Editorial

Tadáskía. Photo: Adriano Machado

Announcement

Tadáskía Wins the 2025 K21 Global Art Award

Brazilian artist Tadáskía has been awarded one of Germany’s most prestigious and well-funded art prizes for her site-specific…

Moffat Takadiwa. Installation View of National Pavilion of Zimbabwe at 60th Venice Biennale, 2024. Photo: C&

Announcement

Zimbabwe Pavilion Announces “Second Nature | Manyonga” for Venice Art Biennale 2026

Curated by Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa, the Zimbabwe Pavilion explores neuroplasticity as a metaphor for cultural resilience.

am Nhlengethwa, Glimpses of the 50’s and 60’s (2023). Installation view of Glimpses of the Now Exhibition at Four Corner’s Gallery. Photo: Josef Konczak

Essay

The Art of Dialogue: Living Archives, Memory and Practice

Following our curated talk at FNB Art Joburg, panellist Gillian Fleischmann reflects on collage and archival methods beyond institutional lines.

 
The 36th São Paulo Biennial

Installation View

The 36th São Paulo Biennial

The Biennial opened this month with 125 individual and collective artistic positions, and six chapters that propose critical reflections on humanity.

A Collector’s Guide to São Paulo

Places

A Collector’s Guide to São Paulo

Curated by ISE-DA and 1-54 to coincide the 36th São Paulo Biennial, this selection of Afro-Brazilian spaces and artists reflects a climate of exchange

 
(left) N'Goné Fall; (right) Hou Hanru

News

Dekoloniale Berlin and C& Announce Jury Presidents for Residency 2023

For this years' Dekoloniale Berlin Residency (open to apply) writer and curator Hou Hanru and curator N'Goné Fall are the presidents of the jury.

(left) Michelle Commander. Photo: Smithsonian NMAAHC; (right) Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photo: Smithsonian NMAAHC

News

The Smithsonian NMAAHC Announced Michelle Commander As Deputy Director

Commander is succeeding the outgoing and founding deputy director, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, and takes up her new role on 30 January.

C& Special Print Issue #Artofcritique, 2023. Photo: C&

Out Now!

New C& Special Print Issue #artofcritique Featuring our Mentees’ Texts

A celebration of the work that has been produced in the frame of the C& Critical Writing Workshops and the C& Mentoring Program since 2016.

Image by Ming Smith

News

Ming Smith Receives Lifetime Achievement Award by International Center of Photography

The ICP’s Infinity Awards honor outstanding achievements in photography and visual arts. Ming Smith and Zora J Murff are among the winners in 2023.

Critical Writing Workshop Participant in Lubumbashi, 2017. Photo: Mustache Muhanya

Out Now Soon! C& Special Print Issue #artofcritique

Re-Generation of Life – A Roundtable On Critical Art Writing

Bwanga Kapumpa, Enos Nyamor, Miriane Peregrino and Lorna Telma Zita speak to Rose Jepkorir about their motivations and practice in recent years.

Courtesy of Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre

News

The Lusaka Contemporary Art Center Opened as Zambia’s First Contemporary Art Hub

Founded by Victor Mutelekesha, the LuCAC is dedicated to contemporary Zambian artists and research into Zambian arts.

Installation View Na Chainkua Reindorf: Up To No Good at Nubile Foundation from 18 Nov 22 - 18 Feb 2023. Photo: Isaac Gyamfi. Courtesy of Nubuke Foundation.

In Conversation

Na Chainkua Reindorf: Unruly Artworks

The artist talks about the Venice Biennale, her multiperspective practice, and her interest in masquerade cultures.

Photography by Paul Kodio

Rencontres de Bamako – Biennale Africaine de la Photographie

Ousmane Diarra Shares his Meditations on the Biennale

The distinguished author looks back on a year of turmoil: on coups, wars and embargos, but also on artistic connection with the world.

Brandon Gercara. Photo: Sef Younes

Installation View

5th International Biennale of Casablanca

Entitled The Words Create Images, the fifth edition takes place in two stages. Find some first impression of part one here on C&.

(left) Amoako Boafo. Photo Robert Wedemeyer. (right) The exterior of dot.ateliers in Accra, image courtesy of Edem J. Tamakloe.

News

Amoako Boafo Launches dot.ateliers in Accra

The artist opens a residency space with a gallery, studio, café and art library, designed by Sir David Adjaye to support the country's art scene.

C&’s Highlights of 2022 You Might Want to Read Again

Best of 2022

C&’s Highlights of 2022 You Might Want to Read Again

From the major art events that have shaped this year to a joyful celebration of Black lives and art: these are the editors favourite picks of 2022.

Amira Hanafi, A dictionary of the revolution. Vocabulary box (2014). Courtesy the Artist.

Casablanca International Bienniale

The Many Languages of Contemporary Art

The biennial explores the links between various art forms and makes way for visual narratives that challenge established storytelling.

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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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