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Portia Zvavahera, Kudonhedzwa kwevanhu (Fallen People), 2022. Oil based printing ink and oil bar on canvas. Photo: Mario Todeschini. Courtesy Stevenson and David Zwirner.

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Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa

Kettle’s Yard
Cambridge, United Kingdom
22 October 2024 - 16 February 2025

Photo © Andrew Esiebo, project “Pneuma-city”

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Andrew Esiebo: Pneumacity Lagos

LSVA Headquarters
Lagos, Nigeria
18 November 2023 - 18 November 2025

Pascal Konan, Les Geants La Cite (detail), 2021.
Copyright The Artist

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Pascal Konan: Unfinished Symphony

The Melrose Gallery
Johannesburg, South Africa
07 Feb 2025 - 09 Mar 2025

Atong Atem, Dit, 2015 © Atong Atem. Courtesy of MARS and the artist

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Contemporary African Photography – Group Show

C/O
Berlin, Germany
01 Feb 2025 - 07 May 2025

ABC – Grafton G2651, 2022 © Silvia Rosi, produced with the support of the MAXXI Foundation and BVLGARI

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Silvia Rosi: Protektorat x C& Book Residency

C/O
Berlin, Germany
01 Feb 2025 - 07 May 2025

Precious Okoyomon
ONE EITHER LOVES ONESELF OR KNOWS ONESELF
Ausstellungsansicht 1. Obergeschoss Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2025
I wanted to kill but had nothing to kill, 2025
Foto: Markus Tretter
© Precious Okoyomon, Kunsthaus Bregenz
Courtesy of the artist

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Precious Okoyomon: ONE EITHER LOVES ONESELF OR KNOWS ONESELF

Kunsthaus
Bregenz, Austria
01 Feb 2025 - 25 May 2025

Mous Lamrabat, When The Moon Sets (2024), Courtesy of Loft Art Gallery

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Mous Lamrabat: Homesick

Loft Art Gallery
Casablanca, Marrakech, Morocco
30 Jan 2025 - 15 Mar 2025

C& Center of Unfinished Business

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C& Center of Unfinished Business

Theater RAMPE
Stuttgart, Germany
24 Jan 2025 - 13 Apr 2025

Le pays de Cocagne, 2025. Courtesy of Galerie Cécile Fakhoury

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Le pays de Cocagne – Group Show

Galerie Cécile Fakhoury
Paris, France
24 Jan 2025 - 29 Mar 2025

Debra Cartwright, Bodies of Water: Black Geographies and Maternal Legacies (detail), 2025. Courtesy of Welancora Gallery

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Debra Cartwright: Bodies of Water: Black Geographies and Maternal Legacies

Welancora Gallery
New York, United States
23 Jan 2025 - 20 Mar 2025

Nolan Oswald Dennis, recurse 4 a late planet (lush), 2024, (detail).

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Nolan Oswald Dennis: overturns

Swiss Institute
New York, United States
22 Jan 2025 - 13 Apr 2025

Rebekka Macht, I am my brother’s keeper, 2024, Oil on canvas, 120 x 160cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery 1957.

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Rebekka Macht: Fragile Wings of Motherhood

Gallery 1957
Accra, Ghana
16 Jan 2025 - 02 Mar 2025

FOUR SEASONS, Benjamin Loyauté, video, still. © Benjamin Loyauté

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Benjamin Loyauté: FOUR SEASONS

Hakanto Contemporary
Antananarivo, Madagascar
23 Nov 2024 - 16 Feb 2025

Adrian Piper, I'm the Tree, 2024. Spray-washed dead tree with root system, suspended equidistantly from four corners of a room using steel cables, visible only from above, floor covered with mirror paneling below. Photo credit: Wolfgang

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Adrian Piper: Who, Me?

Portikus
Frankfurt, Germany
23 Nov 2024 - 09 Feb 2025

Sahej Rahal, DMT: Distributed Mind Test (DMT), 2023, Multiplayer video game.

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Sahej Rahal: Wayfinder

The Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute
Nairobi, Kenya
21 Nov 2024 - 08 Mar 2025

Kaloki Nyamai: Ithokoo masuilini, 2024.

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Kaloki Nyamai: Ithokoo masuiluni

The Norval Foundation
Cape Town, South Africa
20 Nov 2024 - 23 Nov 2025

Ayotunde Ojo: These Four Walls

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Ayotunde Ojo: These Four Walls

Southern Guild
Cape Town, South Africa
14 Nov 2024 - 06 Mar 2025

Arébénor Basséne, Tarana, 2024. Courtesy of Selebe Yoon

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Arébénor Basséne: Tarana

Selebe Yoon
Dakar, Senegal
08 Nov 2024 - 22 Feb 2025

© Ibrahim Cissé, People come end ghost, installation view, 2024.

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Ibrahim Cissé: People come end ghost

Selebe Yoon
Dakar, Senegal
08 Nov 2024 - 22 Feb 2025

Kambui Olujimi, Even More Beautiful Than I Ever Imagined, 2024. Watercolor, ink, and graphite on

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Kambui Olujimi: North Star

San José Museum of Art
San José, United States
01 Nov 2024 - 01 Jun 2025

Arthur Timothy, Isabella & the Musicians (Caravaggio) (detail), 2024, Oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Gallery 1957.

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Keeping Time – Group Show

Gallery 1957
Accra, Ghana
26 Oct 2024 - 11 Oct 2025

JOJO ABDALLAH, Science and Technology, Function, Ca. 2023 | Acrylic on cloth over board

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JOJO ABDALLAH: PSY-TECH

Red Clay
Tamale, Ghana
25 Oct 2024 - 05 Mar 2025

EXHIBITION HISTORIES

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 game-changing exhibitions featuring…

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 2004, took a…

Malick Sidibé, Christmas evening. 1963.

Exhibition Histories

The Short Century

In this series, C& is revisiting the most discussed, loved, hated, thought-provoking, and game-changing exhibitions featuring…

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Places

Check out our database of art and cultural spaces that host and engage with art, artists and cultural producers from African perspectives.

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Looking back

Installation View

Installation View

Curriculum of Connections

Curriculum of Connections

Detox

Black Cultures Matter

Black Cultures Matter

Kapwani Kiwanga

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.

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LATEST EDITORIAL

Performance by Seyi Adelekun, Healing Forest - An Ecology of Spiritual Herbalism, KLA ART 2024 (Photo credit: Ethel Aanyu)

Artistic Communities

Kampala Calling: The African and Diaspora Artists Flocking to Uganda

Anna Adima reflects on the embrace of community and resourcefulness despite infrastructural challenges in…

Unidigrazz, Meia riba kalxa, 2020. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Chris Costa.

Afterlives of History

Unidigrazz: A Collective Practice and a Holding Place

The multifacted work of Unidigrazz, rooted in the area of Mem Martins, invites us…

Wanini Kimemiah, Namanga Yellows, 2020, digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship: Wanini Kimemiah

To Spring From Salted Earth

As part of the Stedelijk x C& Editorial Fellowship, Wanini Kimemiah presents an editorial…

The Secret Apothecary by Cynthia Nyakiro Ngunjiri.

C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship

The Secret Apothecary

Cynthia Nyakiro Ngunjiri presents a visual art project in process featuring plant motifs inspired…

Mwende and Mwendwa Ngao.

C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship

Shades of Green

In her contribution, Mwende Ngao explores the complex relationship between urban life and nature…

AWU Library. Photo: Keren Lasme.

Inside the Library

AWU Library

C& regularly takes a look into book collections holding rare publications. This time, Keren…

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