M+B Collection
Contemporary art from the African continent and diaspora
Helena Uambembe, Confidential Histories I, 2019
About
M+B is a collection of contemporary artists from the African continent and diaspora. It showcases their diverse and unique voices on legacies of colonialism and nationalism, the transformation and resilience of communities, gender, sexuality, and the environment.
Recent Texts
March 2026
Tanoa Tasraku Morale Patch
"They call these baubles. Well, it is with baubles that men are led!" This perhaps apocryphal quote from Napoleon Bonaparte about the newly created Legion of Honor, the most prestigious French national order of merit, would be a fitting epigraph…
November 2025
Sammy Baloji Mines Congo’s Hidden Histories
The history of colonial violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) may call to mind the atrocities of rubber extraction under Belgian rule inscribed onto the bodies of Black laborers and their families. The video “Aequare. The Future that…
December 2024
Artists Find Energy Justice in Grassroots Acts
In the 1970s, the humanist geographer Yi Fu Tuan speculated that “in some ideal future, our loyalty will be given only to the home region of intimate memories and, at the other end of the scale, to the whole earth.” Half a…