Temporary export permit for 3 artworks to travel to Art Institute of Chicago, United States of America for The Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture exhibition

The Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica exhibition is an exceptionally ambitious exhibition surveying twentieth- and twenty-first century cultural Pan-Africanism, and is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museu d’Art Contemporanide Barcelona (MACBA). Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica will encompass approximately 225 works of art in all media by 185 makers (including about 75 known living artists), along with nearly 140 items of printed matter as well as a documentary audio-visual room. As expansive as the Pan-Africanist movement itself, the project covers cultural production from the 1920s to the present and includes makers from Brazil and the Caribbean; North America and Western Europe; and many places on and around the African continent. It moves past geopolitical descriptors such as “Black Atlantic” that have their basis in colonialist expansionism and the slave trade in order to explore a vision of solidarity and freedom spanning a world constructed as an interdependent whole. Project a Black Planet will occupy Regenstein Hall and other display spaces at the Art Institute from December 2024, to March 2025. It will then travel to MACBA, where it will be on view May 2025 to October 2025, and KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels, running December 2025 to April 2026.