art history

art history

Contemporary art in Africa

Countries/Cities/Regions
of the African Union

■North

■West

■Central

■East

■South

Alexandria Biennale\

■Second oldest visual arts biennale in the world and the oldest on the African continent

■Started in 1955 by then president Gamal Abdel-Nasser

■Due to political unrest in Egypt, the 2013 and 2015 biennales were cancelled

■http://www.english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentMulti/103413/Multimedia.aspx

Marrakech Biennale

■Founded in 2004

■First Trilingual (English, Arabic, and French) festival in North Africa

■Promotes dialogue through forms of artistic expression

■Focus is on cutting-edge contemporary visual art, literature, and film

■Since editions with the last being held in 2016

■http://www.marrakechbiennale.org

Dak’Art

■First biennale started in 1990

■Reorganized in 1996 as a specifically contemporary  African art exhibition

■http://www.biennaledakar.org/language/en/home-biennale-dakar-2020-en/

Recontres de Bamako (Biennale Africaine de la Photographie) 

- photograghs of african photograghs and artist's

https://www.rencontres-bamako.com/?lang=en

http://www.biennialfoundation.org/biennials/mediterranean-biennale-of-contemporary-art-of-oran-algeria/

http://artradarjournal.com/2016/01/17/16-algerian-contemporary-

artists-to-know-now/

CONTEMPORARY art in Burundi - 

This article was found on the artist Alia Ali explaining what she does and her industry and career. She relates to my work as I like the textures and the smoothness of the fabric, along with the use of fabric too.

Contemporary African Artist.

Steve Bandoma:

https://www.africancontemporary.com/Steve%20Bandoma.htm

https://www.africancontemporary.com/Art%20Bodo%20gallery.htm



Artist: Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu 

M.B.E 


 - Nigerian.