Fernando Alvim

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Visual Artist and Cultural Commissioner

It is an Angolan plastic artist, cultural commissar and a very important driver of Luanda and cultural center of international significance.

He lived and worked in Luanda until 1987 and with a grant from the Gulbenkian, he moved to Brussels, where he stayed until 2002. In 2003, he returned to Angola where he designed the first Triennial of Luanda.

Is administrator SOSO | _ LAX contemporary art and cultural software and co-producer and co-founder of the Foundation Sindika _ Dokolo African collection of contemporary art.

After the first exhibition in 1979 in Luanda, held over 50 international exhibitions in several countries such as Portugal, France, Spain, South Africa, USA, Brazil, Cuba, Senegal, Israel, Mexico, among others.

The artist also produces audiovisual which include: Memorias Intimas Marks (1997), Morphine (1997), I miss you (2000), Gela uanga / Art of War and elsewhere (2001), Kilembe - Tree of Knowledge (2001) and Unconscious Skin (2001).

"The growing network of creative opportunities in Angola is predominantly down to Fernando Alvim, who has established Gradually Luanda as a center for contemporary creativity" Words by Jonathan Velardi, to Angola Today.