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Jean-Ulrick Désert Wins Inaugural Wi Di Mimba Wi Prize

AKB Stiftung and SAVVY Contemporary have teamed up to launch this new and long-term commission grant for artists of colour based in Germany.

Hank Willis Thomas, All Power to All People, 2020. Photograph by Albert Yee. Courtesy of the artist and Kindred Arts.

In Conversation

Marsha Reid: Public Sculpture and Cultural Equity

We spoke to the US arts activist about an exhibition in which she invites artists to create public works that question ownership of open spaces.

C& Office and Reading Room Nairobi. Photo: Emmaus Kimani

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C& Opens a New Office and Reading Room in Nairobi!

Located in one of Nairobi's first mall buildings, the office will host artists, writers and curators and provide a home for ongoing conversations.

Videostill, enorê. Courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation

Brazilian Artist enorê Explores the Creative Language of Data

enorê, whose work challenges the idea of fluidity by connecting digital and non-digital art, speaks to C& about visible and invisible realities.

C&’s Highlights of 2021 You Might Have Missed

Best of 2021

C&’s Highlights of 2021 You Might Have Missed

From the restitution of the Benin Bronzes to the overdue celebration of female artists from Africa; these are some of our most read articles in 2021.

Wilfred Timire and Franklyn Dzingai Win artHARARE Prize

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Wilfred Timire and Franklyn Dzingai Win artHARARE Prize

Zimbabwean emerging artists Wilfred Timire and Franklyn Dzingai are joint winners and will present a solo exhibition at Gallery 1957 in 2022.

Grada Kilomba in cooperation with Kalaf Epalanga, O BARCO / THE BOAT, Perfomance at Boca 2021, Lisbon. Courtesy the artist.

Open Letter

Grada Kilomba and the Venice Biennale 2022

The international arts and culture scene condemns the judging irregularities at the Venice…

El Franco Lee, II, DJ Screw in Heaven 2, 2016. Neon bulb and single-channel audio, 3:04 minutes, 60 x 60 inches. Image and work courtesy the artist.

Let us Mourn in Peace

Global Grief 2021: The Year in Review

Enos Nyamor looks back at a year in the arts marked by collective mourning as a cosmic bond between Africa and the diaspora.

bell hooks

In Memoriam

bell hooks (1952-2021)

The pathbreaking writer died on December 15 at the age of 69 and left us a colossal intellectual heritage.

Christelle Oyiri. Photo: Lucid Interval.

In Conversation

Christelle Oyiri: As a DJ, I see Myself as a Healing Figure

We speak with the Paris-based multidisciplinary artist and DJ about her practice of easing pain and cataloging as a means of maintaining dignity.

Rituel de déplacement de corps - 2019, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan © Dalila Dalléas Bouzar

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Dalila Dalléas Bouzar Awarded SAM Prize 2021

Algerian artist Dalila Dalléas Bouzar has been awarded the SAM Prize 2021, that includes an exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in 2022.

Joy Gregory, Invisible Life Force of Plants, cyanotype and lumen prints, 2020. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Rencontres de Bamako Reveals Artist List for 2022

Roughly 75 artists from Africa and the Global Diaspora have been invited to the next Bamako Encounters, taking place from October to December 2022.

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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