Building Art Institutions in West Africa

Oyindamola (Fakeye) Faithful is the Executive & Artistic Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria. She co-founded the Video Art Network Lagos in 2009 at the Centre for Contemporary Art. Oyindamola is a Company Director for Res Artis, the worldwide professional body for artists residencies. S Oyindamola has worked on various exhibitions and projects including the Lagos Biennial II (2019) ‘How to Build a Lagoon With Just a Bottle of Wine’ alongside Tosin Oshinowo and Antawan Byrd. She was the creative producer for ‘Moving Between,’ a 360 degree VR experience of the Kofar-Mata dye pit, a cultural and historical site in Kano, Nigeria. 

El Hadji Malick Ndiaye is Head of Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire (IFAN) Cheikh Anta Diop University, and the Curator of the Théodore Monod Museum of African Art in Senegal. Malick was the Artistic Director of the 14th edition of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art (2022) and co-curator of the exhibition Picasso à Dakar, 1972-2022 (Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar 2022). His publications focus on contemporary art, African museum institutions, and cultural policies. He holds a doctorate in Art History from Université Rennes II. He is also a graduate of the National Institute of Heritage (Paris) and a former fellow of the National Institute of Art History (Paris).