ABOUT

Carole Onambélé Kvasnevski

is a gallery owner, an independent curator and since 2020 has joined the collective and art magazine Afrikadaa founded by Pascale Obolo. 

Born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, she lives and works in Paris. Self-taught, she started her career in 2003 as a painter, plastician and multidisciplinary artist. She founded in 2010, in Paris, the art gallery, Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, a space providing cultural mediation.

From 2016, Carole engaged her African Identity, promoting works by young Cameroonian artists such as Jean David Nkot and Marc Padeu. Today Carole exhibits emerging artists such as Lindokuhle Khumalo, Justin Ebanda or Morgan Mahape as well as established artists from the African continent and its diasporas such as Angèle Etoundi Essamba or of course Sir Zanele Muholi.  The curatorial line of the gallery promotes mainly creations that raise environmental and societal questions.

Carole has developed collaborations in France with institutions such as UNESCO between 2003 and 2007 (Africa week); Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris and ENSAPC in 2018 (artist residency and exhibition of the artist Jean David Nkot); in 2019, she was a member of the VAE jury at ESACM. In 2020, she collaborated with the Musée Bargoin in Clermont-Ferrand for the exhibition "Love etc.". 

In 2019, Carole curated an exhibition in Dakar for "L'Afrique c'est chic world", an economic and cultural platform promoting a positive image of Africa. For the African Art Book Fair scheduled initially during the 2020 International Biennial Dak’art then postponed to May 2022, Carole is a guest curator of an exhibition on the archives of the Biennial of Dakar. 

Carole Kvasnevski participates in international fairs such as AKAA, 1:54 Marrakech, London, New York, Art Paris art fair, Investec CapeTown, Art X Lagos. In 2019, she presented for the first time on the European continent at AKAA fair a selection of 3 artists among the 25 who participated in the 'Ikhono LaseNatali' project (young talents from the Kwazulu-Natal region of the Born free generation who have interpreted each in their artistic discipline the famous 'Somnyama Ngonyama' series of Sir Zanele Muholi) initiated in 2018 by the South African visual activist during the 25th commemoration of the end of Apartheid.

Galerie Carole Kvasnevski is a member of the committee of professional art galleries, CPGA (Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art) in France.