Launching October 23:
The C& Cyclopedia — a living archive that redefines how we access and connect knowledge on contemporary art, putting the Global Majority at the center. After more than a decade of connecting voices, places, and perspectives across Africa and the Global Diaspora, C& is taking it one step further.
Stay tuned!
Launching October 23
A few weeks ago, we brought the C& Cyclopedia to Joburg, with @lapa_brixton and the @goetheinstitut_southafrica . Here’s a sneak peek of C&’s Yvette Mutumba introducing the living archive for the very first time, bringing together over ten years of C&’s work centered on contemporary art from the Global Majority.
Get ready to discover and start searching differently soon!
Listen to our selected series of podcast episodes by @museumofblackfutures — a mobile art and heritage laboratory that works with communities, artists, and thinkers to imagine new forms of cultural infrastructure rooted in Black joy, radical imagination, and spiritual reparations.
In this episode Lelani Lewis and podcast host Richard Kofi reflect on what it means to return not only cultural objects, but also the practices, ingredients, and traditions shaped by displacement and colonial histories. Together, they trace food as archive, ceremony, and a living connection to memory, community, and belonging. @richardkofiart@lelani_lewis@atelier_code_noir
Listen to the full episode via the link in bio.
Already working on the African continent or planning to?
Join re:publica x Contemporary And (C&) on May 18 at STATION Berlin, to meet stakeholders shaping art, creative industries, tech and knowledge across Africa and its Global Diaspora. A space to exchange and co-shape what comes next. With an impulse on the new Berlin–Windhoek creative industries mapping.
With Yvette Mutumba, Chloë Sylvestre and Olivia Buschey.
This gathering is the beginning of an ongoing initiative to connect practices and perspectives shaping emerging cultural and technological ecosystems in Africa and Germany in collaboration with the Global Diaspora.
📍@stationberlin May 18, 2026. 17:30–18:30
Find more info via link in Bio
On the occasion of the 61st Venice Biennale “In Minor Keys”, curated by Koyo Kouoh, C& introduces AfterBiennales — a series that considers the afterlives, infrastructures, and contested futures of biennales.
We begin by resurfacing this text from the C& archive, in which Eric Otieno Sumba reflects on the 59th Venice Biennale, arguing that the event's brand of worldliness is, at its core, a form of provincialism.
Read the full piece via the link in bio!
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70 artists, "Unfolding Questions, Codes, and Contours" (2012-2020), imaged here first iteration in Bergen 2012, cotton, 79 x 57 inches each (photo by Randi Grov Berger and courtesy Entrée).
Ndidi Dike speaks with C& about her exhibition "Rare Earth Rare Justice", unpacking how resource extraction is linked to global systems of violence. Through sound, colour, and material, she connects mining, infrastructure, and the ongoing exploitation of land and labour, reflecting on how these histories are carried in the materials she uses. @ndidi.dike
Read the full interview via link in bio!
Dike’s exhibition, "Rare Earth Rare Justice", curated by Jeanette Pacher, is on view @viennasecession , Vienna, until May 31, 2026, before traveling to Färgfabriken, Stockholm, and Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
For the latest C& Artists’ Edition "Anchor (Reprise) I, II & III", Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi brings her athletic geometries into woodcut. The South African artist’s work has long examined the body, collectivity, and the charged geometries of sport, bringing this into a new medium. @thenjiwe_niki_nkosi
In conversation with printmaker and close collaborator Sara-Aimee Verity, Nkosi reflects on the collaborative process behind the edition and the material qualities of woodcut. saraaimeeverity
Read the full interview and fin out more about the C& Artists’ Edition via link in bio.
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C& Artists’ Edition #6, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Anchor (Reprise), 2026. Courtesy of Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi.
Pre-Sale C& Artists’ Edition — now available!
Anchor (Reprise), 2026, a woodcut print created by Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi in collaboration with Sara-Aimee Verity saraaimeeverity (Edition~Verso, Johannesburg).
The first 5 prints are available at a special pre-sale price, with priority access to the lowest edition numbers.
Edition of 15 · Signed and numbered
€900 (excl. VAT and shipping) · Unframed
To purchase: [email protected]
More info via link in bio
All proceeds support the artist and C&’s upcoming projects.
In @seedarchives , Thabo’s installation "LALELA" invites participants into a 25-minute immersive sound piece, where they are seated, and enclosed within a semi-transparent veil. Thabo also reflects on four selected publications, tracing how stories travel across sound, text, and time.
"When I share my selections here, I'm not talking about what I read but what I saw, and what I heard inside what I saw." — Thabo @thaboandmusic
Dive into the full piece via the link in bio.
In conversation with writer Sarah Johanna Theurer, Olukemi Lijadu reflects on "Feedback" and the ideas shaping the work. Across sound, archival material, and sonic infrastructures, she approaches listening as a way of navigating space, movement, and experience. @kemkemlij@sarahjohanna.t
Her work asks: how do you pin a sound to a place, and what happens when you refuse to?
"Feedback" is on view @spikeisland , Bristol until 10 May 2026.
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Olukemi Lijadu: Feedback (2026). Install shots at Spike Island, Bristol. Images courtesy the artist, photography by Rob Harris
In "Moving Parts", Yinka Bernie works with sound as spatial experience shaped by the rhythms of Lagos’ pedestrian bridges. The work follows movement, sound, and the energy of the city as it unfolds in everyday life.
@yinkabernie
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