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| Maren Sanneh was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1958, where she studied fine art at Hochule für bildende Künste Hamburg (1979-84). In 1984 she moved to Basel and founded the artist group MALOLA together with Christian Schaffner. They focused on music and conceptual art. In 1992 they were awarded a studio in the Cité des Arts Internationale in Paris. Back in Basel they studied at the university, Sanneh English literature and ethnology. Further arts residencies took place in Australia (1996) and South Africa (2002). Solo exhibitions were shown in Hamburg (1989) and Basel (1999, 2008), music performances and group shows in Paris and Johannesburg. Since 2003 their work has focused on wall pieces, which are documented in detail on their website www.malola.net. The last major exhibition was at Skulpturhalle Basel (2015), her so-called farewell exhibition as Sanneh worked at the Antikenmuseum Basel with short interruptions from 1987 to 2016, the year she emigrated to Gambia in West Africa. |