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Lorraine O'Grady, Art Is. . . (Troupe Front), 1983/2009. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim (Chicago, Paris, Mexico City) © 2023 Lorraine O’Grady/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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Collective Joy – Learning Flamboyance! – Group Show

Palais de Tokyo
Paris, France
21 February 2025 - 11 May 2025

C& Center of Unfinished Business

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C& Center of Unfinished Business

Theater RAMPE
Stuttgart, Germany
24 January 2025 - 30 April 2025

Elias Sime: Echo የገደል ማሚቶ

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Elias Sime: Echo የገደል ማሚቶ

Kunstpalast
Düsseldorf, Germany
12 Feb 2025 - 01 Jun 2025

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

Yusuf Ahmed, Viktor and the Russian Princess Doll, 2023, courtesy of the artist

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Yusuf Ahmed: Between Nostalgia & Dreams

The Africa Center
New York, United States
05 Feb 2025 - 27 Apr 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

C& Center of Unfinished Business

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C& Center of Unfinished Business

Theater RAMPE
Stuttgart, Germany
24 Jan 2025 - 30 Apr 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

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

Liz Johnson Artur, Untitled, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn.

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Pickup Notes: Liz Johnson Artur, Madiha Sikander, and Zara Julius – Group Show

Kunstinstituut Melly
Rotterdam, Netherlands
20 Sep 2024 - 27 Apr 2025

Photo © Andrew Esiebo, project “Pneuma-city”

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Andrew Esiebo: Pneumacity Lagos

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

View of Delinking and Relinking, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2021. Photo: Joep Jacobs.

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Delinking and Relinking – Group Show

Van Abbemuseum
Eindhoven, Netherlands
18 Sep 2021 - 01 Jul 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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Love actually

Over the radar

Looking back

Black Cultures Matter

Black Cultures Matter

Detox

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

Soñ Gweha, Nyum Elucubris, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Review

‘Apprendre à Flamboyer’: Collective Joy in Practice at Palais de Tokyo

Until May 11, the exhibition Joie Collective – Apprendre à flamboyer (Collective Joy: Learning…

Family photograph, Ethel Tawe. Courtesy of the artist.

Editor’s Note

Stewarding an Antidisciplinary Practice

Reflecting on oral tradition, rhizomes, and opacity, C& Magazine’s new editor-in-chief, Ethel-Ruth Tawe, shares…

Photo: Ethel-Ruth Tawe.

News

Ethel-Ruth Tawe to Lead C& Magazine as Editor-in-Chief

A bold new editorial direction grounded in critical inquiry, collective care and creative strategy.

Africa Depot at Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, 2015. Photo: Marion Benoit.

C& x Académie des Traces

Examining De/Colonial Traces Through Colonial Collections

This collaboration between the Académie des Traces and C& explores the traces of colonial…

(left) May Ayim, Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, 1992. (right) Johnny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, 2019.

C& Center of Unfinished Business

Thinkers and Titles: On Black German Literary Tradition

From the C& Center of Unfinished Business reading room at Theatre RAMPE Stuttgart, Yeama…

Inside the Library of AWARE in Paris. Photo: Keren Lasme.

Inside the Library

AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions)

In this series, C& explores special book collections. This time, Keren Lasme shares her…

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