2023 marks a special year for Contemporary And (C&) since the platform will be turning ten. That's one decade of building educational formats, working with international critics, artists and curators around the discourses of contemporary Art from Africa and the global Diaspora. That’s one decade of constantly growing the C& network thinking canons beyond a canon, writing art histories, creating new presents, producing futures in the now.
16:30 | ifa Gallery Berlin
Welcome: Gitte Zschoch, Ellen Strittmatter, Julia Grosse, Yvette Mutumba & Alya Sebti
"Looking Backward, Looking Forward"
Panel discussion with Ligia Lewis, James Gregory Atkinson and Magnus Rosengarten
20:00 | ACUD MACHT NEU
Concert by Zambake and music by DJ Tmnit a.k.a. T.Total
Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin
To mark the 10th anniversary of Contemporary And (C&), the platform will present a very special edition of its offline project, the C& Center of Unfinished Business, at ifa Galerie Berlin throughout its jubilee year 2023 until January 2024, with audiences invited to participate in various activations of the space. The first activation takes place on 18 March 2023.
The C& Center of Unfinished Business is a reading room that offers visitors an extraordinary, and also disconcerting, selection of books that are connected to the topic of colonialism in various ways–from the German colonies to Congolese fashion to 21st century capital markets, the reading room stretches the subject to the many different areas that are affected by it. However, it is not about creating a library on colonialism that is consistent and complete, because: when would it ever be? Colonialism is an unfinished business that continues to exist in many ways.
Launched in 2017 at ifa-Galerie Berlin, the reading room returns to its initial exhibition venue after traveling through various art spaces and museums around the world, connecting in different ways with institutions such as Transmediale in Berlin, art space school in Vienna, Musée Les Abattoir in Toulouse, Para Site in Hong Kong, or the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. Returning to the Center's first collaborative constellation five years ago, C& will again partner with Each One Teach One e.V. and ifa Stuttgart, and in particular ifa's leading specialised library in international cultural relations.
Contemporary And (C&) is a dynamic platform for reflecting on and connecting ideas and discourses on contemporary visual arts. It successfully packages complex issues in an approachable format and has established itself as an important platform for dialogue on the subject of contemporary art from Africa and the Global Diaspora. C& magazine and C& América Latina magazine are co-published by ifa.
Linienstraße 139/140
D-10115 Berlin
