The C& Center of Unfinished Business is a reading room offering visitors an extraordinary, sometimes disconcerting selection of books that are linked to the topic of colonialism in various ways – from German colonies to Congolese fashion to capital markets of 21st century.
The Center has been traveling since 2017 and connected in various ways with institutions from Berlin to Hong Kong, Cincinnati, Vienna, Toulouse, Athens, Kassel and New York.
Interested in working with the C& Center of Unfinished Business? Please get in touch at mnegusse(at)contemporaryand.com!
Past
07 Jul 2024 – 06 Oct 2024
Contemporary at Blue Star x The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Latino Bookstore, San Antonio (TX)
24 Mar 2024 – 28 Jul 2024
KINDL x Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin
14 Sep 2023 – 14 Jan 2024
Daadgalerie x Dante Connection, Berlin
01 Apr 2023 – 26 May 2023
09 Feb 2023 – 04 Feb 2024
ifa-Galerie x EOTO e.V., Berlin
30 Sep 2022 – 20 Nov 2022
Para Site x Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
22 Apr 2022 – 28 Aug 2022
Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati (CAC) x Smith & Hannon Bookstore, Cincinnati
18 Dec 2021 – 20 Mar 2022
06 Nov 2021 – 13 Feb 2022
24 Sep 2021 – 28 Nov 2021
7th Athen Biennale x We Need Books, Athens
06 Aug 2021 – 15 Sep 2021
Künstlerhaus Bethanien x EOTO e.V, Berlin
16 Dec 2020 – 29 Aug 2021
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
10 Oct 2020 – 24 Jan 2021
Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden
06 Jun 2020 – 30 Aug 2020
28 Jan 2020 – 01 Mar 2020
25 May 2018 – 09 Jun 2018
school, Vienna
24 Jan 2018 – 30 Jun 2018
08 Apr 2017 – 17 Sep 2017
documenta 14, Kassel
30 Mar 2017 – 30 Mar 2018
C& CENTER OF UNFINISHED BUSINESS
C& Editions is a program of specially commissioned editions by collaborating artists. First up is acclaimed Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga, who traces the pervasive impact of power asymmetries.
INSIDE THE LIBRARY
LATEST EDITORIAL
![(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.](https://contemporaryand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Bildschirmfoto-2018-06-21-um-20.20.21-480x307.jpg)
![(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.](https://contemporaryand.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bildschirmfoto-2024-12-19-um-21.08.13-320x200.png)
![(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.](https://contemporaryand.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bildschirmfoto-2024-12-19-um-21.08.13-480x300.png)
