Since 2009, the French Institute and the gallery’s steering committee chaired by sculptor Ousmane Sow have been trying to give this unique place a new dimension. The Le Man√®ge gallery is in the process of becoming a benchmark contemporary art center in West Africa and a platform for exchanges, production and publishing of contemporary art on the continent.
New since 2012:
The Manège gallery adopts a new rhythm of 6 exhibitions per year with an even more eclectic program:
an exhibition by a young African or diaspora curator,
an exhibition by an international French artist or an exhibition produced in collaboration with a European partner – an exhibition of photographs
an exhibition of a French School of Fine Arts project in connection with Dakar,
a dialogue or duo exhibition, Double-je, built on the following principle: a Senegalese artist invites another African artist or collective from the sub-region
an exhibition open to other fields: heritage, architecture, scientific culture, digital arts, arts and crafts.