We go and come back to Dakar, to the same place. But this place, by its openness, by its work and its ambitions, has already become, for us, the place of thought, the excellent site of the rebirth of contemporary Africa, starting from the spirit of African culture, in the sense of the spirit of the law”, said Professor Théophile OBENGA, in 1990 during the first Biennial of Dakar, devoted to Letters.

Fourteenth edition of the Dakar Biennale: 59 artists and artists’ collectives to forge a new common destiny

Create, imagine and invent. It is around this triptych that the official international exhibition of the 14th edition of the Biennial of Contemporary African Art in Dakar (May 19-June 21, 2022) will take place.
The official selection, consistent with the orientations of the Artistic Direction, will highlight the works of 59 visual artists and artists’ collectives. They come from Africa and its diaspora. According to Dr El Hadji Malick Ndiaye , Artistic Director of the 2022 Edition, the theme Ĩ Ndaffa# sounds like an exhortation to create a new common destiny, a future together.

Source: biennaledakar