Black Cultures Matter

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Art Market
Not for Sale: How Black and Indigenous artists are rewriting the rules of the art market
The practices of Edgar Calel and Cameron Rowland resist extractive logics and imagine alternative relations to value, community, and history.
Brazil
What’s Behind Decolonial Movements in Brazil?
Our editor-in-chief analyzes sociocultural changes in the Brazilian art field and highlights the central contribution of Black women thinkers.

Brazil
MASF: An Art Museum that Connects Territory and Communities
The Simões Filho Art Museum (MASF) is a community-based initiative in the Brazilian state of Bahia, created by artist Augusto Leal in 2023.
Brasil
MUNCAB inaugura novo espaço dedicado à arte afro-brasileira
"Odoyá" apresenta obras de artistas contemporâneos e mestres artesãos, com curadoria inspirada em movimentos como Afrofuturismo e Negritude.
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.
Encruzilhadas
Ismael David and the Foundations of Exu
An essay on the Brazilian artist's investigations into the effects of time and ancestry in the African diaspora.
Afro-Indigenous
Keila Sankofa: Fictionalizing Gaps of the Past
A profile on the Brazilian artist and how she materializes the possible and visits the past without repeating violence.
Installation View
Crossroads of Afro-Brazilian Art
Exhibition brings together around 150 works by over 60 artists from various periods and regions of Brazil.
In conversation with
Nádia Taquary: Uncovering Afro-Brazilian Stories
A conversation with the artist about the political value of commodified objects from Afro-Brazilian culture and the power of art.
Black Cultures Matter
Exhibition Corrects Black Gap in Brazilian Art History
This comprehensive and ambitious exhibition at SESC seeks to highlight historical contributions by Black artists to Brazilian Art.
Brazil
35th Bienal de São Paulo: Choreographing New Poetic Movements for the Arts
The Biennial challenges paradigms with strong presence of non-hegemonic thinking, setting forth a complex and impactful panorama.
Installation View
O Quilombismo
Exhibition inspired by Abdias Nascimento's Quilombismo philosophy marks reopening of Berlin's House of World Cultures.
Brazil
Waleff Dias and the Identity of Black Male Bodies
Artist presents his appearance/performance “Even Vultures Are Born White” at SESC in São Paulo.
Politics
Marielle Franco: five years on, what has changed?
After the murder of the former city councilmember, there are two suspects and many changes on Brazil's political stage.
Memory
Sidney Amaral: A Mirror for Afro-Brazilian History
Reflecting on the Brazilian artist’s work and his retrospective exhibition, "Sidney Amaral: A Mirror on History".
Art Spaces
Why Create Art Galleries by and For Non-Whites?
Galleries founded by people of color open exclusive spaces for non-white artists in Brazil.
Installation View
Dalton Paula: Brazilian Portraits
MASP showcases portraits of Black personalities historically overlooked in Brazil
Installation View
Walter Firmo: In the Verb of Silence, the Synthesis of the Scream
Retrospective brings together more than 260 works by the Rio artist, with images that portray Black culture in Brazil.
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Installation View: Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt (INSTAR)
INSTAR collective presents Operational Factography (2022), a counter-narrative of Cuban cultural history installed in Kassel.
Afro-diasporic Memories
Diego Araúja: For a time of the expanding body
An essay about the artistic oeuvre of the Bahian artist who uses corporality to reconfigure notions of time and Afro-diasporic memory.
Uruguay
Hermosa Intervención: The Body as Transmitter of Black Stories
A chat with Uruguayan artists behind the collective whose focus is keeping the stories of Afro-women in the Americas alive.
Panamefricanism
Abdias Nascimento: An Enduring Legacy
This year, two institutions in Brazil are celebrating more than seven decades of the Afro-Brazilian artist’s international artistic contributions.
Installation View
Ayrson Heráclito: Yorùbáiano
Exhibition at Pinacoteca de São Paulo brings together 63 works by Bahian artist with themes that address colonial wounds.
Looking back
Latinx Black History Month
From Colombian picó to Haitian migration in Cuba, these are some of the stories that have shaped Afro-Latinx cultures.
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events
Exhibitions
Dan Oracle
Various
London, United Kingdom
10 October 2025 - 31 October 2025
Exhibitions
O Bestiário de Kixelô
Aura
São Paulo, Brazil
03 October 2025 - 04 November 2025
Exhibitions
Our Red Devils, Our Drifting Upheavals 
Mendes Wood
Brussels, Belgium
04 September 2025 - 25 November 2025
Exhibitions
Claudia Andujar - cosmovisão
Museu da Imagem e do Som do Pará
Belém, Brazil
08 October 2025 - 18 January 2026
Exhibitions
In the Life: Black Queerness - looking back, moving forward
the Carr Center
Detroit, United States
05 September 2025 - 11 November 2025
Performances
Arró con Mango
Antic Teatre
Barcelona, Spain
02 October 2025 - 05 October 2025
Exhibitions
14ª Mostra 3M de Arte
Parque da Luz
São Paulo, Brazil
27 September 2025 - 26 October 2025
Exhibitions
Oríkì Ìwòran – Ayrson Heráclito
Portas Vilaseca
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
09 September 2025 - 25 October 2025
Exhibitions
Me ‘n’ Mines
Tern Galery
Nassau, Bahamas
11 September 2025 - 25 October 2025
Festivals
21º Paraty em Foco – Festival Internacional de Fotografia
Diversos locais
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
24 September 2025 - 28 September 2025
Performances
Todas as Estradas Vermelhas conduzem ao coração da minha mãe
Casa do Comum
Lisboa, Portugal
20 September 2025 -
Exhibitions
Men am-ním Ailton Krenak
Itaú Cultural
São Paulo, Brazil
04 September 2025 - 23 November 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& Opinion
Five Things You Need to Know About the John Randle Center Before It Opens
C& author Obidike Okafor shares what to expect from the new architectural marvel in Nigeria’s art capital.
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C& On Racism
Every Straw Is a Straw Too Much
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the psychological burden of being racialized while doing art.
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Thoughts on Collective Archives
Four collectives discuss perspectives on collective publishing and archiving.
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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.
Afro-Brazilian Manifestations
“Territories” Exhibition
The exhibition set out to highlight the importance of artists of African descent in the history of Brazilian art.
In Conversation with
Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku
The artist speaks about her project “Queenmothers”, in which she explores the links between Ghana and Brazil.
Performance in Martinique
Excellence, Audacity and Transgression​
FIAP is Martinique’s own festival dedicated to performance art. C&AL spoke to the curators Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut.
In Conversation with enorê
Brazilian Artist enorê Explores the Creative Language of Data
enorê, whose work challenges the idea of fluidity by connecting digital and non-digital art, speaks to C&AL about visible and invisible realities.
Brazil
Waleff Dias and the Identity of Black Male Bodies
Artist presents his appearance/performance “Even Vultures Are Born White” at SESC in São Paulo.
Letter From... The Land of High Mountains
Emancipation Through Sound
Yina Jiménez Suriel reflects on emancipatory processes in the Caribbean.
Muntú Bantú, Colombia
Memory Is at the Heart
The only Afrodiasporic Memory Center in Colombia is located in Chocó, the department with the largest Afro-descendant population in the country.
Catrileo+Carrión
Mapuche Non-Binary Utopias
Mapuche artists formed the Catrileo+Carrión Community, dedicated to research investigative practices and multidisciplinary creation.
opportunities
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Maré Foto Festival
Maré Foto Festival 2025
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Art Omi
Art Omi: Artist
New York, Worldwide
Call for applications
Sharjah Art Foundation Photography Gallery
Vantage Point Sharjah 13
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Call for applications
Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council
Synergies
Zurich, Switzerland
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