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Brazilian artist Tadáskía has been awarded one of Germany’s most prestigious and well-funded art prizes for her site-specific installation.
Curated by Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa, the Zimbabwe Pavilion explores neuroplasticity as a metaphor for cultural resilience.
Essay
Following our curated talk at FNB Art Joburg, panellist Gillian Fleischmann reflects on collage and archival methods beyond institutional lines.
Installation View
The Biennial opened this month with 125 individual and collective artistic positions, and six chapters that propose critical reflections on humanity.
In Memoriam
Heiko-Thandeka Ncube, the artist, filmmaker, educator and activist has passed away in Berlin.
Ecologies
The artist’s earth-based practice in the mopane woodlands is based on the reciprocity between her ancestral home and the offerings of her art works.
The multi-chapter exhibition traces links between Asia and Africa, looking at their increased political, economic and cultural importance.
In Conversation
After a fellowship at Fotogalleriet in Norway, Dahir Hussein was inspired to curate a group show on identity and indoctrination.
Following her debut solo exhibition, the artist reflects on Blackness, the gift of intuition, and the potency of African spirituality in her work.
Inside the Library
Keren Lasme introduces five books from 1949, Abidjan’s only library of women writers.
The curator of the twelfth Liverpool Biennial links emancipated artistic practices to the city, generating new questions about colonial histories.
Our writer Edna Bonhomme speaks to Mae-ling Lokko about agrowaste, fungi, and her evolution as an artist.
African Art Hubs
How do new arts hubs from Accra to Antananarivo relate to ongoing collective efforts that have enabled production in inconceivable circumstances?
Contemporary Black Discourses
Afrofuturism and Afropessimism both seek to step outside of limiting narratives and invite self-awareness into the conversation around Black lives.
Ama Josephine Budge on how to resist climate colonialism through a capacious, trans-temporal Blackness.
As we launch our new C& Artists' Edition, we revisit our interview with Agnes Waruguru from 2020 and asked her about the process behind the new work.
INVENTING YOUR OWN GAME
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Inventing your own game
In the post-war period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the Western art world…
Inventing Your Own Game
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Explore
C& and C&AL invited organizations, artists, and activists from Black and Indigenous perspectives to discuss, contextualize, and reflect on the relationship between neocolonial structures and the climate crisis in their local contexts.
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Brazilian artist Tadáskía has been awarded one of Germany’s most prestigious and well-funded art…
Curated by Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa, the Zimbabwe Pavilion explores neuroplasticity as a metaphor for…
As part of the public talks program at FNB Art Joburg, C& curated an…
Attending the opening week of this year’s Biennial curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung,…
Places
“What are the potentials of growing Black patronage across the diaspora, and how can…
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