Bisi Silva
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Bisi Silva is the founder and artistic director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, a center opened in December 2007 which promotes research, documentation and expositions, where she curated some expositions of Nigerian paintress Ndidi DikeNdidi Dike
Ndidi Dike is a visual artist working in sculpture and mixed media painting. She is one of Nigeria's leading female artists.- Exhibitions :Dike has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Nigeria, Africa and internationally, including Women to Women, Weaving Cultures, Shaping History ...
. She was the co-organizer of the Dak'Art Biennale 2006 in Dakar
Dakar
Dakar is the capital city and largest city of Senegal. It is located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city on the African mainland...
.
She wrote for some international reviews regarding arts, as for example "Art Monthly
Art Monthly
Art Monthly is a magazine of contemporary art founded in 1976 by Jack Wendler and Peter Townsend. It is based in London and has an international scope, although its main focus is on British art...
", "Untitled", "Third Text
Third Text
Third Text is a bimonthly academic journal on art in global context. After founder and editor Rasheed Araeen's earlier art magazine Black Phoenix, started in 1978, published only three issues, it was relaunched as a theoretical art journal in 1987...
", "M Metropolis", "Agufon" and for Nigerian daylies as "ThisDay
Thisday
THISDAY is a Nigerian national newspaper. It is the flagship newspaper of Leaders & Company Ltd and was first published on 22 January 1995. It has its headquarters in Apapa, Lagos, Lagos State....
". She collaborates also to "N Paradoxa", an international feminist
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
review.
Bisi Sliva collaborated with the Portuguese art criticist Isabel Carlos for the selection of artists for the third Artes Mundi prize in Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
. She also curates "Contact Zone: Contemporary Art from West and North Africa", a project started in October 2007 and an exposition named "Telling… Contemporary Finnish photography", in the Seventh Biennial of African Photography in Bamako
Bamako
Bamako is the capital of Mali and its largest city with a population of 1.8 million . Currently, it is estimated to be the fastest growing city in Africa and sixth fastest in the world...
(November 2007).