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Born in Durban, Riason Naidoo is an independent curator, writer, researcher, and artist. He curated the public art project neuf-3 (2021-23) in Paris, Any Given Sunday (2016) in Cape Town, A Portrait of South Africa: George Hallett, Peter Clarke & Gerard Sekoto (2013) in Paris, 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective (2010) at the South African National Gallery, The Indian in Drum Magazine in the 1950s (2006) that toured venues in South Africa, exhibitions on Cape Town artist Peter Clarke shown in Dakar, London and Paris (2012-13) and on Durban photographer Ranjith Kally shown in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, Bamako, Vienna, Barcelona and Reunion Island (2004-2011).
In this wide-ranging conversation, para-disciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis reflects on space, time, Blackness, and the limits of Western knowledge—offering a strategy for imagining grounded in African and anti-colonial traditions.
In this wide-ranging conversation, the freedom fighter and former Constitutional Court justice Albie Sachs reflects on law, liberation, and the unfinished work of building a just South Africa.
In 1991, acclaimed South African artist Helen Sebidi’s artworks were presumed stolen in Sweden. Three decades later, a caretaker at the residential college where they disappeared found them in a ceiling cupboard, still in their original packaging.
Senegalese art historian El Hadji Malick Ndiaye on curating one of the two longest-serving biennales on the African continent.
The vivid imagery of Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera touches powerfully on themes such as womanhood, religion and spirituality.
The South African musician known as Madosini passed away in 2022. She was one of the last of a generation who learnt to play traditional Xhosa instruments, in so doing sharing the spirituality, dignity, and joy of Xhosa culture through her inimitable song.
Riason Naidoo talks to the curator and editor of a book and traveling exhibition about the work of the legendary, 90 year-old Ghanaian photographer.
Ranjith Kally (1925-2017), a legendary photographer, documented South African Indian life in famed magazine Drum.