Nadira Laggoune
Algeria

Visual Arts - 2009
An Algerian curator and art critic. She has a degree in Law, an MA in audiovisual criticism and art theory, and a researcher / PhD position in art. She teaches the history of contemporary image and ran a seminar on contemporary art in parallel with the mastery of critical analysis and aesthetics at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Art and the Higher Institute of Music in Algiers until 2000. She is the curator of many international and local exhibitions, such as Contemporary African Art in the 2nd PANAF Algiers in 2009, Emissaries (Algeria Year in France 2003), Art Women (2007), the 1st and 3rd International Festival of Contemporary Art in Algiers, Dakā€™Art 2012, and the 10th Biennale of Dakar. Nadira lives and works in Algiers, to give visibility to the new generations that are emerging in the field of contemporary art in Algeria, North Africa and on the African continent.