It is a project developed jointly with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbican Centre in London and the KANAL–Centre Pompidou in Brussels. This collaboration has made the magnitude of the exhibition possible, with nearly 350 pieces by 100 artists touring the four institutions until spring 2027.
Although Pan-Africanism has been widely recognised as a major force in twentieth-century global history, until now there has been no major exhibition surveying this movement’s cultural manifestations. Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica takes as its starting point the date of the first Pan-African Congress (1919) and revisits Pan-Africanism as a set of galvanizing ideas: projections of another vision of a world that have yet to be elucidated artistically or considered sufficiently relevant in political terms.
The exhibition addresses the art of the African diaspora as an aesthetics of back and forth, between the artistic production of the African continent and the proposals of Black communities scattered throughout the world. Artists, writers and other cultural workers have reacted over more than a century to global histories of supremacy, conflict and rupture, including slavery, colonialism and racial discrimination, among others. Go to Website
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