is contributing Editor of Griotmag and a writer whose work has been published on Contemporary And, Africa is a Country, Sleek, Nataal and Frieze magazines, among others. He is one of the contributors to 'African Artists: From 1882 to Now' (2021), a pioneering survey of 300 modern and contemporary artists published by Phaidon Press.
In the April issue of frieze, Eric Otieno Sumba profiles artist Sandra Mujinga on the occasion of solo exhibitions at the Swiss Institute in New York and The Approach in London. “I’ve been thinking about whether I can at all appear as I wish to appear in this world. Or if there’s an impossibility to that.” Sandra Mujinga’s multimedia practice conjures spectres that haunt contemporary reality – from our dematerialized digital footprints to the ever-present ghosts of colonial history.
Das Wort “Gastfreundschaft” klingt etwas altmodisch. In Zeiten der Globalisierung, in der jeder easyjet-setter mit entsprechendem Pass, Outfit, Wortschatz und Habitus überall ein “local” sein kann, ist die Rolle der Gastfreundschaft in den Hintergrund gerückt. Teju Cole und Fotograf Fazal Sheikh haben zusammen ein neues Fotobuch herausgebracht, in dem diese alte Tugend abgestaubt wird
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In a cosy yet sparsely furnished living room, a young girl in pink, Disney-themed pyjamas sits on a low folding chair cradling a doll and gazing off to one side. From behind, her father wraps his arms around her in a similarly protective manner.
The Nigerian-born and Antwerp-based artist's new exhibition at Gropius Bau investigates the ecological, economic and political issues negotiated through landscapes-By Eric Otieno
There are at least two liminal frames that offer themselves when looking at images of Black people. The first is that on a fundamental level, images generally and images of Black people in particular remind us that no matter how advanced the equipment is, image-making is always a transaction in light and shadows.
Europe's cultural sector is still reeling from a report presented to the French president Emmanuel Macron last Friday. The report entitled The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics was commissioned by Macron as part of his efforts to jumpstart political discussions around the repatriation of cultural heritage.
"Because I live here" places post-migrant German society under the microscope to reveal structural violence
The artist translates conceptual affirmations of her creative self into the multi-sensory piece and way of thinking, Power to the God Within Almost three years after the release of Jojo Abot's debut EP, Fyfya Woto, I remain drawn to her subversive sonic aesthetic that sound simultaneously familiar yet new.
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Die kuwaitische Künstlerin Monira Al Qadiri erlebte als Kind, wie Erdöl ihr Land veränderte und schließlich in den Krieg führte. In ihrer Arbeit setzt sie dem zu Ende gehenden Ölzeitalter ein Denkmal