Fernando Alvim
born 1963 in Angola, lives in Brussels and
Luanda. His art has been exhibited extensively in single- and group
exhibitions internationally since 1995. Besides creating his own
artworks, films and installations, Alvim is as well an active curator
and cultural organizer. He conceived and developed, from 1994 to 2000,
the multimedia intervention Memorias Intimas Marcas, an art project on
the exorcism of the Angolan/South African War. Alvim collaborated with
other artists to examine this war and its effects on local cultural
memory. In 1999, Alvim founded Camouflage, the European satellite of
the Centre of Contemporary Art of Africa, based in Brussels. The work
of this organization later enabled the 2003 establishment of TACCA
(Territórios de Arte e Cultura Contemporânea Africana) in Luanda,
Angola. The centre publishes Coartnews, a review of contemporary
African art and culture and will organize the first Trienal de Luanda
in 2005/06.
See www.camouflage-world.com, www.nextflag.com,
www.tacca-cultura.com.
