CATPC makes art to generate global awareness about the historic and present-day position of plantation workers. With their art they generate the means necessary to turn depleted plantations back into forests for the benefit of the community, providing local food security and, increasing biodiversity and mitigating global climate change.
Art is the driver leading to autonomous and resilient communities and to the restoration of the sacred forest. With the income from their art CATPC has bought back 400 hectares of depleted plantation land, where they develop regenerative agriculture.
In 2024, CATPC won the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize Africa and was listed on ArtReview’s Power 100 – the annual ranking of the most influential people in art. In 2025, CATPC received a research and development grant from Tate Modern in the frame of its Infinities Commission. CATPC’s work is supported by DOEN Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and Swedish Postcode Lottery Foundation. In 2024, CATPC presented the exhibition The International Celebration of Blasphemy and the Sacred in the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
The collective currently comprises 23 members.