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This section presents exhibitions supported by the Initiative. Each exhibition presentation is intended as a stand-alone piece with explanations woven into the text. Several have three parts: preparations, the exhibition proper and follow-up. Each part gets elaborated as work progresses.
Donations are welcome to contribute expanding cooperation particularly with scientists, artists and youth groups in developing countries and to help improve their working conditions.
Special account Mundus maris - IBAN: BE54 0688 9178 6297 - BIC/SWIFT: GKCCBEBB.
FESMIR 2013 - Mirror Festival of Dakar, Senegal
The International Artistic Mirror Festival of Dakar is an annual event masterminded by multi-talent artist Mamadou Ndiaye "THIA". This year's motto is taken from the title of the 2002 documentary "Battle for the Sea" of the Senegalese film director Moustapha Ndoye. Ndoye passed away prematurely, but has left a lasting impact on the collective memory. Mundus maris supported the festival organisation e.g. with special emphasis on the maritime content and the children's part.
SeeArt - Youth Exhibition, Hilden, Germany 2011
SeeArt - youth exhibition - Sciences and Arts for Sustainability. Hilden, Germany, 26 June to 17 July 2011.Together with the Municipal Gymnasium Helmholtz and the Municipal Office for Culture in Hilden, Mundus maris is organising a youth exhibition bringing together artistic reflections on the sea.
Dakar Biennale, 7 May - 7 June 2010
The Biennale of Dakar has taken place in 2010 from 7 May to 7 June in the Senegalese capital. It is THE meeting place for contemporary African art in Africa and in the diaspora. Click on the official website here. Members of the Mundus maris Association and people associated with it are actively participating. Among them is Nduwhite Ahononu Ndubuisi from Nigeria.
From Darwin to Sustainable Seas, 2010
This poster exhibition was created in the occasion of commemorations of and reflections on the Bicenternary of Latin American independencies in order to add another dimension to the many events in this occasion, which are often focused on political and historical developments. It spans an arch from Darwin's inquisitive and open-minded spirit as he applied it to fishes and the marine environment in Latin America to what subsequent generations of scientists are making available to a wide public and artistic ways of reflecting on the sea.
Amsterdam, July 2009
The International Initiative 'Science, Arts and Sustainable Seas' was offered the opportunity for an exhibition 'Sustainable Seas Through the Eyes of Art' associated with the V MARE Conference 'Living with uncertainty and adapting to change' in Amsterdam, 9-11 July 2009. The venue of the exhibition is the historic university building, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, 1012 DL Amsterdam.
Brussels, May 2008
This exhibition showed paintings and installations of students from the European School Brussels I, Belgium, and from the College (CEM) in Kayar, Senegal. The theme was sciences and arts for sustainable seas. It was organised in the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the European School Brussels I in Uccle, 23-24 May 2008, under the auspices of European Research Commissioner, Dr. Janez Potočnik.