31 PROJECT
International contemporary art, Africa and diasporas
Our mission is to promote African contemporary art scenes through multidisciplinary exhibitions of emerging and established artists from the continent and its diasporas.
Binelde Hyrcan, 2018, In God we trust, pigment print on baryta fine art paper, 50 x 75 cm. Edition 7/10 + 1 AP
31 PROJECT is an entity designed on a flexible model, to react as closely as possible to current events: a vision that is deployed intermittently through a series of exhibitions in our gallery in Paris and in fairs, in France and abroad.
Hélène Jayet, 2018, Colored only, Yvoire, pigment on fine art paper, 69 x 69 cm. Edition 1/8 . Copyright Hélène Jayet
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Globalisto, fragments of a community
May 12th - June 17th 2023
31 PROJECT gallery is pleased to present the exhibition resulting from the carte blanche given to curator Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape. Around the notion of Globalisto, the curator has brought together fourteen artists from different territories, practices and even eras to form a community for the duration of an exhibition.
With Bianca Baldi, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Inès di Folco, Kendell Geers, Raquel Van Haver, Binelde Hyrcan, Hélène Jayet, Maurice Mboa, Mónica de Miranda, Sabelo Mlangeni, Obi Okigbo, Gerard Sekoto, a Songye mask maker and Divine Southgate-Smith
Thursday May 11th 2023
Opening - from 18h to 20h
Les Verrières, 41 rue de Seine, 75006, Paris
EVENT
PARIS GALLERY WEEKEND
26, 27 and 28 May 2023
Paris Gallery Weekend 2023 offers thematic and geographic tours, 100% free access, in 101 galleries in four Parisian neighborhoods, Pantin and Romainville, all motivated to deploy a common energy and to make Paris shine as an essential capital of art.
Exceptional opening of the gallery on Sunday May 28 from 2:30 pm to 7 pm.
BEHIND THE PROJECT
Charles-Wesley Hourdé, a specialist in the classical arts of Africa, Oceania and America, has partnered with Clémence Houdart, a consultant in the cultural sector for the visual arts, to create and develop a branch dedicated to the African contemporary art scenes. Together in 2019, they founded 31 PROJECT.
