The kARThala Centre, a Regional Platform of Contemporary Artistic Expressions of The Indian Ocean, is at the same time a place of creation, training, exchanges, and promoting visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpture, video installation, photography, performance, design…) It is a space of revelation and support the talent of emerging artists, experimental and innovative ideas.

Geographical location/infrastructure
Located in Salimani Hambou in an old agronomic building of the colonial time, the Center of kARThala Arts Centre has:

• An office of 56.40 m2, a room of documentation, Multi-media of 56.40 m2. This room on the other hand remains to be equipped with the adequate and suitable material.
• A multifunctional room of 238.48 m2 which can be used for exhibition, artistic performances, workshops, lectures, etc…
• A large court yard of a total surface of 77 A. Which will as well be open for production of site specific projects, Land Art, sculptures, performances,…The called The Tea House project and The Arts Garden will be inaugurated in septembre 2011.

Our main objectives:

• To take part in the development and the promotion of the artistic creation of the Comoros and the other countries of the Indian Ocean and East Africa
• To put artistic creation at the service of the economic, social and cultural development of the Comoros.

Adhesion:
Center kARThala is opened to the artists and intellectuals who want to support the development of the arts in the Comoros and in the region.

Support:
kARThala is a pilot project of RAIN / RIJKSACADEMIE

Ali Mroivili -Napalo-
Tel 00269-735760
Mob 350329
info@ngaratala.com

The Centre kARThala

Openings and expositions

Workshops
Painting workshop OMD

Workshop Magarando in cooperation with Brazilian artists Marco Paulo Rolla en Marcos de Senna Hill of CEIA and RAIN/Rijksakademie. July 2008

To develop our activities financial aid, equipment and cooperation are welcome info@ngaratala.com

EXCHANGE

To fight against the isolation of artists from the region KARThala organize meetings and workshop in collaboration with local artists community and partners from abroad

ART EDUCATION

Each year The kARThala Arts Centre organizes internships for emerging and established artists from the region in collaboration with RAIN/Rijksacademie and other partners.

The absence in the Comoros of a national institution or private arts education justifies the urgency and importance to insert art education in our program.

In the first place we are organizing workshops for children and offering basic knowledge to young Comorians adapted to their expectations and the local needs.

In order to create employment and to be able to support the Comorian government in their wish to insert art education into public schools, our Association is looking for financial assistance.

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PRODUCTION AND PROMOTION

Conscious of the lack of infrastructures in the Comoros and in the area for the distribution of and the promotion of visual arts, the Karthala has a large showroom where the artists can present their work with complete freedom. The KARThala also puts to the provision of the artists its large courtyard, an ideal framework to try out new forms of artistic expressions by the realization of oeuvres on the site, performances…

The KARThala wishes to promote the emerging artists in the national, regional and international artistic scene.

The KARThala centrecounts to organize specific, transitory and itinerary artistic events (markets and fairs of visual arts, biennial, intervention in public spaces...) in cultural spaces of the Archipelago of the Comoros and in the other countries of the Indian Ocean and in Africa.

The KARThala plans to regularly invite trainers (artist-teachers, designers, art historians and foreign art critics) resulting from its network, to take part in the formation of young people, to give speeches or to put together exhibitions of regional or international character.

EXPOSITIONS
The KARThala Arts Centre organizes its exhibitions from the artists' residencies and workshops organized annually. Our Centre has adequate facilities to host exhibitions. However, our openness and policy of decentralization motivates us to organize exhibitions in other venues in partnership with other institutions.

Dessin drawing exposition 2010

OMD exposition Hotel Le Moroni 2008

Magarando 2008

Inauguration of The kARThala Arts Centre

Various

PRODUCTION AND PROMOTION

Conscious of the lack of infrastructures in the Comoros and in the area for the distribution of and the promotion of visual arts, the Karthala has a large showroom where the artists can present their work with complete freedom. The KARThala also puts to the provision of the artists its large courtyard, an ideal framework to try out new forms of artistic expressions by the realization of oeuvres on the site, performances…

The KARThala wishes to promote the emerging artists in the national, regional and international artistic scene.

The KARThala centrecounts to organize specific, transitory and itinerary artistic events (markets and fairs of visual arts, biennial, intervention in public spaces...) in cultural spaces of the Archipelago of the Comoros and in the other countries of the Indian Ocean and in Africa.

The KARThala plans to regularly invite trainers (artist-teachers, designers, art historians and foreign art critics) resulting from its network, to take part in the formation of young people, to give speeches or to put together exhibitions of regional or international character.

OBJECTIVES OF OUR STRUCTURE

To put artistic creation at the service of the economic, social and cultural development of the Comoros.

To take an active part in the development of visual arts and its network in the Comoros and in the region.

To make the KARThala Center one of the top places of contemporary art of the area by organizing artistic events of high quality, by inviting and collaborating with foreign artists, curators and art institutions.

To break with the stagnation of the local level of creativity and the lack of engagement of the local artists in the contemporary art debate.

Encourage artistic research so that new artistic vocabulary will be born.