Private Museums: Fondation H from Madagascar: Transforming Ambition to Reality
Fondation H was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar in 2017 on the initiative of entrepreneur Hassanein Hiridjee, who is convinced that art and culture have a strong societal impact and enable critical openness to the world. For the past 6 years, the Fondation H has been operating programs dedicated to supporting artists from Africa and its diasporas in their careers, facilitating public access to art, and actively participating in the development and structuring of the art scene in the Indian Ocean. While Antananarivo, the Malagasy capital, has no public contemporary art museum or art school, despite its immense historical and cultural heritage, the Fondation H just launched its new exhibition space there in a revitalized 100-year-old building last month. It also manages another more experimental space in Paris.
LARRY’S LIST spoke with the founder Hassanein Hiridjee about his motivations for establishing Fondation H, the current inaugural exhibition of Madame Zo, his happiest moment related to Fondaiton H, the first contemporary art library in Madagascar in the new space, and other topics.