Publications

Welcome to our C& Publications. Together, the online platform and the print publications represent and embody the various voices of the C& network.

2024
C& and Kerber Verlag

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

C&’s second book is a celebration of our vast archives on visual art production from Africa and the global diaspora. In English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

2023
12TH EDITION, MAY 2023

Ecologies: Image Issue

The Ecologies Issue comes in two parts! The image booklet showcases some of the great artworks of the artists featured in the Text Issue.

12th Edition, May 2023

Ecologies

This first joint issue between C& and C&AL invites organizations, artists, and activists from Black and Indigenous perspectives to discuss, contextualize, and reflect on the relationship between neocolonial structures and the climate crisis in their local contexts.

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

SPECIAL EDITION, January 2023

#artofcritique

A celebration and commemoration of the work that has been produced in the frame of the Critical Writing Workshops and the Mentoring Program, hosted by C& since 2016 with the generous support of the Ford Foundation.

With texts in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic.

 

2022
SPECIAL EDITION, AUGUST 2022

#weavingnetworks with Jatiwangi art Factory

This special C& print edition evolved of a joint project with Jatiwangi art Factory in the frame of documenta fifteen. In Bahasa and English.

SPECIAL EDITION, AUGUST 2022

#weavingnetworks with Sa Sa Art Projects

This special C& print edition evolved of a joint project with Sa Sa Art Projects in the frame of documenta fifteen. In Khmer and English.

SPECIAL EDITION, AUGUST 2022

#weavingnetworks with The Black Archives

This special C& print edition evolved of a joint project with The Black Archives in the frame of documenta fifteen. In Dutch and English.

SPECIAL EDITION, AUGUST 2022

#weaving networks with Más Arte Más Accíon

This special C& print edition evolved of a joint project with Más Arte Más Accíon in the frame of documenta fifteen. In Spanish and English.

2020
11TH EDITION, JUNE 2020

Conscious Codes, Anyone?

This first C& print edition of 2020 focuses on digital arts and their potential for connecting to the past and inventing the future.

2019
10TH EDITION, OCTOBER 2019

Another 89

This anniversary issue is dedicated to the experiences and circumstances of those who were and are not perceived as part of the German majority society in the ‘89 narrative. In English and German, this issue is produced and developed in collaboration with students from the University of the Arts in Berlin.

Special Edition, August 2019

#Detroit

In the second C& SPECIAL PRINT ISSUE #Detroit entitled THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU a young generation of African-American and Afro-German cultural producers creating a space where the coherences and differences of Black history and present-day life are acknowledged, shared and reflected.

2018
9th EDITION, JUNE 2018

You Are Already in it: Looking at a Global Diaspora

In this print issue, we feature a special on the 10th Berlin Biennale with exclusive interviews, as well as a round-table among four intergenerational artists on the problematic nature of the word “identity”.

2017
C& and Sternberg Press

I am built inside you

C&’s first book, I am built inside you, is a compilation of eighteen pieces published since the platform was launched in 2013. The point of departure is a conversation with the great South African artist Helen Sebidi.

8th Edition, December 2017

Conditions

For our eighth print issue in English and French, we have talked to diverse individuals – from sculptors in Douala to performers 
in Brazil – about the conditions they are working
 in and the responsibility and purpose of their work.

Special Edition, September 2017

#Nairobi

Here’s our first C& SPECIAL PRINT ISSUE #Nairobi focusing on the great art scene of the city – written and edited by the participants of our C& Critical Writing Workshop in Nairobi. This issue was exclusively authored, designed and printed in Nairobi, where it was distributed all over the city beyond the usual art hubs and institutions.

7th Edition, June 2017

Curriculum of Connections

C& Print Issue # 7 is dedicated to education in the arts. It coincides with documenta 14 in Kassel. Interviews and guest contributions bring together ideas, experiences, tools, and learning spaces/formats, critical education, theory, and everyday practices in the fields of art.

 

2016
6TH EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2016

Afro-Brazilian Perspectives

This print issue focuses on Afro-Brazilian perspectives as well as the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, co-edited  with the amazing São Paulo-based editorial team of cultural magazine OMenelick 2° Ato.

5th edition, February 2016

The Interview Issue

This edition reflects what we at C& do most of the time: discussing and connecting. Conversations with Kapwani Kiwanga, ruby onyenyechi amanze, Martine Syms, Terence Nance, and many more

2015
4th edition, September 2015

Focus Bamako

This time the issue is in both English and French because of our focus on the 10th Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography, including reviews, features and an interview with Bisi Silva, artistic director of this year’s Bamako Biennale.

3rd edition, June 2015

Center What?

In this issue we talk to artists, curators and academics about alternative routes of communication: cartographies of migration and shifting political borders introduce our focus on migration. Interviews Emeka Ogboh, Guy Woueté, Thelma Golden or Okwui Enwezor ect.

2014
2nd edition, September 2014

Kampala Focus

Features focus on Kampala’s art festival, or a new mega museum to be built in Cape Town and a latest round of C&’s Inside the Library series.

1st edition, April 2014

Dak’Art –14

We are very happy to hold the first printed C& issue in our hands: It’s a special edition for this year’s Dakar Biennale, with features, interviews, retrospective views. One highlight is a new Manifesto drawn up by a group of artists and cultural producers from Dakar.

 

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