Venice Biennale 2019

Pavilion of Ivory Coast at 58th International Art Exhibition: The Open Shadows of Memory

Ivory Coast is represented by the four artists Ernest Dükü, Ananias Léki Dago, Valérie Oka, and Tong Yanrunan.

Female Pioneers

Felicia Abban: Behind the Scenes

In our latest series – Female Pioneers – we look at female artists from Africa who have made…

Sharjah Biennial 14

Mohamed Bourouissa Links Architecture and Psychology in Abandoned Kindergarten

Inspired by the garden of a patient at Fanon’s psychiatric hospital, Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa transformed a disused…

Biennale of Sydney 2020

Biennale announces exhibition: NIRIN and Artists

Among the first 33 artists, creatives and collectives announced, Lhola Amira, Arthur Jafa, Gina Athena Ulysse, Zanele Muholi,…

Venice Biennale 2019

Hamza Walker Part of International Jury

The 58th International Art Exhibition announces its International Jury that includes Stephanie Rosenthal, Defne Ayas, Cristiana Collu, Sunjung…

New Art Space

The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) opens in Ghana

On 15 March 2019, The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art opened its doors as an artist-run project space,…

Installation View

The People Shall Govern! Medu Art Ensemble and the Anti-Apartheid Poster

The Medu Art Ensemble formed in the late 1970s in opposition to South Africa’s apartheid policy of racial segregation and violent injustice. Through graphic design and poster production, members forcefully articulated a call for radical change, advocating for decolonization or majority (nonwhite) rule in South Africa and in the neighboring countries of Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. The People Shall Govern! is the first-ever exhibition on Medu in North America and will run from 27 April until 2 September at Art Institute Chicago. Get an impression before the opening here!

Concreto Blues

A New Photo Series by Kiluanji Kia Henda Tackles Angola’s Urbanization

With the solo show Concreto Blues, Angola-based artist Kiluanji Kia Henda returns to a subject of the city by grafting urban degradation onto the politicized rhetoric of metropolitan modernization and development in Luanda. The artist looks at what it actually means for the body to inhabit a city not “built for the self,” writes Ludmila Böse. 

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In Conversation with Zina Saro Wiwa

Re-imagining her World

Zina Saro Wiwa has many talents. Working between New York and Port Harcourt – where she set up…

Venice Biennale 2019

First Madagascar Pavilion in History

Madagascar will take part in the 58th edition of La Biennale di Venezia International Exhibition with its own…

Bamako Encouters 2019

Curatorial Team of Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial Announced

The 12th edition of Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial announces its curatorial team that includes Artistic Director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng…

The Netherlands: Untold Tales

Dutch Afro Subjectivities: In a State of Becoming “Black”

The Netherlands was one of the most belligerent European colonial empires. Driven by commerce and spread over four…

Frestas – Triennial of Arts

SESC Announced Curatorship of 3rd Edition

The third edition of Frestas is being held between August and December, 2020, presenting a plural art show…

 

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