Editorial

Exhibition recounts narrative of black women who breastfed children of whites and reflects on Brazilian society.

Colonial Ghosts Haunt Accra’s Jamestown

Artists, curators, and researchers affiliated with the São Paulo Biennale visit Ghana in search of history.

São Paulo: Biennale and Other Events

Don’t miss all the exhibitions from African perspectives happenig in São Paulo.

In conversation with Tiago Sant'Ana

"The naturalization of whiteness as a life parameter"

rtist and researcher uses materials such as sugar to discuss the naturalization and erasure of a colonial past.

How Black is Black Enough?

The Whitening Of A President

A new exhibition in Cali evokes the history of the first – and so far the only – black president of Colombia, Juan José Nieto.

The Netherlands: Untold Tales

Analyzing the Past and Decolonizing the Future

In the exhibition Afterlives of Slavery artists share their thoughts on how to deal with the legacies of the Dutch colonial empires.

Exhibition at Pinacoteca de São Paulo

Rosana Paulino: The Suturing of History

“Rosana Paulino: The Sewing of Memory” exhibition brings together 140 works by the Brazilian artist from 1993 to 2018.

Remembering An Exhibition On Africa In Colombia

Some Kind of Sorcerers

Remembering the African legacy in Colombia is of crucial importance. Violence against Afro-Colombians is commonplace. But also resistance.

In Conversation With Jochen Volz

Brazil: “People Are Very Worried”

Right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro has been president of Brazil since January 2019. What does his election mean for the arts?

Alanna Lockward (1961 -2019)

The Dominican author, curator and filmmaker Alanna Lockward died in Santo Domingo on January 7, 2019.

A Latin American Universe

What Is "Latinx"?

“Latinx” is an update of traditional labels usually applied to describe Latin American migrant communities in the US.

Brazil's All-Female Poetry Slam: Slam das Minas

Performance as an act of resistance

For female performance artists, the Slams das Minas (“Girl Slams”) are spaces that bring representation and visibility to black women.

Installation View

Raquel van Haver – Spirits of the Soil

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam shows murals that emerge from the artist's experiences with marginalized communities around the world.

In Conversation with Zoe Samudzi

Blackness as a State of Matter

About anti-Blackness as a foundational element of the United States, narrow representations of Africa, and art awards.

Rubem Valentim in Review

Manifesto Against Cultural Subalternity

Two shows trace different aspects of the artist's work and highlight its importance for Brazilian art.

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Urihi Haromatipë – Curadores da terra-floresta

Instituto Moreira Salles

São Paulo, Brazil

20 March - 20 March 2019

Talks / Workshops

Conversa com Jenn Nkiru

São Paulo, Brazil

23 March - 23 March 2019

Feria Internacional de arte de Lima

Escuela Superior de Guerra del Ejército del Perú

04 April - 08 April 2019

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo- Parque Forestal

Santiago, Chile

03 January - 14 April 2019

Para todes tode – Plan de lucha

Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti

Buenos Aires, Argentina

09 March - 31 May 2019

Los dominios perdidos

MAVI - Museo de Artes Visuales

Santiago, Chile

02 March - 05 May 2019

Enfoque femenino: Reporteras fotográficas chilenas y suecas

Centro Cultural de La Moneda

Santiago, Chile

08 March - 21 March 2019

Secretos Compartidos - Una Antología de Arte Contemporáneo Argentino

Centro Cultural Borges

Buenos Aires, Argentina

05 February - 30 April 2019

Maya Watanabe. Liminal

La Casa Encendida

27 February - 31 March 2019

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C& In Conversation with Zoe Samudzi

Blackness as a State of Matter

C&'s Will Furtado speaks to Zoe Samudzi about institutional space for Black womxn’s cultural production.

C& “Thinkivist” Art

The Ozhope Collective and the Oil Debate in Malawi

Emmanuel Ngwira writes about the Collective's attempts to unmask shady oil business deals and a seemingly neo-colonial form of capitalism.

Decolonize 1968! How to shift the Perspective of Collective Memory

Peggy Piesche looks into how much the liberation ideas of 1968 owe to the anti-colonial movements and the contributions by BPOC women*.

C& Raimi Olakunle Gbadamosi on the Protection of Tap Water

The Possibility of Imagining Something New

For C& British artist, lecturer and writer Raimi Olakunle Gbadamosi envisions a descent scenario for his adopted country South Africa.

C& The Netherlands: Untold Tales

Sara Blokland: “Who is allowed to be in the picture?”

The artist analyses with C& the contexts of historical photography in the former Dutch colonies and the art scene in the Netherlands.

C& In Conversation with Nikita Gale

Experiencing Anonymity Through Abstraction

The artist speaks about artistic boundaries, the burden of transparency, anonymity, and how she manipulates spaces with her installations.

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the city and architecture as material

In Conversation

talking about art and approaches

remembering people and perspectives

. . . and the African perspectives

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Colonial Ghosts Haunt Accra’s Jamestown

Artists, curators, and researchers affiliated with the São Paulo Biennale visit Ghana in search of history.

São Paulo: Biennale and Other Events

Don’t miss all the exhibitions from African perspectives happenig in São Paulo.

In Conversation with Claudinei Roberto da Silva

“Art as a tool to forge the path”

The artist, curator and art educator talks about his trajectory and remembers the legendary gallery space O Oço/Galeria Cine e Sol.

Women and Resistance

Exhibition recounts narrative of black women who breastfed children of whites and reflects on Brazilian society.

Black Chronicles IV

Chronicling Black Lives in History

A look into photos that had been hidden in a drawer, an exquisite collection that belonged to none other than W.E.B. Du Bois.

C& Center of Unfinished Business

Fatima El-Tayeb: Reclaiming Nefertiti

German scholar Fatima El-Tayeb explains how Europeans appropriate Black historical personalities and deny Africans their history.

The Female Artists of Color Who Pioneered Alternative Art Spaces in Mexico

Despite the 1968 rise of protests against the regime in Mexico, narratives of indigenous feminists and artists of color were still left out

In Conversation with Wu Tsang

Rethinking the Museum of Tomorrow

Who does the museum appeal to, who does it welcome, and who does it exclude or make unwelcome?

#metoo – where do we take it from here?

We asked a selection of women from the art world the question: So where do we take it from here?

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Simbiosis Festival de Artes y Ciencias

Residencia Simbionte. Creación y Experimentación artística

Residencias para artistas y/o curadores “Lugar a dudas”

Bogotá, Colombia

Fundación Maria José Jove

VII Premio Internacional de Arte Fundación Maria José Jove

La Coruña, Spain

Call for applications

Kunstraum Lakeside

Statements 2019 — Open call for performative pieces

Klagenfur, Austria