N'Goné Fall is a Senegalese curator, editor, and cultural policies consultant.
Biography
N'Goné Fall was born in 1967 in
Dakar
Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 3.94 million in 2 ...
Senegal where she grew up. She graduated with honors from the
École Spéciale d'Architecture
The École spéciale d'architecture (ÉSA; formerly École centrale d'architecture) is a private school for architecture at 254, boulevard Raspail in Paris, France.
The school was founded in 1865 by engineer Emile Trélat as reaction against the ...
in Paris and received the prize of the best 1993 graduation project under the supervision of her professor Paul Virilio, 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 (); and of ''An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century'', New York, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2002, 408 p. ()
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,
Mali in 2001 and at the Dakar contemporary African art biennale,
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'' 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
The French-speaking International University for African Development or Senghor University (in French: ''Université Senghor d'Alexandrie'') is a private university in Alexandria, established by decree of the President of the Arab Republic of Egyp ...
in
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, 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 of the Africa2020 Season,
a series of more than 1,500 cultural, scientific and pedagogical projects held all over France from December 2020 to September 2021.
References
External links
Illustrated portrait from Institut français
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1967 births
Living people
People from Dakar
École Spéciale d'Architecture alumni
Senegalese architects
Senegalese editors
Senegalese women writers
Senegalese curators
Art critics
Senegalese women curators