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 a chorus of fellow artists, institutions, and networks.

Current Programme:

A Screening of Sometimes It Was Beautiful
Barbican, London, Jan 29, 2024, 6.20pm

African Film Institute Film Series: 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

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

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

A Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness without Sorrow
Perdu Amsterdam / Contour Biennale 10 Mechelen, May 10, 2019


Life after Life,
Sandberg Series 03 at NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam, May 7, 2019