Editorial

César Schofield Cardoso, Perpetual Cycle from Rust series, 2017. Courtesy the artist.

“Afterlives of History”

Les temporalités stratifiées du Cap-Vert émergent dans l’œuvre de César Schofield Cardoso

Ana Nolasco explore l'œuvre de César Schofield Cardoso, en examinant le passé colonial du Cap-Vert, la mémoire et…

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.

 
Wanini Kimemiah, Namanga Yellows, 2020, digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship: Wanini Kimemiah

To Spring From Salted Earth

Fellow Wanini Kimemiah presents an editorial essay that introduces eight texts exploring the complex legacies of colonial histories in Kenya.

The Secret Apothecary by Cynthia Nyakiro Ngunjiri.

C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship

The Secret Apothecary

Cynthia Nyakiro Ngunjiri presents a visual art project in process featuring plant motifs inspired by her family’s generational knowledge of medicinal.

 
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

News

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.

En conversation

L’artiste originaire du Brésil enorê interroge le langage créatif des données

enorê, dont le travail trouble la notion de fluidité en reliant l'art numérique et le non numérique, discute avec C& des réalités (in)visibles.

Une sélection des articles de C& les plus marquants de 2021 qui vous ont peut-être échappé

Le meilleur de l'année 2021

Une sélection des articles de C& les plus marquants de 2021 qui vous ont peut-être échappé

De la restitution des bronzes du Bénin à la célébration bien trop tardive des femmes artistes, voici quelques-uns de nos textes les plus lus en 2021.

Wilfred Timire and Franklyn Dzingai Win artHARARE Prize

News

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

News

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.

News

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.

Top left: Đỗ Tường Linh, photo: Xuân Phan; top right: Rasha Salti, photo: Christoph Terhechte; middle: Marie Helene Pereira, photo: Élise Fitte-Duval, bottom left: Noam Segal, photo: Maya Barkai; bottom right: Ana Teixeira Pinto, photo: Adam Berry, transmediale, CC BY-SA 4.0

News

12th Berlin Biennale Announces Artistic Team

Kader Attia selected Ana Teixeira Pinto, Đỗ Tường Linh, Marie Helene Pereira, Noam Segal, and Rasha Salti as artistic team for the 2022' edition.

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