São Paulo Biennial
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announces list of participants for its 36th edition
Jamaica
The Spiritual Technologies of Jamaican Maroons
Installation View
Electric Dub Station: The Return of Tomorrow

»The community is more important than the work itself.«

Arissana Pataxó, Denilson Baniwa, Gustavo Caboco Wapichana
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São Paulo Biennial
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announces list of participants for its 36th edition
Titled "Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice," the Biennial opens its doors on September 6, 2025.
Jamaica
The Spiritual Technologies of Jamaican Maroons
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan’s work reimagines Caribbean memory through intricate assemblages that fuse nature, myth, and ancestral knowledge.
Installation View
Electric Dub Station: The Return of Tomorrow
El Retorno del Mañana, part of the Electric Dub Station series, by visual artists Antonio José Guzmán and Iva Jankovic weaves a story of migration, resistance, and futurism through indigo textile pigment and sound.
14th Mercosur Biennial
Flowing Affections: Laryssa Machada’s Sensitive Geographies
Artist presents photography project with potential as affirmative action for dissident memories.
In Conversation With
Jesús Hilário-Reyes: Dissolving Notions of Group and Individual
In their antidisciplinary practice. Artist Hilário-Reyes combines performance, installation, objects and expanded cinema.
Asia and Latin America
Andrea Chung: Dematerialization to Subvert Commodification
An essay about the artist’s use of ephemerality in order to subvert commodification while developing an art practice as social justice.
Installation View
Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects
Show presents four decades of artistic production by Montserrat-born, British artist Veronica Ryan.
Asia and Latin America
The Forgotten Asian Histories of Latin America
Mimian Hsu and Caroline Ricca Lee are two artists whose works unveil global capitalism’s devaluation of Black, indigenous, and Asian life.
Installation View
Raíces y renacimiento: Mujeres Dominicanas en el Arte
Exhibition in New York presents 22 contemporary Dominican artists that reinterpret tradition.
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Afro-Indigenous
Afro-Indigenous
Afro-Indigenous Memory in the Work of Maria Lira Marques
An essay on the works of Brazilian artist Maria Lira Marques, ancestral memories, and the impact of globalization on traditional communities.
Studio Visit
Remaking Afro-Indigenous Archives with Julianny Ariza Vólquez
Our Managing Editor Marny Garcia Mommertz, visited the studio of mixed-media artist Julianny Ariza Vólquez in Santo Domingo.
In Conversation with
Johan Samboni: Rewriting Urban Histories
A talk with the Afro-Indigenous Colombian artist on the parallels between real Life and the digital realm.
Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold
A Postcolonial Paradox
As a system of oppression, colonialism never ceased, but re-branded – as an exhibition in San Francisco shows.
In conversation with Anita Ekman
An Archeology of Afro-Indigenous Issues
Anita Ekman reclaims rock art and pre-Colombian history to decolonize the way we look at the present.
In Conversation with
Francisco Pinto and Venezuelan Afro-Indigenous History
A chat with the Afro-Venezuelan artist about his artistic practice, which incorporates elements of pop culture to talk about the Cimarrón (Maroon).
events
Exhibitions
Sara Flores. Non Nete.
Museo de Arte Lima
Lima, Peru
28 March 2025 - 17 August 2025
Exhibitions
Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección
El Museo del Barrio
New York City, United States
01 May 2023 - 31 March 2024
Exhibitions
Ocama Aracoel
El Museo del Barrio
New York City, United States
14 March 2024 - 11 August 2024
Exhibitions
Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point, Hoop
El Museo del Barrio
New York City, United States
24 April 2025 - 03 August 2025
Exhibitions
Edgar Calel: Ni Musmut (It's Breezing)
Bergen Kunsthall
Bergen, Norway
30 August 2024 - 05 January 2025
Exhibitions
Terrafilia
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Madrid, Spain
01 July 2025 - 28 September 2025
Exhibitions
Seein’ Sperrit
Tern Gallery
Nassau, Bahamas
29 May 2025 - 28 June 2025
Performances
ATOMIC JOY
CN D
Pantin, Worldwide
04 June 2025 - 05 June 2025
Exhibitions
Regina José Galindo: Primavera Democrática
Portas Vilaseca
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
07 June 2025 - 26 July 2025
Exhibitions
Águas subterrâneas: narrativas de confluências
Frac Poitou-Charentes
Angoulême, France
23 May 2025 - 28 September 2025
Exhibitions
poemas de sal y tierra
homework experimental art space[s]
Miami, United States
12 April 2025 - 13 May 2025
Exhibitions
Paris Noir: Artistic circulations and anti-colonial resistance, 1950 – 2000
Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
19 March 2025 - 30 June 2025
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Grada Kilomba: Opera to a Black Venus
The first comprehensive institutional solo exhibition in Germany of Grada Kilomba nterrogates concepts of violence and repetition.
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Anaïs Cheleux : Relier l’identité caribéenne par la photographie et la performance
Marny Garcia Mommertz rend visite à Anaïs Cheleux dans son studio en Guadeloupe pour discuter du sirop de canne à sucre et de la Dak’art.
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C& author Obidike Okafor shares what to expect from the new architectural marvel in Nigeria’s art capital.
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Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the psychological burden of being racialized while doing art.
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Four collectives discuss perspectives on collective publishing and archiving.
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Minga Decolonial Practices, Colombia
Creation as a Collective Process
An interdisciplinary Colombian collective wants to express the sentiments of the indigenous communities in order to recover ethnic and cultural memories.
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Jamaica
The Spiritual Technologies of Jamaican Maroons
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan’s work reimagines Caribbean memory through intricate assemblages that fuse nature, myth, and ancestral knowledge.
Acervo
Museu Afro Brasil recebe obras de Marcelo D´Salete
Seis pranchas originais de Marcelo d'Salete, ilustrador e colaborador da C&AL, passam a fazer parte do acervo do Museu Afro Brasil.
In Conversation with
Francisco Pinto and Venezuelan Afro-Indigenous History
A chat with the Afro-Venezuelan artist about his artistic practice, which incorporates elements of pop culture to talk about the Cimarrón (Maroon).
A Look at Koffi Mensah
Bringing out the Memory of African Identities
Burkinabé artist brings back the history of personalities who were erased from the history of the African continent.
The ABCs of Dalton Paula
From Africa to Bahia and, of Course, Cuba
Artist Dalton Paula talks about his interest in drawing, Black history, performance, botany, and Afro-Brazilian religious practices.
In Conversation with
The curator Diane Lima
Her name brings to mind at least three projects: NoBrasil, AfroTranscendence and Diálogos Ausentes.
In Conversation with Deri Andrade
“The Afro Project emerges in a context of historical violence”
Founder of the Afro Project, the scholar talks about how the platform came about and the importance of research on Afro-Brazilian art.
opportunities
Call for applications
Pérez Art Museum
Comisiones de arte digital
Miami, United States
Call for applications
International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art
CIMAM 2025 Travel Grant Applications
Turin, Worldwide
Call for applications
Museu do Amanhã
Residência Artística: Pós-natural e outras ecologias
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Residencies
Cité internationale des arts à Paris
Andes Sena - Para artistas y curadores de Chile
Paris, Chile
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It Comes from the Head: A Straw Heritage
Exhibition in Nassau celebrates contemporary interpretations of strawcraft by Bahamian artists.
Call for applications
C& x NAM Critical Writing Workshop, New Orleans
This open call invites New Orleans-based Black writers to participate in a three-day C& x NAM Critical Writing Workshop led by tutors Nohora Arrieta Fernández, and Sherae Rimpsey.
La Trienal 2024
Imagining perversely with Madeline Jiménez Santil’s Art
An essay on the hybrid work of the Dominican artist challenging the constructs imposed by the white, colonial, and heteronormative gaze.
Brazil
HOA Gallery is redesigned as a non-profit initiative
The project supports young artists and includes exhibitions, residencies, and awards.
On four groundbreaking African festivals
A Call to History
Cédric Vincent writes about the importance of remembering pan-African events.
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2024
An Afro-Indigenous Reawakening: The Year in Review
Our Editor-in-Chief reflects on the people and moments that made this year so unforgettable.
News
Prince Claus Impact Award Presented to Six Artists from Diverse Disciplines
The award honors artists driving social change and community work, including Sana Na N’Hada, Myrlande Constant, Rosa Chávez, and Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi.
Caribbean
Caribbean Musicality in the Work of Valerie Brathwaite
An account from Port of Spain on how Caribbean culture and nature have influenced Brathwaite’s sculptures.
24th Bienal de Arte Paiz Guatemala
The World Tree [El árbol del mundo]
Under the curation of Eugenio Viola, “The World Tree” [El árbol del mundo] reaffirms the power of contemporary art to connect diverse histories and realms of experience.
14th Mercosul Biennial
A Biennial that relates sound to space and bodies
The chief curator and one of the adjunct curators reveal more details about the concept of the Biennial in Porto Alegre.
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