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some things just don’t wash off, 2025. Courtesy of

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some things just don’t wash off – Group Show

dot.ateliers
Accra, Ghana
03 July 2025 - 30 August 2025

Yinka Shonibare, CBE Man Moving Up, 2022. Courtesy of FOR-SITE

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Black Gold: Stories Untold – Group Show

FOR-SITE
San Francisco, United States
06 June 2025 - 02 November 2025

Nana Bruce: In the Name of Love: Introspection

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Nana Bruce: In the Name of Love: Introspection

Gallery 1957
Accra, Ghana
31 Jul 2025 - 11 Sep 2025

Arthur Timothy, © GALLERY 1957

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Arthur Timothy: Othello’s Countrymen (The Krio Enigma)

Gallery 1957
London, United Kingdom
10 Jul 2025 - 30 Aug 2025

Dandelion Eghosa, Who can separate us, 2019
Wunika Mukan Gallery

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Dandelion Eghosa: Through Is This a Woman?

Wunika Mukan Gallery
Lagos, Nigeria
08 Jul 2025 - 12 Aug 2025

some things just don’t wash off, 2025. Courtesy of

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some things just don’t wash off – Group Show

dot.ateliers
Accra, Ghana
03 Jul 2025 - 30 Aug 2025

David Otaru, Hello Self (diptych), 2025
Acrylic on Canvas
48 x 72 in
121.9 x 182.9 cm

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Of Mind and Myth – Group Show

Rele Gallery
Lagos, Nigeria
28 Jun 2025 - 09 Aug 2025

Luke Agada, The Things That Stayed, 2025, oil on canvas, 72 × 72 inches (182.9 × 182.9 cm) © Luke Agada

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Ever So Present II: Between Home and Elsewhere – Group Show

Park & 75
New York, United States
25 Jun 2025 - 08 Aug 2025

Lubaina Himid, Venetian Maps: Shoemakers, 1997. Acrylic on canvas.
Courtesy of Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene Naftali, New York © Lubaina Himid

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The Thin Black Line – Group Show

Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
London, United Kingdom
24 Jun 2025 - 07 Sep 2025

Ken Aïcha Sy, Survival Kit, Family Archive (detail) © Anne Jean Bart

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Ken Aïcha Sy: Survival Kit – Between Us and History: The Hidden Archive

ifa Gallery
Berlin, Germany
20 Jun 2025 - 31 Aug 2025

Simon Zitha's Sibongile and Face Up, installation view, The Alchemy of Colour, 2025. Courtes of The Melrose Gallery.

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The Alchemy of Colour – Group Show

The Melrose Gallery
Johannesburg, South Africa
10 Jun 2025 - 18 Aug 2025

Other Territories | Autres Territoires – Group Show

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Other Territories | Autres Territoires – Group Show

BAND Gallery x Canadian Cultural Centre
Paris, France
07 Jun 2025 - 19 Sep 2025

Yinka Shonibare, CBE Man Moving Up, 2022. Courtesy of FOR-SITE

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Black Gold: Stories Untold – Group Show

FOR-SITE
San Francisco, United States
06 Jun 2025 - 02 Nov 2025

Courtesy of Rele Gallery

The Blue Between Us – Group Show

Rele Gallery
London, United Kingdom
06 Jun 2025 - 31 Aug 2025

Virginia Chihota, Munoonei kana makaditarisa nhai Mwari?/What do you see when you look at me ohh God?, 2025. Courtesy of Tiwani Contemporary

Exhibitions

Virginia Chihota: Munoonei kana makaditarisa nhai Mwari?/What do you see when you look at me ohh God?

Tiwani Contemporary
London, United Kingdom
05 Jun 2025 - 20 Sep 2025

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, To Improvise A Mountain (detail), 2024. Courtesy the artist

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To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates – Group Show

Leeds Art Gallery
Leeds, United Kingdom
16 May 2025 - 05 Oct 2025

Eblin Grueso, El Bato (2018). Photo: Eblin Grueso.

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Between Distance and Desire: African Diasporic Perspectives – Group Show

The Soloviev Foundation Gallery
New York, United States
01 May 2025 - 31 Dec 2025

Tabita Rezaire: Des/astres

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Tabita Rezaire: Des/astres

Fondation Louis Vuitton
Paris, France
09 Apr 2025 - 31 Aug 2025

Theaster Gates, A libation in Uncertain Times, 2024.

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Theaster Gates: The Ever-Present Hand

Albuquerque Foundation
Sintra, Portugal
22 Feb 2025 - 31 Aug 2025

Billie Zangewa, Breeding Ground, installation view, 2025. Courtesy of Norval Foundation

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Billie Zangewa: Breeding Ground

Norval Foundation
Cape Town, South Africa
18 Feb 2025 - 11 Jan 2026

Yvon Ngassam, View of Mount Mbanga. Bikoka, Lolodorf, 2021. Courtesy the Artist and Bikoka Art Project.

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What the Mountain Has Seen – Group Show

ERL Gallery
Liverpool, United Kingdom
07 Feb 2025 - 31 Oct 2025

When We See Us, Esiri Erheriene-Essi, The Birthday Party, 2021© Esiri Erheriene-Essi and Galerie Ron Mandos

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When We See Us – Group Show

BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts
Brussels, Belgium
07 Feb 2025 - 10 Aug 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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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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Photo: Mehdi Ben Temessek

Inside The Library

Mapping Literary Circuits with Bao Books in Tunis and Cairo

Tracing the roadmap that necessitated the creation of Bao Books and later the Moving…

Installation view “I'll Be Your Mirror”, Artists: Alick Phiri & William Matlala, Everyday Lusaka Gallery, Lusaka 2025. Alick Phiri artworks: Monoprints on Canvas and Monoprints on paper. William Matlala artworks: Digital prints on paper. Photo Courtesy of Maingaila Muvundika.

Installation View

Alick Phiri and William Matlala: I’ll Be Your Mirror

This is not an exhibition of heroes and heroines in the posture so often…

Both images: Freddie Odede, 199xorg.

Art in Crisis

Mangrove Ecologies: Grounded Forms of Questioning in the Art/World

Reflecting on a residency program between Lamu Kenya and Basel Switzerland, writer Ann Mbuti…

Kwesi Botchway, Green Fluffy Coat, Detail, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 78.7 x 78.7 cm / 31 x 31 in. Courtesy of Gallery 1957.

Opinion

Dignity Under Duress: Black Figuration Beyond the Global Art Market

The global market embraced art from Africa—but is that alone enough to sustain it?…

Tristany Mundu, still from _City around the City_, 2025 © Hugo Barros

Afterlives of History

Sampling the City: Tristany Mundu’s Cypher with Linha de Sintra

Through performance, sonic explorations and film, artist Tristany Mundu brings us into conversation with…

Angela Harutyunyan (left) and Paula Nascimento. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation.

News

Paula Nascimento and Angela Harutyunyan Announced as Curators of Sharjah Biennial 17

Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento will weave new narratives across geographies, histories, and imaginaries…

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