École du soir (The Evening School) is a multiform hosting structure for collective feeling, cooperative thinking, and mutual action. École is convened by artist Christian Nyampeta, with the support of and alongside a chorus of fellow artists, institutions, and networks.
Current Programme:
Isaac Julien’s Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask + Otolith Group’s Nucleus of the Great Union
After-screening Conversation with Series Programmer Yasmina Price, BAM, Brooklyn, Nov 10, 7pm
14th Shanghai Biennale
Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, Nov 9, 2023 – March 31, 2024
On entre OK, on sort KO
SculptureCenter, New York, Nov 2, 2023, 7pm
A Screening of Sometimes It Was Beautiful
Beursschowburg, Brussels, Oct 18, 2023
Les Immortels
Vera List Center, The New School, New York, Oct 13, 2023 8 – 10pm
The African Film Institute
e-flux, Brooklyn, Sept 19, 2023 – Ongoing
The 17th Busan International video Art Festial
Gyeongnam Art Museum, Busan, Sept 15 – Oct 15, 2023
Togetherward
Archive Books, July 2023
If improvisation could serve as a manual, if gesture could serve as a guide
NGO Nothing Gets Organized, Johannesburg, March 24, 2023
The Time for Denial is Over: Transnational Program on Restitution
CTM Festival, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2) Berlin, Feb 3, 2023
12 Norient Film Festival
Kellerkino, Bern, Jan 11 – 15, 2023
A Long Trailer for a Film about Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Kunstahalle Bern, Dec 16, 2022 – Jan 29, 2023
58th Carnegie International: Is It Morning For You Yet?
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Sept 24, 2022 – Apr 2, 2023
École du soir in Istanbul: Archives sonores de la littérature noire
17th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, September 17 – 20 November 2022
ARAC Goes to documenta,
documenta fifteen, Kassel, June 18 – September 25, 2022
Manifesta 14 Prishtina
July 22 – October 30, 2022
A Screening of Sometimes It Was Beautiful
South London Gallery, Wed 31 Aug, 2022, 7:30 – 8:30pm
An Evening With Christian Nyampeta,
Sunset Concert as part of Change Feeling, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, July 8, 2022
The Time for Denial is Over: Transnational Program on Restitution
Fondazione Studio Rizoma, Palermo, June 3 – 5, 2022
Anozero’21-22: Meia-Noite
Anozero — Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, April 9 – June 26, 2022
The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts,
Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station, Feb 9 – 11, 2022
Colomboscope: Language is Migrant
Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 20 – 30, 2022
École du soir à Lubumbashi,
Centre d’art Waza, October 2021 – Open Ended
Sometimes It Was Beautiful,
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 30 – June 21, 2021
An Evening With Christian Nyampeta,
Worldwide, iTunes, Spotify, Tidal, Dec 21, 2020 – Jan 31, 2021
A Long Evening with Christian Nyampeta,
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, April 26 – May 26, 2021
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Nov 6, 2021 – Feb 27, 2022
The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts,
WIELS Contemporary, Brussels, March 28, 2021
One Was Singing, the Other Was Not,
Episōdo 03, Yokohama Triennale, October 9, 2020, 4am EST
École du soir at The Diasporic School,
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, October 1 – 31, 2020
Gwangju Lessons
Academy of the Arts of the World, ADKDW, Cologne, July 03 – September 27, 2020
How to Live Together: A Dialogue
Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2011–2019
École du soir: Six Films, From Rwanda and Beyond,
e-flux, New York, April 15 – June 8, 2020
A Journey Around My Room,
June–July, 2020
International Symposium of Another Roadmap School Africa Cluster
Johannesburg, February 10 – 18, 2020
École du soir at SculptureCenter,
SculptureCenter, New York, September 16 – December 16, 2019
Search Sweet Country
MA Curatorial Practice Project Space, SVA, New York, December 5, 2019
Current Programme:
Isaac Julien’s Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask + Otolith Group’s Nucleus of the Great Union
After-screening Conversation with Series Programmer Yasmina Price, BAM, Brooklyn, Nov 10, 7pm
14th Shanghai Biennale
Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, Nov 9, 2023 – March 31, 2024
On entre OK, on sort KO
SculptureCenter, New York, Nov 2, 2023, 7pm
A Screening of Sometimes It Was Beautiful
Beursschowburg, Brussels, Oct 18, 2023
Les Immortels
Vera List Center, The New School, New York, Oct 13, 2023 8 – 10pm
The African Film Institute
e-flux, Brooklyn, Sept 19, 2023 – Ongoing
The 17th Busan International video Art Festial
Gyeongnam Art Museum, Busan, Sept 15 – Oct 15, 2023
Togetherward
Archive Books, July 2023
If improvisation could serve as a manual, if gesture could serve as a guide
NGO Nothing Gets Organized, Johannesburg, March 24, 2023
The Time for Denial is Over: Transnational Program on Restitution
CTM Festival, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2) Berlin, Feb 3, 2023
12 Norient Film Festival
Kellerkino, Bern, Jan 11 – 15, 2023
A Long Trailer for a Film about Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Kunstahalle Bern, Dec 16, 2022 – Jan 29, 2023
58th Carnegie International: Is It Morning For You Yet?
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Sept 24, 2022 – Apr 2, 2023
École du soir in Istanbul: Archives sonores de la littérature noire
17th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, September 17 – 20 November 2022
ARAC Goes to documenta,
documenta fifteen, Kassel, June 18 – September 25, 2022
Manifesta 14 Prishtina
July 22 – October 30, 2022
A Screening of Sometimes It Was Beautiful
South London Gallery, Wed 31 Aug, 2022, 7:30 – 8:30pm
An Evening With Christian Nyampeta,
Sunset Concert as part of Change Feeling, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, July 8, 2022
The Time for Denial is Over: Transnational Program on Restitution
Fondazione Studio Rizoma, Palermo, June 3 – 5, 2022
Anozero’21-22: Meia-Noite
Anozero — Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, April 9 – June 26, 2022
The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts,
Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station, Feb 9 – 11, 2022
Colomboscope: Language is Migrant
Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 20 – 30, 2022
École du soir à Lubumbashi,
Centre d’art Waza, October 2021 – Open Ended
Sometimes It Was Beautiful,
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 30 – June 21, 2021
An Evening With Christian Nyampeta,
Worldwide, iTunes, Spotify, Tidal, Dec 21, 2020 – Jan 31, 2021
A Long Evening with Christian Nyampeta,
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, April 26 – May 26, 2021
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Nov 6, 2021 – Feb 27, 2022
The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts,
WIELS Contemporary, Brussels, March 28, 2021
One Was Singing, the Other Was Not,
Episōdo 03, Yokohama Triennale, October 9, 2020, 4am EST
École du soir at The Diasporic School,
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, October 1 – 31, 2020
Gwangju Lessons
Academy of the Arts of the World, ADKDW, Cologne, July 03 – September 27, 2020
How to Live Together: A Dialogue
Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2011–2019
École du soir: Six Films, From Rwanda and Beyond,
e-flux, New York, April 15 – June 8, 2020
A Journey Around My Room,
June–July, 2020
International Symposium of Another Roadmap School Africa Cluster
Johannesburg, February 10 – 18, 2020
École du soir at SculptureCenter,
SculptureCenter, New York, September 16 – December 16, 2019
Search Sweet Country
MA Curatorial Practice Project Space, SVA, New York, December 5, 2019
Perdu Amsterdam / Contour Biennale 10 Mechelen, May 10, 2019
Life after Life,
Sandberg Series 03 at NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam, May 7, 2019