Dakar Biennale 2020
To fight the spread of the disease and protect the health of the population, the Government of the Republic of Senegal has taken preventive measures, including the suspension of public events and a ban on gatherings in open or enclosed places.
In application of government measures, the Minister of Culture and Communication has decided to postpone to a later date the fourteenth edition of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art, originally scheduled from May 28 to June 28, 2020 in Dakar.
The new dates will be communicated to you as soon as possible.
Under the direction of their professor Hafida Jemni Di Folco, IESA students in the first year of the Master in Art Market - Contemporary Art, engaged in an exhibition expected for the biennale, found a way to keep their project “Alliages” going.
It will take the form of a digital exhibition on the website, put online by the students. The exhibition highlights three artists, Diagne Chanel, Mulki Longo and Maryem Sidibé, who work in different media such as photography, digital art and visual art installation.
The IESA arts&culture gallery will host the exhibition from January 5 to 26, 2021. We will thus celebrate World African Culture Day with this exhibition. On January 24, a panel discussion will be held in the IESA auditorium on themes such as the status of the artist, the art market, publications and new forms of exhibition curation.
The students will produce a digital catalog for the website and then a printed one for the 2021 exhibition. To carry out this project, funds will be raised through various cultural events taking place from September 15 to December 31, 2020 and through crowdfunding.
The exhibition could take place in Dakar once the situation has returned to normal, around May 2021.
The Dakar students enrolled at ISM/IESA involved in the 2020 Biennale project are ready to join the IESA arts&culture students to adapt it to Dakar.
©Diagne Chanel
