National Art Gallery Art Exhibition at Mont Choisy Shopping Promenade

The National Art Gallery has gladly collaborated with Atelier Arts pour Tous whose aim is to provide artists a thriving creative space for showcasing artworks and to engage in artistic and cultural exchanges through regular Art gatherings and creative workshops.

On this occasion, our institution will be presenting some artworks from its National Collection, constituting a pool of artworks of Mauritian Visual artists acquired through purchase and donations, which are conserved at the National Art Gallery.

In addition to this, the audience will have the opportunity to view a group exhibition by 12 emerging and established local artists. You are most welcome to find attached samples of artworks, which will be on view during the Opening.

The participating artists are as follows:

Group Exhibition

• Authelsingh Arvin
• Bauhadoor Deepa
• Chooramun Dev
• Delapeyre Sylvio
• Durn-teeluck Malika
• Fayolle Véronique
• Khaleck Zeenat
• L'onflé Jean Yves
• Ombika Arvin
• Perichon-Mootia Nathalie
• Shibdoyal Vick
• Sreemantoo Hema

National Collection Exhibition

• Orvoy de Portzamparc Kessavadee
• Auladin Riaz
• Purbhoo Nishal
• Ponnusamy Soopaya
• Doomun Daphné
• Laviolette Eric
• Dilloo Faizal
• Gooly Aude
• Gerval-Arouff Jeanne
• Bucktowar Jaya
• Castel James (from rodrigues)
• Dausoa Vynaud
• Hosannee Said
• Gupta Mila
• Somiah Sandhia
• Dubois Steeve
• Seeruttun Suren
• Hossanee Sabhir

Background information

Creation of the National Art Gallery

The National Art Gallery was established by the Parliament as a corporate body under the National Art Gallery Act 1999 Art. No.11, under the aegis of the Ministry of Arts and Culture. The National Art Gallery Board comprising of 11 members was set up in May 2001.