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Living the In Between: Mallory Lowe Mpoka’s Placemaking Practice
To Learn is to Feel Through Others: On the African Schools at Venice
‘Destiny’ and the Making of Public Art History in Zambia
On African Temporality and The Museum
A Cohort of Artists Reconfiguring AI’s Memories
Picha and The Lubumbashi Biennale: Sustaining Artistic Infrastructures
Situating AI: Conversations on African Ecosystems
The S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence Archive
The Artist Residency Centre (ARC) in Botswana
Portia Zvavahera’s House of Praise
Black Orpheus: Who Gets to Frame a Black Cultural Canon?
Public Fiction: How Art Drafts Realities
Found in small gestures — the smell of a plant passed between hands, an ice-breaker that turns strangers into community, a performer buckling under the weight of shells — writer Robert Steinberger explores the concept of the ‘not-yet-become.’ Moving through a workshop, a gathering, and sound performances, Steinberger points to how Lagos cultural producers use cyclical time, ancestral knowledge, and liminal space to rehearse futures that are not yet named. This text is part of the C& and Pro Helvetia Fieldnotes Arts Writing Exchange 2025–2026.
The Aftercycle: Speculations on Responsive Touch and Restituted Objects
Water is Running: Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s Aquatic Archive
The Barbican Centre presents Project A Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
‘In Minor Keys’ Schools at the 61st Venice Biennale
On Ancestral Recipes and Diasporic Foodways
AfterBiennales: The Lagoon of Nations at Venice
Aggregates of Plunder: Ndidi Dike’s Rare Earth Rare Justice
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi Frames Printmaking As A Relay Process
Seed Archives: Thabo Weaves a Cocoon for Listening
Tanka Fonta wins the Wi Di Mimba Wi Prize 2026
Olukemi Lijadu: Feedback, Friction and Black Atlantic Music
Melvin Edwards (1937–2026)
From field recordings on Lagos bridges, ambient composition, and spatial audio engineering, Yinka Bernie composes an ambitious body of work. In his 2025 installation spread across multiple screens in a converted car park, visitors are invited to move through an immersive audio-visual architectural experience. “We wanted to build a space where sound becomes something you can walk into,” said Yinka Bernie. “Lagos is loud, layered, and alive. This exhibition holds a mirror to that energy and reimagines it.”
Naafia Naahemaa: What Appears Solid Is Already In Motion
Pre-Sale! C& Artists’ Editions #6: Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
Sounding the Ocean: Spiral Networks of Remembrance and Elation
Artist-Led Organizations in Focus At The 61st Venice Art Biennale
Notes on Editorial Dis/Continuities
On Rematriation and Spiritual Reparations
The Olympia Effect: Who Gets Credit for Sexual Liberation On/Off Screen?
The Deconstructive Lens of Ngadi Smart: From Drag to Climate Change
We're Still Here: Thero Makepe’s Visual Jazz
C& Highlights of 2025
The Museum of Black Futures
The Re:assemblages Symposium: How Might We Gather Differently?
Nnena Kalu wins the Turner Prize 2025. Bold, captivating, and visionary—her work redefines contemporary sculpture and drawing.
On Ghosts and The Moving Image: Edward George’s Black Atlas
Caribbean Sounds: The Connective Possibilities of Radio
Werewere Liking: Of Spirit, Sound, and the Shape of Transmission
Black Canadian Print Cultures: Of Quiet and Enduring Legacies
On Exile, Amulets and Circadian Rhythms: Practising Data Healing across Timezones
Rest in/as Freedom: kiarita and Black Politics of Liberation
Paris Noir: Pan-African Surrealism, Abstraction and Figuration
Coming Soon: APRIA Journal Issue #7 — Exhaustion
Maktaba Room: Annotations on Art, Design, and Diasporic Knowledge
Introducing the C& Cyclopedia
Tadáskía Wins the 2025 K21 Global Art Award
Zimbabwe Pavilion Announces “Second Nature | Manyonga” for Venice Art Biennale 2026
As part of the public talks program at FNB Art Joburg, C& curated an intergenerational exchange between artist Sam Nhlengethwa, C& Director Yvette Mutumba, and writer Gillian Fleischmann, titled “The Art of Dialogue: Living Archives, Memory and Practice.” Reflecting on the conversation, Fleischmann argues that intergenerational exchange is a lived embodiment of the medium collage – a generative site of transition.
A Collector’s Guide to São Paulo
Steve McQueen: The Bassline As Sonic Intelligence
Naomi Beckwith Unveils Core Artistic Team for documenta 16
Mapping Literary Circuits with Bao Books From Tunis to Cairo
Mangrove Ecologies: Grounded Forms of Questioning in the Art/World
Dignity Under Duress: Black Figuration Beyond the Global Art Market
Sampling the City: Tristany Mundu’s Cypher with Linha de Sintra
Paula Nascimento and Angela Harutyunyan Announced as Curators of Sharjah Biennial 17
Sudan Art Archive Aims to Reclaim a Canon from Afar
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo Announces List of Participants for its 36th Edition
Samson Mnisi: A Master Posthumously Receives His Due
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku Wins 2025 Ellipse Prize Focused on Ghana’s Emerging Art Scene
Extending an ongoing conversation around the evolution of image practices in Africa, writer Kim M. Reynolds dives into Amy Sall’s "The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power", and the wider historical context and infrastructure of African image-making practices.
Venice Biennale 2026 Will Follow Late Koyo Kouoh's Vision
‘To Treat Process with Care and Intention’: Favour Ritaro Carries Forward Important Curatorial Legacies
Lindokuhle Sobekwa Wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025
Koyo Kouoh (1967 – 2025)
Dispatches from Tint Library’s London Pop-Up
Kapwani Kiwanga Wins the 2025 Joan Miró Prize
FESPACO 2025 Made Space for the Ceremony of African Cinema
Kombo Chapfika and Uzoma Orji: What Else Can Technology Be?
Imagining a Future for the Arts in the US
‘Apprendre à Flamboyer’: Collective Joy in Practice at Palais de Tokyo
Stewarding an Antidisciplinary Practice
Ethel-Ruth Tawe to Lead C& Magazine as Editor-in-Chief
This collaboration between the Académie des Traces and C& explores the traces of colonial heritage today in several texts by emerging scholars and museum professionals from the African and European continents.
Thinkers and Titles: On Black German Literary Tradition
AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions)
Ellipse Prize 2025 Announces Finalists of 5th Edition
ROM Announces Tandazani Dhlakama as Curator of Global Africa
In Conversation with Lubaina Himid: The Artist Set to Represent the UK at Venice Biennale 2026
Osei Bonsu: A Curatorial Lens on Photography as Identity and Tradition, Counter-Histories and Imagined Futures
Dr. Zoe Whitley Named Curator of Art Toronto Focus Exhibition
Ladji Diaby’s Sampling Sensibilities Are Material and Time-Bending
Modupeola Fadugba Wins The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2025
On History and Fiction: Tuan Andrew Nguyen's Cinematic Memory Work
Cabo Verde’s Layered Temporalities Emerge in the Work of César Schofield Cardoso
Kampala Calling: The African and Diaspora Artists Flocking to Uganda
The multifacted work of Unidigrazz, rooted in the area of Mem Martins, invites us to revisit domestic scenes as a way to critically reclaim public space.
To Spring From Salted Earth
The Secret Apothecary
Shades of Green
AWU Library
C& Highlights of 2024
The Resilient Spirit of the Bamako Biennale
Naomi Beckwith Appointed Artistic Director for documenta 16
Maheder Haileselassie Tadesse Wins Main Prize at Rencontres de Bamako
