Book Launch with a conversation between Katz Tepper and Yvette Mutumba

As part of the book launch, Yvette Mutumba (Director Contemporary And) and Katz Tepper (artist, researcher, and writer) will discuss questions of artistic self-publishing, archiving, and their art-historical as well as social implications. Moving between the American South and Berlin, and across Afro-diasporic, European, and U.S. perspectives, the conversation explores the resonances Buchanan’s work opens up within different geographic and historical contexts.

• Free tickets are available at the box office from 3 pm, places are limited.
  
• The exhibition is open until 6 pm.
  

Katz Tepper is an interdisciplinary artist, independent researcher, and writer based in Chicago. Recent exhibitions and screenings of their work include Prairie (Chicago), White Columns (New York), Cushionworks (San Francisco), Laurel Gitlen (New York), the Tang Teaching Museum (New York), Fluentum (Berlin), and the British Film Institute Southbank (London). Together with Mo Costello, their research on Beverly Buchanan’s period in Athens, Georgia received a 2024 Teiger Foundation Single Project Grant for their co-curated exhibition Beverly’s Athens (Athenaeum, University of Georgia, 2026). The accompanying catalog titled Beverly Buchanan, Athens, GA, 8 July 1995 received a 2025 Graham Foundation Award and will be published by Soberscove Press in 2026.


Yvette Mutumba is the co-founder and director of Contemporary And (C&), a platform for contemporary art and thought in Africa and the Global Diaspora, founded in 2013. Rooted in a global network of contributors and collaborators, C& publishes two online magazines in four languages and develops educational and discursive projects across digital and physical spaces. Alongside her work with C&, Yvette teaches at the Institute for Art in Contexts at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 2020 to 2024, she served as Curator-at-Large at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Previously, she was part of the curatorial team of the 10th Berlin Biennale and held a visiting professorship for Global Discourses at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. From 2012 to 2016, she served as curator at the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, where she worked on the museum’s colonial and postcolonial collections. As an author and editor, she has published widely on contemporary art and art history. She studied art history at the Freie Universität Berlin and earned her PhD from Birkbeck, University of London.