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A collage made using ephemera collected during the trip. Photo: Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo

Greetings from Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo

Darling, this is Switzerland

On a curatorial research trip through Switzerland, curator Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo shares her impressions in five postcards with a loved one in Nairobi.

Lesley Lokko. Photo: Murdo Macleod

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Lesley Lokko Receives Royal Gold Medal 2024 for Architecture

One of the world’s highest honours in architecture goes to architect, educator, author and curator Lesley Lokko.

Mabel Cetu featured in Zonk! Magazine in October 1956.

Female Pioneers

Mabel Cetu: A Complicated Legacy

Writer Ethel-Ruth Tawe reflects on the multiple narratives of Mabel Cetu’s photojournalistic work.

P. Staff, In Ekstase, 2023, detail, in: P. Staff, In Ekstase, Kunsthalle Basel, 2023, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Kunsthalle Basel

Where is Your Body? P. Staff and Tiona Nekkia McClodden Opening Space for Vulnerability

On a research trip through Switzerland, Khanya Mashabela delved into the works of the two artists exhibiting at Kunsthalle Basel.

Silent Invasions: The Art of Material Hacking

Installation View

Silent Invasions: The Art of Material Hacking

An exhibition presented by Ghanaian blaxTARLINES and the art communities of Uganda at Amasaka Gallery in Masaka City until 13 January, 2024.

A portrait of Pope.L (photo by Peyton Fulford, courtesy Modern Art London)

In Memoriam

William Pope.L (1955-2023)

The visual artist and educator died on December 23 at the age of 68 in Chicago, USA.

(clockwise) Torkwase Dyson, Liquid A Place, 2023. Homme Adams Park 72500 Thrush Road, Palm Desert at Desert X. Photography courtesy of Lance Gerber; Rhael

Best of 2023

C& Magazine’s Highlights of 2023 You Might Want to Read Again

From climate colonialism to new perspectives from queer artists in Mozambique, these are some of our most-read articles this year.

C& Launches Patreon Membership

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C& Launches Patreon Membership

An invitation to our extended community to join and support us!

Celebrating the C& Cosmos

C&’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY

Celebrating the C& Cosmos

2023 marks a special year for Contemporary And (C&): the platform has turned TEN!

(Clockwise): Delegation Parade Frelimo. Photo: Luc-Daniel Dupire. Courtesy of PANAFEST archiv; Jeannette Ehlers 'Whip it Good’ 2017. Photo: Aukje Lepoutre Ravn. Courtesy the artist.; Zineb Sedira, The Lovers, 2008 © the artist/DACS, London and courtesy kamel mennour, Paris/London; Kiosk Gallery Poster: 'Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power', 2017.

Special Focus

A Reader on Post-Colonialism and Decolonial Practices

We want to share some resources on the important movements that help us to see a more differentiated picture of these complex times.

1st Circular Library, Foundation for Contemporary Art-Ghana, Accra. Photo: Abbey IT-A

Inside the Library

The Foundation for Contemporary Art – Ghana: 1st Circular Library, Accra

Adwoa Amoah, artist, curator, and co-director of FCA Ghana, asked regular visitors of the library to pick their favorite book.

Wanini Kimemiah - courtesy of Wanini Kimemiah, C& Office Nairobi

News

The Stedelijk x C& Editorial Fellowship Announces First Fellow Wanini Kimemiah

Nairobi-based artist and writer Wanini Kimemiah is the first young editor of the editorial fellowship hosted by C& and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

INVENTING YOUR OWN GAME

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Ecologies

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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