N’Goné Fall

N’Goné Fall is an independent curator and cultural policies specialist. She graduated with honor from the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris with a museum and research center – supervised by Paul Virilio – addressing 500 years of trans-Atlantic history between Africa, Europe and the Americas. She has been the editorial director of the Paris-based contemporary African art magazine Revue Noire from 1994 to 2001. She is the editor of An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century (Revue Noire / DAP 2002); Photographers from Kinshasa (Revue Noire 2001); Anthology of African and Indian Ocean Photography: a century of African photographers (Revue Noire 1998). She curated exhibitions in Africa, Europe and the USA. She was a guest curator of the Bamako and Dakar biennales respectively in 2001 and 2002. Her last major group show in Denmark in 2016, combined with a nine-month public program, was inspired by the landmark novel Things Fall Apart by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. She is the author of strategic plans and evaluation reports for national and international institutions such as the Prince Claus Foundation, the Rijksakademie van BeeldendeKunsten, Arts Collaboratory (The Netherlands); the ACP-EU Group and Africalia (Belgium); the City of Paris, the Conseil regional de Guadeloupe / BICFL, the Organisation international de la Francophonie (France); the Rockefeller Foundation, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Villa Albertine / French embassy (USA); the Dakar biennale (Senegal); the Africa Centre (South Africa); the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth (Barbados); the Gyeonggi MoMA, (South Korea).She has been a professor at the Senghor University in Alexandria, Egypt (2007 – 2011); lecturer at the Michaelis School of Arts in Cape Town, South Africa (2017) and at the Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey in Niger (2018). In 2018, N'Goné Fall has been appointed by the French President Emmanuel Macron General Commissioner of the Africa2020 Season, a series of more than 1,500 cultural, scientific and pedagogical events held in 210 cities all over France from December 2020 to September 2021.