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. Et ce sont les artistes du Sud global qui en paient le prix.

documenta fifteen

Serine Ahefa Mekoun plonge dans les sagesses et le bien-fondé des œuvres d’art

Notre autrice met le focus sur des perspectives artistiques inspirantes de la documenta qui s’est déroulée du 8 juin au 25 septembre 2022 à Kassel, en Allemagne.

Artist Portrait

ANDYMKOSI, Even in Darkness, Makes a Space for Light

The South African photographer presents us with an alternative and joyful portrait of Black experiences on the continent.

Andymkosi, Between Sisters, 2021. 25 OCTOBER 2019 : A day before the Johannesburg Pride, Le Grande hosted a Festish Ball with various categories for the queer community to parttake in at the Tennis Club. Courtesy of the artist.

Biennale internationale de Casablanca

Brandon Gercara : « j’ai l’impression d’être en permanence dans une forme de déplacement »

Pour la Biennale de Casablanca, l’artiste explore propositions du féminisme en tant qu’outil d’émancipation et du mieux vivre-ensemble.

When Rain Clouds Gather

Archives of Womanhood and Blackness in South Africa

This exhibition at Norval Foundation shows a detailed history of pioneering Black South African female artists from 1940 to 2000.

Redefining Pottery

Frederick Ebenezer Okai Investigates the Possibilities of Clay

The artist’s solo exhibition explores his relationship with the earth and how his pottery is woven into the complex structures of Ghanaian society.

Frederick Ebenezer Okai, When The Gods Speak, Heaven Listens, 2022. Courtesy the artist. Installation View of Earthy Structures and Contingent Breakthroughs at Gyamadudu Museum, Ghana.

Photographie

Hady Barry porte un regard intime sur l’amitié et la maternité

La série de photographies Wearing the Inside Out saisit l’intimité des proches de l’artiste guinéenne Hady Barry.

In Conversation

Marie Hélène Pereira: “I’m very fond of conversations that take you out of the over-intellectualization of things”

Magnus Elias Rosengarten met up with a member of the artistic team of the 12th Berlin Biennale to talk about real encounters, global challenges, and inspirations.

Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

Gideon Appah’s Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes: Remembering and Remaking

Gideon Appah paints between memory and fantasy, referencing a Ghana of the 1950s to 1980s, helping us – perhaps – to imagine a new vision, writes Joseph Omoh Ndukwu.

Gideon Appah, Remember Our Stars, 2020. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Photo: Adam Reich

In Conversation

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

In 2021, in the midst of the Amazon forest in French Guiana, artist Tabita Rezaire founded a space for spiritual being and creative exchange.

Looking Back

James Baldwin in Istanbul: Art and Activism in Exile

While in Istanbul Baldwin used fierce artistry to unmask the USA’s façade as the custodian of freedom and democracy, explains curator Gürsoy Doğtaş.

Nigerian Modernism

Jerry Buhari’s Discovery of Landscapes of the Soul

In his three-decade-long practice and through the use of varied media, the Nigerian artist has intimately reflected on himself and his immediate sociopolitical environments.