For the exhibition HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, C& is collaborating with the Museum Ludwig. The long-term project C& Center of Unfinished Business will be the focus of Dynamic Spaces. In addition, video works by the artist groups The Nest Collective and CUSS with Vukani Ndebele, which were produced by C& for the online video platform, will be shown for the first time in a museum. With Nkiruka Oparah and Frida Orupabo, the exhibition also features two artists whose practice is characterized by reflection on African Diaspora identity, the questioning of the representation of the self and others, the reappropriation of images, and the influence of visual cultures from the Internet.
Installation view C& Center of Unfinished Business, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © Contemporary And, photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, Cologne / Nina Siefke
Installation view, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig. Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/ Annika Schönfeldt Installation view, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig. Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/ Annika Schönfeldt Installation view Nkiruka Oparah, SUOON (detail), 2020, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © Contemporary And, photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, Cologne / Nina Siefke Installation view, Nkiruka Oparah, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig. Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © Nkiruka Oparah. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/ Annika Schönfeldt Installation view, Nkiruka Oparah, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig. Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © Nkiruka Oparah. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/ Annika Schönfeldt Installation view, C& Center of Unfinished Business, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig. Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020. © Contemporary And. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/ Annika Schönfeldt Installation view, C& Center of Unfinished Business, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig. Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020. © Contemporary And. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/ Annika Schönfeldt Installation view, C& Center of Unfinished Business, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig. Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020. © Contemporary And. Photo:Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/ Annika Schönfeldt Installation view, C& Center of Unfinished Business, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © Contemporary And, photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, Cologne / Nina Siefke Installation view,C& Center of Unfinished Business, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © Contemporary And, photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, Cologne / Nina Siefke Installation view, Frida Orupabo, Untitled, 2020, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © Frida Orupabo and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm/Berlin/Mexico City. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, Cologne / Annika Schönfeldt Installation view, Frida Orupabo, Untitled, 2020, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © Frida Orupabo and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm/Berlin/Mexico City. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, Cologne / Nina Siefke Installation view, The Nest Collective, HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020, © The Nest Collective. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, Cologne / Annika Schönfeldt
Watch the video works by the artist groups The Nest Collective and CUSS with Vukani Ndebele, in full length here:
The Nest Collective
https://www.contemporaryand.com/candcommissions/we-need-prayers/
CUSS with Vukani Ndebele
https://www.contemporaryand.com/candcommissions/streetkid/
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