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Mansour Ciss

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Biography

Multimedia artist. Born in Senegal, Dakar. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Mansour Ciss studied from 1973 to 1977 at the National Institute of Arts of Senegal. In Dakar, he carved wood, large sculptures with cubist shapes, some of which were part of President Senghor’s collection. Since 1993 he has lived in Berlin. It is in the German capital that his work takes a more engaged and more political turn. It was in fact in this city that the Berlin Conference was held, during which the colonial powers divided Africa between them in 1884-1885. In 2000, Mansour Ciss created the Deberlinization Laboratory with Baruch Gottlieb then with Christian Hanussek. It is a laboratory of ideas, a sort of artistic platform for rethinking colonial history and the African continent. Concretely, Mansour Ciss Kanakassy chose an original medium to design the Africa of tomorrow: he created a currency – the Afro – the single African currency. An imaginary currency, symbol of the unification of African countries.

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EXHIBITIONS: 2015 – Wir sind Alle Berliner 1884-2014, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin. We Are tomorrow, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. ICAA Internationaler Club im Auswärtigen Amt. Residency Museums Quartier, Wien. Post Colonial Flatship Store, Wien. Shanghai Universite Residency, China . 2014 – Internationale Biennale Pekin, Beijing Songzhuang residency. 2013 – International Biennale Beijing, Beijing Songzhuang residency. 2012 – Urban Scenography, Ouakam-Dakar residence, Senegal. “Meine Silberne Hochzeit mit Berlin”, Galerie Listros, Berlin. International Biennale in Beijing China “Begegnung” Kunstverein Aalen. SOS-EDITION 2012 “Afro for children”, Berlin. “Inevitable dialogue”, Genoa, Italy.

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