Review

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…


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