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Courtesy of Kairos Futura

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Three Art Collectives Launch New Initiative in Kenya

Kairos Futura, Wajukuu Arts and Brush Tu Artist Collective have teamed up to create the Nairobi Space Station to envision the future of Nairobi.

Believing is not Knowing

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Believing is not Knowing

To celebrate our authors' writing we've dug up a few pieces from our archive. Today, Elisabeth Wellershaus' text on the African Futures Festival 2015.

Berni Searle, Untitled (red, white, yellow, brown), (detail), 1998. Installation view at Norval Foundation. Photo: Vusumzi Nkomo

Having But Little Gold

How Berni Searle Contemplates the Weight of Loss

A retrospective carefully explores Berni Searle’s main subjects – ruins, residues, and loss as a uniquely legitimate site for meditating on liberation

Kresiah Mukwazhi: Kirawa. Exhibition, Secession, Wien, Vienna, 17.2.–16.4.2023

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Kresiah Mukwazhi: Kirawa

Mukwazhi's presents a new body of work consisting of textile paintings and video works at Secession, Vienna running through 16 April 2023.

Cameron Rowland, macandal, 2023
Oxalic acid
37.5 x 30.5 x 67 cm

Packets of materials that could invoke spirits, protect against punishment, and poison slave masters were called macandals. They were at the center of a plot in 1757 to poison all the white people in Haiti. The plot was organized by hundreds of enslaved and free black people. All macandals were subsequently outlawed. Their trade and use continued despite their criminalization.

Enslaved people throughout the Atlantic world used arsenic, manioc juice, ground glass, and oxalic acid to poison overseers, masters, masters’ children, and livestock. Oxalic acid is a stain remover and household cleaner.

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Cameron Rowland Investigates how Germany Profited from the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The traces of racialised enslavement can be found in various German cities. The artist’s exhibition follows them through Frankfurt am Main.

From left: Bianca Xunise, Bunga Siagian, Jere Inkongio

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Dekoloniale and C& Announce Berlin Residents 2023

The three residents are Bianca Xunise, Bunga Siagian and Jere Inkongio, selected by a jury chaired by Hou Hanru and N'Goné Fall.

Demas Nwoko. Courtesy of La Biennale.

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Demas Nwoko Receives Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

The artist, designer and architect Demas Nwoko is awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Azu Nwagbogu; Venice Biennale

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Benin Debuts at Venice Biennale in 2024

The Republic of Benin Announces First Ever Venice Biennale Pavillion curated by Azu Nwagbogu at the 60th edition in 2024.

Alioune Diagne, XALÉ TEY – Enfants d’aujourd’hui, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize.

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Alioune Diagne Wins Public Vote Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2023

The painter receives the Public Vote Price endowed with R25,000 for their work ‘XALÉ TEY – Enfants d’aujourd’hui (2021)’.

Marilú Mapengo Námoda, What does the silence pray for? / Para que reza o silencio?, 2023, Sculpture, 2m x .5m. Photo: Lorna Zita

Sem Sombras

Queer Artists Bring New Perspectives to Mozambique

Curators Onyịnye Alheri and Carolina Policarpo display collaborations between artists from Mozambique, Nigeria, and Angola.

Peter Obi as Symbol of a new Nigeria by Douglas Jonn.

Nigeria’s Obidient Movement

Art in Support of Political Change

Peter Obi stirred an outpour of hope during the Nigerian elections. Agwu Enekwachi looks at some of the artworks made to reflect that spirit.

Curators of HWK.

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Haus der Kulturen der Welt Reveals Team Members and Programmes

HKW Berlin announces conceptual lines, practices, and programmes for 2023 and beyond, and presents its team headed by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.

INVENTING YOUR OWN GAME

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C& and C&AL invited organizations, artists, and activists from Black and Indigenous perspectives to discuss, contextualize, and reflect on the relationship between neocolonial structures and the climate crisis in their local contexts.

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