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:
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art #13
Gothenburg, Sweden, 20 Sept – Nov 30, 2025
The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of the Spirit
Seoul Museum of Art, NAKWON SANGGA, and Seoul Art Cinema, 26 Aug – Nov 23, 2025
Mudimbe’s Order of Things: Screening, Conversation, and Gathering
African Film Institute at e-flux Screening Room, June 21, 2025, 2pm–late
Art Encounters Biennial 2025: Bounding Histories. Whispering Tales
Timisoara, Romania, May 30 – July 13, 2025
32th New York African Film Festival
SHORTS PROGRAM #2: Ever Rising, Maysles Cinema, May 18, 2025, 8.30pm
2025 ISP Curatorial Exhibition: a grammar of attention
The Ramscale Penthouse, New York, May 9 – 18, 2025
The Condition of Being Near: Ecologies of Afro-Asia
ICA Philadelphia, hosted by Performance Space, NY, May 9, 2025
Africa Development Conference 2025
Harvard Kennedy School, Boston, April 11 – 12, 2025
On Archives, Rhythms and Resistance
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, April 4, 2025
Kivu Ruhorahoza and Christian Nyampeta, Murmures
FESPACO, Ouagadougou, Feb 22 – March 1, 2025
Hawai’i Triennial 2025: ALOHA NŌ
Hawai‘i Contemporary, Honolulu, Feb 14 – May 4, 2025
The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism Roundtable
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Dec 7, 2024, 4–5:30pm
Nebula Expanded, Fondazione In Between Art Film
MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Nov 5 – Dec 1, 2024
African Film Institute: Nollyween: Christian Chika Onu’s Karishika, with Seek & Find
École du soir Workrooms, New York, Nov 2, 2024, 7pm
Thick Atmospheres: The Public Program of Nebula
Fondazione In Between Art and Film, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Oct 17 – 18, 2024
A Walk in Jeruzalem
Swiss Institute, New York, Sept 25, 2024, 7pm
African Film Institute: Raoul Peck, Lumumba
with Feza Kayungu Ramazani and Natacha Nsabimana
Curated by Natacha Nsabimana, e-flux Screening Room, Brooklyn, Sept 19, 2024
Week of Contemporary Art
Art Today Association, Plovdiv, Sept 4 – 25, 2024
Drifts Festival
Levyhalli, Helsinki, Aug 31 – Sept 8
South-to-south: A meeting on African and Afro-diasporic Technologies
Centre d’art Waza, Lubumbashi, July 1 – 8, 2024
African Film Institute: Haile Gerima, Sankofa
with Honey Crawford and Merawi Gerima
Curated by Natacha Nsabimana, e-flux Screening Room, Brooklyn, June 27, 2024, 7pm
e-flux Index Launch
Dia:Chelsea, June 20, 2024, 6:30 pm, Dia Chelsea
New York African Film Festival 2024: Sometimes It Was Beautiful
Mayles Documentary Center, Harlem, New York, May 18, 2024
New York African Film Festival 2024
Shorts Program 1: Eternal Souls, Transient Bodies
Film at Lincoln Center, New York, May 8–14, 2024
École du soir in Beijing
Inside-Out Art Museum, May 23 – Sept 1, 2024
Art + Activism: Experimental Motions
New York African Film Festival 2024, The Africa Center, Harlem, New York, May 2, 2024
African Film Institute: Ahmed El Maanouni, Al Hal [Trances]
Curated by Omar Berrada, e-flux Screening Room, Brooklyn, April 18, 2024, 7pm
Nebula, Fondazione In Between Art Film
Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venice, April 17 – Nov 24, 2024
École du soir in Shanghai
ICA at NYU Shanghai, March 06 – May 31, 2024
A Song About Love: The African Film Institute in Bern
As part of Punya 2.0, Kunsthalle Bern, Feb 17 – April 17, 2024
A Screening of Sometimes It Was Beautiful
Barbican, London, Jan 29, 2024, 6.20pm
African Film Institute: Amelia Umuhire
Curated by Natacha Nsabimana, e-flux, Brooklyn, Jan 23, 2024, 7pm
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
Search Sweet Country—A Concert
Carnegie Museum of Art, Sculpture Court, Pittsburgh, Sept. 24, 2022, 5pm
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
Luleå Biennial 2020 – Time on Earth
Luleå, Sweden, Nov 21, 2020 – Feb 14, 2020
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:
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art #13
Gothenburg, Sweden, 20 Sept – Nov 30, 2025
The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of the Spirit
Seoul Museum of Art, NAKWON SANGGA, and Seoul Art Cinema, 26 Aug – Nov 23, 2025
Mudimbe’s Order of Things: Screening, Conversation, and Gathering
African Film Institute at e-flux Screening Room, June 21, 2025, 2pm–late
Art Encounters Biennial 2025: Bounding Histories. Whispering Tales
Timisoara, Romania, May 30 – July 13, 2025
32th New York African Film Festival
SHORTS PROGRAM #2: Ever Rising, Maysles Cinema, May 18, 2025, 8.30pm
2025 ISP Curatorial Exhibition: a grammar of attention
The Ramscale Penthouse, New York, May 9 – 18, 2025
The Condition of Being Near: Ecologies of Afro-Asia
ICA Philadelphia, hosted by Performance Space, NY, May 9, 2025
Africa Development Conference 2025
Harvard Kennedy School, Boston, April 11 – 12, 2025
On Archives, Rhythms and Resistance
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, April 4, 2025
Kivu Ruhorahoza and Christian Nyampeta, Murmures
FESPACO, Ouagadougou, Feb 22 – March 1, 2025
Hawai’i Triennial 2025: ALOHA NŌ
Hawai‘i Contemporary, Honolulu, Feb 14 – May 4, 2025
The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism Roundtable
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Dec 7, 2024, 4–5:30pm
Nebula Expanded, Fondazione In Between Art Film
MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Nov 5 – Dec 1, 2024
African Film Institute: Nollyween: Christian Chika Onu’s Karishika, with Seek & Find
École du soir Workrooms, New York, Nov 2, 2024, 7pm
Thick Atmospheres: The Public Program of Nebula
Fondazione In Between Art and Film, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Oct 17 – 18, 2024
A Walk in Jeruzalem
Swiss Institute, New York, Sept 25, 2024, 7pm
African Film Institute: Raoul Peck, Lumumba
with Feza Kayungu Ramazani and Natacha Nsabimana
Curated by Natacha Nsabimana, e-flux Screening Room, Brooklyn, Sept 19, 2024
Week of Contemporary Art
Art Today Association, Plovdiv, Sept 4 – 25, 2024
Drifts Festival
Levyhalli, Helsinki, Aug 31 – Sept 8
South-to-south: A meeting on African and Afro-diasporic Technologies
Centre d’art Waza, Lubumbashi, July 1 – 8, 2024
African Film Institute: Haile Gerima, Sankofa
with Honey Crawford and Merawi Gerima
Curated by Natacha Nsabimana, e-flux Screening Room, Brooklyn, June 27, 2024, 7pm
e-flux Index Launch
Dia:Chelsea, June 20, 2024, 6:30 pm, Dia Chelsea
New York African Film Festival 2024: Sometimes It Was Beautiful
Mayles Documentary Center, Harlem, New York, May 18, 2024
New York African Film Festival 2024
Shorts Program 1: Eternal Souls, Transient Bodies
Film at Lincoln Center, New York, May 8–14, 2024
École du soir in Beijing
Inside-Out Art Museum, May 23 – Sept 1, 2024
Art + Activism: Experimental Motions
New York African Film Festival 2024, The Africa Center, Harlem, New York, May 2, 2024
African Film Institute: Ahmed El Maanouni, Al Hal [Trances]
Curated by Omar Berrada, e-flux Screening Room, Brooklyn, April 18, 2024, 7pm
Nebula, Fondazione In Between Art Film
Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venice, April 17 – Nov 24, 2024
École du soir in Shanghai
ICA at NYU Shanghai, March 06 – May 31, 2024
A Song About Love: The African Film Institute in Bern
As part of Punya 2.0, Kunsthalle Bern, Feb 17 – April 17, 2024
A Screening of Sometimes It Was Beautiful
Barbican, London, Jan 29, 2024, 6.20pm
African Film Institute: Amelia Umuhire
Curated by Natacha Nsabimana, e-flux, Brooklyn, Jan 23, 2024, 7pm
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
Search Sweet Country—A Concert
Carnegie Museum of Art, Sculpture Court, Pittsburgh, Sept. 24, 2022, 5pm
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
Luleå Biennial 2020 – Time on Earth
Luleå, Sweden, Nov 21, 2020 – Feb 14, 2020
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