Festivals and Films

Visionary Africa: Art at Work

From 15 Feb 2012 to 06 Mar 2012

16 February-7 March 2012. This photographic exhibition, entitled Visionary Africa: Art at Work, lands in Cairo after having toured several African cities during the past two years on occasion of their anniversaries of independence.

On display are 30 reproductions of works by contemporary African as well as Egyptian artists, selected among the pieces displayed during the Visionary Africa Festival held at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels in 2010.

This multi-disciplinary and itinerant cultural project was launched in 2010 on occasion of the European Union-Africa Summit in Syrte/Tripoli (Libya) and focuses on the importance of culture and creativity as development tools in Africa. It includes an itinerant urban exhibition of contemporary African artistic practices, artists