Adji Dieye
2025: Spring
Adji Dieye lives and works in Dakar (Senegal), Milan (Italy), and Zurich (Switzerland).
Adji earned a Bachelor's degree in New Technologies for Art from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy, and a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) in Zurich, Switzerland.
Her practice examines the construction of national epistemologies by observing public and institutional spaces through archival materials, architecture, and advertising.
A recurring theme in Dieye’s work is the relationship between a national collective imaginary rooted in ideas of progress and its influence on understanding the self and collective identity.
She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy, 2024); Una boccata d’arte, Magrè sulla Strada del Vino (Bolzano, Italy, 2024); The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, Norval Foundation (Cape Town, South Africa, 2024); A Matter of Time, Cultural Summit (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2024); Gucci Art Program (Milan, Italy, 2024); Ducato Art Prize, Volumia (Piacenza, Italy, 2023); À vendre (solo exhibition), Fondation H (Paris, France, 2023); Aphasia (solo exhibition), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur, Switzerland, 2022); Fais-nous confiance (solo exhibition), Cécile Fakhoury (Abidjan, Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, 2022); Cultura persa e imparata a memoria (solo exhibition), AR/GE Kunst (Bolzano, Italy, 2021); Culture Lost and Learned by Heart, C/O Berlin (Berlin, Germany, 2021); La Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon (Lyon, France, 2022); Dak’art Biennale (Dakar, Senegal, 2022); La 13e édition des Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine (Bamako, Mali, 2022); La 12e édition des Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine (Bamako, Mali, 2019); Of Bread, Wine, Cars, Security, and Peace, Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, Austria, 2019); Time Has Gone, Lagos Photo Festival (Lagos, Nigeria, 2018).
In 2024, Adji was nominated for the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, and in 2023, she received the Ducato Prize – Contemporary Award and won the Photographic Encounters competition at Fotomuseum Winterthur. In 2021, she won the C/O Berlin Talent Award and the FOAM Talent Award granted by FOAM Magazine.
Her works have been acquired by several public and private collections, including: Vontobel Collection, Zurich, Switzerland; C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Warsaw, Poland; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
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