Talks

The Palais de Lomé will be a meeting hub for experts, authors, researchers, amateurs and curious people, as well as for everyone interested by: 

  • Environnement
  • Culture
  • Design
  • Architecture
  • Urban planning
  • Literature
  • Science
  • Technology

Online Talks and events

We take it digital! Discover a selection of talks and collaboration with global cultural institutions!

Palais de Lomé x 1-54 art fair : 1-54 invited Sonia Lawson, Founding Director, Palais de Lomé (Lomé, Togo); Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Cape Town, South Africa) and Dr. Karen E. Milbourne, Senior Curator, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC, USA). They discussed with Claude Grunitzky, Founder of TRUE Africa about Reinventing African Art museums for changing times.

Palais de Lomé x Zeitz Mocaa : Head to head conversation between Sonia Lawson, Director of Palais de Lomé in Togo, and Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in South Africa.

We opened the series of podcasts produced by The Art Newspaper for the publication of the book The Future of Museums, 28 dialogues, by Andras Szanto in which we are featured. 

Listen here!

Palais de Lomé x London Craft Week : To celebrate the first edition of Create Day, powered by the London Craft Week,discover how the former Palais des Gouverneurs has been restored and transformed from its colonialist roots to become the Palais de Lomé – a unique public space that celebrates the cultures of Africa and its diasporas.