima Abasi Okon at Chisenhale Gallery. Photo Andy Keate

BALTIC Artists’ Award 2020

Ima-Abasi Okon Announced as a Winner of the Baltic Artists’ Award 2020

Among Laleh Khorramian and Fernando García-Dory, Otobong Nkanga selected Ima-Abasi Okon as winner…

Santu Mofokeng, Rister Mkansi in the family kitchen Dan location, Tzaneen, Limpopo, South Africa Black and white, 35mm film, 2007.

Santu Mofokeng (1956 -2020)

A Vision from a Mystical Source

The late Santu Mofokeng was one of the few artists who managed to…

Anthony Bumhira, Dhoyilisi Generation (2018), Detail. Mixed media, 190 x 180 cm. Photo courtesy of Zeitz MOCCA.

In Memoriam

Anthony Bumhira (1985–2020)

The Zimbabwean artist Anthony Bumhira passed away in January 2020. He was remarkable…

Photographer: Henry Chan - Location: Dinner between Rashid Johnson's Anxious Audiences at the Power Plant Gallery - 2019

Black Curators Forum Toronto

A Black Curator is Never Just a Curator

The first Black Curators Forum took place in Toronto, Canada, towards the end…

Santu Mofokeng (1956-2020)

In Memoriam

Santu Mofokeng (1956-2020)

South African photographer Santu Mofokeng passed away. He died at age 63 in…

Anthony Ayodele Obayomi. Image © Joseph Obanubi

Taurus Prize for Visual Arts

Anthony Ayodele Obayomi receives 2019-20 Taurus Prize for Visual Arts

Lagos-based artist and designer Anthony Ayodele Obayomi wins the Visual Art Prize awarded…

Zoe Whitley © James Gifford-Mead

Chisenhale Gallery

Zoé Whitley Named Director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery

Zoe Whitley is one of the leading US curators working in the UK.…

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…

Installation view, Sandra Mujinga, SONW – Shadow of New Worlds, Bergen Kunsthall, 2019.

The Nordics: Out of the Shadows

Manoeuvring Through the Dark with Sandra Mujinga

Despite its colonial history, the Nordics don’t have large communities of people of…

© Evaan Kheraj. Image courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner (CNW Group/National Gallery of Canada)

La Biennale di Venezia in 2021

Stan Douglas to represent Canada in Venice 2021

The National Gallery of Canada announced that Vancouver-based artist Stan Douglas will represent…

Yinka Shonibare MBE. Courtesy Goodman Gallery.

G.A.S. Foundation

Yinka Shonibare Announces New Artist Residency in Nigeria

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare has announced a new Artist Residency project, Guest Artists…

Heba Y. Amin, Operation Sunken Sea: Relocating the Mediterranean, Inaugural Speech, 2018. One channel video 18'21'' . Photo courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation with Heba Y. Amin

Understanding the Contemporary Condition via Historical Megalomania

Connecting Europe and Africa by draining the Mediterranean Sea might sound like a…

Ebun A. Sodipo, although it may seem absurd, the earth also moves, Performance. Courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation with Ebun A. Sodipo

Challenging Epistemologies with Fragmented Prose

Resisting theoretical power structures via fragmented text, Ebun A. Sodipo’s work provides intimate…

(Clockwise) Charl Landvreugd, Performance “movt nr. 9: Holland Mijn Mars”, 2017. Photo credit: Aad Hoogendoorn for Witte de With; François Knoetze: Core Dump, Dakar featuring Bamba Diangne, Film still: Anton Scholtz, 2018. Courtesy François Knoetze; Felicia Abban. Self Portrait IV (Detail); Ja’Tovia Gary, Image from Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), 2018. Courtesy the artist.

The Year in Review

C&’s Top Articles of 2019

A lot has been happening... and there’s more to come. We are looking…

Portrait Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide. 
Photo: Martha Stroo

Van Abbemuseum

Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide is new Exhibitions Curator

The Van Abbemuseum announces the appointment of Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide…

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

Installation View

Crossing Night: Regional Identities x Global Context

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

Fondation Donwahi Abidjan  @Franck Fanny 2017

In Conversation with Illa Donwahi

Enabling Art in Challenging Environments

In just over ten years Illa Donwahi has transformed her family home in…

Amelia Umuhire, King Who, 2019. Video. Photo: Ronald L. Jones

Show Me Your Shelves!

Amelia Umuhire: Unpacking Hidden Rwandese Stories

Show Me Your Shelves! was a two-city exhibition featuring Black artists from Germany…

Florine Démosthène, Installation view

In Conversation with Florine Démosthène

Challenging the Self to Redefine the Canon

Démosthène’s contemporary take on the body – in the form of multi-media paintings…

The Second Edition of the C& América Latina (C&AL) Print Issue

Out Now!

The Second Edition of the C& América Latina (C&AL) Print Issue

Fresh from the press! The new C& América Latina Print issue is out…

Tay Butler, RE.Migrant 2.5. Photo: Ronald L. Jones

Show Me Your Shelves!

Tay Butler: Connecting to the Past via Fiction

Show Me Your Shelves! was a two-city exhibition featuring Black artists from Germany…

Monetta White. Courtesy of Museum of the African Diaspora

Museum of the African Diaspora

Monetta White Appointed Executive Director

The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco announces Monetta White…

Amsatou Diallo, Scènes de vie, 2017-ongoing, Digital photo-collage, Courtesy the artist.

African Biennale of Photography

Les Rencontres de Bamako Awards 8 Prizes

The awards of the 12th edition go to Khalil Nemmaoui, Amina Ayman Kadous,…

Turner Prize 2019 nominees, (L-R) Oscar Murillo, Tai Shani, Helen Cammock and Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Stuart Wilson/Getty Images for Turner Contemporary)

A Statement of Solidarity

Turner Prize 2019 Will Be Split Between All Four Nominees

At their request, the prize will be split evenly by Lawrence Abu Hamdan,…

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

Installation view

Recontres de Bamako II

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

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

Installation view

Rencontres de Bamako

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

Mihaela Cîmpeanu, SOMNUL - memoria inconștientă a Holocaustului, 2019. SLEEP – The uncounscious memory of the Holocaust, 2019 . Mixed media, plaster, iron and foam, 230 x 220 x 80 cm. Photo credit Kunsthalle Bega

lay me down across the lines

Invisible Connections of Feminism

In the recently opened Kunsthalle Bega, young Romanian artists demonstrate how to connect…

Duduzile (DuduBloom) More. Courtesy Candice Berman Gallery

Cassirer Welz Award 2019

Johannesburg Artist Duduzile More Wins 9th Edition

Among three other finalists Duduzile (DuduBloom) More received this year’s Cassirer Welz Award…

Courtesy of Ghetto Heaven Collective.

#Seattle with Ghetto Heaven Collective

Radical Collectivity II

For part two of this series, Mia Harrison has interviewed Fairygawdzad and Joy…

Ken Nwadiogbu Awarded as Outstanding Young Artist

Future Awards Africa for Visual and Applied Arts 2019

Ken Nwadiogbu Awarded as Outstanding Young Artist

Nigerian artist Ken Nwadiogbu, has won the Future Awards Africa for the Visual…

Denise Murrell. Courtesy Wallach Columbia.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Denise Murrell New Curator for 19th- and 20th-Century Art

Denise Murrell is new associated curator for 19th- and 20th-century art at the…

Image Courtesy of ScumTrust.

#Seattle with Cura Club, Playthey and ScumTrust

Radical Collectivity

Known for the invention of Starbucks, its deep nostalgia for grunge, and a…

Curator Ashley James. Courtesy Guggenheim Museum.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Ashley James named Associate Curator for Contemporary Art

Ashley James is the first Black Curator in Guggenheims 80-year-history! She comes to…

Kevin Beasley, Your face is / is not enough, 2016. Performance view: Liverpool Biennial, July 14, 2018
© Kevin Beasley. Photo: Pete Carr, courtesy Casey Kaplan, New York

2020 Hugo Boss Prize

Guggenheim announces Short List

Kevin Beasley, Deana Lawson, and Elias Sime are among the six artists who…

Detroit movement artist Jennifer Harge engaged the Parkman Library through performative reading groups for youth and adults. Harge activated texts by authors Virginia Hamilton, Saidiyah Hartman, alexispauline gumbs, and Audre Lorde through group discussions and movementresponses.

SHOW ME YOUR SHELVES!

Jennifer Harge: The Home as a Site of Pleasure

Show Me Your Shelves! is a two-city exhibition featuring Black artists from Germany…

Joana Choumali, from the series ça va aller, 2019. Courtesy the artist.

Prix Pictet 2019

Joana Choumali wins Global Award in Photography and Sustainability

On the evening of Wednesday 13th November, the Director of the Museum, Tristram…

(left) Felwine Sarr by Antoine Tempé. (right) Thelma Golden by Julie Skarratt.

ArtReview Power 100

ArtReview revealed the most influential people in contemporary art

Academic Felwine Sarr and Studio Museum Director Thelma Golden are among the top…

Graphics: Petra Schramm (Berlin, 1989). Photo: Benjamin Renter

C& Print Issue Another 89

Paving Ways

Raja Lubinetzki is an East German-born poet and artist. Diane Izabiliza sees a…

James Barnor, Odwira Procession outside of Deo Gratis Studio, Accra, c.1976

New Arts Apace and Extended Campus

Nubuke Foundation reopens with photographic exhibition by James Barnor: ‘A Retrospective’

Designed by architects, Baerbel Mueller and Juergen Strohmayer, the space now comprises of…

Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni (2018 Tierney Fellow), Ukugrumba. An exhibition part of the Market Photo Workshop’s 30th Anniversary Celebrations “The Homecoming 30”.

In Conversation with Ismail Mahomed

The Visionary Art Schools of South Africa

Two arts educational projects in South Africa have been providing Black students with…

AfriCobra 50 (installation view), 2018, Courtesy of Kavi Gupta.

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Kavi Gupta Gallery

Sepake Angiama, Artistic Director Iniva.

Institute for International Visual Arts London

Iniva introduces Sepake Angiama as new Artistic Director

Iniva announces the appointment of their new Artistic Director, Sepake Angiama. Sepake will…

Betye Saar in her studio in Los Angeles, CA. March 1st, 2019. Photo by ©David Sprague 2019

Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2020

Visual Artist Betye Saar receives Wolfgang Hahn Prize

Betye Saar will be awarded the twenty-sixth Wolfgang Hahn Prize from the Gesellschaft…

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”.

Julia Grosse (left) and Yvette Mutumba (right), 2019. Photo: Benjamin Renter

IDEAT Award 2019

C& to receive first IDEAT Award

C& founders and editors-in-chief Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba receive the first IDEAT…

The 2020 Standard Bank Young Artists (left to right) Jefferson Tshabalala (Theatre), Sisonke Xonti (Jazz), Lulu Mlangeni (Dance), Blessing Ngobeni (Visual Art) and Nthatho Mokgata (Music).

Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2020

Visual Artist Blessing Ngobeni among the Winners

The winners for the Standard Bank Young Artists Award 2020 are Blessing Ngobeni…

Okwui Enwezor, photo by Chika Okeke-Agulu.

Sharjah Biennial 15

Sharjah Art Foundation announces late Okwui Enwezor as curator

Okwui Enwezor's final exhibition will open in Sharjah in 2021. The 15th Sharjah…

(From left to right) Ricardo Rodríguez Brey, Tomás Esson Reid, Zaida de Río, Joel Jovert Llenderosos, Ciro Quintana Gutiérrez, Neo Rauch, Klaus Killisch. As part of the exhibition Young Artists of the GDR and Cuba, 1989. Photo: Elfriede Schönborn. Courtesy of the Bundesarchiv Lichterfelde

C& Print Issue Another 89

Cultural Development Policy

In the last two decades of the GDR, the East German Center for…

Amira Hanafi, Vocabulary Box, 2014. Mixed media. Courtesy the artist

The Biennale Internationale de Casablanca

Casablanca Biennale Announced First List of Selected Artists for 5th Edition

The 5th International Biennale of Casablanca, entitled 'The Words Create Images', will take…

Tizta Berhanu, Life in Violet, 2018, Oil on canvas, 140 x 140 cm

In Conversation with Tayo Ogunbiyi

Change Knocks for ART X Lagos

Ahead of ART X Lagos, running from 1 to 3 November 2019, C&’s…

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…

Photo: C&

OUT NOW!

C&’s 10th Anniversary Print Issue ANOTHER 89

Another special edition is out now! This anniversary issue marks the 10th print…

Wynton Kelly Stevenson, Shadow Play at Allmost Studio (Detail), Berlin, 2013. Photo: Marie Chatard. Light assistant: Leonardo Gonzalez Andara

C& Special Edition #Detroit

The Wyndstrument

Wynton Kelly Stevenson speaks to Tikam Sall on being an African American musician…

Betye Saar, I’ll Bend But I Will Not Break, 1998. Mixed media tableau: vintage ironing board, flat iron, metal chin, white bed sheet, six wooden clothespins, cotton, clothesline and one rope hook, 80 x 96 x 36 in (203.2 x 243.8 x 91.4 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2018 Collectors Committee, © Betye Saar

Inventing Your Own Game

Betye Saar: The Majesty She Holds In Her Hands

In the post-war period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the…

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…

Horace Imhotep, Ancestral Clay, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 183 cm. Courtesy of ZuCot Gallery. Private collection

C& Special Edition #Detroit

Digging Deeper: Inside Horace Imhotep’s Ancestral Clay

Jasmine Sinclair Wilson on becoming Horace Imhotep's artwork.

Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Video, colour, sound, 7 minutes 25 seconds. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/ Rome © Arthur Jafa, 2019.

Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco

Arthur Jafa is the Winner of the 47th Prix International d’Art Contemporain

The Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco has announced that Love Is the Message,…

Janine Jembere, to cite: diaspora, sound installation, 37:06 minutes, paper prints, 2019.

SHOW ME YOUR SHELVES!

Janine Jembere: Citing as an Act of Connection

Show Me Your Shelves! is a two-city exhibition featuring Black artists from Germany…

Amy Sow, D’un monde à un autre, 2019. Installation view. Horloge, lampes torches, bois, tissus. Dimensions variables. Courtesy the artist.

Rabat Biennale

Taking Risks by Showing Only Female Artists

Headed by Abdelkader Damani, the inaugural Rabat Biennale in Morocco’s capital has caused…

Whitney Curators Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin.
Photo by Bryan Derballa

Whitney Biennial 2021

Adrienne Edwards & David Breslin Announced as Curators

The Whitney Museum of American Art announced David Breslin, curator and director of…

re:publica Sequencer Tour Detroit 2019 with Ingrid LaFleur (center), Armen Avanessian (left), William Senyo (right). Photo: Tash Moore

In Conversation with Ingrid LaFleur

Afrofuturism as a Safe Space for Radical Decolonizing

re:publica Berlin is Europe’s largest internet and digital society conference. Since October 2018…

Portrait of Otobong Nkanga. Photo by Wim van Dongen

Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award

Otobong Nkanga Receives Inaugural Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award

In addition to the prize, there is an acquisition budget for the inclusion…

Installation view, Heji Shin, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2018. Photo: Annik Wetter.

C& Special Edition #Detroit

This Is Not About Kanye

“Oh, hey Kanye, what’s up?” Literally the first thing I’m thinking when I…

Kapwani Kiwanga Proximity, 2019 Chalk line on 120gsm paper 122 x 122cm, Unique from a series of 10

C& Artist’s Editions

C& Launching its First Artist’s Edition With Works by Kapwani Kiwanga

For its first edition C& is thrilled to be working with acclaimed Paris-based…

Maren Hassinger, Diaries, 1978. Performance at Vanguard Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Black and white Photograph

Inventing your own game

Maren Hassinger: “We are not alive to make money”

In the post-war period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the…

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

Artes Mundi Art Prize

Shortlist announced for Artes Mundi 9

From over 500 nominations the UK's biggest contemporary art prize selected six artists…

Nelbia Romero, Sin titulo (Untitled), 1983. Silk screen, 40 x 29 cm. © Hammer Museum 2019.

C& Special Edition #Detroit

Imagining a Way Out: Dystopia and Dictatorships

Felix Jordan Rucker looks into artistic ways of subverting the control of oppressive…

Epheas Maposa, 2019, Therapy of the old maid, oil on canvas , 130 x 81 cm– Copyright 31 project/ Village Unhu

In Conversation with Epheas Maposa

Ascending to the Outer Rims of his Storylines

Epheas Maposa’s artwork is driven by the words, fears, and expectations of his…


Portrait Credits
Portrait Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, 2019, Khar
toum. Credit Mohamed Noureldi

Prince Claus Fund

2019 Prince Claus Award Honours Sudanese Visual Artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishag

With Kamala Ibrahim Ishag (visual artist, Sudan) , Ambulante (documentary film organisation, Mexico)…

(left) Photograph of Benjamin Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. Acc. n.: 2642.2008. ©2019 Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence; (right) Portrait of Mildred Thompson, c.1960s © The Mildred Thompson Estate, Courtesy of Galerie Lelong & Co., New York

C& Special Edition #Detroit

Why They Left America

Mearg Negusse on the self-imposed exiles of US artists Mildred Thompson and Ben…

Joy Labinjo, ​Untitled,​ 2018.
Image courtesy of Tiwani Contemporary and ART X Lagos

ART X Lagos

Access Bank ART X Prize Winner and Programme Announced

The ART X Lagos announced photographer Etinosa Yvonne the winner of the 2019…

Osei Bonsu. Photo by Matt Greenwood, Tate Photography

Tate Modern London

Osei Bonsu Named Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art of Africa

Tate Modern announced Osei BonsuTate Modern London announced Osei Bonsu as new curator…

Covers from books

Art and Stereotypes

Playing with Race

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

Illustration by Edson Ikê, inspired by self-portrait images from Khadija Saye’s Venice Biennale series Dwelling: In This Space We Breat

C& Special Edition #Detroit

On Death, Loss, And Processing A (Black) Archive

Curator, writer, and artist Legacy Russell ponders the possibility of materializing a Black…

31 Project. Courtesy of the Gallery

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31 project

Workshop participants with founding members Eva Maria Ocherbauer and Sylvester Okwunodo Ogbechie in July 2019

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FotoFactory.Lagos

Fanyana-Hlabangane, Poolside Boy (From the series Silent Conversations) Kopie.tif

Bamako Encouters 2019

Rencontres de Bamako Reveals Participating Artists for 2019

Rencontres de Bamako (Bamako Encounters), the biennial dedicated to African photography and video,…

Pernod Ricard Fellowship 2020, selected artists: Jumana Emil Abboud. Photo: Colin Davison. Jimena Croceri. Photo: Triana Leborans. Christian Nyampeta, Iki Yos Piña Narváez & Jota Mombaça. Courtesy Villa Vassilieff - Pernod Ricard Fellowship.

Pernod Ricard Fellowship

Selected Artist For Pernod Ricard Fellowship

Pernod Ricard and Villa Vassilieff announced the selected 2020 Pernod Ricard Fellows: Jumana…

Eva Langret; Photograph by Deniz Guzel

Frieze London

Eva Langret Appointed Artistic Director

Starting in November 2019, Langret to lead on the strategic development and artistic…

Carl Nielbock and Asmaa Walton. C.A.N. Art Handworks, Inc. 2019. Photo: Anthony Parker

C& Special Edition #Detroit

An Afternoon at C.A.N. Art Handworks

Asmaa Walton speaks to metalsmithing artist Carl Nielbock on his life-changing journey from…

Bronwyn Katz, Droom boek, 2017, Salvaged bed springs and mattress, 180 x 150cm, blank projects

FNB Art Joburg

Bronwyn Katz wins the FNB Art Prize 2019

As the most recent recipient of the FNB Art Prize, Bronwyn Katz ,represented by blank projects, joins…

Oliver Harrington, ... And the philosophy of this administration is if it aint broke dont fix it, 1980s. Benday, ink, paper, blue pencil. Courtesy of Dr. Helma Harrington; The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

C& Special Edition #Detroit

Bring the Pain!

Mearg Negusse portrays the American cartoonist Oliver Harrington and his struggle for liberation.

Lebohang Kganye, Ka 2-phisi yaka e pinky II, 2013, from the series: Ke Lefa Laka: Her-Story, 2013. Courtesy: AFRONOVA GALLERY, Johannesburg.

Camera Austria Award

Lebohang Kganye Honoured with the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography

The jury considers Kganye’s work an important contribution to the global photographic scene…

Images courtesy of James Gregory Atkinson. Photos by Paul-David Raerick

SHOW ME YOUR SHELVES!

A Black Gay Read in Detroit with James Gregory Atkinson

Show Me Your Shelves is a two-city exhibition featuring Black artists from Germany…

Toni Morrison lecture at West Point Military Academy in March, 2013. Photo via Wikipedia.

In Memoriam

Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

Her words are like a second mother-tongue — she taught us a new…

Archival photograph of David Koloane. Courtesy Goodman Gallery

In Memorium

David Koloane (1938-2019)

David Koloane, the South African artist known for his drawings, paintings, and collages…

C& Center For Unfinished Business, Installation view. Copyright: C&. Photo: Florian Bong-Kil Grosse

C& Focus

Show Me Your Shelves!

In a rare constellation “Show me your Shelves! Libraries as spaces of encounter”…

South African Artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi Receives the 15th Tollman Award

Tollman Award for the Visual Arts

South African Artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi Receives the 15th Tollman Award

Known for her incisive portraits which grapple with both iconography and iconoclasm, Thenjiwe…

Kiluanji Kia Henda, The Fortress - The Building Series IV. Courtesy Goodman Gallery.

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

Kiluanji Kia Henda wins the 2019 sculpture commission

After Ibrahim El Salahi in 2018, this year Kiluanji Kia Henda has been selected…

C& Special Print Issue #Detroit, 2019. Photo: C&

Out now!

C& Special Print Issue #Detroit: THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU

For our second C& Special Print Issue in English and German a young…

Skillman Library: Bree Gant, Otherlogue, 2019, glass jars, mussels, iron, resin, bees, cowries. Designed and produced on behalf of ifa with support of Contemporary And (C&) and in the in the framework of the German campaign Wunderbar Together – The Year of German-American Friendship https://wunderbartogether.org/about/ , initiated by the German Federal Foreign Office (AA), the Goethe-Institut, and supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI). Photographer: Kashira Dowridge

SHOW ME YOUR SHELVES!

Bree Gant: Studying Old Conversations with Ancestors

Show Me Your Shelves is a two-city exhibition featuring Black artists from Germany…

Installation View N'GOLÁ Biennial of Arts and Culture 2019. Photo: N'GOLÁ Biennial.

Installation view

N’GOLÁ Biennial of Arts and Culture in São Tomé e Príncipe

The 8th Biennial of Arts and Culture in São Tomé e Príncip is…

(from left to right) Oupa Sibeko, Helena Uambembe and Wezile Mgibe.

2019 David Koloane Award

Winners of 2019 David Koloane Award announced

Bag Factory Artists’ Studios celebrates the tenth edition of the annual David Koloane…

Exhibition view of « City Prince/sses », Palais de Tokyo 
(21.06 – 08.09.2019). Photo: Marc Domage

City Prince/sses at Palais de Tokyo

Imaginary Spheres Within Real Cities

People babbling, laughing, screaming, cars honking in the midst of friendly chaos: that’s…

Sethembile Msezane, Solitude, 2016. Photography, 84,1x118,9 cm. Courtesy Tyburn Gallery

In Conversation with Renny Ramakers

N’GOLÁ: Connecting São Tomé and Príncipe with the Mainland

For its eighth edition, N’GOLÁ, the biennial of São Tomé and Príncipe, aims…

Howardena Pindell, Untitled, 1972. Acrylic on canvas, 174.3 x 267.3 cm; 68 5/8 x 105 1/4 inches
© Howardena Pindell. Courtesy the artist, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York and Victoria Miro, London/Venice

Inventing Your Own Game

The Consistency in Howardena Pindell’s Art and Defiance

In the post-war period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the…

Ayana V. Jackson (left) working with Muambi Wassaki (middle) in the studio. Photo: AIR

In Conversation with Ayana V. Jackson

“We are imagery’s biggest victims”

The Angola AIR (Artist-In-Residence) project, organized and sponsored by the ELA (Luanda Art…

Rahima Gambo 'A Walk' - installation view at Treehouse. Courtesy of the artist

In Conversation with Rahima Gambo

The Purpose of a Broader Narrative

She started out as a journalist, but as a multimedia artist Rahima Gambo…

Emeka Okereke, The fire assembly point, Lagos, 2015. Courtesy the artist.

Eyes East Bond

The 13th Cairo Biennale Returns After a Five-Year Break

With a five-year delay for political reasons, the 13th Cairo Biennale is finally…

Akosua Adoma Owusu, Welcome to the Jungle, 2019; installation view, CCA Wattis Institute;

Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle

Beauty and Power in Black Hair Culture

Interweaving different narratives such as hair salon dynamics and fallen celebrities, Akosua Adoma…

A Woman Waiting in the Doorway, Harlem, NY, 1976. Photograph by Dawoud Bey

In Conversation with Dawoud Bey

Seeing Deeply

Seeing Deeply is an essential monograph that covers four decades of celebrated photographer…

The Biennale Internationale de Casablanca Announced Theme for 2020

The Words Create Image

The Biennale Internationale de Casablanca Announced Theme for 2020

Placed under the artistic direction of Christine Eyene, the the fifth edition of…

Édouard Manet, Laure, 1863. Oil on canvas, 130 x 190 cm (via Wikimedia Commons, Musée d’Orsay, Paris)

Black Models: From Géricault to Matisse

Emerging from Anonymity

By virtue of its subject matter and the fact that it is being…

Bauhaus imaginista, learning from, vue de l’exposition au Cube – independent art room, 2018.
Une exposition curatée par Maud Houssais, qui réunit des recherches de Kader Attia et des archives sur l’Ecole de Casablanca et le cabinet Faraoui & de Mazière

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Le Cube – independent art room

Lucia Nimcová, Starina, 2019. Photo: Adam Šakový.

Liquid Horizons at Tranzit

Creating Alternative Relationships to Archives

An exhibition in Slovakia highlights communities displaced by governmental greed in the name…

Visual BelgianArtPrize

Shortlist announced

Sammy Baloji nominated for 2020 BelgianArtPrize

The Jury announced the five finalists for the BelgianArtPrize 2020. Each of the…

David Koloane (1938 - 2019)

In Memoriam

David Koloane (1938-2019)

Pioneering artist, writer, curator, teacher and mentor David Kolane has passed away at…

Installation View, Frank Bowling at Tate Britain (31 May - 26 August 2019), Tate Photography, Matt  Greenwood

Inventing Your Own Game

Frank Bowling at Tate: Redefining the British Art Canon

In the post-war period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the…

(left) Maxine Walker, Untitled, 1997. (right) Maxine Walker, Untitled, 1997. Both images courtesy of the artist and Autograph, London. Copyright: © Maxine Walker

Maxine Walker: Untitled

On Her Way Towards Self-actualization

Maxine Walker’s focus has always been on the representation of Black womanhood. London’s…

C& launching its first Limited Artist’s Editions at 1-54 London

C& Artist’s Editions

C& launching its first Limited Artist’s Editions at 1-54 London

For its first edition C& is thrilled to be working with acclaimed Paris-based…

Mapping Lomé From Within

In Conversation with Sémané Koffi Agbodjinou

Mapping Lomé From Within

The Palais de Lomé has been converted to a centre for arts and…

Installation view Collection Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2018 © of the artists
Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, Rico Burgmann; art works (f.l.t.r.): Kerry James Marshall, Vignette #15, 2014 / Zoe Leonard, Tree, 1997/2011 / Cady Noland, Log Cabin Roof [Blockhausdach], 1990 / Cady Noland, Truck Rack Blank [Leeres Lastwagengestell], 1991 / Cady Noland, Chainsaw Cut Cowboy with Baked Beans [Kettensägeschnitt-Cowboy mit gebackenen Bohnen], 1990 /Seth Price , Digital Video Effect:

In Conversation with Yilmaz Dziewior

Museum Ludwig: In Search of a Broader Audience in Cologne

In recent months, museums, particularly throughout the United States, have begun to reassess…

Binyavanga Wainaina . Photo credit: Paul Munene

In Memorium

Binyavanga Wainaina (1971-2019)

The Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina has passed away at the age of 48.…

 Installation View: Robert Reed: San Romano Series, Pilar Corrias, London. 12 April – 18 May 2019. Courtesy of the Robert Reed Estate and Pilar Corrias, London. Photo: Damian Griffiths.

Inventing Your Own Game

Robert Reed: Re-entering the US American Art Canon

In the “post-war” period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the…

© THEMBINKOSI HLATSHWAYO, Slaghuis, 2016

CAP Prize 2019

Winners of CAP Prize for Contemporary African Photography 2019 Announced

Jodi Bieber, Sanne de Wilde & Bénédicte Kurzen, Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo, Abdo Shanan and…

Carlos Martiel, Eslabon, 2019. Courtesy the artist.

The Africa Institute in Sharjah

Decolonizing African Studies: Decades in the Making

By assessing the state of African Studies, a conference at the Africa Institute…

Palais de Lomé. Courtesy Palais de Lomé. Copyright Vincent Piment Production.

In Conversation with Sonia Lawson

Togo Reopens Major Center for Arts and Culture

The Palais de Lomé, a historic building converted into a dynamic center for…

Installation view of 50 Years: Past, Present and Future by António Ole at Banco Económico. Photo: Ludmila Böse

António Ole - 50 Years: Past, Present and Future

A Self-curated Retrospective Calls for New Interpretations of his Art

António Ole is known for his aversion to labels: he doesn’t view himself…

Jack Whitten, Quantum Wall, VIII (For Arshile Gorky, My First Love in Painting), Detail, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 122,6 x 122,6 cm © Courtesy the Jack Whitten Estate and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Genevieve Hanson

Inventing Your Own Game

Jack Whitten: A Painter’s Painter Gets His Long-Overdue Recognition

In the “post-war” period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the…

A group photo of some of the participants and curators. Photo: Enos Nyamor

Membrane – African Literatures and Ideas

Occupying the Silence Between Languages

Membrane is a four-day international festival of African literatures and ideas taking place…

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…

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature. Photo credits Daniel A. Anderson, University of California, Irvine, (UCI) .

Erich-Maria-Remarque Peace Prize

Ngùgì wa Thiong’o wins 2019 Peace Prize

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and English, has been awarded…

Meleko Mokgosi. Courtesy Yale University School of Art.

Yale University School of Art

Meleko Mokgosi appointed Associate Professor

Meleko Mokgosi is set to begin his appointment in July 2019 as Associate…

Anna Martine Whitehead. Image credit: the artist

In Conversation with Anna Martine Whitehead

“The world needs more embodied people”

Anna Martine Whitehead is an interdisciplinary artist and dancer who is interested in…

Tavares Strachan, Various works, 2018. Mixed media. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times. Photo: Francesco Galli. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia

Venice Biennale 2019

An Attempt to Recontextualize the World

Bearing the title May You Live in Interesting Times, the international exhibition at…

BIC Project Space in Casablanca, Morocco.

BIC Project Space

The Biennial of Casablanca opens a Project Space

The Biennale Internationale de Casablanca announces the opening of its Project Space as…

McKenzie Wark and Legacy Russell, 2019 Arts Writing Awards in Digital Arts Recipients

2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Arts

Legacy Russell wins 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Arts

Legacy Russell is presented with the Thoma Art Foundation Arts Writing Award in…

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…

Installation vIew of the South African Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia.

Venice Biennale 2019

Africa Beyond National Perspectives

Their works span the show-stopping, crowd-pleasing Ghanaian pavilion to the immersive and complex…

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…

Installation View

The body as a centerpiece

The Exhibition Exploring Domestic Space as the Backstage of Life

Taking place in a community-driven art space in a gentrifying Miami neighborhood, The…

Arthur Jafa receiving the Golden Lion. Photo by Andrea Avezzù, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

Venice Biennale 2019

Golden Lion to Arthur Jafa

Arthur Jafa has won The Golden Lion for best artist in the central…

Tavares Strachan, Robert, 2018. Photo: C&

Venice Biennale 2019

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

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

Tavares Strachan,

Venice Biennale 2019

Tavares Strachan: The Idea of a Parallel Universe

Tavares Strachan represented the Bahamas National Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, in…

Arthur Jafa,

Prix International d’Art Contemporain 2019

Shortlisted artworks for 47th Prix announced

The Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco has revealed the three artists, Yto Barrada, Arthur…

The first C&AL print issue - launched on 26 October 2018 in Bogotá, Colombia.

ARCOlisboa 2019

C&AL present at ARCOlisboa

With a booth at this year's ARCOlisboa, C& and C&AL present their print…

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…

Michael Armitage, #mydressmychoice, 2015. © Michael Armitage. Courtesy the artist and White Cube Gallery.

Venice Biennale 2019

Michael Armitage: Painting From Afar

Michael Armitage’s famous painted bark cloths weave multiple narratives from historical and current…

Amina Zoubir, Searching for the Algerian Pavilion, photograph of the performance made in June 3rd 2013 during The Venice Biennale, behind sculpture of Marc Quinn on the island San Giorgio Maggiore, 120x80 cm, 2013. © Amina ZOUBIR ADAGP Paris

Venice Biennale 2019

Amina Zoubir on the Tribulations of the Algerian Pavilion

Several weeks ago Algeria was officially announced as a participant country at the…

The artist Ibrahim Ahmed and his censored work, Does Anybody Leave Heaven, 2019. Image credits: Hesham Mohamed Hassan

13th Havana Biennial

The Artists Censored in Cuba Speak Out

From the outset, the 13th Havana Biennial – the Construction of the Possible…

The Miracle Workers Collective, The Killing of Čáhcerávga, 2019. HD Video Still. Produced by Frame Contemporary Art Finland for the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Image courtesy of the artists. The Pavilion of Finland at the Venice Biennale 2019 is commissioned by Frame Contemporary Art Finland, 11 May - 24 November 2019, frame-finland.fi

Venice Biennale 2019

Christopher Wessels: Catalyzing Poetry in Times of Change

When Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung initiated the Miracle Workers Collective, artists and cultural…

The Miracle Workers Collective, The Killing of Čáhcerávga, 2019. HD Video Still. Produced by Frame Contemporary Art Finland for the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Image courtesy of the artists. The Pavilion of Finland at the Venice Biennale 2019 is commissioned by Frame Contemporary Art Finland, 11 May - 24 November 2019, frame-finland.fi

Venice Biennale 2019

Giovanna Esposito Yussif: Changing Structures Closest to Home

The Helsinki-based curator and researcher Giovanna Esposito Yussif is part of the Miracle…

The four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2019, clockwise from top left: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani.

Turner Prize 2019

Tate Britain Announced Shortlisted Artists

The four artists competing for this year's Turner Prize have been announced. The…

Iris Kensmil, The New Utopia Begins Here: Claudia Jones, 2018. Oil on canvas, 155 x 115 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Remy Jungerman, Horizontal Obeah GEENGESITONU (detail), 2018. Painted wood, cotton textile, kaolin, yarn and nails, 285 x 90 x 30 cm. Photo: Gerrit Schreurs

Venice Biennale 2019

The Measurement of Presence – Iris Kensmil and Remy Jungerman at the Dutch Pavilion in Venice

Remy Jungerman and Iris Kensmil are representing the Netherlands at the 58th Venice…

Inema Arts Center

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Inema Arts Center

Georgina Maxim, Ma Mére II (Detail), 2018. Mixed media textile. Copyright the artist and Sulger-Beul Gallery.

Venice Biennale 2019

Georgina Maxim: When Patience Becomes Artistic Currency

Zimbabwean Artist Georgina Maxim’s artistic career is soaring exponentially. She was accepted for…

Mawande Ka Zenzile, Ubuza ibhasi ibhaliwe, 2019. Diptych, Cow dung, gesso and oil on canvas; artist’s frame with gold leaf
200 x 100cm each

Venice Biennale 2019

The South African Pavilion Builds a Bridge Between Past and Present

Mawande Ka Zenzile, Tracey Rose, and Dineo Seshee Bopape are the three artists…

Image: Portrait of Kehinde Wiley; photo Brad Ogbonna 

Gordon Parks Foundation Award

Kehinde Wiley to be Honoured By The Gordon Parks Foundation

The Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner and Auction will take place on Tuesday…

Unvergleichlich: Kunst aus Afrika im Bode-Museum (Beyond Compare: Art from Africa in the Bode-Museum), Installation view © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Debate on Looted Art

Germany reveals Framework Principles for Dealing with Collections from Colonial Contexts

After the important report on the need for restitution of looted African artifacts…

Inside Supplement Projects (Film

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Supplement Projects

Adler Guerrier, Untitled (Beckoned by the light and passage to an enabling and condotion-shapingland - stationed on Bscayne Bay), 2017. Christian Hernandez David Castillo Gallery.

Havana Biennial 2019

Art Between Censorship And Complicity

The 13th Havana Biennial takes place from 12 April to 12 May 2019…

Art Basel Announced Intercontinental Exhibition to Celebrate 50th Anniversary

Art Basel 2020

Art Basel Announced Intercontinental Exhibition to Celebrate 50th Anniversary

In 2020 Art Basel will stage a contemporary art project curated by Kasper…

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

Installation view

The Black Image Corporation – Theaster Gates

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

From felt to right: Ericka Huggins, Emory Douglas, Barbara Easley-Cox

San Francisco Art Institute

SFAI Announced 2019 Commencement Honorees

The school will celebrate the unshakable human commitment the three extraordinary social activists…

John Akomfrah. Mimesis: African Soldier, 2018. Three channel HD colour video installation, 7.1 sound Dimensions variable. Co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW, New Art Exchange, Nottingham and Smoking Dogs Films, with additional support from Sharjah Art Foundation.
Photo © IWM / Film © Smoking Dogs Films

Venice Biennale 2019

Nana Oforiatta Ayim on Ghana’s First Ever Pavilion at Venice

In 2019, for the first time, Ghana will host a pavilion at the…

Ananian Léki Dago, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 2014

Venice Biennale 2019

Pavilion of Ivory Coast at 58th International Art Exhibition: The Open Shadows of Memory

Ivory Coast is represented by the four artists Ernest Dükü, Ananias Léki Dago,…

Felicia Abban. Self Portrait IV.

Female Pioneers

Felicia Abban: Behind the Scenes

In our latest series – Female Pioneers – we look at female artists…

John Akomfrah. Mimesis: African Soldier, 2018.
Three channel HD colour video installation, 7.1 sound Dimensions variable. Co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW, New Art Exchange, Nottingham and Smoking Dogs Films, with additional support from Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo © IWM / Film © Smoking Dogs Films

Venice Biennale 2019

African Perspectives at Venice 2019

The 58th International Art Exhibition will take place from 11 May to 24…

Mohamed Bourouissa, Blida-Joinville, 2018–2019. Site-specific installation, wooden structure, plants, drawings, high quality video, 3D animation, sound, dimensions variable. Installation view: Sharjah Biennial 14: ‘Leaving the Echo Chamber’. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and coproduced by Institut Français, UAE, with the support of Institut Francais, Paris, with additional support from kamel mennour, Paris and Blum and Poe, Los Angeles. Courtesy of the artist, kamel mennour, Paris/London and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo. Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 14

Mohamed Bourouissa Links Architecture and Psychology in Abandoned Kindergarten

Inspired by the garden of a patient at Fanon’s psychiatric hospital, Algerian artist…

Biennale of Sydney 2020, NIRIN. Artist From left: Léuli Eshrãghi, Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker, Kylie Kwong, Barbara McGrady, Gina Athena Ulysse, S.J Norman, Lhola Amira, Tony Albert, Nicholas Galanin, Lisa Reihana, Brook Andrew, Katarina Matiasek, Arthur Jafa, Latai Taumoepea. Photocredits © Joshua Morris.

Biennale of Sydney 2020

Biennale announces exhibition: NIRIN and Artists

Among the first 33 artists, creatives and collectives announced, Lhola Amira, Arthur Jafa,…

Arsenale, Photo Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

Venice Biennale 2019

Hamza Walker Part of International Jury

The 58th International Art Exhibition announces its International Jury that includes Stephanie Rosenthal,…

Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale. Image © Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art. Photo Nii Odzenma

New Art Space

The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) opens in Ghana

On 15 March 2019, The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art opened its doors…

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.

Installation View

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…

Kiluanji Kia Henda, Concreto Blues, 2019. Installation view at Jahmek Contemporary Art. Courtesy the artist and Jahmek Contemporary Art

Concreto Blues

A New Photo Series by Kiluanji Kia Henda Tackles Angola’s Urbanization

With the solo show Concreto Blues, Angola-based artist Kiluanji Kia Henda returns to…

Chioma Ebinama, Chi Doll. Courtesy the artist and Boys’ Quarters Project Space

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Boys’ Quarters Project Space

Rele Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria

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Rele Gallery

Chioma Ebinama, Chi Doll. Courtesy the artist and Boys’ Quarters Project Space

In Conversation with Zina Saro Wiwa

Re-Imagining Her World

Zina Saro Wiwa has many talents. Working between New York and Port Harcourt…

First Madagascar Pavilion in History

Venice Biennale 2019

First Madagascar Pavilion in History

Madagascar will take part in the 58th edition of La Biennale di Venezia…

Rosemary Karuga, (left) Untitled, 1998. 40x57cm. (right) Untitled, 1998. 40x57cm. Both images courtesy Red Hill Art Gallery.

Female Pioneers

Rosemary Karuga: Unearthing Hidden Artistic Treasures

In our latest series – Female Pioneers – C& looks at female artists…

Curatorial Team of Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial Announced

Bamako Encouters 2019

Curatorial Team of Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial Announced

The 12th edition of Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial announces its curatorial team that includes…

Charl Landvreugd, Performance

The Netherlands: Untold Tales

Dutch Afro Subjectivities: In a State of Becoming “Black”

The Netherlands was one of the most belligerent European colonial empires. Driven by…

Daniel Escobar, The Art of Conversation, 2012-2017.

Frestas – Triennial of Arts

Sesc Announced Curatorship of 3rd Edition

The third edition of Frestas is being held between August and December, 2020,…

Stacey Okparavero, Kintu, 2018. Mixed media on canvas, 120cm X 45cm. Courtesy the artist and CCA Lagos.

LineGuage at CCA Lagos

An Art Exhibition Reinterpreting Africa’s Literary Classics

Dedicated to late curator Bisi Silva, this exhibition at the CCA in Lagos…

Gabrielle Goliath

Future Generation Art Prize 2019

PinchukArtCentre Announced Recipients

Gabrielle Goliath from South Africa wins Special Prize with her work “This song…

Ralph Ziman

1-54 New York 2019

Participating Galleries Announced

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns for its 5th edition in New…

Wilfried Nakeu et Chaima Zaafouri, Carrefour. Photo: Daniel Beloumou

YaPhoto 2019

Persistance is the Key

Local and international photographers have converged in Yaoundé for the third edition of…

Banele Khoza, (left) Watching You, Gouache on Paper, 2019. 42,5cm x 30,4cm (right) Warhol still 1, 2018. Acrylic and ink on linen canvas, 60cm x 81cm. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Banele Khoza

The Many Faces of Love

Banele Khoza is a visual artist who also writes poetry. In his most…

Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale. Image © Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art. Photo Nii Odzenma

place

The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA)

Gonçalo Mabunda, It’s Shining, 2017

Venice Biennale 2019

Artist Announced for the National Pavilion of Mozambique

The National Pavilion of Mozambique aims to show, through a contemporary perspective, the…

Gladys Mgudlandlu, Three men in blue, not dated. Body colour. Courtesy Johannesburg Art Gallery

Female Pioneers

Gladys Mgudlandlu: Painting from a Bird’s-eye View

In our latest series – Female Pioneers – we look at female artists…

Nelly Wandji, cabinet de curiosités

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Nelly Wandji, cabinet de curiosités

Christina Pataialii, Solid gold, 2018 (install view). Courtesy of Te Tuhi, Aotearoa New Zealand. Photo by Sam Hartnett

place

Te Tuhi

Clara Ianni e Mikhael Subotzky, Triangular, 2019. Image Credit: Lucas Barreto.

Conversations in Gondwana

Expanding Political Imagination Through South-South Collaboration

Conversations in Gondwana is a project initiated by Brazilian curators Juliana Gontijo and…

Photo: Vron Ware

The Holberg Prize 2019

Professor Paul Gilroy named Laureate

The Holberg Prize 2019, presented each year by the government of Norway, is…

New Publication on Women Artists of Francophone African heritage

In/Visible Voices of Women

New Publication on Women Artists of Francophone African heritage

In/Visible Voices of Women is an artist’s book featuring Safaa Erruas, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Nicène…

Margarita Ariza Aguilar, Cósmico-Juan José Nieto Gil, 2018. Enamel on acrylic. Photo: Ana Luisa González.

How Black is Black Enough?

The Whitening Of A President

In a variety of portraits, eight artists evoke the history of the first…

Okwui Enwezor (Detail). Copyright: Lydia Gorges

In Memoriam

Okwui Enwezor passed away

The artistic director of the 56th Venice Biennale and long-term director of the…

Image: (from left) Sonya Lindfors, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Leena Pukki, Christopher Wessels, Khadar Ahmed, Suvi West, Outi Pieski, Martta Tuomaala, Christopher Thomas, Maryan Abdulkarim, Lorenzo Sandoval, Giovanna Esposito Yussif and Hassan Blasim. Courtesy of Frame Contemporary Art Finland

Venice Biennale 2019

The Miracle Workers Collective for Finnish Pavilion

The Miracle Workers Collective (MWC) present their inaugural project, A Greater Miracle of…

Main image: Pedro Reyes, Seer,  2018. © Pedro Reyes. Courtesy: Lisson Gallery, London

Frieze New York 2019

Artists Announced for Frieze Sculpture New York

14 International artists will participate in the inaugural edition of Frieze Sculpture in…

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

Installation View

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&

Installation View

Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber

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

Otobong Nkanga and Emeka Ogboh, Aging Ruins Dreaming Only to Recall the Hard Chisel from the Past, 2019. Multi channel sound installation, sculpture and light installation, poetry. Dimensions variable. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation. Courtesy the artists. Photo: C&

Sharjah Biennial 14 Prize

Otobong Nkanga and Emeka Ogboh have been Awarded for their Collaborative Project

Sharjah Art Foundation announced that Otobong Nkanga and Emeka Ogboh have been awarded…

Kapwani Kiwanga,Jalousie, 2018.InstallationPhoto courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris,©Galerie Jérôme Poggi

The Armory Show 2019

Kapwani Kiwanga is the Winner of the Inaugural Étant Donnés Prize

The Armory Show and Étant donnés Contemporary Art announce Kapwani Kiwanga, presented by…

Smangaliso Khumalo, Franz Taaibosch Di Freak’s Soliloquy Slaloms, performed at the Stellenbosch Triennale Launch 2019.

Stellenbosch Triennale 2020

Stellenbosch launched new Triennale for 2020

The Triennale, to commence in it’s full scale in February 2020 takes public…

Magdalene Odundo, (left)
Asymmetrical Betu II,  2010. Red clay, carbonized and multi-fired, 53 x 27 cm, signed under base. (Right) Assymetrical Series, 2017. Terracotta vessel, 24.5 x 12.5 inches {62.23 x 31.35 cm}. Both images courtesy of Anthony Slayter-Ralph.

Female Pioneers

Magdalene Odundo: Dancing with Vessels

In our latest series – Female Pioneers – C& looks at female artists…

Lauren Halsey. Portrait (Detail) by Rafael Hernandez. Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles.

Frieze Artist Award

Lauren Halsey Wins 2019 Frieze Artist Award

The Los Angeles-based artist will realize a major new commission, supported by Luma…

La Biennale di Venezia

Venice Biennale 2019

Artist List Announced for the 58th Venice Biennale

Amongst others the selection includes Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Arthur Jafa, Kahlil Joseph, Julie…

Theresa Musoke, Self Portrait. Courtesy of Art Nanadede.

Female Pioneers

Theresa Musoke: A Lifetime Dedicated to Art in East Africa

On the occasion of International Women's Day we look in our latest series…

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi Nzewi. Courtesy of Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi Joins MoMA as Curator

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi will join the Museum on July 22, 2019 from the…

Brendan Fernandes, The Master and Form, 2018. Performance view, Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL, 2018. Image courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago. Photograph by Brendan Leo Merea

Whitney Biennale 2019

Participating Artists Announced

The Whitney Museum of American Art announced the list of seventy-five artists have…

Sakhile&Me, Gallery view, 2019, Courtesy of Sakhile&Me

place

Sakhile&Me

Dennis Osadebe, Hoop Dreams, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Circle Art Gallery.

In Conversation with Dennis Osadebe

Spectacularly Forward

Mixed-media artist Dennis Osadebe is all about interdisciplinarity. In the recent duo show,…

Koyo Kouoh, independant art curator and cultural operator of Cameroonian origins, she is the founder and artistic director of the Raw Material Company cultural center and gallery in Dakar.  |  Koyo Kouoh, commissaire d'expositions indépendante et opératrice culturelle d'origine camerounaise. Elle est la fondatrice et directrice artistique du centre culturel et de la galerie Raw Material Company à Dakar.

Zeitz MOCAA

Koyo Kouoh Appointed Executive Director and Chief Curator

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) has appointed Koyo Kouoh…

21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil Imagined Communities

Sesc_Videobrasil 2019

Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Sesc São Paulo announce selected artists

55 artists and collectives will showcase their works in the 21th edition of…

Dineo Seshee BopapeLerole: Footnotes (The struggle of memory against forgetting) (detail), 2018.Mixed media installation view Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/BeirutImage courtesyof the artist andGalerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg /Beirut

Venice Biennale 2019

South Africa Reveals List of Artists and Curators For Venice Biennale 2019

The South African Department of Arts and Culture has announced that Dineo Seshee…

Installation view Afterlives of Slavery at Tropenmuseum Amsterdam, 2019. Picture by ©KIRSTENVANSANTEN

The Netherlands: Untold Tales

Analyzing the Past and Decolonizing the Future

The Netherlands was one of the most belligerent European colonial empires. Driven by…

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…

Logo with plan sketch of the Ghana Pavilion by Sir David Adjaye OBE.

Venice Biennale 2019

Ghana’s First National Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2019

Ghana's First National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale is curated by Nana Oforiatta…

ruangrupa, 2019
Reza Afisina, Indra Ameng, Farid Rakun, Daniella Fitria Praptono, Iswanto Hartono, Ajeng Nurul Aini, Ade Darmawan, Julia Sarisetiati, Mirwan Andan
Photo: Gudskul / Jin Panji, Courtesy of documenta

documenta 15

Artist Collective ruangrupa Selected as Artistic Direction

ruangrupa, a collective of artists and creatives from Jakarta, Indonesia, will curate the…

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami 'Family Portrait', 2017. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe

Venice Biennale 2019

Zimbabwe Pavilion Announced Participating Artists and Title

The International Exhibition of Art at the Venice Biennale will open to art…

Mural paintings by Farid Belkahia (center) and Mohammed Hamidi (right), Asilah, Morocco. Both 1978. As published in Asilah: Premier moussem culturel, juillet/août 1978, exh. cat. (Casablanca: Shoof, 1978). Reproduced by permission of the photographer, Mohammed Melehi.

Murals of Asilah

The Moroccan Sea Town that Turns its Walls into Canvases

Since its rehabilitation in the 1970s, the Moroccan town of Asilah on the…

Malala Andrialavidrazana, Figures 1838, Atlas Elémentaire, 2015. Courtesy the artist.

A New Beginning

How Congo’s Culture Can Move Forward Learning from the Past

In the 1970s Congo (then Zaire) went through a cultural rejuvenation supported by…

Hannah Bronte, Umma's Tongue–molten at 6000° (film still), 2017. Single channel projection 4:50min.

Ford Foundation Gallery

The Ford Foundation Gallery opens March 5

The Ford Foundation announces the opening of the Ford Foundation Gallery in New…

Alia Farid, At the Time of the Ebb, Production Still. New  commission  for  Sharjah  Biennial  14:  Leaving  the  Echo  Chamber  - Look for Me All Around You, 2019. Courtesy of the artist

Sharjah Biennial 14

Finding Alternatives to Representation with Claire Tancons

Featuring around ninety artists, the Sharjah Biennial 14 (SB14) will explore the theme…

After the C& conversation with Bisi Silva and El Anatsui at Art Basel June 2014.

In Memoriam

Bisi Silva has passed away

Bisi Silva, artistic director of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Lagos…

Antawan I. Byrd (left), Hansi Momodu-Gordon (center), and Tosin Oshinowo (right), courtesy of Lagos Biennale

Lagos Biennial II

Curators Announced for the Second Lagos Biennial 2019

The Àkéte Art Foundation is pleased to announce the curators for the 2019…

Kaloki Nyamai, Installation view of Mwaki Nginya Evinda Enge, 2019 at Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi. Courtesy the artist.

Kaloki Nyamai’s Mwaki Nginya Evinda Enge

The Intervention in Nairobi Questioning Who’s Black Enough

In his latest exhibition in Nairobi, Kaloki Nyamai investigates what happens when fire…

Allison Janae Hamilton, courtesy of the artist ; Sable Elyse Smith, courtesy of Charlie Rubin; Tschabalala Self, courtesy of Lauren Spinelli; Michael Armitage, courtesy White Cube

Studio Museum at MoMA

The Studio Museum, MoMA, and MoMA PS1 Announce Multi-Year Partnership

The wide-ranging collaboration encompasses exhibitions and programming at both The Museum of Modern…

Mónica de Miranda, Plateau, from the series Cinema Karl Marx (detail), 2017. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Paula Nascimento

Putting the Finger in the Wound

Artist Mónica de Miranda and curator Paula Nascimento have been working together for…

Grace Wales Bonner, Shrine I 2019, Grace Wales Bonner: A Time for New Dreams. (Installation view, 18 January – 16 February 2019, Serpentine Galleries). © 2019 readsreads.info

In Conversation with Grace Wales Bonner

Bringing One in Communion with Ancestors

Informed by her heritage, Grace Wales Bonner uses fashion as a means of…

 Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, photo by Alexander Steffens

sonsbeek 2020

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung to curate ‘sonsbeek 2020’

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (1977, Yaoundé, Cameroon) has been appointed artistic director of…

Installation view Africa Remix, 2004. Photo: Andreas M. Wiese.

Exhibition Histories

Africa Remix

In this series, C& is revisiting the most discussed, loved, hated, thought-provoking, and…

Lorna Simpson, photo by James Wang, courtesy Lorna Simpson and Hauser & Wirth

J. Paul Getty Medal

J. Paul Getty Trust honores Lorna Simpson

The J. Paul Getty Trust announced today it will present the annual J.…

Kevin Osepa, Wowo, from the series ‘Mester Blousé’, 2017. Courtesy the artist.

The Netherlands: Untold Tales

Kevin Osepa: The Curaçao Artist Exploring Afro-Caribbean Spiritual Culture

Inspired by the “magical thinking” of his native Curaçao, Kevin Osepa uses photography…

Museo La Tertulia. Courtesy of the museum.

In Conversation with Alejandro Martín

Cali, Between Trauma And Hope

Over the past years, Museo La Tertulia in Cali has become one of…

Ja’Tovia Gary, Image from Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), 2018. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Zoe Samudzi

Blackness as a State of Matter

Zoe Samudzi has co-penned As Black as Resistance with William C. Anderson. In…

Dawoud Bey, Untitled #14 (Site of John Brown’s Tannery), 2017. Courtesy the artist and Art Institute Chicago.

In Conversation with Dawoud Bey

Safe Spaces in the Dark

The essence of night is a central figure in Dawoud Bey’s latest exhibition.…

Elle Pérez, Lineysha Sparx at Club Hippo's Euphoria Latina Party, Baltimore, 2013. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Elle Pérez

Fearless Bodies and Identities in Elle Pérez’ Photography

Elle Pérez’ photographs are striking and mysterious, depicting people and places from very…

Alanna Lockward at Bebop Berlin 2016 © Miguel Gomez

In Memorium

Alanna Lockward (1961 -2019)

The Dominican author, curator and filmmaker Alanna Lockward died unexpectedly in Santo Domingo…

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

Installation view

12th Shanghai Biennale

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

Atul Bhalla, Looking for lost water IV, 2018. 54 x 26 inches (1371.6 x 635 mm), archival Pigment print. Courtesy of the artist.

Raimi Olakunle Gbadamosi on the Protection of Tap Water

The Possibility of Imagining Something New

His political involvement is fervent, his artistic work constantly investigating social and cultural…

Allison Janae Hamilton, Scratching at the wrong side of firmament., 2015
Archival pigment print
40 x 55 inches. Courtesy of the artist

In Conversation with Larry Ossei-Mensah

Traveling Through Unknown Territories

Larry Ossei-Mensah’s reputation in the US art scene is rapidly growing. With three…

(bottom right): ZED, Présence absence, 2018. Courtesy the artist / (top right) Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (still), 2016, single-channel video (color, sound), 7:30 minutes, courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome./ (bottom left) ZED, Couleurs de Brazza, 2018. Courtesy the artist. / (top left) Ozhope Collective, “Row” (2018), Courtesy of the Collective.

2018: The Year in Review

C&’s Top Articles of 2018

Another year is coming to an end in which we have grown and…

Mujeres Muralistas. Latinoamerica. 1974. Roy Anderson paints on concrete. 20’ x 76’. Mission St. bet. 25th & 26th St, San Francisco.

Another 68!

The Black Female Artists Who Pioneered Alternative Art Spaces in Mexico

Despite the 1968 rise of protests against the regime in Mexico, narratives of…

New Artistic Team Announced for Manifesta 13

Manifesta 13 in Marseille

New Artistic Team Announced for Manifesta 13

The appointed artistic team of Manifesta13 reflects this trans-disciplinary and intercultural approach and…

Black Panthers from Sacramento, Free Huey Rally, Bobby Hutton, Memorial Park in Oakland, CA. Photo credit: Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch

Another 68!

Decolonize 1968! How to shift the Perspective of Collective Memory

In this article Peggy Piesche writes about how much the liberation ideas of…

Akinola Davies Jr, HOD_ , 2018. Installation view. Courtesy of Artist and Sketchedspace. Exhibition Design by Joseph Bond Studio. Photo by Ahad Subzwari

In Conversation with Akinola Davies Jr.

“Colonialism in Britain is felt through the diasporas”

Entitled HOD, Akinola Davies Jr’s recent exhibition assembled a series of nonlinear films…

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…

Johannes Segogela, Satan's Fresh Meat Market, 1993, Santo Domingo, photo by Jalil Olmedo.

2018: The Year in Review

The Best Art Exhibitions of 2018

C& author Sean O’Toole looks beyond the art openings of the world’s metropoles…

Miguel Prince, A transiçao, Performance. Courtesy the artist.

Fuckin’ Globo 2018

The Luanda Independent Exhibition Showing Angola’s Best

In the Angolan capital a group of artists including Kiluanji Kia Henda have…

Serge Attukwei Clottey, Getting examined (2018). Image courtesy of the artist and Gallery 1957, Accra. Gallery 1957 are exhibiting at UNTITLED, Miami Beach with work from Serge Attukwei Clottey, 5-9 December 2018

In Conversation with Serge Attukwei Clottey

“Afrogallonism” or the Migration of Plastic

Accra-based multi-media artist Serge Attukwei Clottey is presenting his work at UNTITLED, Miami…

White River Gallery

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White River Gallery

Unvergleichlich: Kunst aus Afrika im Bode-Museum (Beyond Compare: Art from Africa in the Bode-Museum), Installation view © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics

The First Reactions to the Report on Restitution of Looted Art

In November this year, a report written by Bénédicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr…

The 2019 Award is Designed by Sir David Adjaye OBE

Brit Awards

The 2019 Award is Designed by Sir David Adjaye OBE

British architect David Adjaye has designed the trophy for the winners of next year's Brit Awards.

Damon Davis
, Libations For Those We Sold
, 2018 62 x 35 in. Digital Collage. Image courtesy of PRIZM Art Fair

In Conversation with Mikhaile Solomon

PRIZM Art Fair Brings 63 Artists from the African Diaspora to Miami

PRIZM Art Fair returns to Miami for its sixth edition, from 3 to…

Julien Creuzet, (...) Me sens tu par terre, petit jeux, cheveux dans la poussière. Source solaire, je suis sorcière. Tête dans les airs, vénère, endocrinien androgyne, sans ovaire, j’ai rdv à 9h, douceur du coeur, à 9h, j'ai des attentes à 9h, mésentente à 9h, j'ai des humeurs à 9h, sueur fureur à 9h. À 9h ou à n'importe quelle heure (...), 2018, courtesy de l'artiste. Production Les Ateliers de Rennes - 2018.

À Cris Ouverts

The 6th Ateliers de Rennes Explores How We Can Live Together

How does collective memory function? What systems manufacture it, and how has it…

Jake Singer , Whirl and Scramble (detail),  Matter Gallery, Courtesy of  ICTAF

ICTAF 2019

Investec Cape Town Art Fair Announced Participating Galleries

Investec Cape Town Art Fair is set once again to offer a unique…

Diedrick Brackens stiches

In Conversation with Diedrick Brackens

“I embody identities that defy narrow definitions”

Los Angeles-based artist Diedrick Brackens is a rarity in the growing virtual spheres…

Querilla Women in Simbabwe

Another 68!

How Zimbabwean Women Achieved Their Struggles for Independence Through Resistance Songs

The underrepresented Zimbabwean Guerilla Women’s Rebellion played a key role in the country’s…

Rajkamal Kahlon. Altered cover of Die Völker Der Erde, by Kurt Lampert, 2017. Ink and gouache on bookcovers. Courtesy the artist.

Report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron is out today

108 Pages On The Restitution Of Looted Art From Africa

The report comes out at a time when the subject of colonial restitution…

Unathi Mkonto, Presentation 1 (fitting 2) (2018) | Vinyl, mild steel, approx. 120 x 110 x 24 cm

FLAT

The Eroticism of Unathi Mkonto’s Abstract Sculptural Artworks

Unathi Mkonto is a South African artist who creates erotic sculptural works that…

Exhibition view for Gaëlle Choisne, TEMPLE OF LOVE at Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, Paris, 2018. Image credit © Aurélien Mole.

In Conversation with Gaëlle Choisne

Immaterial Explorations within Concrete Walls

It’s all about love in Gaëlle Choisne’s current solo show at the Bétonsalon…

Sara Blokland, Home, Installation, video and photography wallpaper , 11×3 meter, 2004. Courtesy LMAK Gallery NY

The Netherlands: Untold Tales

Sara Blokland: “Who is allowed to be in the picture?”

The Netherlands was one of the most belligerent European colonial empires. Driven by…

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…

Kapwani Kiwanga courtesy of National Gallery of Canada. Photo: miv photography

2018 Sobey Art Award

Kapwani Kiwanga wins Canada’s most prestigious contemporary art prize

“The jury noted how Kapwani Kiwanga creates a visual language to reconsider complexities…

M'hammed Kilito, entre jeux et marées 2, 2018. Courtesy of Casablanca Biennale.

Tales from the Water Margins

4th Casablanca Biennale: Making Meaningful South-South Connections

Taking water as its starting point, the 4th Casablanca Biennale looks at how…

Delegation Parade Frelimo. Photo: Luc-Daniel Dupire. Courtesy of PANAFEST archiv

Another 68!

How 1960s Algeria Became a “Mecca for revolutionaries”

The political and cultural repercussions of the 1968 global riots have been extensively…

Nam June Paik Award – Internationale media art prize of the Kunststiftung NRW. Award ceremony at the Erbdrostenhof, Münster
Friday, 9 November 2018
Photo: Joachim Busch

Kunststiftung NRW

Sondra Perry Wins Nam June Paik Award 2018

The New York based artist Sondra Perry wins the 9th Nam June Paik…

Kerry James Marshall, Thelma Golden and Fred Moten

ArtReview Power 100

ArtReview Revealed the Power 100 in Art World…

Kerry James Marshall, Thelma Golden and Fred Moten are among the top 10…

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…

Farah Khelil, Point de vue, point d’Ècoute (clichÈs 2), 2017, Variable dimensions. Courtesy the artist and Officine dell’Immagine (via 1-54)

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

Galleries Announced for 2nd Edition of 1-54 in Marrakech

For its second Marrakech edition, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair will present 18…

Alia Farid, Installation view

12th Gwangju Biennale

Alia Farid: Museums aren’t very accurate

Imagined Borders, the title of South Korea’s 2018 Gwangju Biennale, has enabled a…

Exhibition by Wura-Natasha Ogunji. 33rd Bienal de São Paulo. 03/09/2018 © Leo Eloy / Estúdio Garagem / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.

In Conversation with Wura-Natasha Ogunji

The Body as an Audience Member

Wura-Natasha Ogunji spoke for C& América Latina with Will Furtado about her curatorial…

Igshaan Adams, When Dust Settles, 2018 . Installation view. Courtesy of Blank Projects.

Igshaan Adams: When Dust Settles

Collective Limitations

Since Igshaan Adams has been announced Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year,…

Emeka Okereke at his acceptance speech. Background: Ambassador of France to Nigeria Jérôme Pasquier. Photo: Nyancho Nwanri

Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et Lettres

Emeka Okereke awarded by Ministry of Culture of France

Nigerian photographer Emeka Okereke received the prestigious insignia of 'Chevalier dans l’ordre des…

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

Installation view

4th Casablanca Biennale: Water Margins

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

Remy Jungerman, INITIANDS, 205.
Painted wood, cotton textile, kaolin, bottles 112 x 96 x 16 inch (284 x 244 x 41 cm) photo© Aatjan Renders. Courtesy the artist

The Netherlands: Untold Tales

Remy Jungerman: The Space In Between

The Netherlands was one of the most belligerent European colonial empires. Driven by…

Diedrick Brackens, in the decadence of silence, 2018. Cotton and acrylic yarn, 72 x 72 inches  (182.9 x 182.9 cm). Courtesy The Studio Museum in Harlem

Joyce Alexander Wein Prize

Studio Museum in Harlem’s Wein Prize Goes to Diedrick Brackens

Los-Angeles based artist Diedrick Brackens was honured for his deeply thoughtful and innovative…

View of the exhbition Afro-Atlantic Histories at MASP. Photo: Eduardo Ortega

Afro-Atlantic Histories

Pluralizing Narratives

With 450 works by 214 artists and eight thematic areas, an exhibition at…

Courtesy of PinchukArtCentre.

PinchukArtCentre

Shortlist Announced for 5th Edition of the Future Generation Art Prize

Monira Al Qadiri, Gabrielle Goliath, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Sondra Perry are among…

from left to right: Maya Wiley, Nontobeko Ntombela, Uzma Rizvi, Koyo Kouoh, Richard Hill and Carin Kuoni, panelists at the Vera List Center Forum 2018: If Art Is Politics. Tishman Auditorium, The New School, October 4, 2018. Photo credit: Simon Leung, courtesy Vera List Center for Art and Politics.

In Conversation with Koyo Kouoh

How Artists Participate in World-Making

In October The New School's Vera List Center for Art and Politics in…

Mark Langer, CEO, HUGO BOSS; Simone Leigh, Hugo Boss Prize 2018 Winner; and Richard Armstrong, Director Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation.
Hugo Boss Prize 2018 Artists Dinner at the Guggenheim Museum.
Photo: Andrew Toth/Getty Images.

Hugo Boss Prize 2018

Simone Leigh Receives Guggenheim’s Hugo Boss Prize

The Prize honours Simone Leigh's longstanding and unwavering commitment to addressing black women…

Otobong Nkanga, 2018. Foto: Yannick Sas. Courtesy of Berliner Festspiele, Gropius Bau.

Gropius Bau Berlin Programme 2019

Otobong Nkanga is New Artist in Residence

After Wu Tsang in 2018, Otobong Nkanga continues the Artist in Residence programme…

Patricia Kaersenhout, Guess who's coming to dinner too? Installation view at WOW, Amsterdam, 2017. Photo: AatJan Renders. Courtesy the artist.

The Netherlands: Untold Tales

Patricia Kaersenhout: Regaining Dignity Through Revealing Erased Histories

The Netherlands was one of the most belligerent European colonial empires. Driven by…

Thierry Oussuo, 2018, Johannesburg

Tollman Award for the Visual Arts

Thierry Oussou Wins the 14th Tollman Award for the Visual Arts

Described as a ‘social archaeologist’, Thierry Oussou, born 1988 in Allada, Benin, uses…

Nikita Gale, ECHO I and ECHO II, 2018, acoustic foam, cement, approx. 5.5 x 8 x 1.25 in and 7.25 x 6 x 1.25 in. Courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council. Photo: Ruben Diaz.

In Conversation with Nikita Gale

Experiencing Anonymity Through Abstraction

Sound is an intimate medium to California based artist Nikita Gale. In her…

C& América Latina Print Isse #1 © Contemporary And

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C& América Latina Print Issue #1

After being launched as a new online platform this spring, C& América Latina…

David Shrobe, Portal, 2017, mixed media, 42 x 38 x 7 in. Courtesy of Jenkins Johnson Gallery.

David Shrobe: Somewhere in Between

Decoding Black Materiality

David Shrobe is an artist’s artist, he is garnering interest from fellow contemporaries,…

Studio Museum in Harlem: NINA CHANEL ABNEY, “Untitled,” 2012 (detail)(acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches). | Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, © Nina Chanel Abney

Historic Bequest

The Studio Museum in Harlem and Duke Ellington School of the Arts Receive Historic Gift From The Collection Of Peggy Cooper Cafritz

The unprecedented bequest of more than 650 works has been called the largest…

Interference 2018. Claire Fontaine. Photo: Jennifer Braun

INTERFERENCE Tunis 2018

How Tunisians Reclaimed their Capital City with Light Art

Connecting contemporary art with architecture, INTERFERENCE is an international light art project in…

Magia, 2014, stiching, binding, and different fabrics

Sonia Gomes

“My Work Is Black, Feminine and Marginal”

Sonia Gomes’s immersion into the feminized textures of yarn, fabric and color moves…

Preview of The Chimurenga Library at The Showroom, London 2015 Photo: Dan Weill. Courtesy Chimurenga, The Otolith Collective and The Showroom.

Vera List Center’s Art Prize

Chimurenga Named Winner 2018–20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

Chimurenga is a pan-African collective that supports editorial platforms, programs, artist resources, and…

blank, 2018 Focus Stand Prize Winner, Frieze London 2018 
Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Linda Nylind/Frieze

Frieze London 2018

Focus Stand Prize for blank

Frieze London has given its Focus Stand Prize to Cape Town based blank…

Chandra McCormick.

'Slavery. The Prison Industrial Complex'

The LA exhibition attempting to re-humanize US prisons

With 22% of all the world's prisoners, the USA is the biggest jailer…

Phoebe Boswell,

Installation view

Phoebe Boswell: She Summons an Army

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

(left) Depiction of Dogon God “Amma ”, shown like many ancient God’s with an elongated head. (right) Cover of Dr. Marimba Ani, Yurugu: An African- Centered Critique Of European Thought and Behavior, 1994.

Racism: a bigger picture

“Germanomania” and the Myth of Nationalism

The unfading legacies of Western racism is a paradigm C& continuously examines through…

Courtesy Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber.

Sharjah Biennial 14

Sharjah Art Foundation Announces Artist List and Commissions

Open to the public from March 7 to June 10, 2019, the 14th…

Image: Betye Saar in her Laurel Canyon studio, Los Angeles, ca. 1976, courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California, photo Richard Saar.

African American Art History Initiative

Betye Saar Archive Acquired by Getty Research Institute

Getty Research Institute (GRI) announced the establishment of the African American Art History…

Claude Gomis, Solidarity with Sékou Touré, 2016. Photo. Courtesy of the artist

Racism: a bigger picture

Using the Language of the Past to Reflect on Racism Today

The unfading legacies of Western racism is a paradigm Contemporary And continuously examines…

Lauren Haynes. Photo by Beth Hall, Courtesy Armory Show

Armory Show 2019

Lauren Haynes to Curate Focus Section

The Armory Show’s 2019 edition, marking the fair’s 25th Anniversary Year since its…

kate-hers RHEE, And then there were none. ©2013, performance HD video and C-Print photography, courtesy of the artist

Racism: a bigger picture

The Black, Asian and White Racial Triangulation

The unfading legacies of Western racism is a paradigm Contemporary And continuously examines…

(left) Edson Chagas (right) Wangechi Mutu. Courtesy of Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.

Smithsonian’s African Art Award

3rd African Art Award to Edson Chagas and Wangechi Mutu

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art celebrates with the African Art Award…

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…

Installation view of Ruins Decorated by Yinka Shonibare MBE at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, 2018. Courtesy Goodman Gallery.

In Conversation with Yinka Shonibare MBE

Metaphors for Humanity

It’s his first solo exhibition on the continent in fifteen years: This month…

Africa Hall, Sharjah, 2018.  Image courtesy of The Africa Institute

Africa Hall Rebuilt

The Africa Institute Opens in Sharjah

The newly-established Africa Institute will be based in Sharjah’s Africa Hall that reopens…

Paramount Studios - Courtesy Paramount

Frieze Los Angeles

Hamza Walker to curate Frieze Talks and Music at Inaugural Edition in L.A.

Frieze announces the 68 participating galleries in the inaugural edition of Frieze Los…

(left) James Baldwin and Margaret Mead, A Rap On Race, book cover of 1970. (right) Langston Hughes, The Ways Of White Folks, book cover of 1934.

C& Center of Unfinished Business

How Germany is in Denial of its Historical Racism Today

In this series, C& and ArtsEverywhere commission texts inspired by the books in…

Interference 2018. Ghorbel and Mhiri. Photo: Jennifer Braun

Installation view

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

Installation view

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.

Installation view

33ª Bienal de São Paulo – Affective Affinities

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

Photo: Cover of the O Menelick 2º Ato Magazine Edition 00

Prince Claus Fund

The 2018 Prince Claus Awards Honour Market Photo Workshop and O Menelick 2º Ato

In 2018 Prince Claus Awards honour seven outstanding and visionary organisations and individuals…

Shuddhabrata Sengupta at Global Academy II, Salzburg 2018. Photo: Olamiju Fajemisin

The International Summer Academy Salzburg

Why Decolonising the Arts Must Be an Intersectional Effort

In an event held in Salzburg, Austria, art practitioners from across the world…

Meleko Mokgosi, Democratic Intuition Lerato Philia I, 2016 © Meleko Mokgosi. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Round Table "identity"

Meleko Mokgosi: “the limitations that produce narrow interests are not caused by the artist”

In our ongoing series of round-table discussions we ask a selection of artists…

Exhibition view: Christophe Ndabananiye,

Christophe Ndabananiye

Searching for Mental Topographies

The Villa Romana in Florence is opening its space and this year’s winners…

N'Gone Fall. Image: by F.DIOUF Photography. Courtesy of Institut français,

SEASON AFRICA 2020

N’Goné Fall appointed General Commissioner of the Season Africa 2020

The SEASON AFRICA 2020 is an invitation to look, learn and understand the world…

Ozhope Collective, “Row” (2018), Courtesy of the Collective

“Thinkivist” Art

The Ozhope Collective and the Oil Debate in Malawi

Oil is a tricky good, especially when found in the waters of a…

Haroon Gunn-Salie with his artwork, Senzenina, 2018. Courtesy of the artist & Goodman Gallery.

FNB Art Prize

FNB Art Prize 2018 awarded to Haroon Gunn-Salie

Cape Town-born artist and activist Haroon Gunn-Salie has been announced as the 2018…

(both images) Francis X. Nnaggenda, without title. Collection and Image courtesy: Weltkulturen Museum

In Conversation with Francis Nnaggenda II

Art Crossroads with Ugandan Mastery 

By expediently excluding Ugandan masters from a rich East African heritage, the 2018…

Francis Nnaggenda, Title and Year unknown, from private collection Rose Rohrer.

In Conversation with Francis Nnaggenda I

A Lifetime Shaping Art and Education in Uganda

Prof. Francis Nnaggenda is a legendary art educator, sculptor, and painter whose artworks…

Legacy Russell , Photo: Daniel Dorsa, Copyright © 2018 The Studio Museum in Harlem, All rights reserved.

New Associate Curator, Exhibitions

Legacy Russell Joins Curatorial Team at The Studio Museum in Harlem

Russell brings to the Studio Museum extensive, wide-ranging experience in organizing exhibitions and…

Exhibition view Connecting the Dots at Temple Muse, Lagos, 2018. Courtesy SMO Contemporary Art

In Conversation with Olumide Onadipe

Giving Social Commentary a Visual Voice

Olumide Onadipe’s art stems from an anger at the way things are. So…

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…

Black Lunch Table. Photo by Angela Hennessy

Black Lunch Table

Using the Lunchroom to Connect Black Arts Professionals

Starting from the phenomenon of self-segregation during lunchtime in schools and workplaces, Black…

Whitney Museum of American Art New York. Photograph by Ed Lederman.

"The spectacle of Black trauma"

Why Double Standards in Representation Need to End in the Arts

The censure with which a painting of Dana Schutz’s son was met in…

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…

Fridericianum, photo: Mathias Völzke

documenta 15

Gabi Ngcobo and Elvira Dyangani Ose are part of the Finding Commission for the next documenta

The Finding Commission for documenta 15, which will take place in Kassel from 18…

David Goldblatt, A farmer's son with his nursemaid, Heimweeberg, Nietverdiend, Western Transvaal, 1964. Courtesy Goodman Gallery

In Memory of David Goldblatt

Remembering One of South Africa’s Greatest Photographers

David Goldblatt, who passed away at the end of June, remains one of…

 Exhibition view

place

Jahmek Contemporary Art

Kelvin Haizel, things and nothings, 2017. Installation view at the 11th Bamako Biennial. Courtesy the artist.

C& Print Issue #9: Round Table

Kelvin Haizel: “The question points to the overburdened subject every artist from the Global South has had to grapple with in the last thirty years.”

In our ongoing series of round-table discussions we ask a selection of artists…

Prizewinner Bolatito Aderemi-Ibitola (cnter) with Finalists, Ayo Akinwande (right) and Williams Chechet (left). Image: courtesy of Art X Lagos

Art X Lagos

Bolatito Aderemi-Ibitola receives the ART X Prize with Access 2018

Bolatito Aderemi-Ibitola was one of three finalists beside architect, photographer and multi-disciplinary artist…

Portrait of Kara Walker; photo: Ari Marcopoulos, Courtesy of SFMOMA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Kara Walker wins Contemporary Vision Award 2018

The award, which is organized by the Modern Art Council – a SFMOMA…

Paa Joe and Elisabeth Efua Sutherland, Akԑ yaaa heko // One does not take it anywhere, opening. Courtesy Gallery 1957, Accra. Photo Nii Odzenma

C& Print Issue #9: Round Table

Elisabeth Efua Sutherland: “It’s about the power of the narrative. People ask you, ‘Who are you?’”

In our ongoing series of round-table discussions we ask a selection of artists…

The Allure of Gold and Other Solidarity Stories, 2018, installation view, part of Keleketla Library, 10. Berlin Biennale, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin, photo: Timo Ohler

10th Berlin Biennale

Sounds That Resist Oblivion: The Golden Dreams of Keleketla! Library

Merging sound and memory, Keleketla! is the South African project that put together…

Photograph by Mikhael Subotzky, January 2018

In Memoriam

David Goldblatt has died

Renowed photographer David Goldblatt has passed away at the age of 87.

(left) Cover of Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (right) Lyle Ashton Harris, Brotherhood, Crossroads and Etcetera #3 [in collaboration with Thomas Allen Harris], 1994. Courtesy the artist.

C& Center of Unfinished Business

How Frantz Fanon Has Influenced Generations of Queer Artists

In this series, C& and ArtsEverywhere commission texts inspired by the books in…

Sandrine Colard appointed Artistic Direcetor

Biennale of Lubumbashi

Sandrine Colard appointed Artistic Direcetor

The 6th edition of the Biennale of Lubumbashi will be held in fall…

Thierry Oussou, Before It Is Completely Gone , 2018. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg 

10th Berlin Biennale Special

From Archeological Methods to Contemporary Art

With C&’s Julie Abricot, the painter Thierry Oussou explains why his work for…

Las Nietas de Nonó, Ilustraciones de la Mecánica, 2016–18, mixed media; performances; documentation of the performance from 08.06.18, 10. Berlin Biennale, Volksbühne Pavillon, Berlin, courtesy Las Nietas de Nonó, photo: Timo Ohler

10th Berlin Biennale

Las Nietas de Nonó: “We Need to Heal the Wounds”

The Puerto Rican sisters and artists Lydela and Michel Nonó present their performances…

Arthur Jafa, Dreams are Colder than Death (Still), 2013. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome.

10th Berlin Biennale Special

GOD’S P(L)AN

When discussing art and culture, capitalism and neoliberalism are often overlooked. This in…

Vidéo performance Lubumbashi-Kinshasa de FUNDI MWAMBA (FM) Gustave Giresse et Michael DISANKA (video still), 2018. Une production de O2 Studios, Collectif D'art D'art et Mite Enternenement.

Video Art

From Experimentation to Video Art in FM Gustave Giresse’s Work

He uses striking images, such as his own face caked in mud and…

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…

'Elvira Dyangani Ose at Basilea, Creative Time and ArtBasel, Basel, 2018.' Photo by Guillermo Domínguez Terry.

The Showroom

Elvira Dyangani Ose appointed as new Director

The London art space The Showroom has announced the appointment of their new…

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…

Lyle Ashton Harris, Verona #1, 2001-2004. Courtesy of Lyle Ashton Harris.

The World's Game

Football and Contemporary Art

Football is more than a game. Various contemporary artists have fiercely explored the…

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…

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…

Johanna Unzueta, Mural Sink (Detail), 2018. Felt and thread , 300 x 200 x 35 cm. Courtesy the artist and 57w57Arts Gallery, NY

10th Berlin Biennale Special

Where Industrial Buildings Come In Pocket Sizes

Johanna Unzueta’s topic is labor. Not just in the social and historical sense…

Dineo Seshee Bopape, Lerole footnotes (The struggle of memory against forgetting), 2017. Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg/Beirut. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn

10th Berlin Biennale Special

Giving Birth Being Birthed

Dineo Seshee Bopape's complex creativity gives form to a practice that is simultaneously…

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…

Karl Peters, Portrait of Mildred Thompson, early 1970s. Photograph taken with fish-eye lens

10th Berlin Biennale Special

Opacity is a Different Kind of Clarity

Since the announcement in late 2016 of Gabi Ngcobo as the curator of…

Julia Phillips, Exoticizer, Worn Out (Josephine Baker’s Belt), 2017. Courtesy the artist and The Studio Museum in Harlem

10th Berlin Biennale Special

In Minimalism Everything Counts

The German-born artist Julia Phillips met C&’s Will Furtado to talk us through…

boychild. Foto credit: Inès Manai

In Conversation with Wu Tsang

Rethinking the Museum of Tomorrow

Who does the museum appeal to, who does it welcome, and who does…

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…

Okwui Enwezor (detail). Copyright: Lydia Gorges

Haus der Kunst in Munich

Okwui Enwezor steps down as director

Enwezor had served as director of the Haus der Kunst since 2011 and…

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

Installation view

Ana Mendieta in Berlin

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

Kapwani Kiwanga, Flowers for Africa (installation view, Stories of Almost Everyone at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles), 2018, protocol to guide the reconstruction of floral arrangement with the use of iconographic documentation, variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Jérôme Poggi-Paris, Galerie Tanja Wagner Berlin, Goodman Gallery SA. Photo: Brian Forrest

Shortlist Announced

Kapwani Kiwanga nominated for 2018 Sobey Art Award

The Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada announced the five…

(left) Cover Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka. (right) Jesus Christ

C& Center of Unfinished Business

The British War on Yoruba Spiritualism

In this series, C& and ArtsEverywhere commission texts inspired by the books in…

Eneida Sanches, Transe Iluminado, 2007. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Tracy Collins.

Religion as Inspiration

Eneida Sanches – Trance and Dimensional Displacement

Among black women artists from Brazil, she is one of the few who…

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…

Decolonize Mitte activist. Photo: Tahir Dell

News

Berlin Decolonises Some Streets

The city of Berlin has decided to decolonise the names of some streets,…

Miles MacGregor, Mural in Havana, 11th Havana Bienal, 2012. Courtesy of the artist.

Between the Official the Alternative

What Happened With the Havana Biennial?

The traditional Havana Art Biennial was cancelled this year, resulting in strong protests…

Dario Calmese, no. 155 (from Amongst Friends Series), detail, 2012. 36”x36”, achival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation with Dario Calmese

The Bohemian Harlem Socialite That Inspired a Photography Project

Upon meeting Harlem socialite Ms. Lana Turner, Dario Calmese was so fascinated with…

Kendell Geers, Hanging Piece (1993). Courtesy of Zeitz MOCAA.

Zeitz MOCAA Cape Town

A Change in Leadership

It hasn’t been an easy start for the Zeitz MOCCA Museum in Cape…

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…

Adriana Bustos, The Sea and its multiple tributaries, detail, part of the Return of the Repressed, 2017. Courtesy the artist.

Argentina's Black Legacy

Relationship Status: It’s Complicated

The “disappearance of the black” in Argentinian identity is one of the most…

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

Installation view

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&

Installation view

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

Installation view

1-54 New York

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

Shiraz Bayjoo, filmstill

Dak'Art 2018: In Conversation with Shiraz Bayjoo

Broadening the Perspectives on De-Colonisation

Having grown up between two fishing towns his interest in everything oceanic was…

Installation view at Galpão VB, the new venue of Videobrasil Festival , Courtesy: Associacao Videobrasil, © Ricardo Amado

Remembering Dak'Art 2016

Changing Directions Whenever Necessary

Solange Farkas was one of the guest curators of Dak’Art 2016. C& talked…

Oneika Russell, Ambassador of the New World (video still/ installation detail), 2016

Dak'Art 2018: In Conversation with Oneika Russell

Riding the Waves of Time

Oneika Russell has always been fascinated by the cultural ambiguities of her native…

© Arp, Jean / AUTVIS, Brasil, 2017. Formas expressivas (1932). Coleção Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de
São Paulo. Design: Raul Loureiro Reprodução: Eduardo Ortega / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

Bienal de São Paulo

Artist-curators reveal their exhibition proposals for the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo

Seven group shows curated by selected artists will be exhibited alongside twelve individual…

Arjun Appadurai, Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, 1996. Courtesy: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Conference Echoes of the South Atlantic

Arjun Appadurai: “The relevant issue is: rich versus poor”

The Indian anthropologist and professor at the New York University, Arjun Appadurai, warns…

Unlimited, General Impression
© Art Basel

Art Basel 2018

Art Basel announces details of its Unlimited sector

Presenting 71 premier works in a unique setting

Isaac Julien, True North Series No. 6, 2004. Courtesy the artist.

Echoes of the South Atlantic

Der Black Atlantic – Subject of (Counter)Memory

The project “Der Black Atlantic,” presented at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in…

Courtesy 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.

We don’t need another hero

10th Berlin Biennale Announced Participating Artists

The 10th Berlin Biennale is curated by Gabi Ngcobo with a curatorial team…

Ayesha Hameed, Black Atlantis, Live audio visual essay, 2016.

Conference Echoes of the South Atlantic

Ayesha Hameed and the Future – Between Resistance and Destruction

In “Black Atlantis”, artist Ayesha Hameed looks into the possible afterlives of the…

Mahdi Ehsaei, Khaje-Ata, Bandar Abbas. 2015. Photo. © Mahdi Ehsaei. Courtesy of the artist.

Photography

Looking Beyond Documentation of Afro-Iranians

In recent years, the Afro-Iranian community has been under the spotlight. In 2015…

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 

Collection

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…

Emo De Medeiros, Poposed Installation view - Inside the Red Hour, via kickstarter Proposed Installation. Image-credit: Hugo Sibut-Pinote

Dak’Art 2018

Emo de Medeiros launches crowdfunding campaign to finance installation in Dakar

He will be presenting a new transmedia artwork, entitled )U( , a transmedia artwork about…

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…

Hasan and Husain Essop, Cape Town (South Africa), Variation, 2009. Pigment print on cotton rag paper. To see in

In Conversation with Same Mdluli

A Sense of Ubuntu

Young South-African curator Same Mdluli joined the Standard Bank Gallery as manager in…

Cathy Wilkes, Untitled, 2012, installation view, MoMA PS1, 2017. Courtesy: the artist and MoMA PS1; photograph: Pablo Enriquez

Venice Biennale 2019

Cathy Wilkes and Dr Zoe Whitley appointed artist and curator of the British Pavilion

Cathy Wilkes has been selected to represent Great Britain at the 58th Venice…

apexart Announced Winning Proposals

Open Call 2018-2019

apexart Announced Winning Proposals

apexart’s International Open Call accepted ideas for group exhibitions to be presented anywhere…

Lara Almarcegui, Isabel Lewis and Santiago Cirugeda (Recetas Urbanas). Participants in the 2018 Art Basel public art project in Basel

Art Basel

Creative Time to present its first international project at Art Basel 2018

Lara Almarcegui, Isabel Lewis and Recetas Urbanas will collaborate on a public project…

Installation view of Stories of Almost Everyone. Photo: Joshua White

In Conversation with Aram Moshayedi and Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi

„To Think a Thing Through”

Stories of Almost Everyone at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles engages with…

Image from Bag Factory work shop MOTHERS TONGUE. Photo: Lungile Hlatshwayo

In Conversation with Thuli Mlambo-James and Libita Clayton

“We’re all in this together”

A year ago, Thuli Mlambo-James was appointed new director at Johannesburg’s renowned Bag…

Array of old cars on display outside of the Village Unhu security wall. Photo: Tinashe Muchuri

Village Unhu

The Project Space Cultivating a Community of Artists in Harare

Founded by three creatives, Village Unhu in Harare, Zimbabwe, is an art space…

Mídia Ninja, Rio de Janeiro, March 20th 2018​. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Artists’ Voices

Marielle Franco’s assassination and Afro-Brazilian perspectives

The shots that killed the Rio de Janeiro City Councilor echoed throughout Brazil…

Lawrence Lemaoana, Crazy, 2017, Embroidery on kanga, 258 x 299 cm, 101 x 117 in.

1-54 New York 2018

Exhibiting Galleries Announced

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns for its 4th edition in New…

Brother(hood) Dance!, Photo: Jaimé Dzandu

C& Print Issue #8: Brother(hood) Dance!

Giving Same-Gender Love Visibility Through Dance

Ricarrdo Valentine and Orlando Hunter, the artists behind Brother(hood) Dance!, met four years…

Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (still), 2016, single-channel video (color, sound), 7:30 minutes, courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome.

Curatorial Pitfalls

On Arthur Jafa and the US-centrism of Black representation in Europe

When representing Black life in art, curators in Europe tend to focus on…

Street Level View of Main Entrance, Courtesy Adjaye Associates

Sotheby’s Art Auction

Creating Space: Artists for The Studio Museum in Harlem

Artists including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon,…

Radha May, Installation View, When the Towel Drops Vol 1 Italy, Fabrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy, 2016

In Conversation with Radha May

The Collective Unearthing: Censored Scenes from Postwar Italian Cinema

The artist collective Radha May has created a work from scenes depicting expressions…

The Project in Finland Democratizing Gallery Space

Museum of Impossible Forms

The Project in Finland Democratizing Gallery Space

In 2017 three friends in Helsinki, Finland, joined forces to counter the inaccessibility…

Exterior Perspective, Courtesy of Adjaye Associates

Designed by Adjaye Associates

A New National Cathedral For Ghana

The concept for the new National Cathedral establishes a unique, 21st century landmark…

Courtesy of Kampala Art Biennale

THE STUDIO

Kampala Art Biennale Returns with a New Concept

The Kampala Art Biennale revealed it's new concept for 2018. It will be…

Glenn Ligon, Notes on the Margin of the

C& Center of Unfinished Business

The First Artist to Challenge the White Queer Gaze in a Biennial

In this series, C& and ArtsEverywhere commission texts inspired by the books in…

Book page of Made in Mali. Photo: Luciane Ramos-Silva

Inside the Library

Acervo Àfrica, São Paulo

(FR) C& s’intéresse régulièrement aux collections de livres abritant des publications rares. Cette fois, la bibliothèque de Acervo Àfrica à Sao Paulo.

Jota Mombaça, The Feel of a Problem, Berlin Biennale 10 #1 Public Program. Photo: Anthea Schaap

C& Print Issue #8: Jota Mombaça

Exploring the Body as Colonial Occupation

Switching between writing and performance, Jota Mombaça is an artist kicking against the…

Em’kal Eyongakpa Receives Henrike Grohs Art Award 2018

Winner announced

Em’kal Eyongakpa Receives Henrike Grohs Art Award 2018

Em’kal Eyongakpa is the first recipient of the Henrike Grohs Art Award, conceived…

Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Cristofano Allori (as picked by Hettie Judah)

Art World

#metoo – where do we take it from here?

Since the #metoo campaign resurfaced in 2017 in the wake of the Weinstein…

Collective Zbel Manifesto, A Dinner in Town. Courtesy of Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden in Marrakesh, Morocco.

MACAAL Marrakech

Morocco Opens its First Museum for Contemporary Art

At the end of February 2018, Morocco opened its first museum for contemporary…

Contemporary And Presents: C& América Latina

NOW LIVE!

Contemporary And Presents: C& América Latina

A new multilingual Platform focusing on the connections between Afro-Latin America, the Caribbean,…

Henrike Grohs Art Award 2018: Shortlisted Artists, left to right: Em’kal Eyongakpa, Georgina Maxim and Makouvia Kokou Ferdinand

Henrike Grohs Art Award

Shortlist Announced For New Prize for African Artists

Em’kal Eyongakpa (Cameroon), Georgina Maxim (Zimbabwe) and Makouvia Kokou Ferdinand (Togo) have been…

Jean David Nkot , www.kolofata.it (Detail), 120x120cm, mixed media, 2015. Courtesy the artist

C& Print Issue #8: Jean David Nkot

Art as a Place of Remembrance

Jean David Nkot’s work examines the human condition and its place in a…

Samuel Fosso - NPG London - 2017 (c) Jorge Herrera, courtesy of ICP

Infinity Awards

Samuel Fosso wins ICP’s Infinity Art Award 2018

The International Center of Photography (ICP) announced the 2018 honorees of its annual…

Malick Sidibé, Christmas evening. 1963.

Exhibition Histories

The Short Century

In this series, C& is revisiting the most discussed, loved, hated, thought-provoking, and…

Keyezua, Fortia - Sailing Back to Africa as a Dutch Woman 02, 2017. Courtesy Investec Cape Town Art Fair and the artist.

In Conversation with Keyezua

Bringing Ritual Back to the Mask

For 2018’s Cape Town Art fair, Luanda-based artist Keyezua will show a series…

Guy Woueté, Love Jungle series. A set of 64 photos taken during the dismantlement of Calais’Jungle, a French refugee and migrant camp, in October 2016. Dimensions variable. © Guy Woueté.

C& and art21 magazine

Blending Art and Reportage with Guy Woueté

Cameroonian artist Guy Woueté takes inspiration from everyday life to create his paintings,…

LaToya Ruby Frazier, Pat Brunty, the caretaker standing behind No Contest 1994, Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum, Joshua Tree, CA, Gelatin silver print (2017)

Powerful Reminders of Underserved Communities

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Pictures Show How People Live Without Water

In LaToya Ruby Frazier’s first commercial show in New York, the artist exhibits…

Curator Adrienne Edwards. Photo by Whitney Browne.

Whitney Museum

Adrienne Edwards appointed Curator of Performance

The Whitney Museum in New York has appointed Adrienne Edwards as the museum’s…

Image: Left to right: Mostapha Romli, Founding President; Michèle Desmottes, Director of Communication; Christine Eyene, Artistic Director of the 4th International Biennial of Casablanca. Photo: Brahim Taougar.

Biennial of Casablanca

Curatorial Committee for 2018 Announced 

The committee is composed of Dr. Ethel Brooks, Yasmina Naji, Ema Tavola and…

The man who reclaimed African culture from Western ethnology

Cheikh Anta Diop

The man who reclaimed African culture from Western ethnology

In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth another article from the C& Archive! Université Cheikh Anta…

Where Do We Go From Here?

#BlackHistoryMonth

Where Do We Go From Here?

In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth another article from the C& Archive! Cultural anthropologist Misa…

When the Generals Ruled and Black Culture Mattered Less

Abdias do Nascimento

When the Generals Ruled and Black Culture Mattered Less

Abdias do Nascimento was a prominent Afro-Brazilian scholar and radical theater maker who…

Kapwani Kiwanga, © Bertille Chéret, Courtesy of Galerie Jérôme Poggi

Frieze New York 2018

Kapwani Kiwanga Wins Inaugural Frieze Artist Award

The Paris-based artist will realize an open-air installation, exploring freedom of movement and…

View of LKB/G in Hamburg. Courtesy of the gallery

place

LKB/G

Image: Henrike Grohs. Copyright Marc-André Schmachtel.

Henrike Grohs Art Award

New Prize For African Artists Is A Call For Reflection And Action

The first recipient of the Henrike Grohs Art Award, conceived by the Goethe-Institut…

left :Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley / Oil on canvas, 2018 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © 2018 Kehinde Wiley
right: Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald / Oil on linen, 2018 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

National Portrait Gallery

Barack and Michelle Obama Official Portraits Unveiled

Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald are the first African American artists commissioned to…

Bronwyn Katz, Wasgoed draad (2017) | Salvaged wire and mattress lining, 133 x 183 x 18 cm

In Conversation with Bronwyn Katz

Bronwyn Katz Uses Beds to Trace How People Move in the City

Bronwyn Katz is a South African artist working across various mediums who is…

Photo credit: Guillermo Cano, Mickalene Thomas (left) and Racquel
Chevremont (right)

VOLTA 2018

Announcing Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont for 2018 Curated Section

Titled “The Aesthetics of Matter,” the 3rd edition of the Curated Section at…

Sir David Adjaye (Mentor Architecture) and Protégée Mariam Kamara.

Rolex Arts Initiative

New mentors and protégés announced

Sir David Adjaye , Zakir Hussain , Crystal Pite and Colm Tóibín will…

ruby onyinyechi amanze (Foto: Sahar Coston-Hardy)

Montblanc Art Collection

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze one of the recipients of Artist Commission Program 2018

Guided by the belief that the arts inspire new ideas and thinking, the…

Douglas Hodge and Letitia Wright in Black Mirror (2011)

Netflix

Find Out Why Black Twitter Is Going Mad Over Black Mirror

Black Mirror's latest episode Black Museum is a fitting analogy for how Black…

Charles Nkosi. Soweto at dawn, 1979. Watercolor and ink; 42 x 44 cm. Fort Hare University De Beers Collection, taken from De Jager, E.J. 1992. Images of Man: Contemporary South African Black Art and artists, University of Fort Hare Press: Alice, pg 184. © Charles Nkosi.

C& and art21 magazine

The Black Theology in Sokhaya Charles Nkosi’s Paintings

Intertwining religion, Black existentialism, and the emergence of Black consciousness, Black theology is…

Robin Rhode, Frustum series, 2017. © Robin Rhode, images courtesy of the artist

Award

Robin Rhode wins Zurich Art Prize 2018

The jury praised Rhode’s vocabulary of constructivism and ability to see the medium…

Justin Ebanda, Station de la Mémoire, project for SUD2017

C& Print Issue #8: Marilyn Douala Manga Bell

Giving Meaning to the City

Princess Marilyn Douala Manga Bell, the current president of doual’art, introduces SUD as…

Jack Whitten (1939 – 2018)

In Memorium

Jack Whitten (1939 – 2018)

The celebrated abstract painter died on January 20 at age 78.

John Akomfrah, Precarity, 2017. Three channel HD color video installation, 7.1 sound, dimensions variable. © Smoking Dogs Films. Courtesy Lisson Gallery.* 

Announcing 2017 grant recipients

VIA Art Fund has awarded Tacita Dean, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Zanele Muholi

VIA Art Fund has awarded grants totaling 570,000 USD in 2017 in support…

Demonstration against the murder of Patrice Lumumba, Prague1961. Archive of Piyasiri Gunaratna

"Biafra of Spirit" in Prague

Film and Clashing Political Agendas in 1960s Czechoslovakia

In the 1960s Czechoslovakia’s aspiration to a “socialism with a human face” and…

Christian Etongo, Performance at RAVY Biennale 2016. Photo: Francis Omgba

C& Print Issue #8

Yaoundé, a Contemporary Awakening

The Cameroonian capital’s very first contemporary art gallery is rekindling the ambition of…

Nina Chanel Abney, White River Fish Kill, 2017, acrylic and spray, paint on canvas, 84 3/16 x 120 1/8 x 1 , 15/16 inches, signed, dated on the back

In Conversation with Nina Chanel Abney

Using Bright Colors to Tell Dark Realities

In her debut solo exhibition at New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery last December,…

keyon gaskin, it’s not a thing, at “Black genus, genisis, genius,” 2015, Central Library Portland. Photo: Robert Duncan Gray

C& Print Issue #8: keyon gaskin

Disrupting Expectations

keyon gaskin is a Portland-based artist whose performative work is not restricted to…

Bandjoun Station. Photo: Etienne Nsom

C& Print Issue #8: Bandjoun Station

A Truly International Collection

Bandjoun, a small town around 300 kilometers from Yaoundé in Cameroon, reaches out…

Pascale-Marthine Tayou,
La Colonne Pascale, SUD2010.

C& Print Issue #8

Is Douala Cameroon’s Capital of Contemporary Art?

Curator Yves Makongo looks into whether Douala has become the national center of…

Musa N. Nxumalo, Anthology of Youth, Doowap 2, 2016. Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag. Courtesy Smac Gallery

African Biennale of Photography

Bamako Hypothesizes the Future without Neglecting the Past

Entitled Afrotopia, the 11th Rencontres de Bamako – African Biennale of Photography brought…

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

Installation View

Rencontres de Bamako – 11th African Biennale of Photography

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

Oprah Winfrey Will Receive MoMA’s Cultural Entrepreneur Award

David Rockefeller Award

Oprah Winfrey Will Receive MoMA’s Cultural Entrepreneur Award

The Award is presented annually by MoMA

Tabita Rezaire, Sugar Walls Teardom, 2016, Gynaecological chair, mechanical arm, HD video / HD Video / HD video (without gynaelogical chair) Courtesy Goodman Gallery

2017: The Year in Review

Every Work of Art is a Speculative Technology

C& author Sean O’Toole looks beyond the major museum openings and expanding art…

SUD 2017

Focus on the Human

A week in which to discover the visual arts in a new and…

Rujeko Hockley (left) and Jane Panetta (right), Photograph by Scott Rudd

Whitney Museum of American Art

Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta to co-curate the next Whitney Biennial

The 2019 Whitney Biennial goes on view in May 2019

Street Performance of Mugabe's

“Coffin for Head of State”

When Zimbabwe Responded to Mugabe’s Fall with Street Art

After 37 years of a tough rule that restricted freedoms across society, Zimbabweans…

Emeka Ogboh, installation view The Way Earthly Things Are Going (2017). Multichannel sound installation and real-time LED display of world stock indexes. documenta 14 in Athens, 2017. Photo by Marie-Ann Yemsi

Hugo Boss Prize

Guggenheim Announces Short List for 2018

Among the Six Nominees for the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize are Bouchra Khalili,…

Keyezua, Fortia (11), 2017. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Azu Nwagbogu

LagosPhoto 2017 Delves into our Post-truth World

In its 8th edition, LagosPhoto is a major festival for photography in Nigeria.…

Mahi Binebine, Untitled, 2017, Wax and pigment on wood, 200 x 300 cm. Courtesy Sulger-Buel Lovell

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

Gallery List Announced for 1st Marrakech Edition

The first edition of the fair on the African continent will take place…

Justine Gaga, Indignation, Installation, 2012. Courtesy the artist

C& Print Issue #8: Justine Gaga

A Human Dimension

Justine Gaga is a multidisciplinary artist who has taken part in multiple biennales…

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

Installation View

Ex África

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

Admire Kamudzengerere and Rachel Monosov, Transcultural Protocol, performance, 50 min, 2017. Image courtesy of Catinca Tabacaru Gallery

C& Print Issue #8: Admire Kamudzengerere

Where Drawing and Performance Meet

Representing Zimbabwe at the 57th Venice Biennale alongside three other artists, Admire Kamudzengerere…

Athi-Patra Ruga, Miss Azania – Exile is waiting, 2015. 190 x 150cm. Courtesy of the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD/Gallery, Cape Town/Johannesburg.

African Biennale of Photography

Les Recontres de Bamako Announced Winners

The awards of the 11th edition go to Athi-Patra Ruga, Julien Creuzet, Fethi…

Installation view, Preis der Nationalgalerie 2017, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 2017. © Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jan Windszus

In Conversation with Iman Issa

Probing the Possibilities of Labeling

In Iman Issa’s installation Heritage Studies, the artist uses sculptures and text and…

Lubaina Himid, 2017
Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens
Photo: Edmund Blok for Modern Art Oxford

Turner Prize 2017

Lubaina Himid Wins Prestigious Art Prize

Artist, activist, and curator Lubaina Himid is known for using her practice to…

Out Now: Our 8th Print Issue “Conditions”

With a Special on the Art Scene of Cameroon

Out Now: Our 8th Print Issue “Conditions”

For our 8th print issue in English and French, we have talked to…

International Congress of African Culture, 2017. Photo: National Gallery of Zimbabwe

A Groundbreaking Congress in Zimbabwe

How a Historical Art Conference in Africa Was Restaged

The International Congress for African Culture (ICAC) brought scores of international art practitioners…

Lubaina Himid, A Fashionable Marriage, 1987. The Turner Prize Exhibition. Ferens Art Gallery. Hull. Photograph by David Levene.

Still Work to be Done

2017’s Turner Prize Gets Serious

The major art prize for UK-based artists is back and this year’s edition…

Ana Pi, NoirBLUE, Performance. Photo: Daniel Nicolaevsky

The Future is Feminist

Darkness as a Non-representational Field in Ana Pi’s NoirBLUE

In her performance NoirBLUE at Portugal’s Circular Festival, the artist Ana Pi used…

Scholars, Museum Directors, Curators and Artists at the International Conference on African Cultures, 1962. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art in Zimbabwe.

A Groundbreaking Congress in Zimbabwe

How the ICAC Highlighted the Global Influence of Artists from Africa in 1962

In the 1960s in Southern Rhodesia, the International Congress of African Culture made…

Ayo Akinwande, Installation Deaf vs.Dumb, 2017. Photo: Obidike Okafor

Debut Lagos Biennial

The Biennale that Lives on the Edge

Nigeria’s largest city now has its own art biennale. Entitled “Living on the…

Kemang Wa Lehulere, I cut my skin to liberate the splinter, 2017. Photo credit: Paula Court. Courtesy of the photographer & Performa 17.

Performa 17

Performa Names Kemang Wa Lehulere Winner of Fourth Malcolm McLaren Award

The award was given to Cape Town artist Kemang Wa Lehulere for his…

The Underground Museum, Installation view

place

The Underground Museum

Igshaan Adams wins in the Visual Arts Category.

Standard Bank Young Artist Award

Igshaan Adams wins 2018 Award for Visual Art

This year the honours go to Chuma Sopotela (Performance Art), Guy Buttery (Music),…

Jamilah Sabur, Installation If Defined, Then Undefine, 2017 at Dimensions Variable. Courtesy Dimensions Variable.

In Conversation with Jamilah Sabur

Linking South America and the Caribbean

Jamilah Sabur is a Jamaican-born, Miami-based multidisciplinary artist. For her latest solo exhibition…

Installation by Pathy Tshindele, Musée National de Lubumbashi. Photo: Costa Tshinzam

5th Lubumbashi Biennale

Dazzling Art: An Aspiring Congolese Biennale

The fifth edition of the Lubumbashi Biennale runs from October 7 to November…

Thania Petersen, Flamingo (detail), 2017. Backlit photographic print in lightbox Courtesy the artist and Everard Read, Cape Town

Photography at Zeitz MOCAA

Absence and Omission

Asserting black identity, photographers take center stage at the new museum in Cape…

The 33rd Bienal de São Paulo Announced Theme and New Curatorial Concept

"Affective Affinities"

The 33rd Bienal de São Paulo Announced Theme and New Curatorial Concept

Opening on 7th September and running through 9th December 2018, seven artists comprise…

Aboubacar Traoré, Inch’Allah, 2015, photograph. Courtesy the artist.

A Sense of Wanderlust

The Importance of the African Motorcycle in Art

Serving as the symbol of freedom and Africa’s thriving economies, the motorcycle is…

Bili Bidjocka, Last Supper: “Do not take it, do not eat it, this is not my body…”, 2016. 13 public performances and installations which take place in different events and cities around the world. Dak’Art 2016 international exhibition, Installation view, Palais de Justice © C&

DAK'ART 2018

Dakar Biennale Reveals List of Artists

Titled ‘The Red Hour’, the 13th edition of the Biennale of Contemporary African…

Wura-Natasha Ogunji, courtesy of Bienal de São Paulo

Bienal de São Paulo

Wura-Natasha Ogunji Joins the Curatorial Team of 33rd Edition of Bienal de São Paulo

Opening in September 2018, “Affective Affinities” will consist of seven separate exhibitions.

Ndjideka Akunyili Crosby, Super Blue Omo, 2016, Acrylic, transfers, colored pencils, collage on paper, 7 ft. × 9 ft. Courtey the artist.

In Conversation with Missla Libsekal

Art X: Expanding the Notion of Art Fair in Lagos

Art X is a young art fair that is strengthening the art scene…

Jelili Atiku performing at Arthouse Foundation. Photo courtesy Arthouse Foundation.

How To Extend Your Art Horizon

Nurturing and Expanding the Lagos Art Scene

With a rapidly expanding art scene, Nigeria and its artists have to seize…

Wura-Natasha Ogunji, The proof, un undersea volcano, attraction, extraction, distraction (Detail) 2017. Photo: C&

In Conversation with Wura-Natasha Ogunji

Coexistence is just a question of Imagination

In her recent exhibition “Every Mask I Ever Loved” multi-disciplinary artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji…

Wondrous Quotidian Black Lives: Liz Johnson Artur in Conversation

Aimia | AGO Photography Prize

Wondrous Quotidian Black Lives: Liz Johnson Artur in Conversation

Currently shortlisted for 2017’s Aimia | AGO Photography Prize, Canada’s most significant award…

Image credit: The Nest Collective, courtesy of the artists

Afroglossia & A South African Pavilion Without Walls

Performa 17 Spotlights African Artists and Writers

The 7th edition of the Performa Biennial will kick off next week on…

Mary Sibande, In the Midst of Chaos, There is Opportunity (2017). Courtesy Zeitz MOCAA

Zeitz MOCAA

Who is Your Audience?

Zeitz MOCAA, the recently opened Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town,…

Emo de Medeiros, Kaleta-Kaleta, 2013-2017, Videoinstallation on three channels. Courtesy of Sesc_Videobrasil.

Review 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil

Spreading the South

Since its 8th edition the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil has focused on the…

Poku Cheremeh, Pokój, installation 2017. Exhibition Afriques Capitales, Paris.

In Conversation with Poku Cheremeh

Earthworms and Caramels

Poku Cheremeh’s latest work is all about food. And it started out with…

Àsìkò: On the Future of Artistic and Curatorial Pedagogies in Africa 

New Publication from CCA Lagos

Àsìkò: On the Future of Artistic and Curatorial Pedagogies in Africa 

Rajkamal Kahlon. Altered cover of Die Völker Der Erde, by Kurt Lampert, 2017. Ink and gouache on bookcovers. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Rajkamal Kahlon

Constructive Disruptions

Rajkamal Kahlon is looking for trouble. At least in the title of her…

Ben Enwonwu © The Ben Enwonwu Foundation

Conference: Positioning Nigerian Modernism

Unveiling Hidden Truths

Honoring Ben Enwonwu at Tate Modern with the international conference “Positioning Nigerian Modernism,”…

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

Installation View

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&

Installation View

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

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

Theater Gates, Migration Rickshaw for Sleeping, Playing, and Building, 2013. Wood, fabric, metal, plastic, Huguenot House remnants, 68 x 104 x 46 inches. View of 13th Ballad, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2013. © Theater Gates. Photo: Sara Pooley Photography. Courtesy of the artist.

Nasher Sculpture Center

Theaster Gates wins the 2018 Nasher Prize

With a strong focus on the material aspects of memory, history, and place,…

Fatoumata Diabate, Portrait in a night club (Deatil), Bamako, 2012 from the series Sutigui (à nous la nuit). Courtesy the artist

C& and Aperture Magazine

The Midcentury Style

Fatoumata Diabate’s traveling studio revives the golden age of Malian studio portraiture.

Credit: Jaimie Gramston

National Museum of African Art

Augustus Casely-Hayford Named New Director

Casely-Hayford succeeds Johnnetta B. Cole, who retired this year after eight years as…

Christine Eyene (c) Antoine Tempé / Picturetank

Summer of Photography 2018

Christine Eyene to curate Brussels Biennale for Contemporary Photography

In its 7th edition scheduled for June 2018, the biennial will focus on…

Tahir Karmali, PAPER landscape, 2016, handmade paper made from immigration applications and photocopy toner, aluminum screening, and glass, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation with Tahir Karmali

Folding Borders

Since artist Tahir Karmali moved from Nairobi to New York, he has been…

Out Now! New C& Print Issue Special Edition #Nairobi

Special Edition #Nairobi

Out Now! New C& Print Issue Special Edition #Nairobi

Here's our first C& SPECIAL PRINT ISSUE #Nairobi focusing on the great art scene of…

Street Level View of Main Entrance, Courtesy Adjaye Associates

Designed by David Adjaye

A New Home for The Studio Museum in Harlem

The museum unveils the design for the 82,000-square-foot building and announced the historic…

Entrance Afirca Museum of Original Art in Pocheon.

Art from African Perspectives in South Korea

(Still) Adressing Stereotypes 

South Korean artists have been drawn to art from African Perspectives since the…

Impressions of Wood Land School at documenta 14. Photo by Anike Joyce Sadiq. © ifa

In Conversation with Duane Linklater

Centering Indigenous Bodies, Thought and Practice

The gathering Under the Mango Tree–Sites of Learning, that was organized by an…

Mahdi Ehsaei, Afro Iran. (Detail). Courtesy the artist.

Found Footage

The African Merchants of the Indian Ocean Region

Led by African merchants, African migration in the Indian Ocean region was a…

Photograph by Iwan Bann.

South Africa Has a New Art Museum

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa Opens in Cape Town

After four years in development, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA),…

Afriart Gallery, Kampala, Uganda. Courtesy of Jonah Batambuze

Afriart’s Newest Gallery Inspires Ugandan Artists to Dream Big

Beyond Borders and Boundaries

In 2002, as Daudi Karungi prepared to graduate from art school in Kampala,…

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

Installation View

15. Istanbul Biennial: A Good Neighbour

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

CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival Accra 2017, Opening Event. Courtesy of Nii Kotei Nikoi, Abdul Arafat and Josephine Kuuire.

CHALE WOTE Festival: Wata Mata!

Collaborating Against the Odds

Having always looked for alternative modes of representation, this year the directors of…

John Simmons, Checking Teeth, Trindad 2005. Copyrigth John Simmons, ASC.

In Conversation with John Simmons

“My photography speaks a different language”

He has been known as a cinematographer for decades, but he never shared…

Images by Ayo Akinwande. Courtesy CCA Lagos.

OUT NOW: New Publication from CCA Lagos

Àsìkò: On the Future of Artistic and Curatorial Pedagogies in Africa 

The publication documents the work and reflections of the more than 70 cultural…

Christine Eyene at Ormston House, Limerick. Photo: Shane Serano.

Biennial of Casablanca

Christine Eyene appointed curator of the 4th International Biennial of Casablanca

Founded in 2012, the International Biennial of Casablanca aims to create an intercultural…

Otobong Nkanga, The Encounter that Took a Part of Me, 2016, Exhibition View at Nottingham Contemporary, UK

Artes Mundi Art Prize

Shortlist for Artes Mundi 8

The shortlist brings together 5 international contemporary artists who directly engage with everyday…

Zemba Luzamba, The Moment 1, oil on canvas, 2017.

'Éblouissements'

Artists announced for the 5th Biennale de Lubumbashi

The 2017 edition of the Biennale de Lubumbashi, Rencontres Picha will take place…

Emmanuelle Andrianjafy, Nothing’s in Vain, 2017. Courtesy the artist and MACK.

In Conversation with Emmanuelle Andrianjafy

The Shapes of A City

The photographies of Emmanuelle Andrianjafy oscillate between the intimate and the distant. Especially…

Keyezua, Royal Generation, 2016. Courtesy of MOV'ART Gallery

In Conversation with Zoe Whitley

Thinking About South African Artists as the Makers of History

Zoe Whitley, a curator of international art at Tate Modern, is one of…

Photo Credit: Ayo Akinwande

“Living on the Edge”

Participating Artist announced for the 1st edition of Lagos Biennial 2017

The inaugural edition of the Lagos Biennial will be held from the 14th…

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

'The Red Hour’

The Dak’Art announced guest curators for 2018

The Dak’Art 2018 will be held May–June 2018 in Dakar, Senegal.

Carolyn Mims Lawrence, Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free (Detail), 1972. Courtesy the artist and Tate Modern.

Tate Modern: Soul of a Nation

Art in the Age of Black Power

An exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, curated by Zoe Whitley and…

Tshiamo Naledi Letlhogonolo Pinky Mayeng (1993–2017)

In Memoriam

Tshiamo Naledi Letlhogonolo Pinky Mayeng (1993–2017)

One of the youngest members of the female South African artist collective iQhiya,…

Amelia Umuhire, still from Mugabo, 2016. Courtesy the artist

C& and Aperture Magazine

In Rwanda and Europe, Images of Creativity and Survival

An intimate conversation with filmmaker Amelia Umuhire

Peju Alatise is announced recipient of the 2017 FNB Art Prize

FNB Art Prize

Peju Alatise is announced recipient of the 2017 FNB Art Prize

Besides the cash prize, nigerian artist Peju Alatise will have the opportunity to…

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

Installation View

A Labour Of Love

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

Teju Cole, Capri, June 2015. Courtesy the artist.

Writer, Artist, and Photographer

Queering the Heteronormative with Teju Cole

Teju Cole combines image and text to transgress simplistic divisions between media. For…

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…

Andrew Tshabangu, Portrait of a Young Thwasa, from the series Bridges, 2008. Courtesy the artist and Gallery MOMO

C& and Aperture Magazine

Andrew Tshabangu – The Unsung Hero of South African Photography

In searing and poetic images, Andrew Tshabangu chronicles Johannesburg in the age of…

Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Untitled (detail), 2014. Courtesy the artist and Tiwani Contemporary, London

C& and Aperture Magazine

Can African Critics Rewrite the Story of African Photography?

M. Neelika Jayawardane speaks with Emmanuel Iduma about the influential role - and…

Victor Ehikhamenor, A Biography of the Forgotten, 2017. Installation view at Nigerian Pavillion, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy of Tyburn Gallery.

In Conversation with Victor Ehikhamenor

The Purity of Intuition as a Force for Originality

Victor Ehikhamenor is one of Nigeria’s most vibrant contemporary artists. He is currently…

Musa N. Nxumalo, Bongani Msiza (detail) - Alternative Kidz Series , 2009 , C-Print,  87 x 59.5 cm , Ed. of 6 + 2 AP

'Afrotopia'

11th edition of the Rencontres de Bamako announced participating artists

Recontres de Bamako, the African Biennale of Photography, announced the participating artists for…

Imagine Africa

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Imagine Africa

Everyday Africa: 30 Photographers Re-Picturing a Continent

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Everyday Africa: 30 Photographers Re-Picturing a Continent

Namsa Leuba, “Huawua,” 2015, from the series “NGL”, Courtesy the artist and Art Twenty One, Lagos

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Platform Africa

Robert Loder, Triangle Network Conference 2011

In Memoriam

Robert Loder (1934-2017)

On 22 July, Robert Loder, the collector, philanthropist, and co-founder of the Triangle…

Nico Krijno, Boys in pool with masks (detail), 2014. Courtesy the artist

C& and Aperture Magazine

A Readymade World in the Heart of the Country

In a studio outside of Cape Town, photographer Nico Krijno refashions sculpture and…

Liz Johnson Artur, UNTITLED, 1986 to 2010 
Black Balloon Archive , Courtesy of the artist

Aimia | AGO Photography Prize

Liz Johnson Artur and Hank Willis Thomas shortlisted

The Jury selected four international finalists. The public voting begins at the AGO…

Photo: LukasWassmann. , Graphic design: Rupert Smyth.

"A Good Neighbor"

Artist announced for the 15th Istanbul Biennial

The 15th Istanbul Biennial brings together artworks by 55 artists from 32 countries,…

Henry Tayali, Destiny, 1975-80, oil on canvas, 58cm x 89cm. Courtesy of Zukas Family

Focus Zambia: Henry Tayali

Outside the Spotlight

C& author Andrew Mulenga remembers an artist that has shaped the contemporary Zambian…

Kiluanji Kia Henda, A City Called Mirage, 2013–2017, one of fifty black and white photographs. Courtesy of the artist.

“Dubaization”

Architecture Meets Desert in the Work of Kiluanji Kia Henda

Nadia Sesay spoke to multidisciplinary artist Kiluanji Kia Henda about his first solo…

Tschabalala Self, For the Gods (detail), 2015. Courtesy the artist.

Tschabalala Self: Body Agency

Painting the Whole Picture of the Black Female Experience

Tschabalala Self belongs to a new generation of painters depicting a three-dimensional representation…

Martin Abasi Phiri, Casket II, mixed media (1995). Courtesy of William B. Miko

Focus Zambia: Martin Phiri

The Man Who Changed the Zambian Art Scene

C& author Andrew Mulenga explains the conditions under which art lecturer Martin Abasi…

The sniper position in Galindo’s piece El Objectivo (The Objective), 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the author

Documenta 14

Regina José Galindo and the Weapons Industry

With two works at documenta 14 in Kassel, artist Regina José Galindo unpacks…

Max Mbakop, from the BMX series, 2016. Courtesy the artist and YaPhoto

C& and Aperture Magazine

In Cameroon, A New Platform for Emerging Photographers

Podcast by AMET in conversation with Christine Eyene and Landry Mbassi

The Outpost – Issue 7: The Possibility of Finding Home, 2017. Magazine. Courtesy of Townhouse Gallery

Inside the Library

Townhouse Gallery, Cairo

Take a look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer…

Echo Art

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Echo Art

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, 2013. Courtesy of Antoine Tempé.

C& Print Issue #7

Souleymane Bachir Diagne: Trump Troubles

Senegalese philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne chats to C& about post-Trump America and Africa…

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Doual’art

Centre Soleil d’Afrique

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Centre Soleil d’Afrique

©DAAD

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DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program

Àsíkò, CCA Lagos international art program. 2013 Participants at Elmina Castle in Ghana. Photo by Mimi Cherono Ng'ok

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Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Lagos

CHR Window with Drawing - A window with a sketch of a proposal of a work in public by Nothando Mkhize.

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Center for Historical Reenactments

Brooklyn Museum

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Brooklyn Museum

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Afronova Gallery

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Afronova Gallery

Marco Montiel-Soto, Permanent Storm for a Tropical Constellation. Wiener Festwochen, Performeum, Mai 2017, Photo: Lisa Rastl

Twisting the Position

Who discovered whom?

With the exhibition Conundrum of Imagination at the Wiener Festwochen, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng…

Kiosk Gallery Poster: 'Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power', 2017.

Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power

The Origins of Feminist Intersectionality

In the 1980s pioneering events brought together women from Europe and Africa to…

Christopher Udemezue, Untitled (Taken by the loa with a knife in her hand, she cut the throat of a pig and they all swore to kill all the whites on the island), 2017, Digital print. Courtesy the artist.

RAGGA NYC

Congregating the Queer Caribbean Community

For two months in spring this year, the New Museum in New York…

Délio Jasse, The Lost Chapter, Nampula, 1963, 2016. Photographic emulsion and screenprint on Fabriano paper. Courtesy the artist and Tiwani Contemporary, London

C& and Aperture Magazine

Délio Jasse’s Endless Archive

Looking to vintage photographs and alternative processes, the Angolan Portuguese artist engages the…

BAND gallery

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BAND gallery

ArtBakery, Nov. 2003. Photo by Iolanda Pensa

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ArtBakery

Art Twenty One (Art21)

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Art Twenty One (Art21)

‘ILLUSIONS’ by Grada Kilomba. Photo by Moses Leo (2016). Courtesy the artist and Goodman Gallery.

In Conversation with Grada Kilomba 

Living in a Space of Timelessness

C& talks with Grada Kilomba about her transdisciplinary work, the presence of the…

ANO

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ANO

Olu Oguibe, 2017, image: Mathias Völzke

Arnold Bode Prize 2017

Olu Oguibe wins documenta’s Arnold Bode Prize

Olu Oguibe, the Nigerian-born American-based artist, cultural scientist, and curator, has been named…

AfricAvenir Douala Building

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AfricAvenir

School of Engineering at KNUST (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), Kumasi (Ghana), 1956. Photo: James Cubitt. Courtesy of Alexia Webster.

C& Print Issue #7

Department of Now

The teaching methods at Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has…

The Colour Black

Kerry James Marshall: The Mastry

The Colour Black

Where in the primary place of artistic experience do we encounter the Black…

Zohra Opoku, Unraveled Threads, 2017, Screenprints on cotton, canvas & linen 
Joined with thread/ Applications: Kente cloth, wool, acrylic paint etc. Courtesy the artist

In Conversation with Zohra Opoku

From Ghana to Bahia

Multidisciplinary Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku has recently curated the show Nathi.Aha.Sasa. in Vienna…

Guy Tillim, Union Avenue, Harare, 2016 © Guy Tillim, and Stevenson Gallery

HCB Prize 2017

Guy Tillim was awarded the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson 2017 Prize

The jury of the 2017 HCB Award selected South African photographer Guy Tillim for his Museum of the…

Malala Andrialavidrazana, Figures 1889, Planisferio, 2015 © and courtesy the artist; Afronova, Johannesburg; and Kehrer Galerie, Berlin

C& and Aperture Magazine

Malala Andrialavidrazana Redraws the Map

In photographs and photomontages, the Madagascar-born artist considers the global reverberations of African…

Fiston Mwanza Mujila © Leonhard Hilzensauer / Zsolnay Verlag

International Literature Prize 2017

Fiston Mwanza Mujila wins Germany’s International Literature Prize

The German translation of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s debut novel Tram 83 is the…

Host Protocol

C& Print Issue #7

Host Protocol

Sepake Angiama, Head of Education at documenta 14, and Elke aus dem Moore,…

The Exit Tour at the Off of the Dak'art Biennale. Courtesy of the Exit Tour members.

Looking back on the Exit Tour 2006

An Epic Art Journey through West Africa

Led by Goddy Leye, in 2006 seven artists went on a journey from…

Àsìkò Dakar, participants at Raw Material Company, 2014, Dakar. Photo by and courtesy of Erin Rice.

C& Print Issue #7

Àsìkò Diaries

Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Victoria Udondian and Dana Whabira talk to Stephanie Baptist about…

Mohammed Melehi, Sans titre, 1963. Acrylic on canvas, 153 x 127 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

C& Print Issue #7

After Orientalism

The Group of Casablanca pioneered innovative teaching and exhibiting strategies that rejected the…

Sharon Zwi, Soweto Pietà (1980–92), Screen print on paper. Courtesy of the artist.

C& Print Issue #7

Soweto Story

Will South African university students demanding free and decolonised education be lionised like…

Spread from Hââbré: The Last Generation, 2014–16 (Fourthwall Books, 2016). Photographs by Joana Choumali. Courtesy the artist and Fourthwall Books

C& and Aperture Magazine

A Short History of the African Photobook

For Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, publisher of Fourthwall Books, the photobook is a space for…

Art Movements and The Discourse of Acknowledgements and Distinctions

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Art Movements and The Discourse of Acknowledgements and Distinctions

Eric Gyamfi, Some of the LGBT community members organize a night of dance and performance for themselves after the international day against homophobia and transphobia event as a way to get to know other community members and to network. From the series Just Like Us, 2016. Courtesy the artist

C& and Aperture Magazine

In Ghana, Visions of Queer Friendship and Love

Eric Gyamfi reflects on his activism, photography, and telling the stories of West…

Aida Muluneh, Departure, 2016
Courtesy the artist and David Krut Projects

C& and Aperture Magazine

Learning from Addis Ababa

The Addis Foto Fest is a Forum Connecting African Photographers. Ethiopian photographer Aida…

1:54 London 2016 © Victor Raison

Gallery list announced

The 5th London edition of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

41 galleries from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America will take…

A Series of Discordant Arguments

Jamaica Biennial 2017

A Series of Discordant Arguments

Despite featuring a few strong works, the Jamaica Biennial 2017 lacks in curatorial…

Narimane Mari, Le fort des fous, 2017, vidéo numérique, ​vue de l'installation, Ballhaus, Cassel, documenta 14, photo: Fred Dott

Review documenta 14

“Killing the Hierarchy Within You”

The resounding message of documenta 14 Kassel is that we need to give…

Students in front of University of Yaoundé. Courtesy of Paul-Henri S. Assako Assako.

C& Print Issue #7

Troubling Categories

Indifferent African states have enabled Western elites to define the continent’s artistic production,…

 Khadija Saye, who has been named as a victim of the Grenfell Tower fire, had met with an influential gallery director only a day before her death. Photograph: Daffyd Jones/PA

In memoriam

Khadija Saye was on cusp of recognition when she died in Grenfell

The work of Khadija Saye, who died in the fire in a tower…

Fatoumata Diabate, Groupe de lutteurs, Somone, Senegal, 2013, from the series Studio Photo de la Rue. Courtesy the artist.

C& and Aperture Magazine

Through the Lens

In Bamako, a group of young photographers engage a changing city.

Teaching to Empower

C& Print Issue #7

Teaching to Empower

C& asks M. Neelika Jayawardane, Sharlene Khan, and Felwine Sarr about teaching students…

Pélagie Gbaguidi, The Missing link Dicolonisation Education by Mrs Smiling stone, Documenta 14, Athens 2017. Installation, school desks, photographs of Dr. Peter Magubane, glassine paper sheets, drawings with color pencil, earth and lipstick on transparent paper, video, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

C& Print Issue #7

“If you’re running from history, it will eventually catch up with you”

Pélagie Gbaguidi, an artist from Benin appearing on documenta 14, tells C& about…

Deciding what to learn at the School of Improper Education. Courtesy of KUNCI

C& Print Issue #7

Lessons in Impropriety

Born out of a collective of Indonesian student-press activists, KUNCI Cultural Studies Centre…

Jeffrey Deitch Booth at The Armory Show 2017. | Photo by BFA, Courtesy The Armory Show

The Armory Show

Naomi Beckwith is Chairing New Curatorial Leadership Summit at 2018 Armory Show

Gabriel Ritter and Jen Mergel to curate expanded Focus and Platform sections ;…

Arthur Jafa, Dreams are Colder than Death (Still), 2013. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome.

Seeking a new form of Black subjectivity

Love is the Message

Anchored in Kanye West’s gospel-inspired track Ultralight Beam, the award-winning video of Arthur…

Sammy Baloji ©ROLEX/TOMAS BERTELSEN

2017 Robert Gardner Fellowship

Sammy Baloji Named 2017 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography

For his Fellowship year, Baloji will focus on the Gendarmes Katangais, a rebel resistance group…

Kaleb De Groot (Dutch resident artist at Rockstone Sculpture Park), Zig/Zag Proxy, 2008. Cement blocks, plaster, explosives, marble and iron oxide/wax., 4x7x3,5m, Lusaka, Zambia. Courtesy of the artist.

C& Print Issue #7

Make Do

Rockston Studio is an artist-led project in the Zambian capital Lusaka whose ethos…

Tracey Rose,  WhoreMoans: An Uncivil Memoir Of A Rough Ride (2017). Photo: C&

Installation View II

documenta 14

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

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

Installation View I

documenta 14

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

Amira Moraloki, FAKA, 2017. Courtesy the artist and FAKA

C& and Aperture Magazine

Screen Legends

South Africa’s new media artists are transforming the digital world. Khanya Mashabela explores…

Akinbode Akinbiyi, Passageways, Involuntary Narratives, and the Sound of Crowded Spaces, 2015-2017. Inkjet prints. Courtesy of the artist.

C& and Aperture Magazine

Camerawork Now

New technologies have helped and hindered the development of photography on the continent,…

Installation view of Pope.L aka William Pope.L , 'Claim (Whitney Version)' 2017. The Whitney Biennial 2017, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 17 - June 11, 2017. Collection of the artist, courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, Photograph Bill Orcutt 

Whitney Museum of American Art

Pope.L Named Recipient of Whitney Biennial 2017 Bucksbaum Award

For this year’s Biennial, Pope.L staged Claim (Whitney Version), 2017, an immersive installation…

Minia Biabiany, The Unity is submarine, Installation 2015. Courtesy by the artist.

In Conversation with Minia Biabiany

Poetics of Immanence

Minia Biabiany talks about her installation art, how her Caribbean upbringing influences her…

Lubaina Himid, A Fashionable Marriage, 1986. Exhibition view, The Place Is Here, Nottingham Contemporary, 2017. Photo Andy Keate. Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens.

Post-Brexit Perspectives

The Place Is Here. The Time Is Now.

An exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary examined just how the neglected discourse around artists…

Jeannette Ehlers
'Whip it Good’ 2017. Photo: Aukje Lepoutre Ravn. Courtesy the artist.

Decolonial Thinking with Rolando Vázquez

The End of the Contemporary?

In March of this year, the sociologist Rolando Vázquez was invited to Berlin…

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA)

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi Appointed Curator of African Art

Nzewi will lead the African collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, starting…

Installation view 'Kolmanskop Dream' by Pascale- Marthine Tayou, ifa galerie Berlin, Detail ©  Elsa Guily

The History of a “Colonial Ghost”

Rejoining the Times

A joyful aggressiveness surrounds Pascale Marthine Tayou’s sculptural work at its spring debut…

Samuel Fosso, La femme libérée américaine dans les années 70 (The liberated
American woman of the 1970s), 1997, from the series Tati
© the artist and courtesy JM Patras/Paris

C& and Aperture Magazine

The Lives of Samuel Fosso: A Conversation with Yves Chatap

This article is part of a series produced in collaboration with Aperture magazine,…

Detail. Doors of Distance (2017). Printed voile and wooden construction. Dimensions variable. Courtesy Bianca Baldi and Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof. Photo: Michael Pfisterer

Have a second sight with Bianca Baldi

How Spaces Can Be Transformed

Viktoria Draganova talks to Bianca Baldi about her first institutional solo exhibition “Eyes…

7th Print Issue is Out Now!

Documenta 14: Curriculum of Connections

7th Print Issue is Out Now!

Get a first impression of our latest Print Issue #7 focusing on Education.

#SayHerName, 2016, Rose Installation at the entrance to Stevenson, Cape Town. Copyright the artist. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg.

HOW TO MAKE MUSEUMS USEFUL

Old Buildings. New Conversations.

C& author Thuli Gamedze writes about South Africa’s museum’s colonial history and suggests…

Kiluanji Kia Henda in front of his photographies. Courtesy Ana Brígida

Frieze Artist Award 2017

Kiluanji Kia Henda has been awarded this year’s Frieze Artist Award

From 4–8 October, Kia Henda will realize a new installation at Frieze London…

 Kemang Wa Lehulere, Broken Wing, 2016. Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, 2017. Installation view. Photo: Mathias Schormann

Critique: Bird Song

Paying Tribute to Personal and Collective Traumas

Being Deutsche Bank’s “Artists of the Year” 2017, Wa Lehulere is currently showing…

Works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, El Anatsui, and Abdoulaye Diarrassouba (Aboudia) at the Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary African Art Sale Exhibition, London, May 2017 © Patricia A. Banks

Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary African Art Sale

Fluid Categories

Auctions with a focus on modern and contemporary African artists aren’t novelties anymore.…

Mark Bradford, Tomorrow Is Another Day. Venice Biennale, US Pavilion, 2017. Photo: Joshua White. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.

Venice Biennale 2017

Counting bodies: It’s not just about the maths

Since its opening in 1930, it's time to take stock of the US…

Installation at the Number Four Prison Section, Room 1, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg 2017 Image courtesy of Marijn Smulders

Weights and Measures with Natasha Becker

Justice under the Spotlight

The traveling exhibition Weights and Measures by Bradley McCallum just closed at Constitution…

Kadir Nelson, DRAKE: Nothing was the Same, 2013  oil on linen  62” x 30”, Cash Money Records. © Kadir Nelson

On the collaboration between Kadir Nelson and Drake

Boyz to Men

A while ago US-artist Kadir Nelson entered an unlikely creative partnership with rapper…

Through the window of the Boat of History. The Parliament of Bodies, Documenta 14. Photo by and courtesy of Nikos Doulos*

Documenta 14: Athens

In The Surrounds of History

Jota Mombaça recently moved to Athens for observing the multiple events surrounding Documenta…

John Akomfrah (British, born 1957) . The Unfinished Conversation. 2012. Three-channel video (color, sound). 45 min. The Contemporary Arts Council of the Museum of Modern Art, The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art, and through the generosity of Bilge Ogut and Haro Cumbusyan, 2016. © 2017 John Akomfrah.

'Unfinished Conversations' with Thomas J. Lax

“With an Openness to try things anew…”

Our author Magnus Rosengarten met with Thomas J. Lax, one of the curators…

EJ Hill, An Arrangement of Perpetuities, 2017

Venice Biennale 2017

Viva Africa Viva?

Does the label “African” at events like the Venice Biennale finally expire? The…

Richard Kimathi, Bubbles, 2016, mixed media on canvas, 158 x 142cm. Image courtesy of the artist and One-off Gallery, Nairobi.

Venice Biennale 2017

Shaping the Bigger Picture

Jimmy Ogonga, curator of the Kenyan Pavilion for the Venice Biennale, met with…

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…

Libita Clatyton, In the Absence of Ruins There Will be Innovation. Multiple Iconic Political gestures within a 20 minute hand Performance, 1/8 Arnolfini, Uk, 2016

Venice Biennale 2017

Corrupting the Idle Space

Libita Clayton, participating artist at the very first Diaspora pavilion, talks about ideas…

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…

Hassan Khan, Composition for a Public Park (2013/2017). Courtesy of the artist.

Venice Biennale 2017

Hassan Khan wins Silver Lion of the Venice Biennale

The Silver Lion for the most promising young artist of this year's Venice…

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…

Qudus Onikeku, Right Here, Right Now

Venice Biennale 2017

‘How About Now?’

Curator Adenrele Sonariwo sheds a light on her conceptional approach and explains how…

Admire Kamudzengerere. Kushaya Pekutarisa 2017. 117 x 75cm. Monotype and silkscreen on paper. 

Dova Kumeso Kwangu 2017. 114 x 86cm. Monotype and silkscreen on paper.

Guruva Kumeso 2017. 151 x 106cm. Monotype and silkscreen on paper.

Venice Biennale 2017

Admire Kamudzengerere: The Annals of History

The artist elucidates his contextual use of media and explains why sociopolitical issues are key elements of his work.

Arlene Wandera. Pulled
2013. 60 x 42 x 38cm
(Height variable). Plaster, Plastic Bucket, Chains, Ratchet Block, 2 Everymen.

Venice Biennale 2017

A Space, inside and outside

Arlene Wandera reflects on spatiality and tactility, while giving us a quick glance…

Performance by Barby Asante. Photo: Jess Harrington. Courtesy of Barby Asante.

Venice Biennale 2017

African Perspectives at Venice 2017

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

Performance by Barby Asante. Photo by Jess Harrington

Venice Biennale 2017

Barby Asante: Knowledge is Agency

With her work Intimacy and Distance, Barby Asante is a participating artist at…

Cover Illustration

Venice Biennale 2017

Kenya is Another Country

In this essay, artist and writer Neo Musangi takes a look back at…

Sammy Baloji, Tales of the Copper Cross Garden: Episode I, 2017, various materials, EMST—National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, documenta 14, photo: Stathis Mamalakis

Documenta 14 Athens

Why Art Needs to Keep Engaging with the Social

Under the ambitious title "Learning from Athens", this year's Documenta tries to face…

Modupeola Fadugba, Le Papillon: Accra, 2017, acrylic, oil, and ink on burnt paper, 51 x 64 cm. Courtesy of the artist

Modupeola Fadugba at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

Heightened Sensitivity

Multimedia artist Modupeola Fadugba talks about her use of symbolic imagery and fragile…

1:54 New York 2015 © Sasha Arutyunova

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

Art Fairs are opening up

Touria El Glaoui, founder of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, speaks about the…

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

Installation view

Afriques Capitales

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

Zina Saro-Wiwa, The Invisible Man, 2015 © and courtesy the artist

C& and Aperture Magazine

Okwui Enwezor and Artur Walther on the Recent Histories of African Photography

The influential curator Okwui Enwezor and collector Artur Walther discuss African photography, past…

Sonia Boyce’s We move in her way. Photo: George Torode; Courtesy: the artist and ICA, London

Review: Sonia Boyce at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Recouping the remains

In Sonia Boyce's latest presentation, the realms of power and space are closely…

Vue du parvi de la grande halle de la Villette, photographie de Alexis Peskine, Le radeau de la méduse, King Baana 2016. Photo © Elsa Guily

Afriques Capitales: Writing the City

When the city assembles its own language

For the second edition of the multidisciplinary festival 100%, dedicated this year to…

Installation views of Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery, 27 September – 26 November 1995. Courtesy of Whitechapel Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery Archive

Exhibition Histories

Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa

In this series, C& is revisiting the most discussed, loved, hated, thought-provoking, and…

Lubaina Himid: Naming the Money at Navigation Charts (Spike Island)
Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens and National Museums, Liverpool, Photo: Stuart Whipps

Turner Prize

Lubaina Himid and Hurvin Anderson are shortlisted for Turner Prize 2017

Tate Britain announced the four nominees for this years's Turner Prize.

Namsa Leuba, “Huawua,” 2015, from the series “NGL”, Courtesy the artist and Art Twenty One, Lagos

Platform Africa

C& and Aperture Magazine Announce Collaboration

Coinciding with “Platform Africa,” C& and Aperture will produce a collaborative series of…

C&’s First Book: ‘I am built inside you’

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C&’s First Book: ‘I am built inside you’

Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art announces curatorial team

Berlin Biennale

Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art announces curatorial team

Alongside other well known creatives voices from the C& network such as Thiago…

Issa Samb/Joe Ouakam and installation view of Issa Samb's work © Ibrahima Thiam

Obituary

Issa Samb “Joe Ouakam” All-Round Artist

Our author Aboubacar Demba Cissokho pays tribute to iconic artist Issa Samb who…

Macandal's album

Interview with Macandal, Mexican Hip-Hop Artist

Body Balance: Bigidi

As you all know we are celebrating the launch of our first C&…

Visitors looking at works by Miriam Cahn at Meyer Riegger Gallery at Berlin Gallery Weekend 2016. Photo courtesy Berlin Gallery Weekend.

Gallery Weekend

Where to go at 2017 Gallery Weekend in Berlin

Gallery Weekend takes place in Berlin April 27th - 30th, 2017

Issa Samb, documenta 13, Kassel, 2012 © Nordhessen-Rundschau.de

IN MEMORIAM

Issa Samb (1945-2017)

Legendary artist and one of the founding members of the seminal Laboratoire Agit'Art,…

The BelgianArtPrize 2017 goes to Otobong Nkanga

BelgianArtPrize

The BelgianArtPrize 2017 goes to Otobong Nkanga

The artist’s delicate works on transformation processes referring to changes in our society…

Adam Pendleton, shot him in the face. Installation view. KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017. Photo: Frank Sperling

Thinking Black Dada with Adam Pendleton

How Abstraction is Another Word for Freedom

Our author Gauthier Lesturgie met up with artist Adam Pendleton to talk about…

Dineo Seshee Bopape, +/-1791 (Monument to the Haitian Revolution 1791), 2017. Mixed-media installation. Dimensions variable. Produced by Sharjah Art Foundation. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation

A review of Sharjah Biennial 2017

Where Conversations Need to Take Place

Our author Christine Eyene takes a closer look at the 13th Sharjah Biennial,…

Khartoum Contemporary Art Center is opening in Oslo

A cultural center in exile

Khartoum Contemporary Art Center is opening in Oslo

Khartoum Contemporary Art Centre (KCAC) is a conceptual art initiative founded by Fadlabi…

Phoebe Boswell, installation view For Every Real Word Spoken. Tiwani Contemporary, London, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary

Interview with Phoebe Boswell

Breaking the Silence

Multimedia artist Phoebe Boswell talks about her latest show, For Every Real Word…

Group photo of Asiko participants and some of the faculty members standing infront of the African Union building in Addis Ababa. Photo: Aron Simeneh

Curriculum of Connections: Àsìkò Art School

Collaborative Criticism

Martha Kazungu, a former participant of Àsìkò Art School in Addis Ababa, talks…

Architectural sketch for 32º East Ugandan Arts Trust. Periscope UK, 2017. Courtesy of Periscope

32º East Ugandan Arts Trust's New Home

Ugandan Artists Prepare To Soar With Newly Designed Arts Centre

Our author Jonah Batambuze talks to James Hampton, Daniel Rea and Teesa Bahana…

Sabelo Mlangeni, Arob House, 2004. Photography. Courtesy of the artist

C& at Office: Sabelo Mlangeni

“When I dream, I see color…”

South African photographer Sabelo Mlangeni dropped by at Contemporary And’s Berlin office. Here…

Installation view German Colonialism - Fragments Past and Present at the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 2017. ©  Deutsches Historisches Museum

Review: German Colonialism - Fragments Past and Present

”Where Are You Going, White Man?”

This special exhibition on German colonialism opened in October 2016 at the Deutsches…

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

Installation View

documenta 14: Athens

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

Naomi Beckwith, Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

VIA Art Fund

Naomi Beckwith has been selected as VIA’s first Curatorial Fellowship Grante

This annual award aims to support visionary curators by providing discretionary funds for…

Mahesh Shantaram, from the series The African Portraits , 'Prosper/Tanzania/Bangalore/2016'

6th edition of CAP Prize

The CAP Prize announced shortlist for 2017

The winner of the Prize for Contemporary African Photography will be announced in…

Photo: MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Vienna

Finkenwerder Art Prize 2017

Georges Adéagbo has been awarded this year’s Finkenwerder Art Prize

On the occasion of the Finkenwerder Art Prize, the Kunsthaus Hamburg will present…

Announcing the 1st Edition of the Lagos Biennial for Contemporary Art

“Living on the Edge”

Announcing the 1st Edition of the Lagos Biennial for Contemporary Art

The Lagos Biennial will be held from the 14th October to 22nd December…

Okwui Enwezor has been awarded the 2017 International Folkwang Prize

International Folkwang Prize

Okwui Enwezor has been awarded the 2017 International Folkwang Prize

The official award ceremony will take place on 9 October 2017.

Kanye West. Famous, 2016. Video Still.

Pop Culture & Fine Art

Kanye West and the Hyperrealism of Fame

Artists like Vincent Desiderio or Ron Mueck are famous for their exploration of…

Coco Fusco, Words May Not Be Found, 2017, Performance at SOPHIENSÆLE (2017), co-produced with KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Diethild Meier.

Coco Fusco's New Performance Piece: Words May Not Be Found

Facing Historical Realities

Coco Fusco spoke with our author Jasmina Al-Qaisi about her latest research and…

Dalila Dalléas Bouzar, série princesse, 2016-2017

L'art est vivant

Dalila Dalléas Bouzar wins the prize of the 2017 Art Paris Art Fair

The 'L’art est vivant' prize distinguishes the work of an artist from the…

Kemang Wa Lehulere. Installation view Kemang Wa Lehulere: Bird Song. Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, 2017. Photo by Mathias Schormann. © Kemang Wa Lehulere, Sophia Lehulere, Gladys Mgudlandlu, courtesy STEVENSON Cape Town and Johannesburg

Interview: Kemang Wa Lehulere, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle “Artist of the Year” 2017

The Desire to No Longer Be Silent

C& talks to Kemang Wa Lehulere about his show Bird Song, currently on…

Alya Sebti, Director of the ifa Galerie Berlin. Photo by Victoria Tomaschko

Thinking Tout-monde with Alya Sebti

UNTIE TO TIE

Our author Elsa Guily met up with Alya Sebti, the director of the…

Design: Vitor Cesar.

NewsSesc_Videobrasil 2017

Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Sesc São Paulo announce selected artists

50 artists from 25 countries will showcase their works in the 20th edition…

Delio Jasse, Terreno Ocupado , 2014.
Photography. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary

Interview: Art Paris Art Fair 2017

It’s a great occasion for presenting artists who are otherwise invisible in France

Our author Tanja Schreiner interviewed Marie-Ann Yemsi, guest curator for the African focus at…

Chemi Rosado-Seijo, documentation of Salón-Sala-Salón (Labra) (Classroom/Gallery/Classroom [Labra]), Escuela Rafael María de Labra, San Juan, PR, August–December 2014. Courtesy the artist

The Whitney Biennial 2017

Sparking a Much Needed Debate

Our author Will Furtado takes a closer look at this year's Whitney Biennal…

Untitled, 2015.
Mimi Cherono Ng’ok

Magnum Foundation Grant

Mimi Cherono Ng’ok is among the grantees for 2017

The recently launched Magnum Foundation Fund is a program to expand creativity and…

Fridericianum, photo: Mathias Völzke

documenta 14

documenta 14 announced institutional partners and venues

On April 8, documenta 14 opens its exhibition in Athens. Extending over the…

Adrian Piper, The Probable Trust Registry: The Rules of the Game #1-3, 2013-2017, Installation + Group Performance: 3 grey walls reaching from floor to the ceiling, 3 golden circular desks, golden embossed letters, 3 standing desks, 3 lean stools, computer system, 3 receptionists (one behind each desk). Adaptable Dimensions. Detail: The Rules of the Game #1. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Thomas Bruns. Sammlung Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie. 2016 Schenkung der Freunde der Nationalgalerie. © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin. © APRA Foundation Berlin

Review: The Probable Trust Registry: The Rules of the Game #1-3

Adrian Piper’s Utopian Gesture

Our author Jessica Aimufua takes a closer look at Adrian Piper's first solo…

Hélio Oiticica, B17 Glass Bólide 05 Homage to Mondrian, 1965.
Glass, textile, water, pigment, cork. TATE: Purchased with Assistance from the American Fund for the TATE Gallery, TATE Members and the Art Fund 2007 - © Projeto Hélio Oiticica © Tate, London 2016

Review on Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965

Re-enacting the Past

What could lead a group of curators or an institution to set up…

Dineo Seshee Bopape, photo by Delwyn Verasamy

Future Generation Art Prize

Dineo Seshee Bopape wins the Future Generation Art Prize 2017

Dineo Seshee Bopape is the recipient of the 4th edition of the art…

NON at CTM, Berlin, 2017. Photo by Udo Siegfriedt

C& Focus: Performance & Young Global Contemporaries

The Great Sonic Experience

Our author Will Furtado went backstage during rehearsals to meet the performance artist…

Lubaina Himid, Le Rodeur: Exchange, 2016. Courtesy of the artist, Hollybush Gardens, and Modern Art Oxford

Filling in the Gaps

Lubaina Himid’s Art of Excavation

With two retrospectives and a group show happening simultaneously in the first four…

William Pope L., Baile. Performance at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, 2016. Courtesy of Fresh Art International

In Conversation with William Pope.L 

On Endurance

In this podcast episode produced by Fresh Art International, American artist William Pope.L…

Dineo Seshee Bopape. queen of necklace sketch II, 2010, Mixed media, Stevenson Cape Town. Photograph: © Dineo Seshee Bopape. Courtesy of Stevenson Cape Town, Johannesburg.

Sharjah Biennial

Dineo Seshee Bopape is among the winners of the Sharjah Biennial Prize 2017

The four recipients selected this year were Dineo Seshee Bopape, İnci Eviner, Uriel…

The Goethe-Institut and the Grohs family have announced a prize in memory of Henrike Grohs

New Art Prize for African Artists

The Goethe-Institut and the Grohs family have announced a prize in memory of Henrike Grohs

The prize will be awarded once a year to one or several award…

Goede Hoop - South Africa and the Netherlands since 1600, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2017. Photo by the author

Comment: the exhibition Goede Hoop - South Africa and the Netherlands since 1600

History as Fetish | Culture as Commodity

Currently on view at the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum is the exhibition Goede Hoop -…

Performa 17 announces first commissions and theme

100 Degrees Above Dada

Performa 17 announces first commissions and theme

This year's edition is all about Dada and Africa and includes performances by…

Old Forms, New Potential

South South Connections at the Goodman Gallery

Old Forms, New Potential

The Goodman Gallery in South Africa opened its second exhibition under the initiative…

Norman Lewis, Afternoon, 1969, Oil on canvas; 72 x 88 in., Collection of Pamela Joyner, © Estate of Norman Lewis, Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY [Photo: Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

News

Groundbreaking exhibition of African-American art will tour five US venues

Solidary and Solitary: The Pamela J Joyner and Alfred J Giuffrida Collection will…

An ‘other’ stop on the global art trail: 2nd Johannesburg Biennale

Exhibition Histories

An ‘other’ stop on the global art trail: 2nd Johannesburg Biennale

In this series, C& is revisiting the most discussed, loved, hated, thought-provoking, and…

Mariane Ibrahim Gallery and Zohra Okpoku win the first Presents prize of The Armory Show

News

Mariane Ibrahim Gallery and Zohra Okpoku win the first Presents prize of The Armory Show

The award highlights the fair’s new emphasis on the Presents sector, which this…

A Networked Practice

C& Commissions: CUSS

A Networked Practice

For C& Commissions, CUSS present their first horror short film Streetkid. The collective…

Collaborative Curiosity

Don't Mourn, Organize!...Jonathan Gonzalez

Collaborative Curiosity

Our author Magnus Rosengarten asks New York-based performance artist Jonathan Gonzalez: How can…

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair to launch in Marrakech

News

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair to launch in Marrakech

The new edition in Marrakech, Morocco, is taking place across 24–25 February 2018.

The Carpet as a Poetics of Our Relationship 

A Meeting at Mostafa Maftah’s Studio

The Carpet as a Poetics of Our Relationship 

Artist Mostafa Maftah caught up with our author Elsa Guily to talk about…

Making Sense of Political Narratives

Art in Kenya

Making Sense of Political Narratives

Visual Artists reflect on political events in Kenya, Africa, and the globe, and…

Locating Tenderness Within Trauma 

Moonlight & Lemonade

Locating Tenderness Within Trauma 

Sabrina E. Greig writes about Afrosurreal elements in the film Moonlight and Beyoncé’s…

EJ Hill, Surrendered (A Harrowing Descent), 2016. Acrylic, collage, and photo transfer on birch panel. Courtesy of the artist and the Studio Museum in Harlem

Don't Mourn, Organize!...EJ Hill

Ensuring that we see ourselves

Our author Magnus Rosengarten talks to California-based artist EJ Hill about Trump, activism…

CATPC – Cercle d’art des travailleurs de plantation congolaise / Congolese Plantation Workers Art league

publication

CATPC – Cercle d’art des travailleurs de plantation congolaise / Congolese Plantation Workers Art league

Three Periods of Engagement with the Bauhaus

Curriculum of Connections: Karo Akpokiere

Three Periods of Engagement with the Bauhaus

In this piece, artist Karo Akpokiere draws parallels between the Bauhaus and his…

Alive, Awake, and Conscious

LIVE ART in Cape Town

Alive, Awake, and Conscious

An interview with Jay Pather, curator of the Third Cape Town International ICA…

Kehinde Wiley on the Flat Screen

Fine Art in Empire

Kehinde Wiley on the Flat Screen

How the television series Empire is returning fine art to the people –…

Zapanteras: Solidarity as an Artistic Principle

Laboratory of Solidarity: Emory Douglas I

Zapanteras: Solidarity as an Artistic Principle

What do the Zapatistas share with the art of Emory Douglas and the…

Listening is a skill and we don’t do it enough

In conversation with Tumelo Mosaka

Listening is a skill and we don’t do it enough

Daniel Hewson in conversation with Tumelo Mosaka, new chief art curator of Cape…

Robin Rhode, Evergreen (detail), 2017. Courtesy the artist and Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town and Johannesburg

News

FNB JoburgArtFair 2017 – featured Artist Robin Rhode

FNB JoburgArtFair is delighted to announce Robin Rhode as the 2017 Featured Artist.

Creative Time appoints Elvira Dyangani Ose as senior curator

News

Creative Time appoints Elvira Dyangani Ose as senior curator

Starting July 1st, Dyangani Ose joins the organization from Goldsmiths, University of London…

Beyond “Based in Berlin”

Comment

Beyond “Based in Berlin”

C&’s Editors-in-Chief Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba reflect on the ideas of “the…

Why “Our Lady” Sparks Protests

Exhibition under Attack

Why “Our Lady” Sparks Protests

In response to the Our Lady exhibition in Cape Town, our author Joan…

When Correspondence Reactivates History 

Project THABRATE: Badr El Hammami

When Correspondence Reactivates History 

Moroccan artist Badr El Hammani talks to our author Elsa Guily about K7…

Art Talk at BOZAR: Yvette Mutumba in conversation with 6 artists

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Art Talk at BOZAR: Yvette Mutumba in conversation with 6 artists

Yvette Mutumba presents Isaac Kariuki, A.Junior Boakye-Yiadom, Lerato Shadi, Anawana Haloba, Youssef Limoud…

I’m more interested in criticality

Don't Mourn, Organize!...Jibade-Khalil Huffman

I’m more interested in criticality

In the new series Don't Mourn, Organize! we ask artists, writers, curators during…

Displacements in Exhibitions’ Discourses

Between Afro-Cuban and Diasporic Frames

Displacements in Exhibitions’ Discourses

Art historian Sabrina Moura depicts the developments in the Afro-Cuban arts narrative from…

A Woman of Hard Surfaces

A Solo Retrospective on Belkis Ayón

A Woman of Hard Surfaces

Since the end of last year the Fowler Museum in LA holds a…

Complicating the notion of identity

Comment: "My Future Nonidentity Will …”

Complicating the notion of identity

Three artists from the UK, the US and Canada strife for more authentic…

John Akomfrah Winner Of The Artes Mundi 7 Prize

News

John Akomfrah Winner Of The Artes Mundi 7 Prize

John Akomfrah has been chosen from a shortlist including Neïl Beloufa, Amy Franceschini/Futurefarmers,…

Brazil’s Territories

Afro-Brazilian Manifestations

Brazil’s Territories

The Territórios exhibition set out to highlight the importance of artists of African…

Art Outside the Canon Box

In Memoriam

Art Outside the Canon Box

A colloquium in honor of the late Uche Okeke reexamined his contributions to…

Narratives in Progress

The Speeches Series: Bouchra Khalili

Narratives in Progress

Our author Elsa Guily caught up with Bouchra Khalili to talk about her…

Sondra Perry Wins 2017 Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize

News

Sondra Perry Wins 2017 Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize

Perry is the first video artist to be awarded the prize.

Africa Explores

Exhibition Histories

Africa Explores

In this series, C& is revisiting the most discussed, loved, hated, thought-provoking, and…

David Adjaye to be knighted

News

David Adjaye to be knighted

David Adjaye, Principal of Adjaye Associates, will be knighted in recognition for his…

What did you think of your year?

2016 Wrap

What did you think of your year?

On connecting the dots between artists Unathi Sigenu, Beauford Delaney, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Edmund…

Art Fair Success and the Laws of the Market

Art Market Trends for 2016 & 2017

Art Fair Success and the Laws of the Market

In 2016, new art fairs, auctions and galleries focusing on Africa have supported…

An Urgent Recognition 

Afro-Brazilian Manifestations

An Urgent Recognition 

The Brazilian artist and essayist Beto Shwafaty visits an exhibition about artists of…

Kader Attia’s solo show, REPAIR. 5 Acts, 2013

Love actually...Ato Malinda

Kader Attia’s solo show, REPAIR. 5 Acts, 2013

A new series inviting artists, cultural producers, and writers to share their thoughts…

THERE ARE WORLDS OUT THERE THEY NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT

Interview: Jackie Karuti

THERE ARE WORLDS OUT THERE THEY NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT

Neo Musangi met with Jackie Karuti, with whom they chatted about the exhibition…

Part of the Community

A New Gallery in Joburg

Part of the Community

Melville, a well known Johannesburg suburb, doesn’t have the best reputation. And yet,…

Desynchronizing Art History

Review: Living On – In Other Words, On Living

Desynchronizing Art History

The bold and groundbreaking exhibition project Living On, curated by Delal Isci and…

The Year in Art for Nigeria and Africa 

2016 in review

The Year in Art for Nigeria and Africa 

Our author Bukola Oye looks back at the highlights from the past 12…

Exploring New Ideas in Photography

Review: Frontiers of the Present

Exploring New Ideas in Photography

Our author Thom Ogonga took a closer look at the exhibition that photographer…

I grew up with Johannes Haile and his photographs.

Interview: Meskerem Assegued

I grew up with Johannes Haile and his photographs.

In the show With Different Eyes, curator Meskerem Assegued pays tribute to Ethiopian…

Reviewed: Making Art in Africa 1960-2010

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Reviewed: Making Art in Africa 1960-2010

“Making Art in Africa 1960 -2010” gives voice to various artist’s experiences and…

Art Matters grantees 2016

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Art Matters grantees 2016

Art Matters announces the recipients of its 2016 grants to individual artists.

‘Figure’ – a group show at blank projects

Installation View

‘Figure’ – a group show at blank projects

The exhibition ‘Figure’ at blank projects, Cape Town, is on view from 8th…

Lucy’s Iris

Contemporary women artists

Lucy’s Iris

From 7 July to 15 December 2016, twenty-five African women artists occupied the…

Curating Contemporaneity

Notes on ICI Dakar

Curating Contemporaneity

Taylor Renee, a US-based writer and curator, traveled to Dakar, Senegal to attend…

Journey to the One by Mongezi Ncaphayi

Installation View

Journey to the One by Mongezi Ncaphayi

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

Jochen Volz to curate Brazil’s participation in the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

News

Jochen Volz to curate Brazil’s participation in the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

The Venice Biennale 2017 will be held between May 13 and November 26.

CUSS Group : New Horizons at STEVENSON

Installation View

CUSS Group : New Horizons at STEVENSON

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

We want to be better merchants of dreams.

The NEST Collective in Nairobi

We want to be better merchants of dreams.

The Nest Collective talks to C& about their eclectic projects from books to…

In conversation on the southern tip of the African continent

In Context: Africans in America

In conversation on the southern tip of the African continent

C& talks to Liza Essers, Director of the Goodman Gallery, about the gallery's…

In Context: Africans in America

Installation View

In Context: Africans in America

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

Venetian gothic architecture, super realist painting and disco culture

Interview with Turner Prize candidate Anthea Hamilton

Venetian gothic architecture, super realist painting and disco culture

This year's Turner Prize will be awarded tonight, 5 December. C& met nominee…

Red Africa Redux

Laboratory of Solidarity

Red Africa Redux

Our series Laboratory of Solidarity starts with a feature by Mark Nash focusing…

Ousmane Sow

In Memoriam

Ousmane Sow

Legendary sculptor Ousmane Sow died on December 1, 2016 at the age of…

Yinka Shonibare MBE: ‘Wind Sculpture VI’ in Lagos

Installation View

Yinka Shonibare MBE: ‘Wind Sculpture VI’ in Lagos

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

Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery Reopens in Converted Factory

News

Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery Reopens in Converted Factory

Townhouse gallery’s main building in downtown Cairo partially collapsed in April 2016.

Shortlist announced for the Future Generation Art Prize 2017

News

Shortlist announced for the Future Generation Art Prize 2017

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Phoebe Boswell, Ibrahim Mahama and Kemang Wa…

Gabi Ngcobo appointed as curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

News

Gabi Ngcobo appointed as curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

Since the early 2000s Gabi Ngcobo has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial,…

What’s the word from Johannesburg?

Black Portraiture[s] III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures

What’s the word from Johannesburg?

A group of international artists and scholar gathered in Johannesburg’s Turbine Hall for…

Providing a platform for art from African Perspectives still makes a lot of sense

AKAA – Also known as Africa

Providing a platform for art from African Perspectives still makes a lot of sense

AKAA – the first art fair devoted to contemporary art and design from…

To Live is to be in the Moment

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

To Live is to be in the Moment

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

Whose surrealism?

On 'When Art Becomes Liberty'

Whose surrealism?

When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938-1965) was on view in Cairo…

Senga Nengudi is one of the 2016 USA Fellowship Winners

News

Senga Nengudi is one of the 2016 USA Fellowship Winners

Senga Nengudi is one of 8 visual artists to receive $50,000 USA Fellowship

ART X Lagos brings a refreshing flavor to the aesthetic buds

A new art fair in Nigeria

ART X Lagos brings a refreshing flavor to the aesthetic buds

ART X Lagos took place from 4th to 6th November 2016.

Artes Mundi 7 shortlist announced

News

Artes Mundi 7 shortlist announced

The seven artists shortlisted for Artes Mundi 7 are John Akomfrah, Neïl Beloufa,…

AKAA – Also Known As Africa 2016

Installation View

AKAA – Also Known As Africa 2016

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

Will Trump’s White House push back recent gains by African-American artists?

Redecoration politics

Will Trump’s White House push back recent gains by African-American artists?

Obama's fine selection of works from Glenn Ligon to Alma Thomas is going…

Karo Akpokiere's life size colouring wall installation saw guests add in their own colour, patterns, and signatures in this interactive piece that aimed to highlight the glaring divide between the social classes in Lagos.

A Viewing Tour

C& Video: Art X Lagos

Watch our video tour around the art fair Art X Lagos! Our C&…

Becoming Truly Global?

Curriculum of Connections: The International Summer Academy Salzburg

Becoming Truly Global?

When Oskar Kokoschka established the International Summer Academy Salzburg in 1953, such institutions…

Emeka Ogboh, PLAY BACK – The African Union: 20 to 20,000 Hz, installation view, 2015, ifa Gallery Berlin. (c) Victoria Tomaschko

In Conversation with Emeka Ogboh

Addis to Berlin via Lagos

Sound artist Emeka Ogboh caught up with C& to talk about his African…

A Collage of Constellations

Conference: “Now & Then…Here & There: Black Artists & Modernism”

A Collage of Constellations

A response by guest blogger Annie Jael Kwan

INTERCOUTURE: OBJETS DU POUVOIR

Installation View

INTERCOUTURE: OBJETS DU POUVOIR

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

Nigerian Art Speaks Louder from the Outside

Collectors' View: Nigeria

Nigerian Art Speaks Louder from the Outside

Contemporary art from Africa has become a beautiful bride, says our author Obidike…

Collecting Histories

Collectors' View: Nigeria

Collecting Histories

Prince Yemisi Shyllon’s collection holds over seven thousand pieces. The Nigerian art collector…

Candice Breitz and Mohau Modisakeng

News

Candice Breitz and Mohau Modisakeng to represent South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017

Presented by Connect Channel, Breitz and Modisakeng will present a major, two-person exhibition…

What exactly is “African art”?

In conversation with Ato Malinda and Yinka Shonibare MBE

What exactly is “African art”?

Nadia Sesay talks to Ato Malinda and Yinka Shonibare MBE, honorees of the…

Inaugural African Art Awards go to Yinka Shonibare MBE, Ato Malinda and the Ford Foundation

News

Inaugural African Art Awards go to Yinka Shonibare MBE, Ato Malinda and the Ford Foundation

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art awarded the African Art Awards for…

Where the White Nile and the Blue Nile Meet

Sudan Focus: Ala Kheir

Where the White Nile and the Blue Nile Meet

C& speaks to Ala Kheir of the Sudanese Photographers Group, a collective made…

The Tangled Histories of Disconnected Places

Ideas in Conversation: Lucia Nhamo

The Tangled Histories of Disconnected Places

There are contextual parallels between Brazilian and Zimbabwean politics, says artist Lucia Nhamo,…

The Studio Museum in Harlem Awards 2016 Joyce Alexander Wein Prize to Derrick Adams

News

The Studio Museum in Harlem Awards 2016 Joyce Alexander Wein Prize to Derrick Adams

The award recognizes African-American artists with great promise and creativity

Launch of the first phase of the ‘Survey on Photography Training and Learning Initiatives on the African Continent’

News

Launch of the first phase of the ‘Survey on Photography Training and Learning Initiatives on the African Continent’

New initiative to strengthen south-south exchange within contemporary photography discourse in Africa

‘Rituals and Performance’ LagosPhoto Festival 2016 in Nigeria

Installation View

‘Rituals and Performance’ LagosPhoto Festival 2016 in Nigeria

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

Black Literature, Literature of the Periphery? A Blandishment to Readers already Tired of the Struggles and Cries from Sweet, Uncertain Labyrinths?

Black Cultures Matter

Black Literature, Literature of the Periphery? A Blandishment to Readers already Tired of the Struggles and Cries from Sweet, Uncertain Labyrinths?

New Afro-Brazilian literature, writes ALLAN DA ROSA, is a literature of discovery and…

Standard Bank Young Artist Award winners for 2017 are announced

News

Standard Bank Young Artist Award winners for 2017 are announced

Dineo Seshee Bopape is one of the six talents announced by Standard Bank…

‘Exchange’ at Galerie Hans Mayer

Installation View

‘Exchange’ at Galerie Hans Mayer

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

AFRONTAMENTOS

Black Cultures Matter

AFRONTAMENTOS

Cia Os Crespos is a São Paulo theater collective that has researched the…

A New Kingdom of Sisters and Brothers

Radical Dance & Theatre

A New Kingdom of Sisters and Brothers

A wave of new Afro-Brazilian dance and theater in São Paulo is promoting…

An Essential Gesture of Cultural Resistance

Collaborate & Co-create

An Essential Gesture of Cultural Resistance

A round-table conversation with three collectives about the role of their artist-run platforms:…

New Collaborative Concept or Pop (Re)invention?

Pop-Up Mash-Up in Luanda

New Collaborative Concept or Pop (Re)invention?

How to write about a process-based project without in fact having followed the…

What if science and history got it all wrong?

Review: Between One Time and Another

What if science and history got it all wrong?

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Fadlabi, Rana Hamadeh and Kapwani Kiwanga engage the history of…

The Complex Identities of Africa

Review: Being and Becoming

The Complex Identities of Africa

Just in time for Africa Day, the exhibition Being and Becoming opened at…

Kader Attia wins the 2016 Prix Marcel Duchamp

News

Kader Attia wins the 2016 Prix Marcel Duchamp

The French-Algerian artist was announced as the winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp…

Dada, what’s up with that?

Review: Dada Africa

Dada, what’s up with that?

Dadaism is the inspiration for an exhibition exploring its links with art from…

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

Installation view

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

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

Dexter Wimberly Appointed Executive Director of Aljira

News

Dexter Wimberly Appointed Executive Director of Aljira

Under Wimberly’s leadership, Aljira is launching a year-long series of exhibitions featuring solo…

It Is Necessary to Be Able to Dream…

C& Focus: Performance & Young Global Contemporaries

It Is Necessary to Be Able to Dream…

In a round-table conversation with our author Magnus Rosengarten, three emerging performance artists…

Through a Lens of Uncertainty

A group show: Cornfields in Accra...

Through a Lens of Uncertainty

Our author Moses Serubiri visited a group exhibition in Accra that reflects on…

Transmutations and Transpositions

A Conversation with artist Emo de Medeiros

Transmutations and Transpositions

Emo de Medeiros is a Beninese-French transmedia artist. He showed his work at…

Poetic Gestures

Kampala Art Biennale 2016: Julien Creuzet

Poetic Gestures

Caribbean is tied to Africa by history, plain and simple, says artist Julien…

Isaac Kariuki, Untitled. Self-portrait, 2016. Courtesy of the artist

Kampala Art Biennale 2016: Isaac Kariuki

It’s a complicated relationship

C& talks to young media artist Isaac Kariuki about the making of zines,…

Gareth Nyandoro wins Emerging Voices 2016 Art Award

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Gareth Nyandoro wins Emerging Voices 2016 Art Award

The Financial Times announced the winner of the 2016 FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices awards

Narratives are everything for me

Kampala Art Biennale 2016: Kitso Lynn Lelliott

Narratives are everything for me

Joburg-based artist Kitso Lynn Lelliott chats with C& about the Black experience that…

Daily Life into Art

Kampala Art Biennale 2016: Sheila Nakitende

Daily Life into Art

Multimedia artist Sheila Nakitende tells C& how her practice engages with questions of…

Hamza Walker named the new executive director of LAXART

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Hamza Walker named the new executive director of LAXART

The curator comes to the LA non-profit from Chicago’s Renaissance Society

Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël, 1963

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Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël, 1963

A new series inviting artists, cultural producers, and writers to share their thoughts…

Simphiwe Ndzube receives 12th Tollman Award for the Visual Arts

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Simphiwe Ndzube receives 12th Tollman Award for the Visual Arts

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Walking into Art 

Collectors' View: South Africa

Walking into Art 

Audrey Mothupi, South African CEO of a global research and technology firm, explains…

Keeping it local

Collectors' View: South Africa

Keeping it local

Lindelwa Farisani spoke with our writer Daniel Hewson about how her school teachers…

YaPhoto: Cameroon’s new photography platform

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YaPhoto: Cameroon’s new photography platform

YaPhoto – Yaounde Photo Network is dedicated to promoting photography and lens-based practices…

In Conversation with Donna Kukama

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

In Conversation with Donna Kukama

In collaboration with Cathy Byrd from Fresh Art International, C& presents a new…

ICI’s 2016 Independent Vision Curatorial Award

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ICI’s 2016 Independent Vision Curatorial Award

Elisé Atangana is nominated for the 2016 Independent Vision Curatorial Award.

In Conversation with Anawana Haloba

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

In Conversation with Anawana Haloba

In collaboration with Cathy Byrd from Fresh Art International, C& is starting a…

Colonial Ghosts Haunt Accra’s Jamestown

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

Colonial Ghosts Haunt Accra’s Jamestown

Brazil’s history as the largest slave-owning country prompted a group of artists, curators,…

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

Installation View I

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 II

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),…

The ABCs of Dalton Paula: From Africa to Bahia and, of Course, Cuba

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

The ABCs of Dalton Paula: From Africa to Bahia and, of Course, Cuba

Brazilian artist Dalton Paula talks to OMenelick 2°Ato’s Alexandre Araújo Bispo about his…

A Visionary Whose Aim Is to Transform Culture

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

A Visionary Whose Aim Is to Transform Culture

Acclaimed South African painter Helen Sebidi, who is showing at the 32nd Bienal…

Out Now! C& Print Issue #6

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

Out Now! C& Print Issue #6

Celebrating Afro-Brazilian perspectives and this year's Bienal de São Paulo

‘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 ,…

Emeka Ogboh awarded the 2016 Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen

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Emeka Ogboh awarded the 2016 Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen

The artist Emeka Ogboh participates in the Prize exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bremen…

Art museum education across continents

Transformative Ideas

Art museum education across continents

The job of art museum educators is to connect critical ideas, content and…

Nolan Oswald Dennis announced as FNB Art Prize winner 2016

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Nolan Oswald Dennis announced as FNB Art Prize winner 2016

The 2016 Special Projects programme will manifest as an invitational section that spotlights…

Chimurenga’s Chronic: The Corpse Exhibition and Older Graphic Stories

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Chimurenga’s Chronic: The Corpse Exhibition and Older Graphic Stories

Magiciens de la Terre

Exhibition Histories

Magiciens de la Terre

In a new series, C& is revisiting the most discussed, loved, hated, thought-provoking,…

The Art of the Black Atlantic III

Race and Art in Contemporary Brazil

The Art of the Black Atlantic III

C& talks to independent curator Fabiana Lopes who is currently researching the production…

Guest curators announced for 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil

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Guest curators announced for 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil

Ana Pato, Beatriz Lemos and Diego Matos, and João Laia will be in…

C& Projects: Critical Writing Workshops  & Mentoring Program

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C& Projects: Critical Writing Workshops & Mentoring Program

A series of workshops in four African cities over the next two years…

Performa Announces Fall 2016 Gala Honoring Okwui Enwezor

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Performa Announces Fall 2016 Gala Honoring Okwui Enwezor

Performa 17 biennial will feature artists from Kenya, Morocco, Senegal and South Africa

A Riot of Colour, Pattern and Repetition

Review: Making and Unmaking

A Riot of Colour, Pattern and Repetition

Duro Olowu’s vibrant exhibition of design and art at London’s Camden Art Centre…

Kalisolaite ‘Uhila: I Use My Tongan Knowledge and Identity as Resources

Over the Radar

Kalisolaite ‘Uhila: I Use My Tongan Knowledge and Identity as Resources

Struggle has shaped New Zealand artist Kalisolaite 'Uhila’s practice, which engages issues of invisibility, survival and cultural hybridity.

Dak’Art, Chronicles from the OFF

Dak'Art 2016

Dak’Art, Chronicles from the OFF

This piece takes a look at the many fields of the Dak'Art OFF…

Towards an Open Approach or a Dead Letter ?

Kinshasa: Decolonising Arts Education I

Towards an Open Approach or a Dead Letter ?

Arts practitioners, educators and academics gathered in Kinshasa earlier this year to discuss…

Framing the Imagined, and Performing the Real

Kinshasa: Decolonising Arts Education II

Framing the Imagined, and Performing the Real

Arts practitioners, educators and academics gathered in Kinshasa earlier this year to discuss…

Sarah Waiswa wins Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award 2016

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Sarah Waiswa wins Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award 2016

She was nominated for her photography project: “Stranger in Familiar Land”

Moshekwa Langa, Untitled,1995

Love actually...Sean O'Toole

Moshekwa Langa, Untitled,1995

A new series inviting artists, cultural producers, and writers to share their thoughts…

History is contemporary, and is happening now

On Borders and Frontiers

History is contemporary, and is happening now

The sixth Invisible Borders road trip project took an inward focus, Emeka Okereke…

How Do Black Lives Matter in MoMA’s Collection?

Images and Justice

How Do Black Lives Matter in MoMA’s Collection?

In this essay, Thomas J. Lax examines the links between racial violence and…

Peeping in the Vacuum Left in that Space of ‘Darker than Blueness’ –  On, Of, For, With Ben Patterson

In Memoriam

Peeping in the Vacuum Left in that Space of ‘Darker than Blueness’ – On, Of, For, With Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson, influential musician and a founding member of Fluxus passed away at…



Seydou Keïta. Untitled, 1954. Silver print. Contemporary African Art Collection © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC / photo courtesy CAAC – The Pigozzi Collection, Geneva

Seydou Keïta’s Portraits

A Body of Representations 

Our author Gauthier Lesturgie took a closer at the retrospective exhibition dedicated to…

Curating reaches a wider audience

Art + Practice

Curating reaches a wider audience

Los Angeles-based curator Jamillah James chats to C& about the state of art…

There is so much that is lost to me

SuperQueeroes - LGBTI Comics

There is so much that is lost to me

Our author Magnus Rosengarten caught up with US artist Lavender Wolf about comics,…

I feel more like a health practitioner

Reconnecting and resisting

I feel more like a health practitioner

French-Guyanese-Danish media artist Tabita Rezaire talks to C& about decolonisation, health, politics, collaboration…

Emeka Okereke nominated for the Prix Elysée 2016–18

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Emeka Okereke nominated for the Prix Elysée 2016–18

The Musée de l’Elysée and Parmigiani Fleurier present the nominees of the second…

The work of James Barnor for the collection of the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac

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The work of James Barnor for the collection of the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac

On Wednesday 29 June, the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac confirmed the acquisition…

The Art of the Black Atlantic II

Race, Art and Publishing in Contemporary Brazil

The Art of the Black Atlantic II

Founded in 2007, O Menelick 2° Ato is a publishing project focusing on…

Artists announced for the 2dn edition of Kampala Art Biennale

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Artists announced for the 2dn edition of Kampala Art Biennale

The Biennale will be held from September 3rd to October 2nd, with a…

Ben Patterson (1934-2016)

In Memoriam

Ben Patterson (1934-2016)

Founding member of the avant-garde movement Fluxus, Ben Patterson died at 82 at…

‘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…

Galleries announced for 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London

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Galleries announced for 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London

With biannual editions in London and New York, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair…

Serpentine Summer Pavilions 2016

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Serpentine Summer Pavilions 2016

The Serpentine Summer Pavilion 2016 is accompanied by four Summer Houses. One of…

Njideka Akunyili Crosby wins the Prix Canson® 2016

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby wins the Prix Canson® 2016

The sixth edition of the Prix Canson, which recognizes achievements of international artists…

Daniela Ribeiro, Trans-Goddes Goddes.Photo, resins, video. Courtesy of GAFRA

In Conversation with Daniela Ribeiro and Ndidi Emefiele

Art between the dimensions

Oris Aigbokhaevbolo, a talented, young participant of C&’s critical writing workshop in Lagos…

Art with Consequences

An exhibition at the Ghana Railway Company’s defunct buildings and tracks in Kumasi

Art with Consequences

Artist Toril Johannessen took a closer look at the show "if you love…

David Adjaye to design Latvia Museum of Contemporary Art in Riga

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David Adjaye to design Latvia Museum of Contemporary Art in Riga

Adjaye Associates, working with local firm AB3D, envisioned the museum as a social…

Akinbode Akinbiyi recipient of  Goethe Medal 2016

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Akinbode Akinbiyi recipient of Goethe Medal 2016

The 2016 Goethe Medals goes to the African photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi, the writer…

Politics on the move

The Legacy of Agitprop

Politics on the move

Our author Madonna Hernandez takes a closer at the exhibition Agitprop! on view…

The Urgency of a Clearer Strategic Direction

Dak'Art 2016

The Urgency of a Clearer Strategic Direction

Aboubacar Bemba Cissokho's opinion piece about this year's Dak'Art...

Bisi Silva is part of the consultant team of the 57th Carnegie International

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Bisi Silva is part of the consultant team of the 57th Carnegie International

From Dakar to the world – from the world to Havana

Two Biennials - Two Countries

From Dakar to the world – from the world to Havana

As part of our Biennale-short-series Sabrina Moura sets the scene in her discussion…

Changing Directions Whenever Necessary

Dak'art 2016

Changing Directions Whenever Necessary

Solange Farkas is one of the guest curators of this years Dak'Art. C&…

“You can’t take everyone for granted”

RADIO KUNCI at ifa-Gallery Berlin

“You can’t take everyone for granted”

C& in conversation with Syafiatudina and Ferdiansyah Tajib, members of the KUNCI arts…

Civil protest and social movements in Africa

Conference: Between hesitation and rage

Civil protest and social movements in Africa

The Barbican Centre’s expansive photography exhibition titled “Everything Was Moving: Photography from the…

Not Blessed, But Definitely Enchanted

A Tour of the 12th Dak'Art

Not Blessed, But Definitely Enchanted

At Dak’Art, international artists show their vision of the continent and the global…

10th Anniversary Gordon Parks Foundation Award for LaToya Ruby Frazier

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10th Anniversary Gordon Parks Foundation Award for LaToya Ruby Frazier

“An artist has to be a visionary”

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“An artist has to be a visionary”

The Leopold Senghor award of Dak’art 2016 was given to the Egyptian/ Swiss…

Speak to the World

Dak'Art 2016

Speak to the World

In conversation with artist Heba Y. Amin about the artistic community in the…

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…

Recipe for the Non-aligned

Dak’Art 2016

Recipe for the Non-aligned

Sumesh Sharma, a curator based in Mumbai, is on the curatorial team for…

The Sea of Things

Moshekwa Langa

The Sea of Things

M. Neelika Jayawardane takes a closer look at Moshekwa Langa’s work.

Anthea Hamilton shortlisted for Turner Prize 2016

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Anthea Hamilton shortlisted for Turner Prize 2016

The prize is awarded to an artist for an outstanding exhibition or other…

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

Installation View

Dak’Art 2016 – PALAIS DE JUSTICE

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

Healing without Forgetting

Kader Attia

Healing without Forgetting

The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt presents the artist Kader Attia’s comprehensive solo exhibition, Sacrifice and Harmony.

If Truth Was a Woman…

Dak'Art 2016

If Truth Was a Woman…

Contemporary And catches up with Mozambican artist Euridice Kala before she heads to Dak’Art…

City of Labor

Dak'Art 2016

City of Labor

Simon Gush’s films explore images of labor. His recent film, “Lazy Nigel” is…

Sonic Experiences

Dak'Art 2016

Sonic Experiences

C& talks to Berlin-based artist Satch Hoyt about the force of sound, the…

No More Waiting for the Barbarians

EVA International Biennale

No More Waiting for the Barbarians

Liese van der Watt looks at the Irish Biennale in Limerick, curated by…

Art should be beautiful

In Conversation with Turiya Magadlela

Art should be beautiful

Turiya Magadlela just presented her politically charged pantyhose installations at this year's Armory…

Design Your Own Daddy

Alternative Role Models

Design Your Own Daddy

A conversation about father figures and artist Rotimi Fani-Kayode...

The Artisan Holds the Knowledge 

Marrakech Biennale 6

The Artisan Holds the Knowledge 

Our author Elsa Guily met with young artist Sara Ouhaddou to talk about…

Kabbo Ka Muwala: The Girl’s Basket

Installation View

Kabbo Ka Muwala: The Girl’s Basket

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

Meeting Malick 

In Memoriam

Meeting Malick 

In 2014, after a meeting with Malick Sidibé, Emmanuel Iduma wrote a little…

Exploring the Dimensions

In Conversation with Gareth Nyandoro

Exploring the Dimensions

C& talks to Harare-based artist Gareth Nyandoro about local markets as his main…

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…

Theaster Gates wins Kurt Schwitters Prize 2017

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Theaster Gates wins Kurt Schwitters Prize 2017

The award includes an exhibition for the Chicago artist at the Sprengel Museum…

Malick Sidibé (1936-2016)

In Memoriam

Malick Sidibé (1936-2016)

Legendary Malian photographer Malick Sidibé died April 14, 2016 at age of 80

NGO – Nothing Gets Organised

Installation View

NGO – Nothing Gets Organised

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

Art Practice is a Bodily Function

C& Print: The Interview Issue

Art Practice is a Bodily Function

Dallas-born Brooklyn-based filmmaker Terence Nance doesn’t self-subscribe to any descriptions but, he tells…

It’s all about sharing knowledge

C& Print: The Interview Issue

It’s all about sharing knowledge

Shortly before his death in 2014, legendary South African artist Peter Clarke chatted…

Of Fabrics and Memories

Art Making in Ghana

Of Fabrics and Memories

A new art space in Accra launches and Serge Attukwei Clottey opens his…

Kemang Wa Lehulere is Deutsche Bank’s new “Artist of the Year” 2017

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Kemang Wa Lehulere is Deutsche Bank’s new “Artist of the Year” 2017

Flexible Personalities

Exploring New Spaces

Flexible Personalities

Haitian artist Tessa Mars talks alternative identities, residencies, and Caribbean art

What is Urgent to You?

Focus Lesotho

What is Urgent to You?

Morija, a town in western Lesotho, is the staging ground for an on-going…

The State of Visual Arts in Lesotho

Focus Lesotho

The State of Visual Arts in Lesotho

The landscape of visual arts in the small mountain country of Lesotho is…

There Isn’t One Way of Doing Things

C& Print: The Interview Issue

There Isn’t One Way of Doing Things

London multi-media artist Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom draws on various inspirations for his work.…

The Art of the Black Atlantic I

C& Print: The Interview Issue

The Art of the Black Atlantic I

C& talks to Renata Felinto about Afro-Brazilian presence and artistic productions.

‘I lost track of the swarm’ by Paul Maheke

Installation View

‘I lost track of the swarm’ by Paul Maheke

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

Focus on Now, Not Tomorrow

C& Print: The Interview Issue

Focus on Now, Not Tomorrow

Curator Reem Fadda, who directs the sixth edition of the Marrakech Biennale, speaks…

Art Getting Physical

A Revolutionary Act

Art Getting Physical

Our author Taylor Renee Aldridge takes a closer look at Jelili Atiku's social…

Post-Internet What?

C& Print: The Interview Issue

Post-Internet What?

Los Angeles-based Martine Syms has been called a net artist, graphic designer, and…

Cultural politics is like naan bread

Conclusions from the Symposium In/Exchange

Cultural politics is like naan bread

What is there to do when it comes to international cultural policy and…

Santu Mofokeng wins international photography prize

Fondazione Fotografia Modena/Sky Arte HD

Santu Mofokeng wins international photography prize

Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

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Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Participating Galleries Part I

The Armory Show Focus: African Perspectives

Participating Galleries Part I

Participating Galleries Part II

The Armory Show Focus: African Perspectives

Participating Galleries Part II

Participating Galleries Part III

The Armory Show Focus: African Perspectives

Participating Galleries Part III

Focus Symposium

The Armory Show Focus: African Perspectives

Focus Symposium

Special Projects

The Armory Show Focus: African Perspectives

Special Projects

Vigo Gallery

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Vigo Gallery

Galerie Jérôme Poggi

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Galerie Jérôme Poggi

“I’m not interested in making art about where I’m from”

The Armory Show Focus: African Perspectives

“I’m not interested in making art about where I’m from”

C& talks to artist ruby onyinyechi amanze about developing new narratives

The Warp and Weft of Experience

The Armory Show Focus: African Perspectives

The Warp and Weft of Experience

Pop culture and contemporary politics converge in Cape Town-based Zimbabwean Dan Halter’s labor-intensive…

A New Gallery Caters to Growing Interest in Ethiopian Art

The Armory Show Focus: African Perspectives

A New Gallery Caters to Growing Interest in Ethiopian Art

C& talks to the gallerists behind Addis Fine Art.

An Insider and Outsider

The Armory Show Focus: African Perspectives

An Insider and Outsider

C& talks to young photographer Namsa Leuba

©SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch

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SMAC Gallery

Omenka Gallery

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Omenka Gallery

Circle Art Gallery

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Circle Art Gallery

Addis Fine Art

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Addis Fine Art

C& presents its Print edition No. 5!

The Interview Issue

C& presents its Print edition No. 5!

The 5th edition of our biannual print magazine reflects what we at C&…

Bowie in Africa

Wearing many hats

Bowie in Africa

In the mid-1990s, while his music career was in hibernation, David Bowie jobbed…

Trans-African Clarity

Independent Art Writing

Trans-African Clarity

Our author An Paenhuysen talks to Emmanuel Iduma, Ndinda Kioko and Moses Serubiri…

Sam Nhlengethwa and El Anatsui to be on the panel of the Symposium: African Perspectives

THE ARMORY SHOW 2016

Sam Nhlengethwa and El Anatsui to be on the panel of the Symposium: African Perspectives

The panel brings together two of the most influential African artists living and…

“Where are all the young Black art critics?”

Critical Experimentation

“Where are all the young Black art critics?”

Our author An Paenhuysen talks to Jessica Lynne and Taylor Renee, founders of…

The Stories Between Us

Critical Translations

The Stories Between Us

Rachel Marsden reflects on the symposium The Work Between Us exploring Black British…

NEW HOME

Addis Living

NEW HOME

Our author Magnus Rosengarten met organizer and curator Ezra Wube and artist Martha…

“I am no longer a purist…”

The Armory Show Focus: African Perspectives

“I am no longer a purist…”

Our author Magnus Rosengarten met the artist for a conversation in Berlin

Scaffolding and Flags

Art + Writing

Scaffolding and Flags

C& talks to young artist and curator Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh the use of flags,…

Dakar Biennale announces list of participating artists

Dak’Art 2016

Dakar Biennale announces list of participating artists

Uche Okeke 1933-2016

In Memoriam

Uche Okeke 1933-2016

Uche Okeke, the leading contemporary Nigerian artist and one of the founders of…

A Point of Departure from the Past

Indonesia meets Nigeria

A Point of Departure from the Past

Our author Bukola Oye caught up with photographer and Video Artist Aderemi Adegbite…

Hacking Conflict: Nigeria at Biennale Jogja XIII

Indonesia meets Nigeria

Hacking Conflict: Nigeria at Biennale Jogja XIII

A review of the Biennale Jogja XIII

BEHIND EVERY MAP, THERE IS A PERSON: GABRIEL & MARCUS

Focus Migration

BEHIND EVERY MAP, THERE IS A PERSON: GABRIEL & MARCUS

These maps by Philippe Rekacewicz, published here on C& every day over the…

Addis Video Art Festival Docu

AVAF shares clip

Addis Video Art Festival Docu

A short documentation by AVAF on their inaugural Addis Video Art Festival which…

Mae Weems, Okeke-Agulu and Thompson win CAA Award for Distinction

CAA - College Art Association

Mae Weems, Okeke-Agulu and Thompson win CAA Award for Distinction

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Muyiwa Akinwolere and Agemo Francis, Banana Republic, installation view. Courtesy of A White Space.

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A White Space

Gypsum Gallery

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Gypsum Gallery

NEST Collective

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NEST Collective

Gallery of African Art (GAFRA)

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Gallery of African Art (GAFRA)

PAN!C

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PAN!C

Nafasi Art Space. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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Nafasi Art Space

© Global Critic Clinic

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Global Crit Clinic

A Review of Mainly South African Things

2015: The Year in Review

A Review of Mainly South African Things

Sean O'Toole reveals his highlights of this past year...

Telling & Retelling

10th Bamako Biennale

Telling & Retelling

Neelika Jayawardane, Africa is a Country Culture and Arts Editor, visited Bamako for…

What is Home?

Cityscape & Art

What is Home?

Our author Gauthier Lesturgie takes a closer look at the show STADT/BILD-Xenopolis curated…

Remixing Africa, again

Homage: Djilatendo

Remixing Africa, again

The Congolese painter Djilatendo, who first exhibited in Brussels in 1929, is the…

Come on, don’t be so white! 

Radical exchange

Come on, don’t be so white! 

Rebelling against old thought patterns and stereotypes is a survival strategy for many…

We do not seek to speak in place of the artist

New Curatorial Voices

We do not seek to speak in place of the artist

Emerging South African curators Nomusa Makhubu, Nkule Mabaso and Amy Watson speak about…

A LABOUR OF LOVE – Weltkulturen Museum

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A LABOUR OF LOVE – Weltkulturen Museum

curated by Gabi Ngcobo and Yvette Mutumba...

C& Video: We Are Still Here

10th Bamako Encounters

C& Video: We Are Still Here

In this video, C& talks to the young photographer Mimi Cherono Ng'ok about…

Bienal de São Paulo has announced concept and preliminary artist list

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Bienal de São Paulo has announced concept and preliminary artist list

Bypassing the Global North

Indonesia meets Nigeria

Bypassing the Global North

Alia Swastika, the dynamic curator of this year’s Biennale Jogja, talks to C&…

Heart to Heart: African Art Now

The Idea of Love

Heart to Heart: African Art Now

In anticipation of the major exhibition A LABOUR OF LOVE, the writers Ashraf…

A Biennale with Naughty Coded into its DNA

Indonesia meets Nigeria

A Biennale with Naughty Coded into its DNA

The Indonesian city of Yogyakarta is one of the most important centers of…

The Line between Analysis and Insult

The Language of Comics

The Line between Analysis and Insult

Andeel, one of Egypt’s foremost political cartoonists, talks about his early suspicion of…

Otobong Nkanga wins prestigious art prize

Yanghyun Foundation

Otobong Nkanga wins prestigious art prize

Nkanga has been selected by the distinguished jury panel consisting of Chris Dercon,…

“So, where are you from?”

Broken, But Not Broke

“So, where are you from?”

Our author takes a closer look at the exhibition "Broken English" in London

Complicating Pan-Africanism

A Collaborative Spirit

Complicating Pan-Africanism

Chimurenga doesn’t just think Africa, it also “does” Africa, finds Liese Van der Watt.

“We have to test the premise that nations no longer matter.”

In conversation with Okwui Enwezor

“We have to test the premise that nations no longer matter.”

C& talks to Okwui Enwezor, director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich…

The Armory Show selects Kapwani Kiwanga

Commissioned artist for 2016

The Armory Show selects Kapwani Kiwanga

Kapwani Kiwanga explores expanded temporalities and collective memory through Focus: African Perspectives.

2015 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize awarded to Njideka Akunyili Crosby

The Studio Museum in Harlem

2015 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize awarded to Njideka Akunyili Crosby

The Studio Museum in Harlem has awarded the tenth annual Joyce Alexander Wein…

Thinking about photos as a sculptor

Bamako Encounters 2015

Thinking about photos as a sculptor

Martinique-born photographer Steeve Bauras, who is showing new work at Bamako Encounters, talks…

Tradition and change in Malian photography

Bamako Encounters 2015

Tradition and change in Malian photography

A new generation of Malian photographers is tenaciously defining their own visual language,…

„Something about Africa“

publication

„Something about Africa“

The Armory Show 2016 – Focus: African Perspectives

Focus curators of the 2016 edition

The Armory Show 2016 – Focus: African Perspectives

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba appointed as Focus curators

A survey of the familiar and the unknown

Beauté Congo in Paris

A survey of the familiar and the unknown

Focusing mainly on painting, sculpture and photography made since 1926, a recent summer…

Noah Purifoy: Storytelling through Junk

A retrospective

Noah Purifoy: Storytelling through Junk

Our author Nan Collymore takes a closer look at the retrospective show Noah…

Framing History

Interaction between artistic and academic research

Framing History

Our author Gauthier Lesturgie in conversation with Virginie Bobin , curator of “The…

Behind Every Map, There is a Person: DANIEL

Virtual Lines

Behind Every Map, There is a Person: DANIEL

These maps by Philippe Rekacewicz, published currently here on C&

BIENNALE JOGJA XIII announced list of artists

“Hacking Conflicts – Indonesia meets Nigeria”

BIENNALE JOGJA XIII announced list of artists

BIENNALE JOGJA XIII is featuring 34 artists from Indonesia and Nigeria in a…

Behind Every Map, There is a Person

Virtual Lines

Behind Every Map, There is a Person

These maps by Philippe Rekacewicz, published here on C& every day over the…

Artist winner of  MacArthur Foundation fellowship 2015

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Artist winner of MacArthur Foundation fellowship 2015

LaToya Ruby Frazier is one of the 24 people selected fellows of the…

“I’m drawn to the paradox of permanence and impermanence”

Sculptor Ledelle Moe

“I’m drawn to the paradox of permanence and impermanence”

Our author Massa Lemu talks to Ledelle Moe about her sculptural practice.

The Constant Observer IV

Tracing the quiet and dramatic moments of the refugees' daily lives

The Constant Observer IV

The work of photographer and activist Muhammed Lamin

Launch of the publication : Syd Shelton – Rock Against Racism

The British Rock Against Racism Movement of 1976-1981

Launch of the publication : Syd Shelton – Rock Against Racism

Autograph ABP announces the publication of a major new book of Syd Shelton’s…

Video Archives is online

Beyond the Magiciens Effect

Video Archives is online

The curatorial platform Le Peuple qui manqué published the video archive of the…

El Anatsui: Retracing Trajectories 

Stylistic Migration

El Anatsui: Retracing Trajectories 

World famous artist El Anatsui invited an eclectic crowd to his Nigerian studio,…

FNB ART PRIZE  2015

TURIYA MAGADLELA

FNB ART PRIZE 2015

FNB JoburgArtFair announced TURIYA MAGADLELA as the winner of the 2015 FNB ART…

Launch of EX NUNC

Performance | Performativity 

Launch of EX NUNC

EX NUNC is a curatorial and editorial project that aims to map, analyse…

The Graham Foundation grants for organizations 2015

FUNDING

The Graham Foundation grants for organizations 2015

The grants announcement of the Graham Foundation will support 49 groundbreaking architectural projects…

On the Writing of Possible New Futures

Beyond the Magiciens effect

On the Writing of Possible New Futures

Our Author Sophie had a closer look at the symposium-Performance "Au-delà de l'effet-Magiciens".

Kiripi Katembo

1979-2015

Kiripi Katembo

Photographer Kiripi Katembo dies at 36

Bodies Speaking: A Generation of Feminist Artists

Body Politics

Bodies Speaking: A Generation of Feminist Artists

The show Body Talk is a call for collective resistance

Connecting the Dots: Blaxploitation and Afrofuturism

Queer Lisboa Film Festival

Connecting the Dots: Blaxploitation and Afrofuturism

C& caught up with Pedro Marum and Ricki Merighi, who curated the program…

The curatorial team of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo

Gabi Ngcobo

The curatorial team of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo

Gabi Ngcobo presented as part of the international curatorial team of the 32nd…

Lisson Gallery representing John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah

Lisson Gallery representing John Akomfrah

A hugely respected artist and filmmaker

Colonial Amnesia, Yesterday and Today

Resistance and Amnesia #2

Colonial Amnesia, Yesterday and Today

Until 1st August, the artist Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa exhibited works at the Innsbruck Art…

When Northern Europeans engage with the South

The one Africa is as non-existent

When Northern Europeans engage with the South

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark is dedicating an exhibition…

The Rising Contemporary African Art Brand and the Burden of Africanness 

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

The Rising Contemporary African Art Brand and the Burden of Africanness 

The show borrows its title from Sidney Poitier's 1967’s epic comedy-drama, a fitting…

RAW Material Company takes a break

RAW Material Company

RAW Material Company takes a break

RAW Material Company announces a retreat from its public activities in Dakar for…

institue

Photographer ’s Master Class – Goethe-Institut Johannesburg

FNB Joburg Art Fair announces 2015 featured artist

Candice Breitz

FNB Joburg Art Fair announces 2015 featured artist

This year’s Special Projects turn focus to the growing significance of experimental film…

Kara Walker named Tepper Chair

Mason Gross School of the Arts

Kara Walker named Tepper Chair

Her five-year term commences fall 2015, centered on research and collaboration with graduate…

Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, S.A.F.P.A (Six and Four:Prison Anxieties) 2013, Installation Detail, Chale Wote Street Art Festival, Accra 2013. Courtesy the Artist

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Àsìkò Art School

Return to Bamako

Bamako Encounters 2015

Return to Bamako

The program for the 10th edition of the Bamako Encounters – African Biennale…

Zine Around Town

Cultural Magazine in Namibia

Zine Around Town

Artwolfe is an independent printed and online magazine covering the art scene in…

Yesomi Umolu to lead Logan Center Exhibitions

Logan Center Exhibitions

Yesomi Umolu to lead Logan Center Exhibitions

After an international search, the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts…

Sam Nhlengethwa in Residence at Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt

Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt

Sam Nhlengethwa in Residence at Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt

Sam Nhlengethwa is artist-in residence at the Weltkulturen Museum in July 2015 in…

There is so much of ourselves

Marvin Luvualu Antonio and Matthew Alexander King

There is so much of ourselves

Our author Stefanie Jason caught up with Marvin Luvualu Antonio and Matthew Alexander…

Mame-Diarra Niang, Satellite I, from Metropolis, 2015

The Walther Collection

Walther Collection brings African photographers to New York

The Walther Collection is launching a three-part series of exhibitions in its New…

Makerere Art Gallery

place

Makerere Art Gallery

Basquiat’s Notebooks

Discovering

Basquiat’s Notebooks

Mebrak Tareke takes a closer look at Jean-Michel Basquiat's personal and artistic archive…

Fresh Milk

place

Fresh Milk

A Splash of Fresh Milk 

A Caribbean art space

A Splash of Fresh Milk 

Fresh Milk, an art space located on a working dairy farm in Barbados,…

THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM TO CONSTRUCT A BUILDING BY DAVID ADJAYE

The Studio Museum in Harlem

THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM TO CONSTRUCT A BUILDING BY DAVID ADJAYE

Undertaken as a public-private initiative with support from the City of New York,…

Drawing: A Modest Medium?

56th Venice Biennale

Drawing: A Modest Medium?

C& talks to artist Massinissa Selmani about his artistic practice.

In the Loop

Jimmy Robert

In the Loop

Jan Kedves talks with Jimmy Robert about performance, paper and movement as a…

The Boda Boda Lounge Project  – From Space (Scope) to Place (Position)

publication

The Boda Boda Lounge Project – From Space (Scope) to Place (Position)

MoCADA will relocate to a new space

On the move

MoCADA will relocate to a new space

In 2018, MoCADA will relocate to a new space within the Brooklyn Cultural…

Hervé Télémaque, Convergence, 1966, Acrylic, collage and objects on canvas; skipping rope — 198 × 273 cm Saint-Etienne, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne © Adagp, Paris 2014

Hervé Télémaque

A Sophisticated Painter 

Our author Dagara Dakin takes a closer look at the retrospective of Hervé…

Congratulations to Sarah Biggs winner of the TASA Award

2015 TASA Award Winner

Congratulations to Sarah Biggs winner of the TASA Award

Sarah Biggs has been presented the 2015 TAF & Sylt Emerging Artist Residency…

Soft Culture and the Writing of Now

Writing from Lagos

Soft Culture and the Writing of Now

Writers Bim Adewunmi, Obidike Okafor and Tolu Ogunlesi on C&'s critical writing workshop…

Celeste Prize 2016 finalist artists announced

Celeste Prize - 7th edition

Celeste Prize 2016 finalist artists announced

Celeste Prize is an annual, contemporary arts prize which awards emerging and mid-career…

Creative Unions in the Global South 

Lubumbashi and Jakarta

Creative Unions in the Global South 

C& talks to Patrick Mudekereza of Picha and Ade Darmawan of ruangrupa.

Artes Mundi 7 announced shortlist

Biennial art prize

Artes Mundi 7 announced shortlist

Following the success of the Artes Mundi 6 Prize, awarded to Theaster Gates…

Karo Akpokiere: On drawing shoes and movement

Venice Biennale 2015

Karo Akpokiere: On drawing shoes and movement

C& talks to artist Karo Akpokiere about his dedication to graphic design, crossing…

History is never “just a story”

The extraordinary exhibition "53 Echoes of Zaire" in London

History is never “just a story”

Echoes of Zaire: Popular Painting from Lubumbashi, DRC - A remarkable show in…

Reem Fadda appointed director of the 6th Marrakech Biennale – Not New Now

6th Marrakech Biennale

Reem Fadda appointed director of the 6th Marrakech Biennale – Not New Now

The sixth edition of the Marrakech Biennale (MB6) has appointed Reem Fadda to…

A Moment Missed

Photography in London

A Moment Missed

Our author Hansi Momodu-Gordon visited the first PhotoLondon, and the exhibition of contemporary…

New Book – The African Photographic Archive: Research and Curatorial Strategies

magazines

New Book – The African Photographic Archive: Research and Curatorial Strategies

African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over…

South Africa’s quick fixes

The recent xenophobic attacks

South Africa’s quick fixes

Our author Kwanele Sosibo deplores the haphazard approaches towards recent xenophobic attacks in…

A fighting spirit remembered

Activism and Art

A fighting spirit remembered

The Young Lords, a radical social activist group founded by Puerto Rican youth…

Entering the Arena: All the World’s Future

Venice Biennale 2015

Entering the Arena: All the World’s Future

Malawi-born, London-based conceptual artist Samson Kambalu on the aesthetic spirit of play at…

Publication: Letter to Lagat

Book Presentation

Publication: Letter to Lagat

The artist's book by Sam Hopkins and Simon Rittmeier examines and questions ownership,…

A new Director at Biennial Foundation: Rafal Niemojewski.

magazines

A new Director at Biennial Foundation: Rafal Niemojewski.

Effective June 2015, Rafal Niemojewski succeeds Marieke van Hal as Director of Biennial…

Gazing at a Distance?

magazines

Gazing at a Distance?

Two exhibits at the same museum: one seeking to deconstruct the white Western…

Haiti: Where Art is a Tool of Resistance

Two centuries of artistic creation

Haiti: Where Art is a Tool of Resistance

Around 60 artists and almost 170 works of art at the Grand Palais…

Selected Artists for the 10th edition of the Bamako Encounters

magazines

Selected Artists for the 10th edition of the Bamako Encounters

39 artists are selected for the Pan-African Exhibition of the 10th Edition of…

Iniva appoints Melanie Keen as its new Director

magazines

Iniva appoints Melanie Keen as its new Director

Melanie Keen is set to become Director of Iniva, following 5 years at…

19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil

Awards and prizes

19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil

The 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil | Southern Panoramas will award a greater…

Remembering the Sixties and Seventies

Sudan's cultural voices

Remembering the Sixties and Seventies

A generation of Sudanese civil society reconvenes in Sharjah for a compressed, weekend-long…

Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse win the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015

Congratulations

Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse win the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015

The publication Ponte City by Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse has won the…

Africa From Afar

Venice Biennale 2015

Africa From Afar

At the 56th Biennale in Venice, Sean O’Toole muses about changing canons, socialist…

What future? Which worlds?

Venice Biennale 2015

What future? Which worlds?

Liese van Der Watt shares with C& some thoughts on Africa at the…

The Subversive Potential of Micro-Histories

Belgian Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2015

The Subversive Potential of Micro-Histories

For the first time of Venice Biennale's history the Belgian Pavilion exhibits the…

Nermin Durakovic, (Re)arranging shown at the Center for Art on Migration Politics (CAMP), Copenhagen, 2015. Courtesy of the artist

A Danish art space dedicated to refugees

“Without words, they communicate what people must endure …”

The Center for Art on Migration Politics (Camp), a nonprofit exhibition space focusing…

The Kids Are Alright

In Search Of... by Musa Nxumalo

The Kids Are Alright

Musa Nxumalo talks to our author Stefanie Jason about his latest exhibition of…

Arts Collaboratory has a new webiste

Art platform

Arts Collaboratory has a new webiste

Arts Collaboratory is a translocal network of art organizations focused on art practices…

If I Don’t Show It, Nobody Will … 

magazines

If I Don’t Show It, Nobody Will … 

Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a photographer, performer, teacher, and anthropologist. We interviewed her about…

Directing a Museum that Responds to History

In conversation with Thelma Golden, director and chief curator at the 
Studio Museum in Harlem

Directing a Museum that Responds to History

Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator at the 
Studio Museum in Harlem,…

“Our strategy is pretty much about a dialogue between generations”

Venice Biennale 2015

“Our strategy is pretty much about a dialogue between generations”

C& in conversation with RitaGT, the Luanda-based artist and commissioner of this year's…

The new C& PRINT issue is out! PLUS: Print our C& MAP for Venice 2015!

Center What?

The new C& PRINT issue is out! PLUS: Print our C& MAP for Venice 2015!

Welcome to the third print issue of Contemporary And (C&), our biggest to…

Prince Claus Fund announce the 2015 Prince Claus Laureates

Prince Claus Award 2015

Prince Claus Fund announce the 2015 Prince Claus Laureates

This year's Principal Prince Claus Award goes to Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian. Among…

The Kampala Episode: A Collective Self-Analysis

A review about the AtWork arts project in Kampala

The Kampala Episode: A Collective Self-Analysis

The recent edition of the AtWork arts project focused on an existential topic…

About Anthems, Bird Calls, Voices, and Choirs

Meeting the sound artist Emeka Ogboh

About Anthems, Bird Calls, Voices, and Choirs

C& interviews sound artist Emeka Ogboh about his spatially immersive work at the…

The Politics of Form and Materiality

C& in conversation with the artist Ibrahim Mahama

The Politics of Form and Materiality

Artist Ibrahim Mahama discusses his practice and relationship to his materials, which prominently…

Holly Bynoe Chief Curator at the National Art Gallery Of The Bahamas

Holly Bynoe

Holly Bynoe Chief Curator at the National Art Gallery Of The Bahamas

After a national and international search, the Board of The National Art Gallery…

Jury of the 56th Venice Biennale has been appointed

56th Venice Biennale

Jury of the 56th Venice Biennale has been appointed

The Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia announced the following International…

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for El Anatsui

56th Venice Biennale

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for El Anatsui

El Anatsui is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of…

The Artist as Errant

What lies behind the idea of erring?

The Artist as Errant

Our author Massa Lemu takes a closer look at Vuli Nyoni's work.

Witnessed Textures

Abdoulaye Konaté:

Witnessed Textures

Our author Elsa Guily takes a closer look at the show Useful Dreams…

Joburg Pavilion: The unofficial Biennale:

Venice Biennale 2015

Joburg Pavilion: The unofficial Biennale:

A free-wheeling group of South Africa's leading artists and patrons are joining forces…

‘The Shame in Venice’ by Kenyan artist Michael Soi

Venice Biennale 2015

The Double Life of Kenya at Venice

Serubiri Moses about the Kenyan Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale

“I’m in a space of observation from my little corner”

In conversation with Pascale Marthine Tayou

“I’m in a space of observation from my little corner”

C& talks with the artist about his artistic approach.

On Science Fiction, Music and Clapping…

An Interview with Hassan Khan

On Science Fiction, Music and Clapping…

Julia Haecker talked to Hassan Khan about his artistic approach and above all…

Tension through Patterns

In conversation with artist Odili Donald Odita

Tension through Patterns

Visual artist Odili Donald Odita caught up with our author Stefanie Jason to…

A conversation with Pascale Marthine Tayou

Watch the video:

A conversation with Pascale Marthine Tayou

On the occasion of his exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, Pascale Marthine…

A Frozen Perspective

Primitivism in the 21st Century:

A Frozen Perspective

Our author Sophie Eliot took a closer look at the exhibition Modernités Plurielles…

The Maze within

In conversation with Jackie Karuti

The Maze within

Noosim Naimasiah talks with the artist about his exhibition

The Chronic: A New Cartography for Africa

publication

The Chronic: A New Cartography for Africa

“There’s two sides to every story”

Diaspora narratives

“There’s two sides to every story”

Bill Clarke on the exhibition 'The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding' at Toronto’s Power Plant…

The Poetry of the Crossroads

Revisiting the heritage of Marrakech

The Poetry of the Crossroads

Carrefour/Meeting Point is wish by curator Alya Sebti to shift centers, and address…

89plus in South Africa

A conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Simon Castets & Missla Libsekal

89plus in South Africa

A conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Simon Castets & Missla Libsekal about their project…

Aiming for the Stars

A conversation with Stary Mwaba

Aiming for the Stars

Our author Magnus Rosengarten speaks with the artist about his new solo exhibition

Art at the intersection of history in Nigeria

Whose Centenary is it?

Art at the intersection of history in Nigeria

Benin City in Nigeria, was the obvious location for the opening of the…

Circling the East African Art Market

In conversation with Danda Jaroljmek

Circling the East African Art Market

Moses Serubiri asks Danda Jaroljmek, one of Circle’s directors, about the changes within…

Coded Choreographies

A review about Ibrahim Quraishi's show "Lost Codes" by Gauthier Lesturgie

Coded Choreographies

(FR) Dans l'exposition Ibrahim Quraishi, “Lost Codes,” les vidéos de performances sont diffusées…

Dancing in and out of Painting

El Hadji Sy

Dancing in and out of Painting

Philippe Pirotte takes a closer look at the sublte performative painting practice of…

AFROFICTIONAL IN[TER]VENTIONS – REVISTING THE BIGSAS FESTIVAL OF AFRICAN(-DIASPORIC) LITERATURES 2011-2013

publication

AFROFICTIONAL IN[TER]VENTIONS – REVISTING THE BIGSAS FESTIVAL OF AFRICAN(-DIASPORIC) LITERATURES 2011-2013

The passion of two pioneers

Between Frankfurt And Dakar:

The passion of two pioneers

El Hadji Sy and Friedrich Axt published an anthology on contemporary art practice…

“It is an exciting time for architects in Africa”

In conversation with David Adjaye

“It is an exciting time for architects in Africa”

Basia Lewandowska Cummings talks with british architect David Adjaye about his projects and…

“From a restorer’s perspective,  when art starts to rot, it loses value. For me this aspect of transformation is essential.”

In conversation with El Hadji Sy

“From a restorer’s perspective, when art starts to rot, it loses value. For me this aspect of transformation is essential.”

C& met the Dakar born artist for an interview.

“The twenty-first century belongs to the South”

In conversation with Marieke van Hal

“The twenty-first century belongs to the South”

‘Biennials evade easy definition. There’s hybridity, and that’s the beauty in this field.’…

A Disturbing Memory

In conversation with Nomusa Makhubu

A Disturbing Memory

Artist Nomusa Makhubu disturbs historical narratives with her striking photographic projects, focusing on…

The Constitutional Court Art Collection of South Africa

Celebrating transition from apartheid to democracy:

The Constitutional Court Art Collection of South Africa

C& talks to Edwin Cameron, judge, and Albie Sachs, human rights activist, about…

Vasco Araújo opening up a critical space

Review:

Vasco Araújo opening up a critical space

Gauthier Lesturgie about Vasco Araújo's show 'Re Cordum : Voltar ao Caração'

Create Your Personal Dubai at Home

Kiluanji Kia Henda:

Create Your Personal Dubai at Home

Gauthier Lesturgie takes a closer look at the complex work of Angolan artist

Infinite possibilities

In conversation with Njideka Akunyili

Infinite possibilities

Athi Mongezeleli Joja talks with the artist about her artistic practice.

Eva Barois de Caevel

Talking about her curatorial practice

Eva Barois de Caevel

Our contributing author Dagara Dakin interviewed the young prizewinner. She explained to us…

Warhol in North Africa

Tintin in Africa

Warhol in North Africa

An occasional column recalling the highs, low and sometimes messy in-betweens of mostly…

The Otolith Group at the Delfina Foundation

Of States and Stamps:

The Otolith Group at the Delfina Foundation

Tamar Garb takes a closer look at the exhibition 'In the Year of…

How art deals with the carving of a continent

The Berlin Conference:

How art deals with the carving of a continent

On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the Berlin Conference, Savvy Contemporary…

“Inspiration is a bitchy muse”

An interview with Nástio Mosquito

“Inspiration is a bitchy muse”

C& talks to the Angolan multimedia artist about his performative practice and his…

Stuart Hall Library Part II, Iniva, London

Inside the Library

Stuart Hall Library Part II, Iniva, London

Take a look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer…

On Addis, art and Olafur

An interview with Mihret Kebede

On Addis, art and Olafur

C& talks to the artist and cofounder of the Netsa Art Village in…

“The precarity of artistic labour induces a certain schizophrenia.”

About the death of photographer Thabiso Sekgala

“The precarity of artistic labour induces a certain schizophrenia.”

The death of photographer Thabiso Sekgala caused shock and grief not only in…

Johannesburg’s art scene is thriving, but at what price?

An undergoing urban renewal

Johannesburg’s art scene is thriving, but at what price?

Our author Houghton Kinsman takes a closer look at Johannesburg's undergoing urban renewal,…

New Culture magazines (Courtesy of CCA, Lagos)

Inside the Library

CCA Lagos

Take a look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer…

“When are you coming back to our streets?”

The Molue Mobile Museum of Contemporary Art

“When are you coming back to our streets?”

Obidike Okafor talks to Emeka Udema, artist and initiator of the Molue Mobile…

“We are actively engaging New Orleans’ vibrant local scene that has grown very much after Katrina”

Kathleen Reinhardt talks to Franklin Sirmans on the occasion of Prospect.3

“We are actively engaging New Orleans’ vibrant local scene that has grown very much after Katrina”

In 2008, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, curator Dan Cameron launched Prospect.1…

“The soil was the blackboard of the guerilla…”

A review on the work of Filipa César

“The soil was the blackboard of the guerilla…”

Our author Gauthier Lesturgie takes a closer look at the work of the…

Multidimensional Narratives

Black Chronicles II: 

Multidimensional Narratives

Our author takes a closer look at the show Black Chronicles II in…

A Call to History

on four groundbreaking African festivals

A Call to History

Cédric Vincent writes about the importance of remembering pan-African events

“You are not just in your own geography”

In conversation with the young collector Theo Danjuma

“You are not just in your own geography”

C& talks to the art collector Theo Danjuma

Digital computational

About art and technology

Digital computational

Basia Lewandowska Cummings takes a closer look at a group of young artists,…

Here’s to progress

The Links between the Black Cultural Archives and Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present by Eddie Chambers

Here’s to progress

The opening of the Black Cultural Archives’ purpose-built space in Brixton, London coincides…

DIDIER SCHAUB (1952-2014)

In Memoriam

DIDIER SCHAUB (1952-2014)

Didier Schaub died the 11th of November 2014 in Paris.

THABISO SEKGALA (1981-2014)

In Memoriam

THABISO SEKGALA (1981-2014)

Thabiso Sekgala died on October 15, 2014.

NZITU MAWAKHA (1973-2014)

In Memoriam

NZITU MAWAKHA (1973-2014)

Nzitu Mawakha passed away on August, the 8th 2014 in Berlin.

BAKARY DIALLO (1979-2014)

In Memoriam

BAKARY DIALLO (1979-2014)

Born in 1979 in Kati (Mali), Bakary Diallo was a visual artist and…

SOULEYMANE KEÏTA (1947-2014)

In Memoriam

SOULEYMANE KEÏTA (1947-2014)

Souleymane Keïta passed away on July, the 19th 2014 due to a short…

PETER CLARKE (1929-2014)

In Memoriam

PETER CLARKE (1929-2014)

The renowned South African artist and writer Peter Clarke passed away.

C& print! The second edition

C& print issue #2

C& print! The second edition

Hot off the presses and on its way to several locations, from Kampala…

KLA ART puts East African art on the map

About the contemporary art festival KLA ART

KLA ART puts East African art on the map

Katrin Peters-Klaphake describes how a contemporary art festival in Kampala has grown and…

“A lot has changed in the four years since I started visiting Kampala”

Artist Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa 

“A lot has changed in the four years since I started visiting Kampala”

A conversation with the artist Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa 

New curators on the block 

KLA ART 014 and Kampala's young art scene

New curators on the block 

Dominic Muwanguzi talks to the team behind this year’s Kampala Contemporary Art festival,…

A Mixed Picture

The 45th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles

A Mixed Picture

A review about the 45th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles 2014 by our…

Dear Dakar: “History of place, history of art”

About Collective Memory

Dear Dakar: “History of place, history of art”

A Conversation Between Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Moses Serubiri...

Queer Lisboa Film Festival Features African Focus

Preview

Queer Lisboa Film Festival Features African Focus

Our author Storm Janse van Rensburg gives us a preview of the Queer…

“I always thought that video was music for the eyes”

A Conversation with Theo Eshetu

“I always thought that video was music for the eyes”

C& talks to video artist Theo Eshetu.

“The Alle School of Fine Arts and Design has undergone major changes”

Curriculum of Connections: Alle School of Fine Arts and Design

“The Alle School of Fine Arts and Design has undergone major changes”

Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew, head of the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design…

Reflections on RAVY

Public Performance Festival in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Reflections on RAVY

Our author Storm Janse van Rensburg shares his reflections on RAVY, Yaoundé's exciting…

“There is no originality in my work other than my own”

A conversation with Meschac Gaba

“There is no originality in my work other than my own”

Meeting the artist Meschac Gaba at his home in Rotterdam.

20 Years After Democracy

Culture in Another South Africa

20 Years After Democracy

Where is South African culture after 20 years of democracy? Looking back, the…

POLITICS & SOCIALIST ART

THE EFF ANNIVERSARY

POLITICS & SOCIALIST ART

It was the lead up to the first anniversary rally of South Africa’s…

A Brilliant Creative Spirit Leaves His Mark

Souleymane Keita

A Brilliant Creative Spirit Leaves His Mark

The Senegalese painter died on 19 July at the age of 67, leaving…

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A Private Cartography

Moshekwa Langa's solo show in Berlin

A Private Cartography

A review about Moshekwa Langa's solo show 'The Jealous Lover'.

“Decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis has become a connector across the continents”

A conversation with Walter Mignolo

“Decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis has become a connector across the continents”

C& talks to Walter Mignolo, scholar at Duke University, touching upon the concept…

The coincidences between the Latin American and African art scenes

Transatlantic Connections

The coincidences between the Latin American and African art scenes

C& talks to curator Gabriela Salgado about the project 'Transatlantic Connections'.

A multitude of archipelagos

Otobong Nkanga's Pursuit of Bling

A multitude of archipelagos

Our author Gauthier Lesturgie takes a closer look at Otobong Nkanga's Pursuit of…

City Language of the Other

Discovering alternative narratives prevalent in the city of Johannesburg

City Language of the Other

In Kagiso Mnisi's opinion, the prevalent vocabulary – including the language of development…

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Inside the Library

Bookstop Sanaa Art Library, Dar es Salaam

Take a look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer…

There are startling, unambiguous parallels

Masquerades and Folk Traditions

There are startling, unambiguous parallels

Olufemi Terry, winner of the 2010 Caine Prize for for African writing takes…

“We shouldn’t relinquish history to historians alone.”

Giving Contours to Shadows

“We shouldn’t relinquish history to historians alone.”

C& talks to Bonaventure Ndikung, artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary, and Marius Babias,…

Contemporary And (C&) In Conversation with El Anatsui and Bisi Silva

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Contemporary And (C&) In Conversation with El Anatsui and Bisi Silva

In the frame of Art Basel’s Salon, C& presented a rare talk with…

The Known and Unknown

Peter Clarke

The Known and Unknown

The pioneering modernist painter and writer died in April. Sean O'Toole recalls his…

A creative mistake

Utopia in Mons

A creative mistake

How a Belgium museum director misread Édouard Glissant, made up a ficticious exhibition…

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Doing it in Colour

Sean O'Toole explores the role of colour in photography.

In Search of New Breath

The Dak'Art from a local perspective:

In Search of New Breath

Our author Aboubacar Demba Cissokho re-examines the eleventh edition of Dak'Art.

Portraits of interior landscapes

Malala Andrialavidrazana

Portraits of interior landscapes

Echoes – Fragments is the title of a group of twenty images that…

Senegalese Performance Art Directs Attention to Homophobia

Mame-Diarra Niang

Senegalese Performance Art Directs Attention to Homophobia

Lotte Løvholm met the artist after her performance at the Biennale in Dakar…

” Life doesn’t mean anything unless you take position regarding society, the economy, culture …”

Dak'Art 2014

” Life doesn’t mean anything unless you take position regarding society, the economy, culture …”

C& in conversation with the artist Sidy Diallo, participant of the Dak'Art 2014

„ … the diasporic richness of the artists related to the African continent and the infinite expansiveness of connections.“

Dak'Art 2014

„ … the diasporic richness of the artists related to the African continent and the infinite expansiveness of connections.“

Caroline Hancock takes a closer look at the Dak'Art 2014.

Dakar OFF carves out its own spaces of engagement

Dak’Art 2014

Dakar OFF carves out its own spaces of engagement

(FR) Basia Lewandowska Cummings se penche sur la multitude d'espaces dans le programme…

“Once upon a time, there were the artist and the story, of the artist…”

In conversation with George Adéagbo

“Once upon a time, there were the artist and the story, of the artist…”

On the occasion of his new exhibition entitled 'les artistes et l'écriture' ('artists…

Deconstructing Logos

Kimani wa Wanjiru talks with Sam Hopkins

Deconstructing Logos

Sam Hopkins addresses the wide assortment of NGOs and their diverging missions by…

From Colonial Practice to Participatory Art

Human Zoo

From Colonial Practice to Participatory Art

Human Zoo

Complicity and reminiscence – Connivence et réminiscence

In Issa Samb's courtyard...

Complicity and reminiscence – Connivence et réminiscence

The artist Mansour Ciss Kanakassy visites "La Cour", the famous work in progress…

Who gets a Prize at Dak’Art 2014 ?

Dak'Art 2014

Who gets a Prize at Dak’Art 2014 ?

C& congrats this years Winners of the Dak'Art 2014 Prize

Congratulations to Nomusa Makhubu

Dak'Art 2014

Congratulations to Nomusa Makhubu

Nomusa Makhubu wins the "Prix du Studio national des arts contemporains, Le Fresnoy,…

“The artists are a living example for the absurdity of territories.”

In conversation with Simon Njami

“The artists are a living example for the absurdity of territories.”

C& is media partner of the major show “The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell,…

Our first edition. The occasion: The Biennale in Dakar

C& print issue #1

Our first edition. The occasion: The Biennale in Dakar

We are very happy to hold the first printed C& issue in our…

“We want to protect the spirit of freedom”

Dak’Art 2014

“We want to protect the spirit of freedom”

C& in conversation with Mauro Petroni, Dak’Art OFF initiator and coordinator.

A non-linear history of Dak’Art

Exhibition Histories

A non-linear history of Dak’Art

In this series, C& is revisiting the most discussed, loved, hated, thought-provoking, and…

Laboratoire AGIT’art and Tenq in Dakar in the 1990s’,

Brothers in Arms:

Laboratoire AGIT’art and Tenq in Dakar in the 1990s’,

In the space of three weeks between April and May 1996, the parallel…

“Dak’Art 2014 is conceived as an active process of producing the common.”

Dak’Art 2014

“Dak’Art 2014 is conceived as an active process of producing the common.”

C& talks with Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, curator of Dak'Art 2014.

“One way to reignite this collective memory”

In conversation with Ibrahima Thiam

“One way to reignite this collective memory”

The young photographer Ibrahima Thiam talks to C& about his Collection Photo Souvenir.

“It’s the afterlife, right after life.”

In conversation with Wangechi Mutu

“It’s the afterlife, right after life.”

C& is media partner of the major show “The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell,…

“I’m interested in inner conversations”

Dak'art 2014

“I’m interested in inner conversations”

With Dak'Art just around the corner, C& presents its little series introducing young…

“the future is being made now”

Nelson Mandela and the Artist

“the future is being made now”

For at least a decade before his death Nelson Mandela was also championed…

La Boîte à Idée

Inside the Library

La Boîte à Idée, Dakar

Take a look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer…

An alternative insight into his work

El Anatsui

An alternative insight into his work

“Playing with Chance” at the CCA in Lagos gives the audience a chance…

“I like the analogy between heaven and the artist’s creative process.”

In conversation with Zoulikha Bouabdellah

“I like the analogy between heaven and the artist’s creative process.”

The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst and C& talk to Zoulikha Bouabdellah as…

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

In Memoriam

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

Caroline Hancock pays tribute to the great visual artist and storyteller Frédéric Bruly…

“My occupation, as a photographer, is a lonely one but places humanity at its centre.”

In conversation with Andrew Tshabangu

“My occupation, as a photographer, is a lonely one but places humanity at its centre.”

C& is media partner of the show “The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory…

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A conversation between Adriano Pedrosa and Emanoel Araujo around Afro Brazil.

MANIFESTA JOURNAL #17

A conversation between Adriano Pedrosa and Emanoel Araujo around Afro Brazil.

C& is happy to publish this conversation between Adriano Pedrosa and Emanoel Araujo…

“This work tells a story of African hybridity.”

In conversation with Ato Malinda

“This work tells a story of African hybridity.”

C& is media partner of the major show “The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell,…

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Masking in the Performances of Yassine Balbzioui

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Masking in the Performances of Yassine Balbzioui

Our author Sophie Eliot takes a closer look at Yassine Balbzoui's performance works.…

“I have often used religion and ethics as an expression of time.”

In conversation with Kudzanai Chiurai

“I have often used religion and ethics as an expression of time.”

C& is media partner of the major show “The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell,…

New Culture, A Review of Contemporary African Arts (b.1978—d.1979)

Manifesta Journal #17

New Culture, A Review of Contemporary African Arts (b.1978—d.1979)

C& is happy to publish this feature by Bisi Silva as second part…

Forging a Crown out of Chains

Afro-Brazilian Photography

Forging a Crown out of Chains

Constanze Musterer takes a closer look at Afro-Brazilian culture and history through the…

“The motivation of our collection is to encourage dialogue”

The Elliot and Kimberly Perry collection.

“The motivation of our collection is to encourage dialogue”

Our author Bomi Odufunade enters the world of the Elliot and Kimberly Perry…

Evoking Imaginary Spaces

In conversation with Nicène Kossentini

Evoking Imaginary Spaces

C& is media partner of the major show “The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell,…

STUART HALL (1932-2014)

In Memoriam

STUART HALL (1932-2014)

Stuart Hall passed away aged 82 in London on February 10, 2014.

“The inferno is not down below; it is here, ever-present…”

In conversation with Aïda Muluneh

“The inferno is not down below; it is here, ever-present…”

C& is media partner of the major show “The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell,…

Lorriane O'Grady, Untitled (Mlle. Bourgeoise Noire asks, “Won’t you help me lighten my heavy bouquet?”), 1980–83, printed 2009
. Courtesy the artist.

A review by Sonya Dyer

The ‘missing’ artist becomes the most present.

Creating an inclusive curatorial overview of performance art by contemporary artists of the…

“A good way to start off the cycle…”

In conversation with curator Eva Barois de Caevel

“A good way to start off the cycle…”

As the Dakar Biennale is coming up this year in May, C& presents…

“Each scene is a place of meditation, of emptiness.”

In conversation with South African photographer Guy Tillim

“Each scene is a place of meditation, of emptiness.”

C& is media partner of the major show “The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell,…

A Tribute to Stuart Hall

In memoriam

A Tribute to Stuart Hall

Our author Morgan Quaintance pays tribute to one of the world's leading intellectuals,…

EWS – a Biographical and Political Sign

Ernest Mancoba, Wonga Mancoba, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba

EWS – a Biographical and Political Sign

Athi Mongezeleli Joja takes a closer look at the intimate as well as…

Sekhukhuni’s Realpolitik and Virtual Real

Kagiso Mnisi talks to multifaceted artist Bogosi Sekhukhuni

Sekhukhuni’s Realpolitik and Virtual Real

As a scrutiner of South Africa's contemporary condition, Bogosi Sekhukhuni cuts through the…

J.D. Ojeikere’s flashlights go out

In memoriam

J.D. Ojeikere’s flashlights go out

Our author Obidike Okafor pays tribute to legendary photographer J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere.

Life Performs Itself

In Memoriam of Ray Daniels Okeugo

Life Performs Itself

Emmanuel Iduma pays tribute to Nollywood actor and photographer Ray Daniels Okeugo.

“For the ranter, the whole world is a playground.”

In conversation with Samson Kambalu

“For the ranter, the whole world is a playground.”

Our author Massa Lemu talks with London-based artist and author Samson Kambalu about…

J.D. ‘OKHAI OJEIKERE (1930-2014)

In Memoriam

J.D. ‘OKHAI OJEIKERE (1930-2014)

Ojeikere passed away in Lagos on the 2nd of February 2014 after a…

FRÉDÉRIC BRULY BOUABRÉ (1923-2014)

In Memoriam

FRÉDÉRIC BRULY BOUABRÉ (1923-2014)

Bouabré died aged 91 on January 28, 2014.

UNATHI SIGENU (1977-2013)

In Memoriam

UNATHI SIGENU (1977-2013)

Born in 1977 in Cape Town, Unathi Sigenu was an award-winning multimedia artist…

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When Art Metamorphizes the City…

The theme of the third edition of the triennial Salon Urbain de Douala…

In memoriam

Unathi Sigenu (1977-2013)

In their own words, Gugulective members bid farewell to fellow artist Unathi Sigenu.

An interview with Athi-Patra Ruga

“There is a need for me to constantly re-invent the self.”

Our author Pamella Dlungwana talks to Athi-Patra Ruga about his artistic and performative…



Zeitz MOCAA (detail from artist's Impression). Courtesy Zeitz MOCAA

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

Africa to get its own mega-museum

A new Cape Town contemporary art museum showcasing the Zeitz Collection is more…

© Mame Diarra Niang

In conversation with Mame-Diarra Niang

“These landscapes are extremely contemporary.”

As the Dakar Biennale is coming up this year in may, C& starts…

The search for a common source between her readings and her performers.

Doa Aly's artistic process

The search for a common source between her readings and her performers.

Our author Mia Jankowicz explores Doa Aly's artistic process.

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2013: a wrap

This year was marked by measurable gains for contemporary art from African perspectives…

Is contemporary African art the next big thing?

“African artists have now taken and secured their seat at the dinner table, invited or not!”

The media's huge interest in "contemporary African art" led us to the idea…



Zanele Muholi 'Tebogo Mokobane and Nhlanhla, Queensgate, Parktown' 2007; Lambda print; Image size 76.5 x 76.5cm © Zanele Muholi and Stevenson Cape Town/Johannesburg

A conversation with Zanele Muholi

“I’m an activist first, being a photographer allows me a greater and more influential audience”

Zanele Muholi is honoured with the prestigious Prince Claus Award. C& author Pamella…

Images of Change

A portrait photographer George Hallett

Images of Change

M. Neelika Jayawardane portraits George Hallett, the photographer who showed Nelson Mandela to…

Joel Andrianomearisoa, Perfection with or without body, the burial of one's own existence, 2013. Installation viw. Textile, Variable dimensions. Courtesy Revue Noire, photo credit Revue Noire and Joël Andrianomearisoa

A sentimental diary of an encounter with the artist Joël Andrianomearisoa

SENTIMENTAL ACT II

A SENTIMENTAL DIARY OF AN ENCOUNTER WITH the ARTIST JOËL ANDRIANOMEARISOA

A review of the work of Njideka Akunyili

The Beautyful Ones

Our author takes a closer look at Njideka Akunyili's body of work shown…

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Contact Zones NRB

A new record for contemporary art in South Africa

Auction Sale ? Art History

The recent auction sale of Jane Alexander’s 1986 sculpture, Untitled, draws attention to…

About the work of artist Jelili Atiku

Performance and Provocation

Social Sculpture: Jelili Atiku’s extension of art into the political can be understood…

“Performative practice is their own heritage”

1st AFiRIperFOMA Biennial

“Performative practice is their own heritage”

This week the 1st Afiriperfoma Biennial is taking place in Harare: C& talked…

C& meets Nana Oforiatta Ayim

“It is an exercise in storytelling, in challenging dominant narratives.”

Nana Oforiatta Ayim, cultural historian, writer and filmmaker talks to C& about the…

C& in conversation with Marie-Helène Gutberlet

“Becoming more transparent”

C& in conversation with Marie-Helène Gutberlet, curator of the exhibition THE SPACE BETWEEN…



Rencontres Picha, Biennale of Lubumbashi 2013. Courtesy: Picha

Lubumbashi Biennale

His query has continued to go around in my own head

Patrick Mudekereza comments on the Lubumbashi Biennal

In conversation with Guy Wouete and Serge Alain Nitegeka

“The political rulers are still not taking us in the direction of a peaceful world…”

C& met the artists Guy Wouete and Serge Alain Nitegeka to talk about…

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

Little alternatives but to strike out alone

Our author Rebecca Jagoe took a look at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art…

Dalila Dalléas Bouzar, Room. Courtesy the artist.

In conversation with Dalila Dalléas Bouzar

“My paintings show that there is no such thing as discontinuity in the history of art.”

Bouzar is presenting her latest work as part of the Körnelia-Goldrausch 2013 exhibition, one of the ten partner projects of Berlin Art Week.

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EM’KAL EYONGAKPA: THE INNER VISION

Mixed media sculpture installation, 2010, © Em’kal Eyongakpa

Second artist to be featured in C& Art Space

“I learned mainly by exploring and experimenting with different media while guided by my intuition.”

A conversation between curator and critic Christine Eyene and Em’Kal Eyongakpa

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Misheck Masamvu – Fractions

Arles in Black

South African photography featured in the Rencontres d'Arles, 2013

Arles in Black

Our author Yves Chatap explores this special encounter.

Andrew Esiebo's Pride project

Everyone needs a barber

Obidike Okafor takes a closer look at Andrew Esiebo's journey across eight West…



Covers from 1966 and 2012. © Transition Magazine

Transition Magazine

A review tested by post-colonial Africa

Cédric Vincent about Transition Magazine.

Personally mapping LA

Art and community work

Personally mapping LA

Artist Mark Bradford engages in his old neighbourhood in South LA, where he…

Detail from 'Found not taken' series, March, 2013, Luanda, Angola. © E.Chagas

The Angola Pavillion wins the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at Venice

“Chagas photographs reveal the metamorphic nature of objects and spaces in Luanda”

Katia Anguelova and Claudia D’Alonzo, lettera27 Foundation, talk to Stefano Rabolli Pansera, curator…

Reflections on "Everyday Africa"

“They could be paintings”

Award winning Nigerian author Helon Habila reflects on the photo blog "Everyday Africa"

Miniatures, Youssouf Amine Elalamy Editions Hors'Champs, 2004.

Inside the Library

L’appartement 22, Rabat

Take a look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer…

Kiluanji Kia Henda, Redefining The Power III, from ‘Series 75 with Miguel Prince’, 2011, triptych, photographic print mounted on aluminium, each: 120 × 80. © Kiluanji Kia Henda

The Luanda Art Scene

“The art world in Luanda is young and vibrant with a political impact that is yet to be understood”

Art critic and curator Suzana Sousa gives us an exclusive insight.



Victor Ekpuk, Three Wise Men. Courtesy of the artist.

On Victor Ekpuk’s artistic practice

Memory as the received, appropriated, lived, and imagined

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi explores Victor Ekpuk's show 'Reminiscences and Current Musings' at Morton…

The new school of curatorial practice:

“There is an opportunity for art exhibitions to be both academically rigorous and wildly popular”

Our author Bomi Odufunade in conversation with the New York based, independent curator…

Behind Every Map, There is a Person: DWEJE

Virtual Lines

Behind Every Map, There is a Person: DWEJE

These maps by Philippe Rekacewicz, published here on C& every day over the…

The Constant Observer V

Tracing the quiet and dramatic moments of the refugees' daily lives

The Constant Observer V

The work of photographer and activist Muhammed Lamin Jadama, published here on C&…

SAVVY Contemporary

“We’ve arrived”

Our author Elisabeth Wellershaus meets Bonaventure Ndikung, director of Savvy Contemporary

The Constant Observer III

Tracing the quiet and dramatic moments of the refugees' daily lives

The Constant Observer III

The work of photographer and activist Muhammed Lamin

The Constant Observer II

Tracing the quiet and dramatic moments of the refugees' daily lives

The Constant Observer II

The work of photographer and activist Muhammed Lamin

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Lagos Soundscapes

“Lagos soundscapes have a strong impact on the imagination. They cannot be ignored.”

The sound artist Emeka Ogboh in conversation with Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi Der Sou

A retrospective on Ibrahim El-Salahi

Visionary Modernist and Entrepreneurial Spirit

Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist at Tate Modern constitutes an extensive retrospective of…

C& talks to the curatorial team behind the upcoming Dak'Art 2014

“Our goal is to reposition and strengthen the biennale as the most important venue for contemporary visual culture on the continent.”

C& in conversation with Elise Atangana, Abdelkader Damani und Ugochukwu Smooth Nzewi.

'Mécaniques des fluids'

“Is it imaginable for the two groups to meet on the horizon?”

The Cécile Fakhoury Gallery redesigned and transformed into a cinema with separate projection…

Wim Botha, 'Time Machine', 2012, Mixed media installation, dimensions variable.

On museum

The New Church

Sean O'Toole visits South Africa’s first privately owned museum devoted exclusively to art…

An insurgent whose heart and mind no empire can win

'Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope)': Jane Alexander at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan

An insurgent whose heart and mind no empire can win

When I heard that Jane Alexander’s work would be shown in the Cathedral…

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Julie Mehretu

She captures the unruly rush of city life in a terribly convincing way

'LIMINAL SQUARED' Julie Mehretu at White Cube 9 x 9 x 9 and…

Nile Sunset Annex. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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Nile Sunset Annex

A review by Sean O’Toole

The Beautiful Mess

A new series of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo highlights the role…

Installation view, Lemi Ghariokwu

Obidike Okafor on the art of Lemi Ghariokwu

More than album covers

Lemi Ghariokwu’s creativity goes beyond just album covers, as it stretches to other…

'Sentimental' in Paris

Revue Noire at the rhythm of Joel Andrianomearisoa’s heartbeats

Sentimental, a six-month exhibition held at Maison Revue Noire from May 1st to…

Je m’appelle Sophie

“Sophie is not the only strong woman populating our art scene at the moment”

A conversation with the artist Mary Sibande

Zanele Muholi, Miss D’vine I, 2007. Courtesy The Walther Collection.

A Conversation with curator Tamar Garb

“The past is there for us to try to understand in relation to our own desiring gaze…”

Our author Gürsoy Dogtas talks to Tamar Garb, curator of the exhibition „Distance…

Em'kal Eyonga.kpa, Passenger series, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Doual'art Cameroon.

From African perspectives

“With intra-continental interaction, the scene is more fluid, more vibrant than ever before…”

Bomi Odufunade on the contemporary art scene on the continent

The library at the Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) in Cairo. © Mohamed El Maymouny

Inside the Library

Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

Take a look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer…



Theaster Gates, 12 Ballads for the Huguenot House (2012). Installation view, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany. Image courtesy of Kavi Gupta CHICAGO I BERLIN.

Theaster Gates at the MCA Chicago

Transitional moments and rituals

The 13th Ballad, Theaster Gates adds a kind of postscript to his participation…

Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern

“Your truths are self-evident. Ours, a mystery”

To ‘see through’, to gain perspective: Ellen Gallagher’s first retrospective in Great Britain…

Edson Chagas, Pavilion of Angola at Venice Biennale 2013

Golden Lion from Venice

Angola marks Venice Biennale debut with a victory

Angola, exhibiting for the first time at the Venice Biennale, has been awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for the best national pavilion.

Counting the years, numbering the artists

Sean O’Toole at 55th Venice Biennale

Counting the years, numbering the artists

One encyclopaedic palace, six national pavilions, two big debuts, and a Nobel Literature…

Looking back I

Authentic/ Ex-Centric. Africa In and Out of Africa, 2001

The opening of 'Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa In and Out of Africa' at the 49th…

Zarina Bhimji, 'Memories Were Trapped Inside the Asphalt', 1998-2003, Transparency in light box 130 x 170 x 12.5 cm. © Zarina Bhimji.

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Fault Lines. Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, 2003

Since 1990, the Venice Biennale has devoted increasing attention to presenting artistic productions…

Detail from Rashid Jogee,(Making of:) Dudziro Series, 2013. Oil on Canvas.

C& in conversation with Raphael Chikukwa

‘We are working towards realizing more exchange between Zimbabwe and the world’

C& in conversation with Raphael Chikukwa, curator of the Pavilion of Zimbabwe at…

Blackness in Venice

The Merchant of Venice

Sean O’Toole about the 'vu compra' and how artists re-imagine blackness

Edson Chagas, From the 'Found not taken' series, March, 2013, Luanda, Angola. © E. Chagas

In Conversation with Edson Chagas

“Most of my work is series. It’s a method that reflects how I feel things.”

Angola was awarded the Golden Lion for the best pavilion at the 55th…

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‘An artist doesn’t need to go anywhere. Creating art is being. You can be wherever you are.’

In Conversation: The Sudanese artist Fadlabi and Senegalese artist Issa Samb

‘An artist doesn’t need to go anywhere. Creating art is being. You can be wherever you are.’

First solo exhibition in Europe by the Senegalese artist Issa Samb. The Sudanese…

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Photos de Jean Depara et Augustt Azaglo, Les Abattoirs de Toulouse. Courtesy of Revue Noire.

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Revue Noire

Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Will I still carry water when I am a dead woman ?, 2013 Vidéo, 11 min 57 sec © Wura-Natasha Ogunji

Performance artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji

‘Will I still carry water when I am a dead woman’

Our author Wana Udobang took part in one of the artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji's…

The Salon Urbain de Douala (SUD) is an exception among festivals of contemporary African art. Sponsored by the Cameroonian organization doual’art, SUD’s goal is not so much to give pride of place to African artists as it is to give art pride of place in the lives of the residents of Douala. The theme of the third edition of the triennial (December 3-10, 2013) was “Douala Métamorphoses.”

C& in conversation with Igo Lassana Diarra

What happens to politically engaged culture during a crisis?

For Bamako-based cultural manager Igo Lassana Diarra, the crisis in Mali turns art…

Kemang Wa Lehulere, 'Remembering the Future of a Hole as a Verb 1' (Installation/Performance at Kwazulu Natal Society of Arts, Durban, 2010), chalk on black acrylic paint, nails, plastic string, soil, afro-combs, red velvet pillows. Courtesy: the artist and Lombard Freid Gallery.

C& talks to the artist Kemang Wa Lehulere

‘I’m continually under construction, trying to understand my practice along with the world around me…’

Known for his evolving body of performance work, wall drawings and artist collaborations,…

Beirut, 11 Mahmoud, Sedky
off Shaheen St., Agouza, Cairo

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Beirut



Greame Williams, 'Nelson Mandela mit Winnie Mandela as he is released from the Victor Vester Prison', 1990, Courtesy the artist © Greame Williams

“Rise and Fall of Apartheid" at the International Center for Photography

What does South Africa mean to Manhattan?

Author M. Neelika Jayawardane reviews the exhibition “Rise and Fall of Apartheid” in…

Art Dubai's Marker 2013

Art Dubai’s Marker 2013: A barometer for the African art market?

Curated by Bisi Silva, founding director of the CCA in Lagos, "Marker 2013"…

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Market Photo Workshop

Steve McQueen at Schaulager Basel

‘His work’s assault on the senses behaves like an attack’

Steve McQueen’s career retrospective at the Schaulager in Basel includes works that perplex…

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Making Art Global (Part 2): Magiciens de la Terre 1989

Medu Art Ensemble Newsletter, Volume 3, Number 2, 1981

Inside the Library

Keleketla! Library, Johannesburg

Take a look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer…

‘It was African and Kabuki-like at the same time’

A conversation with Naomi Beckwith and the artist Senga Nengudi

‘It was African and Kabuki-like at the same time’

35 years ago Senga Nengudi's famous public performance 'Ceremony for Freeway Fets' took…

The Africa Issue

An essay by Sean O’Toole

The Africa Issue

Several European Magazines have in recent years devoted entire issues to Africa. Whose…

Letter from…Nairobi

Donald Maingi about the artist Ato Malinda

Letter from…Nairobi

Performance art within the art gallery space in in Kenya.

Adolphus Opara

Framing stories of mytical influences

Obidike Okafor on Adolphus Opara’s large-format, painterly images of diviners from regions of…

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Hansjoerg Wyss Scholarship

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Artraker Fund

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African Artists’ Foundation

Waza

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Waza

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JAMAN – DiARTgonale Special Edition #1

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Zoma Contemporary Art Center

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Thupelo

©Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Goodman Gallery

©Iwalewa-Hause, University of Bayreuth

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Iwalewa – Haus

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Netsa Arts Village

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Art Moves Africa

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Kuona Trust – Centre for Visual Arts in Kenya

©Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana.

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Nubuke Foundation

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Greatmore Studios

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Kër Thiossane

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Contemporary African Art since 1980

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Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection. Events of the Self…

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Point Sud – Centre for Research on Local Knowledge

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Black Britain. A Photographic History

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The Fact of Blackness. Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation

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Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa. Intertwined and Contested Histories

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Looking Both Ways. Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora

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Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography

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Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscape

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Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection. Appropriated Landscapes

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Who Knows Tomorrow

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Afropolis: Stadt, Medien, Kunst

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In Senghor’s Shadow: Art, Politics and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995

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Prêt-à-partager – a transcultural exchange in art, fashion and sports

©National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.

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National Museum of African Art

© Gallery Momo

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Gallery Momo

Blank Projects

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Blank Projects

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First Floor Gallery

©First Floor Gallery, Harare

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First Floor Gallery

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An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century

© Walther Collection

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The Walther Collection

Exceptional Circumstances

An Essay by Sean O’Toole

Exceptional Circumstances

Despite prophecies about the demise of the national exhibition, it continues to prosper.…

Stuart Hall Library Part I, Iniva, London

Inside the Library

Stuart Hall Library Part I, Iniva, London

Take a look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer…

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Geo-Graphics

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Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe

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Der Black Atlantic

Obidike Okafor about the exhibition 'The Progress of Love'

A journey of self examination

'The Progress of Love' at the CCA Lagos successfully and critically engages with…

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Prince Claus Fund

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Edward Ruiz Mentorship

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Changamoto Arts Fund

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Alexander Rave Foundation in the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, ifa)

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DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program

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The Nairobi Arts Trust/Centre for Contemporary Art of East Africa (CCAEA)

©Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographic Initiative

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Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographic Initiative

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SPARCK – Space for Pan-African Research Creation and Knowledge

Àsíkò, CCA Lagos international art program. 2013 Participants at Elmina Castle in Ghana. Photo by Mimi Cherono Ng'ok

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Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Lagos

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Fondation Zinsou

Collectif GawLab©

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GawLab

Raw Material Company

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Raw Material Company

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Nubuke Foundation

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Art in Social Structures

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Centre Soleil d’Afrique

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GawLab

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Desta for Africa Creative Consulting (DFA)

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Bag Factory

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Doual’art

Misheck Masamvu, 'Broken silence' (detail), oil on canvas, 290cm 165cm. Courtesy: the artist.

A conversation between curator Yvette Mutumba and Misheck Masamvu

‘It is important to tell your own story as it happens’

A conversation between curator Yvette Mutumba and Misheck Masamvu, our first artist to…

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Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent

©Fondation Blachère

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Fondation Blachère

The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, New York. Courtesy of Ford Foundation.

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Ford Foundation

Entrance to Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Photo ©Marica Lessa

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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

ifa building  in Stuttgart; Photo: Katharina Haak. Courtesy of ifa.

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Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, ifa)

The Prince Claus Fund, Amsterdam, 2020. Courtesy of Prince Claus Fund.

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Prince Claus Fund

Haus zum Lindengarten © Amt für Städtebau, Juliet Haller

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Pro Helvetia

Thami Mnyele studio, photo by Harald Schole

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Thami Mnyele Foundation

©The Triangle Network

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Triangle Network

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Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa

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Les magiciens de la terre

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Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art

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The Short Century: Independence and liberation movements in Africa, 1945–1994

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Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Market Place

Townhouse Gallery

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Townhouse Gallery

© Tiwani Contemporary

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Tiwani Contemporary

A conversation with the artist Dineo Seshee Bopape

‘The center is everywhere depending on your position’

Her surreal, room-invading installations and videos make Dineo Seshee Bopape one of the…

Massa Lemu about the exhibition 'The Progress of Love'

What part of love is universal?

The show 'The Progress of Love' at the Menil Collection in Houston is…

Letter from…Cape Town

Fanfare, rainbows & small miracles:

Letter from…Cape Town

Stacy Hardy about Peter Clarke's Fanfare series

SPARCK - Space for Pan-African Research, Creation and Knowledge.

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SPARCK – Space for Pan-African Research Creation and Knowledge

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The Nairobi Arts Trust/Centre for Contemporary Art of East Africa (CCAEA)

© Africa Centre

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Galerie le Manège – Institut Français Sénégal

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AFRICAN ARTS

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CLAM MAGAZINE

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Nka – JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART

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REVUE NOIRE MAGAZINE

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The Liberator Magazine

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SAVVY art.contemporary.african.

Cover Transition Magazine No 26 (left) and No 118 (right)

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TRANSITION MAGAZINE

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THIRD TEXT

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CHIMURENGA MAGAZINE

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AFRICULTURES

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AFRIKADAA MAGAZINE

©Les Ateliers Sahm

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Les Ateliers Sahm

©The Studio Museum, Harlem.

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Studio Museum Harlem

© Stevenson Gallery

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STEVENSON

WHATIFTHEWORLD. Courtesy of the Gallery.

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WHATIFTHEWORLD/ Gallery

The Faculty of Sensing, Savvy Contemporary© .

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SAVVY Contemporary

L'appartement22, Rabat, Maroc

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L’Appartement 22

Group Exhibition: Rassemblement, Installation View, 2018. Courtesy of Jack Bell Gallery.

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Jack Bell Gallery

Kijk Gallery

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Kijk Gallery

Nina Chanel Abney, Seized the Imagination, Installation view @ Jack Shainman Gallery New York.

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Jack Shainman Gallery

©Very Real Time. Atlantis, aerial view, apartheid housing, circa 1980

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Very Real Time

Musée National du Mali

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Musée National du Mali

©National Gallery of Zimbabwe

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National Gallery of Zimbabwe

©Mathaf - Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha.

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Mathaf – arab museum of modern art

©October Gallery, London, United Kingdom

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October Gallery

© Raw Material Company

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Raw Material Company

SCAD Museum of Modern Art, Savannah, Georgia.

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SCAD Museum of Art

Whose oyster is this world?

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Whose oyster is this world?

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's work has brought success and attention in recent years from contemporary…

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Misheck Masamvu – Fractions

 


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