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Tadáskía. Photo: Adriano Machado

Annonce

Tadáskía remporte le K21 Global Art Award 2025

L’artiste brésilienne Tadáskía reçoit un prestigieux prix en Allemagne pour une installation in situ.

Moffat Takadiwa. Installation View of National Pavilion of Zimbabwe at 60th Venice Biennale, 2024. Photo: C&

Annonce

Le Zimbabwe présentera Second Nature | Manyonga à la 61e Biennale d’art de Venise

Sous le commissariat de Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa, le Pavillon du Zimbabwe explore la neuroplasticité comme métaphore de la résilience culturelle.

 
am Nhlengethwa, Glimpses of the 50’s and 60’s (2023). Installation view of Glimpses of the Now Exhibition at Four Corner’s Gallery. Photo: Josef Konczak

Essay

The Art of Dialogue: Living Archives, Memory and Practice

Following our curated talk at FNB Art Joburg, panellist Gillian Fleischmann reflects on collage and archival methods beyond institutional lines.

36e Biennale de São Paulo

Vue de l’installation

36e Biennale de São Paulo

La Biennale a ouvert ce mois-ci avec 125 propositions artistiques individuelles et collectives, réparties en six chapitres offrant réflexions sur l’hu

 
Camille Turner, Nave, 2021-2022, 00:12:34 (H:M:S), three-channel 3840 x 2160 video installation. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view at Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, ON as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2022. Photo: Toni Hafkenschied. Courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art.

News

Camille Turner Receives TBA Artist Prize

The Toronto Biennale of Art honored Camille Turner, whose work reveals colonial Canada's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.

What Are the Stakes of Representing Art from Africa in Dubai?

Opening of Efiɛ Gallery

What Are the Stakes of Representing Art from Africa in Dubai?

As the first African-owned art gallery in the UAE, Efiɛ may have to interrogate existing cultural legacies in the region, writes Nantume Violet.

Cultura persa e imparata a memoria, Adji Dieye, 25 February 2022

Installation View

Adji Dieye: Culture Lost and Learned by Heart

At ar/ge art, Adji Dieye shows works that began with archival research in Senegal to look at the country's post-independent situation.

Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa

News

Fadzai Muchemwa Appointed Curator at National Gallery of Zimbabwe

Writer an Curator Fadzai Muchemwa will take the curatorial lead of Contemporary Art at one of Harare's oldest and most important art museums.

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. « GBRÉ=GBLÉ » N° 118 from Alphabet Bété. 1991. Colored pencil, pencil, and ballpoint pen on board, 3 ⅞ × 5 ⅞” (9.8 × 14.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art. © 2022 Family of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

Installation View

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound

The first exhibition devoted to an Ivorian artist at MoMA presents Bouabré’s artworks from the 1970s until his death in 2014.

Glenn Ligon, Installation View at 16. Istanbul Biennale. Short film

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.

Clockwise: Diébédo Francis Kéré, photo courtesy of Lars Borges; Gando Primary School 2001, Gando, Burkina Faso. Photo courtesy of Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk; National Park of Mali, photo courtesy of Francis Kéré

News

Diébédo Francis Kéré Receives the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Pioneering in sustainable architecture, Francis Kéré empowers and transforms communities through the process of his work.

James Gregory Atkinson, Zeitkapsel Transformer, 2021, photography, documents, transformer, books, various materials, installation view ‘6 Friedberg-Chicago’, Dortmunder Kunstverein Courtesy: the artist, Archiv des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung, Germericans (Sabrina und Marvin Kuhn), Ika Hügel-Marshall, The Lisbet Tellefsen Collection, Tyrown Vincent, Dortmunder Kunstverein Photo: Roland Baege

Installation View

James Gregory Atkinson: 6 Friedberg-Chicago

At Dortmunder Kunstverein, Atkinson illuminates a neglected part of African-American–German history on personal, social and political level.

Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust

Installation View

Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust

The show at Kunsthalle Zürich is akin to a park, a landscape that absorbs and surrounds us with the everyday, desire, narrative and countless contrast

Tamary Kudita, That evening sun goes down, 2020. Courtesy the artist.

ArtHARARE 2021

The Particularities of a Place

This edition of artHARARE, navigating through the city and diasporic experiences, allowed reflections on the possibilities of presenting art online.

Manuel Borja-Villel (photo: Joaquín Cortés/Roman Lores), Grada Kilomba

News

São Paulo Biennale Reveals Curatorial Collective

Manuel Borja-Villel, Grada Kilomba, Diane Lima, and Hélio Menezes will co-curate the next Biennale taking place in 2023.

Open Letter: « Not Our Namibian Pavilion »

59th Venice Biennale 2022

Open Letter: « Not Our Namibian Pavilion »

We are sharing the open letter by artists and organizations in Namibia, expressing their concern about the National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

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