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UPCOMING EVENTS
KW Berlin
In February a program around White Cube will take place every weekend at KW.
WIELS, Brussels
A key sculpture portrayed in the film White Cube is the piece Forced Love by CATPC member Irene Kanga (b. 1994). The sculpture is part of the exhibition ‘Risquons-Tout’ at WIELS, Brussels.
M HKA, Antwerp
A five minute trailer of the film White Cube is part of the exhibition ‘MONOCULTURE | A recent history’ at M HKA, Antwerp.

Une avant-première du nouveau film White Cube de Renzo Martens @ MUHKA, Anvers

Membre du CATPC Irene Kanga @WIELS, Bruxelles
Une vidéo sur l’artiste et son oeuvre sera bientôt disponible sur le site de Wiels.

Le 9 septembre 2020
Eden, Eden, Eden à 50 @the White Cube
Out now: Critique in Practice: Renzo Martens’ Episode III (Enjoy Poverty)
Investigating the economic value of one of DR Congo’s most lucrative exports (namely, poverty), Renzo Martens’ provocative film Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2008) remains a landmark intervention into debates about contemporary art’s relationship to exploitative economies. Throughout Critique in Practice, contributors explore the work’s legacy and how it relates to the politics of representation, uses of the documentary form, art criticism, the deployment of humanitarian aid, the impact of extractive forms of globalized capital, and the neoliberal politics of decolonization. The unconventional representation of acute immiseration throughout Enjoy Poverty generated far-from-resolved disputes about how deprivation is portrayed within Western mainstream media and throughout global cultural institutions. Using a range of approaches, this volume reconsiders that portrayal and how the film’s reception led Martens to found the long-term program Human Activities.
For the occasion of the publication of the book, the film Enjoy Poverty can be watched free of charge here using the promotion code: CritiqueinPractice. This campaign runs until June 1.
CATPC artists lecture at the 2020 Yale ISTF conference

About the 2020 Yale ISTF conference:
The year 2020 marks the deadline for many international climate change and conservation targets, yet most goals and promises remain unfulfilled … As countries around the world ramp up their pledges to restore tropical ecosystems, we need to re-examine our approach. What is being restored? Why is restoration necessary in the first place? Who will benefit from restoration efforts and who will lose out?
Human Activities improves future sculptures with refined palm oil

CATPC presents work at Statista in Berlin
Sculpture Workshop with Ibrahim Mahama

Image: CATPC members Ced’art Tamasala and Matthieu Kasiama along with visiting musician Kalej plant a tree for Ibrahim down by the Kwenge river.
CATPC at Art Basel

Cedart Tamasala wins Congo’s Art Tembo prize
CATPC’s Vice President and artist Cedart Tamasala has won Congo’s Art Tembo prize in Kinshasa on April 21 2019.
LIRCAEI listed “Best Projects Opening in 2019”
IHA and CATPC’s collaborative center LIRCAEI (Lusanga International Research Center for Art and Economic Inequality) has been listed as « Leading Architects’ Best Pro-Bono Projects Opening in 2019 »
Architectural Digest listed the centre as an example of how architects are investing in ventures for sustainability and the greater good. OMA’s architect on the project, David Gianotten, commented:
« The museum aims to encourage the much-needed public debate on contemporary art’s current distributions of power and value chains. OMA supports the centre’s ambitions to produce an artistic critique to the art world and its inequalities, and to facilitate its investigation into strategies of resistance. »
White Cube in Top 10 museums and cultural venues
Designboom placed The OMA-designed White Cube in Lusanga in the Top-10 of groundbreaking museums and cultural centers of 2017. Off to a good start! A full article from Designboom can be found here.
Also congratulations to Zeitz MOCAA – Museum of Contemporary Art Africa and Louvre Abu Dhabi by Jean Nouvel for making this list.