About
The Artvocate Africa founder, based in Switzerland and Italy, is an experienced lawyer, curator, art historian and fellow artist. She currently works in East and West Africa but collaborates within and beyond the African continent. Her curatorial practice focuses on developing initiatives advancing collective knowledge on Africa, art, art law, culture, sustainable economic development and democratic principles.
Since 2012, Artvocate Africa aims to use visual art to build bridges between fundamental legal principles and new, authentic identities in emerging African countries. Culture does not have fixed borders or rigid definitions but brings together individuals, groups and cultures into closer contact, even when at times they are striving for their individual separate identities. Artvocate Africa believes that difference or unfamiliarity can provide the key to greater connectivity in society. Artists often have the vision and genius of predicting the future by questioning or by acting as a silent witness to society. They do this through detachment, critical observation, and deeper perception of their own communities.
