The Opening Week of the Biennale de Lubumbashi is accompanied by several Forum Days that offer arenas of exchange between local and international scholars, thinkers and artists. In an effort to decenter the production of knowledge about Africa on the...
Biennale de Lubumbashi 2019 Opening Week Programme
Thursday 24 October 2019 11:00 Performance walk from quartier Gécamines to quartier Makomeno with Mega Mingiedi, Atelier Picha #2 15:00 Press Conference 6th edition Biennale de Lubumbashi and 2nd edition Atelier Picha @ Picha 16:00 Opening @ Picha Performance “L’Orchestre...
This year the Biennale de Lubumbashi includes a special film programme curated by Rosa Spaliviero, film producer and member of Picha. Selected films are realised by artists and filmmakers who unveil a research approach in terms of cinematographic language and...
Presentation of the Biennale de Lubumbashi @ WIELS
Sandrine Colard, artistic director of the sixth edition of the Biennale de Lubumbashi, Sammy Baloji, artist, member of Picha and co-founder of the Biennale de Lubumbashi, and Georges Senga, artist and member of Picha, will talk about the history of...
Multiple Transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan Age @ WIELS
WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, partners with the Biennale de Lubumbashi by welcoming the exhibition Multiple Transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan Age, curated by artistic director Sandrine Colard. A section of the exhibition will travel to Lubumbashi to be...
Biennials’ Ecologies in Contemporary African Art. Biennials have become one of the most well-established systems to internationally present curatorial projects. Presenters will inspire a discussion about the relevance of such format within the artistic contexts of African countries, addressing both...
Artistic Director Sandrine Colard will take part in the discussion “Opening Spaces” organised in the framework of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair FORUM programme in New York. “A woman writer must have an imagination that is plain stubborn, that...