PUBLICATION black monument

black monument explores how artists and communities across Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa disrupt colonial monumentality. Featuring contributions from artists Justin F. Kennedy, Olivier Marboeuf, Jeannette Ehlers, patricia kaersenhout, and Abdul Dube alongside art historian Amelia Groom, black feminist scholars Lena Sawyer and Nana Osei-Kofi, and curator Tawanda Appiah, this anthology centers metamonumental practices—critical, sometimes speculative, and often ephemeral practices that refuse linear chronology and other Eurocentric frameworks.

Against the backdrop of renewed power struggles over monumental landscapes and ongoing racial injustice, black monument asks: What forms of care for black histories emerge in the absence of sanctioned monuments?

Published by Art Hub Copenhagen and Archive Books. 

This zine by Abdul Dube was commissioned by G/HOSTING for the publication black monument. The zine reproduces and interprets Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's text "Black (ante)heroism" (2021) with examples from black monument and beyond. 

March 5, 2026. 

This seminar, organized by G/HOSTING with Moving Monuments (UCPH) and Art Hub Copenhagen, explored the dissonant relationship between blackness and the western monumental tradition. How do radical black thought, black communities, and black liberatory practices challenge colonial monumentality and its promotion of permanence, the nation-state, and liberal subjectivity? What artistic and curatorial strategies arise from this tension to rethink, reshape, and transgress the monument? Can black commemoration practices that refuse colonial frames of public memory reshape our visions of the monumental landscape of the future? 

The seminar featured contributions by Olive Vassell (UK/US), Elizabeth Löwe Hunter (DK/US), Tawanda Appiah (Zim/SE), and Santiago Mostyn (TRI/US/SE).

Photo: BLM protestors in Copenhagen, June 2020, by Tobias Nilsson.