I have an urge to share those stories, to honor these women, that knowledge, that work, that ability to alchemize cassava – and the natural environment in a broader sense – into whatever is needed.Kosisochukwu Nnebe
C&’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY
2023 marks a special year for Contemporary And (C&): the platform has turned TEN!
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By combining local materials and skills with innovative design and smart engineering solutions, architect Diébédo Francis Kéré wins the coveted award.
Art Networks in Zimbabwe
In Harare, a cathartic group exhibition celebrates the work of collectives who bridge the gap between a feeble art market and scant resources.
C&10
C&'s tenth anniversary is a very special moment for us. We have asked people from our network to share their thoughts, memories, and wishes for C&.
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Another find from our great archive: Fatima El-Tayeb on how European institutions have consistently appropriated Black historical personalities.
The curatorial team around Azu Nwagbogu will put works together by Romuald Hazoumé, Chloe Quenem, Ishola Akpo, and Moufoli Bello.
In Conversation
Ludo by Yadi highlights local design and production while embracing community recreation and functional art.
Artist, researcher, writer and founder, Senam Okudzeto receives on of the highest Swiss art prizes for her socio-politically relevant work.
Starting in January 2024, Ngcobo will continue the Rotterdam Institution's collaborative approach to face acute questions of our time.
Prior to her retrospective at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, the artist discusses the choices behind key works in her oeuvre.
Bwo established in Central Africa by founders under the age of 30 plans to open in Douala with an inaugural exhibition on September 2, 2023.
Nada Baraka, an Egyptian artist based in Cairo, is the 2023 ANNA Award recipient.
Inside the Library
C& regularly takes a look into book collections holding rare publications. This time, Keren Lasme introduces five books she found in Abidjan.
Events
Jogja, Indonesia 06 Oct 2023 - 25 Nov 2023
Exhibition
Montague ContemporaryNew York, United States 07 Sep 2023 - 21 Oct 2023
ReleLagos, Nigeria 10 Sep 2023 - 21 Oct 2023
DAS MINSKPotsdam, Germany 16 Sep 2023 - 04 Feb 2024
Kunsthal CharlottenborgCopenhagen, Denmark 16 Sep 2023 - 18 Feb 2024
Exhibitions
Dallas Museum of ArtDallas, United States 22 Oct 2023 - 11 Feb 2024
Yancey RichardsonNew York, United States 09 Sep 2023 - 11 Nov 2023
Galerie Lelong & Co.Paris, France 07 Sep 2023 - 07 Oct 2023
Jogja, Indonesia
06 Oct - 25 Nov 2023
Montague ContemporaryNew York, United States
07 Sep - 21 Oct 2023
Guest Artists Space FoundationLagos, Nigeria
ReleLagos, Nigeria
10 Sep - 21 Oct 2023
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
DAS MINSKPotsdam, Germany
16 Sep - 04 Feb 2024
Kunsthal CharlottenborgCopenhagen, Denmark
16 Sep - 18 Feb 2024
Dallas Museum of ArtDallas, United States
22 Oct - 11 Feb 2024
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2023 marks a special year for Contemporary And (C&): the platform has turned TEN! Find here all information about our events and special projects.
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Listen to artist interviews, reviews, features, and opinions about crucial topics on contemporary art, to stay up to date with discussions surrounding art from Africa and the Global Diaspora.
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Tender Photo
The artist has created a participatory digital archive around the tenderness in photographs, refusing temporal linearity by drawing out a kinship.
Ecologies
The artist discusses her practice in the context of changing climatic realities and how symbolic actions can have an impact.
C& Projects
Our mobile reading room offering an extraordinary, sometimes disconcerting selection of books that are linked to the topic of colonialism
For the second Nigerian Pavilion, Aindrea Emelife will curate a group exhibition with eight artists around the theme "Nigeria Imaginary".
Along with Tiago Sant’Ana, C&AL Associate Editor Yina Jímenez joins Raphael Fonseca’s artistic team of The Mercosur Biennial’s 14th edition.
Racism: a bigger picture
Exhibition Histories
Venice Biennale 2017
Installation View
Haus der Kunst in Munich is showing the works of the self-taught artist and his wealth of forms, patterns, colors, materials and techniques.
From Sept 6 to Dec 10, Choreographies of the Impossible will present 120 participants in the exhibition and spatial design by the architects of Vão.
They have worked together as a collective since 2019. And their shared practices highlight the various ways in which clothes can speak.
The artist adapts the book The Sex Life of African Women and paints a candid picture of sexual experiences – the troublesome and the joyful.
Out Now!
We are thrilled to announce the first joint issue between C& and C&AL reflecting on neocolonial structures and the climate crisis.
The Colombian artist of Nonuya origin is known in the art world by using drawing to preserve the memory of Amazonian flora at risk of extinction.
Residencies Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Lausanne, Switzerland
Call for entries 28 Piazza di Pietra Fine Art Gallery
Rome, Italy
Call for entries Fountainhead® Tanz Théâtre
Berlin, Germany
Job offers Guest Artists Space Foundation
Lagos, Nigeria
