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Afrofuturism show in Berlin criticised over absence of black artists

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Activists point out 21 artists in Space is the Place exhibition are white and the other Asian

The organisers of an exhibition inspired by the unlikely bedfellows of the Afrofuturism movement and the tech entrepreneur Elon Musk have been criticised for not including a single black artist in its lineup.

Opening in Berlin on Wednesday evening, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien’s Space is the Place exhibition – which takes its name from a song by the avant-garde free jazz group Sun Ra Arkestra – has fallen into “old curatorial habits” that favour white men, according to the activist group Soup du Jour.

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