8 February 2012: N'Goné Fall: 'Dak'art, Le Bienniale de L'Art Africain Contemporaine and its context'

8 February 2012 - at 3 pm

Framework: Shift In My Thinking - lectures , organized by the DAI and kindly hosted by the MMKA.

Dak'art, Le Bienniale de L'Art Africain Contemporaine and its context

N'Gone Fall will present a short overview of modern and contemporary art in West Africa with a focus on the history of the Dakar biennnial (born in 1992).

N'Gone Fall is an Independent curator, art critic and consultant in cultural engineering N’Goné Fall graduated from the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. She has been the editorial director of the Paris-based contemporary African art magazine Revue Noire from 1994 to 2001. She edited books on contemporary visual arts and photography in Africa including An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century, Photographers from Kinshasa and Anthology of African and Indian Ocean Photography:a century of African photographers. Fall curated exhibitions in Africa, Europe and USA. She was one of the curators of the African photography biennale in Bamako, Mali, in 2001 and a guest curator at the 2002 Dakar biennale in Senegal. As a consultant in cultural engineering she is the author of strategic plans, orientation programs and evaluation reports for Senegalese and international cultural institutions. Fall teaches curatorial process, communication strategies and methodology in the master department of cultural industries at the Senghor University in Alexandria, Egypt. N’Goné Fall is also a founding member of the Dakar-based collective Gaw-Lab, a platform for research and production in the field of new media and visual arts.