doual'art

Doual'art
Established	1991
Location	Place du Gouvernement Bonanjo Douala, Cameroon
Type	Contemporary Art
Director	Marilyn Douala Bell
Curator	Didier Schaub
Website	Doual'art

doual'art is a no profit cultural organisation and art centre founded in 1991 in Douala, Cameroon and focussed on new urban practices of African cities.

Since 1991, doual'art has invited in Douala contemporary artists in order to create a bridge between the city and contemporary art productions. Their purpose is to work on the cultural and urban identity of Douala. Indeed, artistic creation is a trigger of change, a paradigm of development, and most crucially an effective means to fight indigence and poverty.

In producing site-specific urban interventions, doual'art works as an intermediary between social and economic actors, population and local collectives. It perceives cultural and artistic initiatives as a tool for consolidating freedom of expression and social cohesion, which allow in their turn transcending and overcoming closures and cleavages. doual'art implements a participatory approach to cultural practice, negotiating with local communities, NGOs and authorities their specific needs and aspirations and involving artists as facilitators of the development processes.

Doual'art is directed by Marilyn Douala Bell and Didier Schaub. The centre exhibited and promoted the work of Pascale Marthine Tayou, Goddy Leye, Alioum Moussa, Koko Komégné, Joseph Francis Sumegne, AchilleKà, Bili Bidjocka, Lucas Grandin, Khaled Hafez, Christian Hanussek, Aser Kash, Bill Kouelany, Frédéric Keiff, Faouzi Laatiris, Salifou Lindou, Michèle Magema, Malam, Joël Mpah Dooh, Younès Rahmoun, Tracy Rose, Kmiel Verschuren, Sue Williamson, Jules Wokam, Guy Wouete, Hervé Yamguen, Hervé Youmbi.

Doual'art organises the SUD-Salon Urbain de Douala, a triennial cultural event which produces ephemeral and permanent contemporary art for the city of Douala. The first edition of SUD was organized in 2007; the second in 2010. Simon Njami is the artistic director of SUD-Salon Urbain de Douala 2010.

Bibliography

• Douala in Translation. A view of the city and its creative transformative potentials, edited by Doual'art and iStrike Foundation, Episode Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007.
• "Revue Noire" - Special Issue on Cameroon, n. 13, 1994

External links

• Doual'art website http://www.doualart.org
• Documentation in English collected and produced by iStrike Foundation on Doual'art and other cultural institutions based in Cameroon http://www.istrike.net