Nathalie Mba Bikoro is a French-Gabonese interdisciplinary artist working with live art performance, film, photography and music.
With an education in Politics, Philosophy and Media Arts, Bikoro leaves France and the UK to set out her work as an independent artist to return back to Gabon and develop support and promotion of the arts and culture of creative people across the African continent. Working for human rights organizations such as Médecins Sans Frontières has shaped her path into creating a wider network and generate a Foundation of cultural education, creativity and medical support.
She has worked on many educational interdisciplinary arts projects and collaborations and has taught across Europe and Africa. Her exhibitions have traveled across South Africa, China, USA & Europe including African Heritage London UK, New Currencies Johannesburg South Africa, and Contemporary African Focus11 Art Art|Basel Biennale 2010.
She is now a visiting University Lecturer across Europe and Africa teaching in the Arts, Contemporary Live Art Performance, Film, Creative Writing and Philosophy. She coordinates various arts curatorial projects in London and internationally such as Transitstation & GACCI as well as in South Africa, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Gabon (Goethe Institut, DNA Foundation, Artblitzkrieg). She is a creative, art-critic and academic writer for various contemporary arts & philosophy texts both online and published. She is Director of two independent cultural arts initiatives and Research Fellow at University with The Institute of Converging Arts & Sciences.
Prolific, passionate and bold, she is now emerging as an independent curator (Creative Africa Network, Artblitzkrieg, Transitstation International, DNA Arts Foundation Gabon) and works on international projects as research editor for emerging artists and is a visiting lecturer/workshop leader teaching media arts, performance and philosophy in the UK & Germany. She is currently researching for a PHD covering philosophy, cultural politics and the arts in Africa and works & networks between UK, Finland, Germany, Poland, Sweden, New York USA, Kenya, South Africa, Burkina Faso and Gabon.
For more information please visit:
http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/person/10549/en
http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/person/10549/en
