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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

 
Adéọlá Naomi Adérè̩mí, Aurélie, 2021. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Adéọlá Naomi Adérè̩mí: I Am Afro Greek

The filmmaker upholds experiences of being Black and Greek and creates an archive for the community and for generations to come.

Abdoulaye Konaté, 'Composition 3', (Detail) bazin teint, 228x146cm, 2012

News

Dak’Art Announces Theme and Program

With Ĩ Ndaffa, the fourteenth edition of the Dakar Biennale calls for the transmutation of concepts and the foundation of new meanings.

Amakaba, introduction video (still), 2021. Courtesy of Amakaba.

In Conversation

Tabita Rezaire: “I prefer to stand for things I believe in”

In 2020, in the midst of the Amazon forest in French Guiana, artist Tabita Rezaire founded a space for spiritual being and creative exchange.

Acaye Kerunen. Installation view of the Uganda Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. Photo: C&

59th Venice Biennale

What a Uganda Pavilion in Venice Means to Ugandans

It has received a special mention for its inaugural pavilion in Venice, yet Uganda’s global art venture has just begun, writes author Gloria Kiconco.

70 artists,

La Biennale di Venezia

En quoi le modèle de la Biennale de Venise est obsolète

Avec le modèle du pavillon national, la Biennale de Venise fait passer le provincialisme pour de la mondialité.

Concerned Members of the Namibian Arts Community: It is a One-dimensional Problematic Pavilion

In Conversation

Concerned Members of the Namibian Arts Community: It is a One-dimensional Problematic Pavilion

We talked to the collective that is questioning the selection process and intentions…

Photo: Derrick Beasley

News

Lauren Haynes Appointed Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs at Queens Museum

Haynes joins the Queens Museum from the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to start in mid-July.

Les ateliers de la Pensée @ Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations. Photo: Guillaume Bassinet

Les Ateliers de la Pensée

Forger des écologies du savoir, entre arts et sciences

La 4e Les Ateliers de la Pensée ont réuni des artistes et des intellectuels d’Afrique et de la diaspora au Musée des civilisations noires de Dakar.

(left) Simone Leigh. Foto: Shaniqwa Jarvis/Courtesy of the Simone Leigh and Hauser & Wirth via Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art/AP/dpa. (right) Sonia Boyce, commissioned by the British Council for the British Pavilion 2022. Image: Cristiano Corte © British Council

59th Venice Biennale

Golden Lion to Simone Leigh and Sonia Boyce

The prestigious award goes to Leigh for her participation in the main show and to Boyce's British Pavilion, special mentions to Uganda and France.

Zineb Sedira, Les rêves n'ont pas de titre/ Dreams have no titles, 2022. Installation view of the France Pavilion at 59th Venice Biennale. Photo: C&

Installation View: 59th Venice Biennale

Pavilions of France, Great Britain, Uganda and USA

Find some impressions of the pavilions and artists' work that have been honored at the 59th Venice Biennale here.

The Milk of Dreams at Central Pavilion, Pavilions of Brasil, Suisse, South Africa and Ghana

Installation View: 59th Venice Biennale

The Milk of Dreams at Central Pavilion, Pavilions of Brasil, Suisse, South Africa and Ghana

Here are some installation views of the art work we spotted during the opening week at the 59th Venice Biennale at Giardini.

The Milk of Dreams at Arsenale, Pavilion of Zimbabwe and Ocean Space

Installation View: 59th Venice Biennale

The Milk of Dreams at Arsenale, Pavilion of Zimbabwe and Ocean Space

Here are some installation views of the 59th Venice Biennale taking place from 23 April to 27 November 2022 curated by Cecilia Alemani.

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