WHO ARE WE?
From the Gallery to the Foundation: 30 years of commitment
MAM Foundation: a place of engagement between art, science, ecology and agriculture
The MAM Foundation is a place, Grand Suza, where commitment, creativity and experimentation converge, in a quest for meaning at the crossroads of creation, science, education, agriculture and ecology to shape a harmonious future. The MAM Foundation combines ethics and aesthetics, two values that nourish its initiatives and define its unique identity.
Grand Suza is located on the coastal coast of Cameroon, north of Douala. Its population is part of the group of coastal peoples, specifically the bankon people.
Ethics as the basis for action
Ethics guides each MAM Foundation project. In agriculture, the aim is to support sustainable and responsible practices that respect ecosystems and bankon communities. In the artistic field, ethics takes the form of a reflection on the role and place of creation within communities and in relation to the living.
An aesthetic quest
MAM Foundation celebrates the link between our human world and nature and works to propose models of human-non-human balance, to link sense and form. Within the MAM Foundation, the Fabrique de Suza and the agroecological farm MARHA are places of creation, experimentation and contemplation.
A holistic approach
Within the MAM Foundation, art, literature, poetry, philosophy, music, anthropology, science, education, economics, ecology and agriculture combine and transcend disciplinary boundaries.
Whether it's inviting an artist who uses natural pigments or supporting a permaculture initiative, each of our projects has the ambition to reimagin our relationship with the world, to build a fairer, smoother, more harmonious society.
Our History
The MAM Foundation was formed on the basis of various initiatives:
1995 – The MAM Gallery of Contemporary Art
Born in Douala from the MAM Gallery, to participate in the rise of contemporary creation.
2012 – Marha Organic Farm
Creation of Marha Organic Farm in the context of embryonic organic farming in Cameroon.
2016 – MOSS Literary Fair
Library of 4,000 books, which hosts author meetings·conferences, concerts...
2019 – MAM Foundation
Launch of the MAM Foundation to deploy active utopias that produce meaning, nourish the imagination and generate bond and well-being by valuing creation and culture, at the heart of living.
The Foundation in a few figures
Since 2019, the MAM Foundation is:
- 41 projects
- 120 speaker·es (creator)·Price, expert·Researcher·partners, etc.)
- 18 creative residences
- 4 doctoral studies
- 12 master classes
- 15 debates and conferences
- 600 young people in workshops
- A collection of more than 250 works of art
- A library of more than 5,000 books.
Since its inception, the MAM Foundation has benefited from a capital contribution of more than CFAF 1 billion for real estate investment and CFAF 500 million for projects.
