We met with Kinshasa-based art platform Laboratoire Kontempo to discuss their extended practice through the Congolese capital. Together with Cameroonian curator Dzekashu MacViban, Lydia Schellhammer and Christ Mukenge from Laboratoire Kontempo discuss their upcoming curatorial project “Kokende Liboso Eza Kokoma Te”, which centres around proverbs in different cultures through the African continent.

Trinidad Lopetegui and Sebastian Rojas from Galería CIMA joined Daniel Aguayo and OtherNetwork to discuss the role that Galería CIMA played during the social unrest that swept through Santiago in October 2019. This landmark event raised new questions about the potential roles that independent art spaces could assume within a society facing pressure.

FCA Ghana co-director Ato Annan discusses how the space became a hub for Accra’s wider artistic community, before being joined by Sinethemba Twalo from NGO to talk about collaborative modes of artistic production, and their mutual appreciation of the inspirational figure of W.E.B. Du Bois, whose final home and resting place sets the scene for the exhibition.

Join us at the Museum of Science and Technology in Accra, Ghana for a conversation between Nuna Adisenu-Doe, founder of the nomadic Compound House Gallery, and Ylinka Barotto, director at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York. Together they unpack the thriving art scene in Accra and the growing global recognition of Ghanaian artists.

Together we discuss the different approaches to founding a new art space versus inheriting one with a longstanding history, and the responsibilities a curator has to both artists and audiences.