Josèfa Ntjam, A Crossing of Independences, 2021. Photomontage printed on Chromalux by sublimation 80 x 120 cm

In Conversation 

Josèfa Ntjam: Dissolving the Separation Between Human and Non-human

Contemporary And: From water to climate change, you engage with the non-anthropocentric in your practice. How ...

Christopher Ulutupu, Treadmill, 2021. Video Still. Courtesy the artist.

Over the Radar 

Christopher Ulutupu: Fantasy, Desire, and Indigeneity

Contemporary And: Why is it important for you to retell pop culture from a decolonial perspective? And how doe ...

Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy in front of Kunstinstituut Melly. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn

Kunstinstituut Melly 

What’s at Stake in Decolonizing an Art Institution?

Long before the BLM protests of 2020 sent shockwaves through art worlds, the Dutch art institution then known ...

Alisha B. Wormsley, There Are Black People in the Future. Part of Manifest Destiny, curated by Ingrid LaFleur. Image by Alessandra Ferrara, Courtesy of Library Street Collective, Detroit.

Black (Art) History Month 

Looking at The Intersection of Time

While it feels like through regulations the experience of time is covering, it is still experienced differentl ...

Nuno Silas, from the series The Intensity of Identity, 
2019-2020. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Nuno Silas 

The Intensity of Identity of a Diasporic Artist

C&: You have lived in various countries and continents. How has that shaped your practice in relation to t ...

D'Angelo Lovell Williams The Lovers, 2017. Pigment print
20 x 30 in. © D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Courtesy of the artist and Higher Pictures

Collectors' View 

Intersecting Patronage, Family and Community with Bernard Lumpkin

Collecting art can be a creative venture that requires a vision and a specific appreciation of aesthetics. For ...

1-54 Forum – All Podcasts Online

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 

1-54 Forum – All Podcasts Online

The eighth edition of 1-54 London was once again accompanied by 1-54 Forum, the fair’s extensive talks progr ...

A View from the Other Side of Things

Talks / Workshops 

A View from the Other Side of Things

This year, 1-54 Forum has been curated by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, founders and editors-in-chief of Co ...

Luciane Ramos Silva © Daisy Serena

1-54 Talks Programme: “I felt like a Black guy from New York trapped in Peru”*

The eighth edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair London will be accompanied by 1-54 Forum, This year t ...

GURUMBÉ: 
AFRO-ANDALOUISIAN MEMORIES, Filmstill. A film by Miguel Angel Rosales, Spain/Mexico/Portugal/Senegal, 2016, Documentary, 72 min.

Will Furtado on Global Diaspora 

Broadening the Spectrum

Blackness is having a moment. Or rather Blacknesses are having a moment. Through ever more visible Black cultu ...

Renell Medrano, Sienna, 2019. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation with Antwaun Sargent 

Tearing Down Borders Between Magazines and Museums

Contemporary And: Could you talk me through your selection process? Antwaun Sargent: With this generation you ...

On Anti-Blackness: An Open Letter to Swiss Institutions

In Conversation with Deborah Joyce Holman and Jasmine Gregory 

On Anti-Blackness: An Open Letter to Swiss Institutions

Amid the Black Lives Matters protests after the killing of George Floyd, several art and cultural institutions ...


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