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Tadáskía. Photo: Adriano Machado

Annonce

Tadáskía remporte le K21 Global Art Award 2025

L’artiste brésilienne Tadáskía reçoit un prestigieux prix en Allemagne pour une installation in situ.

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

Annonce

Le Zimbabwe présentera Second Nature | Manyonga à la 61e Biennale d’art de Venise

Sous le commissariat de Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa, le Pavillon du Zimbabwe explore la neuroplasticité comme métaphore de la résilience culturelle.

 
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.

36e Biennale de São Paulo

Vue de l’installation

36e Biennale de São Paulo

La Biennale a ouvert ce mois-ci avec 125 propositions artistiques individuelles et collectives, réparties en six chapitres offrant réflexions sur l’hu

 
Eric Magassa, Blinking Blind, 2023. Installation view FLIGHT Malmö Konsthall, 2023. Photo / Photo: Helene Toresdotter. Courtesy konstnären/the artist

In Conversation

Tawanda Appiah Ponders Beauty’s Transformative Potential

The Malmö-based curator talks about his current project at Skånes konstförening, creating immersive experiences, and rearranging history.

(Clockwise, all Details): Maheder Haileselassie, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, 2023; Carlos Idun-Tawiah, Sunday Special, 2022. Isoraka, Antananarivo; Léonard Pongo, Untitled. From Primordial Earth, 2023; Yasmin Forte, Military. From This is a story about my family, 2022; Nadia Ettwein, Looks Like Dad. From Hond, 2023

News

CAP Prize Winners Announced for 2023

Nadia Ettwein, Carlos Idun-Tawiah, Léonard Pongo, Yasmin Forte and Maheder Haileselassie awarded with Prize for Contemporary African Photography.

David Adjaye. Photo credit: Josh Huskin; two buildings designed by David Adjaye (top right) Smithsonian National Museum of African American Arts and Culture - Washington DC. Photo: Nic Lehoux; (bottom right) MOSCOW School of Management. Photo: Ed Reeve. All images courtesy of RIBA.

News

Several Institutions Have Severed Ties with David Adjaye Over Sexual Assault Allegations

After Studio Museum Harlem announced the end of its collaboration, Sharjah‘s Africa Institute also stops plans for a campus designed by the architect.

Rhael

18th Venice Architecture Biennale 2023

Lesley Lokko Breaks New Ground with The Laboratory of the Future

In presenting a compelling interplay between reality, fiction and crisis, Lokko delivers a lesson on accountability for curatorial practices.

Olu Alake; The Africa Centre. Courtesy of the centre.

News

Olu Alake Appointed Chief Executive Officer of The Africa Centre

From 17th July on, the recently revamped Africa Centre in London has a new CEO: renowned strategic leader and multi-sector stakeholder Olu Alake.

Heiko-Thandeka Ncube, The early rains which wash away the chaff before the spring rains, 2023. Video, 12 mins, film still.

Essay

Every Straw Is a Straw Too Much

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the psychological burden of being racialized while doing art.

Hamid Zénati. All-Over

Installation View

Hamid Zénati. All-Over

Haus der Kunst in Munich is showing the works of the self-taught artist and their wealth of forms, patterns, colors, materials and techniques.

(left) Poster of the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible © Nontsikelelo Mutiti / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo; (right): Study for closing of the second pavement for the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible © Vão / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

News

35th Bienal de São Paulo Announces Participants and Architecture Projects

From Sept 6 to Dec 10, Choreographies of the Impossible will present 120 participants in the exhibition and spatial design by the architects of Vão.

Atelier Ndokette, Ndokette Session, untitled, 2019. Courtesy of the artists.

In Conversation

How Atelier Ndokette Interweaves Artistic Practices

They have worked together as a collective since 2019. And their shared practices highlight the various ways in which clothes can speak.

Photo: Somakpo Kouakou Guy Serge Eddie

En Conversation

Kpingni Dieth Douabou aborde des questions intimes du féminisme noir

L’artiste adapte le livre La Vie sexuelle des femmes africaines et brosse un tableau décomplexé des expériences sexuelles.

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Nous avons le plaisir d’annoncer la sortie du premier numéro commun à C& et C&AL qui traite des structures néocoloniales et de la crise climatique.

Abel Rodríguez, Terraza Alta II, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Instituto de Visión.

Ecologies

Abel Rodríguez: The Namer of Plants

The Colombian artist of Nonuya origin is known in the art world by using drawing to preserve the memory of Amazonian flora at risk of extinction.

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