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Art History: BVA312 - 23/09/2019 (contemporary art in Africa)

Contemporary Art in Africa part 1

 Marrakech Biennale

Founded in 2004 by Vanessa Branson and Abel Damoussi, the Marrakech Biennale is a not-for-profit association whose mission is to position Marrakech as a platform for contemporary art in Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean region. Amidst the rise of global tensions, entrepreneur and philanthropist Vanessa Branson envisioned a cultural festival that would address social issues through the arts, using them as a vehicle for debate and discussion and to build bridges between diverse ideologies. It was the first major Trilingual (English, Arabic and French) festival in North Africa. By benefiting from Marrakech’s ideal location as a geographic and cultural crossroads, the Marrakech Biennale has been a world class event synonymous with artistic excellence and cultural diversity, and has promoted dialogue through all forms of artistic expression. Since 2014, the Biennale has been under the leadership of the Executive President, Mohamed Amine Kabbaj.

 The Biennale has focused on cutting-edge contemporary Visual Art, Literature, and Film. It has consisted of a main Visual Arts Exhibition, other arts exhibitions, installations and happenings, discussions, debates and screenings based in the eclectic venues and settings that Marrakech has to offer. The Marrakech Biennale also has an Education and Internship Program which promotes intercultural, interdisciplinary and intergenerational exchange between Morocco's student population and the artists, staff and international visitors of the Biennale.

 To promote African art and culture. 

 Recontres De Bamako (BiennaleAfricaine De La Photographie) 

 Festival International d'art Public salon Urbain de Doula 

 Dak' Art 
The Dakar Biennale was conceived in 1989 as a biennale alternating between literature and art.
“Open Borders” is the title of the 14th Curitiba International Biennial of Contemporary Art which takes place in the capital of the state of Parana in Brazil from 21 September 2019 to 1 March 2020.
In the frame of this topic, as part of the team of curators of the Biennial, curator Massimo Scaringella presents a project entitled “Human/territorial relations“, exhibiting the artworks created for this occasion by a group of international artists from 9 countries
West: Senegal


 Dakart Biennale


Nirveda ALLECK

I approach people in the streets and ask them to pose for the camera; they are meticulously rendered in painting and their double character is also represented, evoking the complexities inherent in the ego and the duality of being
It is a recording of people who constitute the space and the neighborhood, but also a reflection on the notions of representation and self-representation.

 Representing the diversity of our Mauritian culture is a great challenge for any artist, as there are various degrees of political, social, economic and religious complexities that all come into play. The dominant ideologies of goodness, justness, " Intercultural "," Unity in Diversity "," The Plural Island "all have a degree of ambivalence in relation to the actual state of things, as opposed to the desired and somewhat utopian ideal of a multi-ethnic society.

Serge Alain NITEGEKA 

http://biennaledakar.org/2010/spip.php?article58&id_document=45#documents_portfolio

Strongly marked by his personal journey and by the memories that led him to exile, Serge Alain Nitegeka has been working for two years on the theme of exile, exploring various media such as painting and sculpture, which he integrates into its facilities and its performance. Impregnated with his personal memories that become those of all forced exiles, his approach is part of a process of restitution of individual and collective memory. The large wooden boxes on which he painted painful portraits and self-portraits in tribute to the exiles, were precisely those that were selected for the international exhibition of Dak'art 2010

 North: Egypt
Cultural exchange between Egypt and China through exhibition chinese art in the capital Cairo. 
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201808/20/WS5b7a3519a310add14f386b0f.html
 Exhibition: Art without boarders
Egypt's capital Cairo embraces a seven-day Chinese fine art exhibition that is meant to promote mutual cultural ties between the two nations.
Six artists from the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts showcased their works at the Art without Borders exhibition which is being held at the famed Gezira Art Centre since Wednesday.
The exhibition, which is co-organized by the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and the Chinese Culture Center in Cairo, has attracted dozens of Egyptian visitors who showed admiration of the Chinese art.
"The exhibition is really marvelous. Today I saw diversity of arts in China with different artistic trends," Omar Sameh, a civil engineer from Cairo, told Xinhua.
Sahem said that it is important for cultures to meet at some point, adding that the cultural exchange between Egypt and China is beneficial for both peoples.
"It is my first time to see Chinese art works in real life. Such an exhibition enabled me to get closer to Chinese arts and culture," he said.

 Central: Cameroon - Yaounde

 fist contmeporary art gallery in cameroon 
http://www.buala.org/en/ill-visit/i-went-there-to-visit-artists-artistic-contexts-in-the-cameroon

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