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Tristany Mundu, still from _City around the City_, 2025 © Hugo Barros

Afterlives of History

Sampling the City: Tristany Mundu’s Cypher with Linha de Sintra

The Portuguese artist of Angolan descent doesn’t statically document his native Linha de Sintra, but embraces the permanence and transience of home.

Hassan Musa, I love you with my AK47(1), 2019. Oil on printed fabrics on wood, 121 cm x 190 cm. Photo courtesy of the Galerie Maïa Muller.

Art in Crisis

Sudan Art Archive Aims to Reclaim a Canon from Afar

As war threatens Sudan’s cultural heritage, Sudan Art Archive works to digitally preserve 50 years of art through diaspora-led stewardship.

Samson Mnisi, Arreola II, XXX, Mixed Media, 179.6 x 86 cm. Detail. Artworks © Artist. Photo © Vela Projects (Mia Thom).

Artist Portrait

Samson Mnisi: A Master Posthumously Receives His Due

A recent Samson Mnisi exhibition was a testament to how the artist could invite viewers into a spiritual place he occupied.

Africa Depot at Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, 2015. Photo: Marion Benoit.

C& x Académie des Traces

Examiner les traces dé/coloniales à travers les collections coloniales

En collaboration avec l'Académie des Traces, sept jeunes chercheurs et professionnels des musées explorent les traces de l'héritage colonial.

(left) May Ayim, Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, 1992. (right) Johnny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, 2019.

C& Center of Unfinished Business

Penseurs et titres : La tradition littéraire noire allemande

Du philosophe du XVIIIe siècle Anton Wilhelm Amo à la perspective du XXIe siècle de Johny Pitts en passant par May Ayim.

Ladji Diaby, No one has ever called their child hunger, Kunstverein Nürnberg, 2024. Photo: Lukas Pürmayr.

Culture matérielle

Les sensibilités de Ladji Diaby en matière d’échantillonnage sont matérielles et intemporelles

Dans une reconfiguration subversive d'images et d'objets, l'exposition "No One Has Ever Called Their Child Hunger" évoque un cosmos.

Performance by Seyi Adelekun, Healing Forest - An Ecology of Spiritual Herbalism, KLA ART 2024 (Photo credit: Ethel Aanyu)

Communautés artistiques

L’appel de Kampala : les artistes africains et de la diaspora affluent en Ouganda

Anna Adima médite sur l’accueil de la communauté et l’ingéniosité de la scène artistique de Kampala en pleine expansion.

Unidigrazz, Meia riba kalxa, 2020. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Chris Costa.

"Afterlives of History"

Unidigrazz: A Collective Practice and a Holding Place

The multifacted work of Unidigrazz invites us to revisit domestic scenes as a way to critically reclaim public space.

(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.

Year-in-Review

C& Highlights of 2024

It has been another year of expanding networks, fostering dynamic collaborations, and producing exceptional art writing.

Filipa Bossuet, MANKAKA KADI KONDA KO II, 2022. Act I, Performance at MAAT, Lisbon. Courtesy of Pedro Pina.

"Afterlives of History"

Filipa Bossuet: Performance as Conversation, Intimacy as Power

Having started as a vlogger, the artist uses her biography to create shared reference points beyond self-referentiality.

One of the young women's exhibitions previously held in Kigali. Photo: Andrew I.Kazibwe.

Impundu Arts Centre

Rwanda’s Creative Sector Holds Vast Potential Through Women Artists

Andrew I Kazibwe met with Jemima Kakizi, artist, curator, and organizer of arts mentoring programs, to speak about the potential for female artists.

Syncretical,

Portrait d’artiste

De la narration collective aux singularités des identités Nord-africaines : une plongée dans l’univers de Syncretical

L'artiste crée un dialogue entre son héritage et sa culture française natale, fusionnant traditions, culture pop et enseignements philosophiques.