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Posted on Monday, 28th April, 2008

 

 

Dak’Art  2008: 8ème Edition de la Biennale

 

The official selection of 36 artists that are exhibiting at the 8th Biennale of African Contemporary Art was organized by the Selection Committee based on the application files directly received by the General Secretary of the Biennale.The Official exhibition of Dak’Art 2008 presents artists of 17 african countries and from the diaspora.Senegal (10), Cameroon (5), South Africa (5) and Egypt (3) are the most represented countries in the 2008 selection .

 

 

Selected artists are:

Benin (1):
Pélagie GBAGUIDI

 
Burkina Faso (2):
Saïdou DICKO
Justin Kabré (Kely)

 
Cameroon (5):
Blaise BANG
Angele Etoundi ESSAMBA
Achille KOMGUEM (Achillekà)
Samuel NJA KWA
Guy Bertrand Woueté Lotchouang

 
Côte d’Ivoire (1):
Jems Robert KOKOBI 

 
 Egypt (3):
Amal EL KENAWY
Georges Fikry-Ibrahim
Fathi HASSAN

 
Mali (1):
Mohamed Konaté

 
Morocco (1):
Zakaria RAMHANI

 
Nigeria (1):
Osaretin IGHILE

 
RD Congo (1):
Freddy TSIMBA

 
Senegal (10):
El Hadji Mansour CISS
Soly Cissé
Samba FALL
Abdoulaye Armin KANE
Amadou Kane SY dit Kan-Si"
Ndary LO
Ousmane NDIAYE (Dago)
Babacar NIANG
Ibrahima NIANG (Piniang)
Seydi SAMBA (Pape Seydi)

 
South Africa (5):
Nandipha Mntambo
Nkosikhona Ngcobo-Bongamahlubi
Sonya Rademeyer
Athi-Patra Ruga
Johann Van Der Schijff

 
Togo (1):
Sokey EDORH

 
Tunisia (1):
Mourad GHARRACH

 
Diaspora (3):
Grace NDIRITU (UK)
Gabriel PACHECO (USA)
Roberto Rico (Guadeloupe France)

 

 

 

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