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Born in Matanzas province, Cuba, the renowned interdisciplinary artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons works with performance, painting, photography, video, music, and sculpture. Campos-Pons explores themes of identity, race, gender, diaspora, and spirituality in her work, impulsed […]
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin is delighted to present ‘The Enigma of the Gaze’, a solo exhibition of all new paintings by the Ethiopian artist Tewodros Hagos. Tewodros Hagos, Enigma of the Gaze 4, 2024. Oil on canvas,
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‘School of Casablanca’ highlights a pivotal moment in Moroccan art history that had wide-ranging implications for the entire region: the beginning of modern art in the now independent country (1956). With contributions by: Bik Van der
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‘Feed me not’ is an exhibition, that brings together a diverse group of artists and designers questioning the relationship to materials, information and emotions that we are confronted with beyond our personal choice. Maurice Mbikayi, Mask
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With vibrant colours and an extraordinary visual language, the artist Aïda Muluneh focuses on the unequal distribution of existential resources such as water, food and education, the abuse of power and human rights and the
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John Akomfrah (b. 1957) creates thoughtful video works of haunting audiovisual intensity. He tells of radical changes and crises of the present and past on characteristic large-format screens. John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea (Detail), 2015. Three
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Kunsthalle Mainz presents ‘Unextractable: Sammy Baloji Invites’ with artists: Sammy Baloji, Nilla Banguna, Jackson Bukasa & Dan Kayeye & Justice Kasongo, Sybil Coovi Handemagnon, Fundi Mwamba Gustave & Antje Van Wichelen , Franck Moka, Hadassa Ngamba, Isaac Sahani Dato, Georges Senga, Julia Tröscher. Sammy Baloji, Tales
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CCA Berlin presents ‘A CERTAIN DEATH/THE SWAMP‘, featuring newly commissioned works by artist Jota Mombaça. This marks Mombaça’s first expansive institutional solo exhibition in Germany. Jota Mombaça, waterfall, 2023. Still. Courtesy of the artist. Apocalyptic ruptures haunt. Traces of
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‘Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island‘ is the first major retrospective of Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco (b. 1960, US). For more than three decades, she has been a key voice in discourses on racial representation, feminism,
The disintegration of the liberal-capitalist post-war order which seemed firmly established after 1989 also left its mark on the art of this society. This is precisely where ‘Illiberal Lives’, the current exhibition at the Ludwig Forum
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