Mobile reading room

by C& Center of Unfinished Business

There are only a few days left until the exhibition Ré-imaginer le passé closes at the KINDL — Centre for Contemporary Art, and that's why we want to present you the mobile reading room of C& Center of Unfinished Business.  Ré-imaginer le passé is curated by Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, Isabel Raabe, Ibou C. Diop and Malick Ndiaye and is still on until the 28th of July.

For the exhibition at the KINDL, Contemporary And (C&) was invited to present the C& Center of Unfinished Business, an artistic intervention in the form of a mobile reading room. This unique space offers visitors an extraordinary, sometimes disconcerting selection of books that are linked to the topic of colonialism in various ways. From German colonies to Congolese fashion to capital markets of the 21st century the reading room spans the many different areas still influenced by colonial legacies. The aim is not to compile a collection on colonialism that is consistent and complete because: when would it ever be? Colonialism is an unfinished business that continues to exist in many ways. C& Center for Unfinished Business is an ongoing project by Contemporary And (C&), a dynamic platform for reflection and connections within contemporary visual art discourse. It publishes the online magazines C& Magazine and C& América Latina Magazine in multiple languages, along with regular print issues several times a year. In addition to the C& Center of Unfinished Business, C& undertakes various other projects, such as C& Commissions, C& Artists’ Editions, the C& Critical Writing Workshops, and the C& Mentoring Program for young journalists.

Many thanks to Raul Walch for providing the stools he designed for the C& Centre of Unfinished Business.

Credits Text: KINDL — Centre for Contemporary Art

Mobile Reading Room, C& Center for Unfinished Buisness, 2024, KINDL. Photo by Melih Demirkol.
© Celina Baljeet Basra.
© Celina Baljeet Basra.
© Celina Baljeet Basra.