The Agency, Alternative Platform for Art

The Agency foundation’s commitments are towards working with art projects through initiation, support, and realisation, and also being instrumentational in the development of exhibitions, seminars, publications, and art projects of a qualitatively high nature.

The Foundation considers itself to be an alternative factor to the normative discourse on art, wishing to place an emphasis towards internationalisation, globalisation, and cultural diversity. Furthermore, The Agency’s aim is to encourage an interest towards socially engaged art.
In practice, The Agency functions as a think-tank, where ideas and projects are exchanged and discussed. The members attend the foundation`s meetings both regularly and voluntarily. The desire to provide new ideas, projects and concepts which can influence development and change contemporary art practice itself and the discourse which surrounds, structures and tendencifies it, is the motivation behind the foundations activities.

In similarity with most of the other organisations working in the field of contemporary art, The Agency is dependant upon both public funding and co-operation with other partners to enable realisation of their projects.
The Agency is: Samir M’kadmi (artist), Samira Jamouchi (artist), Roddy Bell (artist), Arild H.Eriksen (art historian), and Mona abdel-Fadil (social scientist).