The project African Feminisms – Rights, Representation, Resources invites African artists, collectives, and creative practitioners to submit proposals for digital artworks to be exhibited on the House of African Feminisms website and possibly presented physically during the African Feminisms Gathering in Kigali or Germany in 2026.
Resources are often understood in material terms—money, land and infrastructure. Yet within African feminist thought and practice, resources extend far beyond the economic. They encompass knowledge systems, care networks, time, bodily autonomy, cultural memory, spiritual practices, and the collective strategies that sustain life and resistance.
At the same time, access to material and knowledge resources often remains deeply unequal. Shaped by colonial histories, extractive economies, patriarchal systems, and contemporary global power structures, resources are unevenly distributed, controlled, and valued. However, women and gender diverse people across the continent and the diaspora continue to navigate and resist against these inequalities by generating alternative systems of survival, redistribution, and care.
This call invites artistic proposals that critically and creatively engage with the theme of ‘Resources’ through African feminist perspectives—political, social, economic, cultural, ecological, spiritual, and beyond. The call seeks work that affirms agency, complexity, and the diverse ways in which resources are created, shared, contested, and transformed.
Proposals may take diverse forms—written works, photo essays, short films, podcasts, digital and new media art, or cross-disciplinary formats. What matters is that they offer a fresh, feminist perspective grounded in African contexts and realities. Selected works should be suitable for digital presentation on the HoAF platform.
Eligibility criteria
- Artists and creatives living on the continent or the African Diaspora
- Track record/ portfolio of previously created work
The proposals/projects will be funded with up to EUR 2,000.
