Biennial of Dakar

The Biennale of contemporary African art of Dakar to the Senegal is held since 1990. Its role is to propose the richness of the plastic creation of all the African continent, in order to develop it and to promote.

Biennial they is also meetings and questionings around numerical arts, of the urban esthetic, the places of culture emerging in Africa…

Biennial of Dakar (2000)

This biennial was placed on the topic of the “ Impressions of Africa ”.

Noticed artists:

  • Senegalese Abdérahmane Aïdara
  • the Beninese Charly d' Almeida for its fabrics on the symbolism of the Voodoo
  • casamançais it Diakaria Badji for its fabrics expressing tearings, the suffering and the sadness of the human condition
  • French Pascal Didier Even for his fabrics inspired by the rates/rhythms and the colors of Africa.
  • the Frenchwoman Sylvie Gerard for his fabrics expressing its dream of interbreeding enters Europe and Africa.
  • the belgo-Congolese Bers Grandsinge for its variations esthetic, symbolic systems and erotic on the changes of our time
  • Franco-Greek the Valerie Kokinopoulos for her research on the batik of Gambia.
  • the sénégalaise Anna Jouda
  • French Christian Lavigne for his numerical sculptures
  • the Burkinabe Djiguemde H. Roger for his fabrics of style “African na5ive art”
  • Senegalese Mammady Sédy for its sculptures
  • the Cameronian Barthelemy Toguo for his stripped drawings
  • the Burkinabe Saliou Traoré

Biennial of Dakar (2004)

This sixth biennial entitled Dak' Art 2004 was placed under the sign of the globalisation and brought together 38 artists, including 5 designers, on the topic “ contemporary African art per hour of universalization ”.

She proposed, from May 7th to June 7th, 130 exposures and nearly 5000 works distributed out of five different places including one with Ziguinchor in country Diola. The artists had come from 16 country since the the Maghreb until the South Africa or even from exiles.

Noticed artists:

  • the sénégalaise Baited Aïdara for its joinings on fabric, in fabric mosaic, delicate and poetic
  • Senegalese Peul Cheikhou Ba for its universe of sculptures and drawing-paintings resulting from the joining of hundreds of sheets to the format A4
  • Senegalese Douts' for his cartoon film on the construction and the déconstruction of a poor district on the beach
  • the Togolese Sokey Edorh for its imaginary writings finely traced on clay coating
  • the Cameronian Isaac Essoua for its sculpture-collision
  • the Congolese Gastineau for its mythical calcined terra cotta monsters, semi-men semi-animals
  • Ethiopic Assefa Gebrekidan for its esoteric and luminous sculptures
  • the Egyptian Khaled Hafez for its amalgams of mannequins and ancient gods
  • the Congolese Bill Kouelany for its strong work telling its torn country and its beings
  • Senegalese Auro Nalla Ndiaye for its multifunction table-clover
  • African south Mgcineni Sobopha for its fabric fabrics saturated with coloured grounds.

At the time of this biennial Senegalese Mansour Ciss Kanakassy and the Canadian Baruch Gottlieb presented the Afro , first materialized currency of the African continent. Work of art, symbol of hope? The imaginary currency, powerful artistic concept with glory of the panafricanism, did not leave anybody indifferent, to see Afro a currency for Africa.

Biennial of Dakar (2006)

Dak' Art 2006 presented from May 5th to June 5th, 2006 of many events: the International exhibition (87 artists of 27 countries), the Living room of the design (15 artists of 7 countries), the Exposure Diaspora (7 artists of 4 countries), Meetings and conferences around the topic " Africa: heard, implied and malentendus" , Dak' Art_Lab and African numerical Arts in collaboration with UNESCO Digit' Arts, the Dak exposures' Art Off in all the city and in areas.

Artists preceded at the time of the 7th edition of Biennial of Dakar:

  • Mounir Fatmi, Morocco.
  • Claudia Christovao, Angola.
  • Soly Cissé, Senegal.
  • Khalifa Ababacar Dieng, Senegal.
  • Bill Kouelany, Congo.
  • Annie Anawana Haloba, Zambia.
  • Guy Bertrand Woueté Lotchouang, Cameroun.
  • Joseph Bertiers, Kenya.
  • Dicko (Burkina Faso)
  • Ibrahima Niang (Senegal)
  • Aime Mpané (DRC)
  • Safaa Erruas (Morocco)
  • Bellie Zangewa (Malawi)
  • Pelagie Gbaguidi (Benign)
  • Bright Ugochukwu Eke (Nigeria)
  • Missheck Masamvu (Zimbabwe)
  • Amal El Kenawy (Egypt)
  • Mamady Seydi (Senegal)
  • Astou Diop (Senegal)

Price of Dak' Art OFF:

  • Cheikhou Bâ
  • Mamadou Ndoye Douts
  • Kadija Sow
  • Lucio LED Cave
  • Charles Seck

The organization of Biennial the 2006:

  • Yacouba Konaté: general police chief
  • associated Police chiefs: Célestin Badibanga, Youma Fall, Amy Logan Horschak, Abdellah Karroum, Barbara Murray, Bisi Silva, Marie Shine Syring.
  • General secretary of the Biennial one: Ousseynou Wade.

Biennial of Dakar (2008)

Next Biennale of Dakar will take place from May 9th to June 9th, 2008. The next candidatures will be open during 2007 for Biennial the 2008. The Biennial one of Dakar 2006 encountered important financial problems, in particular for the return of works to the artists and the lenders. At less than one year of the next edition, most of the works exposed to Dak' Art are still blocked by the conveyer with the airport of Dakar. What can compromise the continuity of this biennial African.

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