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Lac Rose, Installation View at the 14th Dakar Biennale, 2022. Photo: Roseline Olang' Odhiambo

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14th Dakar Biennale 2022: Palais de Justice

Here are some installation views of the 14th Dakar Biennale taking place from…

Photo courtesy of Tegene Kunbi⁠

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Tegene Kunbi Receives Dak’Art Main Prize

The Grand Prix Léopold Sédar SENGHOR goes to Ethiopian artist Tegene Kunbi at the opening of the 14th Biennial of Contemporary African Art 2022.

Image: Amira Hanafi, Vocabulary Box, 2014

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Casablanca Biennale Announced New Dates

Taking place in two stages, exhibitions and events will run from 17 November to 17 December 2022 and from 9 February to 11 March 2023.

Spacecraft_KT, Fabrication d#un fablab mobile: a prototype of a mobile fablab for arts, Dak'art OFF, 2018. Kër Thoissane. Photo: C&

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14th Dakar Biennale: The OFF Program

To follow up on the 350 private initiatives that make up the "OFF", you can find the maps and a small selection here.

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

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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

Why the Venice Biennale Model Is Obsolete

With the national pavilion model, the Venice Biennale masquerades provincialism as worldliness. And it’s Global South artists who pay the price.

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

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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

Forging Ecologies of Knowledge, in Between Arts and Sciences

The 4th Les ateliers de la Pensée brought together artists and intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora at the Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations

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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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