N'Goné Fall
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N'Goné Fall is a Senegalese curator, editor, and cultural policies consultant.
Biography
N'Goné Fall was born in 1967 in Dakar Senegal where she grew up. She graduated with honors[1] from the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris and received the prize of the best 1993 graduation project under the supervision of her professor Paul Virilio,[2] a French theoretician.
In 1994 she left the François Gréther architecture studio to join Revue Noire, the first contemporary African art magazine, as editorial assistant before becoming editorial director in 1996 until the closing of the publishing house late 2001.
She is the editor of Photographers from Kinshasa (D. R. Congo), Éditions Revue Noire, 2001. 128 pages (ISBN 2-909571-53-X); and of An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century, New York, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2002, 408 p. (ISBN 1-891024-38-8)
She has been an independent curator, writer and cultural policies specialist since 2001, conducting projects in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the USA.
She curated her first exhibition in 1996 during Dak'Art, the contemporary African art biennale in Dakar, Senegal. She was a guest curator at the African Photography Encounters of Bamako,[3] Mali in 2001 and at the Dakar contemporary African art biennale,[3] Senegal in 2002. Amongst her curatorial activities: Africa by Africans, a century of African Photography at the Iziko South African National Gallery and at the Castle of Good Hope in 1998 in Cape Town, South Africa; En Français sous l'image at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in 2006 in Paris, France; Contac Zone at the National Museum of Mali in 2007 in Bamako, Mali; Localities at the Contemporary art Museum in 2009 in Roskilde, Denmark; When things fall apart: Critacal voices on the radars[4] at the Trapholt Museum in 2016 in Kolding, Denmark; In Quest of Freedom: carte blanche to El Anatsui at La Conciergerie in 2021 in Paris, France.
She contributed to the catalogue of the exhibition Global Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum in 2007 with the essay Providing a Space of Freedom: Women Artists in Africa.
She has been professor at the Senghor University in Alexandria, Egypt from 2007 to 2011.
She is also the author of strategic plans and orientation programs for national and international cultural organizations.
In 20018 she was appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron General Commissioner[5] of the Africa2020 Season,[6] a series of more than 1,500 cultural, scientific and pedagogical projects held all over France from December 2020 to September 2021.
References
- ^ de Jarcy, Xavier (29 November 2020). "Saison Africa2020 : sept mois de rendez-vous pour changer de regard sur le continent africain". telerama.fr.
- ^ Guyot, Eve (2 December 2020). "N'Goné Fall, l'art dans l'âme". la-croix.com.
- ^ a b Nini, Claire (19 May 2020). "Rencontre avec N'Goné Fall, commissaire générale de la saison Africa2020". artcontemporainafricain.mondoblog.org.
- ^ "When things fall apart: Critical voices on the radars at Trapholt Museum in Denmark". C&. 16 August 2016.
- ^ Diawara, Malick (15 January 2020). "N'Goné Fall : « Africa2020, c'est l'Afrique qui parle d'elle-même »".
- ^ The World in 2020. "The futur is African". worldin.economist.com. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
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