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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 installation.

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.

 
Laboratoire Kontempo, Film still

In Conversation

Laboratoire Kontempo Embraces the Art of Conflict

The founders of the Kinshasa based art project speak about artistic complexities and concepts of the foreign.

Installation View of Austrian Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music at Belvedere, Vienna, 2022. Photo: Johannes Stoll, Courtesy of Österreichische Museum für Schwarze Unterhaltung und Black Music (ÖMSUBM).

Installation View

Austrian Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music

The Museum gathers stories of Black artists and entertainers who rose to prominence in what has been a predominantly white entertainment industry.

El Hadji Sy, Installation View, Selebe Yoon, 2022.

Installation View

El Hadji Sy: Now / Naaw

El Hadji Sy's works, on view at Selebe Yoon in Dakar, are made with a variety of materials blurring boundaries between functionality and aesthetics.

Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, photography by Fredrik Nilsen Studio.

News

Sam Gilliam (1933-2022)

Sam Gilliam, one of the great innovators in postwar American painting, has passed away.

CCA Lagos, view From Front. Courtesy CCA Lagos.

Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos and Sotheby’s

Bisi Silva’s CCA Lagos is the Subject of a Major Revamp

With over 1 million dollars raised at a Sotheby’s CCA Lagos Benefit auction, one of Nigeria’s most respected art institutions is getting a major rehab

CAP Prize Announces 2022 Winners

News

CAP Prize Announces 2022 Winners

Amina Kadous, Remofiloe Nomandla Mayisela, Lee-Ann Olwage, Mahefa Dimbiniaina Randrianarivelo, and 
Pamela Tulizo…

Fondation Festival sur le Niger. Installation view at documenta fifteen, Kassel. Photo: C&

Installation View II

documenta fifteen

Ruangrupa takes lumbung as the starting point of documenta fifteen: principles of collectivity, resource building and equitable distribution.

The five visual artists shortlisted for the 2022 Sobey Art Award. Top row: Azza El Siddique (Ontario); Second row, from left: Tyshan Wright (Atlantic), Stanley Février (Quebec); Third row: Divya Mehra (Prairies & North); Bottom row: Krystle Silverfox (West Coast & Yukon).

News

Five Artists Shortlisted for the 2022 Sobey Art Award

Representing the five regions of Canada, Tyshan Wright, Stanley Février, Azza El Siddique, Divya Mehra and Krystle Silverfox are listed for the prize.

Gideon Appah’s Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes: Remembering and Remaking

Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

Gideon Appah’s Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes: Remembering and Remaking

Gideon Appah paints between memory and fantasy, referencing a Ghana of the 1950s to 1980s, helping us – perhaps – to imagine a new vision.

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

News

C& Mentoring Program Enters a new Round

Our mentors Fadzai Muchemwa, Enos Nyamor, Miriane Peregrino, and Costa Tshinzam selected four new mentees for 2022.

documenta fifteen

Installation View

documenta fifteen

Running for 100 days through 25 September, the 15th edition of documenta in Kassel, Germany, opens its door. Find some first impressions here.

Nontsikelelo Mutiti, (center) Portrait by Jasper Kettner; (right) Box Braid Study, 2014, Archival Inkjet Print, 20 x 16 inches.

News

Nontsikelelo Mutiti Appointed Director of Graphic Design at Yale School of Art

Mutiti is a designer, visual artist, and educator with a deep interest in community engagement. She will take over her new position in August.

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