Cover detail of Felwine Sarr's book

Talks / Workshops 

»Afrotopia« An Evening with Felwine Sarr & Bénédicte Savoy

Felwine Sarr, economist from Senegal, is one of the most discussed thinkers in Africa. He vehemently demands t ...

Sammy Baloji, …AND TO THOSE NORTH SEA WAVES WHISPERING SUNKEN STORIES (II), 2021, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022, photo: dotgain.info

In Conversation 

Marie Hélène Pereira: “I’m very fond of conversations that take you out of the over-intellectualization of things”

Contemporary And: Kader Attia is the curator of this year’s Berlin Biennale and brought together an artistic ...

DOXANTU. Performing arts Precy Numbi, Mucyo, Peintre Obu, Laura Nsengiyumva. Production : Isabelle N’diaye.

Dak’art Biennale 2022 

Out of the Fire: The Postcolony Will Rise

This creative review of Dak’Art is situated in the eyes and experience of a woman, those of a diasporic ...

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 fourth annual edition of Les ateliers de la Pensée, held at the Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations in Ma ...

Les Ateliers de la Pensée

Events 

ADLP#4 – Bonds Cosmologies and Forms of Life

Les Ateliers de la Pensée, initiated by Achille Mbembé and Felwine Sarr, bring together from March 23 to 26, ...

Image by Syowia Kyambi: Kaspale/The Lecture Room
Intervention, Video Still.
© Carl Kühl, MARKK Museum 2019

Conferences 

UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge

The performative conference UNEXPECTED LESSONS deals artistically and scientifically with the decolonisation o ...

Ecliptic (Black Liberation Zodiac) (detail), 2017 © Nolan Oswald Dennis and the Goodman Gallery

Exhibition 

UFA – University of African Futures

UFA – University of African Futures invites artists who, from a critical approach to the notion of the futu ...

Afrotopiac, Larry Achiampong © Larry Achiampong

Exhibition 

Afrotopia

Africa2020 is a national cultural project dedicated to the 54 countries of the African continent, commissioned ...

I Am Because We Are – 37th Hamburger Short Film Festival

Festivals 

I Am Because We Are – 37th Hamburger Short Film Festival

The Hamburg Short Film Festival will take place from 1 June to 7 June. This year’s motto is I AM BECAUSE WE ...

Lagosphoto Festival 2020: Rapid Response Restitution – Home Museum

Festivals 

Lagosphoto Festival 2020: Rapid Response Restitution – Home Museum

LagosPhoto Festival is delighted to present the eleventh edition of the annual LagosPhoto Festival. This year ...

(left) Felwine Sarr by Antoine Tempé. (right) Thelma Golden by Julie Skarratt.

ArtReview Power 100 

ArtReview revealed the most influential people in contemporary art

ArtReview’sannual list of the world’s most influential artists, curators, gallerists, and other powerful p ...

Image: Royal Statues from Abomey seized in 1892 by French soldiers, exhibited at Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris. Photo by Z. S. Strother.

Conferences 

The Restitution Debate: African Art in a Global Society

In November 2018, Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy released a report that had been prepared for the Presiden ...


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