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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.
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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.
Installation view
Efie. The Museum as Home
By exhibiting contemporary artworks and historical Ghanian artefacts, this exhibition explores what a museum in Germany can be today.
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events
Biennales
14ª Bienal do Mercosul
Diversos locais
Porto Alegre, Brazil
27 March 2025 - 01 June 2025
Exhibitions
ficciones patógena
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
New York City, United States
14 March 2025 - 27 July 2025
Exhibitions
Formas das águas
Museu de Arte Moderna
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
25 January 2025 - 01 June 2025
Exhibitions
Exílio da Noite
Cukier Arte
São Paulo, Brazil
19 March 2025 - 17 May 2025
Exhibitions
Para curarnos el susto
La Nueva Fábrica
La Antigua, Guatemala
23 November 2024 - 01 June 2025
Art Fairs
SP-Arte 2025
Pavilhão da Bienal
São Paulo, Brazil
02 April 2025 - 06 April 2025
Exhibitions
Grafismo Emergente
EAV Parque Lage
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
13 February 2025 - 13 April 2025
Exhibitions
Indomináveis Presenças
CCBB
São Paulo, Brazil
05 February 2025 - 07 April 2025
Exhibitions
To Scatter Seeds
Tern Gallery
Nassau, Bahamas
27 March 2025 - 17 May 2025
Exhibitions
Salah Elmur: The Land of the Sun
Mariane Ibrahim
Mexico City, Mexico
04 February 2025 - 17 May 2025
Exhibitions
I Am Soil. My Tears Are Water: María Magdalena Campos-Pons
Efie Gallery
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
10 April 2025 - 24 May 2025
Exhibitions
Corpos terrestres, corpos celestes
Galatea
Salvador, Brazil
31 January 2025 - 24 May 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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In Conversation with Juana Valdés
Finding One's Own Place On the Edge of the Edge
One of the most inspiring Latinx artists of recent years talks about Cuban identity, imperial discourses – and the importance of recognition.
Afro-Brazilian Manifestations
An Urgent Recognition
Beto Shwafaty visits an exhibition about artists of African descent and wonders why Afro-Brazilian culture is still marginalized.
Reflections on Achille Mbembe
Breathing Prohibited
Angolan poet, curator and cultural producer, Marcos Jinguba, talks with Brazilian artist and dancer, Luana Vitra.
In conversation with Hélio Menezes
Representativeness beyond representation
Hélio Menezes speaks in an interview about the understanding of Afro-Brazilian art, a topic of his research since 2011.
March Meeting 2018
What Does Resistance in the Arts Look Like Today?
Art institutions strive to inspire political action. How can art be the change in a tangible way?
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.
In Conversation with Carmenza Banguera
Black Head
Colombian artist Carmenza Banguera examines the paradoxes of self-representation of a black woman living in a racist country.
Planetary Connections
Indigo Dye: A Shared Language in the Global South
An essay about the culture of indigo dye across the global south through the practices of four artists.
Zumvi Archive
Black Image Memory
Dedicated to photographic memories of Black populations, the Zumvi Archive has been documenting the history of Afro-Brazilians for three decades.
opportunities
Call for proposals
EMEF Gonzaguinha
Escadas para Nuvens
São Paulo, Brazil
Workshops
Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Moderno para quem? Indígenas e populares na institucionalização da cultura
online, Brazil
Call for applications
Online / Mi Calle Nuestra Calle
Taller de Futuros Personales
, Worldwide
Call for applications
R.A.R.O
Convocatoria para ser parte R.A.R.O. Buenos Aires en 2025​​
Buenos Aires, Worldwide
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