Editorial

Common Life, Zimbabwe and Uganda, Drawing by Charity Atukunda

Common Life

A Blueprint for Common Living

Researchers and arts initiatives collaborate to investigate overlaps between arts and community organization in Africa.

Cinthia Sifa Mulanga, All my Emos, 2022. Courtesy  of Norval Foundation

News

Shortlist for The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2023 Revealed

30 artists are shortlisted for the second edition of the art prize, which includes a cash prize and a solo exhibition at the Norval Foundation.

Performance by Sarah Ndele

7th Lubumbashi Biennale

ToxiCity: A Horizontal Collective Biennale

Costa Tshinzam visited the Biennale that is held “unmistakably horizontal and collective” until November 6, 2022 under the artistic direction of Picha

G.A.S. Buildings in Lagos and Ikise. Photography by Andrew Esiebo. Images © G.A.S. Foundation and Andrew Esiebo

News

Yinka Shonibare Launches G.A.S Foundation in Lagos

G.A.S is an non-profit project with two major new Nigeria-based creative hubs dedicated to art, design, architecture, agriculture and ecology.

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, Blues for the Martyrs, 2022. Oil on canvas, 203 x 300cm. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Mohamed Noureldin Abdallah Ahmed. © Kamala Ibrahim Ishag.

Installation View

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness

The exhibition of pioneering Sudanese artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishag celebrates the breadth and importance of her work spanning from the 1960s to today.

Frederick Ebenezer Okai, Fie, 2021. Courtesy the artist. Installation View of Earthy Structures and Contingent Breakthroughs at Gyamadudu Museum, Ghana.

Redefining Pottery

Frederick Ebenezer Okai Investigates the Possibilities of Clay

The artist’s solo exhibition explores his relationship with the earth and how his pottery is woven into the complex structures of Ghanaian society.

Art and the City

Exploring the Complexities of Urban Spaces

Different experiences and identities form a city. Joseph Omoh Ndukwu writes about how art examines the interior spaces of urban belonging.

Arsène Mpiana. Description: The Biennale crowd/partakers in front of the slag heap/terril of the former Gécamines mining site.

Lubumbashi Biennale

Picha Collective Responses to Gloria Mpanga’s opinion piece

Find here a response by the curators of the 7th Lubumbashi Biennale to our author’s critical piece, published ahead of the opening.

Hady Barry, Azi and Adjéla, from the series Wearing the Inside Out, 2022. Courtesy the artist.

Photography

Hady Barry and Her Intimate Gaze on Friendship and Motherhood

The very personal photographic series "Wearing the Inside Out" by Hady Barry captures the lives of the Guinean artist’s extended family and friends.

Dekoloniale Berlin Installation View, 2022 © Damian Charles

Installation View

Dekoloniale 2022 Residency Works

Dekoloniale Berlin presents an exhibition by Lulu Jemimah, Maya Alam and Vitjitua Ndjiharine,…

Screenshot network connections with Lagos © ifa/eflux

News

ifa Launches OtherNetwork – a Digital Platform for Independent Art Spaces

OtherNetwork will go online end of October as digital platform that networks independent art spaces and art projects around the world.

By Imani Jacqueline Brown

In Conversation

Imani Jacqueline Brown: What remains at the ends of the earth?

The artist and activist talks about the importance of ecological resistance and how it connects to our ancestors through the earth.

INVENTING YOUR OWN GAME

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Ecologies

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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