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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.
In Conversation with Benjamin Abras
“The Body Is the Beginning and the End of Everything That Happens In a Culture”
Benjamin Abras talks about the legacy of European colonization, everyday violence, and structural racism in Brazil.
Inventory of the Arts 2020
Awareness of the Presence of New Identities
The year 2020 has ushered in new space for black Brazilian art – whether in galleries, retrospectives or academic debates.
In Conversation with Alejandro de la Fuente
Cuba: “The Problem Is Not Silence – It’s Deafness”
The curator of “Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present” on Cuban history and the island’s artistic scene.
National Artists' Salon, Colombia
A View From the Other Side of Things
The “Salón Nacional de Artistas” in Bogotá explores different views on contemporary art inside and outside Colombia.
In Conversation with Castiel Vitorino
“Trauma is Brazilian”
In an interview with curator Diane Lima, artist Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro talks about her first solo exhibition.
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.
Black Women Artists
Dialogue Between Cinema, Performance And The Visual Arts
With unconventional creative processes, contemporary productions by black women artists reveal intersections between languages.
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
Regina José Galindo: “I Am Not A Vulnerable Woman”
“Art is art and politics is politics”, says the Guatemalan artist. And yet her work is a blow of political defiance.
In Conversation with
The Zimbabwean visual artist Lucia Nhamo
There are contextual parallels between Brazilian and Zimbabwean politics, says the artist after a residency in Salvador da Bahia.
In Conversation with
Brazilian curator Fabiana Lopes
We talk to independent curator Fabiana Lopes, who is currently researching the production of artists of African descent in Brazil.
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Exhibitions
Dan Oracle
Various
London, United Kingdom
10 October 2025 - 31 October 2025
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O Bestiário de Kixelô
Aura
São Paulo, Brazil
03 October 2025 - 04 November 2025
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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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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.
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.
Letter From... The Land of High Mountains
Emancipation Through Sound
Yina Jiménez Suriel reflects on emancipatory processes in the Caribbean.
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Manuela Ribadeneira, Objects of Doubt and Certainty
This exhibition in Quito brings together works from the last twenty years of production of the Ecuadorian artist.
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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
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Sharjah Art Foundation Photography Gallery
Vantage Point Sharjah 13
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council
Synergies
Zurich, Switzerland
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