SOUTH SOUTH’s core activity has been facilitating new connections within cultural ecosystems across the Global South and beyond through series of remarkable collaborations with various entities. This has included supporting non-profits (RAW Material Company in Dakar, Green Papaya Art Projects in Manila and Casa do Povo São Paulo); adding to major museum collections (El Museo del Barrio in New York City); working with Global South art fairs (SP–ARTE in Sāo Paulo and FNB Art Joburg in Johannesburg); forming residencies with foundations through the generosity of SOUTH SOUTH ambassadors (Jorge M. Pérez and El Espacio 23); and working with numerous curators from across the Global South and the diaspora. All of these initiatives have revolved around the programmes and artists of our core gallery membership, as well as independent artists introduced through the curatorial voices that we have engaged with.

Often accompanying the FILM programme, and sometimes stand alone, SOUTH SOUTH presents an ongoing programme of TALKS. The platform has been widely praised for the caliber of both the speakers and quality of the content, featuring some of the most significant and influential artists, curators, gallerists, collectors, thinkers within the contemporary art world in conversation. This has included artists such as Ernesto Neto, Otobong Nkanga, Kader Attia, William Kentridge, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Danh Vo, Minerva Cuevas, Pio Abad, Coco Fusco and Helena Uambembe; and curators such as Elvira Dyangani Ose, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Fernanda Brenner, Gabi Ngcobo, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Natasha Ginwala, Stuart Comer, Sunjung Kim and Victor Wang.

SOUTH SOUTH sustains a regular FILM programme in which we have shared iconic videos by artists including Minerva Cuevas, Bani Abidi, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Coco Fusco, Ho Tzu Nyen and Yazan Khalili.  In addition, we have presented special programmes in collaboration with avid collectors of video art, such as Jim Amberson and Anurag Khanna. The FILM platform has been acknowledged for creating access to works that would otherwise not be accessible in such a democratic way and brilliantly contextualised each programme with engaging conversations that are recorded and available on our platform.

SOUTH SOUTH facilitates a community-built archive highlighting selected seminal exhibitions, texts and moments about modern and contemporary art in the Global South at galleries, not-for-profits and museums, as well as archived interview-based editorial and artist profiles. Content of the site is established through contributions from key artists, writers, curators, nonprofit organisations and gallerists. To suggest a contribution email info@south-south.art.