World-renowned Burkinabé storyteller Kientega Pingdéwindé Gérard (known as KPG) draws on his ancestral roots to fuel his poetic art, where nature, elements and objects come to life. His practice aims to rebuild connections between African people and oral traditions.

Both a musician and a stage director, Séverine Chavrier places mixing the arts to explore human relations at the heart of her work.

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba breathe new life into the world of contemporary art: based in Berlin, they design exhibitions and founded the magazine Contemporary And, a demanding print and digital publication whose aim is to “connect cultures”.

N'Goné Fall, the General Commissioner of the Africa2020 Season, wished to place this ambitious project under the banner of pan-Africanism and collective intelligence.