black monument – book presentation, screening, food and reading

Gazelle Kianoush: gazelle@tenstakonsthall.se

Join the Stockholm launch of the anthology black monument, exploring how artists and communities across Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa disrupt colonial monumentality. The publication is edited by G/HOSTING (with Mai Takawira and Nina Cramer) and published by Art Hub Copenhagen and Archive Books. Participants: Tawanda Appiah, Nina Cramer, Santiago Mostyn, Nana Osei-Kofi, Lena Sawyer and Mai Takawira. 

RSVP to gazelle@tenstakonsthall.se by 25 November – free entrance, but please sign up so we can prepare a nice veggie meal for everybody! 

Tawanda Appiah is a Zimbabwean curator, writer, and researcher based in Malmö. His research-centered practice often revisits history to make sense of the contemporary milieu. He is Curator and Artistic Director at Skånes konstförening and was formerly the Curator of Education at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Appiah has curated numerous exhibitions, public programs, and interventions, including Remnants (HEIRLOOM, 2025, and Tensta konsthall, 2026). 

Santiago Mostyn is an artist whose practice foregrounds narrative entanglements in pursuit of new understandings of place, with works manifesting as films, texts, exhibitions, and curatorial projects. Mostyn grew up in Zimbabwe and Trinidad, lives in Sweden, and was the 2024-25 Logie Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. 

Nana Osei-Kofi is Professor Emerita of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. Her most recent book AfroSwedish Places of Belonging (Northwestern University Press, 2025) draws from biographical narratives, documentary film, digital Black feminism, and queer organizing to offer insights into the embodied, affective, and experiential processes through which the formation of an emergent AfroSwedish coalitional identity is made possible. 

Lena Sawyer is a cultural anthropologist who teaches in the Department of Social Work at Gothenburg University. She is interested in exploring creative methodologies, pedagogies, and collective knowledge-making practices. During the last few years, she has worked collaboratively on exploratory arts-based projects. For example, engaging the coloniality of Swedish public commemoration and practices of black feminist care through letter writing. 

G/HOSTING is a Copenhagen-based curatorial platform founded by Mai Takawira and Nina Cramer. G/HOSTING collaborates with artists, authors, and cultural organizations to facilitate critical and reparative interventions into ongoing colonial histories. G/HOSTING’s first anthology black monument was published in 2026 by Art Hub Copenhagen and Archive Books.