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 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
Sonic Solidarities Incubator 2025,
Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art, Livingstone, Zambia, Aug 19 – 22, 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
Sonic Solidarities Incubator 2025,
Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art, Livingstone, Zambia, Aug 19 – 22, 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