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In this event, art historian and curator Dr Christine Eyene will discuss the emergence of the British Black Arts Movement in the late 1970s-early 1980s and its legacies today. Eyene will explore the themes, iconographies, and creative processes that have informed the practice of a generation of British artists of African, Caribbean, and South Asian heritage. The presentation will include seminal artworks examined within the socio-historical context in which they were created. Lubaina Himid has recently been announced as the artist representing Britain at the next Venice Biennale. The talk will also highlight Black artists who have represented Britain in the past decade, including Steve McQueen, Sonia Boyce and John Akomfrah.

Dr Christine Eyene is an art historian and curator. She is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool. She holds a PhD in History of Art from Birkbeck, University of London. From 2012 to 2022, she worked with Lubaina Himid CBE RA on Making Histories Visible, a multidisciplinary visual arts research project then based at the University of Central Lancashire. Her current exhibitions are The Plant that Stowed Away, Tate Liverpool + RIBA North and What the mountain has seen, ERL Gallery, Liverpool (2025). As an art writer, Eyene contributed to Lubaina Himid, London: Tate Publishing. In 2024, she joined the Artistic Council of Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco whose Vice-President was the late Marie-Claude Beaud, former Director of Mudam.

About Mudam Akademie

Design and taught by Stéphane Ghislain Roussel, Mudam Akademie invites audiences to discover modern and contemporary art by recounting how part and present artists are inventors of aesthetic universes, as well as catalysts and interpreters of major societal issues of our time. In direct resonance with Mudam’s exhibitions and its wide-ranging programme, this lectures series shows that the museum is a place open to the world and its transformations. Mudam Akademie aims to make art history accessible to all, whether beginners or more experienced visitors.

This event is part of the public programme associated to the exhibition Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Nets for Night and Day.

Mudam Akademie in conversation with Dr Christine Eyene
12 March 2025, 19:00 – 20:00, in English

10€ | 5€ with Mudam à 2 Card
Free for students and under 21-year-old

Information and booking

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Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
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