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APP '09 Azza Satti is on the board of the nonprofit African Art Dialogues, an organization hosting the African Art in Venice Forum to explore the interplay between critical theory and creative practice.
African Art Dialogues is a non-for-profit organization registered in Italy. They advocate for a more diverse, inclusive, and balanced art ecosystem that nourishes the human ability to address individual, societal and global issues. All of its board members serve on a pro-bono basis.
Their main program is the African Art in Venice Forum (AAVF), born in 2017 to activate our vision and provide a dedicated platform during the opening week of the Venice Biennale that could help pave the way for the development of thorough, nuanced and inclusive conversations on contemporary art relating to Africa and its diasporas.
AAV is a multi-day public platform presented during the opening week of the Biennale d'Arte di Venezia with the aim of providing new opportunities of exchange and visibility for contemporary art from Africa and its diasporas in the cultural and infrastructural context of the Venice Biennale. As art professionals gather from all over the world to attend the Biennale, many countries are made invisible by the lack of national pavilions and projects transversally representing regional, cultural, or historical components stemming from the African continent. The vast community gathering around the AAVF demonstrates the need for innovative, open and accessible platforms to expand the dialogue around contemporary African art.
Register for the forum here.