De-Colonization of the body

Congoville MIDDELHEIM MUSEUM,

The Missing Link Dicolonisation Education by Mrs Smiling Stone

Both the Middelheim Museum and the University of Antwerp are situated where the Colonial College was founded in 1920. A hundred years later, this is the occasion for the Middelheim Museum to examine and unfold the traces of the (post)colonial history of the site. Participating artists: Sammy Baloji (DRC/BE), Bodys Isek Kingelez (DRC), Maurice Mbikayi (DRC/SA), Jean Katambayi (DRC), KinAct Collective (DRC/BE/FR), Simone Leigh (US), Hank Willis Thomas (US), Zahia Rahmani (FR), Ibrahim Mahama (GH), Ângela Ferreira (PT/MZ/SA), Kapwani Kiwanga (CAN/FR), Sven Augustijnen (BE), Pascale Marthine Tayou (CAM/BE), Elisabetta Benassi (IT), Pélagie Gbaguidi (BEN/BE)   Curators : Sandrine Colard (BE/US) is curator and assistant professor of African Art History at Rutgers University, Newark. Thanks to All the team of the Middelheim and Sanrine Colard  

upcoming Exhibition Triennale 10 d'Ottignies Louvain-La-Neuve

Ottignies Louvain-La-Neuve 16/9 – 28/11/2021

Exhibtion RETOUR Exposition art contemporain

CODE NOIR

RETOURContemporary art exhibition27 of May - 20 of June 2021L’ATELIER Nantes Meeting contemporary Africa CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION PROJECT AS PART OF THE YEAR OF AFRICA IN FRANCE, POSTPONED FOR 2021, ON THE THEME OF THE RESTITUTION (MEMORY AND TRANSMISSION) OF AFRICAN HERITAGE. Curators : Sylvain Djache-Nzefa , Melanie Vietmeier Alfred Gambou, President of the Maison de l'AfriqueBarbara Chiron, project coordinator of the association Les Anneaux de la MémoireAnita Sankalé, member of the Maison de l'Afrique  

11th Berlin Biennale

Barter Zone , Zone de Troc

  11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art The Crack Begins Within 5 September - 1 November 2020   Curators: María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, Agustín Pérez Rubio   Installation Barter Zone 2020   98 drawings from new series Care, colored pencils, dry pastel and wool on paper; embroidery on tarpaulin from Congo and flour sack from Morocco ( Residency Ifitry, Morocco/artist’s studio, Belgium); taxidermied hyena Crocuta Crocuta ; taxidermied Barbary sheep Ammotragus lervia ; shipping wooden crates “Mandeveille , Poste de pêche Kingabwa” and “Musée Ethnographique” sound Sound Xù  ( sea fongbe) with Mikatsiu and Pelagie Gbaguidi Architectural consulting Lydia Antoniou Poem Translation Sofia Dati  Dimensions variable Taxidermied animals and shipping crates Collection Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Tervuren Commissioned and coproduced by the 11th Berlin Biennial for contemporary Art with the support of Flanders State of the Art; Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Tervuren Assistant Project Clara Guixer Borell Team Berlin Biennial Edwige Baron Curator Lisette Lagnado and Associated Curators María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Agustín Pérez Rubio Courtesy Pelagie Gbaguidi Taking part in this biennial is a human adventure made of long conversations, the story of a shared experience to be carried together, a collective excavation. thank you all.