The General Secretariat of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art is launching a call for applications for the official international exhibition of its sixteenth edition, scheduled from 19 November to 19 December 2026 in Dakar.

The Dakar Biennale’s Steering Committee has selected Morad Montazami, Director of Zamân Books & Curating, to serve as Artistic Director with the curatorial theme of (Anti)Fragility: Arts of Repair and Counter-Shock Strategies.

An art historian, publisher, and exhibition curator, Morad Montazami is entrusted with developing an original curatorial project that takes into account the specific mission and values of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art.

For the Artistic Director, to be (anti)fragile is to adopt an attitude that transforms fragility into a strength—both expressive and artistic—by emphasizing social and communal bonds, particularly through co-creation.

The call is addressed to African visual artists and/or artists from the diaspora in one of the following disciplines:

– Architecture
– Digital
– Arts Design
– Installation
– Mixed media
– Painting
– Performance
– Photography
– Sculpture
– Sound Street-art / Graffiti
– Video art & animation

For more information, visit www.biennaledakar.org.